This show featured the TAB debut of Mission in the Rain. TAB was the opening act for Dead & Company.

The Moma Dance contained a Tweezer Reprise jam.

Monday 07/28/2025 by phishnet

SPAC3 RECAP: DO TAKE ANOTHER STEP

[We would like to thank @zzyzx for providing this recap. -Ed.]

Like any good obsessive, I have multiple interests that rule my life. Among them are - obviously - Phish, but also the Seattle Mariners take up way too many of my brain cells.

Usually they interact in different worlds. I might occasionally check the score during a show and I've taken in a few random day baseball games on tour this year to see new stadiums, but they rarely overlap. There are two exceptions though.

The 1995 playoff series with the Yankees, the one that is largely felt responsible for getting the new stadium built and keeping the team in town, took place during a northwest fall tour. I missed Edgar's grand slam because I was in the parking lot of Spokane and I was completely oblivious to the most famous play in Mariners' history - Edgar Martinez's game winning double - because I was in Missoula. I got a score update from CK at the break, and assumed the Yankees would hold onto their then 4-2 lead and eliminate the M's.

The second happened yesterday in Schenectady. Mel had been up late and it was raining all day so I was just going to let her sleep in. While getting back from my dreary morning walk, I ran into some Mariners' fans in the lobby of all things. It hadn't clicked, but Ichiro's induction into the Hall of Fame was yesterday and it was a short trip to Cooperstown. I wouldn't get to see his speech, especially after rain delayed the ceremony, but I drove over there and saw the town get taken over by Mariners' fans.

© 2025 PHISH (Rene Huemer)
© 2025 PHISH (Rene Huemer)

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Sunday 07/27/2025 by phishnet

SPAC2 RECAP - SAVED BY THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS

[We would like to thank @andrewrose for providing this recap. -Ed.]

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.” - Milton, Paradise Lost.

Saturday night in Saratoga Springs! If you’re just tuning in, Phish kicked off their tour-closing run in the state capital area and hometown region on Friday night and, in the second set, unlocked a portal that’s been coalescing all year—or maybe since Mexico ’24—dropping a set so flawless and filled with space-hose that they chose to release it in its entirety on Youtube rather than the customary single highlight. After that performance, speculation abounded about what was in store for the bigger Saturday night crowd. Having left everything on the table the previous night, surely expectations were to be tempered. A jukebox Saturday night special, or maybe just something a little loose to conserve the energy for the tour closer on Sunday? They couldn’t possibly keep that up, and keep digging deeper down.. could they?

Well follow me now and you will not regret / A tale of the trip to Hell and back that our wandering minstrels did beget.


© 2025 Charlie Miller
© 2025 Charlie Miller

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Reba was unfinished and did not contain the whistling ending. Trey teased The Greater Good in Roses Are Free. Split Open and Melt and Kill Devil Falls were also unfinished. The last Tweezer Reprise of the first set contained Split Open and Melt teases by Fish. Trey, Mike, and Page teased The Secret of Life (The Dead Milkmen) in Kill Devil Falls. Tweezer, which was played as an encore for the first time, ended abruptly, with Fish saying "Do you get it?" 

Saturday 07/26/2025 by Icculus

SPAC1 RECAP: LAWN OF THE DEAD

IT has been thirty years since summer 1995, when Phish performed highly and mind-blowingly improvisational versions of “Tweezer” at Salt Lake (18m), Mud Island (50m), NissanPav (20m, with “Johnny B. Goode”), Finger Lakes (45m), and Jones Beach (30m, with DEG), not to mention the Red Rocks “Mike’s Groove” (35m), Walnut Creek “Runaway Jim” (31m), Blossom “Mike’s” (20m), the Jones Beach “Bowie” (27m), the SPAC DWD (24m), the Great Woods Mike’s>Contact>Groove (35m) and “Stash” (18m), and the Sugarbush “Bowie” (31m, also with “Johnny B. Goode”).

