Today marks Phish keyboardist Page McConnell's 50th Birthday and we've been celebrating over at JamBase by presenting a list of our 15 Favorite Page-sung Phish One-Timers as well as by sharing the thoughts of jam scene keyboardists Marco Benevento, Matt McDonald, Jason Crosby and Joel Cummins about Page's influence on their playing. I wanted to make sure HT got in on the act, so we'll bend the rules on the "full show" part of our Full Show Friday column this week. My [...]
One of the many wonderful people I've met through running YEMblog is Drew Hitz, an accomplished tuba player who's toured the world and literally written the book on the instrument. While he focuses on more classical pieces during his decade-plus long tenure as a tuba player in Boston Brass, he's never hid his love for his favorite band - Phish. [Image via @duanebase ] Drew regularly tweets about Phish at his @drewphish account and yesterday shared news that gave [...]
Hi everybody, we're Kandma from Pavia, Italy. Not a special place to live in we'd say (hard to see something different than fog, most of the time), so it must be one of the reason why we spend so much time on our instruments. We've been working together as a 4-piece band for about one year and a half, while we used to have a larger line-up before. Some didn't know each other before Kandma were born, while some others did since long and had already shared several musical experiences. “Demur” is our [...]
Two organizations close to our hearts, Phish's WaterWheel Foundation and the Mimi Fishman Foundation , have teamed to offer ticket & CD packages for every show Phish will play this summer. All proceeds from the auctions will go towards a charity/organization picked by WaterWheel in each city Phish will visit on their 2013 Summer Tour. You can check out the offerings via the Mimi Fishman Foundation auction page as each auction is now live. The bidding will come to a close on Wednesday, [...]
A collection of Talking Heads covers in honor of David Byrne's 61st birthday.
Last month we broke the news that Phish had a new live archival release in the works and today the band has officially announced Phish: Ventura. Due on June 18, Phish: Ventura features the band's July 30th, 1997 and July 20th, 1998 performances from the Ventura County Fairgrounds in Ventura, Calif. The box set is available for pre-order from Dry Goods and those who purchase will receive a 10-track sampling of the band's March 21st, 1993 show at Ventura Theatre called "BuenaVentura." [...]
Just over three years ago Phish was given the honor of inducting one of their biggest influences, Genesis, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on March 15, 2010. Phish front man Trey Anastasio gave the speech inducting Genesis into the Rock Hall, while the quartet performed Watcher of the Skies and No Reply At All. Recently, an exceptional rip of both of Phish's performances, Trey's speech and Genesis's [...]
For today's installment of Full Show Friday we look back at long-lost supergroup Oysterhead . This trio featured Trey Anastasio of Phish on guitar, Primus bassist Les Claypool and Stewart Copeland of The Police pounding the skins. The group first came together at Superfly Productions' urging in 2000 to play a show during that year's New Orleans Jazz Fest in The Crescent City. Les, Trey and Stewart hit it off and reformed a year later to record what stands as their only studio album - The Grand Pecking Order. Oysterhead's only tour took place towards the end of 2001 [...]
Back on October 10th Phish fan Myke " LawnMemo " Menio started a project called The Daily Ghost in which he would listen to and the write about every version of Ghost Phish has played since its debut on June 13th, 1997 . Recently, Menio completed his project after detailing all 112 Ghosts the quartet performed up until this past New Year's Eve at Madison Square Garden. Myke's passion came through in each of his posts and we were impressed at how he [...]
Another archival Phish release is for sale through livephish.com : Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 6/20/95 . The filler tracks will please the harcore fans: the entire second set from 6/22/95 at Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua, NY, featuring the monster Tweezer that lasted 41 minutes before going into Tweezer Reprise . Liner notes from Phish Archivist Kevin Shapiro : It was hot and humid on Tuesday June 20, 1995 – the night after the Summer Solstice - when Phish [...]
