Tuesday 10/01/2024 by Icculus

Phish Announces Msg Nye Run, Dec. 28 - 31

PHISH has announced that they'll perform four shows at Madison Square Garden beginning Saturday, December 28, through Tuesday, December 31.The Phish Tickets request period is underway and will run until noon e.t. on Monday, October 7. The general public onsale is Friday, October 11, at noon e.t.  A limited number of travel packages (hotel + tickets) will go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, October 2, at noon e.t. at https://phishnye.100xhospitality.com. For complete ticketing information, visit https://phish.com/tours.

Monday 09/30/2024 by phishnet

HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY, TREY!

Feeling grateful for Trey's sobriety and decades of generosity, including the Beacon Jams during a tremendously difficult time for the world four years ago?

Please consider celebrating Trey's life by donating in his honor in any amount that you can to the Divided Sky Foundation, the WaterWheel Foundation, or The Mockingbird Foundation, three charities that Trey cares greatly about and that he and Phish routinely support.

We love you, Trey!

© 2024 PHISH (Alive Coverage)
© 2024 PHISH (Alive Coverage)

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Monday 09/23/2024 by phishnet

PHISH STUDIES 101 WEBINAR ALMOST HERE!

Thanks to Jnan Blau (@thephunkydrb) for this exciting update!]

Greetings, phans and phellow phreaks! Your attention, please... Phish Studies 101 is now officially ready to go. A lecture series by and for Phish nerds across the Phishiverse. A webinar series that will absolutely scratch your itch to love and appreciate Phish even more, experience and understand the band, the experience, and the culture ever more deeply.

Phish Studies 101, the three-part webinar series that will probably change your life, is upcoming in October, is super exciting and thought-provoking, and is ready for you to register. For more information on Phish Studies 101, see this recent blog post from the recent past, as seen right here on our beloved Phish Dot Net. There, you will find a full write-up of what this wonderful Phish Studies 101 affair is all about, the backstory, what you stand to learn, how your life will change, etcetera.

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Thursday 09/19/2024 by phishnet

FROM THE FORUM 2: "MIKE'S SONG" IN LATE '92 AND "WEEKAPAUG GROOVE" IN EARLY '93

[“From the Forum” is a running blog feature that highlights quality posts from the Phish.net forum to share more broadly. This edition was originally posted by @Flubhead on July 13, 2024. If you would like to listen along to the versions of songs mentioned in this blog post, open the accompanying playlist on phish.in. -Ed.]

The long and rollicking history of the Mike's Groove suite is full of ups, downs, peaks, valleys, and a whole lot of repetition. The first “Mike's Song” that we know of happened on 5/3/1985 at UVM. An auspicious thing, to be born around the same time as the band itself - 5/3/1985 is only the sixth show that we have a recording of. [While the official debut of “Mike’s Song” is listed as 3/16/85, and there is also a version listed in setlists before THAT from 2/1/85, which may be a misidentified tape of 2/3/86, 5/3/85 is indeed the first “Mike’s” that we have on tape.” -Ed.]

The first “I Am Hydrogen” that we have a recording of would appear on 10/15/86 at Hunt's in Burlington. The first performance that we know of was on 4/6/1985, but there's no extant recording of this show as of July 2024. Did its debut predate the actual debut of "Mike's Song"? Another mystery from the early days... It wasn't attached to "Mike's Song" at first. That would happen on 8/29/1987 at The Ranch in Burlington. The first “Hydrogens” seemed to be searching for an appropriate placement in their sets, but it most often preceded the nascent “Who Do? We Do?,” which itself was searching for its appropriate placement.

Weekapaug Groove, the last piece of the M>I>W puzzle, debuted (we think!) on 7/23/88 at Pete’s Phabulous Phish Phest. “Weekapaug” was preceded by “Hydrogen” in its debut performance; no other song would precede it until 1992, when on 5/14/92 in Port Chester, they played the trifle “Wait” before “Weekapaug.” Clearly weird things were afoot in spring 1992, but dropping “Hydrogen” in favor of some other song preceding “Weekapaug” in the Mike’s Groove suite wouldn’t really begin in earnest until 1993.

© 1993 Phish
© 1993 Phish

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Thursday 09/19/2024 by Lemuria

Sabotage Shirts & Collage Auction

sabotage shirtTwo amazing and anonymous supporters of the Mockingbird Foundation have contributed interesting and compelling art to help fund music education for children.

One began making a “Sabotage” design some time ago, hoping that the band would play it again. Originally with The Hampton Coliseum, the design has been updated with a Dick’s option, celebrating that recent bustout. There are tumbler, t-shirt, sweatshirt, and hoodie options. The shirts are printed on Comfort Colors, and the sweatshirts on Champion. All proceeds will go directly to Mockingbird.

