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Phish Halloween Festival Update

{ July 1, 2009 @ 9:16 am } · { Festivals, Phish, Rumors, Video }
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Over the past few days, Phish.com has begun blacking out states on the map to narrow down the possible location of their Halloween festival. As you can see below, 9 states have been blacked-out so far – I’m not going to attempt to name the states as Geographay never was my forte, but you can see that California remains. I’m holding steady with my claim that the festival will take place at the Coachella festival site of Empire Fields in Indio, CA.

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While you wait for this mystery to unravel, enjoy this video of Phish peforming ‘Born Under Punches’ from their 1996 halloween musical costume of The Talking Heads classic album Remain In Light:

Also, check out tons more Phish Halloween vids here!

Phish Halloween Festival

{ June 26, 2009 @ 8:46 pm } · { Festivals, Phish, Rumors }
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Phish has announced a 3 day Halloween festival – to take place from October 30th to November 1st. While the band hasn’t officially announced the location yet – my sources tell me that the craziness will be going down at Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA (the site of Coachella).

Phish.com (5/26/09)

Phish @ Alpine 6/21 Tour Closer

{ June 22, 2009 @ 8:49 am } · { Audio, Phish, Phish Summer Tour 09 }
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The end of the road – last night, Phish took a bow on the first leg of their summer tour and their first tour in 5 years. This tour exceeded many a phan’s expectations including my own and left us all salivating for more. Let’s hope that Phish 3.0 can stay happy and healthy and keep things rollin’ down the road for more magic in 2009 into 2010 and beyond.

Phish ~ 6/21/09 ~ Alpine Valley Music Theater ~ East Troy, WI

6/20/09

Set I
Brother
Wolfman’s Brother
Funky Bitch >
The Divided Sky
Joy
Back On the Train
Taste
Poor Heart
The Horse >
Slient In The Morning
The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday >
Avenu Malkenu >
The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday
TIme Turns Elastic

Set II
Crosseyed and Paiinless >
Down With Disease >
Bug >
Piper >
Wading In The Velvet Sea
Boogie On Reggae Woman
Slave To The Traffic Light

Encore
Grind
Frankenstein

Set 1 Download
Set 2 Download

As the tour comes to a close, take a look back in the Welcome To Now archive with downlaods, pics, and more from every show of the tour. Go PHISH 3.0! For more reminiscing, check out a TON of great vids from this leg of the tour that made it on to YouTube. Finally, as always, check out Jambase’s coverage of the tour with beaufiful photo collages and setlists from the entire tour.

Phish – The Creek and The Valley Tour Close Out

{ June 21, 2009 @ 6:46 pm } · { Audio, Phish, Phish Summer Tour 09, Rumors }
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Tonight, Phish closes out the first leg of their summer tour with a Sunday night performance at the classic summer getaway Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI. The last two night’s have witnessed some pretty stellar song selection and fantastic playing. The second set jam sequences from Deer Creek are phenomenal – AHIHTOS > Drowned > Twist followed by a monster Tweezer > 2001 > Suzy Greenberg > Possum taboot. First time bustouts for the tour include The Connection and Sleeping Monkey at Deer Creek followed by Makisupa Policeman and Hendrix’s Fire at Alpine night 1. The band’s clearly pulling out all the stops for the end of the tour and it’s exciting to think of what is in store for this evening. Gamehenge classics Tela and Cololnel Forbin’s > Famous Mockingbird are yet to be brushed off by Phish 3.0. Anything’s possible, but my bets are on Hood, First Tube, Slave to the Traffic Light, Divided Sky, and The Curtain for tonight.

6/20/09

6/20/09 ~ Alpine Valley Music Theatre ~ East Troy, WI

Set I: Punch You in the Eye, Runaway Jim, Stash, Ya Mar, Bathtub Gin, Kill Devil Falls, Train Song, Farmhouse, Sparkle, Run Like An Antelope

Set II: Waves> Sample in a Jar, Maze, Makisupa Policeman, Ghost, The Lizards, You Enjoy Myself> NICU, Prince Caspian, Waste, Fire

Encore: Character Zero

Download Link – Set 1
Download Link – Set 2

End of Farmhouse, Sparkle, and Most of Antelope from 6/20:

6/20/09

6/19/09

Phish ~ 6/19/09 ~ Verizon Wireless Music Center (Deer Creek) ~ Noblesville, IN

Set One: AC/DC Bag, Limb By Limb, The Moma Dance, Water In The Sky, Split Open and Melt, Lawn Boy, The Wedge, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, The Connection, Ocelot, Fluffhead

Set Two: A Song I Heard The Ocean Sing > Drowned > Twist, Let Me Lie, Tweezer > 2001 > Suzy Greenberg > Possum

Encore: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise

Download Link – Set 1
Download Link – Set 2

Drowned from 6/19:

2001 from 6/19:

The end of a tour is always biterwseet, to ease some of the bitterness, enjoy these rumoured winter 2009 tour dates for the band with big stops at the Spectrum and MSG. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!

