Phish2023 Summer Tour

July 23rd, 2023

St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview · Syracuse · NY

Sunday2023-07-23

Songs played

3 sets · longest: Set 1 (10)

Average gap

13.3

rarer than 71% of all shows, 46% of 2023

Biggest bustout

no 50+ gap songs

Debuts

4 covers played

Rotation79% fresh vs previous 5 shows0 repeats from 2023-07-22

Setlist

Set 1

Happy Birthday to You>FreeSteam>McGrupp and the Watchful HosemastersEvolveStealing Time From the Faulty Plan>MeatWalk AwayTheme from the BottomKill Devil Falls

Set 2

Suzy Greenberg>Tweezer->OblivionMiss YouWolfman's BrotherPossum

Encore

I Didn't KnowWhat's the Use?>Tweezer Reprise

Gamehendge1/9Related to Gamehendge1/11

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night

2:52:01 of music

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

Longest: Tweezer 27:33 · 19 songs with recorded lengths

When it debuted

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

'83-'896
'90-'943
'95-'004
'09-'143
'15-'191
'20-now2

Album representation

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

A Picture of Nectar2
Billy Breathes2
Joy2
Big Boat1
Hoist1
Sigma Oasis1
The Siket Disc1
The Story of the Ghost1
Covers4
No studio album4

Gap since last played

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

3-54
6-1511
16-504

Originals vs covers

Whose songbook tonight drew from.

Phish original15
Trey Anastasio2
The James Gang1
Traditional1

Rarity board

Rarer than most - nothing shelved more than 50 shows.

I Didn't Knowgap 47

Walk Awaygap 46

Stealing Time From the Faulty Plangap 30

McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemastersgap 18

Miss Yougap 15

What's the Use?gap 13

Meatgap 11

Freegap 8

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

Jam chart entries

Kill Devil Falls

Firmly in the conversation for best "KDF" to date, this version diverges quickly with a driving, upbeat jam which then becomes more textural and hard-edged after 9:00. It then reverts to major for the stretch run to a strong peak which Trey hammers home with a memorable melodic hook.

Tweezer

Begins with a brief major tangent but then reverts to a typically rocking "Tweezer" jam, albeit in a different key, then finds its footing again with a segment anchored by Trey's off-kilter, cyclical lead. From there, it builds more conventionally until the main riff returns, seemingly to bring things to a close, but the band really makes a meal out of this denouement by running through different permutations of the "Tweezer" theme, reintroducing Trey's mid-jam riff, and closing with a Moog-ified final volley, then -> "Oblivion".

Oblivion

The second leg of a mammoth 1-2 punch following "Tweezer", "Oblivion" proves to be a prime vehicle for synth-drenched improvisation. A late-night, portentous atmosphere persists until the pivot to major shortly after 11:00, bringing to bear an encouraging blissful payoff.

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

Setlist notes

Happy Birthday was performed for Lisa Simpson (she had made Fish's "Syracuse colored" dress for the evening and was in attendance). Trey and Page teased That's All in Tweezer. Page teased Long Tall Glasses in Possum and Hold Your Head Up after I Didn't Know. The soundcheck's My Soul had Dog Log lyrics.

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

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Soundcheck

My Soul, Blues Jam, Broken Into Pieces (x3), Blues Jam (this soundcheck may be incomplete)