Kevin Spence listened to a lot of Phish concerts and came up with the fact that jams tend to peak around 74% mark, which not surprising as such, but there is a big difference that makes the Vermont quartet rather special:
Phish jams peak three-quarters of the way through. So do the same songs played straight, and so do most rock songs. The structure is familiar. What's not is how they get there.
The full article The 74% Rule: The Shape Phish Comes Back To goes a long way, but even for those who can't handle statistics, there is plenty to enjoy:
Phish has improvised across four decades and several distinct eras, and you’d expect the jam itself to have been reinvented along the way. Our ears say it has. The structure says otherwise. Average the arc separately for each era and the curves nearly overlay: the quiet open, the plateau, the late peak are all there in 1994 and in 2024. The one tell is the 4.0 curve, which builds a touch more patiently and sits lower through the early middle before catching up. If the rule is partly inherited from song structure, this makes sense: the underlying songs haven’t changed.
(via phish.net)
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