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Sphere

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10/11/2023
U2
Set 1Zoo Station
The Fly
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Mysterious Ways
One
Until The End Of The World
Wild Horses
Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
All I Want Is You
Desire
Angel Of Harlem
Love Rescue Me
So Cruel
Acrobat
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
Love Is Blindness
Encore -
Elevation
Atomic City
Vertigo
Where The Streets Have No Name
With Or Without You
Beautiful Day
Set 2
Set 3
CommentU2:UV Achtung Baby
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04/18/2024
Phish
167425, 167426, 167427, 167428, 167429, 167430, 167431, 167432, 167433, 167434, 167435, 167437, 167494, 167495, 167500, 167503, 167504, 168032, 175416
Set 1Everything's Right, Back on the Train, Wolfman's Brother, Maze, Leaves, Life Saving Gun, Dirt, Carini
Set 2Sand > Tweezer -> My Friend, My Friend > Mike's Song > Lifeboy, Weekapaug Groove, Blaze On > Fluffhead

ENCORE: Farmhouse[1], Run Like an Antelope
Set 3
Comment[1] Began and ended with Trey on acoustic guitar.

The band took the stage while the pre-show electronic music continued. During Back on the Train, psychedelic images of passing countryside were displayed behind and above the band, rotating in opposite directions in different sections of the dome. During Maze, psychedelic live images of each band member appeared, stacked on top of each other. These images then fragmented and spread out, dancing and turning throughout the jam. During Leaves, several giant paper lanterns appeared, flanking the stage, while the dome showed a multitude of paper lanterns floating over water, with the moon shining above. During Life Saving Gun, the dome displayed stacks of old-style televisions with rabbit ears, with each television showing a live shot of one of the band members. These TVs moved and rotated as the jam progressed. After the song, Trey said that he "loves any song with a Jon Fishman percussion rinse," and told the crowd they should see the Sphere from the stage. During Dirt, the dome showed a forest view, looking upwards through trees at a purple-hued sky. During Tweezer, a field of multi-colored cars appeared behind the band, changing in size and shape and with their headlights blinking on and off in patterns, while other cars drove past overhead. My Friend, My Friend included live spotlight silhouettes of the band members projected across the entire dome. The projections during Mike's Song made it seem as if the venue was outdoors, with the band playing in front of a body of water with a rotating sculpture on the far shore. During Lifeboy, the sun went down and a number of other rotating sculptures lit up in the sky, creating a golden star-scape. The sun then rose again during Weekapaug. Farmhouse began and ended with Trey on acoustic guitar, as well as images of a farmhouse in a field under a night sky filled with stars and aurorae.
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04/19/2024
Phish
167439, 167440, 167446, 167447, 167448, 167467, 167501, 167638, 173256, 175415
Set 1Free, The Moma Dance, Axilla (Part II), mercy, Bathtub Gin, Theme From the Bottom > Split Open and Melt
Set 2A Wave of Hope, What's the Use? > Ruby Waves, Lonely Trip, A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing -> Prince Caspian, You Enjoy Myself

ENCORE: Wading in the Velvet Sea, Harry Hood
Set 3
CommentThe band took the stage while pre-show music similar to a Free jam played, which continued until they began the song and waterfalls of colored light suddenly cascaded from the top of the dome. During Moma, a moving, 360-degree live shot of the crowd and band was displayed, with psychedelic colors and effects. During mercy, the dome displayed an overhead view of a sparkling ocean, with small birds in pastel colors flying over the water. During Gin, the entire dome became an overhead view of a large wave pool, filled with hundreds of people on food-shaped inflatables drifting and spinning. During the Gin jam, the images of the bathers became blurred and abstract, forming a neon kaleidoscope effect. During Theme, the entire dome became an underwater seascape, with kelp forest, fish, human swimmers, and light from the surface shining down from the top. Theme also contained a DEG tease from Trey. At the start of ASIHTOS, eight jellyfish puppets were raised on each side of the stage, while the dome remained dark. Once the jam began, the light on the dome came up to reveal another underwater seascape, whose plants and fish became luminous as the rest of the light dimmed again. During Caspian, this seascape changed to a view from within the columns and arches of a sunken monument. As YEM began, the entire dome became the view from inside of a car as it entered a "Tunnel of Luv" car wash, with the stage appearing to sit on top of the middle of the dashboard. The car progressed through the wash as YEM continued, with Trey's solo during the wax and wheel scrub, and the bass and drums as the car was dried and exited the wash. Suddenly the car view was gone, and it appeared that the dome was clear, with a puppy licking it from the outside, in slow-motion, for the duration of the vocal jam. During Velvet Sea, the dome appeared to be covered in flowing red velvet, with photographs of the band throughout the years appearing and disappearing among the fabric. By the end of the song, the entire dome was covered in photos. Trey teased The Secret of Life (The Dead Milkmen) in Hood.
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04/20/2024
Phish
167449, 167456, 167457, 167458, 167459, 167460, 167461, 167462, 167502, 167646, 173257
Set 1Set Your Soul Free, Tube, Stash, Pillow Jets, Steam, Mountains in the Mist, Taste, 46 Days
Set 2Sigma Oasis > Fuego > Golden Age -> Twist, I Am Hydrogen > Chalk Dust Torture > Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.

