OFFICIAL TAPER'S SECTION TURNS THIRTY
The first official taper's section at a Phish show was at Bender Arena on 12/28/93. Although the Bender and Cumberland County Civic Center shows on the run were GA, New Haven and Worcester (NYE) were not, and so tapers had to request tickets through Phish Tickets By Mail for tickets to the section's reserved seats at those shows, as announced in the fall '93 Doniac Schvice.
SECONDHAND TALENT INTERVIEWS MOCKINGBIRD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ELLIS GODARD
[From Secondhand Talent host Avromi "Steiner" Steinberg:]
Secondhand Talent began as a question: Why are so few NON-band members in the music industry recognizable by name, such as Phish's very own Chris Kuroda? Having occupied all the roles there are to fill in the entertainment scene, Secondhand Talent answered that question by establishing a podcast platform that interviews everyone besides the band. We all know that it takes a proverbial village to produce the concerts and festivals we love so much to attend and enjoy ourselves at. Secondhand Talent was created to provide a space for the stories of the rest of the villagers---some of the hardest working members of the live music community---taking an opportunity to shine the spotlight on the people who shine the spotlights!
SURRENDER TO THE FLOW NO. 81 (DIGITAL-ONLY) AVAILABLE
[The below is courtesy of Christy and STTF. -Ed.]
Here is Surrender to the Flow's NYE Run 2023-2024 issue! We are so thankful for your support and readership, and we think you're really going to love this one.
PHISH STUDIES CONFERENCE ANNOUNCES 2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND OFFICE HOURS AT PHANART PRE-MSG ON 12/30
Oregon State University, the host of 2024 Phish Studies Conference in Corvallis, May 17-19, 2024, announced that Benjy Eisen will be the keynote speaker for the Conference. OSU also announced that Phish Studies Conference committee members will be available for office hours at PhanArt on Dec. 30 from 1-6pm at Hill Country BBQ in NYC, during Phish’s MSG run.
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40 FOR 40: JAMS (PART 4)
To recognize and celebrate the first 40 years, Phish.net presents “40 for 40” featuring curated selections by the Phish.net/Mockingbird community to highlight important aspects of the band’s history. Each Friday since the day before the 40th anniversary, we have shared 10 jams to enjoy that represent the depth of Phish’s incredible live improvisational performances across the decades. Today we have 12, featuring a double encore if you will, courteousy of @Icculus.
This is the last installment of the "40 Jams for the 40th" series. We appreciate everyone that sticks around for the encore or showed up at all! Check out the first here, the second here, and the third here. Stay tuned for an epic Expanded Playlist celebrating these 40 Jams available soon, not to mention more in the 40 for 40 series.
Check out the first ten here, the second ten here, and the third here.
Please consider making a $40 donation to celebrate this incredible milestone, support the great resources and community that Phish.net provides, and enable Mbird’s powerful grant-making work for music ed programs across the US, now totaling $2.4 MILLION.
"TOP 25 PHISH TOURS" ON HELPING FRIENDLY PODCAST
The team at the Helping Friendly Podcast will be embarking on a new project in 2024, ranking the Top 25 Phish Tours of all time. And we need your help!
Go to this form and choose your top 25 tours of all time. Voting will be open until January 12. Thank you!
40 FOR 40: JAMS (PART 3)
To recognize and celebrate the first 40 years, Phish.net presents “40 for 40” featuring curated selections by the Phish.net/Mockingbird community to highlight important aspects of the band’s history. Each Friday before the NYE weekend, we present 10 jams to enjoy that represent the depth of Phish’s incredible live improvisational performances across the decades.
As part of the celebration of this incredible milestone, please contribute to Mbird during the “40 for 40” campaign to recognize the great resources and community that Phish.net provides and to support Mbird’s powerful grant-making work for music ed programs across the US currently totaling $2.4 MILLION. To donate, visit https://phi.sh/~3GoIv78. Phish.net is also actively updating and improving our coding and content and could use your help, so if you are interested in joining the site team, visit https://phi.sh/~47VgFM9
This is the third installment of the series. Check out the first here and the second here.
PHISH STUDIES CONFERENCE PROPOSALS DUE DECEMBER 15
Proposals for presentations, art, and performances for the second-ever Phish Studies Conference are due this Friday, December 15th. The conference will be held in Corvallis, Oregon, at Oregon State University, May 17-19th, 2024.
More information, including the call for proposals and submission details, can be found at phishstudies.net. For a video archive of presentations made during the 2019 event, visit the inaugural conference’s website. For example, the Phish.Net Community Panel's presentation at the first Conference may be viewed here.
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40 FOR 40: JAMS (PART 2)
To recognize and celebrate the first 40 years, Phish.net presents “40 for 40” featuring curated selections by the Phish.net/Mockingbird community to highlight important aspects of the band’s history. Each Friday before the NYE weekend, we present 10 jams to enjoy that represent the depth of Phish’s incredible live improvisational performances across the decades
As part of the celebration of this incredible milestone, please contribute to Mbird during the “40 for 40” campaign to recognize the great resources and community that Phish.net provides and to support Mbird’s powerful grant-making work for music ed programs across the US currently totaling $2.4 MILLION. To donate, visit https://phi.sh/~3GoIv78
Phish.net is also actively updating and improving our coding and content and could use your help. If you are interested in creating or updating content, visit https://phi.sh/~47VgFM9
This is the second installment of the series. Check out the first here.
