Phish just recently added another “Live Bait” compilation to LivePhish.com that is free to download and share with your friends. See below for the tracklist and read on to stream the tracks directly from this page. I’m psyched to see some love from the Greek shows.
Live Bait Volume 2
Wilson >
Light >
Twenty Years Later
(2010-08-07 Greek Theatre, University of California Berkeley – Berkeley, CA)
Down With Disease >
What’s The Use
(2010-08-14 Alpine Valley Music Theatre – East Troy, WI)
Possum
(2010-08-17 Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre – Wantagh, NY)
NO2 >
Kung
(2010-08-12 Verizon Wireless Music Center – Noblesville, IN)
Bug
(2010-08-14 Alpine Valley Music Theatre – East Troy, WI)
Consider this an interim Phish Friday while we get a bit situated here at LMB HQ. More on that to come…
Stream the tracks below…
Long-time readers of the site might have noticed that we have brought back one of our favorite columns, Phish Friday, with a renewed vigor and a set of contributors that clearly possess more knowledge on those nerdy cats from Vermont than I ever could given that I saw my first show in 1999. My buddies have simply had enough of the column being dead and unhonored, especially considering Phish has returned to the road in 2010 with a renewed vigor that nobody could have ever anticipated. (Note: wishful thinking for a return to form and experimentation and “bust-outs” does not count as suspicions or hypotheses confirmed. I’ll venture to guess nobody called a “Fuck Your Face” ANYWHERE before this tour started. I digress.)
So with this return to form, my friends took me to task and came up with a list of 14 shows that I needed to hear before the start of the second leg of the summer tour, three shows at the Greek Theater right across the Bay. So far, these are the only shows I have booked for the year and I’m anxiously awaiting some news further confirming the Halloween run out East so I can get booking and saving my money. But I was fortunate last year having caught the major runs that actually mattered to people and the band, like four nights at Red Rocks plus two nights at the Gorge plus three nights in Indio for Halloween, so I’m still pretty happy with the idea that I managed to snag mailorders to the only three shows I could feasibly attend this year given a lack of funds and time.
And what a party it’s going to be! We have crews upon crews of Phish fans descending on the Bay Area this weekend and it’s going to be an absolute madhouse. I’m hoping to meet and hang with our friends from Coventry Music, and I’m checking in with the This Week on Lot crew tomorrow for a chat about the shows. Screw Shark Week, this is GREEK WEEK, baby. READ MORE
Don’t forget to head over to iTunes to buy a copy of the Official Live Phish app for iPads and iPhones while there’s still a free download code being given out for any show at LivePhish.com. At $3.99 for the app, that technically means that they’re paying you about $6 to download this app and test it out. It’s awesome to see the continued innovations on this front, especially if this means that they’re going to experimenting with live simulcasting shows to app owners. Check out this little ditty in the official announcement (my emphasis added):
“Stream every show from your LivePhish.com Stash. Enjoy free streams of full Phish concerts from the Live Phish Archives, with selections rotating regularly. Tune in to Live Phish Radio for a 24×7 stream from the Live Phish catalog and occasional live simulcasts from Phish Tour.”
The final part of the announcement seems to be missing from the App Store description so maybe that wasn’t supposed to be public yet. At any rate, I’m hitting this app right now and digging in. Drop some comments if you’ve already started playing with it. READ MORE
The good folks over at Phish headquarters sent us a sample from the new two-disc DVD set, Phish Walnut Creek, and I couldn’t be happier with what they’re offering up as a snippet. In the description that came along with the news of the release, we’re given a little glimpse into some first set madness that is hopefully captured on the DVD:
Highlights include “Down With Disease” that slowly segues into “Mike’s Song” – the first and only time these two classic tunes were ever paired together in such a way-as well as “Taste,” complete with near Biblical thunder and lightning display.
Given that the band is highlighting those two segments, you know they’re worth spending some time with. A new blog on the scene, Orange Sunshine, is hosting up the “DWD > Mike’s” segment (all the way through “Weekapaug”) and we’ve got the release version of “Taste” featured below. You can actually hear the lightning and crowd roar, which was most likely a fear-induced scream of elation.
I can’t wait for the release; I’d give my left nut to listen to Left Nuts once and for all.
