Phish Completes Historic Nine-Night Sphere Residency With 161 Unique Songs, No Repeats
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Benjy Eisen
26d ago· 7 min readenNews
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Summary
Phish completed a historic nine-night residency at Sphere in Las Vegas, playing 161 unique songs over 27 hours without a single repeat — a feat that surpasses Dead & Company's 121-song tally at the same venue across 48 shows. The article details the band's ambitious approach, the technical and logistical challenges of the no-repeat concept, and how they leveraged the Sphere's immersive visual and audio capabilities to create a unique experience for each of the nine performances.
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· 3 pulledMost bands spend their entire careers building a repertoire deep enough to compel an arena's worth of fans to sing along to every lyric of their well-rehearsed, choreographed 90-minute show.
In total, the band played for upwards of 27 hours. The song count: 161 over nine shows, besting Dead & Company's 121-song tally at the Sphere (over two years and 48 shows).
Phish, who just completed a high-profile, high-stakes, nine-night residency at Sphere in Las Vegas, took it to another level without a single song repeating over the entire three-weekend affair.
Inside Phish’s nine show, no-repeat feat at the Sphere in Las Vegas
