Phish - October 7th, 2023
Bridgestone Arena · Nashville · TN
1 Performed in a slow, funky arrangement.
2 Also Sprach Zarathustra Sandwich: Also Sprach Zarathustra bookended Gumbo, Beauty of My Dreams and Mull in Set 1 - the 3rd on record, the first since June 25th, 2010. No Also Sprach Zarathustra sandwich has ever held more.
3 Mull Sandwich: Mull bookended Also Sprach Zarathustra in Set 1 - the first one on record. No Mull sandwich has ever held more.
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-'893
- '90-'944
- '95-'004
- '15-'193
- '20-now4
The studio home of each song, from phish.net. Covers count as one slice.
- A Picture of Nectar2
- Big Boat1
- Evolve1
- Lawn Boy1
- Stash1
- Covers10
- No studio album2
Shows since each song's previous appearance. A big number is a bustout.
- 1-25
- 3-55
- 6-155
- 16-501
- 51+ · bustout2
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original8
- Trey Anastasio4
- Amfibian1
- Ghosts of the Forest1
- New York!1
- Strauss, as interpreted by Deodato1
- Talking Heads1
- The Del McCoury Band1
Rarer than most - 2 songs shelved 50+ shows.
Gap = shows since the song was last played, at the moment it was played.
Great "Mull," with more than a few "Destiny Unbound" undertones. Jamming breaks for a bit of "2001," a callback to the show's strong show-opener, before > back to "Mull."
> "Mull" and > back to "Mull" to inform part of a snappy first-set passage of musical exploration.
> "2001" to close a snappy first-set passage of musical exploration.
A fun first set jaunt. Starting slow and bluesy, the tempo builds and builds until the band is in a controlled frenzy. It's a mix of old and new Phish, alike. In a jam-heavy first set, this may be the crown jewel.
A fine example of "SOAMelt's" late-period renaissance, with an ambitious, multipart jam which remains uncommonly coherent even while exploring a number of dizzying directions before a celebratory knockout ending leads back into "Melt".
The "Music City" inspires another big 2023 version of "Cities". Mike's fat synth bass carves out the initial funky path. Trey and Page dial in the murk in response, crossing through some vague "MLB"-isms on the way to a major mode shift. The music turns on a dime toward celebratory fare, but retains some of its spacious-ness, as Trey alternates between clean melodic phrasing and long echoed notes. Play then cools back towards da funk and -> "Llama".
Versions phish.net's jam charts single out as noteworthy.
Also Sprach Zarathustra (commonly called 2001) was performed on what the band believed to be their 2,001st show (Mike had discussed a day earlier on Instagram that he had been informed to the best of their knowledge that October 6th was the band's 2,000th show). Llama was performed in a slow, funky arrangement.
Setlist, gaps, jam charts, and notes from phish.net, a project of the non-profit Mockingbird Foundation.