Phish Setlist: 12/30/10 Madison Square Garden

Set 1: Cities, Chalk Dust Torture, Gumbo > Quinn the Eskimo, Halley's Comet > Camel Walk[1], Maze, Driver, Bathtub Gin, Fat Man in the Bathtub, Timber (Jerry) > Golgi Apparatus, Character Zero

Set 2: Tweezer -> Light > Theme From the Bottom > My Friend, My Friend[2], Axilla > Fluffhead > Boogie On Reggae Woman -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > Suzy Greenberg

Encore: Run Like an Antelope > Tweezer Reprise

Notes: The P.A. cut out during Camel Walk. My Friend did not contain the "Myfe" ending.

If Trey Loses His Voice, Do We Get More Jamming?

Well, we all heard it during the Wooster shows, but now the word on the street is that our main man Trey has totally lost his voice!

If that is the case you can expect these Madison Square Garden shows to feature a lot more jamming. And if it is Type II style jamming, then I don't think anyone will be complaining. Trey has lost his voice before and attempted to keep singing... yeah... I don't think we need that again. Though this is a possible downer for some, others are just thinking how lucky they are not to hear Time Turns Elastic during this run!

Phish Setlist: 12/28/10 Worcester, MA

Set 1: Kill Devil Falls, My Mind's Got A Mind Of Its Own, Alaska, She Caught The Katy, Wolfman's Brother, Pigtail, Stash, Bouncing Around The Room, Rift, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, The Birdwatcher

Set 2: Carini, Backwards Down The Numberline, Back On The Train, Limb By Limb, The Wedge, Frankie Says, Albuquerque, Harry Hood, Bug

Encore: Shine A Light

Notes: Last "She Caught the Katy" was in July of '98 (323 shows ago.) Pigtail & The Birdwatcher were debuts. The Birdwatcher is rumored to be the last song that Phish wrote before the breakup and never made its way onto Undermined. Also, it was sung acapella.

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Phish Setlist: 12/27/10 Worcester, MA

Phish’s five-show holiday tour begins tonight in snow-whipped Worcester, MA at the DCU Center. The show is on as scheduled despite the storm that has caused havoc across the country hitting New England overnight.

Soundcheck: Heavy Things, Halfway to the Moon, Meatstick, Jam

Set 1: Sample in a Jar, Funky Bitch, Cool It Down, Roggae, Heavy Things, What Things Seem, Roses Are Free > It's Ice, Mountains in the Mist, Julius

Set 2: Mikes Song, Mound, Weekapaug Groove, Farmhouse, Seven Below, What's The Use, Twenty Years Later, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Possum, Cavern, David Bowie

Encore: Loving Cup

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Fan submitted photo taken right as Phish took the stage

Trey Anastasio’s Free Holiday Download

Trey Anastasio has made most of his recent performance with the Scorchio Quartet available as a free holiday download. Live From Princeton features highlights of the Phish guitarist’s November 18, 2010 appearance at Princeton, NJ’s Richardson Auditorium. The MP3 album features the previously unreleased Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB song “Greyhound Rising,” as well as “Divided Sky,” “Bar 17,” “Gone,” “Stash,” “Flock of Words,” “Strange Design,” “Wolfman’s Brother” and “Let Me Lie.” Anastasio will regroup with Phish for a performance in Worcester, MA on December 27.

Click here to download 'Live From Princeton'

Phish Offers Pay-Per-View

Phish will be offering pay-per-view webcasts of each concert at New York's Madison Square Garden. Fans can watch the shows live on LivePhish.com for 12/30 and 1/1 for $14.99 each, and $19.99 on New Year's Eve. Pre-order a three night pass for $39.99 and Save 15%.

LivePhish.com is offering a free test stream to make sure that your web browser will support the event before you purchase. The test video is totally worth the watch! It is just over 30 minutes of video of YEM >Piper from Alpine Valley 8/15/10. Check that out here.

Mike's Bass Strings Make Good Holiday Gifts

Mike Gordon has given his used bass guitar strings to Wear Your Music, whose jewelry makers custom-design unisex bracelets using donated strings (played on stage by Mike) and recycled silver for charity. The limited-edition bracelet, which retails for $50.00, features wrapped recycled strings from Mike’s basses and will go on sale beginning at Noon EST. $25.00 from each purchase will be donated to his charity of choice, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

For more information, or to purchase, please visit: http://wearyourmusic.org/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=772

PhanFood: The Phish Phan Cookbook

Well, since we are wrapping up the Thanksgiving holiday, it seems like a good time to mention the forthcoming cookbook, PhanFood: From the Kitchen Pot to the Tour Lot.

SUNY Press will published the work, billed as “the first ever cookbook by Phish fans for Phish fans,” with such recipes as “Ain’t no time to stash the chicken and sausage gumbo”, “Slave to the Colorful Quinoa Salad’, ‘Posternut Bagel” and “Party Time Punch.” PhanFood was created by Taraleigh “The Healthy Hippie” Weathers and Pete “PhanArt” Mason. All net profits will be directed to food pantries in the towns and cities where Phish will appear in upcoming tours, as well as the food pantry of Burlington.

A launch party for the book will take place in Burlington at Nectar’s from 7-9 PM on December 11, with food to sample from the book and a canned food drive followed by music from Dopapod.

