Hey y'all -- been a while!

I just had a revelation while at the brewery and a song came on the jukebox. This is possibly embarrassing... so please roast me if necessary.

Aerosmith's Love in an Elevator came on. And it was immediately familiar because of Phish's cold open clip on Fallon earlier this year.

I thought they just came up with a cute little tune to sing in the elevator, but it turns out it was just a funny reference to this Aerosmith song.

That is all. Anyone else not know any of the "deep cuts" of Aerosmith and thought this was just a funny little tune they came up with?

Sorry to the Aerosmith fans out there. They got some great tunes, not gonna lie. Just didn't really get much play on my discman or ipod over the years.

Where has it gone?

Like the title says... I'm an idiot. I'm the guy who posted about having Phish posters to sell on Black Friday, and completely biffed the landing on my effort. I want to thank everyone who dragged me through the mud, as you were all correct about my stupid pricing, and for making people click my link instead of just being upfront... I'm always happy to admit when I'm wrong, and this is one of those times. Long story short, I tried to rush my research, and was looking at EB trends with a skewed perspective. I took a closer look at things and have dropped my asking prices significantly to better align with reality, lol. Honestly, I really just want to see my posters find good homes rather than sitting for another 2 or 3 decades being unenjoyed in storage. In case people are wondering, I'm now asking $1600 for the Shoreline '00 Pollock, and have lowered everything else that I am offering by a proportional amount. I am happy to answer questions from anyone who wants to reach out, and am open to (serious) offers on anything as well, in case I am still out of line with my values.

Bought this tape when the band played at my college in (Johnson State, Johnson, VT) On a snowy night in April.

The algorithm is learning too fast.

As some of you know, I write for the animated TV comedy American Dad, and I managed to sneak in some more stealth Phish content! Much like some gentlemen we all know, Stan and Francine Smith have been getting mail delivered to their house for a previous resident, Mr. A. Miner. The difference is Stan and Francine try to track down Mr. Miner and return it. The episode airs tonight, Monday, December 2nd on TBS at 10pm/9 central! Then I believe it airs on Adult Swim the following week and streams on TBS.com. I’ll keep you posted!

This show has the Gumbo that made A Live One. Plus some rando opener.

Hey, so as someone had asked in my post about looking for Roo, I'll share my Glens Falls Halloween travel adventure. I must admit, I'm a little concerned the guy I'm speaking about is here on Reddit somewhere; I don't want to get lit up for sharing this story. This will be in parts since I seem to be wordy so here's part one:

So back in ’91, yes I’m old, is when I became a Phish fan.  A friend in college, college being in Upstate New York (this will be important enough later) played a live on tape song for me and the rest was history.  Could swear it was Icarus (not Icculus) but I can’t find anything online about it.  The tape was his.  

This Glens Falls Halloween show adventure of course was 30 years ago so some details are a bit fuzzy these days and I probably blacked some things out of my memory in order to protect my brain.

After graduation, I came back to Chicago and started trading cassette tapes of shows with folks around the country here and there, nothing major, but during the budding days of the internet.   I can’t remember what group I found where I was doing this through but came across a guy who was out west and had lots of shows.

We became friendly enough that I was able to get a few shows from him that I had been to around here such as the OJ show in Milwaukee.  Great show, by the way, one of my favorites.

Anyway, my brother was at school in Boston and him and his friends were able to get tickets to the Glens Falls Halloween show in 1994.  I hemmed and hawed about going since it was about a 12 1/2 hour drive for me and I had no travel pal.  Ultimately I decided on a whim to go, you only live once, and my brother got me a ticket.

I must’ve mentioned it somehow in the group or told the guy out west, let’s call him Hal, I don’t remember his name at this point, and he decided he wanted to go. I believe I then asked my brother if he could get one more ticket and he did.

So Hal hopped a bus to Chicago.  Mind you, this is before cell phones became ubiquitous and before the internet was a big thing, so I’d not spoken to this guy or seen a photo of him or anything.

I only knew this guy as a tape trader and knew nothing about him so already this is nuts as a smaller stature woman in my mid-20’s not prone to putting myself in potentially harms way with male strangers like this.

He arrived in Chicago and I picked him up at the bus station downtown.  Right off the bat, he was a bit grumpy.  As far as I can remember, he didn’t really have a bag with him or much of anything and he was a bit of a mess.  Not trying to judge, but my concern about my life’s choices here was peaked.

Part two coming soon.

Was moving and found this nugget.

Dry Goods has A Live One and Junta up right now on vinyl

Looking for your favorite spots to eat after the show. I’m staying in midtown.