A second has put up a gorgeous Dolan Geiman collage of a mockingbird for auction on Ebay, with all proceeds going directly to Mockingbird. Geiman's works sell for as much as $18K. This is not only gorgeous; it's a steal! Please bid big and generously, and help us increase the percentage of grant inquiries that we are able to fund!

The Mockingbird Foundation is an all-volunteer 501c3 non-profit created and run entirely by fans of the band Phish. We have distributed more than 700 grants nationwide (all 50 states!) totaling more than $2.5M, thanks to the generous support of fans of Phish, music, and music education.

Sunday 09/15/2024 by phishnet

SUMMER TOUR 2024 REPRISE

[We would like to thank @LizardwithaZ and @OrangeSox for contributing this to the blog. - Ed.]

It’s usually difficult to see the exact trajectory of a tour happening in real time. Some may make statements early-on about it being the “best tour since ______” or any other number of superlatives, often rooted in the bias of recency, especially when mixed with the potent fuel of attendance. On the other hand, one might claim it’s been subpar, with not enough bustouts, predictable setlists, or “the band is playing “Evolve” too much!”

Summer 2024 definitely falls into the previous category, with general acclaim and consistent superlatives. Building on an already exciting year–the band’s improbable 40th–following a Gamehendge spectacle for New Year’s, the most exciting Mexico run yet, the band’s first visit to Sphere in April, a new album before summer tour, and more media exposure than in years, it all challenges the view that in “even years” Phish is somehow less awesome than in odd numbered years.

Since the dust has settled, can we get a better sense of the tour as a whole? The hills and valleys become more clearly identifiable. We see the tight rotation of songs around solid setlist construction, a wide variety of jams that shone through but others that depended on what seemed like I-IV tropes, the individual band members’ influences and contributions, and a million little things in between.

2024 Graphic by @LizardwithaZ
2024 Graphic by @LizardwithaZ

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Wednesday 09/11/2024 by Icculus

Phish To Perform Benefit Shows For The Divided Sky Foundation In Albany On October 25-26-27

PHISH will perform its only shows this fall at MVP Arena in Albany, NY, on October 25, 26, and 27, with net proceeds from all concert and merch sales benefiting the Divided Sky Foundation and its Residential Recovery Program at its newly opened facility in Ludlow, VT. The ticket request period is underway now at https://tickets.phish.com and will end on Monday, September 16 at Noon ET. There will also be a pre-show event for the Divided Sky Foundation hosted by the WaterWheel Foundation before the Saturday October 26 show. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, September 20 at 10AM ET. For more information, visit Phish.com, and for more information about the Divided Sky Foundation's Residential Recovery program, conceived of and founded by Trey Anastasio and program director Melanie Gulde, please visit dividedsky.org.

Saturday 09/07/2024 by Lemuria

THE FIRST AND LAST WORDS FROM DICK'S

The 9th Annual Runaway Open (8/31 in Denver) featured a lyrics contest on the sponsor signs, continuing a pattern we started with the 8th. This year, that same bottom-right corner of the signs had the date of a previous Dick's show and either "first" or "last", referring to the first or last word that Phish sang at each of those shows. Those words, in hole order, made a sentence - and the first golfer to text me the sentence during the tournament, won $75 in pro shop credit. Only one participated - could you be the second to solve it?

And, yes, 15 sponsor signs on 18 holes. Hole #2 was challenges from a Backswing pro, Hole #10 was an optional hole-in-one contest ($10 entry, $10,000 prize), and Hole #17 was the closest-to-pin contest. A full wrap-up on those events, and all tournament results, is coming next week...

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Friday 09/06/2024 by phishnet

PHISH STUDIES 101 IS COMING!

Thanks to Jnan Blau (@thephunkydrb) for this exciting news!]

This, dear reader, is obviously a blog post on our beloved Dot Net. But it is also more than that. This here is also a heads-up, as well as a bit of an enjoinder. Maybe this is also a touch of a plea. It is certainly hoping to function as a woo-ing (not during-a-jam wooing, no no!) — you know, as in to woo (v.) someone. Most assuredly, this is an enthusiastic and genuine invitation to you, my fellow phans.

Indeed, I come bearing what is exciting news about something that maybe should be on your radar and that, it is hoped, will be of interest to many of you.

