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!! Volume 16 – Issue 1 4 From the Editor’s Desk – STTF #55! A note from Christy to you, loyal Midwest Summer 2017 reader. 5 Everybody Loves Statistics – We asked 200 fans their thoughts STAFF about NYE Run, Mexico, Summer Tour & some other things… here’s what they said! Editor-in-Chief/Publisher 6 Sustenance – Here’s the first of three recipes we’ll be offering this Christy Articola summer – by Dick’s you’ll have an entire three course meal to prepare Senior Artist 7 Fest Food – Summer Camp Music Festival is pretty popular – and Drew Suto known for its food options, as well as its music! 8 1-4-3-2-4-5 Gotta Jibbrew! – A list of great beers and breweries for Assistant to the Editor you to try while traveling the midwest Randy Furciniti 9 Read The Book – An article about STTF’s Read the Book Club, and a Contributing Writers review of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series Brian Brinkman, Matt Burnham, 10 My First Show - Your first show is a life-changing experience. In this Jenny Chadbourne, Jake Cohen, issue’s column, Windi looks back on her first show – 12/7/97 at Caroline Cooley, Jessica Coughlin, Dayton’s Nutter Center Vince DiFabio, Amy Fischer, Anna 10 My Favorite Jam Ever – Sometimes, it’s impossible to choose a fave! Forina, Randy Furciniti, Karilynn 11 Hooked – What song or show hooked you and made you a fan for life? Galiotos, Stephen Gripp, Carla 11 Twenty Years Later – A brief look back at 1997’s European Tour Hamilton, Sydne Kasle, Stu Kelly, Adam King, Linda Geddes Lawrence, 12 Noteworthy New Year’s Run – Set lists and reviews from NYE Run Gary Lerner, Amy Beth Luchans, 2016-2017 Graham Major, Mike Mellor, Terri JS 14 Magnificent Mexico – Set lists and reviews from Phish: Riveria Maya Molitor, Windi Noble, Nick Stock, 2017! John Thinnes, Anthony Tortorici, Lisa 16 Trey Times Two – Reviews of Trey’s solo acoustic show in Troy, NY, Walker, Brian Weinstein and TAB at the Fillmore in Philly

Contributing Artists 17 STTF’s Midwest Summer Tour 2017 Tour Guide- Everything you Brandy Davis, Maria DiChiappiari, need to know to rage summer tour in style! Paul DiLena, Cassidy Helman, Ryan 21 Parks, Planes, & Pop Art: Fun Things to Do During the Midwest Kerrigan, Veronica Murphy, Cori Run – If you’re doing the Midwest run, you may find yourself with some Richards extra time for sightseeing! Here are some great suggestions of things to check out In these three cities. Proofing Crew 22 Ladies Who Phish – Although women are often in the minority at Jen Buckstein, Katie Flannery, Josh Phish shows, the women you’ll find at Phish shows are some of the Fleet, Jackie Hamlin, Peter Hile, Amy Beth Luchans, & Julie Piwowarcyzk coolest women on earth! 23 Still Walking: Kyle Johnson’s Walk Across America, Part 3 – Phish Contact Us! fan Kyle Johnson is walking across America to raise money for an [email protected] orphanage in Kenya – check out where he is now, and his next steps, Facebook! no pun intended! Facebook.com/sttflow 24 I Saw Jess Lynch with a Ticket Stub Album in Her Hand! – New Jersey artist Jessica Lynch creates beautiful albums for you to store Subscribe! your ticket stubs. Surrender to the Flow will always be 25 Remembering Colonel Bruce Hampton (Ret.) - May he rest in peace free on lot, but if you’d like our next – he lived loud and vibrant – and said goodbye doing exactly what he four issues delivered right to your loved best. door, PayPal $20 to us at [email protected]. Thanks! 30 Celebrations – Celebrate, and Phish tour celebrates with you! Here’s a list of important events in the lives of our fellow fans. STTF is produced, edited, and designed by fans of the band Phish and other music friendly people. 30 Rad Libs – Fill in the blanks for some comedy and laughs – this time, a No part of this publication may be reproduced list of things you should NOT say to a police officer without written consent from the editor. STTF is 31 Ten Songs by Four (Five) Guys – A fun and tricky crossword puzzle in no way affiliated with Phish, Elektra, JEMP, Dionysian Productions, Red Light Management, or about our favorite band! anything else for that matter—we just like to 32 FREE Printable Coloring Page from The Helping Friendly Coloring Book! write, draw, create, and put together a publication – Print and color, and enjoy! for all of you. Enjoy. really ready yet anyway for that And so that’s what I did. I picked up extensive of an adventure. As riders for the rest of the tour. I met people. I sold summer 1997 approached grilled cheeses. I slept in the car at rest areas. I though, I was definitely ready. saw some incredible shows. I figured it out – I’d turn 21 that summer, and because that’s what we do. And it was worth it, Twenty years later, I’m still upside after a few weekend Phishing trips to places like absolutely. I returned home after The Went a down. Truly! Hampton and! the like, it was time. I bought a changed person, a person who had just seen A few years ago, in 2014, I wrote here mini-van. I meticulously researched miles and much of her entire country, had just fallen more in about my first show, and that year being my routes and made detailed day-by-day budgets of love with a band than anyone thought possible, twentieth anniversary of seeing this band, on July how it would go, and did mental math on how and who had just had the best time of her short 10th of that year. Twenty years! Crazy! much I could potentially make off selling grilled life so far. Reflecting back on your first show is nostalgic cheeses. I talked two classmates that I’d seen Since then, I have seen most or all of and emotionally intense in so many ways, some shows with into joining me, and all three of every tour Phish has played. I’ve actually cut especially since it was as that anniversary neared us spent the beginning of Summer 1997 working back a little over the past few years and this that I realized I’d been seeing this band for more hard and saving money like crazy as soon as the summer I’m only seeing nine, which is the first than half my life; I had experienced countless semester ended, right up until the day before time I’ve done fewer than half of a tour’s shows adventures thanks to them, and had developed departure. since Fall 1996. It’s been a wild ride and I am so so many incredible relationships with some of the They liked Phish, but even then, I was glad I have had the opportunity to see as many best people in the world as a result. It’s been a already more devoted to Phish than they were. as I have, as frequently as I have, and as crazy journey; it’s overwhelming really, and even Therefore, we decided against doing the whole consistently as I have. I will always look back so more overwhelming when I recognize summer tour. We chose to skip the first couple of weeks fondly on my first tour, and I can’t believe it has 2017 as another deeply personal Phishiversary and drive cross country, visiting places we’d been twenty years since then. In retrospect, I am for me, because although I was fortunate enough never been and National Parks we wanted to amazed at all I have experienced thanks to this to see Phish for the first time in 1994, and see see. The plan was to drive across the middle, band. Truly, after all this time, after all these two other shows that year, and a handful each then to the Pacific Northwest, then down the years, after all those shows and friends and year that followed, Summer 1997 was my first California coast, to the Grand Canyon, then hop miles… it has made me the person I am today. I TOUR, and, well, as you can see, it really kind of on tour in Phoenix and do the rest of Phish tour often wonder what twenty-year-old me of took off exponentially from there. through the Went. Although this wasn’t a “full Summer 1997 would think of me today, and think Summer 1997 was the summer tour” I realize now – it was certainly a great deal of all of this journey; obviously, back then, I between my junior and senior years of college. I more traveling than I’d ever done, and more couldn’t have imagined what was ahead. I went to Fordham University in the Bronx for consecutive Phish than I’d ever before couldn’t imagine this magazine or these travels or undergrad, and there were a handful of Phish considered seeing. the amazing jams I’ve heard or all the friends I’ve fans who also attended with me, people “like us” Unfortunately, the two girls I left home made, I’m sure. It’s really incredible to think were definitely in the minority. Don’t get me with realized pretty quickly that being on the road about; time is just a indescribable, unbelievable wrong – I made a lot of awesome friends in wasn’t for them. Looking back, I think they were thing. As is life, in general, too. college at Fordham and had a fantastic time, but probably pretty over it on or about day three – So, this summer, as I look back on my there just weren’t that many Phish fans there, or and by day seven, they decided they were last twenty years of touring and my last twenty- even people of a similar mindset. running out of money, and they wanted to go three years of Phish, I am sure I will think a lot However with that said, there were a home. By this point we were in Idaho, and I tried about that first tour I did, and all that has handful of us, and with the wonderful centralized to explain to them that it would be different once happened since. And those girls who bailed? proximity of NYC for Phish during the late 90s, we hopped on tour, we could work food and Well, I have no hard feelings against them. This we were able to commute to quite a few shows drinks and make money, and days wouldn’t be so band, this life, this way of living is not for during the school year, and still make it back in expensive. everyone. Like Jerry Garcia once said, “Not time for class the next day. Furhtermore, I’m They weren’t having it. They told me if I everybody likes licorice, but the people who like from Albany, so it was also easy to hit some wanted to go home, they would ride back with licorice, really like licorice.” I LOVE licorice. And, northeast summer shows without much effort in me. Thanks, but no thanks. I didn’t want to go well, they just didn’t. general. And I did. home – not one bit. Fine, they said. We will stay And further, looking back, I’m glad my But sometime during the Fall of ‘95 I with you until Phoenix, and then we will go to one first tour was tough. It made me realize how started to become familiar with the idea of TOUR. show, then fly home – no hard feelings, and best important this was (and still is) to me, that it was Some kids I knew from high school had done of luck to you. clearly worth the hard times, in order to some Dead tour, and I remember the first time And so they did. experience all the good and beauty that Phish they mentioned it me I thought that meant they Suddenly I was a twenty-year-old girl, tour has to offer. We are so freakin’ lucky to have worked for the band or something – in what all alone in Arizona, far from my friends and found this, and to still have it. Whether this is capacity, I had no idea. I remember leaving family and wondering what I’d gotten myself into. your first tour or your twentieth year of touring, Providence ’95 and hearing some people talking I had a few friends from college who lived on the you know that. Best wishes for an awesome about what their plans were for the “day off” from west coast to hang with for those shows, which I summer tour, everyone. Have fun, be safe, make tour – sleeping, visiting family, and so on – and it did, but after the Gorge, I knew I’d be solo again. friends, give thanks, rage hard, and dance even was in that moment that I really understood that I was nervous about this prospect, and over the harder – I’ll be doing all those things. See you tour was not just a thing – but a thing that maybe long distance phone line, my parents were too. out there! Much I could do. That I should do. That I needed to But I was determined – this was what I wanted to love, everybody!! do. do, and what I wanted to be doing. I’d make it I thought about doing Summer ’96 but I work. got a job at a camp and looking back, I wasn’t 62% of fans do not We asked 300 Phish fans think they will play their thoughts and feelings in Mexico again in about NYE, Mexico, Summer 2018. 51% of fans Tour, and some other things. wish they would Here’s what they had to say! though (27% of that 51% want them to so By Christy Articola; Lakewood, CO they can go again, and 73% want them to so they can finally get there!). 35% of fans would rather see them play a destination run NYE Run somewhere else instead.