Today In Phishstory - December 2nd

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Phish, Wednesday 12/02/2009 (15 years ago) MSG, New York, NY, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 2009 Fall Tour

Set 1 : AC/DC Bag > Chalk Dust Torture , Wolfman's Brother > NICU , Ocelot , Brian and Robert , Poor Heart , Sample in a Jar , Peaches en Regalia > Divided Sky , Cavern

Set 2 : Golgi Apparatus > Light > Slave to the Traffic Light > Tweezer > Joy , Sparkle > Harry Hood > Wading in the Velvet Sea , Suzy Greenberg > Run Like an Antelope ^1

Encore : A Day in the Life > Tweezer Reprise

1 Lyrics changed to "Been you to have any Mike?"

Jamchart Notes:

Light - A multi-section improvisational heavyweight, which includes rhythmic, chordal play, upbeat major mode exploration, and a return to minor mode rocking with dynamic variation and great contributions by Page, Mike and Trey.

Show Notes:

Peaches was played for the first time since September 24, 1999 (188 shows). The lyrics to Antelope were changed to "Been you to have any Mike, man?".

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Phish, Tuesday 12/02/2003 (21 years ago) FleetCenter, Boston, MA, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 2003 20th Anniversary Run

Set 1 : Harry Hood > Cavern , Birds of a Feather , Ya Mar , Horn > Piper > Anything But Me , Water in the Sky , Down with Disease

Set 2 : Rock and Roll -> Weekapaug Groove ^1 -> Tweezer Reprise ^2 > Frankenstein -> Kung -> Frankenstein , All of These Dreams , The Wedge , Boogie On Reggae Woman > Cities > Maze , Waste

Encore : Bug

1 Unfinished.
2 Mike's Song lyrics sung by Trey.

Jamchart Notes:

Piper - Dissonant high power jam in this 20th Anniversary show version.

Rock and Roll - Very good, multi-section version breaks from "R&R;" into a pulsing, funky and bluesy groove. From there, it settles with solid instrumental effects, before regaining momentum and -> to "Weekapaug." (w/o any "Mike's").

Boogie On Reggae Woman - 20th Anniversary edition. The jam shifts in the last minute to set up the segue into "Cities".

Maze - > in from "Cities." Technically "Type I," yes. But this is one of the most unusual, cool versions ever performed, starting with Page's section, and continuing into Trey's. You gotta hear this one!

Show Notes:

This gig commemorated the 20th anniversary of the first Phish show. In the audience, a section of seats were roped off to make way for a music stand. The music stand held a three-ring binder that contained lyrics from the Phish canon, but it did not play an active role in the performance. Ya Mar contained teases of The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana). At the end of Disease, a video screen descended behind the stage. As the house lights remained down, a 25+ minute video was played featuring retrospective highlights from throughout Phish's career. Before the second set, Mike brought out a tray of desserts and shared them with fans in front of the stage. Highway to Hell was briefly teased by Trey before Rock and Roll. Weekapaug was unfinished. Tweezer Reprise included lyrics (sung by Trey) from Mike's Song. Appropriately, the post-show house music was the Beatles' song Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (which begins with the lyric, "It was twenty years ago today…").

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Phish, Thursday 12/02/1999 (25 years ago) The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 1999 Winter Tour

Set 1 : Runaway Jim , Farmhouse ^1 , Heavy Things , Roggae , Run Like an Antelope , Wading in the Velvet Sea , Poor Heart > Sample in a Jar > Free , The Squirming Coil

Set 2 : Boogie On Reggae Woman , Gotta Jibboo , Bathtub Gin -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > You Enjoy Myself ^2 -> The Little Drummer Boy ^3

Encore : Bold As Love

1 Slightly different arrangement, with an additional chorus at the end.
2 Silent jam.
3 Ended with Fish alone onstage.

Jamchart Notes:

Boogie On Reggae Woman - Wah-groove from Trey.

Bathtub Gin - The standard "Gin" jam morphs around 14:25 into a raging, intense "Piper"-like beast before flaming out and -> to "2001."

Also Sprach Zarathustra - The Space Birds are out in full force. All kinds of originality, none of the cliche riffs.

You Enjoy Myself - Odd glam-rock repetitive jam segment. Silent jam. -> to "Little Drummer Boy" VJ. (No B&D.;)

The Little Drummer Boy - -> in from the "YEM" vocal jam. A capella version.

Show Notes:

Farmhouse featured a slightly different arrangement, with an additional chorus at the end. Antelope contained Roggae teases from Trey. YEM included a silent jam. Little Drummer Boy emerged from the YEM vocal jam and ended with Fish alone onstage. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.

