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Phish - May 16th, 1995

Lowell Memorial Auditorium · Lowell · MA

TuesdayNot Part of a Tour1995-05-16
Songs played
16
2 sets · longest: Set 1 (14)
Average gap
3.0
rarer than 0% of 1995 shows
Biggest bustout
-
no 50+ gap songs
Debuts
10
Don't You Want To Go?, Ha Ha Ha, Spock's Brain, Strange Design, Theme from the Bottom, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, Free, Glide II, I'll Come Running, Gloria
Rotation69% fresh vs previous 5 shows0 repeats from 1994-12-31
Related to Gamehendge1/11

1 Phish debut.

2 Debut.

3 No whistling.

4 Hold Your Head Up Sandwich: Hold Your Head Up bookended Lonesome Cowboy Bill in Set 1 - the 173rd on record, the first since December 29th, 1994.

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
1:43:03 of music

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

23:4211:51SET 1ENCOREDon't You Want To Go? - 6:08 (Set 1)Ha Ha Ha - 1:35 (Set 1)Spock's Brain - 5:36 (Set 1)Strange Design - 2:54 (Set 1)Reba - 15:40 (Set 1)Theme from the Bottom - 10:48 (Set 1)Hold Your Head Up - 9:08 (Set 1)Free - 8:34 (Set 1)Glide II - 4:14 (Set 1)You Enjoy Myself - 23:42 (Set 1)Sweet Adeline - 3:24 (Set 1)Sample in a Jar - 5:46 (Set 1)I'll Come Running - 3:32 (Encore)Gloria - 2:01 (Encore)
Longest: You Enjoy Myself 23:42 · 14 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

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

  • '83-'893
  • '90-'942
  • '95-'0010
Album representation

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

  • Billy Breathes2
  • Hoist1
  • Lawn Boy1
  • The White Tape1
  • Covers6
  • No studio album4
Gap since last played

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

  • 1-23
  • 3-51
  • 6-151
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original9
  • Argent1
  • Artie Shaw1
  • Brian Eno1
  • The Meditation Singers1
  • The Velvet Underground1
  • Them1
Rarity board

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

Jam chart entries
Reba

The band locks into an incredibly cool groove before Trey, masterfully shaping his tone, leads the band into an extended improvisational passage enchanting and mysterious. A blend of warm sustain and dynamic modulation eventually yields to strong soloing, with Trey building the jam to a soaring, searing peak.

Theme from the Bottom

Debut is an exceptionally well played version. With rich melodic content from Trey and great band-wide interplay, the jamming potential for "Theme" is clearly on display in this first go-around.

Free

Debut. Jam section similar in tone, but less with percussion and with less Page than later '95 - '96 versions.

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

Soundcheck

Tweezer -> I’ll Come Running -> Tweezer Reprise

Setlist notes

This was a Voters for Choice benefit concert that also featured Jennifer Trynin and Emergency Broadcast Network. During the pre-show introduction, host Gloria Steinem promised Phish fans more new music in one night than ever before. The band proceeded to deliver the first public performances of Ha Ha Ha, Spock's Brain, Strange Design, Theme From the Bottom, Free, and Glide II. Don’t You Want To Go?, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, I’ll Come Running, and Gloria also made their first Phish public performances at this show. Reba did not have the whistling ending. Fish introduced the new songs that had been played before Lonesome Cowboy Bill. Fish explained that they didn't really have a name for the song after Ha Ha Ha and Trey added that since it was a Voters For Choice Benefit, they'd give the crowd four choices and let it vote on the title: The Plane, The First Single, Israel, and Spock's Brain. Page subsequently teased the theme from Star Trek as the crowd voted for Spock's with Trey subsequently explaining the song's origin. Prior to Adeline, the crowd sang Happy Birthday to Page.

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

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