10/30/2009 – Festival8, Indio CA

First off, Happy Halloween!  It’s the second-most important day on the Phish calendar. I know everybody is probably looking forward to tonight, but in case you forgot, we had a show last night!
As an aside, just right now this minute I have been chatting with a cool guy Hideki from Tokyo who has come over [...]

8/16/1996 – Clifford Ball

With the upcoming Halloween show imminent, it would certainly seem logical for me to delve into the archives and review a past Halloween show.  However, some good recordings of the Clifford Ball recently became available, so I thought maybe I’d take a different tack and take a look back at the festival that started the [...]

8/5/2009 – Shoreline Ampitheatre

Between the epic Red Rocks stand and the also highly anticipated Gorge run, Phish made a pit stop in California.
I: Golgi Apparatus, Halley’s Comet, Chalkdust Torture, Divided Sky, When the Circus Comes to Town, Time Turns Elastic, YaMar, Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan, Suzy Greenberg, David Bowie**
II: Backwards Down the Number Line, Down With [...]

6/12/09, 6/14/09 – Bonnaroo

Phish’s highly anticipated Bonnaroo sets have now come and gone, pretty much according to how everybody expected them to go.  For the most part, the band played two pretty straightforward shows – lots of songs popular among casual fans, a well-known guest, and the jamming was not exceedingly exploratory.  Still, the shows were pretty solid, [...]

3/8/2009 – Hampton Colliseum, Hampton VA

Finally getting around to posting the review of the 3rd Hampton show.  The first two shows were pretty solid considering a 5 year layoff.  How does the finale of the weekend stack up?
I:Sanity, Wilson, Foam, Bathtub Gin**, Undermind, AC/DC Bag -> My Friend, My Friend, Scent of a Mule, All of These Dreams, Maze, She [...]

07/22/1997 – Walnut Creek, Raleigh NC

I can still remember the first batch of live Phish shows I ever got on cassette tape.  I had a buddy Aaron who was a few years older than me.  He looked like he was perpetually on tour, and used to play pretty much nothing but Phish anytime we hung out.  Eventually I got interested [...]