Phish Friday Archives
Jul 11, 2008
Phish Friday | "The Phish, from Vermont"
Stub via superphly.com Today's Phish Friday was an obvious choice for me considering we're publishing this on July 11. Eight years ago today, Phish played the second night of a three-night run at Deer Creek in Noblesville, IN, easily......
Jul 4, 2008
Phish Friday | The 4th of Jiboo
Happy Independence Day from Live Music Blog! It's hard to believe that 8 years ago today I was seeing Phish at the E Centre in Camden, NJ, celebrating what was probably my favorite 4th of July as an "adult"......
Jun 27, 2008
Phish Friday | The Debut of "Spock's Brain"
This week's Phish Friday post is brought to you by Nate Leskovic, someone that commented on our "Spock's Brain" PF post with his own story of what that song meant to him. He's graciously giving us the background today. While......
Jun 20, 2008
Phish Friday | Alpine Valley '04 Highlights Round II
Poster via brother monk In another busy week of Phish news and other highlights surrounding the band that we spend so much time fluffing on this blog -- even if we take a week off here and there --......
Jun 6, 2008
Phish Friday | Alpine Valley '04 Highlights
Obviously it's no surprise that we've been posting about Phish and the members' respective side projects over the past couple weeks, and it's really brought me back into an nostalgic mindset. I only got to catch 10 shows in......
May 30, 2008
Phish Friday | Spock's Brain!
Phish - "Spock's Brain" (live, 9/29/00) [YouTube] You may have noticed that we missed our regularly scheduled Phish Friday last week thanks to a bit of ill planning on my part. This week we're back with a recently uploaded......
May 16, 2008
Phish Friday | 'Prince Caspian' Hits the Box Office
For the latest on Phish Friday, I thought we'd do a bit of a logical celebration of today's theatrical release of the The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the movie based on the second book published in The Chronicles of......
May 9, 2008
Phish Friday | HeadCount Allstars at the Jammys
On Wednesday night, Phish was presented a lifetime achievement award by the Jammys for their contributions to the jamband scene overall. As some might have predicted after such an event, this was a major climax for the the awards show......
May 2, 2008
Phish Friday | 7/10/1997, Marseilles Part Deux
Our Phish Friday friend, Stanley T. Roper, is back with this week with part II of his two-part series on Phish's 1997 summer show from Marseilles, France. Last week, he dug into an interesting first set. This week he delves......
Apr 25, 2008
Phish Friday Extended | Island Tour Giveaway Winners
A few weeks back, we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of Phish's Spring 1998 "Island Tour" with a four-way mega-post and a CD giveaway in conjunction with the folks at Phish Dry Goods. Since then, we have received some thoughtful......
Phish Friday | 7/10/1997, Bienvenue a la Jam
Phish Friday writer extraordinaire, Stanley T. Roper, is back this week with an interesting gem from Phish's 1997 summer tour in Europe. If you dig Mr. Roper's submission, be sure to dig into the archives for some of his previous......
Apr 18, 2008
Phish Friday | Scotty B's First Show
For today's Phish Friday, I wanted to feature and highlight a fantastic post I read the other day over at Hidden Track, the Glide Magazine blog. We don't link to those guys nearly enough, especially lately. The content that these......
Apr 11, 2008
Phish Friday | Island Tour Encore
Just in case you missed last week's Island Tour round-up and CD giveaway, we thought we'd bring it back for an encore. Last week, we decided that the ten-year anniversary of the Island Tour deserved something special, so we pieced......
Apr 5, 2008
Island Tour 10 Year Anniversary | Roundup and CD Giveaway
Editor's Note: As we mentioned yesterday, we're honoring the ten-year anniversary of a legendary set of Phish shows that have become known as the Island Tour. To celebrate the anniversary, we're featuring a special four-way "group-post" and also offering up......
Apr 4, 2008
Phish Friday | Clifford Ball Redux with Video
Editor's Note: Stay tuned to Live Music Blog this weekend, as we plan to bring you a bonus Phish Friday post to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Phish's 1998 Island Tour. It will be a serious bonus for all you......
Mar 28, 2008
Phish Friday | 7/25/92; Stowe, VT
For my first effort at a Phish Friday, I dug deep into my binders of discs for something from the earlier years. In the Summer of 1992, Phish was on the cusp of breaking huge. Not yet headlining arena tours......
Mar 21, 2008
Phish Friday | New LivePhish.com Release
The ideas for Phish Friday have been a little hard to come by for our little crew over here -- there's really only so much Phish we still listen to on a regular basis without forcing it into our iPod......
Mar 14, 2008
Phish Friday | Lights, Camera, Reba
Although most of our Phish Friday posts focus on audio recordings, you may have noticed that we've started to change things up by posting more video footage. While audio will always be the bread and butter of Phish Friday, it's......
Mar 7, 2008
Phish Friday | Classic Covers and Seamless Segues
photo by ANTELOPE! Phish always chose great cover songs. Some were 'bust-outs' or just silly takes on pop tunes. But Phish also had a rotation of key, classic rock songs that they played frequently and almost as if they......
Feb 29, 2008
Phish Friday | Normal Revisited
Phish 1999-10-04 Makisupa Policeman, Normal, IL [YouTube] Out of nowhere and completely on a whim, I decided to scan through YouTube lately for a chance that someone would have videos up from the first Phish show I caught: October......
