Phish - April 23rd, 2022
Madison Square Garden · New York · NY
1 Simple Sandwich: Simple bookended Egg in a Hole in Set 1 - the 5th on record, the first since September 5th, 2021.
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-'941
- '95-'004
- '15-'193
- '20-now2
The studio home of each song, from phish.net. Covers count as one slice.
- Big Boat3
- Junta2
- Billy Breathes1
- Farmhouse1
- Get More Down by Sci-Fi Soldier1
- Round Room1
- The White Tape1
- Covers3
- No studio album5
Shows since each song's previous appearance. A big number is a bustout.
- 3-59
- 6-155
- 16-504
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original15
- Trey Anastasio3
A typical night, rotation-wise - nothing shelved more than 50 shows.
Gap = shows since the song was last played, at the moment it was played.
Initially an upbeat jam that pleasantly bobs along until a switch is flipped around 13:30, launching into a segment of terrifying power and space-age effects -> "Egg in a Hole Jam"
"Simple's" incredible exploration gets a slight tweak and lands on the "Egg in a Hole Jam" and then -> back to "Simple".
-> Trey pulls out of the "Egg in a Hole Jam" with a deft return to the "Simple" riff for a triumphant conclusion to a mind-blowing segment.
Arguably "the" jam of this fun and quirky run, the version's quick, plucky tempo features, like an old-school "DWD," fire Trey and a lot of notes - a wonderfully wild array of ideas offset by melodic variation and extended trilling. Straightforward jamming breaks for perhaps the run's most interesting passage, with Trey expertly moving through myriad sounds while swapping deeply textured and patterned play with Mike. The finest in the nation sort of Phish you could listen to all day, improv wherein you can hear the -> into "Caspian" coming from leagues away.
Winds slowly and gently out of "Caspian" before revving up to its usual modern era tempo. Immediately moves into minor-key late night mode, then swerves into something more upbeat and bouncy, delves into an atypical "Dave's Energy Guide" tease that the band jams on for a little bit, then slows down into molasses-thick funkiness to close. Packs a lot of punch into eleven and a half minutes.
Versions phish.net's jam charts single out as noteworthy.
This was the the rescheduled date for the show that had been postponed due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 surge in New York City in December of 2021. Mike teased Party Time in the first Simple. Trey teased San-Ho-Zay in No Men in No Man's Land, Dave's Energy Guide in Piper, and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed in David Bowie.
Setlist, gaps, jam charts, and notes from phish.net, a project of the non-profit Mockingbird Foundation.