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Phish, Tuesday 12/02/1997 (27 years ago) CoreStates Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 1997 Fall Tour (a.k.a. Phish Destroys America)

Set 1 : Buried Alive > Down with Disease ^1 -> Makisupa Policeman , Chalk Dust Torture , Ghost > Divided Sky , Dirt > Taste , The Star-Spangled Banner

Set 2 : Mike's Song -> Simple ^2 -> Dog Faced Boy -> Ya Mar ^3 -> Weekapaug Groove , Bouncing Around the Room , Character Zero

Encore : Ginseng Sullivan > Sample in a Jar

1 Unfinished.
2 Trey/Page musical duet.
3 Fun play on the actual lyrics.

Jamchart Notes:

Mike's Song - Exceptional single jam version which begins in funk/rock mode and grows increasingly powerful until 8:30, when the jam shifts into serious funk mode. After 12:00, the jam quiets to delicate, introspective play, before regaining its original juggernaut sense of power and -> to "Simple." This is entire Mike's Groove is must-hear material.

Simple - Features a Trey and Page duet. A gorgeous, must-hear version which -> to a must-hear "Dog Faced Boy" which -> to a must-hear "Ya Mar."

Dog Faced Boy - -> in from "Simple." A beautiful and inspiring "DFB" follows a gorgeous "Simple" jam, and is part of a HUGE "Mike's Groove." -> to "Ya Mar" as the great stuff keeps coming.

Ya Mar - -> in from "Dog Faced Boy." Jam quickly moves away from conventional "Ya Mar" structure into a rhythmic, grooving foray with building intensity. "Crosseyed And Painless" tease," and a fantastic -> to "Weekapaug."

Weekapaug Groove - Thrilling, smooth -> in from "Ya Mar." This version completes a fantastic "Mike's Groove." "Weekapaug" starts off more slowly before coming up to speed, then dives into the thick funk. Swiftly after 6:00, the jam blasts off into an upbeat groove that keeps building, working the crowd into a frenzy by 10:00. A must-hear version.

Character Zero - Mellow - or offbeat - by "Zero" standards, the version, strangely musical, produces a fun and surprising "tripping up the steps" sensation. The band, clearly energized, performs at a much slower tempo, the song's customary forceful vibe created by shouting and Trey's deliberate, scuzzy soloing.

Show Notes:

Disease was unfinished. Trey teased Lazy in Chalk Dust Torture and Close to the Edge in Taste. Simple featured a Trey/Page musical duet. Dog Faced Boy was played for the first time since August 12, 1996 (109 shows). Ya Mar included a fun play on the actual lyrics and a Crosseyed and Painless tease. Trey teased Izabella in Weekapaug. The soundcheck's Funky Bitch featured Trey on vocals and Page quoting The Joker. This show was released as part of the Spectrum '97 box set.

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Phish, Monday 12/02/1996 (28 years ago) America West Arena, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 1996 Fall Tour

Set 1 : Rocky Top > AC/DC Bag , Bouncing Around the Room , You Enjoy Myself , I Didn't Know , Theme From the Bottom , Gumbo , Julius

Set 2 : Ya Mar , Divided Sky , Wolfman's Brother > Taste > Free , Scent of a Mule ^1 , Harry Hood , Sweet Adeline

Encore : Fire

1 Unfinished.

Jamchart Notes:

Taste - Strong '96 version with fantastic Trey playing as well predictably strong Page work. Big peak at the ending.

Show Notes:

Scent of a Mule was unfinished.

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Phish, Saturday 12/02/1995 (29 years ago) New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 1995 Fall Tour

Set 1 : Prince Caspian , Runaway Jim , Mound > Guelah Papyrus , Reba ^1 , My Sweet One , Free , Taste That Surrounds , Bouncing Around the Room , Possum ^2

Set 2 : Also Sprach Zarathustra > Maze > Simple -> Faht ^3 , Tweezer > A Day in the Life > Golgi Apparatus , The Squirming Coil , Tweezer Reprise

Encore : Bold As Love

1 No whistling.
2 All Fall Down signal.
3 Fish on acoustic guitar.

Jamchart Notes:

Maze - > in from "2001." Hard to believe one of the all-time hose versions of "Tweezer" comes two songs after the boys detonate this cluster bomb.

Tweezer - Even more serious "HOSE" in the entire version. Just awe-inspiring!

Show Notes:

Reba did not have the whistling ending and Possum included an All Fall Down signal. Faht featured Fish on acoustic guitar. Tweezer contained Take Me to the River teases and Squirming Coil contained a Carol of the Bells tease from Page. This show is available as an archival release on LivePhish.com.

