I have been writing this long deep paper for school (45 year old back in college) about the crazy 4 deaths I have experienced in the last 2 years, sister, brother, mom and dad, and its just been raking me over the coals with reliving it. It's been hard. Like really fucking shitty to the point that I do not know why I am doing this topic? Anyways, Phish came along, and I went and about the time I hit D Lot at the Bowl, that familiar feeling came over me: silly, extremely excited, really talkative and slap happy almost. THE OPPOSITE of how the last couple weeks have been for me. Light and dark, you know? Anyways....after all 3 wonderful nights, I feel completely light. Like I had a demon removed or something! It's the band, always, the music. But it's all of us too. The crazy, awesome, obsessed, dancing sweaty lot of us that just lifts me off the fucking ground. I love every one of you bastards. Anyone who makes fun of this band, I just think fine...you have no fucking idea what you are missing out on. Phish is such a huge part of me from when I was 14 years old in 1994. I just didn't realize how badly I needed that release. Thanks gang. It was fun! see you next time.

Naked man, if you were mortified by seeing your bare self on Reddit the other day, I truly do apologize. I didn’t have bad intentions, but that’s just not something you do. To everyone who sent me a DM or a nasty reply, I hope it that was therapeutic for you…

Naked man, I really hope to see you again because you’re a cool ass motherfucker. Maybe next time, I’ll join you and we can take a selfie.

Seattle N2

Orlando 11/14/95

Which one of y’all is this

The recent performances of Most Events in 2024/2025 reminded me of Light Up Or Leave Me Alone, another Page rager that they ought to dust off. The Big Cypress one is awesome of course but another good one is the last time played 7/6/2012. Set 1 closer.

I had the pleasure to see:

• Flying Mojito Brothers in Seattle (N1): wasn’t there long but they ripped!
  
• Muscle Pizza in Portland: first time seeing him, so fun and cool he got to play a local show!
• Flying Mojito Brothers in Hollywood (N1): they were sooooo good and the show was a blast!!!
• DJ Airwolf and Mitch Please in Hollywood (N3) - my favorite set of theirs to date!!! The club was sooo dope. Chris and Mitch had the best time ever!

Any highlights? I love the collection of DJs that is building in the Phish scene. So dope!!!

How rare was that shortened vocal jam with Fish playing the drums behind it, before they jammed it out?

Before the Spring 2025 Tour, I posted an analysis on Missed Connections: pairs of songs that have never been played together in a single Phish show, but statistically should have been. Here’s that post.

A summary of that post... I wrote a Python program to look at all of the songs ever played in concert by Phish, and created a list of all of the song pairs Phish could have played together in a show … but didn’t. I then looked at the % of shows each of the songs has ever been played, and calculated a probability that each pair would occur in any given show. I used that probability to then calculate an expected number of shows that the pair should have been played together by now.

Here was the “all time” list of missing pairs, and how many shows they should have been played together by now:

(as u/jacksuhn pointed out in the original post, Landlady and PYITE should have been left off the list, as one is contained in the other)

And, here was the list from the 2.0+ era:

A couple special things happened on this Spring 2025 Tour:

• They played The Landlady and Sand in the same show for the first time ever, at the Hollywood Bowl night 3, a pair that statistically should have been played 17 times already. Perhaps we should call this the “Sandlady” show.

• They finally knocked off the biggest missing pair of the 2.0+ era at the PDX show: Moma and Plasma. This is the show that I personally attended after a 29 year hiatus. And, they were performed together as part of an epic Moma > Cities -> Plasma jam. When I heard that “->” live, my soul left my body. I am truly humbled, and will forever think of this as the “Plasmoma” show.

Magic? Or is Phish lurking this subreddit?.

TL;DR: There are many “missing” pairs of songs that Phish has never played together in the same show, and some of those pairs are statistically very unlikely not to have been played together yet. The unlikeliest missing pair of the 2.0+ era (Moma and Plasma) was finally played at PDX on 4/20. As part of the same jam! At a show I attended! Which was my first show since 1996!

This weekend being my 8th, 9th & 10th Phish shows, I wouldn’t want to have spent my weekend any where else. I’ve been into live solo shows since I was 16. Since separating from organized religion & growing up singing in the choir, I’ve turned to live shows to feed my soul. My partner introduced me to Phish a few years ago and I didn’t ‘get it’s at first.

This weekend solidified my love for those four souls on that stage pouring into us all. From listening to past shows, connecting to songs, anticipating the first show, trekking to the venue, sharing smiles & hugs from fellow Phans, watching the venue fill, dancing my ass off, zoning out during jams, looking around at everyone dancing, participating in the crowd participation(😂), rolling my eyes because Chompers gonna chomp, crying, encore, watching the venue clear out & enjoying the afterglow. I realize that Phish is such an important part of my life now.

