Setlist: 05/31/11 Holmdel, NJ

Set 1: Chalkdust Torture, Roggae, Punch You In The Eye, The Moma Dance, Rock & Roll, Sand, Tube, Divided Sky, Character Zero

Set 2: After Midnight, Possum, Drowned, Maze, Dirt, Alaska, You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Fire

Notes: Trey dedicated Sand to "Max." Fire contained alternate lyrics "move on over, let Cactus take over!"

Setlist: 05/29/11 Bethel, NY

Set 1: AC/DC Bag, Sample In A Jar, Rift, Ocelot, Ya Mar, Timber, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony, Suzy Greenberg, 46 Days, Twenty Years Later, The Ballad Of Curtis Loew, Run Like An Antelope

Set 2: Mikes Song > Simple > Weekapaug Groove, Meatstick > Fluffhead, Joy, 2001 > Light, Slave To The Traffic Light

Encore: Loving Cup, Tweezer Reprise

Trey and Mike check up on the Bethel crowd during setbreak. Creepers....

Setlist: 5/28/11 Bethel, NY

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Set 1: Theme From the Bottom, NICU, Cities, Halley's Comet, Runaway Jim, Gumbo, Quinn the Eskimo, Limb by Limb, Horn, Bathtub Gin*


Set 2: Down With Disease, Free, Backwards Down the Number Line, Makisupa Policeman, Harry Hood, Cavern, David Bowie

Encore: A Day in the Life

Note:* Included heavy Manteca teasing

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Setlist: 5/27/11 Bethel, NY

Set 1: Tweezer, My Friend/My Friend, Poor Heart, Roses Are Free, Funky Bitch, Wolfman's Brother, Walk Away, Stash, Bouncing Around The Room, Kill Devil Falls, Bold as Love

Set 2: Carini, Back on the Train, Boogie on Reggae Women, Waves, Prince Caspian, Cross-eyed and Painless, Wading In The Velvet Sea, Possum, The Squirming Coil

Encore: Julius

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Mike Gordon Gets Lost Backstage At Bethel Woods

Phish bassist, Mike Gordon, contemplates where he needs to go while backstage before tonight's gig.

Bethel Couple Cancel Event- Fans Left With No Where To Go

No Parking signs lined the driveway leading to home of Roy Howard and Jeryl Abramson on Thursday, May 26, 2011. The couple has cancelled their plans to have people camp on their property during the weekend, which features three Phish shows at nearby Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Roy Howard and Jeryl Abramson have decided to cancel their planned event and turn away potentially thousands of people planning to camp this weekend on their Yasgur Farm property during the three-day Phish concert at nearby Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Abramson said the couple can not risk additional fines from the town. The town of Bethel has fined them $25,000 alledging they violated a 2007 injunction by advertising the event, and issued four violations for illegal camping already.

“I can't do this,” Abramson said. “We can't afford paying the violations. We have received four already and that is just the beginning. They are going to nail us to the cross.”

Abramson said the couple began turning people away this morning and have canceled all their provisions for sanitation and security. They had charged $50 a ticket and scheduled more than dozen bands.

The couple, who hosted large Woodstock reunions until ordered to stop in 2007, have insisted that they were merely attempting to provide the town with a service. They obtained five temporary camping permits that allowed a maximum of 250 people.

There will be more than 17,000 people in Bethel over the weekend. Abramson said she will soon post information on the Internet with a statement to people who booked with them.

“I am telling people to call the town,” Abramson said. “Surely, they must have a backup plan. The people will be coming out of the concert on LSD and Ecstasy and getting on public roads. What is the plan?”

Abramson said that she has a person stationed outside their property turning people away.

“It seems we have become a pawn between Jeryl and the town,” said one fan, who paid $50 to camp at Roy and Jeryl's this weekend. He said he didn't know where to go and assumed all the campgrounds were booked.

“I just want a place to camp,” he said.

Win a Custom Phish Super Ball IX Camper

HippieShop.com is customizing a 1972 Shasta Compact Camper and giving it away on Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 at Super Ball Festival IX.

This cool compact camper is fun and easy to tow. It has two beds a sink, refrigerator, stove-top and oven. Updated original interior, with custom SUPER BALL IX paint job.

