Fewest songs in one set?

Phish Live Shows
#2

This one comes immediately to mind…technically in set 2 do you count it as 3 songs? Or 4?

6-22-1995 Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center, Canandaigua, NY

1: Sample in a Jar, Scent of a Mule, Ha Ha Ha, The Divided Sky, Guelah Papyrus, It’s Ice, Strange Design, Maze, Cavern, Sweet Adeline

2: Theme From the Bottom-> Tweezer-> My Generation*->Tweezer-> Tweezer Reprise

E: Acoustic Army, While My Guitar Gently Weeps

*The Who cover (first time played).

#3

There’s also:

11-23-1997
Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC

1: My Soul, Theme From the Bottom, Black-Eyed Katy, Sparkle, Twist, Stash-> NICU, Fluffhead, Character Zero

2: Bathtub Gin, Down With Disease*-> Low Rider#-> Down With Disease**, Bold as Love

E: Julius

*With an “Izabella” tease. #Sung by Trey and Fish. **With a “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” (Michael Jackson) tease.

#4

And yet again, from one of my FAVORITE shows:

11-19-1997
Assembly Hall, Champaign, IL

1: Julius, Bathtub Gin-> Llama, Dirt, Limb By Limb, Funky Bitch, Theme From the Bottom, Ginseng Sullivan, Fee*-> Meatstick-> Run Like an Antelope

2: Also Sprach Zarathustra-> Wolfman’s Brother**-> Makisupa Policeman#, Taste

E: Possum

*Trey looked around the stage for the megaphone, but didn’t find it. **With “Walk Away,” “Tweezer,” and “I Feel Free” (Cream) teases; and with “Crosseyed and Painless” jam. #With space jam.

So it looks like 4 is the fewest maybe? If you count the “My Generation” and "Low Rider"s.

#5

07-17-1998
Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA

1: Makisupa Policeman, Ya Mar, Gumbo, The Divided Sky, Waste, My Mind’s Got a Mind of its Own, My Soul (1:08)

2: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Mike’s Song -> Weekapaug Groove, Character Zero (1:04)

E: Punch You In The Eye, Rocky Top (0:11)

#6

11-07-1998
UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL

1: My Soul, Mike’s Song, Driver*, Brian and Robert*, The Wedge, Limb by Limb, Fikus, Billy Breathes, Beauty of My Dreams, Weekapaug Groove (1:13)

2: AC/DC Bag -> Ghost, Reba, Farmhouse (0:56)

E: Guyute, While My Guitar Gently Weeps (0:14)

*Trey on acoustic guitar.

#7

Yeah, 4 so far. Hmmm…
Thanks man.

For some reason I still think there is a 2 song one.

Again, the first song is Super long.

I think it was a Runaway or Wolfmans to open and it just went on and on…

#8

6-14-2000
Drum Logos Maizuru, Chuo-ku, Fokuoka, Japan

1: Carini, The Curtain, Cities*, Gumbo > Crosseyed and Painless Jam > Llama, Fee, Heavy Things, Split Open and Melt (1:05)

2: Back On the Train, Twist > Jam** > Walk Away, Also Sprach Zarathustra (1:10)

E: Sleep#, Squirming Coil

*With alternate lyric “it’s only the noodles.” **Sounds like “Ghost” at first, but then turns into heavier jam. #Per request.

#9

3?

07-02-97 Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1: Mike’s Song-> Simple-> Maze, Strange Design, Ginseng Sullivan, Vultures, Water in the Sky, Weekapaug Groove

2: Jam-> Stash-> Llama-> Worm Town Jam^-> Wading in the Velvet Sea

E1: Free*

E2: David Bowie

^A jam on “Swing Town” (Steve Miller tune) with dark vocals about “Back of the Worm” and worms in the canals of Amsterdam. *Band left stage after Free.

