Phish Wishlist
Adam Scheinberg, December 1, 2009 (15 years ago)
Given the recent setlist madness, I decided to compile my Phish Wishlist. Here are the 13 songs I most want to hear played live, in no particular order:
The number following each song is the average show gap between performances since the debut. As you can see, given the number of shows I currently attend each year and the number I expect to attend in the next few years, it's increasingly unlikely that I will see... well... ANY of these songs live, ever. With each passing show, many of these number are increasing just a touch to the right of the decimal point, and the odds I actually see them go down inversely. Even Lizards, which is still really low, is deceivingly so, given that it was so overplayed in the "old days" and underplayed these days. In fact, ZZYZX's stats say the odds of me not seeing Lizards in 35 shows is 0.0%.
I realize that with NYE being my only remaining show this year, any of these showing up is unlikely, because Phish has a history, for several years now, of not going too crazy on NYE, but rather, doing that in the nights leading up to NYE. Expect a Harpua on 12/30, and another set of standards for NYE. The most likely candidates to show up on NYE? I'd have to bet on Lizards, Scents and Subtle Sounds, or Dinner and a Movie before any of the others. But I'm expecting none of them. Sigh.
* Edit: Add this song after the fact
Anyway, know that if I catch any of my wishlist on NYE, I will go nuts.
Destiny Unbound (36)
Camel Walk (50)
Brother (17)
Scents and Subtle Sounds (7)
A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing (11)
Dinner and a Movie (10)
Glide (8)
Harpua (23)
Spock's Brain (64)
Have Mercy (141)
Walk Away (21)
The Lizards (4)
Crowd Control (13)*
The number following each song is the average show gap between performances since the debut. As you can see, given the number of shows I currently attend each year and the number I expect to attend in the next few years, it's increasingly unlikely that I will see... well... ANY of these songs live, ever. With each passing show, many of these number are increasing just a touch to the right of the decimal point, and the odds I actually see them go down inversely. Even Lizards, which is still really low, is deceivingly so, given that it was so overplayed in the "old days" and underplayed these days. In fact, ZZYZX's stats say the odds of me not seeing Lizards in 35 shows is 0.0%.
I realize that with NYE being my only remaining show this year, any of these showing up is unlikely, because Phish has a history, for several years now, of not going too crazy on NYE, but rather, doing that in the nights leading up to NYE. Expect a Harpua on 12/30, and another set of standards for NYE. The most likely candidates to show up on NYE? I'd have to bet on Lizards, Scents and Subtle Sounds, or Dinner and a Movie before any of the others. But I'm expecting none of them. Sigh.
* Edit: Add this song after the fact
Anyway, know that if I catch any of my wishlist on NYE, I will go nuts.
Post Summer 2010. I need the following at MSG PLEASE!
GUMBO
ALUMNI
Thats is it and I can sleep easy. MSG NYE 2010.
Be the spoon.