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Phish, Friday 12/02/1994 (30 years ago) Recreation Hall, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 1994 Fall Tour

Set 1 : Poor Heart > Also Sprach Zarathustra , Sparkle > Simple -> It's Ice > The Lizards , Stash , The Squirming Coil

Set 2 : Chalk Dust Torture > David Bowie ^1 , Buried Alive ^1 > Julius ^1 , The Landlady ^1 , Gumbo ^1 > Caravan ^1 , Suzy Greenberg ^1

Encore : Cavern ^1

1 Cosmic Country Horns.

Jamchart Notes:

David Bowie - The usual pugnacious, mean-spirited jam until 13:45, when it sounds like it's wrapping up. But then the band delves into more exploration. Throw in the Cosmic Country Horns for the trill section, and you've got yourself another "Big" improvisational version.

Show Notes:

The Cosmic Country Horns came in at the end of Bowie and played until the end of the show. Horns players included Dave Grippo on alto sax and percussion, Carl Gerhard on trumpet, Michael Ray on trumpet, James Harvey on trombone, and Peter Apfelbaum on baritone sax, tenor sax and flute. This version of Gumbo appears on A Live One . The opening act was Dave Matthews Band.

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Phish, Wednesday 12/02/1992 (32 years ago) Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 1992 Fall Tour

Set 1 : Suzy Greenberg , Foam , Divided Sky , Fast Enough for You > Poor Heart , Stash , The Lizards , Sparkle , Horn > You Enjoy Myself

Set 2 : Wilson ^1 > Possum , Mound > Tweezer , Tela > Llama , Glide , Hold Your Head Up > Lengthwise > Hold Your Head Up , The Squirming Coil > I Walk the Line ^2 , Runaway Jim

Encore : Golgi Apparatus , Rocky Top

1 All Fall Down, Simpsons, Oom Pa Pa, Random Note, and Aw Fuck! signals.
2 Fish on washboard.

Jamchart Notes:

You Enjoy Myself - The intro to "Wedge" is in the jam segment!!

Possum - Interesting start to the jam leads to a tense, somewhat dissonant remainder with great playing by Trey.

Tweezer - Weird jam, that was a "Big Ball Jam" at one point. Goes from beautilful/melodic to thrashing "Tweezer" jam off and on.

Show Notes:

Trey teased Fire (Ohio Players) in Divided Sky. Wilson began with a Yesternow tease from Trey and contained All Fall Down, Simpsons, Oom Pa Pa, Random Note, and Aw Fuck! signals. Page teased Call to the Post before Lengthwise. I Walk the Line featured Fish on washboard.

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Phish, Sunday 12/02/1990 (34 years ago) The Front, Burlington, VT, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 1990 Tour

Set 1 : Llama > Bouncing Around the Room , Runaway Jim , The Asse Festival , Dinner and a Movie > You Enjoy Myself , Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird , The Landlady , Possum

Set 2 : Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove , Gumbo , Foam , Stash ^1 , Magilla ^1 , The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg ^1 , Rocky Top ^2 , Ya Mar ^3 , Run Like an Antelope ^3

Encore : Lawn Boy ^1 , Golgi Apparatus

1 Dave Grippo on saxophone.
2 Russell Flanigan on fiddle.
3 Dave Grippo on saxophone and Russell Flanigan on fiddle.

Jamchart Notes:

Rocky Top - Dave Grippo and Russ Remington on saxophone. No recording available.

Show Notes:

Stash, Magilla, Suzy, and Lawn Boy featured Dave Grippo on saxophone and Rocky Top through Antelope featured Grippo on saxophone and Russell Flanigan on fiddle. Trey teased Buried Alive in Stash.

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Phish, 1989-12-02 Stevens Dining Hall, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT, USA

Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/phish-december-02-1989-stevens-dining-hall-lyndon-state-college-lyndonville-vt-usa.html

Tour: 1989 Tour

Show Notes:

Phish, Friday 12/02/1988 (36 years ago) Molly's Cafe, Boston, MA, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 1988 Tour

Set 1 : The Sloth , Golgi Apparatus , Bold As Love , Take the 'A' Train , Divided Sky , Contact , You Enjoy Myself , I Didn't Know ^1 , Good Times Bad Times

Set 2 : Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues , The Lizards , David Bowie ^2 , Fee , Dinner and a Movie , Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird , The Ballad of Curtis Loew , Possum

1 Fish on trombone.
2 Lyrics changed to "Charlie's Birthday."

Show Notes:

I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone. David Bowie's lyrics were changed to "Charlie's Birthday."

