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past-and-future.bsky.social

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"You don't have to count them, just enjoy them one by one." I like to do both! (I share #PhishPlots ⭕️ 📊) Remember: Analyzing Phish stats does not change anyone's enjoyment of the art, don't take it too seriously (I don't, and I spend the time to do it!)

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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
showing both median and mean is key because a single bust-out (one large number in the gap chart for that show) pulls the mean up ... but a low median indicates most of rest of songs were in heavy rotation (low gap number) ... so the separation between ⚫ and 🟥 is important need to keep developing 🤔
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I've been playing around with a new Phish plot, one that shows gap (# shows since last time played) info ... this has show on x-axis (this is first part of Fall '95 tour) with median (⚫), mean (🟥), and max gap (number) ... it's a lot of info, but it's not intuitive to glance at and learn something
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
me and my Phish buddies are about to start our Fall 1995 30th anniversary listening project, where we listen to each show on (or very close to) the day of a tour that was special for all of us it's gonna be a lot of Phish ... 54 shows in 81 days 🤯 ... starting on 9/27
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
things have been very busy with life, work, etc. ... just now catching up on the recent batch of shows and, my lord, that Light from 9/12 (that comes out of the Chalk Dust) is sublime
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
yea, could pick a dozen or so 'heavy hitter' tunes and somehow plot the median durations by era for multiple songs together ... need to think about that 🤔 ... maybe each song as a unique color that'll need to wait for another day
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
and visualized as 'box and whisker' plots ... bold horizontal line in middle of colored boxes is the median value, box extents are the interquartile range, and outliers shown as dots
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
here ya go ... I did this very quickly
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
plot of duration/length (in minutes, vertical axis) over time (horizontal axis) with the HF Pod Mt. Rushmore candidate performances in orange just for fun ... maybe it provides some context for the discussion 📈🤓
Plot of duration over time with the HF Pod Mt. Rushmore candidate shows in orange. Blue line is a 20-point moving average. Data from phish.net (with a few manual fixes).
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
oh wow, glad these are available and accessible 🙌 ... hope to get into them soon
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
topic of discussion on my Phish friends text thread was Goose and I said that I don't have a strong opinion either way ... I hope they succeed, I'll probably listen to them more one day ... but very not interested in the forced 'where do you fall on Goose?' conversation ... it's okay to not care
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
this conversation with Charlie and Andrew was fantastic, was very interesting to hear about the evolution and approach to jamcharts and, wow, Brinkman has an exciting 'internship' with the team coming up, he must be walking on cloud nine this morning
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
whenever I listen to the first few notes of this come out of Trey's guitar, I picture Page, Mike, and Fish grinning nervously and thinking to themselves "holy shit, here we go"
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
yep ... and I know everyone comes for the Gin but all of it is amazing ... including the Uncle Pen, which is both playful and tight as shit
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
playing around w/ the look of my song-duration plots on this Friday afternoon ... this iteration (using Disease as an example) has 'jamchart' versions in orange ... potentially useful (?) perhaps unsurprisingly, almost all jamchart versions are longer than the moving average (blue line) #PhishPlots
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
to go with @hfpod.bsky.social's discussion of AC/DC Bag today, here's a plot of the duration of AC/DC Bags through time w/ some of the longer ones annotated (blue line is a 20-point moving average, just to help see any trends) #PhishPlots check out the uptick in length in 4.0 (compared to 3.0)
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
and these textures of the current era aren't only Trey/Page/Mike but also Fishman's fundamental playing style ... in many of those late 90s jams he plays it pretty straight (in the pocket, solid backbeat groove) ... nowadays he can be all over the kit ... a percussion rinse, if you will
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
you know the Bittersweet Motel scene when Trey says fans don't care if they miss changes, that's not why they come, they come for the energy (something like that, I'm paraphrasing) while I don't get bent out of shape with flubs, but I *love it* when a composed section is nailed ... so satisfying
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
me when I ask myself "Should I stop listening to the SPAC shows?"
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
yes! ... it is maybe the most spectacular segment of an all-time spectacular show ... the transition back into Reprise is breathtaking
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I did not know this ... so, is not just you
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I don't even know where to start ... when I have a moment of wanting to explore, I become overwhelmed with the catalog
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
and, finally ... I computed the median gap after removing outliers (defined as values outside of 2 standard deviations, a common approach) ... just a smidge better than above none of this really matters, it's just nerdy fun ... if you all keep proposing these ideas on the pod I'll do more of this
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I couldn't resist doing some more on this ... here is the median gap (middle value of distribution) instead of the average gap ... still a poor correlation but a little better; at least the blue trend line in the direction that supports the hypothesis
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
nice! ... I took your computed '# of 20/25 minute jams per show' stat and put into these simple bar plots ... just to help visualize my gosh ... 2021, 2024, and 2025
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Second, here's a similar bar chart but showing the largest performance gaps (for those with ≥50-show gap). A bunch of bluegrass-y tunes up there near the top.