ENCORE: A Life Beyond The Dream[1], Tweezer Reprise
Set 3
Comment[1] Began with Trey on acoustic guitar.

During Tube, the dome seemed to fill with soap bubbles which reflected the venue and drifted in front of a nebula of changing colors. During Pillow Jets, the view became that of a grassy path through a grove of trees under a starlit sky. Travelling down the path as the jam progressed, the grass and trees became tinged with glowing, multi-colored light, which periodically intensified and erupted from the ground through the branches, creating a firework effect. Mike and Trey teased Manteca during Steam. During Mountains in the Mist, the dome made it appear as if the venue was nestled in an evergreen-covered mountain range, with mist shrouding the sky from view. During Taste, the entire dome appeared to become covered in turning rings of Jim Pollock illustrations from the covers of the Live Phish CD releases, rendered in gold and black. During Sigma Oasis, the dome became a cloudscape, with trees, birds and sea creatures made out of bubbling clouds. During Fuego, a spotlight was used to create a silhouette of the band, with the image then recreated across the dome with effects added to make the band appear as flaming shadow people. During Twist, the dome became filled with multicolored letters tumbling before a backdrop of pulsing red circles. A Life Beyond The Dream featured Trey on acoustic guitar. During Tweezer Reprise, the dome again displayed images of cars, this time tumbling into the distance.
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04/21/2024
Phish
167474, 167475, 167476, 167479, 167482, 167483, 167484, 167497, 167498, 167515, 167663, 173269
Set 1Plasma, Evolve, Ghost, Divided Sky, Shade[1], hey stranger, Character Zero
Set 2Oblivion > Down with Disease, Beneath a Sea of Stars Part 1 -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > Light > Ether Edge > Piper, First Tube

ENCORE: More > Slave to the Traffic Light
Set 3
Comment[1] Began with Trey on acoustic guitar.