Feb 22, 2008
Phish Friday | Respect the Old School
Stanley T. Roper, a friend of ours here at LMB, makes his valiant return to Phish Friday with a short take on some solid tracks from the band's old school days. If you dig Mr. Roper's submission, be sure to......
Feb 15, 2008
Phish Friday | My Mountain View Coincidence
For today's Phish Friday, my inspiration is coming strictly from the geographical area I've been working in for the past week -- Mountain View, CA. I still consider myself hugely fortunate to be a part of the Google acquisition......
Feb 8, 2008
Phish Friday | Who the hell is Guy Forget?
For today's Phish Friday, I thought we'd drop a little jam or two that definitely gets categorized in the Epic Jam Vehicle section of the band's history, with that jam vehicle in question being the always-evident-in-the-later-setlists-jam: Piper. This "Piper" is......
Feb 2, 2008
We Gotta Get Out of Town...
Sorry for the silence over the last couple days, dudes. I was in Keystone, CO on a ski trip that brought a few musical surprises my way but didn't leave much time for computerizing, and I didn't really prepare by......
Jan 25, 2008
Phish Friday | Waste Free in Germany, '97
Phish - Waste, Free We've spent a tremendous amount of time on Phish Fridays with the year 1997, truly a tremendous year for the band and the quality of music that came from that group of dorks that many......
Jan 18, 2008
Phish Friday | Niagara '95
Hello Live Music Blog readers, this is J$ from the Phish Video blog with a special guest post for Phish Friday. Today we're bringing you some highlights from one of the best shows, from one of the best months in......
Jan 11, 2008
Phish Friday | Tower Jam
A few weeks back, I decided to splurge on myself a little bit by purchasing an HDTV and an up-converting DVD player. The first thing I put on when I got everything plugged in was the Phish IT DVD,......
Jan 4, 2008
Phish Friday | THE Bowie > Cities > Bowie
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Jun 15, 2007
Phish Friday | Gotta Have ‘Your’ Epic Tweezer
photo by sypsyn Every dedicated Phish fan has a favorite "Tweezer." Some like the older versions that are strange and quirky, some like their Tweezers as funky as possible, and others like them super spacey. Of course, because this......
Jun 1, 2007
Phish Friday | Stuttgart '97
Stuttgart '97 is filled with songs that, if played in the States in this combination, fans would be spontaneously erupting with excitement and craziness. But, it’s not just a novelty act. The actual playing holds up to the craziness as seen on paper. ...
May 25, 2007
Phish Friday | Boogie On, Chula Vista!
Stub © PhantasyTour.com Following up one of my prior Phish Friday's, I got a lot of requests for a particularly strong segment of the show that I had overlooked. It's more that this was something my memory had overlooked,......
May 18, 2007
Phish Friday | Lemonwheel Highlights, Part II
I thought I'd continue that "Lemonwheel Highlights" series I started a few weeks back. For part II, it's time to highlight some gems from one of my favorite daytime sets: 8-16-98 - Lemonwheel, Day II. There's something about the first set of Lemonwheel, Day II, that is just perfect for a beautiful sunny day....
May 11, 2007
Phish Friday | Chula Vista '99
For today's selection, I grabbed a somewhat random piece from my own back catalog of shows I had amassed as a fan. There was a fantastic run of shows through California on the Fall 1999 tour, and the show at the Coors Ampitheatre in Chula Vista stood out for me....
May 4, 2007
Phish Friday | Paradiso '97
Happy Phish Friday, dudes. I'm using today's Jam in the 'Dam announcement to return to a widely traded show towards the beginning of 1997 (the year of the funk) -- February 17, 1997. Phish was in Europe beginning a full......
Apr 27, 2007
Phish Friday | Clifford Ball Set II, A Magnum Opus?
For me, Phish has never played a more complete, perfect set than Set II from the Clifford Ball on 8/17/96. Sure, other sets might provide more craziness. But for this moment in time out in Plattsburgh, the Vermont foursome reached the pinnacle....
Apr 20, 2007
Phish Friday | Lemonwheel Highlights, Part I
A few years back, Live Music Blog friend and occasional Phish Friday poster, Stanley T. Roper, made me a CD compilation of the "Best of Lemonwheel." I always loved those discs, and although I can't remember the exact tracklisting on those discs, I distinctly remember re-discovering a certain segment on a beautiful Sunday morning back when we lived in Boston: Gumbo > Sanity....
Apr 13, 2007
Phish Friday | A Japanese Antelope Meatstick
This week's Phish Friday features some gems from September 22, 2000 -- specifically the "Meatstick -- Antelope" segment to end the second set. Enjoy....
Apr 6, 2007
Phish Friday | Post-Hiatus Highlights
photo by telafree This week's Phish Friday selection comes from another Live Music Blog friend, T. Gourdo ("the 'G' is soft"). He brings us into the post-hiatus Phish era with a few of his favorite tracks from 2003. And......
Mar 30, 2007
Phish Friday | Some 'Summer of the Cover' Gems
I've been on a 1998 Phish kick lately. Not only was '98 a pretty big year for Phish, but it was probably my most active year of seeing the band in concert. As a result, I've been digging back into......
Mar 23, 2007
Phish Friday | Europe '98 Redux
Live Music Blog friend, Stanley T. Roper, continues to let his Phishy thoughts and comments flow freely. This week, he's brought us a short-but-sweet review of his favorites from Phish's 1998 summer stint in Europe (basically one-upping my Phish Friday......