You may have heard that The National, bless them, will be at P.S. 1 in New York this weekend, performing the same song — "Sorrow," from their album High Violet — for six hours straight, as part of a collaboration with artist Ragnar Kjartansson. According to the gallery, the show "continues [Kjartansson's] explorations into the potential of repetitive performance to produce sculptural presence within sound." That's all very well, but where does this fit into the hierarchy of insanely long shows? Read on to find out. [...]
The place: Washington, PA. The scene: a bar. The incident ? A fight about Phish tickets that ended in murder. And also suicide. No, seriously. Overly-devoted Phish fan Michael Marchines got into an argument with his friend and partner in Phish-following, Nate Roman, at a bar, ostensibly over $3000 Phish tickets, and then ended up shooting him multiple times outside of said bar Thursday morning. Marchines then ran down the road, when police found him by tracing his cell. He was already dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. Some people kill for love, some people kill [...]
Considering how many acts have played the New Orleans Jazz Fest numerous times, it's always been disappointing that Phish hasn't been asked back after their lone appearance at the Fairgrounds in 1996. Today, Phish keyboardist Page McConnell gave some insight into the reason as part of an interview with OffBeat Magazine . [Photo by Parker Harrington] McConnell, who kicks off a flurry of New Orleans appearances tonight at Republic with The Meter Men, explained the issue and espoused his desire to return to [...]
Many people are incredibly passionate about music. But can such passion lead to murder? Earlier this week in Pennsylvania, Nate Roman and Michael Marchines had an argument over tickets to a Phish concert. A short time later, both men were found dead . On today's episode of Rock it Out! Blog , Sami asks if you've ever had an argument with a friend over music that became violent. Can music be the source of disagreements so intense that physical violence can occur? Leave your war stories in the comment section down below. Make sure to follow Rock it Out! [...]
Did an argument over Phish tickets lead to a murder-suicide in Washington, PA early Thursday morning? According to CBS Pittsburgh , family members claim Nate Roman and Michael Marchines were inside a local restaurant around 2:30 AM when they got into a dispute over Phish tickets. Roman was shot and killed a short time later, and Marchines was found dead from a self-inflicted wound to the head. Check out a news report on the investigation.
On December 11, 2011 Phish bassist Mike Gordon brought his amazing five-piece solo band to The Egg in Albany, New York for a show audience members raved about in strong terms. Gordon has just offered an audio recording of the show up for release as a free MP3 download, pay FLAC and ALAC files and a limited-edition 3-CD set in deluxe packaging. You can purchase the 3-CD set through Dry Goods , while the downloads are available through LivePhish.com . The CD sets are [...]
The next archival release on CD from Phish looks to be a doozy as a listing for a compilation of two shows the quartet played at Ventura County Fairgrounds in 1997 and 1998 has surfaced on the always reliable Alternative Distribution Alliance website . Phish: Ventura is due on June 18th. The two shows took place on July 30th, 1997 and July 20th, 1998 respectively and each have a slew of highlights. This audio-only release will provide official recordings for two shows of which excellent [...]
Jam stalwarts Phish visited Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio each of the past three summers, but the band played their first headlining show at the venue way back in 1995. This afternoon, with little fanfare, a page appeared on the LivePhish.com website offering an official recording of Phish's Blossom debut in MP3, ALAC, FLAC and CD formats. [Screenshot] While there's no track listing on the page and the photo appears much more recent, you are able to purchase the FLACs and [...]
Record Store Day 2013 takes place on April 20th, exactly one week from today. Among the exclusive Record Store Day releases you'll be able to find, if you're lucky (there's only 1,200 copies up for sale), at your local independent record store will be a 73 from Phish front man Trey Anastasio dubbed "Blue Ash And Other Suburbs." Ever since we helped break the news on this release, there's been little known about the four songs included within. Let's run down what we know. [...]
Filed under: The Hit List HENRY DILTZ, AFP/Getty Images When Rhode Island's Newport Jazz Festival debuted in 1954, audience members sat in neat rows of folding chairs and applauded politely for acts like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet. Six years later, fans were so anxious to get into the festival, a riot occurred as ticket-less music lovers stormed the gates during a Ray Charles set, prompting a visit from the National Guard. [...]
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