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1988-03-12

NECTAR'S · Burlington, VT · 1988 Tour Era 1.0

Set 1: Jump Monk [6:55], McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters [8:47] > The Lizards [11:01] > Tela [8:02] > Wilson [6:37] > AC/DC Bag [6:19] > Colonel Forbin's Ascent [6:48] > Fly Famous Mockingbird [7:19] > The Sloth [4:26] > Possum [7:27], Run Like an Antelope [8:48]
Set 1 total: 1:22:29

Show total: 1:22:29 across 11 songs.

Notes

This was John Paluska’s first Phish show and also the first known live Gamehendge, complete with narration between songs from McGrupp through Possum. This show contained the first known Phish version of Jump Monk and the first known versions of Tela and Forbin’s (although on 5/21/88, Trey called Tela a debut). Antelope contained Dixie teases from Trey. The members of Phish were, by accounts, at the Frank Zappa concert up the street at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium before this Nectar’s gig. This setlist is incomplete.

Teases

Dixie — Trey

Gap chart

How long each of tonight's songs had been on the shelf, across all Phish shows. The gap is always as of this date.

Song	Times played	Last played (overall)	Last played before this show	Gap
Jump Monk	2	1994-04-24	debut	—
McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters	125	2026-07-29	1988-02-26	1
The Lizards	337	2026-07-22	1988-03-11	0
Tela	93	2026-05-01	debut	—
Wilson	306	2026-07-27	1988-03-11	0
AC/DC Bag	344	2026-07-22	1988-03-11	0
Colonel Forbin's Ascent	130	2026-07-29	debut	—
Fly Famous Mockingbird	131	2026-07-29	1988-02-07	5
The Sloth	177	2026-04-30	1988-02-08	4
Possum	586	2026-09-05	1988-02-26	1
Run Like an Antelope	497	2026-09-04	1988-03-11	0

gold = bustout (long gap) · red = jam chart · [m:ss] = phish.in duration (click it to listen) · hover a song for its gap.

Jam-chart marks are curated by hand and lag the shows — the most recent months are sparsely marked because nobody has written them up yet, not because the jams were weak. See coverage →