Pete Mason of Phan Art is also involved with this project.

ALBUM REVIEW: More reasons to like Mike Gordon

Review by Michael Lello

Mike Gordon Phish membership must have opened some doors in the course of his career, 20-years plus. However, his art outside the Phish — movies, solo records and duets Leo Kottke — project shows the artist brimming with leftfield creativity more than capable of standing on its own.

In the wake of the gem understated in 2008 "the Green Sparrow", Gordon returns with "Moss", and is a microcosm of makes Gordon interesting and appealing: vocals, funky rhythms and arrangements which zag when you that they zig.

Gordon opens with jovial "can't stand Still," squishy bass guitar, guitar, drums, scattershot Creating style danceable, "horizon" is looser and more's melancholic, bass guitar on Gordon on rubbery texture and page McConnell Phish by adding certain work nice body. McConnell is an important contributor to the "Moss," adding his musical personality to four tunes, and drummer Jon Fishman is the chips on the "Got Away." Other famous guests: Joe Russo (drums) and Marco Benevento (body).

"Fire from memory stick" rides airy small Groove ft.-esque, before the arrival of the "what things seem," routed album. Gordon plays a slow and languid bassline, comparable to the "meat," one of his songs, Phish and his vocals take some unexpected turns of the team. "I during mixing potions in your yard caught," he sings drolly, texts, which are located in psychedelic pictures on the "Flashback", "" void "" Got Away "and" Spiral ". "Now I'm lost in the mist in the clouds rising vapour/per Moss and hear you laughing at me," adds support for the theme "Moss" it concerns in many paths.

Gordon makes music singles-minded and rather odd outside Phish. The audience is smaller for him — an example is slightly supervised spellbinding show played Sherman Theater in March. However, the balance of the glory of the arena and Stadium with Phish and more homogeneous limits without its known bandmates corresponds to Gordon — and music — just fine.

Click here to get the Bonus Track: Sugar Shack (Bonus Track) 

Custom Trey Guitar String Bracelets For Sale

Trey is giving his used guitar strings to Wear Your Music, whose jewelry makers custom-design unisex bracelets using donated strings and recycled silver for charity. The limited-edition bracelet, which retails for $50.00 $150.00, features wrapped recycled strings from Trey’s guitars and is available now. Twenty-five dollars from the sale of each bracelet go to support the Seven Below Arts Initiative. Seven Below fosters artistic development and support art education in the state of Vermont.

Trey Anastasio Setlist 11/18/10

Richardson Auditorium- Princeton University
Set: Love Is Freedom, Water In The Sky, Summer of ‘89, Divided Sky, Greyhound Rising, Bar 17*, Gone*, Brian and Robert, Stash, Flock of Words, Strange Design^, Wolfman’s Brother*
Encore: Julie, Let Me Lie

NOTES:
* – Trey on Piano
^ – w/ Tom Marshall

 

 

 

Photo Credit: Marc Frankel 

"Trey Anastasio will perform a special solo acoustic show at Princeton University's historic Richardson Auditorium. The Scorchio Quintet, which supported Anastasio at the Tibet House benefit shows, will back him on select songs from his continuously growing repertoire."

Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan - Alpine Valley 2010 DVD

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"Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan" from Phish "Alpine Valley 2010" 2-DVD/2-CD Box Set, recorded 8/14/10 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI and in stores December 14th.

 

 

Interview: Mike Gordon Pre Tour

In his own world: Can Mike Gordon stand still?
This interview is by Dave Kirby

When we thanked Phish bassist Mike Gordon for taking a few minutes to chat us up last week on his day off, he corrects us.

“Heh. No days off this year,” Gordon chuckles.

Well, we suppose a real day off for Gordon wouldn’t include doing any interviews, but Phish had just wrapped up its early fall tour with a Halloween gig in Atlantic City, N.J., and it was a day or two before he headed back out for a stretch with his own band.

The days are sliding by like a blur.

Gordon talks a little about stepping out of the exquisite chaos of a Phish tour and into his own gig.

“I knew it would be difficult this time.

Usually it takes at least a week for me to get to feeling human again after a tour,” he says. “It doesn’t even have to be a grueling tour. … You just get revved up from playing and staying up late and traveling and the intensity that the music requires. But on top of that, I had my album come out and all these side projects having to do with the album — creative projects, videos, bonus tracks — and then, Phish had a Halloween album, which was a double album, so that took a lot of practice, and getting ready for this tour at the same time. And, having family time, like my daughter just turned 2 years old.

“So, I was just so busy, I knew this was going to be a difficult week. A day or two ago, I was just pulling my hair out.”

While still bearing the trademark quirkiness and dual-suspension bottom-end bounce that has characterized his mainline oeuvre since his earliest days in Phish, Gordon’s new CD Moss comes across a bit more like a bassist’s album than The Green Sparrow, his 2008 solo effort. Recorded during Phish’s hiatus and after a year of relative creative downtime for Gordon, Sparrow tended to slide more toward an organic, band-collective vibe. Moss, on the other hand, was a project that cobbled together bits and pieces of ideas extending back years, including extra material from the Sparrow sessions and bass-drum jams since. It’s looser in some respects but surprisingly detailed. Gordon recorded it in a short month he managed to steal from Phish’s busy post-reunion schedule.