#10

here’s the two 4 song sets that i saw:

07/30/03 - Tweeter Center - Camden, New Jersey

Set 1: My Friend My Friend, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, Scents and Subtle Sounds*, You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere**, Spock’s Brain, Chalkdust Torture***, On Your Way Down, Fast Enough For You, Taste

Set 2: Twist, Bug, You Enjoy Myself, Walls of the Cave

Encore: Secret Smile

    • 25+ minutes; ** - first time played, Bob Dylan cover (includes the lyric “We’ll climb that hill no matter how steep / When we get up to IT”; reports indicate that the performance was closer to the Byrds’ well-known rendition of the song than to Dylan’s original); *** - very adventurous version; Thanks to Erik Swain for the calls.

Sunday, June 20, 2004
Saratoga Peforming Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY

Set I: Rift, Julius, Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home?, Waves,
Gumbo, Water in the Sky, Horn, Poor Heart, Drowned

Set II: Seven Below, Ghost -> Twist, You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Good Times Bad Times

Show Notes: Trey broke a string during “Julius” for the first time since
November 29, 1996. Dr. Jack McConnell sat in with his son Page on piano
for “Bill Bailey,” at the end of which he also tap-danced a bit on stage.

#11

07-01-99 First American Music Center, Antioch, TN

Soundcheck: I Saw It Again, Water in the Sky, Brian and Robert, Mountains in the Mist

1: Punch You in the Eye, Billy Breathes, Guyute, Wolfman’s Brother*, Beauty of My Dreams#, Doin’ My Time#^, Roggae#, Water in the Sky#, Get Back on the Train#, Poor Heart#^ (1:12)

2: Down With Disease, Prince Caspian > You Enjoy Myself**

E: Character Zero (2+E 1:04)

#12

^
I imagine that particular set II might have been intended to be longer but was cut short. You gotta figure it lasted about 54-56 minutes…which is kind of short, although YEM is a good set closer.

And the 7-2-97 show…that’s like 3 1/2 since they did a take on “Swingtown.” I guess.

I don’t know nothin’ about nothin’.

#13

Get off my nuts, Neil!

#14

My bizzitty.

#15

Friday, July 12, 1996
Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Set I: Wilson, Divided Sky, Horn, Split Open and Melt, Ya Mar, Funky Bitch, Taste, Theme From the Bottom, Tweezer, Llama
  Set II: It's Ice -> Prince Caspian -> Mike's Song -> Run Like an Antelope -> Purple Rain > HYHU, Jam, NICU -> Slave to the Traffic Light, Suzy Greenberg

Set III: David Bowie -> Free, Hello My Baby
Encore: Bathtub Gin, Johnny B. Goode
Show Notes: The reworked Taste debuted at this show, and Trey announced that the song would be performed like this (the Billy Breathes album version) from now on. Slave, Bowie, and Free were all unfinished. The jam before NICU was interactive, as the band jammed on chords yelled out by the fans.

#16

7.1.99 was the one I thought of

#17

From the most humble Halloween set: :stuck_out_tongue:

10-31-98 Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV

1: Axilla (I), Punch You in the Eye, Roggae, Birds of a Feather, Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley -> Chalk Dust Torture -> Lawn Boy, Mike’s Song* -> Frankie Says -> Weekapaug Groove (1:15)

2: Who Loves the Sun, Sweet Jane, Rock and Roll, Cool It Down, New Age, Head Held High, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, I Found a Reason, Train Round the Bend, Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ (1:20)

3: Wolfman’s Brother** -> Piper -> Ghost (0:55)

E: Sleeping Monkey, Tweezer Reprise (0:09)

#18

^
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one…

That Melkweg show is just plain weird.

#19

That Halloween one was where Trey just unplugged his guitar during the Ghost jam and walked off leaving the band to finish the song for him. That led to LOADS of rumors on rec.music.phish about whether he was pissed about something.

I saw him do the same thing at 11/11/98, also on Ghost, to end the set so I figured it was more of something he liked to do during the song. Who knows…

Stevo

#20

i used to have set 1 of this show on cassette. i remember it being really, really well played. i guess i should seek out set 2. i’ll even put it on one of those compact disc thingies.

#21

^ Every show they played at UIC is fantastic.

Get 6-18-94

I think that’s the one Trey talks about during that Charlie Rose interview. That Divided Sky is my fave.

They loved that place.