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Phish - April 23rd, 2026

Sphere · Las Vegas · NV

ThursdayNight 4 at this venue2026 Sphere2026-04-23
Songs played
19
3 sets · longest: Set 1 (8)
Average gap
10.0
rarer than 52% of all shows, 19% of 2026
Biggest bustout
-
no 50+ gap songs
Debuts
1
Dark Puddle
Rotation89% fresh vs previous 5 shows0 repeats from 2026-04-18
Gamehendge1/9Related to Gamehendge1/11

1 Trey on acoustic guitar.

2 Fish on Marimba Lumina.

3 Trey sang verses through a megaphone.

4 Fuego Sandwich: Fuego bookended Dark Puddle and Golden Age in Set 2 - the 2nd on record, the first since July 5th, 2025. No Fuego sandwich has ever held more.

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night
3:10:22 of music

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

37:2018:40SET 1SET 2ENCORE46 Days - 7:48 (Set 1)Guyute - 11:12 (Set 1)Maze - 9:59 (Set 1)Esther - 10:02 (Set 1)Gumbo - 14:42 (Set 1)Brian and Robert - 4:18 (Set 1)Stash - 12:31 (Set 1)Moonage Daydream - 8:13 (Set 1)The Curtain With - 13:37 (Set 2)Fuego - 37:20 (Set 2)Golden Age - 11:52 (Set 2)Fuego - 5:03 (Set 2)Backwards Down the Number Line - 8:35 (Set 2)Cavern - 4:45 (Set 2)Possum - 8:38 (Set 2)Fee - 5:52 (Encore)Tube - 9:32 (Encore)More - 6:22 (Encore)
Longest: Fuego 37:20 · 18 songs with recorded lengths
When it debuted

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

  • '83-'894
  • '90-'946
  • '95-'001
  • '03-'041
  • '09-'143
  • '15-'192
  • '20-now1
Album representation

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

  • A Picture of Nectar2
  • Junta2
  • The Story of the Ghost2
  • Big Boat1
  • Fuego1
  • Rift1
  • Round Room1
  • Stash1
  • Covers3
  • No studio album4
Gap since last played

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

  • 3-55
  • 6-1510
  • 16-502
Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

  • Phish original15
  • Arnold Corns1
  • Trey Anastasio1
  • TV on the Radio1
Rarity board

A typical night, rotation-wise - nothing shelved more than 50 shows.

Guyutegap 34
Feegap 16
Mazegap 15
46 Daysgap 13
Esthergap 12
Possumgap 9

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

Jam chart entries
Gumbo

Momentarily bordering on plinko to kick things off, the jam becomes echo laden and accented with a dark groove as Trey briefly plays on the low end and Mike’s effects cast a shadow that serves as contrast to what follows. Trey’s lead becomes more linear and Page responds in lockstep. The whole affair is held together by Fishman’s stutter step consistency giving rise to a flash point and leading to satisfying consummation.

Fuego

Opening with snarling leads from Trey, this shifts at 9:40 into a more open terrain before Fishman takes command of the jam's direction. Wall of sound Mike and Page moves into a late-nite ambient space highlighted by Trey and Page trading delicate riffs around 13min. Moving deeper into the ether, the jam fades into sirens before a fake song interrupts a stunning Fuego.

Dark Puddle

Emerging from a swirl of abstract sound, the world's lone Dark Puddle is vibrant and free of form; high quality abstract jamming. Building to a major-key peak around 1045 we descend into Mike-led Fuego quotes before another build just after 13min. We hear the road not taken at Sphere where the visuals guide the band into the unknown, as best defined by the conclusion of the jam, fading into abstract jamming before moving into Golden Age.

Golden Age

Moving into a familiar hypnotic groove space we shift at 9:15 to a deeper groove which thus opens the space for the jam to blossom. Mike and Fish dominate here before Trey shifts the band into Fuego.

Fuego

Shifts quickly back into open-ended jamming following the repeated Fuego riff; Fish and Mike push them into a rock space before Trey returns with sky high riffs. Hard-rock fusion with Frankie Says esque riffing concludes before the jam fades out.

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

Setlist notes

The visuals during Maze began with the giant wall of framed poster art before focusing on a print showing a close-up of the sleeping man on the cover of Rift. During the jam, the perspective entered the picture and explored the room, before pulling back out of the frame to the view of the entire wall, which eventually added framed live video of each band member. Brian and Robert featured Trey on acoustic guitar. After the show ended, Trey asked for the jam out of Fuego prior to Golden Age to be called "Dark Puddle." Dark Puddle featured Fish on Marimba Lumina and a Fuego quote from Mike. The visuals for Possum were from inside a network of neurons that pulsed and flashed with light. Fee featured Trey on megaphone.

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

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