We told Gordon we really liked “Get Away,” with its drowsy horn-section accents and almost late-period Steely Dan vibe, a kind of last-call lament for the guy at the end of the bar, with Gordon’s bass dropping into broad harmonic bottoms here, standing up and tiptoeing across the lachrymose chill there. And there’s “The Void,” a sort of mid-tempo narcoleptic flight of fancy that dissolves into rich vocal harmonics set off against glistening dissonances before submerging into a grey-noise sonic murk, bobbing to the surface again with a kind of toy-piano coda, all of it born (logically in Gordon’s vaguely Fellini-esque musical world, maybe unexpectedly for the rest of us) from a series of cyclic and semi-technical bass runs.



Seriously. What the hell is he doing in there? “I’m not sure I know myself,” Gordon laughs.

“That’s a good question.

“That one was really based on the bass. It just came from improvising and finding, in an organic way, the sorts of melodies and patterns I want to be playing, and having the song cater to that. And, soon after I had figured that out and had sculpted it into a song, I started working on the guitar and keyboard part, pretty much one bar at a time. For half an hour, I’d sit there and work on one measure on guitar, making sure, the whole way, that nothing got in the way of what I liked about the bass part.

“Which is not the way that songs are usually written. You know, usually the bass is the supportive thing, and it kind of doesn’t matter if you can hear it or not. But in this case, I really wanted for the bass to remain … . Actually, the Beatles did a good job with this kind of thing. Sometimes when they had only a few tracks to work with, they would record the bass last. And that would allow it to be a little more prominent, so it didn’t get buried by all the other stuff.”

When we talked with Gordon a couple years ago, he went more or less out of his way to tell us that he didn’t regard himself as a particularly strict bandleader type. Managing arrangements, tweaking his other players’ parts, all that. Maybe that was a luxury he was enjoying at the time, with Phish on indefinite (and for all anyone knew at the time, permanent) hiatus, but time has become a precious commodity for the bassist these days, and he readily conceded to growing more comfortable swiveling in the captain’s chair.

“That’s true,” Gordon says of that self-analysis from 2008, “but at the same time, I think I have leadership qualities that are now really getting to flourish. I guess they did a little bit with filmmaking.

“I think that even people who are a little bit laid back can find their mojo and step up to the plate — that’s a mixed metaphor there, sorry — and really go for it. I mean, I just got off a Phish tour, and it was great, but now we’re just getting ready to go out, and there’s so much to do, you gotta make some decisions quickly. I like having the aggressive part of my personality come out, too.”

It’s going to sound a little like Phish, of course.

You don’t shed 27 years of history just like that, and Gordon’s ambitious technique and off-center songwriting are central to Phish’s enduring allure. But Gordon is conscious of his personality outside the band as well.

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“All along the way,” Gordon explains, “I’ve had my own influences and interests. We all have our own interests. I listen to a lot of … kinda of funky-yet-subtle music. Like, JJ Cale. Stuff that doesn’t beat you over the head, that has some subtext to it, something beneath the surface. But something that has a dancey, funky, rock quality to it.

“So, these are my interests, and so it makes sense that when I do get time to go into the studio, I can be the guy making all those decisions, and make things sound like that.”

Before we cut Gordon loose, we took a minute to toss a little gratitude for Phish’s bruising and true witness read of the early Genesis nugget “Watcher of the Skies,” a number they chipped loose from four-decade-old prog strata and performed for Genesis’ Rock Hall induction ceremony last spring, with all but Peter Gabriel of the original band in attendance.

Brought a smile to an old progger’s wrinkled chops. But for Gordon, the technician, it was a bit like speaking off an ancient rune.

“Oh yeah, cool,” Gordon says. “And I’m trying to remember, it switches from a six-beat pattern to a 10-beat pattern at the end, with all those little bass parts in there. And yeah, to have Mike Rutherford in the audience watching, added a little extra energy to it."

Very cool.

Original article can be found here.

Video: Mike Gordon Plays 'Meat' in SanFran

Mike Gordon - "Meat" @ The Independent, SF

 

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More info on Atlantic City drug busts

Arrested were 63 men and women from 15 states, plus one Philadelphia 15-year-old who allegedly resisted arrest after distributing nitrous oxide. Most of the accused were given summonses for possession and released.

Here's the list of drugs gathered by Atlantic City police:

•  70 nitrous oxide tanks.
•  551.2 grams (19.4 oz.) marijuana.
• 4 marijuana-laced brownies.
• 16 marijuana-laced Rice Krispies Treats.
• 66 marijuana-laced cookies.
• 134.9 grams (4.8 oz.) psilocybin mushrooms.
• 22 doses of ketamine.
• 34.3 grams (1.2 oz.) of MDMA powder 
• 60 pills of Ecstasy.
• 30.7 grams (1.1 oz.) cocaine.
• 2.2 grams (0.1 oz) heroin.
• 395 hits of LSD.
• 21 LSD-laced cookies.
• 26 Oxycodone pills.
• 7 Oxycontin pills.
• 39 Hydrocodone pills.
• 29 Carisoprodol pills.
• 14 Xanax pills.
• 8 Diazepam pills.
• 3 Alprazolam pills. 

