Phish - October 31st, 2021

MGM Grand Garden Arena · Las Vegas · NV

SundayNight 4 at this venue2021 Fall Tour2021-10-31

Songs played

4 sets · longest: Set 2 (12)

Average gap

14.9

rarer than 55% of all shows, 66% of 2021

Biggest bustout

no 50+ gap songs

Debuts

Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue, Get More Down, Egg in a Hole, Thanksgiving, Clear Your Mind, The 9th Cube, The Inner Reaches of Outer, Don't Doubt Me, The Unwinding, Something Living Here, The Howling, I Am in Miami

Rotation96% fresh vs previous 5 shows0 repeats from 2021-10-30

Setlist

Set 1

Buried Alive,Roses Are Free > Ghost,Wolfman's Brother,Kill Devil Falls > Free,David Bowie

Set 2

Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue^debut

(Surrender to the) Flow of the night

4:06:56 of music

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

Longest: Ghost 26:50 · 26 songs with recorded lengths

When it debuted

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

'83-'892
'90-'942
'95-'005
'09-'141
'15-'193

Rarity board

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

Roses Are Freegap 48

Buried Alivegap 31

Kill Devil Fallsgap 30

Death Don't Hurt Very Longgap 24

David Bowiegap 14

Wolfman's Brothergap 9

Drift While You're Sleepinggap 9

Twistgap 8

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

Jam chart entries

Ghost

"Ghost" gets its almost-always-spot on Halloween night and it does not disappoint. At 10:30, the band locks in after searching around. Fish's play drives the jam and Trey's soloing leads the way. The upbeat jam slows considerably at 14:00, with the ensuing play sounding reminiscent of a "BASOS" jam. From that, emerges a murky, effects-laden jam. Mike's bass playing towards the end is a highlight in the longest version of the song since the IT Festival.

Setlist notes

For the second set, the band's "musical costume" was all debuted originals, performed as the invented band Sci-Fi Soldier (a 14-page comic book distributed upon entry detailed the group's adventure to save the planet). For that set, the band performed in elaborate costumes (helmets and all), with alternate instruments (Trey on a BCR Mockingbird), each playing within a flashing/glowing shape (two circles and two squares), after descending (in the form of holograms) from the ceiling in cylinders of colored light. Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue included extended choreography by Trey and Mike. During Get More Down, matching upright geometric shapes danced around behind the band, reducing to the two circles overlapped by Egg in a Hole, which featured pyrotechnics. Before Clear Your Mind, Trey introduced the band as from the year 4680 (the total of the October 28, 2021 songs as noted during that night's encore-ending Grind). During The 9th Cube, there were projections of donuts and turtles on a cube above the band. Fireworks rained down on the stage during The Inner Reaches of Outer. For I Am in Miami, Trey switched to an acoustic guitar and the band stood together at stage front with the four-mic a cappella setup. After the set, the band departed as holograms back up the colored tubes. Trey teased the Theme from S.W.A.T. in Carini. Soul Planet contained Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue and Don't Doubt Me quotes. Mike quoted Thanksgiving in Death Don't Hurt Very Long. The start of Harry Hood included alternate lyrics (Holy Blankenstein).

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

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