Welcome To Now would like to dive into some of our favorite moments from the Phish MSG run that just wrapped up in a series we’ll call ‘WTN Picks’. Here’s our first ‘pick’, a funky Tweezer from 12/28 (Night 1) that features some great jamming, teases (Streets of Cairo), plinko-funk, and inspired leads from Trey. One of many amazing type II jams from the boys on night 1 of the run. Give it a whirl!
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Welcome to 2012!
Happy new year! Stay tuned for a whole new brand of WTN. Here’s what’s got me excited today:
PHIL LESH – TERRAPIN CROSSROADS LAUNCH!
PHIL'S NEW TERRAPIN
PHISH NYE RUN! WHAT A RUN IT WAS, LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT!
Contact -> Sample official vid
GREAT review of Night 1, the best of the run
Lots more to come, but what I wanna know is….
Phish Retrospectives: NYEMSG Night I
In the first of three nights at the Garden for New Year’s Eve run 2010, Phish laid down a rock-heavy, hits-heavy performance that didn’t miss a beat from start to the finish. The first set clocked in at nearly 1 hour and 45 minutes, with an ending suite of Bathtub Gin, Fat Man in the Bathtub (first performance since 10/31), Timber, and the double dose set closer of Golgi and Character Zero. Needless to say, energy was flying high leading into the second set.
Poster by Ken Taylor © Phish 2010-2011
The band capitalized and delivered a best-hits-esque second set that followed a similar path to JB II Set 2 2010, with big hitters Tweezer, Light, Hood, My Friend, My Friend, and Axilla I. The overall vibe was straightforward rock-your-face, with a playful psychedelic undertones in the form of a fun and peaking Fluffhead and a space funk’d 2001. Give it a listen, download, or audio/video stream below!
Phish 12/30/2010 Ticket Stub
Phish
12/30/2010
Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
Set 1: Cities, Chalk Dust Torture, Gumbo > Quinn the Eskimo, Halley’s Comet > Camel Walk*, Maze, Driver, Bathtub Gin, Fat Man in the Bathtub, Timber (Jerry) > Golgi Apparatus, Character Zero
Set 2: Tweezer** -> Light > Theme From the Bottom > My Friend, My Friend***, Axilla > Fluffhead > Boogie On Reggae Woman -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > Suzy Greenberg
Encore: Run Like an Antelope > Tweezer Reprise
* – P.A. cut out
** – 19 min Long
*** – No “Myfe” ending
Stream the Show Here (Audio)
Stream Set 1 Here (Video)
Stream Set 2 Here (Video)
WTN Jam of the Night: Tweezer
Honorable Mentions: Light, Fluffhead, Run Like an Antelope
Welcome Back To Now
Hey y’all, uh… testing 1 2 3… Is this thing on? Okay, good. Has the time come for Welcome To Now 3.0? We think so, and hope you’ll agree.
To get things back and started again, here’s a sampling of what’s making news this week around the web. Stay tuned for furthur updates, more phishiness, a healthy dose of untz, and lots more music for you folks!
Warren Haynes drops title track from forthcoming ‘Man In Motion’ solo disc:
Pre-Order ‘Man In Motion’ here, you can even get a Warren Bobblehead!
Watkin’s Glen President Tweets Himself into Phishy Quagmire:
theglenprez on Twitter
WTN’s take: Fest is on; date, other bands now in question…
Jam In The Dam Returns in 2012:
JITD 2012
Mike Throws Down 2 Nights of Heady Jamz at BK Bowl:
Mike's Bowl
Setlists, reviews, vids, and photos here!