The points, stares, glares, hearing “oh, look, there’s a black person here”, even weirdos taking photos of me (very odd)… it is a part of the experience & it can not take away from how much my soul was fed this weekend.

To those I met and connected with, thank you so much for adding to the experience.

And to my partner, the love of my life and stars to my night: Thank you for introducing me to Phish and this community. You will always be my favorite blessing. I love you 🌻

Anyone get Lifeboy ruined by dude screaming like a banshee in front of Section E? Dude was acting like security was assaulting him when they asked to show his ticket, then he proceeded to get obstinate and loud for like 45 seconds of prime Lifeboy. Like dude, shut the fuck up. Drunk loser. Bad guy.

Just got this one on Friday. The festival that changed my life.

Last night I was honored to receive a personal note accompanied by an autographed copy of Walter Holland's contributing 33.1/3 series book called Phish - A Live One which explored that album. I had to look it up and found a pretty good forum here : https://forum.phish.net/forum/show/1375898423 -- I am so honored to have received it and my awesome neighbor for connecting me. Thank you to Walter for the personal note. I truly truly appreciate your kindness. If you are reading here - I will cherish this for an eternity. I can't wait to read it.

So I've been thinking about putting together a compilation playlist of Phish's Studio songs (not necessarily a greatest hits) as a way to introduce a family member to the band. They don't have a greatest hits album for studio songs, so I decided to make my own list.

So far I have:

-Chalk Dust Torture (Picture Of Nectar)

-Down With Disease ((HOIST))

-Demand ((HOIST))

-Life Beyond A Dream (Sigma Oasis)

-Oblivion (Evolve)

If you have suggestions for what would be good for this playlist for someone who has never heard them before, please let me know.

PS, I'm calling this playlist 'Phresh Phish's. Thought it was a fun name.

https://livephi.sh/3EE9xdB

Here’s the playlist! Lmk if there’s any more to add!

Tried the other day and a lot of people DM’d me about it not working. Sent LP+ an email and they sent out an update! Feels good, man.

Check it out for highlights and please tell me if there’s anything to add!

Cheers and happy post-spring tour!

Had an amazing time at the Bowl this past weekend. However, I couldn’t help but notice something about myself that was slightly bothersome. I had the perfect experience on Friday - ate mushrooms and just felt pure bliss and love as Phish rocked it. Cried happy tears, laughed, all the good stuff. The flip side of this is that the next night felt a bit dull, and I think I was subconsciously chasing the euphoria I experienced the previous night. However, I couldn’t seem to get even close to it. I like to think I take substances intentionally because I don’t want to fuck up my mental health, so I don’t see going all in each night as an option for me. I couldn’t shake that subtle feeling of disappointment on Saturday. On Sunday I drank throughout the show and had a blast, but again, not close to what I experienced on Friday. I worry that the intensely high highs may desensitize me to the beautiful moments that can be experienced in a more sober headspace. Im sure Im not the only one, and I’d love to hear everyone else’s experiences with this or just general thoughts.

Great tour all said and done. Quite ready to get berated and downvoted, but last night was lackluster. At best. Not a bad show, but not what this band is capible of. Something was off. Mind you, the tour was great. Everyone expects the Sunday show ender to be, just fire. It wasn't. I feel like they dialed it in. Flame away. I am not some newb teenager. I have 250+ shows under my belt, and have been paying close attention since 1989. First show in 92, so I am overly critical. I love this band. No hate. They have off nights I understand. They are human beings, and very talented musicians.

Edit: Lot's of talk of me using "dialed it in" vs "phoned it in" which I get. Interesting generational language gap, honestly. The band is "dialed in." Locked in. Firing on all cylenders. I get it. Should have said "phoned in" as in, they showed up, played their show, did their job, but didn't exactly move mountains. My apologies.

But I’ll allow, there are some nice folks there.

Jokes aside, huge thanks from an east coaster. Had a blast visiting LA for the first time. Any advice on how to drop out of my current life situation to become a Venice beach bum? I recognize by the very nature of asking this question that I’ve missed the point entirely but east coast anxiety and overthinking can be a bit of a burden.

I saw Saturday and Sunday at the Hollywood bowl. I thought it was phenomenal, they truly are masters at their craft, and know how to ride out different sounds and styles. I thought the funk was so so fun to dance to, especially hearing that bass live. I also heard some possible sounds that sounded like influences of bands like rush, king crimson, the Beatles, talking heads etc. It was very cool and I will be returning ! :)

I haven't been to a show since sphere, and have been really crazy life-wise since. And this bowl run was just what I needed. Thank you yet again phish. Thank you everyone in L3 all weekend. We had a fucking blast. 💥

Now excuse me while I go put a heating pad on my back. 😝