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Phish Strikes Olympic Gold?

Posted 2 years ago by Lemuria - 20 comments - Link: http://phi.sh/icipr

We're receiving daily reports of Phish "sightings" during NBC's coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, including:
  • Ocelot was played during trials for the ski jump on 12/26/09.
  • First Tube was used in the bump to a commercial about the upcoming bobsled competition on 2/20/10.
  • Tweezer Reprise (a good 3 minutes worth!) was the background music for the Ono speedskating segment  late on 2/20/10.
  • Kill Devil Falls (the version from Joy) was played over the PA at the Canada vs. USA men's hockey game 2/21/10, with about 15 seconds left in the first period. They played about 20 seconds of the chorus before the puck was dropped again.
  • Axilla (Part II) (from Hoist) was played with about 8 minutes left in the second period at the same game.
 
Thanks to Andrew Cogan, Christopher Herrick, Christopher Lusk, Jeremy Pinquist, and Shaun McGrath for these recent reports - and to Scott Bartmanm who some time ago reported that Piper was used in cuts to commercials at the Olympics four years ago!
 
Other recent sightings include Good Morning America on 12/27/09; Seven Below as background music on 93XRT in Chicago in December 2009, advertising an upcoming concert by another band; and an Albany, NY, sportstalk radio show (104.5 WTMM The Team's Sound off with Sinkoff) has used Sparkle and other Phish songs as background music while Alan Fish reads promos.
 
 

Comments

Posted by SloppyPhan on
SloppyPhanJust got another Kill Devil Falls during Gold Medal Hockey Game. Played at arena in between puck drops.
Score: 2
Posted by Lisa224 on
Lisa224Our local cable weather channel always plays Phish as their background music. I did catch the Ohno segment and had to replay it a few times to make sure I was hearing what I thought I was hearing.
Score: 1
Posted by outacontrolsmiler on
outacontrolsmilerA recording of "Possum" (not sure which) was played during the outtro to a commercial on Thursday night - during the ladie's figure skating - sounded like the end of the jam going into the last verse.
Score: 1
Posted by Kill_Bill on
Kill_BillThe KTLA morning news in Los Angeles, payed Cayman Review this morning on the outro to commercial - with full credits to Trey Anastasio on the bottom of the screen.
Score: 1
Posted by afidler on
afidlerYep, just heard First Tube during the Women's bobsled. Totally caught me off guard.
Score: 1
Posted by bl002e on
bl002eAnd Chalk Dust in the third...
Score: 1
Posted by bl002e on
bl002eThe Down With Disease from Hoist was just played again during the second period of the USA-SUI game!
Score: 1
Posted by Hornby on
HornbyCanada Hockey Place (aka GM Place) is legendary for playing phish songs during NHL matches.

They broke out the Hoist version of "Down with Disease" during the Canada-Slovakia womens' hockey match!

Score: 1
Posted by zzyzx Phish.net Staff on
zzyzxI went to Norway/Switzerland and during the warmups they played almost all of CDust. There also was a snippet of Axilla during the game.
Score: 1
Posted by stogie26 on
stogie26Heard KDF during the usa mens hockey first game
Score: 1
Posted by joeebbs on
joeebbsduring the Preston and Steve show on WMMR in Philly they play First Tube or Sand (moreso First Tube) during traffic reports. One of their engineers Casey is a huge fan. Although you probably already know this.
Score: 1
Posted by zappafrank on
zappafranksome of the Greatest musicians ever playing for some of the best athletes ever. it's only natural.
Score: 1
Posted by DarthIsis on
DarthIsisYup, heard that KDF.
Score: 0
Posted by zappafrank1970 on
zappafrank1970tweezer outro to com fri.
Score: 0
Posted by Icculus Phish.net Staff on
IcculusThe Vancouver Canucks play at GM Place (aka Canada Hockey Place for the Olympics), and DJ Dave Levinson works those games. From what I understand, Dave has also been DJ'ing the Olympic games -- all or most of them. Dave is a big Phish fan and he routinely plays Phish during games. I've heard First Tube, CDT, KDF, DWD and more this season alone. In fact at one point he played the entire Hoist version of DWD during a period break.
Score: 0
Posted by mafujon on
mafujonJust heard Llama durning the U.S. Finland Men's Hockey Game
Score: 0
Posted by gstew on
gstewI spotted the Axilla, and my buddy mentioned that KDF was on too.
Score: 0
Posted by Poster_Nutbag on
Poster_Nutbagi heard the first tube bobsled cut. would have LOVED to heard the tweeprise during the apolo anton ohno segment.
Score: 0
Posted by cheflusk on
cheflusk :)
Score: 0
Posted by DarthIsis on
DarthIsisI heard CDT earlier on during a hockey game.
Score: 0

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