News Flash – Wooks Love MSG Ghost:
And here’s #3 compliance of the real thing…
Phish Summer Tour Leg I Finale
Phish closed out Leg I of their Summer Tour 2010 with 2 smoking July 4th celebration shows at Encore Park in Alpharetta, GA. Check out setlists, DLs, and choice vids below. What a weekend and what a start to 2010 – Bustouts galore, tons of new covers, diverse new song debuts, and (albeit with some rough spots) some serious jamming and true Phish 3.0 gems. Be sure to also visit the Phish Summer Tour 2010 Download Library for audience recording MP3/Torrent links for every show of the tour! Enjoy, and let the countdown to the Greek begin (30 days and counting!)…
07/03/10 ~ Encore Park ~ Alpharetta GA
Set 1: Character Zero, Destiny Unbound, Rift, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Bathtub Gin, Mountains in the Mist, NICU, Gumbo, My Sweet One, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Strange Design, Sanity, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Rock and Roll -> Prince Caspian, Tweezer -> Slave to the Traffic Light, Bouncing Around the Room, Possum, Backwards Down the Number Line, Harry Hood -> Loving Cup
Encore: Sleeping Monkey, Tweezer Reprise
Set 1 DL
Set 2 DL
Torrent DL
Buy LivePhish SBD
07/04/10 ~ Encore Park ~ Alpharetta GA
Set 1: The Star Spangled Banner, Punch You In the Eye, Colonel Forbin’s Ascent > Famous Mockingbird, Camel Walk, Ocelot, Heavy Things, My Friend, My Friend, Lawn Boy, David Bowie, Gotta Jibboo
Set 2: Down with Disease -> Piper -> Ghost -> Waste, Julius, Mike’s Song -> Tela, Harpua -> Killing in the Name* -> Harpua -> Weekapaug Groove
Encore: First Tube
* – Debut (Rage Against the Machine)
Phish in Charlotte – 7/02/10
07/02/10 ~ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater ~ Charlotte, NC
7/02/10 Set 1 Pic
Set 1: Buried Alive > AC/DC Bag, Vultures, Wolfman’s Brother, Back on the Train, The Wedge, Mexican Cousin, Stash, Sparkle, Chalk Dust Torture
Set 2: Drowned -> 46 Days -> Twenty Years Later, The Lizards, Carini -> Fuck Your Face -> 2001 -> You Enjoy Myself
Encore: A Day in the Life
* – w/ “Proud Mary” and “Get Back” vocal jam
** – Last played 04/29/87
Set 1 MP3 DL
Set 2 MP3 DL
Torrent DL
This guitar’s gonna Fuck Your Face cause it knows how to SCREAM!
Phish Start Final Four With Big Bustouts
Phish
07/01/2010
Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
Raleigh, NC
7/01/10 - Light Up Or Leave Me Alone
Set I: Llama*, Roses are Free$, Kill Devil Falls, Time Loves a Hero**, Alaska, Water in the Sky, Runaway Jim, The Moma Dance, The Divided Sky, Cavern
Set II: Backwards Down The Number Line, Halley’s Comet> Light, Fluffhead, Have Mercy***, Light Up or Leave Me Alone#> Free, Wading in the Velvet Sea, The Squirming Coil, Suzy Greenberg
Encore: Boogie On Reggae Woman
* – Last Time Played 08/16/2009
$ – Last Time Played 08/02/2009
** – Last Time Played 12/31/2002
*** – Last Time Played 12/10/1999
# – Last Time Played 12/30/1999
Set 1 MP3 DL
Set 2 MP3 DL
Torrent DL
Phish at Great Woods
PHISH ~ COMCAST CENTER ~ MANSFIELD, MA ~ 6/22/10
Set 1: Lit O’ Bit*, Camel Walk, Possum, The Divided Sky, Dirt, Sample In A Jar, Kill Devil Falls, Dr. Gabel**, Run Like An Antelope
Set 2: Mike’s Song -> I Am Hydrogen -> Weekapaug Groove, Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley -> Light -> 46 Days, Limb By Limb, Golgi Apparatus, Slave To The Traffic Light, Loving Cup
Encore: First Tube
* – Debut (Rita Clarke & The Naturals)
** – Debut (Original)
Set 1 MP3 DL
Set 2 MP3 DL
Torrent DL
More Stirrings of Phish Fest in Limestone 8/27-8/29
A new comment was received today here on Welcome To Now Blog regarding the rumor that Phish is looking to do an end-of-summer festival after Jones Beach. Here is the comment verbatim:
IT Festival 'Tower Jam' - Loring AFB
“Fistyphisy Said on June 22, 2010 at 12:20 pm:
This is totally confirmed… I was backstage at the Saratoga NY show the other night. I am 100% sure that the road after Jones Beach leads to Limestone ME. Phish has rented out Loring Air Force base for the weekend of Aug. 27th, 28th and 29th. This was confirmed by a member of the band and two stage hands (at different times of the night). This is what was stated, “We looked at a place in New Hampshire, the international speedway, it would have been perfect, but they have an event planned already and we were too late. We had to go with the ol’ stand by and book Limestone”. – Undisclosed Band Member.