Largest performance gaps for Summer 2025 tour (with at least a 50-show gap). Data from phish.net
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Alright, a couple of Summer 2025 tour data visualizations for those of you who are into that sort of thing. #PhishPlots First, here's a chart of the most frequently played songs (with at least four performances). We all know why Tweezer Reprise is at the top 🤩
Most frequently played songs for Summer 2025 tour (with at least 4 performances). Data from phish.net
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I have yet to explore relationships to jam chart designations ... is on my long-term to-do list ... if only I could somehow have a day job of analyzing Phish stats, lol
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
the dataset is rich to explore! ... however, I've been less inclined to analyze relationships to show rating because of the subjective nature of that (at least relative to 'hard' metrics like show gap, song duration, number of songs, and similar)
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
(of course, this all assumes that the phish.net show rating is an accurate measure of show 'quality', which is a whole can-of-worms as we all know ... but, it's what we got)
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I was also intrigued by this hypothesis, so I did a quick regression (vertical axis = rating, horiz axis = average gap), definitely no correlation. However, I agree that the average is a misleading stat (for reasons you discussed). The median would be more appropriate, but need to do add'l work.
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I was listening to this Tweezer this morning (it's in my 'workout' list, a rager that wakes me up when riding the stationary bike early) ... and at this point it *almost* sounds like a SPAC 2025-style segue into Tweezer Reprise could've happened ... a fleeting moment almost 30 yrs ago, check it out
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
My spouse texted me yesterday morning: "How was the show on the final night?". I replied "They did a whole special thing, which I can try to explain later." Spouse: "That's fine, I'm glad you all had fun! See you soon."
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I'm still processing last night, what a special show –– I think I'm gonna wait to get into all the takes from the community, just sit with the experience for a bit
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
what an amazing run and weekend –– in addition to the fantastic music, I reconnected with some old friends
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I haven't been in a position to attend a lot of shows the past decade+ (you know, just the circumstances of life, c'est la vie) ... but I'm doing the entire SPAC run and super excited to connect with my 1.0 buddies ⭕
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
had I not webcasted last night's show and only saw the list of songs in the first part of the second set I would've scoffed at Sparkle's placement –– but it strangely worked, it seemed to get them all pumped up (especially Trey)! I'll likely skip it on a relisten, but it was fun in the moment
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Phish #pick5 Chicago N1 Back on the Train (opener) Sigma Oasis Cities Chalk Dust Torture More
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
okay, I made a few more of these 'song gap timeline' plots ... when I should've been doing real work 🤫 ... here's YEM and Bowie the higher the number (and bold line, which is a moving average) the longer the gap between performances ... the lower it is, the more frequently it's played #PhishPlots
Plot of number of shows since last performance (gap) for You Enjoy Myself. Bold line is a 20-point moving average to help see trends/patterns. Data from phish.netPlot of number of shows since last performance (gap) for David Bowie. Bold line is a 20-point moving average to help see trends/patterns. Data from phish.net
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
so, is this to be called the Mann Sand? 🤔
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
however, this doesn't work very well for tunes that have long stretches of time between performances for example, here's Camel Walk that wasn't played from 1989 to 1995, resulting in this one large number and making it difficult to see the rest of the data –– need to think about this more 3/3
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I started playing around w/ a visualization to see the gap info for a specific song through time –– here's Chalk Dust Torture the vertical axis is the number of shows since previous performance (the number in the 'Gap Chart') and date on the horizontal axis –– the bold line is a moving average 2/3
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
as you all know, when you go to phish.net for a show you can view the 'Gap Chart', which shows you how many shows between performances of a song –– here's an example from set 1 of last night's show this is useful to see what songs are in regular rotation (small gap) versus rare (large gap) 1/3
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
the Fuego -> My Friend, My Friend -> Fuego (as its designated in phish.net) from Folsom night 3 could be: Fuego -> My Friend, My Friend -> MFMF/Fuego hybrid ... it's almost like a mash-up, with elements from both, for several minutes 🤩
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
haven't been able to webcast shows, so relying on the selection they've put up on YouTube –– spent some time watching them and Fishman is on 🔥 this tour –– check out Ruby Waves and the Ghost (paired with a preceding Disease), my lord, he is putting on a clinic in those jams
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I love webcasting (I can't attend many shows) ... I would *love* it if they offered the Kuroda shot (zoomed out, stage + lights) ... I realize a custom configuration of specific cameras could be complex, so just two choices: (1) director's feed (the multi-cam we've been getting) and (2) Kuroda cam
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
fun fact: the Stash in the encore slot on night 1 of Folsom was only the third time it's been in the encore –– the other two were 11-1-1991 and 11-14-1996
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
too bad this can't be a day job, lol
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
here's the visualization to go with your observation about Bowie's not going long since back in the day ... blue line is a 20-point moving average (to help see trends) ... it's been flatlined at ~11 minutes for well over a decade 😭
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past-and-future.bsky.social @past-and-future.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
webcasted last night and that WGTYM jam was indeed epic, I got lost in the time warp not realizing how long it was –– Fishman was relentless, I feel like the jam could've fizzled to an end a few times, but he was like 'Not yet guys, we're not done with this' ⭕
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