21% of fans attended all of NYE Run this year, and another 25% went to at least some of the shows. Of the 52% who did not attend, Summer Tour 2017 25% streamed the whole run, and 53% streamed at least some of it. When asked about feelings about the plans and route and venues and dates for this year’s summer tour, 17% of fans love what Phish 48% of fans felt that the best night of NYE Run was the third night, has in store for us this year. 50% think its okay or fine, and the but 31% liked New Year’s Eve best. 48% of fans thought the best remaining 33% feel somewhat disappointed. set of the whole run was 12/30’s Set II, with all other sets lagging far behind it; NYE’s Set II and 12/29’s Set II tied for second with only 65% of fans say they have rather high expectations for this year’s 15% of the vote going to each. summer tour from a musical standpoint; 32% rank their expectations as moderate. As for best jam of NYE Run, there was a near tie between 12/30’s Tweezer > Sparks and 12/28’s Golden Age – they received 20% The average number of shows being seen by the average fan and 18% of your votes, respectively. Other honorable mentions go this summer is five, although 8% of fans aren’t seeing any. 2% to the Ghost that followed that Tweezer > Sparks on 12/30 (13%), plan to go to all of them. The largest percentage of fans, 25%, are going to three, and 6% are attending thirteen. Martian Monster > Tweeprise Jam > Martian Monster from 12/28 (8%), Light from 12/30 (7%), and Hood from 12/29 (7%). 48% of the people who answered our survey will be attending Dick’s

Trey won MVP of NYE Run by a long shot with 49% of votes going this year, making it the most highly attended run of this summer. to him; the remainder of the votes were divided pretty equally The show with the least planned attendance is Pittsburgh, only 17% are going to that. among Mike, Page and Fish.

47% of fans report that they loved the Petrichor NYE gag this 50% of fans say they went to more Phish shows last summer year, and another 34% said they liked it. 17% thought it was ok, than they will this summer, but 33% are going to more this and 2% didn’t really dig it. summer than last summer. 18% are going to the same number of shows this summer as last summer.

Mexico 43% of fans say that the venue they are personally most excited 12% of fans attended Phish’s shows in Mexico this year. Most of about this summer is Dick’s; 31% feel that way about MSG. 17% of the people who didn’t attend did stream it though; 22% of fans fans are most amped about the Nutter Center. However, with that reporting streamed all of it, and 36% streamed at least some of it. said, 47% think that the best show of the summer will occur at MSG, 30% of fans in our survey did not stream it. compared to 38% who think it will happen at Dick’s.

54% of the fans that answered our survey felt that Night Three was the best night of the Mexico run this year. 37% liked Night Two Random Questions better, and only 8% liked the first night best. We asked survey respondents to choose their three favorite overall years of Phish – ever. 63% of fans chose 1997 as one of As for best set of the Mexico 2017 Run, 44% felt that it was Night their three choices, and that was the strong frontrunner. Second Three’s Set II; Night Two’s Set II came in second with 34% of the place went to 2015, which received 37% of fan votes, and third votes. place went to 1998 with 28%. Honorable mentions also went to

1994 (23%), 1995 (20%), 1999 (18%), and 2013 (15%). Votes for best jam of the Mexico run were kind of all over the board, but three shined through – fan favorites were first night’s At this point in time, 66% of fans would say they are just as into Fuego (19%), second night’s Mercury > Light (17%), and third Phish as they ever were, whereas 20% feel that they are more into night’s Down with Disease (8%). Phish than they used to be, and 13% consider themselves less into Phish than they once were. As was the case with NYE Run, Trey again won the coveted MVP of the Run award with 40% of fan votes, and again, the other three The average Phish fan has visited thirty of our fifty states, but band members split the rest of the votes pretty evenly. only 1% have been to all fifty.

73% of fans did not attend the Mexico shows in either year, but 23% of Phish fans say they have traveled internationally quite a 7% went both years. bit; 58% have a little. 18% of fans have not traveled internationally, though.

By Anthony Tortorici; Brooklyn, NY

~Meal Twenty-Six | Part 1~

It’s like the old song goes, “summer’s here and the time is right for… eating like you’re going to the chair.” Maybe that’s not how it goes, but if you’re anything like me, summer is probably when you socialize the most. Socializing, as it turns out, tends to involve a lot of eating, drinking and some more eating. Sharing a meal with someone is personal. Even if nothing is said during that time, information is exchanged. !"#!$#%&!'())*+%&,!-.)/0%&12!3$!4!5556)#%&7())*+%&68.9 There is communion. Taking that idea a step further, what’s more personal than sharing a meal with people you love (or people you’d like to love) that you yourself made? We’ve covered a lot of recipes here in the last eight years, ranging from simple to more complicated. But typically, they’ve all been stand-alone items. With these next three issues of Surrender, we’re going to cover a complete meal: a starter, a main and a dessert. These recipes all come from The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria, a beautiful book by one of the most celebrated chefs in culinary history. The book has step-by-step photos and is laid out as meals as opposed to just stand-alone recipes. Of course, you’re welcome to mix and match; I highly recommend it! Meal Twenty-Six is: fish soup, sausages with mushrooms and oranges with honey, olive oil and salt. All of these recipes will be for six people, but you can easily scale it down to two to four people or up to nine to twelve.

~Fish Soup~ Ingredients: • Garlic cloves: 9 • Olive oil: ! cup • Mix of whole fish already cleaned*: 2 pounds • Sweet paprika: 2 tablespoons • Water: 8 ! cups • Bread (day old is good): 2 ! slices • Pastis (or other anise flavored liqueur): 2 dashes • Sofrito**: 4 tablespoons

Procedure: 9. Process the soup with a handheld blender until smooth. 1. Coarsely crush the garlic cloves with the back of a knife or You could also use a regular blender. a pestle. 10. Season with salt. Pour in the pastis. 2. Heat half of the oil in a large pan and fry the garlic gently 11. Serve with croutons if you like. for a few minutes until golden. 3. Add the ‘sofrito’ and fry gently for ten minutes, stirring Soup can be made one hour or up to two days before, and frequently. reheated five minutes before serving. 4. Leave any small fish whole. For larger fish, use sharp scissors or a sharp knife to cut them into coarse, large *Choose an economical mixture of fish, crabs and crustaceans, and pieces and add them to the pan. use the whole fish to give a rich, deep flavor. 5. Sprinkle in the paprika, then add the water. **We’re faking the funk here a little… Mix tomato paste, garlic paste, 6. Cook the soup for twenty minutes at a gentle simmer. salt, thyme and olive oil. 7. While the soup cooks, fry the bread slices in a frying pan with the remaining oil until deep golden. Next issue: Sausages with mushrooms! 8. Pour the soup into another large saucepan. Add the fried -Enjoy! bread to the pan, then cook for another ten minutes.

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Words & Photos by Jessica Coughlin; Boston, MA

Summer Camp Music Festival is my home. Surrounded by cornfields and big, blue sky, Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, outside of Peoria, IL, is a family reunion every Memorial Day weekend. The fest is anchored by hosting bands moe and Umphrey’s McGee, with over 100 other acts of every genre spanning rock to hip hop, bluegrass, electronic and reggae. This year headliners included our own Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon with their respective bands, joined by Primus, Run the Jewels, and Gov’t Mule. The official food of Summer Camp is empanadas from Manolo’s, a pizza place connected to the Canopy Club music venue in Urbana, IL. The empanadas are a family recipe from the festival owners and you can taste love in each bite. They are flaky, piping hot pockets of joy filled with cheese and corn, spicy roasted chicken, fudgy brownie, or my personal favorite, “manicotti” with spinach, mushroom and ricotta. I have eaten A LOT of fest food over the years and Manolo’s famous empanadas are numero uno. Self-contained, endless varieties, not overly filling (unless you have five or more in one sitting) and totally scrumptious. Field Day is the color wars at Summer Camp, an afternoon of tug-o-war, dodgeball, Twister and more, all surrounded by music. The prize for the winning team is a Goose Island keg party with Manolo’s pizza, the celebration toasted by drinking victory beer from the Stanley-cup style trophy. The annual Field Day eating contest had been a bit of a fiasco in years past - for our first Field Day in 2011, we bought 20 pies, but forgot to bake them… resulting in a semi-defrosted frozen pie eating shit-show. The next year, we went with pizza, but that was too hot. Ditto for empanadas. Next, we tried bananas to avoid temperature problems, but this ended up rather mushy. One kid could swallow multiple bananas whole, skin and all, with one gulp, earning him the Viking name “Thor.” For the seventh-annual games, we had to get it right and, inspired by Trey and Mike, finally arrived at the perfect eating-contest food: donuts! The perfect weekend at my favorite festival had a very sad ending: the worst food poisoning of my life right before Trey, making me miss both sets. No idea what caused it (and it really could have been anything), but I was devastated. There was a bottle of famous pineapple tequila, homemade by the manager of Manolo’s, with my name on it that we never got to drink. But Trey has played Summer Camp three times in the last four years, so here’s hoping TAB will be back for another stacked lineup soon. Summer Camp is a special experience for both the artists and the fans, filled with jam sessions you can’t see anywhere else, sustainability and nonprofit workshops in the Soulshine Tent, and shenanigans like Sunrise Kickball with Ryan Stasik. All year I will be dreaming about that first buttery bite of manicotti empanada that tastes like home.