See that guy in the red jacket? Yeah, he is the one lone guy who brought the ganja brownies..

 This is an update to the original article that we posted here.

Alpine Valley DVD Preview (23mins long)

"Down With Disease > What's The Use" from Phish "Alpine Valley 2010" 2-DVD/2-CD Box Set, recorded 8/14/10 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI and in stores December 14th. Pre-order Alpine Valley 2010 now! 

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$300,000 & 19 ounces of marijuana seized at Atlantic City Phish shows

Breaking News: 19 ounces of marijuana confiscated during
Phish's 3 night run in Atlantic City for the Halloween weekend

Last weekend's three Phish concerts in Atlantic City led to more than 60 arrests and the confiscation of a large cache of drugs, from marijuana to nitrous oxide to LSD.

There were 64 arrests and almost $300,000 worth of drugs seized before, during and after the band played three concerts at Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City police said.

An additional $12,251 was seized and believed to be the proceeds of drugs sold at the concert, cops said.

Police conducted several undercover operations in the areas surrounding the shows held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Police said they confiscated 70 nitrous oxide tanks, about 19 ounces of marijuana, four marijuana laced brownies, 16 marijuana-laced rice crisp treats, 66 marijuana-laced cookies and 134.9 grams of psilocybin mushrooms.

They also confiscated 30.7 grams of cocaine and 2.2 grams of Heroin.


After the Saturday evening show, two officers were injured while attempting to arrest two men who were resisting, cops said. One officer sustained a hand injury while another was assaulted with nitrous oxide. Both were treated and released.

Another officer's radio was stolen while he was trying to arrest another male who was also resisting, cops said.

"I think it dampened but didn't disrupt their enjoyment," Sgt. Monica McMenamin, of the Atlantic City Police Department, said of the arrests. "We did the best we could to allow them to enjoy their time in Atlantic City this weekend."

Phish fans pre show on 10/31 in Atlantic City
I bet this cow guy had a nitrous tank hooked up to his utters....

(story from here)

Halloween Press Coverage Straight From Atlantic City

The Vermont-based jam band Phish sure knows how to throw a Halloween party!

Phish, a four-piece band that formed in 1983, is known for playing for hours with nonstop moving and dancing from their Generation X fans, but the group kicked it up a notch for their third and final show Sunday of their three-night, sold-out engagement at Boardwalk Hall here.


The final concert fell on Halloween, so the band announced a Halloween contest for the first time since 1994. Fans were to vote on the winner, who will receive tickets to their sold-out New Year’s Eve show at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Trey & Page kicking off the night in style!

Fans might have shown up in costume anyway, but the contest helped inspire more.

Other music stars — such as Slash, Prince and Madonna — were popular, along with superheroes such as Green Lantern, Captain America, Batman and Spider-Man, famous actors such as Marilyn Monroe and other fictional characters such as the Ghostbusters.

Phish fans were out to have an especially good time, and the band held up their end of the bargain in supplying the music for it.

When Phish opened its show with a cover of the 1970s instrumental “Frankenstein” by the Edgar Winter Group, with their keyboardist Page McConnell standing and playing a white keytar, it sent a message that looseness and spontaneity was the order of the night.

The Phish members seemed to enjoy themselves during the special show. During the song “Ghost,” from the band’s 1998 CD, “The Story of the Ghost,” McConnell dropped in a little of the tune “Spooky” by The Classics IV. Guitarist Trey Anastasio smiled at him broadly while he did this.

When they played their own material during their first set, the band members used the opportunity to perform more of their atmospheric pieces — “The Divided Sky” — or to turn in epic versions of their songs —“Stash.” The covers Phish selected during its first set, Stevie Wonder’s “Boogie on Reggae Woman” and Ween’s “Roses Are Free,” concentrated the band’s energy into more danceable, compact tunes.

Phish’s Halloween shows are famous because the cult band plays the entire CD of one of their musical heroes.

In previous years, full albums Phish played on Halloween — called a musical costume — have been included the Beatles’ “White Album,” the Rolling Stones’ “Exile on Main Street,” the Talking Heads’ “Remain In Light” and the Who’s “Quadrophenia.”

This time, they picked another cult band, but one whose following was never as big as theirs, Little Feat.

The band played all the songs from Little Feat’s 1978 live double album, “Waiting for Columbus,” assisted by a percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo, and by two trumpets, two saxophones and a trombone on some songs.

This segment was dedicated to two Little Feat members who are now deceased — singer-songwriter and guitarist Lowell George and drummer Richie Hayward.

This was a musical treat for fans who have seen this band dozens if not hundreds of times, and also for the band members who pride themselves on doing the unexpected.

It was a rarity to hear Anastasio’s screaming guitar lines played in unison with horn blasts, as was the case during Little Feat’s “Day Or Night.”

For Phish’s final show during its debut concert engagement here, the band seemed to be in fine form energizing the crowd but also taking part good-naturedly in the festivities as some fans, who were in various levels of altered states and consciousness, also brought the celebration to them.

“The Divided Sky” customarily has a pause where the musicians don’t play and people just yell and scream and throw glow sticks. Inside the hall, it looked like a multi-colored waterfall as the glow sticks rained down from the upper levels. During the course of the show, glow sticks, confetti and what looked like flowers made it onto the stage from the front of the audience.

