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Playing from the Cumberland Civic Center, a 10,000 person venue in Portland, ME, tonight's show is a dance party, from start to finish, so get ready...

Don't turn it off in the middle or you will miss our favorite dress-clad drummer (the-artist-formerly-and-still-known-as-Jon-Fishman) sweetly singing one of my favorite Prince songs.
: )

Here is the setlist for the show:

Set 1: David Bowie, Weigh > The Curtain > Sample in a Jar, Paul and Silas, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Rift > Bathtub Gin, Free Bird

Set 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Mike's Song -> The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Punch You In the Eye > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Weekapaug Groove > Purple Rain > Hold Your Head Up, Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Rocky Top > Good Times Bad Times

Tonight's show is a thick, deep, intense pile of musicality.
It just is.
You may want to put on an extra pair of ears, if you have some laying nearby...

Set I
Ghost, Horn, Ya Mar, Limb By Limb -> Ain't Love Funny, Saw It Again, Dirt, Reba, Dogs Stole Things

Set II
Jam -> Timber Ho > Bathtub Gin -> Cities, Loving Cup > Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: When the Circus Comes To Town

Helping Phriendly Hour tonight features bluegrass and rock highlights from both sets I and II.

Its a great show not only because it happens to land on my birthday....

...but also this Phish 1.0 show drops smack in the middle of one of the best fall tours ever, in the year that flung the band into rock-star-madness...

...plus it features one of the all-time three best versions of Stash ( take a listen, and just try to suggest otherwise!)...

...plus we haven't heard I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome (a beautiful tune by Bill Monroe) in over a decade, so a loud version of that alone should entice you to tune in!

Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Billy Breathes, Divided Sky, Esther > Free, Julius, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome, Cavern

Set 2: Maze, Gumbo, Stash -> Manteca -> Stash -> Dog Faced Boy -> Stash, Strange Design, You Enjoy Myself -> Immigrant Song Jam -> You Enjoy Myself

Encore: The Wedge, Rocky Top

Tonight's show? A little of this, a little of that...all from 12-29-2011 -- ENJOY!

Here's the show in it's entirety...

Set 1: The Sloth, You Enjoy Myself, Back on the Train, The Moma Dance, Funky Bitch, Maze, Roses Are Free, Halley's Comet > Run Like an Antelope

Set 2: Crosseyed and Painless > Simple -> Lifeboy > Guyute, Mike's Song > Chalk Dust Torture -> I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Show of Life > Character Zero

Encore: Loving Cup

Jan 12, 2012 -
This night let us dance and be joyful, as 3.0 is the good-est...
Perhaps you celebrated with me at MSG this past moon, or perhaps you haven't yet heard this particularly choice set...

PHISH
Madison Square Garden
New York City, New York

December 28, 2011

Set 2

Birds of a Feather, Carini > Tweezer > My Friend, My Friend > Rock and Roll > NICU, Bouncing Around the Room, Harry Hood > Bug

What better way to celebrate the holiday denouement than with a wee bit of the Best-Band-Ever-To-Play...

All four shows this month come from this last New Year's Run at MSG, enjoy them on your own or with a friend

Tonight 1-5-12 will be Set I of 12-30-11.

Set I

Punch You In The Eye > Prince Caspian > Backwards Down the Number Line, Nellie Kane, Divided Sky, Sand, Vultures, Rift, Joy, Quinn the Eskimo

...and a very happy birthday to Fishman's daughter Ella : )

Want to hear one of the NINE New Years' sets on the radio? Send a message, make your request and PRESTO!!

12-15 and 12-22 shows are excerpts from this funky and epic event -
If you love Phish, you simply must listen to the show in its entirety, featuring a 25 minute AC/DC Bag...Harpua...a lovely long Harry Hood....plus am over-the-top, over-the-MSG-curfew encore with Mr. Jon Fishman playing the vacuum.

Tuesday, 12/30/1997
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

Set 1: Sneakin' Sally through the Alley -> Taste, Water in the Sky > Punch You In the Eye > Stash, Chalk Dust Torture, A Day in the Life

Set 2: AC/DC Bag > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Harpua > I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) > Harpua > Izabella > Harry Hood-> My Soul > Sleeping Monkey > Guyute

Encore: Carini -> Black-Eyed Katy -> Sneakin' Sally through the Alley > Frankenstein

12-8-11: Tonight's show is the rockin'-like-there's-no-tomorrow Set 1 (most of it!) from the Mothership, Hampton Coliseum
Enjoy!

Set 1:
Rock and Roll Part Two > Tube > Quinn the Eskimo > Funky Bitch, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Meat > Stash, Train Song > Possum, Roggae, Driver, Split Open and Melt

Set 2:
Bathtub Gin > Piper, Axilla > Roses Are Free, Farmhouse, Hold Your Head Up > Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It > Hold Your Head Up, Harry Hood > Character Zero

Encore: Cavern

Great show. Beautiful jam during Backwards Down the Number Line.
Enjoy the Second set by listening to the 11-17 show, or download the whole shebang with the link below.

Set 1:
Look Out Cleveland, Ocelot, Water in the Sky, Stash, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, Sample in a Jar, Time Turns Elastic, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove

Set 2: Rock and Roll > Harry Hood > Backwards Down the Number Line > Twenty Years Later, Instant Karma! > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > Waste > Character Zero

Encore: The Squirming Coil

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Seriously fun...11/10 show Old Home Place --> Fee ( a ROCKIN' Fee...)

Set 1: Old Home Place, Punch You In the Eye, Reba > Cars Trucks Buses, The Lizards, Sample in a Jar, Taste, Fee -> Maze, Suzy Greenberg

Set 2: The Curtain > Runaway Jim, It's Ice > Brother, Fluffhead, Run Like an Antelope >Golgi Apparatus > Slave to the Traffic Light

Set 3: Wilson, Frankenstein, Scent of a Mule, Tweezer, A Day in the Life, Possum > Tweezer Reprise

Encore: Harpua