Phish - December 31st, 2002
Madison Square Garden · New York · NY
1 Castaway intro and "Tom Hanks" guest appearance.
2 Debut.
Song length in play order. Tap a point for that song. Swipe the chart to see the rest.
Tonight's unique songs by the era Phish first played them.
- '83-'897
- '90-'948
- '95-'006
The studio home of each song, from phish.net. Covers count as one slice.
- Rift3
- Round Room3
- Billy Breathes2
- Lawn Boy2
- The Story of the Ghost2
- Farmhouse1
- Hoist1
- Junta1
- The White Tape1
- Covers2
- No studio album6
Shows since each song's previous appearance. A big number is a bustout.
- 1-24
- 3-59
- 6-153
- 16-502
- 51+ · bustout3
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original22
- Little Feat1
- Traditional1
A deep-cut night - 3 songs shelved 50+ shows.
Gap = shows since the song was last played, at the moment it was played.
Phish ended the Hiatus with this unusually placed set opener. Listen to the crowd's excitement and roars of approval as the band returns to the stage. Trey leads the boys in this fiery, and (appropriately) upbeat version, which features a "Low Rider" tease, a jam segment between verses, as well as the ending coda which was uncommon by this date.
Debut. Jam section features soaring guitar soloing and great complimentary piano from Page. Nice Page led outro jam after the final verse.
Debut performance and part of NYE spectacle.
Debut, which includes an excellent "Type II" section beginning about 11:00 that eventually returns to "WOTC."
Versions phish.net's jam charts single out as noteworthy.
Phish returned from their hiatus with their first public show since October 7, 2000. The pre-show music alluded to the end of the hiatus with such songs as the theme from Welcome Back Kotter, Feels Like the First Time, Back in the Saddle Again, Reunited, and The Boys are Back in Town. The final selection was Foreplay/Long Time, during which time the band took the stage. Prior to Wilson, a scene from the Tom Hanks movie Cast Away was played in the arena (referring to Hanks’s character searching for his volleyball/companion named Wilson). Trey subsequently introduced Hanks to sing the final lyric. Major news media reported the Hanks appearance, but the guest singer was actually Page’s brother, Steve McConnell. Mound was played for the first time since November 19, 1996 (276 shows). Bowie included a DEG tease. This show included the debuts of Waves, Seven Below and Walls of the Cave. Appropriately, Seven Below began about seven minutes before midnight. During the song, the crew lowered a disco ball from the scoreboard and created a “snowfall” on stage. Dancers dressed in white as snow creatures took the stage and circled the band before dispersing into the crowd. Some of the dancers ascended ladders and donned stilts to become snow angels. At midnight, white balloons and confetti were dropped on the crowd. A little person remained on each front corner of the stage, popping balloons, while the snow angels continued to dance. Runaway Jim contained a Weekapaug tease from Page. Time Loves a Hero was last played August 11, 1998 (or 153 shows). Walls included a San-Ho-Zay tease from Trey. The evening was capped with perfect post-show music: Let’s Stay Together.
Setlist, gaps, jam charts, and notes from phish.net, a project of the non-profit Mockingbird Foundation.