Phish RUMORED/UNCONFIRMED Winter 2009 Tour Dates:

11/21/09 – US Bank Arena – Cincinnati, OH
11/22/09 – US Bank Arena – Cincinnati, OH
11/23/09 – The Spectrum – Philadelphia, PA
11/24/09 – The Spectrum – Philadelphia, PA
11/27/09 – Times Union Center – Albany, NY
11/28/09 – Times Union Center – Albany, NY
12/2/09 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
12/3/09 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
12/4/09 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
12/5/09 – John Paul Jones Arena – Charlottesville, VA

New Years Run 2009
12/28/09 – American Airlines Arena – Miami, FL
12/29/09 – American Airlines Arena – Miami, FL
12/30/09 – American Airlines Arena – Miami, FL
12/31/09 – American Airlines Arena – Miami, FL

Phish – 6/18/09 – Burgettstown, PA

{ June 18, 2009 @ 8:16 pm } · { Phish, Phish Summer Tour 09 }
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Tonight, Phish kicks off a 4-night run that closes out the first leg of their summer tour. The run takes them from the Post Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown, PA on Thursday over to Deer Creek on Friday and Alpine Valley on Saturday and Sunday to close things out. This run promises to bring some first time tour bustouts (Forbin’s>Mockingbird?) along with one final rendition of heavy hitters like YEM, Ghost, Bowie, etc. Expectations are high so let’s cross our fingers and get this show on the road!

Post Gazette Pavillion

Set 1: Golgi Apparatus, Chalkdust Torture, Bouncing Around the Room, Wolfman’s Brother, The Divided Sky, Heavy Things, Walk Away, Wilson, Tube, Alaska, David Bowie

Set 2: Down With Disease > Free, Guyute, Piper > When The Circus Comes To Town, Harry Hood > The Squirming Coil, You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Grind, Hello My Baby, Hold Your Head Up > Bike > Hold Your Head Up, Loving Cup

Set 1 Torrent

Set 2 Torrent

Phish @ The Fox

{ June 17, 2009 @ 9:44 am } · { Audio, Phish, Phish Summer Tour 09 }
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Following their biggest show of the summer to the 80,000+ festivarians at Bonnaroo last weekend, Phish played the smallest venue of their summer tour last night – the intimate 4,500 person capacity Fox Theatre in St. Louis. The most hyped show of the summer and probably the hardest ticket, the Fox performance seemingly fell short of expectations (at least on paper). Despite the ‘McGrupp’ bustout in the encore and a 2nd set Mike’s Groove, the new song, ballad, and repeat heavy setlist has fans hailing this as the ‘sleeper’ show of the summer. Let’s just hope the boys are saving up for the tour-closing 4 show run comign up this wekend.

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6/16/09
The Fabulous Fox Theatre
St. Louis, MO

Phish @ The Fox - 6/16/09

Set 1
Kill Devil Falls
Ocelot
Brian And Robert
Sample In A Jar
Rift
Yamar
Reba
Train Song
Horn
Possum
Slave To The Traffic Light

Set 2
Halley’s Comet >
Runaway Jim
Frankie Says
Time Turns Elastic
Sleep
Mike’s Song >
I Am Hydrogen >
Weekapaug Groove
Boogie On Reggae Woman
Character Zero

Encore:
The Star Spangled Banner
McGrupp and The Watchful Hosemasters
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Set 1 Download
Set 2 Download

The Fox - 6/16/09

Check out the RiverFront Times review of the show here

A few YouTube snippets…

Character Zero:

Slave to the Traffic Light:

Roo’ Sightings

{ June 14, 2009 @ 9:03 pm } · { Audio, Bonnaroo, Bruce Springsteen, Festivals, Gov't Mule, Phish, Phish Summer Tour 09 }
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Some highlights from this weekend’s 2009 Boonaroo Music and Arts Festival – Bruce, Trey, and Warren get funky in Manchester:

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Phish @ Bonnaroo 6/14/09

Set 1: AC/DC Bag, NICU, Gotta Jibboo, Punch You in the Eye > Sparkle > Bathtub Gin, Character Zero >Tweezer > The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Run Like an Antelope, Mustang Sally (w/ Bruce Springsteen!), Bobby Jean (w/ Bruce Springsteen) >Glory Days (w/ Bruce Springsteen)

Set 2: Rock & Roll > Light > 46 Days Limb By Limb, Farmhouse, Backards Down The Number Line > Prince Caspian, First Tube

Encore: Suzy Greenberg > Tweezer Reprise

Trey and Bruce - 6/14/09

Torrent Link – Set 1

Torrent Link – Set 2

Bruce Springsteen @ Bonnaroo 6/13/09

Badlands, No Surrender, My Lucky Day, Outlaw Pete, Out In The Street, Working On, Dream, Seeds, Johnny,Youngstown, Raise Your Hand, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (sign request), Growin’ Up (sign request), Thunder Road (sign request), Waitin’ On, Sunny Day, The Promised Land, The River, Kingdom of Days
Radio Nowhere (w/Jay Weinberg on drums), Lonesome Day, The Rising, Born To Run

Encore: Hard Times, 10th Ave Freeze Out, Land Of Hope & Dreams, American Land, Rosalita, Glory Days, Dancing In The Dark

Bruce at the 'Roo 2009

Gov’t Mule @ Bonnaroo 6/13/09

Brighter Days, Don’t Step On The Grass, Sam, Banks of The Deep End, Trane (w/ A 3rd Stone From The Sun Jam)> St Stephen Jam, Helter Skelter, Creep, Beautifully Broken, One, Southern Man (w/ Grace Potter), Bad Little Doggie, How Many, More Years> Higher Ground Jam> How Many More Years, Soulshine (w/ John Ginty on Keys)

Check out this video of Warren from Bonnaroo 2009

Download – Torrent

Gov't Mule - 6/13/09

Phish @ Bonnaroo – 6/12/09 – Late Night on the ‘What Stage’

Chalk Dust Torture, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, The Divided Sky, Possum, Down With Disease, Alaska, Stash, Golgi Appartus, Wolfman’s Brother, Poor Heart, Kill Devil Falls > Free, Wading In The Velvet Sea, Harry Hood, Highway To Hell > 2001 > You Enjoy Myself > Wilson > You Enjoy Myself

E: A Day in the Life

Download Link

Torrent Link

Phish - 6/12/09

Check out tons of more great pictures over at Jambase of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4.

Phish – 6/10/09 – Knoxville, TN

{ June 10, 2009 @ 8:50 pm } · { Phish, Phish Summer Tour 09 }
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The Knoxville show – Phish’s last stop on their tour before arriving in Tennessee for 2 appearances at Bonnaroo this weekend. If you’re not headed to the ‘Roo, you can check out Phish, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, The Beastie Boys, moe. and more over at AT&T Blue Room this weekend. And if you’re not getting enough Phish coverage here at Welcome To Now, check out Jambase’s coverage of the tour featuring pictures and reviews from every show.

Phish ~ 6/10/09 ~ Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, TN

Set 1: Runaway Jim, PYITE, Ocelot, Foam, Train Song, Undermind, Mike’s Song -> I Am Hydrogen -> Weekapaug Groove, The Squirming Coil, Character Zero

Set 2: Back On The Train, Waves -> A Song I Heard The Ocean Sing -> David Bowie, Army of One, Reba, Julius -> Cavern ->Harry Hood

Encore: Frankenstein

Download Link Set 1

Download Link Set 2

6/10/09

Phish – 6/09/09 – Asheville, NC

{ June 9, 2009 @ 11:07 pm } · { Audio, Phish, Phish Summer Tour 09 }
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Tonight, Phish is back at in down in Asheville at the intimate 7,500 person capacity Asheville Civic Center. Notable first time bust outs for the tour include Gumbo, Halley’s, and Bold as Love (Hendrix) and the show also saw the debut of two more new additions to the Phish canon – Alaska (originally performed by TAB Band) and When the Cactus Is In Bloom (Bill Monroe cover). Overall an eclectic setlist but one that seemingly lacks flow on paper, not to mention the band has a tough feat to live up to the straight fire show they layed down in Camden. Either way, let’s hope the band keeps building steam as they continue on down the road to big Bonnaroo appearance in Tennessee.

6/09/09

Set I
Kill Devil Falls
The Moma Dance
Sample In A Jar
Stash
Dog Faced Boy
Gumbo
Tube
Lengthwise
The Divided Sky
When The Cactus Is In Bloom
Bold As Love