# The Baker's Dozen (concert series)

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
## The Baker's Dozen: Live at Madison Square Garden

The Baker's Dozen: Live at Madison Square Garden is an album collecting highlights from the entire run. It was released on November 30, 2018 as a triple CD and six-disc LP.

### Track listing

Disc one
* "Blaze On" (Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall) – 23:35
** July 29 – Cinnamon
* "Roggae" (Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Page McConnell, Marshall) – 10:31
** July 22 – Strawberry
* "Simple" (Gordon) – 25:10
** August 6 – Glazed
* "More" (Anastasio) – 7:38
** July 23 – Red Velvet
Disc two
* "Twist" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 20:50
** July 23 – Red Velvet
* "Waves" (Anastasio, Marshall, Scott Herman) – 11:05
** July 23 – Red Velvet
* "Everything's Right" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 11:30
** July 21 – Coconut
* "Chalk Dust Torture" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 24:06
** July 28 – Double Chocolate
* "Miss You" (Anastasio) – 7:28
** July 23 – Red Velvet
Disc three
* "No Men in No Man's Land" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 13:45
** August 4 – Lemon
* "Scents and Subtle Sounds" (Anastasio, Marshall, Herman) – 16:31
** August 4 – Lemon
* "Ghost" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 20:45
** August 5 – Boston Cream
* "Most Events Aren't Planned" (Russell Batiste Jr., Oteil Burbridge, Sofi Dillof, McConnell) – 11:13
** August 6 – Glazed

## Personnel

* Trey Anastasio – guitar, lead vocals (on all songs with vocals except where noted), acapella vocals on "Strawberry Fields Forever", "White Winter Hymnal", "Chocolate Rain", "Space Oddity", "In the Good Old Summer Time", "O Holy Night", and "Dem Bones", marimba lumba on "I Always Wanted It This Way" and "46 Days", narration on "Fly Famous Mockingbird" and "Harpua".
* Mike Gordon – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "555", "Funky Bitch", "Mound", "How Many People Are You", "Yarmouth Road", "Weigh", "Destiny Unbound", "You Sexy Thing", "Ya Mar", "Train Song", "Waking Up Dead", "Nellie Kane", "Drowned", "Sugar Shack", "Ginseng Sullivan", "Mike's Song", "Big Black Furry Creature from Mars", "Poor Heart", "Uncle Pen", "Fuck Your Face", "Scent of a Mule", "Rocky Top", "Crazy Sometimes", and "Starman", acapella vocals on "Strawberry Fields Forever", "White Winter Hymnal", "Chocolate Rain", "Space Oddity", "In the Good Old Summer Time", "O Holy Night", and "Dem Bones", co-lead vocals on "My Sweet One", "1999", and "Everything In Its Right Place", narration on "Harpua", percussion on "46 Days".
* Jon Fishman – drums, backing vocals, acapella vocals on "Strawberry Fields Forever", "White Winter Hymnal", "Chocolate Rain", "Space Oddity", "In the Good Old Summer Time", "O Holy Night", and "Dem Bones" co-lead vocals on "The Moma Dance", and "Everything In Its Right Place" lead vocals on "Sunday Morning", "Crosseyed and Painless", and "Ass Handed", narration on "Harpua", vacuum cleaner on "I Didn't Know".
* Page McConnell – keyboards, piano, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Halfway to the Moon", "I Always Wanted It This Way", "It's Ice", "Wading in the Velvet Sea", "Sweet Jane", "Lawn Boy", "No Quarter", "Things People Do", "Rock and Roll", "Tela", "Home", "Army of One", "Walk Away", "Bold as Love", "Silent in the Morning", "Most Events Aren't Planned", and "I Been Around", co-lead vocals on "Seven Below", "My Sweet One", "1999", "A Day in the Life", and "Everything In Its Right Place", acapella vocals on "Strawberry Fields Forever", "White Winter Hymnal", "Chocolate Rain", "Space Oddity", "In the Good Old Summer Time", "O Holy Night", and "Dem Bones", keytar on "Lawn Boy" and "Frankenstein", MIDI controller on "Chocolate Rain", narration on "Harpua", percussion on "46 Days", theremin on "Simple".