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1989-03-24

THE PARADISE · Boston, MA · 1989 Tour Era 1.0

Set 1: Possum [8:11], Mike's Song [6:48] notes ↗ > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove [5:53], Golgi Apparatus [4:47] > Divided Sky [11:53], AC/DC Bag [5:33], If I Only Had a Brain [4:42], Take the 'A' Train [7:20], David Bowie [11:09]
Set 1 total: 1:06:16 9 of 10 timed

Timed portion: 1:06:16 across 9 of 10 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. 1 of 10 songs here are untimed for that reason (or because the show isn't on phish.in at all).

Notes

This setlist is incomplete and is out of order. The only recording in circulation is a mix of songs from the show, which features Hydrogen brutally cut out of the Mike’s Groove. This setlist is in the order in which those songs appear on the mix. (The mix also includes several songs from the Paradise show on January 26, 1989.) Possum contained a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tease, which raises the question – were these songs really performed in March 1989? David Bowie closed the first set. Before Brain, someone introduced Fish – or is it Phish – as being “from Bogota, Colombia.” It is therefore possible that Brain opened this show, which would be the only (known) time that Brain opened a show.

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
Possum	586	2026-09-05	1989-03-13	1
Mike's Song	550	2026-08-01	1989-03-14	0
I Am Hydrogen	356	2026-07-22	1989-03-14	0
Weekapaug Groove	523	2026-08-01	1989-03-14	0
Golgi Apparatus	486	2026-07-24	1989-03-13	1
Divided Sky	448	2026-07-24	1989-03-13	1
AC/DC Bag	344	2026-07-22	1989-03-14	0
If I Only Had a Brain	41	1995-11-16	1989-03-12	2
Take the 'A' Train	122	1994-04-13	1989-03-13	1
David Bowie	481	2026-07-22	1989-03-13	1

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 →