This is so low key that only a few people back stage knew about where the festival was. However, I talked to others that knew about the festival, but didn’t know where yet. For example, I talked to the bands set/show photographer and he was told that he was booked for a festival in late Aug., but was not told where. He was told to keep the dates open for a Phish weekend festival. I also talked to a guy on the sound board that knew about a festival in late Aug. but stated, “I can’t tell you anymore than that, stay tuned”.
Aerial View - Lemonwheel Festival at Loring AFB
As this past weekend progressed from Hartford->Spac, there was a newly revived comotion about a late summer festival and word getting out from close to the band. Nothing’s confirmed yet folks, but let’s all hope for a return to Limestone this summer! Stay tuned to the NOW as things continue to unfold for Phish Summer 2010!
Phish Storms The Northeast
Sorry for the delayed posting folks, WTN Blog was sharin’ in the groove this past weekend at the shows and, unlike some other harder-working bloggers, vacation means vacation here in Welcome To Now land! That being said, so much to say/hear/see from this weekend, let’s get right to it NOW… Get your heady Setlists, Pics, Vids, DLs, and more… all here for your enjoyment on Welcome To Now.
Hartford Official Poster
6/17/2010 ~ Comcast Theatre ~ Hartford, CT
Set 1: Punch You In the Eye, Ocelot, Dinner and a Movie, Stash, Esther, Walk Away, The Divided Sky, When the Circus Comes, Sugar Shack, Alaska, Golgi Apparatus
Set 2: Party Time, Down with Disease -> Sand -> The Horse -> Silent in the Morning, Guyute, Farmhouse, Mike’s Song -> I Am Hydrogen -> Weekapaug Groove
Encore: Shine a Light
Set 1 DL
Set 2 DL
Torrent DL
Pics
6/18/2010 ~ Comcast Theatre ~ Hartford, CT
Set 1: Fee, Rift, Wolfman’s Brother, Summer of ’89*, Foam, Possum, The Moma Dance, Julius, Reba, Cavern
Set 2: Halley’s Comet -> Light -> Billy Breathes, Tweezer -> Theme From the Bottom, Harry Hood, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan
Encore: Sleeping Monkey, Tweezer Reprise, Tweezer Reprise**
* – Debut (New Trey Song)
** – Played a second time for Hershey Park 6/13
Set 1 DL
Set 2 DL
Torrent DL
Pics
SPAC Poster
6/19/2010 ~ SPAC ~ Saratoga Springs, NY
Set 1: Tweezer Reprise, Chalk Dust Torture, Funky Bitch, Runaway Jim, Ya Mar, Sample in a Jar, Axilla -> Fluffhead, Bathtub Gin, Suzy Greenberg
Set 2: Rock and Roll -> Free, Backwards Down the Number Line, Halfway to the Moon* -> Prince Caspian, Joy, David Bowie, Show of Life
E: The Squirming Coil, Character Zero, Tweezer Reprise
* – Debut (New Page Song)
Set 1 DL (coming soon)
Set 2 DL (coming soon)
Torrent DL (coming soon)
Pics
6/20/2010 ~ SPAC ~ Saratoga Springs, NY
Set 1: Brother*, AC/DC Bag, Back on the Train, Undermind, Cities, Gotta Jibboo**, Roggae, Sleep Again, Lawn Boy, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: Carini -> The Mango Song, Wilson, Drowned -> Swept Away -> Steep -> Makisupa Policeman, Piper# -> 2001 -> You Enjoy Myself
E: Frankenstein
* – w/ Band members’ children in a tub on stage for Father’s Day!
** – w/ Tony Markellis (TAB Band) on bass and Mike on guitar
# – w/ Multiple Makisupa Teases
Set 1 DL
Set 2 DL
Torrent DL
Pics
Tons more Videos from all the shows HERE!
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