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Phish Festival 8 Stream, NYE Plans, and Beyond

{ October 29, 2009 @ 9:52 pm } · { Audio, Festivals, Phish, Rumors }
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For those of you not lucky enough to make it out to Indio for Phish’s highly anticipated Festival 8, you can still catch all the action over on Sirius’s ‘Jam On’ Channel which will be broadcasting Phish Radio 95.9 the Bunny all weekend long.  Don’t worry if you don’t have a subscription, you can sign up for a free 7 day trial here. The Bunny will of course carry all 8 sets of Phish this weekend, including the musical costume set and the Sunday high noon acoustic set. The exact festival schedule is below (all times are PST):

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL 8 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

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FRIDAY (10/30)
4:00PM Concert field opens
7:30PM Set 1
10:00PM Set 2

SATURDAY (10/31)
12:00PM Concert field opens
3:00PM Set 1
7:30PM The Halloween Set
10:00PM Set 3

SUNDAY (11/01)
10:00AM Concert field opens
12:00PM Acoustic Set
5:30PM Set 2
8:30PM Set 3

For all you Tweeters out there, you can keep on top of the festival goings on via PhishTwit.

With Festival 8 underway, and the mystery musical costume set soon to be revealed, the only remaining question is what the band has planned for New Year’s Eve. All signs still point to either 3 or 4 nights in Miami, likely to be announced a week or so following the festival. Other rumored dates include a few nights back at Hampton and 2 nights in Atlanta before continuing southbound.

NYE 03 Miami

While NYE is still up in the air – 2010’s plan seem more certain with a heavily rumored Trey solo tour in February followed by a Phish Europe tour in May.

Tie Dye Sky

{ October 19, 2009 @ 7:30 pm } · { Grateful Dead, Ratdog, Rumors }
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As we speak, the Empire State Building is being lit up in tye dye colors in honor of the Grateful Dead. Specifically, the celebration is for the opening of an exhibit at the New York Historical Society honoring the band and  cataloging the career and accomplishments as of one of America’s most socially influential bands. On Wednesday night, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh will attend a charity fundraiser to celebrate the opening of the exhibit.

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On a side note, rumor has it that Phil will be sitting in with Bobby tonight for the first of his 5 Ratdog shows in the city this week. Today is truly a proud day to be a New York Deadhead!

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Trey Anastasio Band to Tour in Feb. 2010?

{ October 14, 2009 @ 10:28 pm } · { Rumors, Trey Anastasio }
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Check out the screenshot below taken from a concert booking site – according to which Trey will be going on the road solo early in 2010 with a few dates in the Midwest and Northeast. I’m sure the boys will be ready for a break after Fall and NYE 09′ and this will be a good chance for Trey and likely Mike to get some space and go solo for a bit.

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Weekend Nuggets

{ October 3, 2009 @ 8:22 pm } · { Audio, Furthur, Gov't Mule, Phish, Phish Fall Tour 09, Rumors }
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Enjoy a few heady weekend nuggets, courtesy of yours truly, Welcome to Now blog:

1. Furthur SBD

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Furthur has begun circulating the sought-after Soundboard recordings from their recent debut run at the Fox in Oakland. Yesterday, they released the SBD for the first night – 9/18/09. It sounds phenomenal and is a real treat, check it out here:

Stream on Archive.org
Download Torrent – etree.org
Download (Matrix) – etree.org

2. Confirmation of Phish Fall Tour!

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While many like to say that no tour is confirmed til’ it’s on the dot-com, I’m gonna go ahead and say we have official CONFIRMATION of Phish’s upcoming fall tour! An Albany bar is advertising a post-Phish show after party with The Heayy Pets on Nov. 27th and Raisinhead on the 28th. This coupled with tons of independent sources independently confirming many of the dates below is confirmation enough for me, it’s on! Local hotels in Albany are almost sold out so grab a room fast while they last. The rumored dates are as follows:

Fall Tour 2009
11/20/09 – US Bank Arena – Cincinnati, Ohio
11/21/09 – US Bank Arena – Cincinnati, Ohio
11/24/09 – Wachovia Center – Philadelphia, PA
11/25/09 – Wachovia Center – 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

Additional possible dates include a Nov. 18th stop in the Motor City, and a Conan appearance and possible gig at the Hollywood Bowl before Festival 8 takes place. Look for an announcement on the 16th of October…

