Following news that Phish have postponed their annual New Year’s Eve gig at Madison Square Garden, watch a clip from the first one back in 1995
Phish’s first Madison Square Garden concert took place just one day before New Year’s Eve in 1994. They came back the following year for a proper New Year’s Eve show, kicking off a Phish tradition that has included 13 MSG New Year’s bashes. The gigs were somewhat infrequent in the early days, but the band has played there every New Year’s Eve since 2010 with the exception of 2014 when they took their talents down to Miami and instead played MSG earlier in the month.
There’s no firm fan consensus on the single best Phish MSG New Year’s show, but the inaugural one back in 1995 is held in very high regard. The set mixed Phish standards like “Mike’s Song,” “You Enjoy Myself,” and “Runaway Jim” with covers like Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein” and Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” along with two selections from the Who’s, which they played in full at a Halloween show earlier that year.
This will be a lonely New Year’s Eve for the Phish faithful who descend on Madison Square Garden every year, but their tickets will be good for a makeup gig on April 22, presuming the Omicron situation has calmed down a bit by then. The band has promised to play three full sets that night. They may even play “Auld Lang Syne” at midnight. And why not? We’ve changed so many traditions during the past two years due to Covid that celebrating New Year’s Eve with Phish on April 22 probably won’t even seem that weird.
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