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1989-05-01

PEARL STREET BALLROOM · Northampton, MA · 1989 Tour Era 1.0

Set 1: Dinner and a Movie [4:37], You Enjoy Myself [15:45], Esther [9:58], AC/DC Bag [5:56], Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page [0:40] > Alumni Blues, Take the 'A' Train [7:53], Split Open and Melt [7:00], The Lizards [9:52], Golgi Apparatus [4:45], Good Times Bad Times [6:06]
Set 1 total: 1:12:32 10 of 12 timed

Set 2: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, On Your Way Down, Possum, Icculus, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, David Bowie

Encore: Contact

Timed portion: 1:12:32 across 10 of 22 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. 12 of 22 songs here are untimed for that reason (or because the show isn't on phish.in at all).

Notes

This show took place in the basement of the Pearl Ballroom in a room called the U-Joint (short for Universal Joint). 'A' Train contained a Sailor's Hornpipe tease from Trey. Trey delivered a Gamehendge narration before and after Icculus. Page teased Entrance of the Gladiators in Forbin's. Trey teased Dave's Energy Guide in Bowie. Walk This Way was teased before Contact, which was introduced as being by Aerosmith.

Teases

Sailor's Hornpipe — Trey

Entrance of the Gladiators — Page (in Forbin's)

Dave's Energy Guide — Trey (in Bowie)

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
Dinner and a Movie	151	2026-07-15	1989-03-01	19
You Enjoy Myself	629	2026-07-29	1989-04-30	0
Esther	138	2026-07-29	1989-04-20	3
AC/DC Bag	344	2026-07-22	1989-04-20	3
Alumni Blues	114	2023-07-12	1989-04-27	1
Letter to Jimmy Page	98	2023-07-12	1989-04-27	1
Take the 'A' Train	122	1994-04-13	1989-03-24	12
Split Open and Melt	356	2026-09-06	1989-04-20	3
The Lizards	337	2026-07-22	1989-04-30	0
Golgi Apparatus	486	2026-07-24	1989-04-27	1
Good Times Bad Times	232	2026-07-24	1989-04-15	5
Mike's Song	550	2026-08-01	1989-04-20	3
I Am Hydrogen	356	2026-07-22	1989-04-20	3
Weekapaug Groove	523	2026-08-01	1989-04-20	3
On Your Way Down	23	2025-07-18	1989-04-15	5
Possum	586	2026-09-05	1989-04-30	0
Icculus	30	2024-12-31	1989-01-26	27
Colonel Forbin's Ascent	130	2026-07-29	1989-04-07	8
Fly Famous Mockingbird	131	2026-07-29	1989-04-07	8
David Bowie	481	2026-07-22	1989-04-27	1
Contact	177	2026-07-18	1989-04-27	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 →