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