Yet, as demonstrated last night at SPAC, and at times earlier this summer (including recently in the must-hear “Ether Edge” and the "Ruby Waves" from Forest Hills and the WGTYM in Chicago), Phish continues to improvise with breathtaking skill, ingenious creativity, and high-spirited soul.

© 2025 PHISH (Rene Huemer)
© 2025 PHISH (Rene Huemer)

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N.I.B. (Black Sabbath) was teased repeatedly by Mike and Trey in Mike's Song. Trey teased Walk This Way in My Friend, My Friend. Happy Birthday and San-Ho-Zay were teased in No Men In No Men's Land. Oblivion contained December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) teases from Mike and She Said She Said teases from Page. Down with Disease was unfinished.

 

Thursday 07/24/2025 by phishnet

FOREST HILLS2 RECAP: PHISH GOES ELECTRIC

[We would like to again thank Alaina Stamatis (@Farmhose) for recapping last night’s show. Find her on the socials @fad_albert and at www.fadalbert.com --Ed.]

You could say I went to Forest Hills to get drunk and talk really loudly and a Phish concert broke out. I barely had a buzz on at 6:26pm when the band emerged at the famed Tennis-stadium-turned-summerstage and opened with “Free.” We’ve all seen this song open a show a hundred times, easily, so I saw no problem in shouting into my wife’s ear nonstop. I asked her if she knew that Bob Dylan played here in 1965 and before she could answer, I launched into a super detailed account of the show as it was remembered by the bassist who played with Dylan on that fateful date.

“It was Harvey Brooks! He played bass for Dylan at his first Forest Hills show and went on to lead an illustrious career as a studio bassist, appearing notably on Bitches Brew and the Doors’ the Soft Parade! He’s interviewed in that book by Ray Padgett!” I yelled as “Free” continued. “Anyway! So, Harvey Brooks says as soon as the drums came out people started booing, and then Dylan went electric and a handful of people stormed the stage! Dylan turned to Brooks and said, ‘Keep playing.’ There was a grass court down there and a small platform for a stage, not at all like what we see today! And a few guys got tackled trying to ruin the show, and one dude managed to reach the stage and pull Al Kooper’s stool out from under him! He was on keyboards!” My wife murmured something unintelligible and I crushed a can.

© 2025 David Avidan
© 2025 David Avidan

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Wednesday 07/23/2025 by phishnet

FOREST HILLS1 RECAP: GAME(HENDGE), SET(LIST)... PHISH

[We would like to thank Tedd Kanakaris (@teddkanakaris) for recapping last night’s show. Tedd is owner of Sandpiper Wealth, an advisory firm named after two great songs. He plays keyboards and tells stories about and for the Phish community on Instagram @teddkanakaris -Ed.]

There’s little Phish fans crave more than a first. A breakout tune. An unusually deep jam. A never-before-played venue. Whether that first is personal—your first “Fluffhead”—or a collective moment shared by 13,000, we live for those thresholds: new chapters written in real time. The band's debut at Forest Hills Stadium had that gravity. This is hallowed ground—once echoing with the grace of tennis legends and the screams of Beatlemania—now poised for our debut.

In the lead-up, anticipation buzzed with a curious mix of reverence and logistics. Could a venue landlocked in Tudor-style urban luxury—and boasting zero parking—deliver a proper Phish experience? Would the lack of a traditional lot dull our tribal pre-show rituals? Would the band tip their hat to Queens in some unexpected way? “Harpua” into something, anything, by the Ramones? As fans traded predictions online and in line, small but delightful details began to fill in the picture: Page McConnell, a secret Mets fan, would throw out the first pitch at Citi Field on Wednesday; Mr. and Mrs. Met would be on site, repping the right borough—but the wrong sport. It was also “Pollock day”, for those lucky enough to secure a print. And with a curfew looming at 10:00 PM sharp, an unusually early 6:00 PM (well, 6:30PM) start time commenced.