STTF Summer Beer Guide aka Bar Wars Episode 1: The Drunken Menace By Nicholas Stock; Fort Collins

I’ve been slamming microbrews spiked with Coors Light and punching a pillow for three hours in anticipation of writing this article. One does not enter this drunken world of prose lightly, and I intend to break down all things Midbest beer before things get completely out of hand on this tour. Phish in their infinite wisdom has broken up the summer into three concise regions of liquid libations and it’s my job to give you the lowdown on the who, what, where, and why of slamming a cold one wherever you plan on seeing the Fab Four. This first article will deal with Chicago and beyond before episode two strikes for the Baker’s Dozen at Madison Square Garden. We’ll wrap as we always do with the holy land of beer and Dick’s. So, sit back, crack a tab, and let’s get down to business.

July 14th – 16th Northerly Burnt City Brewing – 2747 N. Lincoln throughout Ohio. They are focused on Island – Chicago, Illinois Ave. Chicago, IL - Formerly known as Atlas innovation and reinvention with novelty brews Despite its working class roots and Brewing, this North Side brewpub has and unique blends not seen in your average obvious love of yellow piss, Chicago is quickly everything a beer lover could want in a sloppy beer aisle. Their ever-changing assortment of becoming the sophisticated beer hub we all afternoon. They have an array of year-round beers can be found on their website, but if you knew it should be. With the dominance of and seasonal offerings on tap at all times. Try make it on this tour, you should be able to find Goose Island, it’s easy to overlook this burg, the Balloon Boy Farmhouse Wheat Ale…shit Native Roots American Brown Ale. This 6.5%, but don’t be fooled. Chicago is home to some just saying the name is a mouthful. It’s an 49 IBU nut brown meets you in the middle. It’s solidly established as well as up and coming utterly drinkable, Belgian-style wheat that a tasty brew sure to satisfy pre-show. players in the craft beer world. You have three defies categorization. I guess you’ll just have to July 19th – Petersen Events days in the Windy City, get drinkin’. try it for yourself. Center – Pittsburg, PA Pipeworks Brewing Co. – 3912 W. Dovetail Brewery – 1800 W. Belle Oh, we should go now… is it time for Mclean Ave. Chicago, IL - Since opening their Plaine Ave. Chicago, IL – I’m sorry, were you New York City? Not yet? Okay. A stop in doors in 2012, Pipeworks has continuously and looking for something a little more traditional? Pennsylvania means dealing with some relentlessly distributed some of the most A little more European? Well then you are in seriously archaic beer laws. The last time I amazing and innovative brews in the Chicago luck with Dovetail Brewery. They boast that rattled around the Keystone State I experience area. While flagship beers like Ninja Vs. they “Brew like monks, minus the vows.” what it means to live in a world with some of Unicorn Double IPA and War Bird Session Ale Having met in Munich at Doemens Institute the strictest alcohol laws in the country. All are findable at liquor stores, take the time to studying to be master brewers, Hagen Dost booze is sold through the state-owned Fine head to the bottle room aka The Dojo. Grab a and Bill Wesselink brew some incredible and Wine and Good Spirits stores. Just be aware glass of Glaucus, a Belgian style IPA featuring sublime beers steeped in the traditions of that they have weird laws like you can only buy a 6.2% ABV and a whole lot of that old-world European style brewing. Go try the Rauchbier beer by the case, but in some bars you can flavor. described as “…eating a bar of chocolate in a buy a sixer. Revolution Brewing – 2323 N. smokehouse.” Go be adventurous…it’s time to Brew Gentlemen – 512 Braddock Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL - I mention head to the next town anyway. Ave. Braddock, PA – Just down the Revolution because they are damn good, and July 18th – Nutter Center – Monongahela River in Braddock you can find most likely you will be able to find it in the Dayton, OH the Brew Gentlemen. They are doing things venue. Their Anti-Hero IPA is by far their most Ohio has long been a bastion of with beer that demand your attention. Show popular, and I remember drinking the shit out of smart brewers dedicated to creating something some respect and try General Braddock’s IPA, it the last time I was at Northerly in 2015. It’s a unique and delicious. With just one night in a tasty America IPA that is sure to please. bitter but tasty 6.5% ABV with about 70 IBUs. If Dayton, we’ll have to be quick. Okay, next we New York the shit out you make it the brewery ask for the Coup Warped Wing Brewing Company – of some beer. D’Etat, a French-style Saison guaranteed to 26 Wyandot St. Dayton, OH – Highly regarded raise the heckles on the back of your neck. It as the best brewery in Dayton, Warped Wing is has limited availability, but you may get lucky. located in an old foundry and they distribute ! pioneer, was the sound man for the Grateful Dead. He diligently recorded live shows, and developed what is known as ‘the wall of sound.’ After a prison stint the band and Owsley grew apart. This book was interesting and entertaining. The first couple chapters are family history and took a bit to get through but after that the book was a very easy read. I’m not as into the Dead as I am Phish, but I find the history of the jam scene fascinating. The latest book we read for book By Terri JS Molitor; Ypsilanti, MI bouncing off each other and merging like the club is Breakfast of Champions by one of my tracks a DJ selects to make for a great night favorite authors, Kurt Vonnegut. It is the If you love to read, and want to join on the dance floor.” story of Dwayne Hoover, kind of a big deal in a book club with likeminded fans, the I had a hard time getting into this Midland City, who becomes obsessed with Surrender to the Flow Read the Book Club book and relating to the characters. Bennie the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout. may be your new best friend. So far we have struck me as a has-been who still longed for Trout is a largely unknown science fiction read A Visit from the Goon Squad by his former glory. Sasha was more like a writer whose stories usually end up in print in Jennifer Egan, Bear: The Life and Times of confused teen throughout the book, still pornographic magazines. Augustus Owsley Stanley III by Robert trying to find her thing. The novel won a Vonnegut includes sharp Greenfield, and Breakfast of Champions by Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011, but it commentary on society throughout the book, Kurt Vonnegut. wasn’t my cup of tea. as relevant as it was in the 1970s as it is A Visit from the Goon Squad reads Bear: The Life and Times of today. “In the interests of survival they like a book of short stories. It’s centered Augustus Owsley Stanley III is the story of trained themselves to be agreeing machines around two main characters, Sasha, a the man of the same name, often referred to instead of thinking machines. All their minds kleptomaniac music girl and Bennie, an as Bear, or Owsley. Owsley was one of, if had to do was discover what other people aging music producer who was in a punk not the, figure behind the psychedelic era of were thinking and then they thought that, band in his youth. The chapters are linked in the 1960s and ‘70s. Owsley manufactured too.” Breakfast of Champions is a quick easy such a way to allow the reader to see LSD in massive quantities and distributed it read in the traditional style of Kurt Vonnegut: multiple points of views from these two around the San Francisco Bay Area to music sharp, witty, and full of societal introspection. characters as well as meet people who festivals and Grateful Dead shows. Owsley Our next book club book is The touched their lives as the story travels back became convinced the Grateful Dead would Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. and forth through time. become the world’s greatest rock and roll Trey talks of this book during his acoustic Ann Powers, in an article written for band and financially assisted the band in show on March 3, 2017, and sang the song NPR, says, “Its interlocking tales share their early days. Tree. I’m looking forward to this next read. characters and a slowly coalescing narrative, Owsley, aside from being an acid To join, visit the Facebook group STTF Read the Book Club.

By Stephen Gripp; Austin, TX

! Middle Earth. Westeros. Narnia. Gamehendge. We are fascinated in the fantastical world with not just the story lines, but the array of the vastness of the worlds writ large. When reading Lord of the Rings, we are mesmerized by the vivacity of plumage, and the intense descriptions of foliage. Even in Gamehendge, we are taken away through the corridor to the raging ! river, to the lonely mountain, and through the veldt, where the Lizards once inhabited. In The Dark Tower, traversing through the desert, through Tull, through the Way Station, even through the dark corridors while evading the slow mutants, the world is what intrigues us. We meet the Gunslinger on the trail of the Man in Black (I’ll keep my spoilers to the minimum, since you’ll be watching the movie to save time.) The world we are seeing is not the world we are curious about – he is from Gilead, a world unknown to us, (See BOOKS Con’d on Page 27) I remember in Deer Creek and Polaris, but something getting to the had changed. I had surrendered to the flow. venue and just To this day my friend Harris LOVES to throw pounding some in my face that I hated Phish until the early ! beers and shots 2000’s.

