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Phish 3D Movie Officially On Its Way

whitperson — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:54:31 +0000

Remember that Phish 3D film we mentioned back in No. ‘09 (during Festival 8)? Well, it looks like we’ve got some action in that department with a bunch of Phish 3D properties sprouting up around the Internets today. Check it out:

Website | Facebook | Twitter

Yes, yes!

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Phish Friday Redux: Everybody’s Doing It

whitperson — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:13:49 +0000

Speaking of Phish Friday…

For a long time, LMB was the lone wolf pushing Phish Friday out onto the interwebs. Lately, it seems like the term has been catching on throughout the Phish blogger crowd, but we had no idea it had traveled so far and wide:

(via sirsticks1 of PT Phish, taken in Northborough, MA)

awesome.

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Phish Friday: Video of Phish Covering TV on the Radio’s “Golden Age”

whitperson — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:03:49 +0000

Phish covers “Golden Age” by TV on the Radio and gives the song a nice, long workout:

Phish – Golden Age – 11.27.2009 [YouTube]

Happy Phish Friday!

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Phish Friday: Links for Your Fall Tour Hangover

whitperson — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:13:38 +0000

photo by Patrick Nelson

Phew. Last week’s Fall Tour finale definitely took it out of us here at LMB. Although I’ve been pretty tight on time this week, I’ve been gathering a bunch of different Phish-related links. I thought it’d be nice to cap things off with a little link round-up:

If you dig the photo above, check out the rest Patrick Nelson’s fantastic photos from Phish’s tour closer in Charlottesville.

10 years ago today, Phish played a smokin’ show in Philly that served as a really nice pre-cursor to the madness that went down at the Big Cypress for the millennium NYE celebration. Check it: Phish – First Union Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA; 12-11-1999 (bittorrent via etree).

Need more untz with your Phish? Check out this surprisingly solid dance remix of “Tweezer Reprise” by Bender at the Beat Register (stream at HypeMachine or Download via sendspace). For some other interesting Phish remixes and mash-ups, check out DJDeepSea’s full collection, including the classic “Drop it Like it’s Moma”…Lolz.

I get a kick out of reading Phish show reviews by the traditional press. In the past they were typically super negative or just way off, but this Esquire review is pretty fair, funny, and surprisingly accurate in its description of the scene at a Phish show these days.

ScottyB of YEMBlog walks us through his reading of Stubhub’s 2009 Ticketing report, which had Phish “all over it” (i.e. lots of scalping/re-selling going on with Phish tickets).

Check out a brief History of Phish Tour t-shirts.

ScottyB says Phish thrives when no one is looking . I agree. Where have I heard this same notion before? Bittersweet Motel?

Why Phisheads Are Social Media Pioneers – a nice little social media post by Todd Wickersty of the ButterRoom.

Need more nerdy Phish stats from the Fall Tour? Look no further than Hidden Track’s series of stats posts, called the Number Line.

And finally some video to end the week. Although it’s tempting to offer up some clips from the band’s recent Fall Tour, I’m really in the mood for something more classically awesome and funky. This 12.6.97 “Twist Around” fits that mood nicely:

Phish – 12.06.97 – Twist [YouTube]
(with yet another hat-tip to YouTube user Silverchair97)

Have a killer weekend!

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Phish Festival 8 Updates and Details

whitperson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:15:12 +0000

Happy Phish Friday!

We just got an email from the Phish camp with all sorts of fun details about the set-up and festivities for their upcoming Halloween festival, including but not limited to:

“The Overlook + The Coil” complete with Bloody Mary Bar, movie area, Internet Cafe, Ferris Wheel, and lots of art installations.
The House of Live Phish, for all your obsessive Phish audio needs.
A new beer from Sierra Nevada specially brewed for Festival 8 called “FOAM.”
Chris Kuroda-designed lighting not only for the show, but for the surrounding areas including a collection of 140 lit palm trees.

Full list of details after the jump…

THE OVERLOOK + THE COIL
Right at the entrance to the concert field is an elevated area partially covered by spectacular Olympic Peak Tents that looks out onto the lush concert field. Here at the Overlook you’ll get the chance to enjoy a particularly bloody mary at the Bloody Mary Bar, a movie area showing vintage Halloween classics, archival Phish video, (not to mention The World Series and NFL games), a massive 100 foot Ferris Wheel and an internet cafe (though wi-fi will be provided throughout the site). The Overlook will be opened from 8 am to 2 am each day of the festival, and will also be open Thursday, October 29, beginning after Soundcheck. Between The Overlook and the stage you’ll find The Coil, a large swirled structure where Festival 8 turns and returns, host to multiple art installations and interactive works galore. When the sun goes down, look on the outskirts of The Coil for an explosive group of fire artists bringing the HEAT (that has TWO meanings!).

