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Phish - April 15th, 1989

Billings Lounge, University of Vermont · Burlington · VT

Saturday1989 Tour1989-04-15
Songs played
24
2 sets · longest: Set 1 (15)
Average gap
6.9
rarer than 35% of all shows, 52% of 1989
Biggest bustout
-
no 50+ gap songs
Debuts
0
4 covers played
Rotation54% fresh vs previous 5 shows7 repeats from 1989-04-14 - Mike's Song, I Am Hydrogen, Weekapaug Groove, Esther, You Enjoy Myself, Foam, Fluffhead
Setlist
🎧 Listen on phish.in1:17:02
Set 1
Mike's Song ✦ > I Am Hydrogen ✦ > Weekapaug Groove ✦,Esther > You Enjoy Myself > Wilson,Peaches en Regalia,On Your Way Down > 🍞Alumni Blues15 > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues🍞,I Didn't Know2,McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters3 > Foam,David Bowie
Set 2
Funky Bitch6:43,Golgi Apparatus4:48 > Slave to the Traffic Light7:12,The Mango Song6:34,Divided Sky13:00,Split Open and Melt410:12,Suzy Greenberg6:15 > Fluffhead15:51 > Good Times Bad Times6:27
Mike's GrooveHIT ✦Gamehendge1/9Related to Gamehendge3/11

1 Additional lyrics.

2 Fish on trombone; with sound effects from an electronic drum machine.

3 With sound effects from an electronic drum machine.

4 With drum solo.

5 Alumni Blues Sandwich: Alumni Blues bookended Letter to Jimmy Page in Set 1 - the 46th on record, the first since March 12th, 1989.

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
1:17:02 of music

Song length in play order. Tap a point for that song.

15:517:56SET 2Funky Bitch - 6:43 (Set 2)Golgi Apparatus - 4:48 (Set 2)Slave to the Traffic Light - 7:12 (Set 2)The Mango Song - 6:34 (Set 2)Divided Sky - 13:00 (Set 2)Split Open and Melt - 10:12 (Set 2)Suzy Greenberg - 6:15 (Set 2)Fluffhead - 15:51 (Set 2)Good Times Bad Times - 6:27 (Set 2)
Longest: Fluffhead 15:51 · 9 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

Tonight's unique songs by the era Phish first played them.

  • '83-'8923
Album representation

The studio home of each song, from phish.net. Covers count as one slice.

  • Junta5
  • The White Tape5
  • A Picture of Nectar1
  • Lawn Boy1
  • Covers4
  • No studio album7
Gap since last played

Shows since each song's previous appearance. A big number is a bustout.

  • 1-210
  • 6-1510
  • 16-503
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original19
  • Allen Toussaint1
  • Frank Zappa1
  • Led Zeppelin1
  • Son Seals1
Rarity board

A typical night, rotation-wise - nothing shelved more than 50 shows.

Funky Bitchgap 16
Slave to the Traffic Lightgap 16
Suzy Greenberggap 16
Split Open and Meltgap 15
Letter to Jimmy Pagegap 12
I Didn't Knowgap 11
Good Times Bad Timesgap 10
David Bowiegap 9

Gap = shows since the song was last played, at the moment it was played.

Jam chart entries
Split Open and Melt

First recorded performance includes a Fish drum solo preceding the lyrical section "We breathe deep..." The jam is fairly intense but straightforward in structure.

Versions phish.net's jam charts single out as noteworthy.

Soundcheck

Time Loves a Hero

Setlist notes

This show was a benefit for VPIRG. Esther contained a Dixie tease from Trey. Alumni contained additional lyrics. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. I Didn't Know and McGrupp included sound effects from an electronic drum machine. Fish played Call to the Post on the woodblock after Slave. A fan identified the song and Trey said he won a date with Fish. SOAM included a drum solo. A recording of the second set circulates with AC/DC Bag and Possum as the encores, but they are from a different source than the rest of the recording, and thus may have been filler. (An early Phish.net setlist from the 1990s, as well as the Phish.com setlist, do not list any encores for this benefit show.)

Setlist, gaps, jam charts, and notes from phish.net, a project of the non-profit Mockingbird Foundation.

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