before going in— Sixty-five shows later … while that’s By Windi Noble; Columbus, OH had to be good not a super impressive number of shows, it’s Like many of my Midwestern and “crazy wasted” to endure this show. my number. I love the Phish from Vermont. counterparts, my first show was Nutter Phish opened with AC/DC Bag— They are my favorite band. I am so excited Center on December 7, 1997. I was pretty not bad. It jammed and the lights were to have the opportunity to see them again! inebriated and only remember a full arena – twinkly. But when they went into Psycho Every show is a blessing and brings in the nose bleeds (Page side, high) . I was Killer it was a full-on dance party. I am a something new to the table. I no longer get invited by my friend Suing. Suing and I huge Talking Heads fan and this really got “crazy wasted” at shows; I’ve been sober worked together at Max and Erma’s !and he me going. Next up Jesus Just Left Chicago. from alcohol for twelve years. But there’s loved Phish. He would talk about how Thank God for this song—beer-thirty and something inside of me that loves the special amazing the shows were and how I had to bathroom break (“crazy wasted”). This is moments I have when I am there and in that go with him to Dayton. I often wonder where where things got tricky—I’m sure I was space. The people, the community, the his life took him--we lost touch after the birth black-out drunk at this point, AND it was circus, the shiny lights and flashy people; I of his first child. twenty years ago. just love it. My experience with Phish up to this I must have had a good experience In retrospect, my first show is point was that my annoying roommate had because I went again in 1998: Polaris, Deer considered within our community to be one Junta, and played Fee over and over…I Creek and Star Lake. I was also pregnant at of the greats, and I would have to agree. The hated Phish. But again, my buddy Suing the time and had just come off The Other second set is full of super dancey beats and ensured me that this show was not to be Ones tour and was having my “last fling” crunchy jams. The Theme, Tube>Slave fills missed. As a matter of fact, I think he bought before becoming a parent. Apparently, my my face with smiles and my heart with joy. I my ticket because he wanted to prove his disdain for this band wasn’t enough to keep can’t wait to go back to Nutter this summer. point, which was Phish is freaking awesome! me away because I kept going. Polaris 1999, oh the rain…in 2000’s I did four more shows

By John Thinnes; Mission Viejo, CA

Every jam is a favorite jam. It’s a statement that was bounced around for a bit. If you give it a chance, there are a few relatively plausible slants one could take. The optimistic listener: “Anytime I'm listening to Phish is a ! favorite time of mine.” The pragmatic listener: “I haven't listen to enough to Magnaball soundcheck, but that fall I listened to it too many times to appreciate every jam, therefore they are all my favorite.” remember. Now when I listen to it, I’m taken back to the happy times And the realist listener: “An average jam now could be my of the fall of 2015. favorite next month.” This was the position I planned to take, but it Using these three qualities brought me to four jams, but sounds a bit meta-mumbo-jumbo-ish. Be it inherent competitiveness with only one from 3.0, I gave it the bonus point. ‘Cause let's face it, or human nature, we want a winner. A winning set. A winning show. it’s great to know 3.0 jams can rival the 1.0 juggernauts. A winning jam. The winner is: Vegas Golden Age. The band is connected Choosing a Jam of Jams is not an easy task. To select the from the get go with choice jamming throughout and stellar one, I looked for the qualities that matter to me: connectedness, moments at both 10:00 and 15:00 minutes in, and then at 17:17 they focus, and good memories. just about read each other's minds and increase the pace of the Connection among the band members is key to any great song seamlessly. Every time I listen to this jam, I become focused jam. It’s an exhilarating thing when they’re talking to each other with on the song, letting go of other responsibilities. So, to be safe, a the notes of their instruments. warning should be included: “This song may be hazardous to your For the second quality, some versions can become focus on other activities.” background music, but a solid jam takes over and is in the forefront I have great memories of that show and the weekend and of your mind. It becomes the sole focus of your time. I’m transported back, even if for a second, when I listen to the The last quality is the memories the jam can trigger. It song. It is for these reasons that, for the time being at least, this is doesn’t mean you had to be at the show. I wasn’t present for the my favorite jam.

By Adam King; Portland, OR It’s the summer of 1993, I’m 13 years old, and growing up in the Northwest hills of Connecticut. Like the story frequently goes, I’m blessed to have an older brother ! who is really into both The Grateful Dead and smoking weed. Jerry is still alive. My Mom leaves us alone every other weekend to go to Manhattan. House parties. Maxell XL IIs. Infinite possibilities. I was an open vessel longing for corruption. So one night, when a dude named Sven, who co-owned a 1972’ VW Micro-Bus with my brother, hands me a lit joint, heads to the tape-deck and says “Adam King – you need to start listening to fuckin’ Phish,” I was hooked before he even pressed play. The tape? March 22, 1993 – Crest Theatre in Sacramento – Set 2 – Gamehendge. Side note: I remember at the time confusing Phish with Perch, Glen’s band from Real World Los Angeles. Now somehow, despite the show only being four months old, this tape was already like 6th generation. The narration was more muffled than would be tolerable in the digital era. But that didn’t matter anyway, because once that tape came into my possession there was just one song I kept rewinding to – Lizards. I was fortunate enough to have parents with good tastes in music, so Paul Simon’s Graceland had been a staple of my youth. So I can still remember that night, and the first time hearing the chorus kick in on Lizards, and having this immediate soul-jerk reaction to its gracelandicity. And coinciding with that, I can remember the physical grab of infatuation happening in that moment. With that chorus at its’ epicenter, my love and appreciation for Phish spiraled out – into the verses, into the outro, into Gamehendge, into stacks of tapes, into concerts, into this integral part of my core being, further and further out and up through the galactic rabbit hole. It was a catalyst moment of my life. But alas, my Crest Theatre tape came with no case! For a solid two years, I sort of embraced this blissful ignorance of not knowing what my favorite Phish song was called. I couldn’t seem to find it on any of the albums. In fact, I remember buying A Live One the day it came out on double-cassette, and seeing that Tape 2, Side A only had two songs: Wilson and Tweezer. Since the playtime was 36 minutes, I presumed that Wilson must be the name for the collection of songs I had on that Sacramento tape, (as I recognized Wilson’s name being mentioned throughout the set.)Well believe me, the only thing that can make that Bangor Tweezer any more abrasive is listening to it with the youthful anticipation that it’s going to drop into Lizards at any moment. Let’s just say it was an early lesson in the dangers of preconceptions when it comes to listening to Phish. Don’t worry though, I figured it out eventually.

a fusion of their Summer By Brian R. Brinkman - Annapolis, MD Yet, before! 1995 and (@_beyondthepond) the year became the year it would be, the Fall 1996 jamming style, jams like the band needed the freedom and the space to 2/17 Carini, 2/23 Mike’s, and Is there any other year in Phish history experiment and create at will with the new 3/1 Wolfman’s marked some of the most that elicits the kind of reaction among Phish sound they’d discovered. To do this, they revolutionary steps for Phish. fans as 1997? booked themselves two tours of Europe, one In the summer, the band headed back Short answer: No. in February, and one in June/early-July. to Europe and took one more sonic leap Nineteen ninety-seven is dually the Touring small clubs across the continent, the forward before they’d return to destroy culmination of fourteen years of consistent band played in front a small group of America. growth and evolution, and the division dedicated fans and curious newbies Debuting even more songs—this time, between Phish’s youthful naiveté and their intrigued by the circus. This environment classics like Ghost, Twist and Piper, as well middle aged struggles. Coming off a allowed them to play without pressure or as rarer gems Dirt, Saw It Again fantastic Fall Tour in 1996—spurred by a expectation. In turn, Phish embarked on two and Vultures—the tour sounded even Halloween cover of The Talking tours that literally sounded nothing like fresher, even more revolutionary than their Heads Remain In Light—the band re- anything they’d played before or since. winter breakthrough had. Taking their approached their sound in the most drastic In the winter, the band unveiled songs jamming further, while cultivating complete way of their career thus far. Focusing on like Walfredo, Rock-A-William and Carini, shows that resonated with more replay value rhythms and textural grooves, the sonic which bore little resemblance to Phish songs than their winter counterparts, shows like approach allowed Trey to ease into the prior. These are aggressive and raw, prime 6/19 (Vienna), 6/25 (Lille), 7/1 and 7/2 background, while Page and Mike provided examples of evil Phish in song. Their set lists (Amsterdam) and 7/10 (Marseilles) are walls of sound, and Fish drove jams through varied wildly, a clean break from the rightly regarded as all-time classics among sparse, staccato interplay. In short, 1997 predictable approach of 1996. Their jamming fans. What’s more, these shows sound like a was a summit reached and the breakthrough held little back in the way of experimentation, band playing in front of no one. The freedom that would forever define Phish’s career while focusing intentionally on the melodies (See 20 YEARS LATER Con’d on Page 26) going forward. that emerged from forward progression. Like

! verse groove, Page setting the texture with clav against Trey’s Mu-Tron-laden wah-wah strumming. A searing, rising synth riff pushed the jam into a new area of gentle Fender Rhodes and contemplative minor- key Trey jamming, alternating between clean melodic soloing and choppy strumming. Fishman then switched to a more calypso- flavored groove and Mike pushed the jam into a major key, leading Trey to build a glorious peak based on song-like melodic fragments. After this cathartic release, the band settled into a section of slower, blissful jamming, out of which emerged the riff to Simple. A straight-fire, six-minute Chalkdust Reviews by Jake Cohen, Brian Weinstein, an exuberant cheer on the line “our flag was then led to one of the more unique versions Jenny Chadbourne, & Carla Hamilton still there.” of Martian Monster to date. Knee deep in the Setlists & Notes Thanks to Phish.net Phish then ripped into a high funky stuff, Trey began to play the rising energy segment of tunes, moving through chord progression of Tweezer Reprise, and Stealing Time, the obscure Velvet the rest of the band caught right on. With the Underground cover Lonesome Cowboy Bill band and audience now fully in “fuck yeah (sung by Trey’s favorite singer, Fishman), Tweeprise” mode, Trey began to sing “Your