This writing comes to you on behalf of Phish Studies. Some of you have perhaps heard of us, and of the events we have been putting on the last several years. The first one was on the campgrounds of The Gorge in 2018; the last one happened this past spring. In a nutshell, gatherings of folks who are scholars/academics who turn their keen eyes and ears — and even keener minds and hearts — to unpacking and analyzing and theorizing and deeply appreciating this phenomenon we know as Phish and phandom. Maybe you caught wind of our most recent event, the second official, interdisciplinary Phish Studies Conference, held in May of this year at Oregon State University?

Before I get to the concrete news and invite, allow me to set the stage just a bit more...

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Monday 09/02/2024 by zzyzx

DICK'S4 RECAP: SO LONG SUMMER 2024 AND THANKS FOR ALL THE PHISH

[We would like to thank David “Zzyzx” Steinberg (@zzyzx) for recapping last night's show. If you like this kind of writing you can find more on The Phish Stats Facebook Page, Twitter (mainly for Phish content), and Bluesky (much more present and engaged in conversation). -Ed.]

9/1/24 was Phish’s 42nd time playing Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Only three venues – Madison Square Garden, Nectar’s, and The Front – have reached that status. For fans of science fiction, that is a bit of a sacred number. In Douglas Adams’ humorous The Hitchhiker’s Gude to the Galaxy, a massive computer is built to discover the answer to the ultimate question: that of life, the universe, and everything. It was a tricky one that took millions of years and when the distant descendants of the programmers and philosophers who created Deep Thought finally got the information, it turned out that the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything is – well – 42. You see, it’s that no one really quite knows what the question is. Oh, sorry, spoilers for a 45-year-old book. Oops!

© 2024 Charlie Miller
© 2024 Charlie Miller

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Sunday 09/01/2024 by phishnet

DICK'S3 RECAP: MUSIC FOR MONSTERS AND TADPOLES

[We would like to thank Rob (@mikh2wg) for recapping last night's show. -Ed.]

So far, this has been a pretty good vacation. My friend and I got into Denver on Friday. We hadn’t planned it, but our flights landed within 30mins of each other. We pulled into the first taco place we spotted, and it was wonderful. The hotel had our room ready when we got there. We saw a pretty damn good Phish show Friday night. A great start to the trip. My friend recently adopted a four year old and I have had a lot of stress at work so far this year, so we were both ready to relax. We started off Saturday with a hike at Lair O’ the Bear.

It was an easy walk, with the biggest incline coming from the parking lot. There were beautiful views and a babbling creek. Lots of time to look out at nature and muse about all the people who have lived and worked in these hills before us. On the way home, we spotted a sign for something called Dinosaur Ridge so we checked that out too. They had a bunch of dino tracks and some cool rock formations. The brontosaurus bulges were our favorites. Then it was back to the hotel to enjoy a few hours of rest and relaxation before lot dinner and showtime. At this point, I may have blissed out too much on nature and hot tubs to bring an entirely objective eye to Dicks’ Night 3, but I will do my best. I take my responsibility to dot net very seriously.

© 2024 Charlie Miller
© 2024 Charlie Miller

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Saturday 08/31/2024 by phishnet

DICK'S2 RECAP: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VISION, VIBES, AND DESIRES?

[We would like to thank Steve Plock (@howiep) aka @steve81573937, drummer for The Curls , and manager of the world famous iO Theater in Chicago, and Justin Mercer @piperpiperworm for recapping last night's show. -Ed.]

In a year of Phish already marked by so many monumental events and runs, it’s natural for anyone coming to Colorado this weekend to wonder how the band is going to treat these final four shows of summer tour.

2024 came off the heels of the band’s first full Gamehendge performance in 24 years, then came the Mexico run that showed the band stretching out to new lengths in their jams, a hint of things to come later in the year. In April, Phish took the Sphere for a four night run that makes the Dead and Co subsequent performances look like Cocomelon for hippies, and the last two months have seen some of the longest and most exploratory jamming from the band in their entire history, culminating in their first festival in 9 years.

There isn’t much to say about Mondegreen that hasn’t been said in other reviews here, so I’ll only add that as we drove home from Delaware back to Chicago for 13 hours, I couldn’t help but wonder how Dick’s was going to feel as the coda on a year filled with so many milestones and highly memorable moments.

© 2024 Charlie Miller
© 2024 Charlie Miller

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Friday 08/30/2024 by phishnet

DICK'S1 RECAP: THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING DICK'S

[We would like to thank Josh Cohron (@cohron1) aka @JoshCohron for recapping last night's show. -Ed.]

When a band has been around for as long as Phish has and has created the devoted following they have, expectations are naturally going to arise. The fanbase has little idea how much our expectations are felt by the band. When there is a collective disappointment or unrest among Phish fans, does Phish know?

This question was on my mind as I traveled out for the show. With the abrupt, confusing ending to Mondegreen eleven days prior, would the band want to come out firing in their first show since? Did they even need to, given what happened seemed out of their control?

