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Phish - August 16th, 2009

Saratoga Performing Arts Center · Saratoga Springs · NY

Sunday2009 Late Summer Tour2009-08-16
Songs played
24
3 sets · longest: Set 1 (12)
Average gap
12.1
rarer than 65% of all shows, 49% of 2009
Biggest bustout
60
Harpua - shows since last played
Debuts
2
I Kissed a Girl, I Been Around
Rotation54% fresh vs previous 5 shows0 repeats from 2009-08-15
Setlist
🎧 Listen on phish.in3:00:58
Set 1
Llama3:27,The Moma Dance8:01,Guyute10:54,Anything But Me6:22,Cars Trucks Buses5:03,Chalk Dust Torture6:26,Golgi Apparatus4:37,David Bowie12:51,Cavern4:21 > Possum7:56,Ocelot9:17,Run Like an Antelope9:45
Set 2
Backwards Down the Number Line20:31 -> Twenty Years Later7:46,Halley's Comet5:44 > Rock and Roll10:55,🍞Harpua36:27 -> I Kissed a Girldebut12:00 > Hold Your Head Up1:14 > Harpua🍞7:56,You Enjoy Myself20:17
Encore
Grind2:07,I Been Arounddebut22:23,Highway to Hell4:37
HarpualegendaryGamehendge1/9Related to Gamehendge2/11bustout50+ show gap

1 Phish debut.

2 Debut.

3 Harpua Sandwich: Harpua bookended I Kissed a Girl and Hold Your Head Up in Set 2 - the 15th on record, the first since July 29th, 2003.

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
3:00:58 of music

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

20:3110:15SET 1SET 2ENCORELlama - 3:27 (Set 1)The Moma Dance - 8:01 (Set 1)Guyute - 10:54 (Set 1)Anything But Me - 6:22 (Set 1)Cars Trucks Buses - 5:03 (Set 1)Chalk Dust Torture - 6:26 (Set 1)Golgi Apparatus - 4:37 (Set 1)David Bowie - 12:51 (Set 1)Cavern - 4:21 (Set 1)Possum - 7:56 (Set 1)Ocelot - 9:17 (Set 1)Run Like an Antelope - 9:45 (Set 1)Backwards Down the Number Line - 20:31 (Set 2)Twenty Years Later - 7:46 (Set 2)Halley's Comet - 5:44 (Set 2)Rock and Roll - 10:55 (Set 2)Harpua - 6:27 (Set 2)I Kissed a Girl - 2:00 (Set 2)Hold Your Head Up - 1:14 (Set 2)Harpua - 7:56 (Set 2)You Enjoy Myself - 20:17 (Set 2)Grind - 2:07 (Encore)I Been Around - 2:23 (Encore)Highway to Hell - 4:37 (Encore)
Longest: Backwards Down the Number Line 20:31 · 24 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

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

  • '83-'899
  • '90-'944
  • '95-'004
  • '03-'041
  • '09-'145
Album representation

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

  • A Picture of Nectar3
  • Joy3
  • Junta2
  • The Story of the Ghost2
  • The White Tape2
  • Billy Breathes1
  • Round Room1
  • Undermind1
  • Covers5
  • No studio album3
Gap since last played

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

  • 1-22
  • 3-510
  • 6-154
  • 16-504
  • 51+ · bustout1
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original18
  • AC/DC1
  • Argent1
  • Katy Perry1
  • The Velvet Underground1
  • Trey Anastasio1
Rarity board

A typical night, rotation-wise - 1 song shelved 50+ shows.

Harpuagap 60
Llamagap 39
Anything But Megap 30
Cars Trucks Busesgap 27
Highway to Hellgap 18
Hold Your Head Upgap 15
Guyutegap 9
Halley's Cometgap 7

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

Jam chart entries
Backwards Down the Number Line

Exploratory "Type II" jam which starts to peel away from "BDTNL" around 6:00. Rocking at first, it grows somewhat dark and dissonant, brightens again, and ends in a repetitive and spacey groove which -> to "Twenty Years Later."

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

Soundcheck

I Been Around, Kids, I Kissed a Girl, Beauty of My Dreams

Setlist notes

The Harpua narration centered on a depressed Jimmy calling on his Spirit Guide who happened to be a “funny little man wearing a dress” who spoke truth through song (in this case, I Kissed a Girl). This show featured the Phish debut of I Kissed a Girl (described by Trey as “so wrong on so many levels”). After Harpua, Trey remarked to Fish that he was waiting for the day when Fish went to see Katy Perry and she performed a Phish song, prompting Fish to declare, “I don’t apologize to Katy Perry for that. I only apologize to [the audience].” Prior to the encore, Trey stated that it was hard to play the last show of the tour because they felt like they could just keep going. Before starting the debut performance of I Been Around, Trey explained that they were playing it because he realized that it was the one song off of the upcoming album (Joy) that they hadn’t played live.

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

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