The band took the stage while pre-recorded music similar to Plasma played, before beginning the song. During Ghost, the neon-colored outlines of three giant robots appeared to tower over the band, with their facial expressions varying and their arms and bodies swaying slowly. The three robots were then replaced by one massive robot, with spotlights utilized to make it appear as if beams of light were coming from the robot's eyes, before the original three robots returned for the remainder of the jam. During Divided Sky, the dome became a view of a sea of clouds, with patches of blue sky above. As the clouds moved, their appearance varied from purple sunset hues to dark and stormy, with the movement stopping and all of the color fading during the pause before returning for the rest of the song. Page teased Linus and Lucy at the end of Divided Sky. Trey began Shade on acoustic guitar. During Shade, an eclipsed star was shown behind the band, with its corona of changing colors visible and a silhouette of the band in the center. During Sea of Stars, the dome became filled with a curtain of gold-colored four-point stars, which twinkled and waved in front of roiling clouds. During 2001, the dome became a starfield before being illuminated by replicated images of the stage lights. Mike teased Plasma during Light. During Ether Edge, a string of umbrellas with colored drops trailing beneath were raised to either side of the stage. The umbrellas were lowered again during Piper. During First Tube, the dome again became a starfield, this time with a ring of stars centered above the stage slowly swirling. As the second "verse" of First Tube began, a white vortex appeared in this area. As the stars in its orbit began to become multicolored, the vortex pulled in their light and created flowing, rainbow-hued ribbons that grew as the jam progressed. Prior to More, Trey thanked the production team behind the Sphere shows, and said that he thinks the band will return to the venue. After Slave, the band gathered at the front of the stage to take bows and have a picture taken in front of the crowd.
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04/16/2026
Phish
177005, 177008, 177011, 177012, 177016, 177017, 177023, 177056, 177063, 177064, 177065
Set 1Evolve, Wolfman's Brother, Foam, Theme from the Bottom, Rift, Scents and Subtle Sounds > Steam, Split Open and Melt
Set 2Everything's Right, Down with Disease, Twenty Years Later, Gotta Jibboo, Lifeboy, You Enjoy Myself > Also Sprach Zarathustra
Set 3ENCORE: Space Oddity, Harry Hood
CommentThe backdrop for Evolve was a truck driving across America animated as a giant, elaborate diorama presented by hands animated in the same style. Treat teased Tweezer Reprise in Wolfman's Brother which provided visuals of the scene becoming a journey through an MC Escher-esque landscape of surreal "rooms" that ranged from a cozy fireplace to a giant cat peering in through the window, ultimately emerging in Las Vegas. Page teased the Theme from Speed Racer in Foam. The perspective for Theme from the Bottom shifted to the earth beneath a forest, a scene made up of tiny dots which glowed and pulsed together. As the jam for Theme progressed, furniture and rooms began to appear in the forest, with the scene ultimately morphing into an image of the band. Rift culmiated in a recreation of David Welker's cover art for the album.The scene for Split Open and Melt began with giant, sneaker-clad legs running in different directions while stepping on piles of goo on the ground, sticking to their shoes. This became a world with both aquatic and surface aspects, with stars and fish, plant and animal life, some of whom developed goo bubbles and started to rise. The entire scene ultimately melted back into a puddle with a confused face. You Enjoy Myself saw the return of the licking dog (from April 19, 2024) during the vocal jam, followed by a jam against an ocean of dogs swimming in sudsy water with goggles on, and finally wiener dogs in hot dog costumes. Also Sprach Zarathustra continued the hot dog theme by flying through a warehouse floor full of hot dogs to a hot dog rocket ship, which blasted into an outerspace littered with donuts and other snack foods. The ship ultimately found a planet with a hot dog population worshiping a giant monolith-like hot dog with a volcano erupting in the distance. Space Oddity was played for the first time since July 19, 2022 (168 shows). Harry Hood culminated in a virtual fireworks display.
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04/17/2026
Phish
177018, 177024, 177025, 177026, 177027, 177028, 177029, 177039, 177057, 177058, 177091, 177183
Set 1Free, Birds of a Feather, Martian Monster, Guelah Papyrus, Divided Sky, Hey Stranger, Mull, Limb By Limb, Suzy Greenberg
Set 2No Men In No Man's Land > Light, Joy, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Beneath a Sea of Stars Part 1 > Most Events Aren't Planned
Set 3ENCORE: Brief Time[1], Carini
Comment[1] Phish debut.