© 2025 Peter Orr
© 2025 Peter Orr

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Tuesday 07/22/2025 by phishnet

PHISH TO ROCK THE ICONIC FOREST HILLS STADIUM

[This article was originally published in The Queens Ledger on July 16, 2025, and is reprinted here by permission of the author, Michael Perlman, with help creating hypertext from Tedd Kanakaris. We thank them for suggesting it be reprinted here in advance of the Forest Hills shows. - Ed.]

Forest Hills history will be taken to new heights when Phish comes to town, to the delight of everyone from longtime fans to fans-in-the-making, traveling from far and near. The stage of the historic horseshoe, arched colonnade, eagle-adorned Forest Hills Stadium, which offers premier sightlines and acoustics, as well as a balance of intimacy and monumentality, awaits Phish’s footsteps. The band’s distinctive jams, musical improvisation, and memorable harmonies will take place in a rare surviving outdoor venue, where an audience’s chorus under a crisp blue sky often transitions to a brilliant sunset and starlit sky, casting a relationship with lighting and special effects. After-parties are bound to be held at nearby restaurants centered around Station Square and Austin Street.

A two-day extravaganza on July 22 and July 23 at 6 PM will signify Phish’s first concert in Queens, nicknamed “The World’s Borough.” Forest Hills will feel like a storied destination on their 30-gig “Summer Tour 2025,” which began on June 20 in Manchester, New Hampshire, and concludes on September 21 in Hampton, Virginia. The band consolidates multiple genres, spanning experimental rock, jazz fusion, alternative rock, progressive rock, bluegrass, country, funk, reggae, and psychedelic rock. The repertoire of no two shows is predictable.

America’s Tennis Stadium ad, MIT’s The Technology Review, November 1922.
America’s Tennis Stadium ad, MIT’s The Technology Review, November 1922.

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Monday 07/21/2025 by cohron1

CHICAGO3 RECAP: WHERE'S WEEKAPAUG?

A phenomenon hit children’s literature in the late 80s into the 90s called Where's Waldo? An illustration of a thin, bespectacled Waldo would be placed in a crowded scene: a circus, or ballgame or school function. The reader, probably in elementary school, could spend hours turning the pages trying to locate the man in the red and white striped sweater.

Phish played its own version of Where’s Waldo? Sunday night in Chicago. After dropping “Mike’s Song” as the fifth song of the opening set, and not following it up with “I Am Hydrogen” for the classic “Mike’s Groove”, the audience kept wondering “Where’s Weekapaug?”

© 2025 Charlie Miller
© 2025 Charlie Miller

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Sunday 07/20/2025 by phishnet

CHICAGO 2 RECAP: CLOWNS AND ALIENS IN MICHAEL JORDAN’S HOUSE

[We would like to thank Doug Kaplan (@mrdougdoug) for recapping last night’s show. You can find Doug all over the world wide web, representing the record label he runs as @HausuMountain on just about every social media platform.]

After spending vacations upon vacations following this band all over the country, there’s nothing quite as luxurious as a local show. After an all-smiles kind of night on the floor last night, my wife and I are enjoying a relatively normal Saturday, hanging out with our toddler, reading her books, and going on a walk to see the woof woofs at the dog park when the sun comes out in the late afternoon. Our amazing nanny arrives at 5:00PM and we’re soon on our way to link back up with Phish’s 2025 summer tour–one which we’ve been closely following. We’ve been so particularly inspired by the masterful improvisation on display, the surprising song selections, the confidence and vulnerability, and the propulsive, muscular, athletic gait to it all. It’s really been working for us this summer.