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Phish, Friday 12/02/1983 (41 years ago) Harris-Millis Cafeteria, UVM, Burlington, VT, USA

Gap Chart, Tour: 1983 Tour

Set 1 : Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress ^1 , Proud Mary ^1 , In the Midnight Hour ^1 , Squeeze Box ^1 , Roadhouse Blues ^1 , Happy Birthday to You ^1

Set 2 : Scarlet Begonias ^1 > Fire on the Mountain ^1

1 Phish debut.

Show Notes:

Trey, Mike, Fish, and Jeff Holdsworth performed what is believed to be their first public gig together as Phish on this night. The band was short on equipment, so a hockey stick was used as a microphone stand. Between sets, the DJ spun some Michael Jackson and Trey drummed along to the album. The house music (which included more Michael Jackson) was presumably turned up after Fire to drown out the band. The setlist may be incomplete, though, as the master recording contains nothing after Trey's sarcastic comments about Michael Jackson following Fire on the Mountain. All songs were, of course, Phish debuts. Back in Black was teased before Scarlet Begonias. While this show is often billed as an ROTC Halloween Dance that took place on October 30, 1983, this is incorrect. The master copy of the recording of this show, as unearthed by Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro, contains a handwritten note that pegs the date as December 2, 1983. In discussions with Kevin, band members confirmed that they recall rehearsing for this show over the Thanksgiving Break, and that the show was a Christmas semi- formal. Also, it was not an ROTC-sponsored event; it was a dorm dance in a predominantly ROTC dorm (Mike's dorm at the time). It was long believed that the band's name for this show was "Blackwood Convention" but Trey advised in a 2019 radio interview that "we were never fucking called 'Blackwood Convention.'"

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Trey Anastasio

Trey Anastasio Band, 2014-12-02 9:30 Club, Washington, DC, USA

Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-december-02-2014-930-club-washington-dc-usa.html

Tour: TAB - Fall 2014 Tour

Show Notes:

Trey Anastasio Band, 2005-12-02 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, USA

Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-december-02-2005-warfield-theatre-san-francisco-ca-usa.html

Tour: TAB - 70 Volt Parade Fall 2005 Tour

Show Notes: The Hackensaw Boys opened. A pre-recorded version of "70 Volt Parade" was played over the P.A. as the band took the stage. "Bitch" (Rolling Stones) was a TAB debut. After "Sweet Dreams Melinda," Trey apologized to Mick Jagger for screwing up the words to "Bitch." "Waves" and "Loving Cup" were performed solo acoustic. "Invisible" was performed with Trey on acoustic and Jennifer and Christina providing backing vocals. After Invisible," Trey scolded the audience for throwing things at him, not just at this show but over the course of the entire tour. "Iko Iko" (Dixie Cups), "GDTRFB" (Traditional), "Eyes," and "Casey Jones" (Grateful Dead) all featured guest performances by Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart and were TAB debuts. Prior to "Casey Jones," Trey claimed he "just taught Tony this song."

Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon, 2016-12-02 The Cannery Ballroom, Nashville, TN, USA

Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/mike-gordon-december-02-2016-the-cannery-ballroom-nashville-tn-usa.html

Tour: Not Part of a Tour

Show Notes:

All the tickets available I find on CoT are behind stage or nose bleeds not even gonna check stub hub… I usually don’t have this much trouble finding decent tickets. Don’t get me wrong I’ve spent a lot of shows behind stage or side view. I spent Albany on the side of the stage, and many many more behind the stage. But I miss the lights. (I know beggars can’t be choosers)I don’t think we’ve had that much of an influx of new fans… The only reason I can come up with besides normal inflation is all the people that missed Gamehendge last year are kicking themselves and aren’t willing to miss another new years…. I haven’t missed a NYE show in 13 years. One way or another I’ll be in that building!!

Amazing what can be done with a director's chair, a bucket, some garbage bags, and a little American ingenuity!

My buddies and I weren't properly prepared for the first Phestival, but by The Great Went we implemented some adjustments that made things run a lot more smoothly...

There’s pictures of different artists with quotes saying how great Madison square garden is surrounding the buildings walls. I didn’t see a Phish photo but it might be because of the construction going on around the building? There’s a Taylor swift one for crying out loud. There should be a statue of Trey if anything

holy heck what did I just hear

Today Phish played their first concert at UVM in the Harris Millis Cafeteria.

Hope all is well with you and yours.

Edit: I’m an idiot. I honestly thought it was the 2nd today.