THE HOUSE OF LIVE PHISH
It’s back for Festival 8 with a nice twist. Get out of the heat, the House Of Live Phish will be air conditioned! Think you can do a better job mixing Phish? The House will feature mix-your-own-track stations complete with skilled instructors from ProMedia, and you’ll be able to re-mix tracks from this Summer’s Tour while drinking a Shasta (Wait, scratch that last part — Shasta’s just pulled out). Final racks will be uploaded to a blog at livephish.com for everyone’s listening pleasure.
Also, everyone who visits the House of Live Phish will receive a free card redeemable for a Live Phish Summer 09 Sampler. Download and burn your own sampler onto CD using a Mac from our buddies at Small Dog Electronics in Vermont, or just enjoy listening to any of the songs at LivePhish.com on a Sonos listening station.
We’re also making each show from the weekend available on slotMusic micro SD cards, so that you can grab them on your way out of the concert field and listen back right away. Each card comes with a USB sleeve ensuring interoperability with all computers as well a microSD-enabled mobile phones and MP3 players. Listen to the concert on your way back to your campsite (you will never not be listening to Phish. Get used to it). Stop by the Phish Dry Goods tent for more details.

BEER! CERVEZA! BIER! BIERE! PIVO! BIR!
It seems a little silly to tout that there will be beer for sale at Festival 8. Worthy of mention is there will be over 50 different kinds of beer for sale – microbrews, ‘beers of the world’, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and our friends at Sierra Nevada have brewed a special pilsner exclusively available at Festival 8 called FOAM.

KURODA KNOWS HOW TO LIGHT A PALM OR TWO OR THREE
In addition to his usual duties behind the console, lighting designer Chris Kuroda is overseeing lighting throughout the site – at the entrances, in The Overlook, on the field. You’ll never see a more stunning collection of 140 lit palm trees. That’s the Kuroda Promise.

THE RETURN OF THE BUNNY 95.9 FM
Like a zombie in need of nourishing brains, The Bunny is back! Once again, we’ll be hopping around all weekend in a little trailer behind the stage, dishing out large quantities of killer music, up-to-the-minute traffic reports, festival updates, insightful interviews from the field, a dangerous triple session of Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro’s “From the Archives” shows, frightening late-night freak outs, subliminal messages, Dr. Demento outtakes, sound effects of doors closing, classic Jerky Boys tracks, white noise, Civil War dirges, Jewish fight songs, and of course, live broadcasts of all 8 Phish sets! If you get lost in The Coil or tied up at the Overlook Hotel, have no fear: The Bunny will be there for you, airing 24 hours a day beginning Thursday, October 29 at 10 AM right on through until Monday, November 2 at 10 AM. Now, if you happen to tune in before or after these times and hear a rock-block of Billy Joel, don’t be afraid: that’s just JACK-FM, the rock station we’ ll be hijacking for the weekend. So be prepared: bring a boombox! Let The Bunny feed (on) your brain.

EIGHTH ANNUAL SCENT OF A MULE HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT
Got your costume picked out, tent packed, sunscreen, candy small beach towel and anti-grizzly spray ready to go? Well, how’s your pitching arm?
We’re tickled to announce the Eighth Annual “Scent Of A Mule Horseshoe Pitching Tournament” at Festival 8. Located in the concert field, the horseshoe pitching courts will be open for practice swings on Friday with the tournament taking place on Saturday and Sunday. East Coast vs. West Coast. It’s an easy sport to pick up so come and try your luck and get pointers from the good folks from the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association of America.

COFFEE & DONUTS ACOUSTIC. I ATE.
A team of physicists have been working on fusing two different spheres of doughy goodness into one coherent form that retains its integrity after an aqueuous sugar coating has been applied. That’s right – those Sunday morning donuts will be commemoratively shaped in a figure eight, and glazed. We did it, America!

FESTIVAL CERTIFIED FARMER’S MARKET
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday we’ll dish out a Certified Farmer’s Market (meaning that all the farmers participating have certification that their produce is in fact grown in California) that will feature organic and transitional produce, honey, cheese, eggs, bread, pumpkins, wheatgrass, fresh cut flowers, nuts, and California-grown olive oil. You haven’t lived until you’ve tried certified, California-grown wheatgrass – let me tell you! Organic coffee, breakfast, and lunch will be available at the cafe located adjacent to the Farmer’s Market at the El Dorado Clubhouse.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Tickets for Festival 8 are on sale now at http://places.musictoday.com/festival8/.

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Phish Friday: More Red Rocks Videos

Justin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:02:50 +0000

My man Patrick has been buried at work, but he still has a bunch of videos from Phish at Red Rocks that still haven’t seen the light of day. We’ll try to get ‘em done before Festival 8 but we’ve got work to do planning our costumes and caravans, so bask in the final two that are posted at the moment. Expect some other goodies soon.

