The Baker's Dozen was a series of thirteen concerts performed by Vermont-based jam band Phish between July 21 and August 6, 2017 at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. Each night featured a completely unique setlist with no songs repeated throughout the event, with the band playing 237 songs in total. The full set of shows was released as a box set entitled The Complete Baker's Dozen, alongside a three-disc live album of highlights, The Baker's Dozen: Live at Madison Square Garden.
Background Phish had planned to perform a Baker's Dozen themed concert series since before their 2004 breakup. Keyboardist Page McConnell told Relix in 2007 that the original plan was to hold 13 concerts at either Madison Square Garden or the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. McConnell said the reason the shows were not held when originally planned because, "Even if creatively it made sense to the four of us, the management – I don't want to say they wouldn’t let us do it, but really, they just wouldn't let us do it."
Phish announced the Baker's Dozen shows on their website on January 31st, 2017, and held the residency at the conclusion of their Summer Tour, following shows in Chicago, Dayton, and Pittsburgh.
Each night of the residency was themed around a different variety of doughnut – and this played into the band's song selection for that night. Examples include their performance of Junior Senior's "Shake Your Coconuts" on the opening "coconut" night and covering The Velvet Underground (with "Sunday Morning") on the "red velvet" night, both of which were debuts.
Each show also featured a special doughnut served each night to the audience by Federal Donuts of Philadelphia.
Arguably the most well-received night of the run was July 25, the "jam-filled" night, which had extended improvisation on songs that typically did not feature them, the most infamous of which being a 30-minute version of "Lawn Boy", a track which usually does not exceed four minutes. During the "Boston Cream" night on August 5, the band performed a medley of songs by the bands Boston and Cream.
The Complete Baker's Dozen
A box set of all thirteen shows was released as The Complete Baker's Dozen as a limited release on November 30, 2018.
Track listing
July 21 – Coconut
Disc one
Set I: "Shake Your Coconuts" (Jesper Mortensen) – 3:54 "Martian Monster" (Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Page McConnell) – 6:02 → "Timber" (Josh White, Sam Gary) – 8:25 → "555" (Gordon, Scott Murawski) – 6:36 "Pigtail" (Anastasio, Tom Marshall) – 8:37 "Halfway to the Moon" (McConnell) – 9:06 "Reba" (Anastasio) – 12:53 "Moonage Daydream" (David Bowie) – 6:07 "Walls of the Cave" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 11:47
Disc two
Set II: "Tweezer" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 16:01 → "Seven Below" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 13:14 → "Billy Breathes" (Anastasio) – 5:24 "Sparkle" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 4:09 "Everything's Right" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 11:41 → "Slave to the Traffic Light" (Anastasio, Dave Abrahamas, Steve Pollak) – 9:24 → "Suzy Greenberg" (Anastasio, Pollak) – 8:06 "Coconut" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:50
Disc three
Encore:
"The Mango Song" (Anastasio) – 8:11 "Good Times Bad Times" (Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Robert Plant) – 5:49
July 22 – Strawberry
Disc four
Set I: "Strawberry Fields Forever" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:55 "Halley's Comet" (Richard Wright) – 6:23 → "The Moma Dance" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall) – 17:30 → "Breath and Burning" (Anastasio) – 10:07 → "Funky Bitch" (Son Seals) – 7:09 "Mound" (Gordon) – 6:12 "Foam" (Anastasio) – 8:49 "Roggae" (Anastasio, Foshman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall) – 10:39
Disc five
Set I, continued: "The Squirming Coil" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 11:14 Set II: "Down with Disease" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 19:02 → "Strawberry Letter 23" (Shuggie Otis) – 5:21 → "Birds of a Feather" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall) – 6:29 "I Always Wanted it This Way" (McConnell) – 10:01 → "All of These Dreams" (Anastasio, Marshall, Herman) – 4:08 "Split Open and Melt" (Anastasio) – 11:18 → "Down with Disease" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 7:04 → "Shine a Light" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 5:03