“I love it. I thought it was fantastic. They are about the surprise,” said Scott C. Hutchinson, 38, of Boston, who has seen the band more than 300 times. “That’s what’s so cool about them. You don’t know what you will get.”

Sunday’s concert here ended Phish’s 15-date fall tour, which began Oct. 10 in Colorado. Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland or Ocean County residents, who received their first taste of the band live with this stint, will have to travel to Massachusetts or New York from Dec. 27 to Jan. 1 to see them again.

(article originally posted here)

10/31/2010 Atlantic City, NJ Halloween!!

Set 1: Frankenstein[1], Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Ghost -> Spooky, The Divided Sky, Roses Are Free > Funky Bitch, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Stash, Character Zero

Set 2: Fat Man in the Bathtub[2], All That You Dream[2], Oh Atlanta[2], Old Folks Boogie[3], Time Loves a Hero[4] -> Day or Night[3], Mercenary Territory[3], Spanish Moon[3], Dixie Chicken[3] -> Tripe Face Boogie[2], Rocket in My Pocket[3], Willin'[5], Don't Bogart That Joint[6], A Apolitical Blues[2], Sailin' Shoes[2], Feats Don't Fail Me Now[3]

Set 3: Down with Disease > Back on the Train > Gotta Jibboo, Camel Walk, Suzy Greenberg, Wilson > Harry Hood > The Horse > Silent in the Morning, You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Julius[4]

[1] Page on keytar.
[2] Phish debut; Giovanni Hidalgo on percussion.
[3] Phish debut; Giovanni Hidalgo on percussion and Aaron Johnson, Stuart Bogie, Ian Hendrickson, Michael Leonhart and Eric Biondo on horns.
[4] Giovanni Hidalgo on percussion and Aaron Johnson, Stuart Bogie, Ian Hendrickson, Michael Leonhart and Eric Biondo on horns.
[5] Phish debut; Page on bass, Mike on piano, Trey on drums and Fish on vocals.
[6] Phish debut; A cappella

Notes: Page performed Frankenstein on keytar. Spooky was performed for the first time since 4/14/93 (751 shows). The second set "musical costume" was Little Feat's 1978 Waiting for Columbus. Join the Band (the first track of Waiting for Columbus) was played over the PA before the start of the second set.  Subsequently, Phish was introduced as "Little Feat" before Fat Man in the Bathtub. All of the songs in the second set other than Time Loves a Hero were Phish debuts. All of the songs in the second set, other than Don't Bogart That Joint and Willin', featured Giovanni Hidalgo on percussion. A five piece horn section consisting of Aaron Johnson, Stuart Bogie, Ian Hendrickson, Michael Leonhart and Eric Biondo joined the band for Old Folks Boogie, Time Loves a Hero, Day or Night, Mercenary Territory, Spanish Moon, Dixie Chicken, Rocket in My Pocket and Feats Don't Fail Me Now. Willin' featured Page on bass, Mike on piano, Trey on drums and Fish on vocals. Prior to the piano solo at the beginning of Willin', Fish remarked, "That should be Paul Barrère." Don't Bogart That Joint was performed a cappella. Trey introduced the guest musicians before Feats Don't Fail Me Now. At the conclusion of the second set, the entire band marched the perimeter of the floor. Disease was initially botched and had to be restarted, prompting Fish to declare, "This one's off our album." Julius featured David Hidalgo and the Waiting for Columbus horn section.

Phish 10/30/10 Atlantic City, NJ

Soundcheck: Whole Lotta Love (x2), Thank You, Billy Breathes, Can't You See, Ramble On, Whole Lotta Love, Ginseng Sullivan, Rock Me Baby, Destiny Unbound

Set 1: Kill Devil Falls, Cavern > Foam, Guelah Papyrus, Chalk Dust Torture -> Whole Lotta Love > Chalk Dust Torture, Ha Ha Ha, Walk Away, Wolfman's Brother -> Undermind > Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil

Set 2: Tube > Possum > Tweezer -> Heartbreaker -> Ramble On -> What Is and What Should Never Be -> Tweezer -> Stairway to Heaven, Halley's Comet > Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie, Show of Life, Backwards Down the Number Line > Good Times Bad Times

Encore: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise

Notes: Whole Lotta Love was incomplete and was played for the first time in over 1,000 shows. Wolfman's contained a vocal jam. Gin, Possum, Tweezer & Tweezer Reprise all contained a Whole Lotta Love tease from Trey. The incomplete versions of Heartbreaker & Stairway to Heaven were Phish debuts. After Stairway to Heaven, Trey joked, "Happy Halloween! See you all next year." Ramble On was played for the first time since August 12, 1998 (305 shows)

Phish Halloween 2010 Costume Contest

The last time there was a costume contest at a Phish Halloween show, the year was 1994. We're resurrecting the tradition this year, with help from those of you that can't be here in Atlantic City.

A group of fans dressed up as Phish at Festival 8

First off, the prize: The person who dons the best costume (fans will be voting) will win 2 tickets to each night of Phish's SOLD OUT Madison Square Garden shows, including New Year's Eve itself. Two Runner ups will receive a Phish prize package, including the new Coral Sky DVD and a Phish 10/31/10 Halloween Limited Edition Poster.