The Shasta Trailer Company started out in 1941 by building mobile home trailers for the US Armed Forces in Los Angeles, California. The boom in mobile homes and travel trailers was in full swing and the public couldn't get enough of the Shasta brand. The distinctive wings were added to the Shasta line in the late 50's and continued on the trailers and even some motorhomes until the early 80's. During this time, the Shasta brand was the best selling trailer brand in the US. That is why, after all this time, “Vintage” Shastas are still so popular.

The Shasta brand seems to have disappeared with no goodbye and no fanfare. Not really a fitting end to such an amazing part of American history. Until it's disappearance, Shasta had been the longest continuous producer of trailers in the United States.

All profits from this raffle will benefit the various charities of phish's waterwheel foundation. You don't need to be present to win.

Raffle tickets are $10. Buy them here.

***You can not buy these raffle tickets anywhere else. This is a Hippie Shop LLC exclusive offer.  This raffle is being held with permission from Phish Inc. and The Waterwheel Foundation. Only 1,000 tickets will be printed.***VW bug not included.

Bethel couple challenge $25,000 fine for Phish weekend concert

Roy Howard and Jeryl Abramson are challenging a $25,000 fine for advertising a planned concert and mass gathering on their property during the Phish concert this Memorial Day weekend.

Bethel fined the couple on grounds they’re prohibited by a 2007 consent order from holding concerts on their property – the former Yasgur Farm - or even advertising the events.

The town says they automatically violated the consent order by posting notices and selling tickets for an event with more than a dozen bands, vendors and parking for up to 1,300 cars.

Abramson referred questions about the fine to her attorney but said the couple do plan to proceed as advertised. More than 17,000 people are expected to be in Bethel each day for the concerts.

“Bethel Woods invited the people here, not Roy,” Abramson said.

The couple have five temporary camping permits but the town’s position is this entitles them to have a maximum of 250 campers, no vendors or live music.

Howard signed a consent order that specifically bans the couple from holding concerts without the town’s permission.

“There have been no violations of the court order,” said Kingston attorney Russell Schindler, who filed papers in Supreme Court.

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Schindler said if the couple has live music, this also will not violate the consent order.

“They have camping permits,” Schindler said. “Providing music and drum circles is incidental to camping. Camping involves sitting around the campfire and singing and telling stories. Music is consistent with camping.”

Roy and Jeryl own Max Yasgur’s former homestead about three miles from Bethel Woods, the site of the 1969 concert. They fought with the town and neighbors for 10 years until 2007 over large Woodstock reunions. The town’s code enforcement officer has already issued two violations for illegal camping on grounds that people were camping there before the permitted window for camping. Schindler said those tickets are bogus.

“There is nobody at the property,” Schindler said.

Schindler said Roy and Jeryl were baited into obtaining camping permits so the town could extract $25,000.

“The town is doing something strange,” Schindler said. “It appears to me that the town has essentially set them up by issuing the camping permit to prosecute them. This was a way for them, in my opinion, to come after Roy and Jeryl in a way that wasn’t fair.”

Supervisor Dan Sturm said the town will pursue the $25,000 fine and additional fines should the couple follow through with the advertised event.

“The law breakers had an opportunity to pay the fine, be good neighbors or go to court,” Sturm said. “To us it is a clear violation of the consent order…Roy and Jeryl are not allowed to have a concert, a gathering, a reunion or any other similar event.”

Bethel is allowing another business, the Dancing Cat Saloon, to build a temporary stage and have bands over the weekend. Sturm said the Dancing Cat is a legitimate business already holding live music inside the bar and restaurant. Roy and Jeryl could have sought a permit for a temporary stage, but chose not to.

“They could have come and tried to follow the process properly,” Sturm said. “They would get a fair shake with the town if they would do it the right way.”

School lets out for upcoming Phish concerts

Phish gets the blame for closed Sullivan County’s largest school district.

Monticello schools have decided to close Thursday and Friday – the Friday date specifically to avoid problems on 17B when throngs of people are anticipated for a three-day Phish festival at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

“We have kids in Bethel and we have lots of teachers and staff,” Interim Superintendent Ed Rhine said. “We would have been adding to the problem.”