3. Mule tour close-out at the Warfield w/ Special Guests

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Gov’t Mule pulled out all the stops for the final show of their late summer/early fall tour that took place last weekend at The Warfield Theater in San Francisco. Warren and the boys brought out Jackie Greene, Grace Potter, and Jose Neto and rocked out on all the Mule classics and run throughs of the following set of choice covers: One of These Days (Floyd), Wish You Were Here (Floyd), Loser (GD), Morning Dew (GD), Empty Pages (Traffic), Wild Horses (Stones), Southern Man (Neil Young), and a smoking Mule > Who do you Love (Bo Diddley) > Whole Lotta Love (Zep) sandwich. Wow is just about all you can say to that. Give it a listen and check out some great pics from Jambase below:

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Time Turns Acoustic

{ September 25, 2009 @ 10:43 am } · { Audio, Festivals, Grateful Dead, Phish, Rumors }
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In a surprise move yesterday, Phish announced a special ‘crack of Noon’ acoustic set to take place at high noon on day 3 of Festival 8. The band also released the official schedule for their Halloween weekend jamboree as part of the announcement. In other Festival 8 news, Trey  gave two radio interviews this week to discuss the upcoming festival and the Phish reunion at large. For the most part, these interviews seems to be marketing tactics for the Festival which has been rumored to be struggling with below-desired ticket sales. As a result, these interviews are mostly fluff (not the good kind), though one interesting tidbit was revealed: the band had chosen a musical costume and learned half of it when Page vetoed the selection sending the band back to the drawing board. Some sources are reporting the shelved selection was none other than the Grateful Dead’s ‘Workingman’s Dead’…

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Speaking of the Dead, let’s not forget the critical role the band played in defining many of the now ingrained traditions of the jam world – from LSD soaked audiences to following fanbases to tie-dyes to the rarely played ‘acoustic set’. Let’s look back in time 29 years ago to the day to one of those special evenings where the Dead treated their fans to a special acoustic set (followed of course by a raging electric set for set 2) on their home turf at the Warfield in San Fran. Stream the crispy SBD here or download an audience recording here.

The Dead acoustic in 1980

The Dead acoustic in 1980

The Grateful Dead
9/25/80
The Warfield Theater
San Francisco, CA

Set 1 (Acoustic): Bird Song, I’ve Been All Around This World, Dark Hollow, Rosalie McFall, Monkey & The Engineer, It Must Have Been The Roses, Jack A Roe, Ain’t No Lie-> Ripple

Set 2 (Electric): Alabama Getaway-> Greatest Story Ever Told, Friend Of The Devil, Mama Tried-> Mexicali Blues, Loser, Little Red Rooster, Althea, Jack Straw, Deal China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Samson & Delilah, Ship of Fools, Playin’ In The Band-> Drums-> Wharf Rat-> Around & Around-> Good Lovin’

Encore: U.S. Blues

Ratdog in Vegas

{ September 8, 2009 @ 11:02 pm } · { Audio, Ratdog, Rumors }
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You gotta hand it to Bob Weir – the man just won’t quit. Weir and Ratdog just finished a massive summer tour and have more  2009 dates lined up with a week of fall shows in Philly and New York City. Then, in January 2010, the Dog’ is off for their annual winter getaway in Jamaica. While all seems to be as expected in the Bobby camp, lots of rumors have emerged in recent months that this year’s Jamaica excursion could be the official winding down of Ratdog and the band’s last shows. Only time will tell, but I’ll say this – catch em’ while you can. And go Bobby!

In the mean time, check out this show from one the of final shows of the summer tour in Sin City, Las Vegas. Bobby may be goin’ to hell in a bucket, but at least he’s still enjoying the ride…

Bobby - 9/2/09

Bobby - 9/2/09

Ratdog
9/02/2009
The House of Blues
Las Vegas, NV

Weir w/ Jackie Greene - 9/2/09

Weir w/ Jackie Greene - 9/2/09

Set I: Viola Lee Blues > Maggie’s Farm, Baby Blue, It’s All Over Now > She Says > Liberty > Viola Lee Blues

Set II: Stealin@, Mexicali Blues@, Friend of the Devil@, Two Djinn > Stuff > Stella Blue* > Viola Lee Blues* > Throwing Stones*