To enter the contest, you have to:

a) dress in costume, obvs. between the time doors open and before the third set. b) have your photo taken at one of two Photo Booths adjacent to either of the merchandise stands.

All photos will be uploaded throughout the night to Phish's Facebook page, where fans both inside the venue and at home, can vote on the best costume by "liking" the photos. The costume with the most likes wins. We'll keep voting open until Monday, November 1st at 9PM EST, so that those of you traveling home can still take part.

If you're a part of a group costume, you can get your picture taken with the group, but we can only offer one pair of tickets for each of the three Madison Square Garden shows for the entire group.

Also...all entrants will be able to take home a print out of your photo on the spot, as a memento of your Halloween in Atlantic City.

Phish 10/29/10 Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall

Set 1: The Star Spangled Banner, My Soul, AC/DC Bag, Ocelot, Sample in a Jar, Light Up Or Leave Me Alone, Sugar Shack, Timber (Jerry), Bouncing Around the Room, Axilla, Rift, The Moma Dance > Cities > 46 Days
Set 2: Punch You In the Eye > Sand > Carini > Prince Caspian, Corinna, Piper > Theme From The Bottom > Golgi Apparatus > Slave to the Traffic Light > Fluffhead

Encore: Loving Cup

Notes: Caspian was unfinished. A brief When the Circus Comes tease preceded Corinna.

10/26/2010 Manchester, NH

Set 1: After Midnight, The Sloth, Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Mellow Mood, Access Me, Llama, All of These Dreams, The Curtain With, Scent of a Mule, A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, It's Ice, Walls of the Cave

Set 2: Possum, Light > Mike's Song > Simple, Makisupa Policeman > Night Nurse > Makisupa Policeman, The Wedge, Ghost, The Mango Song, Weekapaug Groove, Llama

Encore: Show of Life

Notes: Debut of Night Nurse; original artist Gregory Isaacs passed away the night before, October 25, 2010. Weekapaug Groove contained lyrics from Ghost as well as a Can't You Hear Me Knocking jam, and went unfinished.

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10/24/2010 Amherst, MA

Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Camel Walk, The Divided Sky, Ride Captain Ride, Stash[1], Fee[2] -> Time Turns Elastic, Cavern > Run Like an Antelope

Set 2: Seven Below > Wolfman's Brother, Backwards Down the Number Line > Alaska > Free, The Lizards, Brother, Roggae > Taste > Waste > David Bowie

Encore: Quinn the Eskimo, Chalk Dust Torture
Notes: Last Ride Captain Ride was 12/10/99 Spectrum (214 shows). Stash contained a brief Dave's Energy Guide tease from Trey. Trey sang verses of Fee through a megaphone. The last Chalk Dust Torture encore was on 10/6/2000 at Shoreline, with Bob Weir.

Setlist & Video 10/23/2010 Amherst, MA

Set 1: Meatstick, Party Time, Golgi Apparatus, Kill Devil Falls, Tweezer, Lawn Boy, Sparkle > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Hold Your Head Up, Possum > Tweezer Reprise[1]

Set 2: Down with Disease > My Friend, My Friend > Prince Caspian[2] -> Halfway to the Moon -> Boogie On Reggae Woman > Maze, Wading in the Velvet Sea > Piper > Harry Hood > You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Shine a Light

Notes: During Party Time, Trey wished "Kevin" a happy birthday. Tweezer Reprise featured Trey singing the refrain to Meatstick in place of the Tweezer Reprise lyrics. Caspian was unfinished.

Setlist 10/22/2010 Providence, RI

Set 1: Down with Disease, Funky Bitch, Fluffhead, Roses Are Free > Rift, The Moma Dance > Ocelot, NICU, Sample in a Jar, Julius

Set 2: Rock and Roll -> Carini -> My Problem Right There, Mike's Song > Sanity > Weekapaug Groove, Suzy Greenberg > Light > Character Zero > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Loving Cup

Encore: First Tube

Utica MP3 Download Fiasco

From PhishOrg:
"Due to ticket scanner failure at the Utica Memorial Auditorium, on Wed. 10/20, ticket stubs were collected. In short, ticket holders no longer have their barcodes to redeem their free MP3s at LivePhish.com. Phish Tickets and TicketMaster will be emailing every Utica ticket holder a new download code. Please use the new code to get your free Utica MP3. "

/My Thoughts
Hmmm, considering most everyone that I know got tickets through friends of friends, ebay and scalper sites like StubHub- my guess is that most of these emailed codes are going to people who won't be using them. Pretty weak. If you ask me I think Phish should just open this one up for everyone and let it be a free download.

I will post a download link of the audience recordings as soon as I get it. If you get a link before this is updated please share it below in the comments.

