Phish played 3 nights @ MSG in NYC, including New Years Eve (pics, video, setlists & a flying hot dog)

photos by Ryan Barkan

Phish completed their three night run at Madison Square Garden late on Saturday night (1/1/11). One night earlier they spent the last moments of 2010 in a hot dog hovering over the crowd. The stunt, which was part of a routine that involved the performance of Phish rarity “Meatstick”, included costumed dancers that filled the stage, streamers and foam hotdogs, and was initally done on 12/31/94 for New Years at the Boston Garden. It was revisited in 1999 and finally retired when the hot dog was donated to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Phish borrowed the prop back from the museum for the MSG show.

Over their three night stay (which you may have watched from home since Phish offered a pay-per-view webcast of each night), Phish played a total of seven sets and did not repeat a single song. In fact, the band only repeated two songs during their entire five show New Year’s Eve run that also included two shows DCU Center in Worcester, MA. Those songs were “David Bowie” and “Backwards Down the Number Line” (both played once in NYC).

Pictures, setlists and videos (including multiple angles of the flying hot dog) from all three shows, below…

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12/30/10 at Madison Square Garden

Phish – “Camel Walk” @ MSG NYC 12/30/10 -Sound goes out

Phish @ Madison Square Garden NYC 12/30/10 SETLIST
Cities
Chalk Dust Torture
Gumbo
Quinn the Eskimo
Halley’s Comet
Camel Walk
Maze
Driver
Bathtub Gin
Fat Man in the Bathtub
Timber
Golgi Apparatus
Character Zero
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Tweezer
Light
Theme From the Bottom > My Friend My Friend > Axila I
Fluffhead
Boogie On Reggae Woman > 2001 > Suzy Greenberg
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Run Like an Antelope > Tweezer Reprise

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12/31/10 at Madison Square Garden

Phish – Grind – 12/31/10 – Madison Square Garden – A Capella

Phish | 12.31.10 | Burn that Bridge

Phish – Meatstick Auld Lang Syne – 12/31/10

Phish – “Meatstick” 12/31/10 and Rehearsals

Phish NYE 12/31/10 Hot Dog Ride

Phish @ Madison Square Garden NYC 12/31/10 SETLIST
Punch You in the Eye
AC/DC Bag
The Moma Dance
Scent of a Mule
Burn That Bridge
Weigh
Ocelot
Beauty of My Dreams
Gone
Rock and Roll
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Wilson > 46 Days
Sand
NICU
Down with Disease > Ghost
You Enjoy Myself > Manteca > You Enjoy Myself
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Meatstick*
Auld Lang Syne
After Midnight
Backwards Down the Number Line
Piper > Free
Waste
Slave to the Traffic Light
Grind
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First Tube

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1/1/11 at Madison Square Garden

Phish @ Madison Square Garden NYC 1/1/11 SETLIST
My Soul
Tube
Runaway Jim
Foam
Guelah Papyrus
Divided Sky
Round Room
Walk Away
Gotta Jibboo
Reba
Walls of the Cave
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Crosseyed and Painless > Twist
Simple
Sneaking Sally Through the Alley > Makisupa Policeman > David Bowie
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Fee
Frankenstein