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Phish - April 20th, 2024

Sphere · Las Vegas · NV

SaturdayNight 3 at this venue2024 Sphere2024-04-20
Songs played
17
3 sets · longest: Set 1 (8)
Average gap
7.7
rarer than 44% of all shows, 20% of 2024
Biggest bustout
-
no 50+ gap songs
Debuts
0
6 covers played
Rotation47% fresh vs previous 5 shows0 repeats from 2024-04-19
Mike's Groove1/3

1 Began with Trey on acoustic guitar.

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
3:08:51 of music

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

29:2414:42SET 1SET 2ENCORESet Your Soul Free - 13:26 (Set 1)Tube - 10:20 (Set 1)Stash - 15:32 (Set 1)Pillow Jets - 15:47 (Set 1)Steam - 12:44 (Set 1)Mountains in the Mist - 7:20 (Set 1)Taste - 7:29 (Set 1)46 Days - 8:22 (Set 1)Sigma Oasis - 7:59 (Set 2)Fuego - 29:24 (Set 2)Golden Age - 10:34 (Set 2)Twist - 10:14 (Set 2)I Am Hydrogen - 3:14 (Set 2)Chalk Dust Torture - 16:18 (Set 2)Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. - 6:42 (Set 2)A Life Beyond The Dream - 8:02 (Encore)Tweezer Reprise - 3:15 (Encore)
Longest: Fuego 29:24 · 17 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

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

  • '83-'891
  • '90-'944
  • '95-'003
  • '03-'041
  • '09-'143
  • '15-'194
  • '20-now1
Album representation

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

  • A Picture of Nectar3
  • Billy Breathes1
  • Farmhouse1
  • Fuego1
  • Round Room1
  • Sigma Oasis1
  • Covers6
  • No studio album3
Gap since last played

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

  • 1-23
  • 3-56
  • 6-157
  • 16-501
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original11
  • Trey Anastasio4
  • Ghosts of the Forest1
  • TV on the Radio1
Rarity board

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.

Jam chart entries
Tube

A subtler and more introspective take on improvisation than the consistently exciting groove fest "Tube" tends to bring, the band here sonically 'dims the lights' briefly before building melodically to the more familiar peak and return.

Stash

Like "Melt," Stash has seemingly assumed a new form (see 8/11/18, 7/10/19, etc.). Like "Melt," many of these jams astonish. (See just about any, recently.) Here, right around 6:50, we see Trey at the apex of his cerebral prowess, fingers and feet in lockstep. Pushed by Page, the friends move through wonderful drums and bass to create a jam that's as pleasant as it is demented, as melodic as it is measured.

Pillow Jets

NYE's "Bag" casts a long shadow; fans of that momentous moment can turn from that script to find, here, more by way of impassioned (improvisational) play. Heavy as a multi-beast's footprints stomped into the Mojave's sand, the band toys with an array of effects to produce something like melody before Trey alights upon a line, a path leading the listener through a grassy path where one sees the forest for its cosmic trove of trees.

Steam

At times, calm and tropical, and then moody and fierce, this quality version stretches the boundaries of the normal "Steam" jam without totally leaving the station.

Fuego

Smoothly coasts through various stages of effortless, upbeat jamming, becomes grimier as it approaches 20:00, and then turns up the intensity as the jam winds its way to an anthemic conclusion.

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

Setlist notes

During Tube, the dome seemed to fill with soap bubbles which reflected the venue and drifted in front of a nebula of changing colors. During Pillow Jets, the view became that of a grassy path through a grove of trees under a starlit sky. Travelling down the path as the jam progressed, the grass and trees became tinged with glowing, multi-colored light, which periodically intensified and erupted from the ground through the branches, creating a firework effect. Mike and Trey teased Manteca during Steam. During Mountains in the Mist, the dome made it appear as if the venue was nestled in an evergreen-covered mountain range, with mist shrouding the sky from view. During Taste, the entire dome appeared to become covered in turning rings of Jim Pollock illustrations from the covers of the Live Phish CD releases, rendered in gold and black. During Sigma Oasis, the dome became a cloudscape, with trees, birds and sea creatures made out of bubbling clouds. During Fuego, a spotlight was used to create a silhouette of the band, with the image then recreated across the dome with effects added to make the band appear as flaming shadow people. During Twist, the dome became filled with multicolored letters tumbling before a backdrop of pulsing red circles. I Am Hydrogen was performed in a show without Mike's Song and Weekapaug Groove for the first time since October 31, 1987 (2,024 shows). A Life Beyond The Dream featured Trey on acoustic guitar. During Tweezer Reprise, the dome again displayed images of cars, this time tumbling into the distance. This show was connected to the other three with each night's setlist tied into a state of matter. This performance's matter type was gas.

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

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