No Dick's run has ever repeated this much

Phish closed the summer leg with two nights at Fenway, took a month off, then opened Dick's over Labor Day weekend. When they did, they brought most of Fenway with them: 23 of the 30 songs played at Fenway turned up again at Dick's.

iHOW THIS IS MEASURED

Every Dick's run is compared against the last two shows played before it, whatever venue those were. For 2026 those were the two Fenway nights: 30 distinct songs were played there, 44 at Dick's, and 23 were common to both.

77% of the Fenway songs returned, and 52% of Dick's songs were drawn from them.

TBL · 01SONGS PLAYED AT BOTH FENWAY AND DICK'S

#	Song	#	Song
1	A Wave of Hope	13	Melt the Guns
2	Back on the Train	14	My Friend, My Friend
3	Carini	15	No Men In No Man's Land
4	Chalk Dust Torture	16	Possum
5	Character Zero	17	Run Like an Antelope
6	Everything's Right	18	Sand
7	Free	19	Sigma Oasis
8	Fuego	20	Tweezer
9	Ghost	21	Tweezer Reprise
10	Harry Hood	22	Wading in the Velvet Sea
11	Kill Devil Falls	23	What's Going Through Your Mind
12	Light

FOUL DOMAIN · SETLIST DATAAll 23 songs common to the two Fenway shows (7/31–8/1) and the three Dick's shows (9/4–9/6).

Fourteen Dick's runs

Phish has closed a tour at Dick's 14 times, nearly every year since 2011, which makes those runs directly comparable. Across the 13 runs before this one, the median carried 46% of those two shows' songs into Colorado, the mean 42%. In 2026 it was 77%: the highest of the 14, and 12 points clear of 2014, which sits in second place.

Two years are missing from the chart: no tour in 2020, and in 2025 the band broke tradition and skipped Dick's.

FIG · 02EVERY DICK'S RUN, AND WHAT IT CARRIED INshare of the previous two shows' songs replayed at Dick's

2026 · Fenway Park ×277% · 23 of 30 songs

2014 · Oak Mountain + Encore Park65% · 30 of 46 songs

2023 · SPAC ×261% · 19 of 31 songs

2016 · Oak Ridge Farm ×253% · 21 of 40 songs

2018 · Merriweather Post ×251% · 18 of 35 songs

2013 · Bill Graham Civic + Hollywood Bowl50% · 22 of 44 songs

2015 · Watkins Glen ×249% · 26 of 53 songs

2011 · UIC ×246% · 23 of 50 songs

2024 · The Woodlands ×244% · 16 of 36 songs

2012 · Chaifetz + Oklahoma City Zoo40% · 19 of 47 songs

2019 · Alpine Valley ×229% · 14 of 48 songs

2022 · Alpine Valley ×227% · 10 of 37 songs

2017 · Madison Square Garden ×223% · 9 of 40 songs

2021 · Shoreline ×23% · 1 of 38 songs

SRC · FOUL DOMAIN · SETLIST DATA

FIG · 02Each bar is one Dick's run measured against the two shows immediately before it; the label names where those were. Holding the window at two shows keeps the comparison even. 2017 sits last because Phish arrived from the Baker's Dozen, thirteen nights at Madison Square Garden without repeating a song.

The seven that didn't return

Only 7 of Fenway's songs sat out Dick's: A Life Beyond The Dream, Golden Age, Mike's Song, Ruby Waves, Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S., Stash, and Weekapaug Groove.

iMETHODOLOGY · WHAT'S MEASURED

Each Dick's run is compared with the last 2 shows played before it. The window is fixed at 2 shows so every year's comparison pool is a similar size; measuring against whole stands would let a long stand distort the rate. Songs are counted as distinct titles, once per side, regardless of how many times they were played; the rate is the share of those two shows' songs that reappeared at Dick's. All 14 Dick's runs are included, from 2011 to 2026. Cancelled dates and soundcheck entries are excluded throughout. Figures reflect data as of 2026-09-10.

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