and Free. The seldom- I: The Star Spangled Banner, Stealing Time played Train Song was a From the Faulty Plan, Lonesome Cowboy welcome breath, as was a Bill > Free, Train Song > Prince Caspian, blissful and powerful Roggae Roggae, Funky Bitch, Halfway to the Moon, with an intense peak. Corrina, Stash, Cavern The real surprise in II: Wolfman’s Brother, Golden Age > Simple set one came with Page’s > Chalkdust Torture, Martian Monster > Halfway to the Moon. While Tweeprise Jam > Martian Monster, Wingsuit many used this opportunity > Possum for a bathroom break, the E: Good Times, Bad Times band rewarded those who Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. Lonesome Cowboy Bill was played for the first stuck around. Trey time since 7/1/12 (177 shows). Corrina was articulated his attacks rather than using the trip is short” to the tune of “Won’t you step played fort he first time since 8/8/12 (170 shows). volume knob to swell into notes, resulting in into the freezer”! Pandemonium! It also Page teased The Little Drummer Boy in Golden more driving, purposeful playing. In the past, began a trend that continued through the run Age. Trey teased The Line in Simple. The Trey has struggled to figure out how to jam of singing different lyrics during a second set Tweeprise Jam’s lyrics were changed to “Your on this Page-led song, but he and jam. The always poignant Wingsuit led to a trip is short.” Trey teased Tweeprise at the end McConnell were locked in all the way rollicking Possum closer before the band of the return to Martian Monster. through the opening stage of this jam, returned to slay a Good Times, Bad Times building it to an exuberant peak. It was my encore. A great start to a consistently When Phish took the stage on favorite version of this song to date. Another fantastic run. – Jake Cohen; New Jersey 12/28/16 to open their four-night MSG New rare cover, Taj Mahal’s Corrinna, led to a Year’s run and opened with the a cappella standard Stash>Cavern putting a period on Star-Spangled Banner, it felt like we exhaled the set. a collective breath. Emotions still felt raw Phish returned for set two with a following the election, and for fans of any slinky take on Wolfman’s Brother, Trey I: Sweet Adeline, Peaches en Regalia > political persuasion, a sense of uncertainty utilizing his Mu-Tron to excellent effect. Mike’s Song > Secret Smile > Weekapaug for the future of the country. For many, a Patiently exploring some psychedelic funk, Groove , Roses Are Free > Poor Heart, 46 sense of dread and shame. But Phish Trey then took the jam to a raging climax, Days, Brian and Robert, Beauty of a Broken reminded us that they are an American with eruptive circular riffs to close it out Heart, Theme from the Bottom > Split Open band, and that the weird, unique thing we before dissolving into Golden Age. Picking and Melt have with this scene and this music couldn’t up right where they left off after the standout II: Down with Disease > What’s the Use? > exist anywhere else. It was the first time I’d Vegas version, this twenty-minute offering Fuego > Meatstick, Twenty Years Later > felt proud of our country since the election. moved through a variety of jam segments. It Kung > Twenty Years Later > Makisupa And the crowd seemed to agree, letting out began with dark, leader-less funk over the Policeman, Harry Hood was telegraphed by Trey a full two minutes Bathtub Gin, Things People Do, My Friend E: Julius before it was played. No complaints here, My Friend, Wilson, Sugar Shack, You Enjoy Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. though. The band’s been playing WTU? Myself Sweet Adeline was last played on 9/2/11 (200 frequently over the past three years, and I II: Tweezer >Sparks > Ghost > Light > Party shows). Peaches en Regalia was last played on can’t get enough of it. Time, Wading in the Velvet Sea > Rocky Top 8/28/12 (164 shows). Secret Smile was last After Fuego and Meatstick moved E: Rock n Roll > Tweeprise played on 7/26/13 (141 shows). Trey teased It’s the chains, the fun antics really began with Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. Your Thing in 46 Days and Dave’s Energy Guide Carolina was last played on 3/1/03 (378 shows). in Theme. DWD contained an Under Pressure Twenty Years Later>Kung>Twenty Years Later. I was surprised to find that, for all the Freebird was teased at the end of Bathtub Gin. tease from Trey and was unfinished. Trey My Friend did not contain the “Myfe” ending. teased WTU? in Fuego. Kung was last played times Kung has been inserted within other songs, the band has never said “KING Trey teased Midnight Rider in Tweezer. Sparks on 12/31/12 (156 shows), was performed over was last played on 9/2/11 (201 shows). Ghost Twenty Years Later in the background, and was Kung.” A reference to the Empire State contained a Mountain Jam tease from Page and quoted in the return to Twenty Years Later. Building just a few hundred feet away? I’d a Seven Below tease from Mike. Party Time was Makisupa featured Trey on Marimba Lumina and like to think so. played in unison with the jam out of Light and Mike and Page on percussion. Page quoted The auto-switch to Makisupa contained a Stash tease from Trey. Tweezer Makisupa Policeman in the Harry Hood intro. signaled that yes, this would be the "fun" Reprise contained Martian Monster and Kung show of the run. Kuroda brightly lit the quotes. December 29, 2016 was my 100th Garden during Makisupa, which lightened Phish show. Coincidentally, it was also the the mood considerably after the ultra-dark With these shows so in hindsight, nineteenth anniversary of my first Phish Twenty Years Later/Kung pairing. I don't love it’s been a wonderful task to jump back in to show, also at MSG on December 29, 1997. that the "keyword" was tossed around like a review this run. I didn’t notice, at the time, As a result, my attendance bias was over the hot potato; Trey started the song but wanted that they opened all four shows with a to toss the keyword off to someone different acapella song. What a treat, the else and nobody wanted it. Good save acapella, two/three song encore, was by Fish with the "vaping" reference. standard in the 1990's, so nice to have some I may be in the minority on back in rotation. The Carolina (last played this, but I really enjoyed the drums March 2003) opener, was a 3.0 debut!! The segment from this show. Even as a first set reached lift off, during the Blaze On, drummer, I’m quick to dismiss 2016 Moma Dance, Gumbo > Cities thirty-five drum segments as nothing more than minutes of pure Phish-y goodness. Then an a piss break. The synthesized sounds interesting choice from Gordon to go from made it sound like they were about to Cities into Old Home Place, or maybe it was go into I Always Wanted It This Way, a weird juxtaposition lyrically, with "find but not this time. The full-band jam yourself a city" into "what have they done to the old home place" or maybe it was a Fish by Ryan Kerrigan; Portland, OR – soon turned ferocious and I loved ryankerrigan.com every second of it. If drums was like Freudian nod to the "new" MSG this every time, the bathroom line renovations... oh Gordo... diving back into top before the first note was played. Luckily, would be completely clear from now on! the pocket for a slow and tasty Bathtub Gin, this show didn’t need attendance bias to be Harry Hood marked a perfect closer Things People Do, My Friend > Wilson, enjoyed by everyone in the building. to the set and Julius did its job to send the (which was fire and was last played October The Sweet Adeline opener was a crowd home rocking and happy, wanting 29th), Sugar Shack, and a monster YEM to treat and probably allowed thousands of fans more. With that, I had 100 shows in the close the set, hitting the eighteen-minute to cross it off their list. Fishman flashed books, and walked out smiling. It’s mark!! some jazzy fills and characteristically smooth amazing—how often does a person do the As the vocal jam, YEM, came to a playing on Peaches en Regalia and through same thing 100 times and still get close, I was really impressed with how well all of Mike’s Groove. Even with the satisfaction every time? Phish at MSG: can’t the LED rig, run by Chris Kuroda, filled the tranquilizing Secret Smile, the band was beat it. – Brian Weinstein; Oceanside, NY stage and was so amazing to look at. I can’t firing on all cylinders early in the show. (Brian writes “Phish100”—a blog about his wait to see those boards as they get more Big ups to the band for sticking the first 100 Phish shows and the songs he’s and more programming, a change from the landing to SOAMelt! It’s been hit-or-miss for seen. It can be found at www.phish100.com, mothership of lights, but truly rock-star the song in the 3.0 era but this version hit and followed on Twitter @phish100blog) staging. He was able to get a lot of crowd the spot. The jam became trippy right away. response by lighting the floor brightly, It was described in my notes as “electric acid encouraging a lot of fists in the air. Really jazz.” On listening back, that seems about cool to see how they still are masters of crowd control. right. Down with Disease was delicate Set two opened up with sixteen- I: Carolina, Blaze On, The Moma Dance > and spent a lot of time searching for its minute Tweezer, then, into the 2nd 3.0 Gumbo > Cities, The Old Home Place, groove. The transition to What’s the Use? version of, (See NYE Con’d on Page 27) Reviews by Lisa Walker, Mike Mellor, & Ocean Sing may have come off a little Fast Enough for You, Ocelot > Chalk Dust! Stu Kelly cheesy for a Set Two opener on a beach, Torture Setlists & Notes Thanks to Phish.net! ocean tide rolling in on our feet...but who II: Crosseyed and Painless > Blaze On > doesn’t like cheese? As always, there was Meatstick > Winterqueen, Mercury > Light > no need to forcefully fit in The Wedge, it Wading in the Velvet Sea

