Phish - October 31st, 1989

Goddard College · Plainfield · VT

Tuesday1989 Tour1989-10-31

Songs played

3 sets · longest: Set 2 (10)

Average gap

2.6

rarer than 75% of all shows, 12% of 1989

Biggest bustout

no 50+ gap songs

Debuts

Kung

Rotation22% fresh vs previous 5 shows6 repeats from 1989-10-28 - You Enjoy Myself, Divided Sky, Reba, Colonel Forbin's Ascent, Fly Famous Mockingbird, Highway to Hell

Setlist

🎧 Listen on phish.in2:33:14

Set 1

The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony1:47 > Suzy Greenberg5:07,You Enjoy Myself17:26 > AC/DC Bag5:57 > Divided Sky12:25,Fee5:12,Walk Away3:39,Bathtub Gin6:16 > Possum8:30

Set 2

David Bowie¹23:06,Wilson4:54,Reba14:13,Colonel Forbin's Ascent5:40 > Fly Famous Mockingbird6:53,🍞Alumni Blues³0:36 > Letter to Jimmy Page1:28 > Alumni Blues🍞2:47 > The Lizards10:09,Highway to Hell3:43

Encore

Contact6:42 > 🍞Run Like an Antelope⁴6:45 -> Kung^debut² -> Run Like an Antelope🍞

Gamehendge6/9Related to Gamehendge3/11

¹ Macaroni and cheese jam.

² First known performance.

³ Alumni Blues Sandwich: Alumni Blues bookended Letter to Jimmy Page in Set 2 - the 61st on record, the first since October 14th, 1989.

⁴ Run Like an Antelope Sandwich: Run Like an Antelope bookended Kung in the encore - the first one on record. No Run Like an Antelope sandwich has ever held more.

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night

2:33:14 of music

Song length in play order. Tap a point for that song. Swipe the chart to see the rest.

Longest: David Bowie 23:06 · 21 songs with recorded lengths

When it debuted

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

'83-'8921

Album representation

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

The White Tape6
Junta3
Lawn Boy3
Covers2
No studio album7

Gap since last played

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

1-216
3-51
6-153

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original19
AC/DC1
The James Gang1

Rarity board

Rarer than most - 1 song shelved 50+ shows.

Contactgap 9

Alumni Bluesgap 6

Letter to Jimmy Pagegap 6

Suzy Greenberggap 3

Run Like an Antelopegap 3

The Oh Kee Pa Ceremonygap 2

Feegap 2

Walk Awaygap 2

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

Jam chart entries

David Bowie

The "Mac 'N Cheese" version (see Setlist). Breaks away from standard "Bowie" at about 9:00 into some jarring jamming similar to "DEG." Another early one that gets WAY OUT there and includes a jam on "I'm A Man" (Spencer Davis Group) at about 16:45. Powerful trill section.

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

Setlist notes

This was a benefit for Goddard’s sculpture building and marked the first known performance of Kung. The band’s Halloween costumes included Trey wearing devil horns, latex pants, and strap-on breasts (which he ran around fondling during Ninja Custodian’s set) and Mike wearing a dog-faced mask. The band distributed boxes of macaroni and cheese for audience use during the Bowie intro. This Bowie, at over 20 minutes, was, at the time, one of the longest versions ever. During the pause in Letter to Jimmy Page, Trey wished happy birthday to "Mary Ellen." Lizards contained an I Dream of Jeannie theme tease from Page. The show closed with Trey returning to the Kung theme, as he promised to stage another runaway golf cart marathon this time next year. Ninja Custodian was the opening act.

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

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