Rhine said that the district was contractually obligated to return two snow days and the Friday seemed like an obvious choice.

County officials are predicting at least 17,000 people at the concerts and potentially thousands more during the Memorial Day weekend.

He said he met with the county and town officials, who are predicting heavy traffic beginning Friday.

Rhine said the unions had no problem taking the days off.

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Live Bait Vol. 4 Available For Free Download

Live Bait Vol. 04  is available for free MP3 download as was compiled by Phish Archivist Kevin Shapiro during the month of May in the year of 2011. All tracks are previously unreleased via Phish's Live Phish service.

--- TRACK LISTING ---
1. Scent Of A Mule
(1996-06-06 Joyous Lake - Woodstock, NY) (12:05)
2. You Enjoy Myself
(1999-07-15 PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, NJ) (25:00)
3. The Landlady > Tweezer
(1993-08-12 Meadow Brook Music Festival - Rochester Hills, MI) (16:27)
4. Mike's Song > Contact > Weekapaug Groove
(1995-06-20 Blossom Music Center - Cuyahoga Falls, OH) (36:47)
5. Split Open And Melt
(1994-06-21 Cincinnati Music Hall - Cincinnati, OH) (15:10)
6. N02
(1999-07-13 Tweezer Center aka Great Woods - Mansfield, MA) (5:36)
7. My Friend My Friend > McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemansters
(1993-08-07 Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center - Darien Center, NY) (17:54)
8. Twist > Slave To The Traffic Light
(2000-07-04 E Centre - Camden, NJ) (29:50)
9. Free > What's The Use
(1999-07-09 Merriweather Post Pavilion - Columbia, MD) (19:27)
10. Axilla > My Sweet One > Run Like An Antelope
(1993-07-28 Grady Cole Center - Charlotte, NC) (17:38)
11. David Bowie > Catapult > David Bowie
(1994-06-29 Walnut Creek Amphitheater - Raleigh, NC) (13:12)
12. Divided Sky
(1997-08-02 Gorge Amphitheatre - George, WA) (15:28)

* All tracks recorded by Paul Languedoc
Download link here.


Previous live bait releases:

Phish Live Bait Vol 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/?8dvvwvwhfjxdg2x

Phish Live Bait Vol 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/?g1k5uocof3dcd2j

Phish Live Bait Vol 3:
http://www.livephish.com/music/0,...ol-03.html

Phish To Play Colorado Labor Day Weekend

Phish will be announcing a 2 3 night run in the Denver, Colorado metro area within the next 24 hours. The shows will take place over the Labor Day Weekend (Sometime between September 2nd - 5th). Local music scene insiders have confirmed that these much rumored shows are now official.

Rumored to be taking place at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, the site of the Mile High Music Festival, it seems as though Phish will be skipping out on using the famed Red Rocks as their destination venue. It will be interesting to see if this is true and if so, weather or not they will setup in the main soccer complex or out on the open fields (like they use as the Mile High Music Festival)



Updated 5/10 @ 8:12am  ITS OFFICIAL! 


Phish will close their 2011 Summer Tour with three consecutive nights at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, CO over Labor Day weekend (September 2, 3 and 4). Onsite camping will be available in the lush soccer fields adjacent to the stadium. Colorado was the site of Phish's first extended tour outside of the Northeast, and the band has enjoyed a special connection with the community ever since. These additional dates will be the last announced by the band for the Summer and Fall.

An online ticket request period is currently underway for the Dick's Sporting Goods Park shows at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/ and will conclude at noon ET on Monday, May 23. Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Saturday, June 4, at 10:00 AM MT.

Invite Only Meeting Reassures Watkins Glen Residents About Phish Festival

Schuyler County Sheriff William Yessman said Friday that's what he assured neighbors of Watkins Glen International on Thursday at a meeting designed to answer questions about the upcoming three-day music festival at the track.

In July 1973, Summer Jam drew more than 600,000 people to the track to hear The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers and The Band, earning the event a place in Guinness World Records as the largest outdoor concert ever held in the U.S.

On July 1-3, the band Phish will present Super Ball IX at WGI. Phish will be the sole performer at the three-day event.

Thursday's invitation-only meeting, attended by about 24 people, was important, Yessman said, to let the track's neighbors know how much is being done to make the Phish festival successful and safe for everyone.