rolled in steadily like the ocean flowing in our E: Drowned, Rocky Top I: Free, Yarmouth Road, Sand, Theme From veins. I tried not to read into Fuego as an Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. the Bottom > Funky Bitch, Undermind, NICU appropriately inappropriate attempt to Crosseyed was teased in Meatstick Mercury, > Horn, Wolfman’s Brother access the attention of our Spanish speaking Light, Rocky Top and teased and quoted in II: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > The friends, but my thoughts only fueled the fire Drowned. Wedge > Fuego > Prince Caspian > Twist > by thinking that one Seven Below > Golgi Apparatus > Run Like of the waiters might an Antelope actually be named E: Contact, Bug “Diego...” Some of Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. Mike teased Heartbreaker in Free. Tequila was us splashing in the teased and quoted during Twist. sea may have seen Prince Caspian Waiting in line to enter the majestic afloat upon the beach front venue at Barceló in Riviera waves, but could not Maya, complimentary cervezas and have predicted a margaritas were served. Lights projected up sick Twist of dancing palm trees dressed in donut “Tequila” sweaters. Jellyfish appendages flailed from transitioning into a the sky. A sandcastle donkey with a vacuum Seven Below, similar to snorkeling the ! cenote, unsure of what each turn of the jam Seeing Phish in Mexico is such a strapped to its back was lit by the colors of surreal experience. While the sound wasn’t the Mexican flag. Page Side, Wave Tide! will bring. Even with no ticket stubs in our hands (only wristbands) Golgi Apparatus still always perfect, and the show wasn’t exalted What could be better than Free into “best show ever,” it’s the whole drinks, other than the feeling I forgot? The appeared under the light of the microscope. ¿Dónde está Marco Esquandolas? Run Like enchilada that reigns supreme. I mean, soothing reggae sounds from Yarmouth warm weather, great friends, swimming Road led me to the realization of the an Antelope capped off the second set gearing up the soul with that post-show during the show? Mayan sand sculptures? awkwardness of dancing barefoot in the Jefferson painting the sea with CK5 slaying Sand; luckily CID Entertainment offered energy. Before the opportunity to review this the crowd? Food and drinks included?? amazing yoga classes every morning to Amazing memories were made. stretch out those tight calves! Moving on to show, I had no idea that the title Fuego is actually referring to the sport compact car The boys opened up a Curtain With the aquatic Theme, swimming up From the (the “With” part I particularly enjoy) and dove Bottom of the Gulf of Mexico just in time to made by the French automaker, Renault (thanks phish.net!). How can I not make the into a pretty sweet AC/DC Bag>Breath and get Funky up in this Bitch. An unrelenting Burning. B&B is a song that is really growing mystified jam redefined Undermind as an obvious connection of a car-themed song in the beautiful language of our neighbors to on me every time I hear it, and I thought it underwater adventure. Definitely worthy of a was a nice placement prior to the Poor Heart relisten, ¡Que fantástico! If you get the the south from set two with the encore’s Contact? Bug wait, that’s not all! A double that got everyone back up and splashing and chance to hit up a Mexico run, give up a day jamming. (Shout out to my third palm tree at the shore and check out the Rio Secreto encore treat highlighting the typical beach bum attitude...it doesn’t matter. El fin. –Lisa crew!) Page then took that Halfway to the excursion, being careful not to incise your Moon to some beautiful places before knees on the tips of stalactites; and if you Walker; Nashville, TN skidding back down into The Line. Ahem. do, NICU, I’ll pick you up at eight as usual, Then Waking Up Dead. Ahem. Well, different listen for my Horn. After my self-control was strokes for different folks. But just as we bought and sold for minimal pesos, a solid I: The Curtain With, AC/DC Bag > Breath were settling down into a lull, they came Wolfman’s Brother came down on me to back to slay the Tube--and everyone really take set one. and Burning, Poor Heart, Halfway to the Moon, The Line, Waking Up Dead, Tube > had some fun with that! A beautiful FEFY Admittedly, A Song I Heard the rolled into a fun Ocelot which has some beautiful meaning for me--and a fiery CDT to II: Down with Disease > No Men in No Man’s set. This beautiful version contained a subtle ! end set one. Land > Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley > Little Drummer Boy tease from Trey, and Isn’t it amazing how certain songs Possum > Carini > David Bowie, Harry Hood Page caught on. Ya Mar acted as the only can carry such energy with us, whether E: Slave to the Traffic Light > Tweeprise other cover in the set before Stealing Time individually or as a community? It’s why we Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. From the Faulty Plan, Rift >Fluffhead closed all keep coming back, and why all of us like Trey teased Slipknot! In Tweezer. The Little out the first set (!). some of our own tunes in our own way, and Drummer Boy was teased in Ghost, DWD was Fluffhead had taken a noticeable yet we share and rage others…anyhoo… unfinished. Possum, Carini, David Bowie, and two year disappearance between Dick’s I loved this second set, front to back Harry Hood contained Shipwreck quotes. 2014 and Wrigley Field in 2016 so it was

especially nice to see this beloved number. It was the show that didn’t The second set proved that the band took stop giving. Top to bottom this was time and thought into constructing the night’s easily the best Phish show the band show. Sans set list or something scheduled has ever constructed in their brief time there was no doubt a lot of effort into making south of the border. On Saturday, this show the best it could be. Down with January 15th Phish played their final Disease flowed beautifully into No Men In No night on a three-night run in Riviera Man’s Land. After a pungent jam Trey Maya, Mexico at the Barceló resort to walked down his fret-board and found the an energetic and animated crowd that opening power chords of Allen Toussaint’s flowed from the beach into the ocean Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley. The water. gorgeous cover blended right into Possum Fish by Ryan Kerrigan; Portland, When Phish took the stage and eventually a sharp, very well executed they opened up with Stevie Wonder’s OR – ryankerrigan.com Carini. The second set could have closed Boogie On Reggae Woman (for the first after David Bowie which surfaced next, but and all around. It was fire, and played with time in their career). Trey laughed off a the band still carved out space for Harry such energy. The Crosseyed opener> Blaze minor flub with the timing of the opening Hood. In the encore slot Phish delivered the On had the place going bonkers, and they lyrics and after that it was all business. one-two punch of Slave to the Traffic morphed it into a nice Meatstick, which is Simple shifted the band into a high gear and Light>Tweezer Reprise. always a fun interaction with the band. I the audience fully reciprocated the energy. On paper this set list is nearly really enjoyed the segue into Winterqueen The Vermont quartet kept up at the pace and perfect, but when performed the band tucked here. It felt a little “Dog-Log-ey” and was the dropped fan-favorite Tweezer in a smooth, in several different teases and quotes. Trey kickoff to this trippy second part of the set. It well-executed transition. This was the first teased the Grateful Dead’s Slipknot! in was really jammy, and slid into Mercury, Tweezer to be played in Mexico, as for some Tweezer and The Little Drummer Boy in which has emerged as one of my favorites reason it sat on the bench all last year. Ghost. The band also teased Shipwreck in lately. A nice Light (some nice work at After a monstrous Tweezer the Possum, Carini, David Bowie, and Harry the 6:00 mark especially) into Wading in band blissfully used Roggae as a landing Hood. There are many different possibilities homage of our seaside location. They ended gear; it was almost as the opening notes why Phish decided to play a show of this with Drowned and Rocky Top as the closers took the breath out of the audience in the caliber. Perhaps the band was comfortable to cap a wonderful evening of sandy most relaxing way possible. The cool down on the last night of a three-night run that deliciousness. – Mike Mellor; Englewood, was followed by another, much rarer, ballad: already surpassed the inaugural year in both NJ Nothing. Personally, this was a huge quality and rarities. Alternatively perhaps the highlight for me as their Live In band knew they weren’t going to meet the Brooklyn release played a pivotal role in me rumored three-year contract the band becoming such a die-hard fan in high school. allegedly agreed to. Will they go back? Most I: Boogie On Reggae Woman > Simple > When the opening notes of Ghost came likely not, but anything is possible. January Tweezer > Roggae, Nothing, Ghost > Ya eerily creeping through the PA one had to 15th, 2017 will forever live as one of the most Mar, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, take a quick moment of reflection of unique shows in the 3.0 era outside of a Rift > Fluffhead assurance that this was in fact still the first major holiday. – Stu Kelly; Washington, DC

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the Midst, melodic Wedge, and a beautifully sung version of Shade. Sharing a more light-hearted version of his 2006 life- changing fourteen month nearby stopover, Trey set up the heartfelt version and significance of Backwards Down the Number Line giving a nod to the birthday letter audience member Tom Marshall By Linda Geddes Lawrence; wrote to Trey during that period and Albany, NY the birthday celebration of the

The 1,300 fans lucky enough crowd's "Luuuuuke." A well placed to find their way into the historically Twenty Years Later and Tide Turns rich Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on followed before moving into what March 10, 2017, experienced the was probably the evening's most second of three solo acoustic shows notable surprise, an acoustic debut from Trey Anastasio, who last played of Trey's favorite Oysterhead song, at the Music Hall in 2002 with the Rubberneck Lions. The Inlaw Josie Vermont Youth Orchestra. Wales set up lively unplugged Spirited souls came out in versions of Free, Kill Devil Falls and dry, cool weather to fill nearby Wolfman’s Brother. After slowing establishments surrounding the venue down with The Line, the crowd and the energy was palpable. Chatter enthusiastically welcomed an !"#$%&&'("#)*+,%-.#/0*#12#)%33'&4530.#6/ and excitement grew from those that unplugged debut of The Lizards and as had listened to or attended the first Trey noted, the rarely requested Guelah show two nights before, where Trey set the stage for the acoustic Papyrus. Melodic unplugged takes of Wading in the Velvet Sea, evening we were about to embark in a music hall renowned for its Lawnboy, and Summer of '89 made way to the end of the set stellar acoustic character and intimacy. concluding with a fiery-paced acoustic Carini into Chalkdust Torture. The feeling for me, as Trey walked on stage, was strangely At times, the audience took invitation to sing when Trey quieted his comforting and felt as if a long-time friend was finally back in town voice, other times the audience seemed more the eager to sit back with his guitar and invited some friends over for a campfire for song, and listen to the crisp sweet sound of the room. An acoustic first of sing-a-long, and storytelling. When the first notes reverberated David Bowie's Rock-n-Roll Suicide and a vibrating More capped the from the stage, the sentiments of the opener Strange Design intimate evening. I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge how established the connection of the crowd for the evening- we were the evening’s song choices amplified the growth in Trey’s vocal companions along for ride. strength. The fullness and richness of tone and improved pitch The menu of twenty-three songs came from various control was notable in the intimate acoustic setting. Trey's comfort periods of Trey’s career, weaving humorous tales and tunes with the crowd was evident in the personal stories he weaved together. Trey moved to an energetic Blaze On, a rare Mountains in throughout and make this show worthy of a listen and very much worth the ride.