Disc six
Encore: "Peaches en Regalia" (Frank Zappa) – 3:33 "Cities" (David Byrne) – 4:45 "My Sweet One" (Fishman) – 3:53
July 23 – Red Velvet
Disc seven
Set I: "Sunday Morning" (Lou Reed, John Cale) – 5:35 "Axilla" (Anastasio, Marshall, Herman) – 3:27 "Your Pet Cat" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 5:32 → "Back on the Train" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 10:50 "How Many People Are You" (Gordon, Murawski) – 9:30 "Glide" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall) – 4:43 → "Theme from the Bottom" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall) – 9:26 → "It's Ice" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 15:08 → "More" (Anastasio) – 7:41
Disc eight
Set II: "AC/DC Bag" (Anastasio) – 7:39 → "Wolfman's Brother" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall) – 14:54 → "Twist" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 16:04 → "Waves" (Anastasio, Marshall, Herman) – 11:11 → "Miss You" (Anastasio) – 7:37 "Boogie On Reggae Woman" (Stevie Wonder) – 7:50 "Wading in the Velvet Sea" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 8:38 Encore: "Sweet Jane" (Reed) – 5:46
July 25 – Jam Filled
Disc nine
Set I: "Sample in a Jar" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 10:49 "Lawn Boy" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 30:02 → "My Friend, My Friend" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 11:31 → "Stash" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 11:28 "Bathtub Gin" (Anastasio, Sue Goodman) – 13:06
Disc ten
Set II: "Fuego" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 19:36 → "Thread" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 6:35 → "Crosseyed and Painless" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) – 33:07 → "Makisupa Policeman" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 4:09 → "End of Session" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall) – 7:00 → "Tuesday" (Anastasio, Brendan O'Brien) – 5:21 "Cavern" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 5:21
Disc eleven
Encore: "Julius" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 9:04 → "Lawn Boy" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 1:56
July 26 – Powdered
Disc twelve
Set I: "White Winter Hymnal" (Robin Pecknold) – 3:57 "Cars Trucks Buses" (McConnell) – 6:11 "My Soul" (Clifton Chenier) – 7:00 "Roses are Free" (Aaron Freeman, Mickey Melchiondo) – 5:30 → "The Very Long Fuse" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 7:59 → "Gumbo" (Anastasio, Fishman) – 7:58 "Yarmouth Road" (Gordon, Murawski) – 7:25 "Pebbles and Marbles" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 10:44 "Farmhouse" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 7:44 "Tube" (Anastasio, Fishman) – 14:30
Disc thirteen
Set II: "Carini" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 16:32 → "Mr. Completely" (Anastasio) – 13:54 → "1999" (Prince) – 14:38 → "Steam" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 13:38 → "No Quarter" (Jones, Page, Plant) – 6:47 "Character Zero" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 10:40
Disc fourteen
Encore: "Powderfinger" (Neil Young) – 7:08
July 28 – Double Chocolate
Disc fifteen
Set I: "Chocolate Rain" (Tay Zonday) – 3:35 "Ass Handed" (Fishman) – 1:08 "Free" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 11:12 "Weigh" (Gordon) – 5:21 → "Undermind" (Anastasio, Marshall, Herman) – 8:54 → "The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony" (Anastasio) – 1:58 "The Dogs" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 5:47 "Destiny Unbound" (Gordon) – 7:50 "The Divided Sky" (Anastasio) – 17:00 "Things People Do" (McConnell) – 4:17 "Sand" (Anastasio, Marshall, Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis) – 11:43
Disc sixteen
Set II: "Have Mercy" (Lloyd Ferguson, Fitzroy Simpson, Donald Shaw, Joseph Hoo Kim) – 6:22 "Chalk Dust Torture" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 24:24 "You Sexy Thing" (Errol Brown, Tony Wilson) – 10:52 → "Mercury" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 13:16 → "You Sexy Thing" (Brown, Wilson) – 3:09 → "Backwards Down the Number Line" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 9:33 "Rock & Roll" (Reed) – 7:49
Disc seventeen
Encore: "Fee" (Anastasio) – 7:28 "Space Oddity" (Bowie) – 5:18
July 29 – Cinnamon
Disc eighteen
