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1989-10-13

COPPERFIELD'S · Syracuse, NY · 1989 Tour Era 1.0

Set 1: David Bowie, Slave to the Traffic Light, The Sloth, Possum

Set 2: Bike, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > Mike's Song [5:59] > I Am Hydrogen [2:11] > Weekapaug Groove [2:58], AC/DC Bag, Colonel Forbin's Ascent
Set 2 total: 11:08 3 of 8 timed

Timed portion: 11:08 across 3 of 12 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. 9 of 12 songs here are untimed for that reason (or because the show isn't on phish.in at all).

Notes

According to Phish.com, this show was listed in the October 1989 Phish Update, however, the venue is unclear. It may have been Copperfield's or The Orange Grove, or possibly Clements. This setlist is incomplete and likely incorrect as well. Home videos were shown both before and during this humorous Bike. Trey jokingly referred to TMWSIY as “The Man Who Stepped Into Dog Log.” A recording of "10/13/89" circulated with a very different setlist (e.g., McGrupp, Divided, Reba, Mike's Groove, etc.), but that music is believed to be from 10/10/89 Front, where the second Reba was purportedly performed, according to Phish.com.

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
David Bowie	481	2026-07-22	1989-10-10	1
Slave to the Traffic Light	299	2026-07-24	1989-08-26	9
The Sloth	177	2026-04-30	1989-10-06	3
Possum	586	2026-09-05	1989-10-12	0
Bike	42	2018-11-02	1989-07-01	14
The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday	88	2026-07-27	1989-08-26	9
Avenu Malkenu	86	2026-07-27	1989-08-26	9
Mike's Song	550	2026-08-01	1989-10-12	0
I Am Hydrogen	356	2026-07-22	1989-10-12	0
Weekapaug Groove	523	2026-08-01	1989-10-12	0
AC/DC Bag	344	2026-07-22	1989-10-12	0
Colonel Forbin's Ascent	130	2026-07-29	1989-10-12	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 →