Phish 10/20/2010 Utica, NY

Set 1: My Soul, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Vultures, Wolfman's Brother > Cities > Guyute, David Bowie, Wilson > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters -> Saw It Again > Run Like an Antelope

Set 2: Drowned -> Sand, Theme From the Bottom, Axilla > Birds of a Feather, Tela, Split Open and Melt > Have Mercy > Piper -> Split Open and Melt > Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Good Times Bad Times

- videos -

 

Phish Setlist 10/19/2010 Augusta, ME

Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Back on the Train, Torn and Frayed, Bathtub Gin, Gumbo, The Divided Sky, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Nellie Kane, 46 Days, Possum

Set 2: Fuck Your Face > Mike's Song -> Fuck Your Face -> Mike's Song -> Fuck Your Face > Light > Twenty Years Later -> Fast Enough for You, Weekapaug Groove, Halley's Comet > Free, Harry Hood, Golgi Apparatus, A Day in the Life

Encore: Reba, Backwards Down The Number Line

the official pennant from this show

Phish Setlist 10/16/2010 North Charleston, SC

Set 1: Kill Devil Falls, Guelah Papyrus, The Curtain With, The Mango Song, Sand, Limb By Limb, Sneakin' Sally through the Alley, Uncle Pen, Pebbles and Marbles, Cavern > David Bowie

Set 2: Crosseyed and Painless, Dirt, Fluffhead, Also Sprach Zarathustra > Tweezer > Show of Life, You Enjoy Myself


Encore: I Been Around, Quinn the Eskimo > Tweezer Reprise

A few videos from the night

Phish Setlist 10/15/2010 North Charleston, SC

SET ONE: Punch You In The Eye, Possum, Bathtub Gin, Bill Bailey*, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Destiny Unbound, Backward Down The Number Line, Bouncing Around The Room, Stash, Joy, Buffalo Bill, Dog Faced Boy, Run Like An Antelope

SET TWO: Down With Disease > Prince Caspian > Twist, Roses Are Free > My Friend, My Friend > My Problem Right There, Tube, Mike's Song > The Horse > Silent In The Morning, Mexican Cousin, Weekapaug Groove, Suzy Greenberg, Slave To The Traffic Light

ENCORE: Character Zero

Notes:
* w/ Jack McConnell
** Oddly enough, this show did not sell out

Jack McConnell onstage with his son and bandmates

Phish 10/12/2010: Broomfield, CO

Set 1: Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Time Turns Elastic, Meat*, The Divided Sky, Timber (Jerry), On Your Way Down, Heavy Things, Sugar Shack, 46 Days

Set 2: Carini** > David Bowie, Light, Theme From the Bottom > Free > Joy, Halfway to the Moon, Bug, Summer of '89, Split Open and Melt

Encore: Meatstick***

Notes:
* Meat (2nd time played since 2003) was likely played in response to the sign that an audience member had that displayed a raw T-bone steak & the word 'Meat' on it
** Carini ended with a jam & included several Harpua teases by Trey.
** Trey & Mike did a good job of messing up the Meatstick dance Also, after the band finished Meatstick, the audience continued the song and dance for 8 or more choruses.

Watch the Meatstick from 10/12/2010

PS: If anyone has a picture of that 'Meat' sign, please post it!

Phish 10/11/2010: Broomfield, CO

Set 1: Runaway Jim, Foam, Back on the Train, Wolfman's Brother, Reba, Halley's Comet, Tweezer, What Things Seem*, The Squirming Coil, Run Like an Antelope**

Set 2: Golden Age > Piper -> Camel Walk, Alaska, Gotta Jibboo, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Twist, Fluffhead > Backwards Down the Number Line

Encore: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise

Notes: What Things Seem is a song off of Mike Gordon's new album and was played by Phish for the 1st time, Antelope included a 'Marco Polo' call and response

The 1st Bank Center is proving to be a great place to go Phishin'

Phish 10/10/2010: Broomfield, CO

Set 1: Chalkdust Torture, Ocelot, It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Funky Bitch, AC/DC Bag, NICU, The Moma Dance, Horn, Stash, Golgi Apparatus

Set 2: Mike's Song > Simple > Ghost > Weekapaug Groove, Fee > Makisupa Policeman, My Problem Right There > Makisupa Policeman > Slave to the Traffic Light, Strange Design > Julius

Encore: Loving Cup

Phish getting the Fall Tour started in Colorado!

Holy heck that was a killer show! Second set was beyond top notch. Trey really seemed to be in a goofy mood. For proof, give this Makisupa a listen! Speaking of listening- if you have a ticket stub to this show (or any of the shows this tour actually), make sure you head over to LivePhish and redeem your free (but really you paid for it) MP3 copy of the show!

Phish flooded the 1stBank Center with its uniquely explosive, animated jam nuggets Sunday night, thrilling the sold-out arena with yet another feast for Colorado.

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With the spotlight spread evenly across the quartet, Phish tunneled into its funkiest realms Sunday night. Guitarist Trey Anastasio set the pace early with rambling, off-piste turns inside "Ocelet," a number from the band's most recent album, "Joy," which was released last year.

Keyboardist Page McConnell's crooning on the semi-rare "It's Ice," exemplified the newest version of the 27-year-old band, in which each musician plays a defining role.

Bassist Mike Gordon fueled a diversion in the middle of the first set, veering from hisdeep-end finish on "Bouncing Around the Room" into a supremely funky "Funky Bitch."

As McConnell shuffled from grand piano to his Leslie-speakered Hammond B organ, Gordon drove into a deeply anchored and syrupy "AC/DC Bag."

The dance-friendly "Moma Dance" propelled the venue into a writhing frenzy. Lightman Chris Koruda, truly the fifth member of Phish, splashed the whirling mass as if he were a paint-flinging Jackson Pollock and the room his cavorting canvas.