By Graham Major; Philadelphia, PA

! TAB opened the second leg of their extensive spring tour on a warm, rainy Thursday night in Philadelphia, and a good time was certainly had by most. Their Philly Fillmore debut consisted of two well-paced, varied sets of originals spanning the entire length of Trey’s solo career, as well as a few staple covers peppered throughout the second set. What a present-day TAB show may lack in unpredictability, it more than compensates for in consistency- the band was, on this particular Thursday, vacuum-sealed tight, with each member taking standout turns. A Sand opener always bodes well, coming out of the gate with high energy for the capacity crowd. First set provided a nice balance between the funky, up-tempo Afrobeat stylings of early-TAB classics (Mozambique, Curlew’s Call, and a particularly greasy, fully-developed take on Gotta Jibboo) and the moodier, more song-driven later compositions (Sometime After Sunset, Pigtail, Valentine). Ray Paczkowski was particularly inspired on the keys, which led to some big smiles from the band and crowd alike, and the rhythm section was firing on all cylinders as usual. Second set opened with a rather potent one-two combo of a pretty take on Drifting and an especially wild Night Speaks To A Woman, with the latter cresting into a raucous peak that had the sweaty, capacity crowd shaking a great many tailfeathers. From there they tore into Leon Russell’s Delta Lady, the first of four well-curated covers to grace the second set. After ceding most of the first set’s transcendent moments to the rhythm section, the horns took figurative center stage through the second (See TREY Con’d on Page 28)

Written by Christy Articola; Lakewood, CO Research & Listings by Randy Furciniti; Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, USVI AA & NA Meeting Listings courtesy of The Phellowship & Caroline Cooley Venue Listings Art by Drew Suto; Troy, NY

Summer time… and the living’s easy! Here we go, everyone, on yet another

fun filled Phish summer tour! Although this year’s tour is less tour-y than usual, with more than half of the season’s scheduled shows happening at one single venue, but it is inarguably summer, and definitely Phish! This first of three Surrender to the Flow issues focuses on the Midwest portion of this year’s shows, that is, the five shows that are in Chicago, Dayton, and Pittsburgh. This is the most typical, old-fashioned style tour portion of Summer Tour 2017, and will be fun and easy for both road- warriors and non-road-warriors alike. The drives are short and sweet, beginning with a three night stand in our country’s third biggest city, followed by two single night visits to two smallish, friendlish, lots-of-heart sort of cities, at small, indoor, college owned and operated venues. Who knows what will unfold during the next few weeks? The possibilities are endless, and the memories are sure to stick with us forever, so get ready, get out there, put on your dancing shoes, get excited to greet old friends and make some new ones, and prepare to rage, laugh, dance, and experience another unforgettable summer with our favorite band on earth! Hopefully our tour guide (and the Above by Maria DiChiappari; rest of this publication) will help you along the way. Best wishes, everyone! Berkeley, CA – See you out there, on the road, on lot, and under Kuroda’s lights – be safe, be www.mariaDdesigns.com good, and have fun! Summer Tour 2017! Yay!!!

Summer Tour 2017 (Chicago > MSG) 926 miles… 14.5 hours of driving… 36 sets… 24 days… 18 shows… 4 venues … 6 days off… 1 unbelievable, unforgettable time!

Largest Venue: Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island; Chicago, IL (30,000) Smallest Venue: Nutter Center; Dayton, OH (11,500) Most Familiar Venue: Madison Square Garden; New York, NY; 39 previous shows Least Familiar Venues: Brand new-to-us Petersen Events Center; Pittsburgh, PA Longest Drive: Pittsburgh to New York – 371 miles; 6 hours Shortest Drive: Dayton to Pittsburgh – 255 miles; 4 hours

Chicago is a great city, a great place to see Phish, and a great place to start Summer Tour 2017! This city has really grown on me during Phish 3.0; after only playing within the city limits a handful of times during late 1.0 and 2.0, the Windy City has become a frequent and regular stop on summer tours of this era, and that, plus 2015’s Fare Thee Well weekend, has given many of us out-of-towners a newfound familiarity and love for this Midwestern metropolis. Phish has, in fact, played in Chicago every summer tour except two in 3.0 – 2012 and 2015 – at four very different venues. This will be their third time playing on Northerly Island, after visits in 2013 and 2014, plus two visits to the suburb of Bridgeview’s Toyota Park in 2009 and 2010, a three-night run at University of Chicago’s UIC Pavilion in 2011, and of course their run last year at historic Wrigley Field. Between memorable shows at these venues – a baseball field, a soccer stadium, an indoor college arena, and a giant outdoor venue on the shores of Lake Michigan - many of us who have visited Chicago for Phish shows have left a little more impressed by this town each time. There’s so much to do, the people are friendly, the architecture is spectacular, and the food is fantastic! Make sure you take some time to explore this city and it’s uniqueness during the run if you can during our three days and nights here, but also pace yourself for full immersion in three nights of Phish! Our band will likely be firing on all cylinders for this summer opening three-night-run, so you better be too! It’s hard to say what will happen here during this run, but Phish certainly loves playing in Chicago so expectations and hopes are high. I hope you’re ready – the only rule is it begins – and here we go!

Doors: 5:30 Showtime: 7 Face Ticket Price: $70 Grandstand/GA Floor; $50 Lawn Venue Capacity: 30,000 Seating: Grandstand/GA Floor, Lawn For More Information: www.pavillionnortherlyisland.com

Area Code for All Listings: 312 Emergency Vet: Metropolitan Vet Ctr – Ring Ring Ring: No talking or texting while Conscious Grocery Store: Trader Joe’s 1556 S Michigan Ave; 583-1921 driving. Just put the phone down. – 1147 S Wabash Ave; 588-0489 Towing: Dark Angel Towing – 623-2900 Beverage Center: Warehouse Liquors – Locksmith: Amazing Lock Svc – 773- PreShows, AfterShows, and Other 634 S Wabash Ave; 663-1850 935-8900 Events: Hospital: Northwestern Memorial Hosp – Taxi: Chicago Mats – 361-3737 7.14 251 E Huron St; 926-2000 Lyft: YES Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe @ Concord NA Meetings: FRIDAY: United Methodist Uber: YES Music Hall – 2047 N Milwaukee Ave; 773- Church – 77 W Washington: Noon; Police: Chicago PD – 745-4290 570-4000, Doors: 11pm, $24, 18andUP SATURDAY: Mid City – 933 W Bail Bonds: Bail Bonds Pros – 219-2369 7.15 Washington; 7pm; SUNDAY: VA Hospital, Gettin' Schwilled: Beer can be bought in Circles Around the Sun @ Concord Music Burke Hall building 4 – 3001 Green Bay grocery stores but wine and liquor must be Hall – 2047 N Milwaukee Ave; 773-570- Rd, North Chicago; 10AM bought in separate stores. 4000, Doors: 11pm, $21, 18andUP AA Meetings: Brooks Building – 223 W Puff Puff: Possession of 10 grams of weed Jackson Blvd Suite 1014; FRIDAY: Noon, is a civil violation, parking ticket. Up to 30 3:30, 4:30 and 5:30; SATURDAY and grams is a misdemeanor as long as it is SUNDAY: Noon your first offence, otherwise it is a felony.

Dayton! This was a huge surprise to pretty much everyone when this venue in this city appeared on the list of Summer Tour 2017 dates, but here we go! Phish has not played at the Erwin J. Nutter Center since 1997, on 12/7/97 to be exact. That show has gone down in history as amongst their most famous, actually, thanks to bust outs like Psycho Killer (last played in 1993) and Boogie On (last played in 1988), and for being one of the best examples on record of true 1997 cow funk. Few know that Phish played at The Nutter one other time though as well, just two years earlier, on 11/30/95; it was another, less well known show, that was also quite a heater and is certainly worth checking out if you haven’t already. This relatively small venue was completed in 1990 and is named for local businessman and inventor, Erwin J.Nutter, who donated $1.5 million to Wright State towards the arena’s construction; the rest of the cost, $8 million additional, was covered by the university and the state of Ohio. It was built in twenty months, and since its opening, it has mostly hosted Wright State Rangers basketball games, but has also been home to indoor football teams the Dayton Warbirds and the Dayton Bulldogs, world basketball league’s Dayton Wings, and mid-level professional hockey team the Dayton Bombers. Further, it has hosted a wide variety of WWE events, political speeches, Science Olympiad finals, and concerts, and the Harlem Globetrotters have performed at the Nutter Center every New Year’s Eve since at least 2005. Dayton is the sixth largest city in Ohio with approximately 140,000 residents and is most well known for its interest in and contributions to aviation and aerospace. A great deal of research takes place at Patterson Air Force Base that has lead to many technological innovations in flight and space exploration; also, Orville Wright was born in Dayton, and the Wright Brothers’ patent for the invention of powered flight was filed here. Perhaps this random, Tuesday night show at a near forgotten venue our favorite band has not played in nearly twenty years will take off, enter space, and bring all in attendance into an incredible and beautiful orbit as well, then – I guess we will have to wait and see!