Yessman said he told residents, uneasy due to experiences 38 years ago, that he, too, was not pleased when the idea of a music festival at WGI was brought up a year ago.

"Since then, we've done more planning on this event than any other event I've been involved with in my 26 years on the job," Yessman said Friday.

That planning included attending the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., last year to observe security operations and going to monthly meetings that brought together representatives of emergency services, law enforcement, WGI and the Phish promoters.



"I am extremely comfortable with this event. It's a good thing for the community. It's going to give us an economic impact that's positive," Yessman said.

Traffic flow is one of the top concerns among people living near the track.

With the exception of Kuhl-Winner Way, which goes through WGI property and affects no residents, all roads will remain open to two-way traffic.

Yessman said staging areas will be established to keep local traffic moving when vehicles are backed up to get onto the track property.

"If anyone's going to wait in traffic, it's going to be the people going to the festival. My obligation is not to WGI or to Phish. My obligation is to the local people," he said.

Ticket sales have been capped at 60,000.

"If we are able to get the 60,000, it's less than NASCAR," WGI President Michael Printup said Friday, noting that WGI is well-experienced in handling large crowds. Junta

Printup said he thought the meeting with neighbors went well and said more meetings may be held.

Mike Bilinski of Townsend said he appreciated the opportunity to learn about the planning that has gone into the Phish festival and to ask questions.Farmhouse

He said he likes knowing that a high number of security people, including undercover officers, will be on duty around-the-clock.

Safety issues are being stressed, too, with bans on campfires and grills and with limits on outside alcohol, Bilinski said.

"It sounds like they have it very well organized. I was pleased," said Bilinski, who won't be attending the festival, but does support it.

"The more money we can get into Schuyler County, the better. Everybody's going to benefit from this," he said.

Printup said the track continues to work on all of the necessary permitting processes for the event.

Last month, the Schuyler County Legislature agreed to be the lead agency in the required environmental reviews associated with the Phish festival, as well as the Finger Lakes Wine Festival and the NASCAR race in August at WGI.

The document filed by WGI contained about 400 pages, county officials said.

Tickets start at $200 and include admission for the entire weekend, as well as onsite camping. Some camping options are already sold out.

For festival ticket details, visit www.superballix.com.

Watch: David Bowie From Live In Utica DVD

Phish "David Bowie" - Live in Utica DVD from Phish on Vimeo.

On October 20th, 2010, Phish played their first ever show in Utica, NY in the heart of the Mohawk Valley. "Live In Utica", available for pre-order now from Phish Dry Goods and in stores on May 24, features the evening's complete performance on 2-DVDs and 2-CDs.

The nearly three hours of music in this DVD/CD set was recorded with 64 channels of digital multi-track and mixed and mastered, appearing on the DVDs in 5.1 Dolby surround and full-resolution, uncompressed PCM stereo. The video was shot with 8 cameras (16:9 widescreen), recorded and post-edited in High Definition. A new camera mounted at the front-of-house position accentuated the light show in a way never before featured on a live, indoor Phish DVD.

Phish Tunes Added To Rockband

With us foraying into May, we see the Rock Band library on its way to welcome more inclusions from the 80′s and 90′s era. Gamers can groove to tracks belted out by Culture Club, Loverboy, Phish, Faith No More and Stone Temple Pilots.

The array that is slated to release this week is expected to have a genre mix that comprises of alternative, metal and pop among others. Culture Club and Faith No More enters the terrain with ‘Do You Really Want to Hurt Me’ and ‘From Out of Nowhere’ respectively. Loverboy and Stone Temple Pilots individually bring forth tracks like ‘Working for the Weekend’ and ‘Big Bang Baby’, both of which include Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions. Another song that features the expansions is ‘Stash’ by Phish. This band also resounds into the Rock Band library with the track ‘Tweezer’.

Individual songs can be picked up for $1.99, £0.99, €1.49, 160 Microsoft Points and 200 Wii Points. Each track for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade is priced at $0.99, 100 Wii Points, 80 Microsoft Points, £0.59 and €0.79. The tracks can be purchased for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii tomorrow while European gamers can access these tracks a day later on the 4th of May.