Set I: "Llama" (Anastasio) – 6:08 "Wilson" (Anastasio, Marshall, Aaron Woolf) – 9:11 → "Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 8:25 "Ya Mar" (Cyril Ferguson) – 9:48 "Tela" (Anastasio) – 7:21 "The Birds" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 4:20 → "The Line" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 7:13 "Water in the Sky" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 4:48 "Vultures" (Anastasio, Marshall, Herman) – 7:32 → "Train Song" (Gordon, Joseph Linitz) – 2:53 → "Horn" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 3:48 "I Am the Walrus" (Lennon, McCartney) – 7:08
Disc nineteen
Set II: "Blaze On" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 23:44 → "Twenty Years Later" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 11:10 → "Alumni Blues" (Anastasio) – 3:32 → "Letter to Jimmy Page" (Anastasio) – 1:21 → "Alumni Blues" (Anastasio) – 3:09 "Meatstick" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall, Herman) – 9:56 → "Dirt" (Anastasio, Marshall, Herman) – 4:35 → "Harry Hood" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Long) – 17:48 Encore: "Cinnamon Girl" (Young) – 4:43
July 30 – Jimmies
Disc twenty
Set I: "The Curtain With" (Anastasio, Marc Daubert) – 14:10 → "Runaway Jim" (Anastasio, Abrahams) – 10:37 "Waking Up Dead" (Gordon, Murawski) – 7:04 "Esther" (Anastasio) – 9:42
Disc twenty-one
Set I, continued: "Home" (McConnell) – 9:04 "Brian and Robert" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 3:19 "Nellie Kane" (Tim O'Brien) – 3:09 "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" (Anastasio) – 5:43 → "Fly Famous Mockingbird" (Anastasio) – 7:52 → "David Bowie" (Anastasio) – 11:48
Disc twenty-two
Set II: "Drowned" (Pete Townshend) – 21:47 → "A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 18:12 "Harpua" (Anastasio, Fishman) – 17:17 → "2001" (Richard Strauss) – 8:29 → "Golgi Apparatus" (Anastasio, Woolf, Bob Szuter, Marshall) – 5:51 "In the Good Old Summertime" (George Evans, Ren Shields) – 3:58 Encore: "The Wind Cries Mary" (Jimi Hendrix) – 3:56
August 1 – Maple
Disc twenty-three
Set I: "O Canada" (Calixa Lavallée, Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Robert Stanley Weir) – 2:42 → "Crowd Control" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 5:34 "Sugar Shack" (Gordon) – 6:28 "When the Circus Comes" (David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez) – 5:25 "Daniel Saw the Stone" (traditional) – 3:44 "Army of One" (McConnell) – 4:47 "The Wedge" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 7:33 "Guelah Papyrus" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 4:25 "Maple Leaf Rag" (Scott Joplin) – 0:39 "Guelah Papyrus" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 1:30 "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 8:23 "Limb by Limb" (Anastasio, Marshall, Herman) – 9:14 → "Walk Away" (Joe Walsh) – 7:23
Disc twenty-four
Set II: "Golden Age" (Kyp Malone, David Andrew Sitek) – 20:39 "Leaves" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 9:19 "Swept Away" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 0:56 → "Steep" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall) – 12:37 → "46 Days" (Anastasio) – 12:07 "Piper" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 12:59 → "Possum" (Jeff Holdsworth) – 10:35
Disc twenty-five
Encore: "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" (Bowie) – 4:03
August 2 – Holes
Disc twenty-six
Set I: "Way Down in the Hole" (Tom Waits) – 5:08 "Buried Alive" (Anastasio) – 3:38 "Kill Devil Falls" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 9:35 "Guyute" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 11:26 "I Didn't Know" (Wright) – 4:14 "NICU" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 5:46
Disc twenty-seven
Set I, continued: "Meat" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall) – 9:41 → "Maze" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 10:40 "Ginseng Sullivan" (Norman Blake) – 3:18 "Waiting All Night" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 6:25 "Heavy Things" (Anastasio, Marshall, Herman) – 6:06 "Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Marshall, Pollak) – 11:32
Disc twenty-eight
Set II: "Mike's Song" (Gordon) – 22:15 → "O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam) – 3:01 → "Taste" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Marshall) – 18:32 → "Wingsuit" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 11:01 → "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley" (Allen Toussaint) – 6:56 →