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1988-07-11

SAM'S TAVERN · Burlington, VT · 1988 Tour Era 1.0

Set 1: Satin Doll [5:04], Suzy Greenberg [6:57], The Curtain With [16:10], Funky Bitch [5:56], Fire [5:09], Bold As Love [5:32], Colonel Forbin's Ascent [6:03] > Fly Famous Mockingbird [8:09], Golgi Apparatus [5:06], Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues
Set 1 total: 1:04:06 9 of 12 timed

Encore: McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters [9:22] > La Grange [6:00]
Encore total: 15:22

Timed portion: 1:19:28 across 11 of 14 songs — a floor, not the show's length.

Times come from phish.in and are shown only where one track maps to exactly one song. Segued songs are often released as a single bundled track carrying one duration for several songs, and a song played twice in a set can't be told apart — those get no time rather than a made-up one. 3 of 14 songs here are untimed for that reason (or because the show isn't on phish.in at all).

Notes

Trey graduated from college on this date and treated the crowd to a killer Alumni Blues. Letter to Jimmy Page featured a drum solo from Fish. Suzy Greenberg included Dave’s Energy Guide teases. Trey referred to the "With" portion of The Curtain With as “A Living Nightmare.” McGrupp featured Fish on trombone. The listed encore may actually be the start of the second set; the first set appeared to end after Alumni given Page’s comments.

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
Satin Doll	20	1993-05-08	1988-06-20	3
Suzy Greenberg	458	2026-07-24	1988-07-07	0
The Curtain With	47	2026-07-27	1988-06-19	4
Funky Bitch	238	2026-07-27	1988-06-19	4
Fire	139	2026-07-14	1988-06-21	2
Bold As Love	86	2026-07-29	1988-07-07	0
Colonel Forbin's Ascent	130	2026-07-29	1988-07-07	0
Fly Famous Mockingbird	131	2026-07-29	1988-07-07	0
Golgi Apparatus	486	2026-07-24	1988-07-07	0
Alumni Blues	114	2023-07-12	1988-06-21	2
Letter to Jimmy Page	98	2023-07-12	1988-06-21	2
McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters	125	2026-07-29	1988-06-19	4
La Grange	83	2026-07-24	1988-07-07	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 →