The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestrasent the following email with important information for ticket-holders to Tuesday's performance by Trey Anastasio & PSO. Please take a second to check it out if you are attending!
We are looking forward to an amazing evening of music on Tuesday, February 14 at 7:30pm, as Trey joins the PSO at Heinz Hall. We encourage you to use this email as a guide if you are new to a classical music concert, Heinz Hall, or the Cultural District of Pittsburgh. Should you have a question that is not answered here, please refer to the FAQ page on our website.
PRE-CONCERT MUSIC! Arrive early, at 6:30pm, for live bluegrass in the Grand Lobby of Heinz Hall with Pittsburgh's Shelf Life String Band. Free to all ticket holders.
Anastasio has a rich history of orchestral performances spanning over a decade. Anastasio made his orchestral debut with the Vermont Youth Orchestra on February 2, 2001 in Troy, NY (reprised two nights later at The Flynn Theatre in Burlington), with Troy Peters conducting. This performance included two compositions by Trey’s mentor, the late Ernie Stires, “Chat Rooms” and “Samson Riffs.” The highlight of these shows was the orchestral debut of “Guyute” that reintegrated the song’s original elements that would – in the Phish repertoire – evolve as “My Friend, My Friend.” These performances were capped by renditions of “The Inlaw Josie Wales” with Trey on acoustic guitar.
Last year, we blogged about "The Spreadsheet" and talked a bit about Kevin's tireless and unrelenting quest to provide this invaluable tool to the fan community. Working selflessly & quietly, Kevin has continued to update & add to this amazing set of links including side shows. At some point last night, Kevin reports that the spreadsheet has surpassed the absolutely incredible goal of 1,000,000 downloads. All of that in less than three years. Stunning.
To give you an idea of how many downloads are done from the spreadsheet, and how many fans use it: As of Noon today, the download count was already up to 1,001,032.
Welcome to the Mystery Jam Monday LXXXV here at Phish.net. Let's hope this doesn't suck as much as watching the Giants win the Super Bowl. 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... unless you're a Giants fan.
Tuesday Hint: No hint needed this week.
Wednesday Answer: Congrats to Phish and Giants fan ghostboogie for guessing the 4/8/94 "It's Ice" (specifically, the "Digital Delay Loop Jam"). Gloat all you want but, any way you slice it, Eli Manning is still 0-for-85 at the Mystery Jam. See you all next Monday...
We've been remiss. Over the last six months or so we've highlighted some incredible videos on our weekly Video of the Week blog post. In so doing some of the most prolific YouTube uploaders have had their videos featured including HarpuaFSB, mkdevo, and Silverchair97. Another videographer that has some pretty stellar videos is telekinetica. Here is the amazing Down with Disease from 1995-06-26. While unfinished, this monster clocks in at over 20 minutes and rightfully gets highlighted on the Disease jamming chart. Check it out, and by all means, leave a thumbs up or a positive comment on the YouTube page of this vid. These guys selflessly film and upload so we can all enjoy.
Every Friday, we highlight a video with a brief recap of the show it is from and what makes it interesting, noteworthy or simply fun. With the help of Dan Saewitz from Phishvids.com, we hope to keep the stream of videos coming at you entertaining and interesting. Have a cool video you’d like to suggest? Interested in contributing a review yourself? Submit ideas here.
Matty and Caitlin are auctioning yet another beautiful Phish-related pin with 100% of the proceeds going to the Mockingbird Foundation. This one runs until the morning of Tuesday the 7th, and features a roadkill'd possum - the perfect Valentine's gift, perhaps?
The Trey/Tom composition “When” debuted with TAB on 7/11/01 in San Diego. A spooky song with Middle Eastern horns and an ominous guitar lick from Trey that sounds like Jason Voorhees approaching, the saxophone played in the first 4 minutes of “When” adds an eerie vibe to the beginning of the song, setting the stage for the interesting lyrics....
Welcome to the 84th running of the 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: No hint needed this week.
Wednesday Answer: Congrats to @FarginBastage (love the username, BTW) for (pretty much) ID'ing the 6/23/04 "Nothing." And thanks to everyone else for not trying to screw him out of it on a technicality. The Blog will be back on Monday with another Mystery Jam for your listening pleasure...
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.
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.’” ...
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....
Important Information: Trey with the PSO