It’s Saturday night, so you know it’s corn night again. What is corn night you may ask? Have you ever seen a group of between 4 and 40 people wearing corn shirts or corn-related regalia at the Phish show? Well, that’s us, and yes, it makes it very easy for us to find each other, and no we’re not from Indiana, but yes, we do love Deer Creek. Like many parts of the Phish experience, having this silly little tradition among friends instills a through line into our lives, connecting different nights in different cities throughout the years, helping us all construct the narrative of our lives, combatting against the way life can make all the years combine. Tonight is the 23rd official corn night in Phish history, and we all agree that it’s pure Phish corn magic that #23 is happening in MJ’s house. Let’s get ready to rumble

© 2025 Charlie Miller
© 2025 Charlie Miller

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Saturday 07/19/2025 by phishnet

CHICAGO1 RECAP: "TRY NOT TO SUCK"

[We would like to thank @thewatchfulhosemaker for recapping last night’s show. Thewatchfulhosemaker plays in local Chicago bands, Lunar Ticks & Beat The Meatles, and started a festival in Irving Park called Indie Park Fest. -Ed.]

There are a couple great teams playing in Chicago this weekend. Besides the Chicago Cubs over at Wrigley Field, who are playing some pretty great baseball this year, there’s the Rock band, Phish from Vermont, who by all accounts are making some fine music in the 2025 season.

To start, if you’re not a baseball fan, I apologize, but growing up playing the game, I always felt that there were a ton of similarities to baseball and the Phish experience. If you are a baseball fan, then I apologize for any wrong stats, clunky or trite metaphors, or if you root for the White Sox.

There’s more than a few famous quotes where replacing “Baseball” with “Phish” doesn’t really feel too out of place.

© 2025 Charlie Miller
© 2025 Charlie Miller

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Thursday 07/17/2025 by lemuria & sleeping_llama

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

Francis Scott Key wrote the U.S. National Anthem (to the tune of an Irish drinking song) while watching the defense of Fort McHenry against a British attack. Six stanzas narrate an earnest search in the war-torn night sky for the flag, symbolically a people’s hope in a dark time. But the first two stanzas, the only ones commonly sung, merely posed the question: Can you see it, there, in the explosive flashes of light? Isn’t that our flag, our hope?...

Thursday 07/17/2025 by phishnet

MANN2 RECAP: BOY, MANN, MOM, SPLIT

[We would like to thank @unocrew for recapping last night’s show. -Ed.]

Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to read my first official recap! After a 5 show run in 6 days I find myself with a short break before heading to Forest Hills next week.

Let’s first start off by taking a second to appreciate where we currently are - witnessing one of the greatest rock bands consistently throwing down heaters over four decades into their careers! If you had told me back in August 2004 I would be here typing a review with a gigantic smile on my face, I would never have believed you.

I feel The Mann is a great summer venue for Phish to play. From free parking, water stations, excellent sound and pleasant staff - it all makes for an enjoyable experience (despite the sweltering heat every run). This show will always be special to me. It is not because it is the 225th time seeing the band but because my 8 year old son is finally able to experience the joy along with me. The 8 year old (going on 18) is a big music lover and a seasoned pro when it comes to concerts. He has been asking to see Phish for a while now and it was just a matter of finding a family friendly venue for my wife and I to take him to.

Well, enough about me… let’s get down to the nitty gritty!

© 2025 Charlie Miller
© 2025 Charlie Miller

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Tuesday 07/08/2025 by Lemuria

$20k In Summer Tour Grants

In celebration of Phish’s current summer tour (June 20 to July 27), the all-volunteer and fan-run Mockingbird Foundation has announced that it is sending unsolicited $2,000 Tour Grants to a music program in each of the ten cities in which the band is performing, for a total of $20,000. This group of grants includes Mockingbird's 236th Tour Grant and 350th non-competitive grant! It is the 32nd group of Tour Grants, an effort that now totals $320,999.99 (~$321K), which is 11.5% of all disbursements made by the Foundation.