40 FOR 40: JAMS (PART 1)
To recognize, celebrate, and commemorate our favorite band’s first 40 years, Phish.net will be presenting a series called “40 for 40” featuring curated selections by the Phish.net/Mockingbird Foundation community that highlight important aspects of the band’s history. First, get ready for 40 epic JAMS! Each Friday for the next four weeks, look out for 10 jams to enjoy that speak to the depth of Phish’s incredible live improvisational performances across the decades.
7/10/99 “Chalk Dust Torture” by BozakAxel (Chip Parker) - Mockingbird Foundation Director and President
As President of the Mockingbird Foundation Board of Directors, I am honored to have this opportunity to thank all the amazing contributors who have made and continue to make Phish.net the incredible community it is! Everyone volunteering with the foundation understands that Phish.net is an integral part of our mission to “broaden access and educational opportunities for young people in music and the musical arts,” because we know the critical role the .net community plays in generating support for our grantmaking, which currently stands at nearly $2.4 MILLION of charitable giving.
With your continued support of the Mockingbird Foundation, Phish.net will continue to evolve, improving its services and enhancing its content. It’s incredible to think that even after 40 years, the future is still somehow so bright for our community! I encourage you to consider supporting the fundraising campaign we are coordinating alongside this “40 for 40” celebration by making a gift of $40 (or $122.83, or any amount you want!) to help us continue our support of music education programs across the United States. It is important to note that contributions to the Mockingbird also enable and support Phish.net, as maintaining the website is among the Foundation’s few overhead costs–which are minuscule compared to our capacity for giving. We all deeply appreciate your support!
AN INTERVIEW WITH TREY'S ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAKER: ADAM BUCHWALD OF CIRCLE STRINGS
Back in January 2022, I was checking out www.treysguitarrig.com (as usual) and noticed a post about a new guitar of Trey’s. But it wasn’t a Languedoc. It was by a maker named Circle Strings, also from Burlington. The guitar itself was absolutely gorgeous: a brilliant Koa flame on the back and sides and a beautiful classic Spruce on top.
Whoever built this guitar must have a pretty impressive resume and backstory. That someone turned out to be Adam Buchwald who I have been fortunate to get to know this past year. I presumed there was more of a story for Adam to tell besides making a few guitars for Trey. I also figured others might be interested as well.
In addition to Circle Strings which builds custom instruments, Adam runs IRIS Guitar Company which makes an affordable line of acoustic instruments, Allied Lutherie which sells top quality vintage and new woods to builders around the world and Ben & Bucky’s Guitar Boutique which is Vermont’s top guitar store – an impressive resume indeed!
Hope you enjoy learning more about these amazing guitars and the people behind them!
PHISH'S HALLOWEEN SHOWS RATED THREE WAYS
[The following opinions are not necessarily shared in any way, shape or form by any Phish.net or Mockingbird Foundation volunteer. In reading any words in this post, you agree to hold Phish.net and The Mockingbird Foundation harmless from any and all liability arising therefrom, and you accept any and all responsibility for such liability arising therefrom. -Ed.]
IT is beyond peradventure, as has been established ad nauseum on this website, that rating a work of art on any scale is stupid, frivolous, and offensive. Accordingly, Phish fans have been assigning ratings to and ranking Phish shows for decades.
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"EVOLVE" SONG HISTORY
Thank you Grant Calof, user @That_Guy, for authoring the "Evolve" song history, and thank you Tom Marshall for helping to ensure its accuracy!
"SEND IN THE CLOWNS" SONG HISTORY
We are very grateful to Cassidy McManus, phish.net user @donttouchthatknob, for authoring an all-new song history for the Stephen Sondheim number "Send In The Clowns" performed as the introduction for the NYE gag on 12/31/19 at MSG.
If you'd like to author a song history of a song on the site that lacks a history, please don't hesitate to ask, as this site relies on volunteers to author its content.
REMEMBER MIX(ED) TAPES? NO? WHAT ARE "TAPES"?
IT was not uncommon in the 1990's for fans with too many cassette tapes to either give them away or "liquidate" them for the cost of buying a new tape (at the time, around $1.50 a tape including shipping costs). I liquidated hundreds of tapes because I had too many and wanted them to go to better homes. And at that time, there wasn't access to Phish's recordings online, and so I preserved certain versions of songs (usually jam segments only) that I wanted to hear again (or again and again and again) and didn’t want to lose for all eternity by dubbing them onto two dozen or so 100-minute mixtapes or mixed tapes.
And here are the first 13 of them for your amusement. It's surprising to me that not everything on those tapes circulates today online (sigh), so I may be giving such tapes to someone to digitize the material that has yet to circulate online (more sighing). In any event, if this post gets enough attention, I’ll consider posting the "setlists" (so to speak) of the other ten or so mixes that I have, which I do not seem to have ever typed-up, and so I would need to pull the tapes to type them up (not easily done without the full use of my right leg, as I continue to recover from ruptured right anterior tibialis tendon repair surgery). So please, if you appreciate this content, indicate as much in the Comments. Thank you!
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