© 2024 Charlie Miller
© 2024 Charlie Miller

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Monday 08/26/2024 by Lemuria

Runaway Open In 4 Days!

We're approaching the 9th Annual Runaway Open charity golf tournament for Phish fans in Denver. There are still spaces, but please register soon! If you won't be in Denver and/or don't golf, please share this link with anyone who will be and/or does: mbird.org/9RO. We want a full course of fans, swingin' sticks and raising funds for music education.

To whet your whistles, here's the info sheet that will go in each player's schwag bag (which will also include a 4'x4' Runaway Open picnic blanket, a 42" collapsible Runaway Open umbrella, and a host of prizes donated by our sponsors):

Wednesday 08/21/2024 by Lemuria

Summer Tour Grants, Inc. Our 700th!

In celebration of Phish's 23-show summer tour, the all-volunteer and fan-run Mockingbird Foundation has announced that it is sending an unsolicited $2,000 Tour Grant each to nine music education programs, one near each venue on the tour. This group of $18,000 grants includes the 700th grant by Mockingbird and is Mockingbird's 28th round of unsolicited Tour Grants, an effort that now totals $288,000, 11% of all disbursements made by the Foundation. These grants are part of a long-standing effort to help support music education in the local communities that Phish touches.

We appreciate your support that has made these grants possible - individual donations, auction bids, poster purchases, registration for our three upcoming golf events over the Dick's weekend, and so much more. As always, Mockingbird remains all-volunteer, with no office, no salaries, and no staff, and can only do what we do because other fans pitch in and participate. If you haven't recently, please consider donating today.

Tuesday 08/13/2024 by Lemuria

Mockingbird @ Mondegreen

Come say hi at the Mondegreen festival in Deleware! On Friday, Aug 16, we'll be at the Surrender to the Flow (@STTFlowMagazine) pod from 1-4pm, making Fan Art together. We’ll also have our shiny new poster by @young.lungs available by donation.

Not going to the fest but still want a poster? Don't want to worry about keeping it safe in your tent? Order online today: store.mbird.org

Sunday 08/04/2024 by Lemuria

Last Day Of Auction!

The Mockingbird Foundation's second online charity auction closes today at 6pm pdt, making this the last day to bid on scores of offerings. Plan ahead for birthdays, anniversaries, and Christmas. Make a Phish fan in your life super happy, and help us raise funds for music education, with a Mockingbird/Phish.net package in their size, some stocking-stuffer golf gifts, or one of 35 trips...

Proceeds benefit music education for children through the all-volunteer nonprofit Mockingbird Foundation, created and managed entirely by volunteer Phish fans since 1997. With no salaries, staff, or office, we've funded 693 grants totaling more than $2.5M, including our 29th round of competitive grants announced just last week and a string of Tour Grants coming all summer long. We appreciate your support in funding as many as we can.

Sunday 07/21/2024 by Lemuria

Mockingbird Charity Auction Launched

The Mockingbird Foundation has launched its second online charity auction, featuring dozens of limited-quantity items that will be of interest to almost any Phish fan, family member, and/or friend:

The auction is now open and remains open for two weeks. Proceeds benefit music education for children through the all-volunteer nonprofit Mockingbird Foundation, created and managed entirely by volunteer Phish fans since 1997. With no salaries, staff, or office, we've funded 693 grants totaling more than $2.5M, including our 29th round of competitive grants announced just last week and a string of Tour Grants coming all summer long. We appreciate your support in funding as many as we can.

Thursday 07/04/2024 by Lemuria

Brewery Benefit W/ Bubala, Sun 9/1

Music is a Language & The Mockingbird Foundation present a benefit concert @ Four Noses Brewery in Park Hill, Sunday 9/1/24, 12-4p, to support music education and local music. This pre-Phish party, early afternoon of the fourth Dick’s show, will feature Bubala (12-1 and 3-4) and an after-school youth band from Musical Life Denver (130-230).

Friday 06/21/2024 by Lemuria

Mockingbird Tops $2.5m, W/ 29th Round Of Grants

A nonprofit founded and run by Phish fans on an entirely volunteer basis has announced nineteen (19) new grants totaling $140,900. The Mockingbird Foundation has now disbursed 693 grants totaling more than $2.5M to support music education, of which more than $2M has been through the foundation's two-tiered competitive grants process. Mockingbird’s 29th round of competitive grants includes support for schools, community centers, and non-profit organizations in 13 states: AZ, CA, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, MD, NJ, NY, PA, TN, & TX. Complete details are now available at mbird.org/2024/06/round29grants/



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