The ten grantees for this tour are Manchester High School, Carrick High School (in Pittsburgh), Ann Richards School Foundation (in Austin), Boulder MUSE, We Amplify Voices (in Columbus), Northwoods Middle School (in North Charleston), Lewis C. Cassidy Academic Plus School (in Philadelphia), Prosser Career Academy (in Chicago), Garden Players (in Forest Hills), and the Skidmore Jazz Institute. Complete details are on the Mockingbird site.

Tuesday 06/10/2025 by Lemuria

Mockingbird Grants Cross New Thresholds

A nonprofit founded and run by Phish fans on an entirely volunteer basis has announced eighteen (18) new grants to support music education, totaling $153,870. This is the 30th round of competitive grants from the Mockingbird Foundation, which has now disbursed more than 400 competitive grants, and more than 750 total grants, for an aggregate of more than $2.75M - all with no staff, no salaries, and no office.

Mockingbird’s newest round of competitive grants support a wide array of programs, including two serving children with vision impairment, two serving Native American youth, programs serving ages from kindergarten to college, and programs in schools, community centers, and non-profit organizations, in rural, suburban, and urban settings, in 16 states across every region of the country: CA, DC, FL, IL, MD, MO, MS, NE, NH, NM, OH, OK, PA, TN, TX, & WA.

Half of the amounts for five of the grants were made possible through the generous support of the Kristy Anastasio Manning Memorial Fund (KAMMF), created to honor and memorialize Trey Anastasio's sister. Additionally, the Mockingbird board elected to double two of the requested amounts. Learn more about these and other grants here, and please consider donating to support this summer's coming Tour Grants.

Friday 05/23/2025 by Lemuria

Golf Net Supports Choir After Fire

Rosebud Academy, burned in the Eaton FireThe Mockingbird Foundation has mailed a check for $5,778 to Pasadena Rosebud Academy to support their choir program. The school burned down in the Eaton Fire in January, and has been about $5K short of its initial $100K GoFundMe goal. Mockingbird helped close that gap, with funding focused on the school’s important music education program.

These funds are the net amount raised at the recent Tenth Annual Runaway Open charity golf tournament, held April 27th at DeBell Golf Club in Burbank. This year’s golf outing was designated to benefit Rosebud Academy.

Wednesday 04/23/2025 by Lemuria

Spring Tour Grants Announced

In celebration of Phish’s current run on the West Coast (April 18 to 27), the all-volunteer and fan-run Mockingbird Foundation has announced that it is sending unsolicited $2,000 Tour Grants to a music program in each of the four cities in which the band is performing:

  • Aki Kurose Middle School Academy of Seattle, WA (near Climate Pledge Arena, April 18 and 19) for general supplies, literature, organization supplies, and a handful of instruments
  • Jefferson High School of Portland, OR (near Moda Center, April 20) for formal performance attire
  • Hunters Point Family of San Francisco, CA (near Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, April 22 and 23) for tickets to live music events, bus or van rentals, guest teaching, & supplies
  • LAMusArt of Los Angeles, CA (near Hollywood Bowl, April 2526, and 27) for instructors who teach lessons, lead rehearsals, plan curriculum, and provide student assessment and mentorship

This makes a total of 226 Mockingbird Tour Grants, and the 31st instance of unsolicited Tour Grants, an effort that now totals $301,000, which is 11.5% 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 which have welcomed and hosted the Phish community for the band’s performances.

Monday 04/21/2025 by Lemuria

Phans Fund The Last Repair Shop

The all-volunteer Mockingbird Foundation has announced a $5,000 unsolicited grant to the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) instrument repair shop, through the LAUSD Education Foundation. This incredible entity was featured in the short documentary The Last Repair Shop, which won an Oscar last year.

It’s a small shop with a tight group of repair techs who maintain over 80,000 instruments for students and music programs in the LA District. Despite the area wildfires, the shop was unaffected and has continued to function uninterrupted. However, they’re in the midst of personnel transitions and need to hire and train new staff to keep the shop running. This grant represents one fourth of their current $20K goal.

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