Phish - September 5th, 2021
Dick's Sporting Goods Park · Commerce City · CO
1 Unfinished.
2 No whistling.
3 Simple Sandwich: Simple bookended Catapult in Set 2 - the 4th on record, the first since December 8th, 1994.
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-'894
- '90-'942
- '95-'004
- '03-'041
- '15-'197
- '20-now1
The studio home of each song, from phish.net. Covers count as one slice.
- Billy Breathes2
- Lawn Boy2
- A Picture of Nectar1
- Big Boat1
- Round Room1
- The Story of the Ghost1
- Covers6
- No studio album5
Shows since each song's previous appearance. A big number is a bustout.
- 3-54
- 6-159
- 16-502
- 51+ · bustout4
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original13
- Trey Anastasio5
- Vida Blue1
Rarer than most - 4 songs shelved 50+ shows.
Gap = shows since the song was last played, at the moment it was played.
This isn't your typical "Sand" jam, as the start of it wouldn't be out of place at the beginning of a "Tube" jam. Things mellow out later, then get to a murky outer-space place. The most impressive thing about this jam is Jon Fishman's refusal to quit; he is fantastic throughout. > a must-hear "Sigma Oasis."
"Sigma Oasis" makes its jam vehicle debut as the second half of a surprise first set 1-2 punch with "Sand", settling into a lower-key late-night groove reminiscent of the prior show's "Everything's Right" before morphing into something even more wicked thanks to Trey and Mike's effects and then slowly morphing into "All of These Dreams".
Pivots to low-boil major key effects-laden jamming out of the usual "SYSF" jam, moves to a more robust zone with Trey taking over with some nice soloing, then finishes with an insistent driving groove, with Fishman outstanding all throughout.
Launches a tremendously fun segment and lays down the musical bones that carry through to -> "Catapult", back to "Simple", and later "Meatstick".
Emerges -> from a "Simple" jam and digs into a deep, industrial groove, making this one of the more musically robust appearances to date. Then -> back to "Simple" for more of the same.
-> from "Catapult" as the off-kilter robo-funk continues until > "Meatstick".
> from a "Simple/Catapult/Simple" sandwich and recalls the machinelike groove heard in that jam with stops and starts, dial-tone Trey, and quotes of "Lonely Trip" and "Catapult".
Versions phish.net's jam charts single out as noteworthy.
Jam (with improvised lyrics)
McGrupp was performed for the first time since July 24, 2018 (100 shows). Sand was unfinished. Reba did not contain the whistling ending. Trey teased No Men In No Man's Land in Bathtub Gin. The return to Simple after Catapult contained Cool Amber and Mercury and Catapult quotes. Meatstick included Catapult and Lonely Trip quotes. Mike teased Simple in Ruby Waves. This was the rescheduled date from the show that had been postponed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.
Setlist, gaps, jam charts, and notes from phish.net, a project of the non-profit Mockingbird Foundation.