E: Gloria*

@-Acoustic; *-with Jackie Greene (Guitar/Harmonica/Vocals); Bob, Jeff, and MK sat in with Jackie Greene on “Deal”; Jackie Greene opened

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Getting Phishy

{ September 1, 2009 @ 9:32 pm } · { Phish, Rumors }
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Things are getting Phishy around here…

More news on the upcoming Phish fall/winter tour, this time coming right from the mouth of Mike ‘Cactus’ Gordon himself. Gordo states that Phish is “definitely doing some playing, in the soon future i think”… Whatever the hell that means – he’s reportedly “very excited” about it. All signs point to the originally rumored fall tour dates being announced in the coming weeks, likely the same week as the official Joy album release on September 8th.

Mike's Wook

In the soon future I think?

Some more good Phish reading here – an interview with the band’s sound crew on all the latest gadgets they use these days to power the band and capture them in their element for the LivePhish series. Check out their work over at the LivePhish site where they’re slinging SBDs of every show within a few hours of the last notes.

Phish Sound Crew

Phish Sound Crew

Finally, speaking of Soundboards – some rare 98 and 99 SBDs recent surfaced mysteriously, check em’ out over at Hidden Track for some good listenting. There’s tons of goodies to go around – a long ‘Colonel Forbin’s Ascent'(w/ narration, a Neil Young Sit-In, some serious 98 funk (see ‘Ghost’ and ‘Cities’), and the rarely performed ‘Bittersweet Motel’.

Biscuits for Thanksgiving Dinner and New Year’s Dessert

{ August 25, 2009 @ 10:35 pm } · { Audio, Disco Biscuits, Rumors, Upcoming Shows }
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More rumors amuck today – this time in the Bisco camp. Word is the band is making a Thanksgiving weekend homecoming to the Electric Factory in Philly for Friday and Saturday performances on November 27th and 28th. Additionally, rumor has it that the band will return to the Nokia Theater in Times Square, New York City for a 5-NIGHT (!) New Years run.

Camp Bisco 8

Camp Bisco 8

Bisco just won’t let up in 2009 – playing more shows than recent years including an upcoming monster of a fall tour to promote their  long awaited new album – ‘Planet Anthem’ – that will likely in January of next year. Check out the first two tracks off the forthcoming album here.

Phish Fall Tour and NYE 2009

{ August 22, 2009 @ 5:11 pm } · { Phish, Rumors, Upcoming Shows }
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The dates rumored here over two months ago are seeming more and more certain for Phish’s fall and NYE plans. Sources inside the Phish org are confirming the below dates, and also the possibility of an April 2010 European tour. Other uncorrobated rumors include a pre-Festival8 run including The Hollywood Bowl, a Conan appearance, and a stop in Denver at a location TBD. Additionaly, it looks as if the boys may make a mid-week stop in Worcester between their Albany and MSG dates in the fall. While nothing’s confirmed until it’s on the Phish.com, I’d say go ahead – get excited, make travel plans, get ready for winter Phish, the tastiest kind!

OH YEA!

OH YEA!

Winter 2009
11/20/09 – US Bank Arena – Cincinnati, Ohio
11/21/09 – US Bank Arena – Cincinnati, Ohio
11/24/09 – Wachovia Center – Philadelphia, PA
11/25/09 – Wachovia Center – 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

Phil’s New Phriends?

{ August 12, 2009 @ 9:23 pm } · { Dark Star Orchestra, Phil and Friends, Rumors }
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The rumor mills are churning today with news that Phil Lesh is getting together a new band consisting of Bob Weir, John Kadlecik (Dark Star Orchestra’s faux-Jerry), Joe Russo, and 2 other mystery members. The band is supposedly doing a short run at the Fox Theater in Oakland, September 18-20th. Bets are on as to the other members – likely Baracco, Segal, or Molitz on keys and a 3rd guitar player? We’ll just have to wait and see on the details, hopefully coming soon.

Phil Lesh: Then

Phil Lesh: Then

There are a lot of mixed feelings out there about Phil enlisting John K. but it’s hard to argue with his jedi-like mastery of the Jerry songbook. It sure will be interesting to see how John and Bob mix in the same band – I, for one, see a steam locomotive trainwreck, rolling down the tracks. Time will tell, and until it does let’s just rejoyce that Phil is making moves and keepin’ the music alive.

And Now

And Now

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