Weaving an up-and-down story line rife with tickling teases and taunts, the Vermont-spawned foursome launched their fall tour with an anticipated first-of-three show that marked their first indoor performance in the state since 2003.

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The Boys Drop In At the Fourmile Benefit Concert

Trey and Mike played an acoustic set at the Fourmile Benefit concert in Broomfield, CO 10/09/2010

Setlist: Back On the Train, Water in the Sky, Sample in a Jar, Train Song, Waste, Possum, My Friend My Friend, Wilson, Bathtub Gin

This set was highly anticipated due to the rumors circulating all night that the guys from Phish were going to play a few tracks together. The acoustic duo set was perfect for this setting!!

Big Red sat in with The String Cheese Incident 10/09/10

Other Phishy happenings at this show included Page sitting in with Leftover Salmon for their song 'Mama Boulet' and remained on stage for the Del McCoury cover 'High On a Mountain'. John Fishman joined his friends in Yonder Mountain String Band for a couple of tracks, including a great cover of the Talking Heads song 'Girlfriend Is Better'. The last Phish sighting of the night came during the set by Colorado's own String Cheese Incident when Trey joined the jam juggernaut for Joe Walsh's 'Rocky Mountain Way' and Cheese's own 'Outside Inside'!

Coral Sky DVD >

On November 2nd, 1996, Phish performed at Coral Sky Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, FL; the only outdoor shed show of the Fall Tour. On October 19th, JEMP Records will release Coral Sky, a brand new 2-DVD set capturing the complete performance. The show combined the residual energy of Halloween with a tropical feel that could only have happened in South Florida in November. Amidst swaying palms and soft breezes, the band played a deeply experimental show. They were joined by percussionist Karl Perazzo (Santana), whose contribution helped extend and build upon the magic of Halloween, adding polyrhythms that explored new space within Phish's music. Allman Brothers Band drummer, Butch Trucks, furthur upped the percussion coefficient by sitting in on drums for the Encore.

Often cited as a fan favorite, the epicenter of the show was a pairing of Crosseyed And Painless > Run Like An Antelope. Coral Sky showcases the thrilling genesis of a more rhythmic, textured style of group improvisation and conveys the band and crowd's shared excitement about the breakthrough. This 2-DVD set features more than 2 1/2 hours of footage with 5.1 Dolby Surround or optional PCM Stereo sound audio, mixed from multi-track masters.

Coral Sky is available for pre-order now at Phish Dry Goods, along with a soundtrack companion CD (which will not be in stores, but available exclusively at Dry Goods)

CORAL SKY DVD

Disc One
1. Ya Mar
2. Julius
3. Fee
4. Taste
5. Cavern
6. Stash
7. The Lizards
8. Free
9. Johnny B. Goode

Disc Two
1. Crosseyed And Painless
2. Run Like An Antelope
3. Waste
4. Harry Hood
5. A Day In The Life
6. Sweet Adeline
7. Funky Bitch

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Announcing Mike Gordon 'Moss'

We're thrilled to announce Mike's return to the road with his band for a 17-date headlining club tour in support of his new studio album, Moss (in stores October 19th and available for pre-order now).
The tour offers up some West Coast dates, beginning November 6th in West Hollywood, CA and continues Over the River and through the Woods, straight past Thanksgiving, ending in Boston, MA on the 27th. Along the way, the band returns to Boulder, Seattle, Omaha, Chicago, Madison, and Portland, amongst others. We're excited for first time visits to Salt Lake City, Syracuse, and Covington.

Buy Mike Gordon's Moss On Vinyl
Download MP3s of Mike Gordon's Moss

Mike Gordon November Tour >

We're thrilled to announce Mike's return to the road with his band for a 17-date headlining club tour in support of his new studio album, Moss (in stores October 19th and available for pre-order now).

The tour offers up some West Coast dates, beginning November 6th in West Hollywood, CA and continues Over the River and through the Woods, straight past Thanksgiving, ending in Boston, MA on the 27th. Along the way, the band returns to Boulder, Seattle, Omaha, Chicago, Madison, and Portland, amongst others. We're excited for first time visits to Salt Lake City, Syracuse, and Covington. More...

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Phish NYE New Years Eve Tour Dates

At the end of December, Phish returns to the road for a five-show Holiday/NYE Run, beginning with two nights in Worcester and ending with three nights at Madison Square Garden in New York. Not only will the New York City run include a three-set New Year's Eve show, but for the first time in Phish History, the band will perform on January 1st.

PHISH NEW YEAR'S RUN 2010-2011

12/27 DCU Center, Worcester, MA
12/28 DCU Center, Worcester, MA
12/30 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
12/31 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
01/01 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

Machine Gun Trey Will Slay You This Coming NYE!

A limited number of tickets for all five shows are available directly through Phish Tickets’ online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/ . The ticket request period is currently underway and will end Saturday, October 2nd at Noon EST. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Saturday, October 9th at Noon EST (for MSG) and Sunday, October 10th at 10:00am EST (for Worcester).

As with Phish's Fall Tour, included in the ticket price for each specific date, is a free MP3 download of the entire show (a fully mixed soundboard recording), redeemable at LivePhish.com, often within an hour of the band stepping off stage.

For complete ticketing information, please click here.

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