20090730 Phish The Horse> Silent In The Morning from patrick nelson on Vimeo.

20090730 Phish Loving Cup from patrick nelson on Vimeo.

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Phish Friday: Windy City Videos

Justin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:51:09 +0000

I’m halfway through “Darien Center Jam” from last night’s Phish show and I’m waiting for the show tonight in Hartford to get started. Make sure you follow our Twitter account for setlist updates, as well as @yemblog as usual. Everyone is pretty much in agreement that Phish is firing on all cylinders right now, but I still heard some decently mixed reviews about the show in Chicago at Toyota Park. I went back and listened to the debut of “Windy City,” one of the new Page tunes we all hope to hear more of. It’s not bad, but I can see how it felt a little flat in the middle of a weaker first set than usual (lately).

Don’t take my word for it — check out the new song “Windy City” in three different varieties: first mixed with the soundboard recording from the show, second in HD from an ideal spot, and lastly very far away.

Phish, Windy City, (First time Played) SBD audio, Toyota Park, bridgeview, IL, (Chicago) 8.11.2009 [YouTube]

Phish – “Windy City” 8/11/2009 Toyota Park, IL [YouTube]

Phish – Windy City – 2009-08-11 Toyota Park Chicago Illinois [YouTube]

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Happy 4th of July: Celebrate Independence…and the 10-Year Anniversary of Phish’s 7-4-99

whitperson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:13:53 +0000

(photo by WaltherFamily)

Happy Independence Day from Live Music Blog!

I thought I’d drop a quick post to commemorate the holiday while Justin’s off gallivanting at the High Sierra Music Festival. I got a brief text from him saying he’s not getting great mobile service and trying to conserve cell juice, so I think we’ll just wait until the weekend’s out to get his thoughts on HSMF.

Meanwhile, I am catching a few solid sets from the Rothbury Festival courtesy of iclips.net’s Rothbury webcast, which marks a solid start to their summer festival series, dubbed “The Couch Tour.”

Of course, we couldn’t let the 4th of July go by without giving a nod to Phish’s hot and sweaty show at the Lakewood Amphitheater 10 years ago today. What better way to commemorate the 4th of July than with a super slow and psychedelic version of “Ghost” that morphs perfectly into a triumphant “Slave to the Traffic Light.” Check it out:

Phish – “Ghost” (live, 7/4/99) [mp3]
Phish – “Slave to the Traffic Light” (live, 7-4-99) [mp3]

By the looks of the setlist and from what I’ve heard, this show featured some serious jamming and a ton of silly banter and antics in fine Phish fashion.

But as much as I love this “Ghost > Slave” sequence, I still think my favorite Independence Day Phish show took place the following year in Camden. That show already got its own post last year, so you can check out here: Phish Friday | The 4th of Jiboo.

However you celebrate the 4th of July holiday, be safe, have fun, and be sure not to mix too much booze with all those fireworks!

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Phish Friday: The Susquehanna Sand

Justin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:25:07 +0000

Now that we’re finally back up and running on a new host, I can finally blow the collective Phish load that I’ve been holding back on over the past few weeks. Pretty much every chat conversation I have these days seems to center around the band, and the discussions on the street seem to center on this, too. I was at Gene Ween solo at the Independent the other night when I heard someone chatting with some friends about having returned from the Fox that day, and that the new “Time Turns Plastic” song was “like 20 minutes of nonsense,” all the while I’m still mentally recovering from my friendly debates during the day on whether Camden is the tour highlight or whether Deer Creek and Alpine will be the real heat to anticipate. I can say I’ve seen about 75% of the tour live thanks to the streams up on USTREAM, and I really have no problem deciding that this band is a new Phish that I never really got the pleasure to see in the years where I finally started to appreciate their music. I’m loving every second of it, even if they did botch the hell out of Bowie last night.

Without a doubt, the moment that’s gotten the most hype and discussion has to be the second-set opener “Sand” in Camden, NJ. When I finally got a copy of the show I was told that I needed to start with this, then go back and listen to the entire show. So that’s the purpose of this post for me. Got any doubts about the new Phish you’re hearing? Pissed that they’re not jamming out Mike’s Groove enough? Just watch this video and let your mind go right at the 1:00 minute mark. Pure bliss.

Phish – Sand Jam Susquehanna Bank Center Camden, NJ 6/7/09 [YouTube]

Phish is playing at one of my favorite venues in the country tonight — Deer Creek — so stay tuned for setlist updates from our Twitter account. This tends to be a venue where the band has quite a bit of fun. I’m hoping for a Chalkdust Reprise again like they did back in 2000…

Phish 2000-07-11 Moby Dick All and Chalkdust Encore [YouTube]

If you haven’t had enough, buy the book and see the movie already.

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Phish Friday: Mailorder Art Revealed

Justin — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:50:48 +0000

We’re fast approaching the start of the Phish summer tour explosion that will start at Fenway Park this Sunday, and the anticipation is seriously exploding between me and all my chat buddies. I get random pings now like “JONES BEACH” and I’m seeing many emails traded on securing those last minute extras that seem to be in abundance as long as you know the right folks.

One of my partners-in-crime-to-be for Red Rocks just got his Knoxville tickets and decided to send them over to give me a preview of what my Shoreline mail-order tickets may look like. Take a look…

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