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Phish - September 20th, 1990

Somerville Theatre · Somerville · MA

Thursday1990 Tour1990-09-20
Songs played
25
3 sets · longest: Set 2 (13)
Average gap
6.6
rarer than 33% of all shows, 68% of 1990
Biggest bustout
-
no 50+ gap songs
Debuts
0
5 covers played
Rotation28% fresh vs previous 5 shows0 repeats from 1990-09-18
Setlist
🎧 Listen on phish.in2:22:55
Set 1
The Landlady4:51 > AC/DC Bag6:49 > Bouncing Around the Room4:31,The Asse Festival2:57,The Squirming Coil5:54 > My Sweet One2:22,Divided Sky12:52,Magilla6:59 > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony1:37 > Suzy Greenberg5:19 > Possum110:40
Set 2
Funky Bitch5:39,Stash9:03,Uncle Pen4:09,Tube3:56,Lawn Boy2:17 > 🍞Tweezer259:49 -> Buried Alive2:04 > Tweezer3🍞2:37 > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters8:51 > 🍞Hold Your Head Up66:31 > Love You > Hold Your Head Up🍞,Run Like an Antelope412:56
Encore
The Lizards10:13
Gamehendge3/9Related to Gamehendge2/11

1 Two Charlie Chan signals, Oom Pa Pa and How High the Moon signals.

2 Charlie Chan and I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart signals.

3 Charlie Chan and Random Note signals.

4 Three Charlie Chan signals and How High the Moon, Tritone Down and Oom Pa Pa signals.

5 Tweezer Sandwich: Tweezer bookended Buried Alive in Set 2 - the first one on record. No Tweezer sandwich has ever held more.

6 Hold Your Head Up Sandwich: Hold Your Head Up bookended Love You in Set 2 - the 7th on record, the first since June 16th, 1990.

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
2:22:55 of music

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

12:566:28SET 1SET 2ENCOREThe Landlady - 4:51 (Set 1)AC/DC Bag - 6:49 (Set 1)Bouncing Around the Room - 4:31 (Set 1)The Asse Festival - 2:57 (Set 1)The Squirming Coil - 5:54 (Set 1)My Sweet One - 2:22 (Set 1)Divided Sky - 12:52 (Set 1)Magilla - 6:59 (Set 1)The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony - 1:37 (Set 1)Suzy Greenberg - 5:19 (Set 1)Possum - 10:40 (Set 1)Funky Bitch - 5:39 (Set 2)Stash - 9:03 (Set 2)Uncle Pen - 4:09 (Set 2)Tube - 3:56 (Set 2)Lawn Boy - 2:17 (Set 2)Tweezer - 9:49 (Set 2)Buried Alive - 2:04 (Set 2)Tweezer - 2:37 (Set 2)McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters - 8:51 (Set 2)Hold Your Head Up - 6:31 (Set 2)Run Like an Antelope - 12:56 (Set 2)The Lizards - 10:13 (Encore)
Longest: Run Like an Antelope 12:56 · 23 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

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

  • '83-'8913
  • '90-'9410
Album representation

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

  • Lawn Boy5
  • A Picture of Nectar4
  • The White Tape3
  • Covers4
  • No studio album7
Gap since last played

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

  • 1-23
  • 3-514
  • 6-154
  • 16-502
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original19
  • Argent1
  • Bill Monroe1
  • Son Seals1
  • Syd Barrett1
Rarity board

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

Funky Bitchgap 26
McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemastersgap 23
Love Yougap 13
Uncle Pengap 10
Lawn Boygap 10
Hold Your Head Upgap 10
Suzy Greenberggap 5
The Lizardsgap 5

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

Jam chart entries
Possum

Quality jam includes experimental melody lines from Trey, signals, and multiple rolling peaks before the big one.

McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters

The audience really gets into this one, clapping along with the band as they all rock it up with Page in a high energy and super fun version.

Run Like an Antelope

The jam breaks beyond "Antelope" several times and keeps circling back. Nice screaming by someone (Fish?). Fish is awesome in this version which also has many signals (see Setlist).

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

Setlist notes

Suzy contained Heartbreaker teases from Trey and Page. Possum contained two Charlie Chan signals, and Oom Pa Pa and How High the Moon signals. Tweezer included two Charlie Chan signals as well as I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart and Random Note signals. Antelope contained three Charlie Chan signals and How High the Moon, Tritone Down, and Oom Pa Pa signals. Prior to Love You, Mike teased the theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Some recordings that circulate with this date are actually a compilation of performances from this show and the following night.

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

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