It is funny how videos surface after long periods of time. It always piques the interest of what other gems lay out there waiting to be discovered. Such was the case earlier this week when Chalkdust Torture from 1991-10-15 appeared on YouTube. Though just debuted earlier in the year at the shortened show from 1991-02-01 at Brown University, Chalkdust was already a setlist veteran and in heavy rotation. The prior show was the Olympia Gamehenge show from 1991-10-13. Sadly, the uploader has not much more of the show, barring a few minutes of the opening to "Foam", as he was asked to stop taping.
Welcome to the Mystery Jam Monday: Rabeldy Edition. This week we are featuring a Mystery Jam hand picked by 8-time defending champ @RabeldyNugs (who, for the record, nobody complained about). As usual, we will be playing for a free MP3 download, courtesy of our friends at LivePhish.com / Nugs.Net. The rules haven't changed: you need to correctly identify the song and the date to win. Post your guess in the comments. One guess per person per day (with the second “day” starting after I post the hint). A hint will be posted on Tuesday (if necessary) and the answer will be posted on Wednesday. Good luck...
Tuesday Hint: No hint needed this week...
Wednesday Answer: Congrats to forbin1 for nailing the 10/11/95 "Gin" and nice work by Rabeldy for picking a jam that stood up for nearly four hours. The Blog will be back on Monday with another MJ for your listening pleasure.
Happy MLK Day, everyone. Welcome to the 82nd installment of Mystery Jam Monday. As usual, we will be playing for a free MP3 download, courtesy of our friends at LivePhish.com / Nugs.Net. The rules haven't changed: you need to correctly identify the song and the date to win. Post your guess in the comments. One guess per person per day (with the second “day” starting after I post the hint). A hint will be posted on Tuesday (if necessary) and the answer will be posted on Wednesday. Good luck...
Tuesday Hint: Don't need a hint this week...
Thursday Answer: Congrats to Pauly7917 for correctly identifying the 11/18/98 "Wolfman's Brother," a truly underrated version. The Blog will be back on Monday with a very special MJM83.
As were began planning for what would be come The Phish Companion, one of the stumbling blocks was a title. Personally, I wanted something a little more encyclopedic-sounding than what we ended up with, but here is a list of other 134 other titles considered...
[This week's Video of the Week entry was written by Dave Lutz, @slavephan. Thanks Dave! Have a favorite video that you'd like to blog about? Feel free to let us know, we are always looking for contributions!]
Winter tour of 2003 had brought everyone back out of the wood work. After more than a year and a half with no Phish, it seemed that everyone I talked to was ready and rearing to go on tour. After an initial brief romp in MSG and 3 nights in Hampton, finally, the band was back…but not just back for a few nights – Phish would play 11 dates across the country to the delight of the many who had been missing them tremendously. After over a decade with near-constant touring, none of us had experienced such a long time without Phish, so this tour was certainly one to celebrate.
Bass struts along the pavement, tipping its cap to a quick nod of a guitar riff, and the horns salute as they pass. Trumpet and trombone step from the alley to briefly converse before giving way to the flute, which floats above the strolling instruments in a thought bubble. Every few blocks they take a break, gathering energy for the next hill. Ambling up Castro, rambling down Lombard, hanging on Haight; this music travels the “Sidewalks of San Francisco.” Trey once described the song’s horn arrangement as “not very far removed” from the “vocal layers in ‘Twist’ or ‘Bouncing Around the Room.’” ...
One of the staple topics of Phish discussion on the internet as far back as I can remember, when I first got internet access and hopped onboard the old “rec.music.phish” newsgroup in 1994, is “scalping” and the extreme dislike for those engaged in reselling Phish tickets for well above “face”.
People were complaining then about “scalpers” and three digit prices being asked for tickets to the sold-out Halloween show at my hometown hockey rink, the Glens Falls Civic Center (capacity 5,500), during Phish “1.0’s” meteoric rise in popularity in those years.
Another Monday, another Mystery Jam here at Phish.net. As usual, we will be playing for a free MP3 download, courtesy of our friends at LivePhish.com / Nugs.Net. The rules haven't changed: you need to correctly identify the song and the date to win. Post your guess in the comments. One guess per person per day (with the second “day” starting after I post the hint). A hint will be posted on Tuesday (if necessary) and the answer will be posted on Wednesday. Good luck...