This show featured the Phish debut of Brief Time. Prior to the start of the show, the backdrop showed a dark forest setting with an outhouse bearing the crescent moon and star from the cover of Farmhouse. As the show began, the door swung open, revealing a vast landscape of buildings and bridges, all made out of port-a-potties, with hundreds of other port-a-potties floating in the air. Martian Monster's imagery was a nod to October 31, 2014's Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House Halloween set with the haunted house reappearing and opening up to reveal the band playing within its walls. During Divided Sky, the scene became blue sky and fluffy clouds above a mountainous terrain; following the pause, the images became fractalized and began to move. Trey teased Your Pet Cat in Mull. The backdrop for Suzy Greenberg became an 80's-style video game called "Tube Raider," appearing to be played in the night sky over Las Vegas. At the end of the song, the screen displayed "Game Over" along with video game avatars of the band. For Mike's Song, the background showed a lakeshore in front of a mountain range, with lighted, moving sculptures reflecting off the water's surface. During I Am Hydrogen, the view changed to a lush valley with a waterfall centered behind the band, then returned to focus on the lighted sculptures again during Weekapaug Groove. The backdrop for Beneath a Sea of Stars Part 1 was a dark forest at night, populated by animals with glowing eyes, as well as glowing fish swimming through the trees, and eventually glowing pink jellyfish which rose into the sky during the jam segment. Eventually the view returned to the forest, where peacocks displayed glowing tails amid numerous fish, until the entire perspective was swallowed by a whale.
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04/18/2026
Phish
177030, 177046, 177051, 177052, 177053, 177054, 177059, 177071, 177081, 177151
Set 1Buried Alive, AC/DC Bag, Reba, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Sigma Oasis, Walk Away, Bathtub Gin
Set 2Oblivion, Simple, Tweezer, Waste, Twist, Run Like an Antelope
Set 3ENCORE: I Am the Walrus, Tweezer Reprise
CommentTrey teased Streets of Cairo in Buried Alive. Colonel Forbin's Ascent and Fly Famous Mockingbird featured elaborate Gamehendge-focused animation, including depictions of Icculus, the Lizards, Tela, and a multi-beast. During Sigma Oasis, perspective shifted to place the band in a nest, along with two baby birds, with a majestic mountain view beind them. After a short time, a parent arrived with a meal, with great approval from the babies. As the jam reached a peak, the view followed the young birds as they jumped from the nest and soared through the valley. Before playing Walk Away, Trey acknowledged Joe Walsh, who was in attendance, and told him that his music was some of the first songs the band members ever played and "the basis for everything that we do is you." During Tweezer, the perspective began by following a car on an amusement park ride as it entered a giant mouth and was swallowed. Eventually the view reached the "stomach" where pipes and waterfalls emptied into a central pool containing several rubber ducks. Later in the jam, the scene reached a large room encircled with fans, and a breathing set of lungs suspended from the center. Ultimately the view returned to the mouth, lingering on the tongue which was set with furniture, before a wrecking ball outside shattered the teeth as the jam concluded. During Run Like an Antelope, viewers were taken inside a honeycomb hanging on a tree, passing through corridors to a chamber with honey dripping from the ceiling into a honey lake below. Fish performed the second set and encore wearing a hot pink wig.
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04/23/2026
Phish
177086, 177087, 177094, 177096, 177097, 177099, 177112, 177125, 177132, 177133
Set 146 Days, Guyute, Maze, Esther, Gumbo, Brian and Robert[1], Stash, Moonage Daydream
Set 2The Curtain With, Fuego[2] > Golden Age > Backwards Down the Number Line, Cavern > Possum
Set 3ENCORE: Fee[3], Tube, More
Comment[1] Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Fish on Marimba Lumina.
[3] Trey sang verses through a megaphone.

The visuals during Maze began with the giant wall of framed poster art before focusing on a print showing a close-up of the sleeping man on the cover of Rift. During the jam, the perspective entered the picture and explored the room, before pulling back out of the frame to the view of the entire wall, which eventually added framed live video of each band member. Trey teased In Memory of Elizabeth Reed during Gumbo. Brian and Robert featured Trey on acoustic guitar. A portion of the Fuego jam featured Fishman on Marimba Lumina, and Golden Age also contained a Fuego jam. The visuals for Possum were from inside a network of neurons that pulsed and flashed with light. Fee featured Trey on megaphone.
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04/24/2026
Phish
177100, 177101, 177102, 177103, 177104, 177109, 177113, 177126, 177134, 177144, 177190, 177202
Set 1The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > The Lizards, Set Your Soul Free, Roggae, Ya Mar, The Dogs, Billy Breathes, It's Ice, Walls of the Cave
Set 2Pebbles and Marbles, What's Going Through Your Mind -> Piper > Monsters, Life Saving Gun, What's the Use?, Vultures, Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.
Set 3ENCORE: Slave to the Traffic Light
CommentBefore The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, the view of The Barn in Vermont (which had been the pre-show backdrop) was submurged in a flash flood. The Lizards was then accompanied by Gamehendge-centric animation. Following Vultures, Trey remarked that he could listen to Fishman do the ending "all night," to which Fishman replied, "I hate my job."
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04/25/2026
Phish
177121, 177122, 177142, 177143, 177152, 177153, 177191, 177203
Set 1Timber (Jerry the Mule), The Moma Dance, The Final Hurrah, Axilla (Part II) > Cities, Horn, The Well, My Soul
Set 2Halley's Comet > Blaze On, Chalk Dust Torture, Mercury > Waves > About to Run, Ghost
Set 3ENCORE: Bug > First Tube
CommentFor Timber (Jerry the Mule), the view became a tunnel made of forest, with the sky as the light at the end. Trey used alternate lyrics during Axilla (Part II) that referenced the visuals, saying, "Don't shine that hot dog in my face...grind it, grind it..." For First Tube, the scene was a virtual fireworks display.
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04/30/2026
Phish
177154, 177158, 177163, 177164, 177165
Set 1The Wedge, NICU, Halfway to the Moon, Leaves, 555, Dirt, Punch You in the Eye, Golgi Apparatus
Set 2A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > A Wave of Hope > Prince Caspian > Lonely Trip, Runaway Jim, Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley, Drift While You're Sleeping
Set 3ENCORE: The Sloth[1], The Squirming Coil
Comment[1] Lyrics changed to "Make it a triple; Fee, Sloth and Punch; Won't get our nipple."

