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Phish - August 15th, 2015

Merriweather Post Pavilion · Columbia · MD

Saturday2015 Summer2015-08-15
Songs played
25
3 sets · longest: Set 1 (12)
Average gap
23.2
rarer than 84% of all shows, 86% of 2015
Biggest bustout
202
NO2 - shows since last played
Debuts
0
1 cover played
Rotation68% fresh vs previous 5 shows0 repeats from 2015-08-14
Related to Gamehendge1/11bustout50+ show gap

1 Marco Esquandolas lyric changed to "Gaktoidler Esquandolas."

2 Trey on megaphone.

3 Big Black Furry Creature from Mars Sandwich: Big Black Furry Creature from Mars bookended Your Pet Cat in Set 1 - the 8th on record, the first since July 15th, 2003.

4 Steam Sandwich: Steam bookended What's the Use? in Set 2 - the first one on record. No Steam sandwich has ever held more.

5 Tweezer Sandwich: Tweezer bookended NO2 in Set 2 - the 23rd on record, the first since July 27th, 2014.

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
2:45:40 of music

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

16:228:11SET 1SET 2ENCORESimple - 7:15 (Set 1)Glide - 5:10 (Set 1)Buried Alive - 3:17 (Set 1)McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters - 8:50 (Set 1)Roggae - 8:54 (Set 1)Limb By Limb - 7:33 (Set 1)Big Black Furry Creature from Mars - 3:42 (Set 1)Your Pet Cat - 1:54 (Set 1)Big Black Furry Creature from Mars - 1:52 (Set 1)Horn - 3:43 (Set 1)Blaze On - 8:11 (Set 1)Run Like an Antelope - 14:56 (Set 1)Halley's Comet - 6:15 (Set 2)46 Days - 16:22 (Set 2)Bug - 6:24 (Set 2)Steam - 5:31 (Set 2)What's the Use? - 5:09 (Set 2)Steam - 1:06 (Set 2)Piper - 15:43 (Set 2)Tweezer - 6:28 (Set 2)NO2 - 3:48 (Set 2)Tweezer - 1:01 (Set 2)Walls of the Cave - 10:59 (Set 2)Sleeping Monkey - 6:55 (Encore)Tweezer Reprise - 4:41 (Encore)
Longest: 46 Days 16:22 · 25 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

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

  • '83-'894
  • '90-'948
  • '95-'005
  • '03-'041
  • '09-'142
  • '15-'191
Album representation

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

  • A Picture of Nectar3
  • Round Room2
  • The Story of the Ghost2
  • The White Tape2
  • Big Boat1
  • Farmhouse1
  • Rift1
  • Sigma Oasis1
  • The Siket Disc1
  • Covers1
  • No studio album7
Gap since last played

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

  • 1-21
  • 3-57
  • 6-156
  • 16-505
  • 51+ · bustout3
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original21
  • Amfibian1
Rarity board

Rarer than most - 3 songs shelved 50+ shows.

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

Jam chart entries
Roggae

Phish has certainly got "Roggae" dialed in at this point in time. This version is heartfelt, soulful, and beautifully played. Trey uses no effects, resulting in a natural sounding jam, and he picks his notes with impressive exactitude, resulting in a super tight, cleanly played version.

Run Like an Antelope

A tasty prequel to the beloved Magnaball Antelope, this version quickly deconstructs the usual "Antelope" jam before Page and Trey have a fun solo-off, then moves into a tension-laden spaciness, before returning to "Antelope" proper. "Gacktoidler Esquandolas" from Trey in the Rye Rye Rocco section. Very fun version to close out the first set of a very fun show.

46 Days

An angry, dissonant and pulsing jam emerges at first, settles a bit, then grows melodic and soothing with nice Fender-Rhodes action from Page. Familiar bliss type jamming then briefly takes hold until a -> to "Bug."

Steam

Meaty little groove develops after the fourth verse, grows in power with Fish adding some eerie wails, then dies away and > very nicely into "What's The Use?"

What's the Use?

"What's the Use?" is sandwiched inside a solid version of "Steam."

Steam

> out of "What's The Use?" Proper finish to the tune and a slow -> into "Piper."

Piper

-> in from "Steam." Solid and varied "Type I" playing through 8:40, when the jam quiets and takes on a groovy but dark and probing sense. The energy builds to a spirited, rocking peak, then neatly -> to "Tweezer."

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

Soundcheck

Sparkle, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Friday, Nothing (x5), Stir It Up (instrumental)

Setlist notes

The first Big Black Furry Creature from Mars included an I Dream of Jeannie theme tease from Mike and a Your Pet Cat quote. Run Like an Antelope included a Call To The Post tease and the lyrics were changed to "Gaktoidler Esquandolas." Piper included a Steam tease. The first Tweezer and NO2 included Trey on megaphone. NO2 was last played August 12, 2010 (202 shows) and included a Martian Monster quote. During the intro to Sleeping Monkey, Trey said that backstage the band had read a website that ranked Phish songs and they were surprised that Page's all-time favorite song was not on the top of the list, so they were going to play it for the crowd right now. Trey then said every night walking off during encore breaks Page asks to play it and Mike says "No Page, not tonight, tonight's not your night, man." Tweezer Reprise included a Sleeping Monkey quote from Fish.

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

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