Tuesday Hint: Alas, no hint necessary this week.
Wednesday Answer: Congrats to cerqs for nailing the 6/8/95 "Tweezer" in near-record time. The blog will be back on Manday with MJM82...
As Phish prepares to take the stage for the second set of their New Year's Eve gig,
LivePhish has
released a matrix (soundboard and audience) mix of the 12/31/91 New Aud show
from 20 years earlier.
For .netters attending the Phish New Years run at Madison Square Garden
next week, there are two .net meetups planned for the pre-show
afternoons on Thursday, December 29th and Saturday, December
31st.
The first meetup on Thursday the 29th will be at the
Irish Times Pub and
Restaurant at 254 W. 31st St, directly across the street from
MSG. This meetup is being organized by Mark @SLOTHelot
and is being discussed on the .net forum thread here. The
meetup will run from about 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
On Saturday, New Years Eve, December
31st, Phish.net will hold its second "ophishial" NYE
.net meetup again from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Hudson Yards Cafe, in the
"Hell's Kitchen" neighborhood on thecorner of 35th Street and Tenth Avenue (450 Tenth Avenue),
about a five minute walk from MSG and a bit out of the midtown crush.
Your .net hosts and greeters for this meetup will be Bill
@castinajig and John @johnnyd. The cordial
restaurant owner, Jimmy Reardon, is happy to again be hosting Phish fans in
this intimate pub. Bring your iPods with your favorite Phish music to play
on the restaurant's PA. Like the SBIX meetup this past summer,
phish.net also be passing out free .net stickers and souvenir commemorative
laminates to those attending (while supplies last).
Both meetup venues are all ages and serve pub food as well as beverages.
Put these events on your calendar now and come meet your online friends for
some pre-show cheer.
The bouncy lead track from Mike Gordon’s 2008 release The Green Sparrow, “Another Door” was conceptually the entry to – and product of – Gordon’s self-directed year of solitude in his studio during 2007. The Green Sparrow version features New Orleans-based drumer Doug Belote, though it is otherwise performed entirely by Gordon, who layers guitars, keyboards, hi-hat and tambourine in addition to bass and vocals, utilizing Pro Tools software. At 3:10 in length, the studio version is concise – offering only a hint of what would soon flourish on the live stage – but is bright and lifting in its own right....
"Backwards Food" was composed in 2003 during the "Spices era" by Trey and Tom in the midst of a songwriting marathon. Many songs were composed in this furiously creative time, songs that eventually would be performed by Phish, and/or released on Phish's Undermind....
Trey Anastasio will
perform in a four-date "Winter Symphony Tour" of Phish and
Trey songs featuring the Atlanta Symphony (2/9/12 at Atlanta Symphony
Hall), the Pittsburgh Symphony (2/14/12 at Heinz Hall), the Colorado
Symphony (2/28/12 at Boettscher Concert Hall), and the Los Angeles
Philharmonic (3/10/12 at Walt Disney Concert Hall). Tickets go on sale
beginning this Thursday, December 1st.
TAB unveiled a slew of new material over the course of first tour as a sextet in the winter of 2001. All of the new original compositions were debuted at the first two shows of the tour, with the exception of a song introduced as "Till I Met You." This tune first hit a TAB stage in Asheville on 3/2/01 at one of the last gigs on the tour. In introducing the debut, Trey mentioned that it was one of the "breezy pop love songs" he'd written for the tour. What eventually became "Sweet Dreams Melinda" fits squarely in that category along with "Drifting" and "Ether Sunday."...
"Mr. Completely" made its debut in the TAB touring repertoire on the surprise July 4th, 2001 holiday performance at Higher Ground. The flood of new material on this night was amazing even for Trey’s typically prodigious output; “Mr. Completely” was one of nine compositions debuted at this performance including TAB work-horses “Alive Again,” “Cayman Review,” Money Love and Change” and “Simple Twist Up Dave.” Once in Trey’s concert rotation it established itself as an immovable object: “Mr. Completely” has been performed at over half of TAB gigs since the debut. ...
Video of the Week: 1991-10-15