As the show began, the view was from inside a cabin with windows on all four walls. The room began to spin, and accompanied by recorded sound effects, the visuals eventually blurred into multicolored streaks, finally resolving into a turntable. Once the needle dropped on the record, Trey began The Wedge. Among the visuals for Halfway to the Moon was the Colosseum, but built out of port-a-potties. During Golgi Apparatus, a camerman came on stage for close-ups of each band member as they played, projecting the image as a kaleidoscope across the dome. The scene for Runaway Jim began by looking out at Las Vegas and the Sphere. Turning upside down and zooming in on a "Phish Hotel," the view passed through the peephole of the front door and into a surreal museum and library filled with odd sculptures, flying bowling pins, and toilets. After passing through several rooms, the view reached a door which opened and closed to reveal a variety of scenes, until finally backing out of the museum and returning to the Las Vegas strip. The Sloth contained alternate lyrics referencing the three songs (Fee, The Sloth, and Punch You In the Eye) which reference nipple slicing, all of which had been played during the Sphere run, and during none of which did Trey appear to have sung the traditional "nipple" lyrics. For the outro to The Squirming Coil, the view was a drive-in theater with video of the band playing as the movie. When the song reached the final chorus, suddenly only four cars remained. As each band member stopped playing and walked off stage, a corresponding car drove away.
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05/01/2026
Phish
177166, 177168, 177180, 177181, 177193
Set 1Sample in a Jar, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Heavy Things, Bouncing Around the Room, Mound, Mountains in the Mist, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Tela, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Wingsuit, David Bowie
Set 2Wilson, Seven Below > Plasma > Crosseyed and Painless > Pillow Jets, Shade, Sand
Set 3ENCORE: I Didn't Know, Saw It Again[1], Rock and Roll
CommentSoundcheck: Wingsuit, Saw It Again (this soundcheck is possibly incomplete and may be out of order)

[1] Fish on vacuum and Trey on drums.

The visuals for Sample In a Jar went inside a temple filled with stained glass windows, explored it, then exited before the song ended and the temple crumbled. Mound was played for the first time since September 2, 2023 (113 shows). Tela was played for the first time since December 31, 2023 (100 shows). Mike teased Seven Below in Sand. During I Didn't Know, Trey introduced Fish as "the 500 Foot-Tall Man" and "the Thunder from Down Under," then as "Moses Brown, Moses Heaps, and Moses DeWitt" after the song. I Saw It Again then featured Fish on vacuum and Trey on drums. After the song, Trey gave Fish the same introductions, and added that he was "sucking for you! We saw him again!"
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05/02/2026
Phish
177182, 177192, 177200, 177209
Set 1Farmhouse[1], Undermind, Ocelot, Back on the Train, Ether Edge > Llama, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Taste, Julius
Set 2Frankenstein[2], Kill Devil Falls, Ruby Waves, Meatstick, My Friend, My Friend[3] > A Life Beyond The Dream, Character Zero
Set 3ENCORE: Wading in the Velvet Sea, Fluffhead
CommentSoundcheck: Farmhouse, Frankenstein (this soundcheck is possibly incomplete)

[1] Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Page on keytar.
[3] No "myfe" ending.

Farmhouse featured Trey on acoustic guitar, and the scene was of the outside of the Barn at night, with aurorae overhead. Before The Horse, Trey announced it was his favorite part of the night, and that Mike would now "invert," while Mike turned his coat inside out to a Fish drumroll. Among the visuals for Julius was a large, dragon-like creature rendered in neon lines, which swam behind the band at the song's peak. Frankenstein featured Page on keytar. My Friend, My Friend did not feature the "myfe" ending. The scene at the end of Wading in the Velvet Sea was a giant wall of concert photos.
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