Doors: 5:30 Showtime: 7 Face Ticket Price: $60 Venue Capacity: 11,500 Seating: GA Floor, Reserved For More Information: www.nuttercenter.com Travel Time & Distance from Chicago: 5 hours; 305 miles

Area Code for All Listings: 937 Locksmith: Prestige Lock & Key – 604- individual’s parent or legal guardian or legal Conscious Grocery Store: Whole Foods 7402 age spouse. – 1050 Miamisburg Centerville Rd; 999- Taxi: All City Taxi – 825-2005 Puff Puff: Possession of less than 100 6880 Lyft: YES grams is a misdemeanor with just fine, up Beverage Center: Halls Corner Carryout Uber: YES to 200 grams is also a misdemeanor but & Drive Thru – 3891 Kemp Rd Police: Dayton PD – 333-2677 possible incarceration. Everything else is a Hospital: Soin Med Ctr – 3535 Pentagon Bail Bonds: All City Bail Bonds- 622- felony. Blvd; 702-4000 9999 Ring Ring Ring: Talk away but put the NA Meetings: St Andrews Church – 1060 Gettin' Schwilled: Beer, wine and liquor phone down when texting. Salem Ave; 10AM can all be bought in grocery stores, as long PreShows, AfterShows, and Other AA Meetings: 138 W First Stt; 10AM as it is under 21% ABV. Liquor is controlled Events: Emergency Vet: Dayton Care Ctr – 6405 by the state and is also sold in separate None found/submitted Clyo Rd; 428-0911 stores. Consumption is 21 or older unless Towing: Sid’s Towing – 222-7731 unrestricted is under supervision of

Pennsylvania is hardly the Midwest, but for all intents and ! purposes for this issue of Surrender, Pittsburgh is. This is the last stop on the Midwestern leg of Summer Tour 2017, with the remainder of tour proper bringing fans to NYC for thirteen shows over seventeen nights at Madison Square Garden. This venue is new to Phish, and therefore new to most of us, and judging by pictures alone, it looks pretty cool! It was completed in 2002 and is owned by the University of Pittsburgh, and is home to the school’s basketball team, the Pitt Panthers. Phish has played within the city of Pittsburgh five times prior to this visit, with stops there in 1992, 1993, 1994 (x 2), and 1995, but they haven’t been there since; for many years, nearby Burgettstown (~25 miles to the west) was a regular stop on their summer tours, but they haven’t even visited that town’s Star Lake Amphitheater since 2012! Southwestern Pennsylvania is therefore extremely ready for a Phish show, and it’s always fun to check out a new venue – as it’s a blank slate for everyone involved – and this, random, Wednesday night show is likely to be a good one! This show marks the end of shows covered in this issue, and the end of the true “touring” portion of this year’s summer tour – so have fun – stay safe- and get ready for the Baker’s Dozen ahead!

Doors: 6 Showtime: 7 Face Ticket Price: $70 GA Floor; $65 Reserved 1; $50 Reserved 2 Venue Capacity: 12,508 Seating: GA Floor, Reserved For More Information: www.peterseneventscenter.com Travel Time & Distance from Dayton: 4 hours; 251 miles

Area Code for All Listings: 412 Locksmith: Murry Ave Locksmith – 422- Puff Puff: Possession of 30 grams or less Conscious Grocery Store: Whole Foods 2004 is a misdemeanor but so is more than 30 – 5880 Center Ave; 441-7960 Taxi: Yellow Cab – 281-6400 grams, only difference is the fine and Beverage Center: Fine Wine & Good Lyft: YES incarceration. 30 days for under with a Spirits – 557 Greenfield Ave; 802-9494 Uber: YES $500 fine and 1 year and a $5,000 fine, Hospital: University of Pittsburgh Med Police: Pittsburgh PD – 323-7800 respectively. Ctr – 200 Lothrop St; 847-2345 Bail Bonds: Mitch’s Bail Bonds – 789- Ring Ring Ring: Can talk while driving but NA Meetings: Onala Recovery Center – 2245 no texting, leave that to the freeloader 1625 W Carson St; 10AM Gettin' Schwilled: Wine and spirits can catching a ride AA Meetings: Smithfield Cong Church – only be sold at state operated stores but PreShows, AfterShows, and Other 620 Smithfield St; Noon beer is not. Beer can be purchased at Events: Emergency Vet: Greenfield Vet Hosp – beverage outlets or restaurants. Only non- Pink Talking Phish @ Rex Theater – 1602 611 Greenfield Ave; 422-7755 alcoholic beer can be sold in grocery stores East Carson St; 412-381-6811, Door: 9pm, Towing: Stickles Towing – 969-3938 and supermarkets. Show: 10pm, $15-$20, 21andUP

By Karilynn Galiotos, at one of Chicago’s beach parks, such as Ohio handful of local breweries including Carillion Brewing Fort Thomas, KY Street Beach, Rainbow Beach Park, Howard Beach Company, Toxic Brew Company, Warped Wing! Park and Hartigan Beach Park. You can also take a Brewing Company and The Dayton Beer Company. Happy summer stroll through some lush gardens at Chicago Botanic tour, my fellow fans! July Gardens and Garfield Park Conservatory. Pittsburgh starts what some of us Submerge yourself in local culture by The Midwest run wraps up in Pittsburgh where who can’t make it to the checking out Paper Machete, a “live magazine” Phish diverges from its usual summer stop in Baker’s Dozen have featuring local journalists, Burgettstow hoped for: a Midwest run. comedians and authors doing n for a more Though short and sweet, readings and having urban this three-city, five-show discussions. This free show location at chunk will kickoff in the happens at the Green Mill Jazz the heartland and wrap up in Club every Saturday from 3:00 Peterson the Steel City. to 5:00 pm. Events It’s really the best Looking for a free ride Center. opportunity for the road to the show? Reggies Chicago While the warriors of tour to take the offers a free ride on its funky former Star highway. Otherwise, we’re party bus for anyone who Lake pretty much in the same parties there before and after location has place for a long time. the show. It’s a locally famed a special Without further ado, here’s music venue with an impressive place in our my best advice for soaking record store upstairs, so it’s hearts, fans are sure to enjoy a visit to this city on the up some local flavor while worth checking out even if you don’t plan on rise. we follow our band around catching the bus. But if you do, the bus If “yinz” want the Midwest. leaves at 6:30 pm and will tell you where to do Pittsburgh right, to catch the return trip. you need to have a Chicago Primanti Brothers The best part of Dayton sandwich – specifically seeing a run in a major city Put your wingsuit on in Dayton. the Pittsburgher with is there is no shortage of It’s the self-proclaimed epicenter of the slaw and fries piled things to do. The international aviation and aerospace— high. You can find downside? Entertaining and birthplace of the Wright Brothers— locations across the yourself outside of the with a knack for innovation. Dayton is city and its suburbs, show can quickly get home to a number of aviation-related but I recommend the expensive. For that museums such as the Wright Company original location in the reason, I’m going to focus Factory and the National Museum of the Strip District to get the on the free things to do for U.S. Air Force, where you can catch a full effect. You can this stop. Luckily, Chicago glimpse of a flying saucer-esque also walk around the has plenty of options to Canadian military aircraft (sans Martian former industrial experience the arts, Monster) called the Avrocar. neighborhood turned culture and urban nature There are also a number of hot spot for markets, without spending a dime. places to hike or bike close to or within shops and some of the Chicago may be the city such as Huffman MetroPark, best restaurants in the a city sprawl, but it’s not Eastwood MetroPark, Taylorsville MetroPark, Twin city. Pro tip: a Primanti’s sandwich makes for the best without it’s natural Creek MetroPark, Sugarcreek MetroPark and more. post-show (or next day) meal. The Strip District location elements. Spend an If you’re hoping to sip on some local flavor is open twenty-four hours and it’s just a few miles from afternoon lying in the sand before the show, you’re in luck. Dayton is home to a the show. (See MIDWEST Con’d on Page 29)

and how Phish has and continues to shape our lives. In the age of social media, it’s kind of like a pseudo, virtual lot scene in the Phish groups. You can buy jewelry, artwork, and clothing. There are so many Phunky Bitches and Phish Chicks who By Anna Forina, Eureka, CA are incredible artisans and business women. You can Look around at the find friends, an extra ticket, or crowd during your next Phish meet new friends. Last year I show and take a quick poll. Out thought I was going to the of every ten people, how many of Portland, Maine show by them are women? Three? Four? myself. Within minutes of Are there less women than men posting a roll-call inquiry to at shows? Take the poll even the Phunky Bitches stating I farther. Are the women you see was flying solo, I had three in large groups of other women or invitations to meet people at within a group of mostly men? different bars in Portland. Are Phish fans predominantly One of the reasons I was so men? I think the answer is yes. blown away by the woman on As a single woman, I can’t say I New Year’s Eve is that I think don’t like these numbers. As far of ladies who Phish as as the reasons why the generally positive, uplifting seemingly gender ratio of Phish women who believe in fans are skewed, I’m not sure. building one another up rather To the woman in than tearing them down. Now Section 104 on New Year’s Eve don’t get me wrong, I don’t 2016, thank you. Despite your think ladies who Phish are absolute lack of kindness, these mythical, sparkly, humanity or awareness, you glittery, unicorns vibrating and inspired this article. To the pulsating with love and light. Phunky Bitch who left a baggie We all have our moments. stocked with things a woman may However, generally, I like to need in a pinch (which I did) in !"#!$%&'"#(%)*+,#!$--./"&0#12#3#45+"67-89+:-;9*&.%&'<$%&'" think we are. one of the bathrooms in the 200 Thank you to the level of MSG on New Year’s Eve 2016, thank you! You restored my women who instantly held out hands filled with toilet paper from faith in a woman Phish fan and inspired this article too. I had an beneath the dividers of the adjoining bathroom stalls when I shouted encounter with a woman on New Year’s Eve who was inexplicably that my stall was out. Thank you to Susan, who I barely knew, who nasty. Not only did she spew her vitriolic criticism on me for no took control of the situation and made room for three beleaguered reason but to be a mean girl, she then started with my friend as I women in her safe-haven of Section 215 of MSG on New Year’s walked away. Her behavior was so ghastly that it took me the Eve 2016. Thank you to Jessica and Amy, my friends since majority of the first set and a few songs into the second set to gather elementary school, who are the OGs of my circle of ladies who myself and regroup. Thank God for three-set shows! Phish. The recollections of drive-through liquor stores in Virginia Phish shows are a source of ha ppiness, and this Beach, red-clay colored feet (stained from the mud of the Walnut interaction left me feeling affronted and somewhat violated. My Creek lot after an insane thunderstorm in 1997), Thanksgiving Eve suspicion is that this woman wasn’t really a fan at all, but rather 1997 in Hartford, and an unexpected downpour in Limestone that attending the show because her boyfriend likes Phish. Perhaps my soaked everything we brought for the weekend hold revered places experience is not shared with the consensus of women fans out in memories of shows past. Thank you to Allison, my show partner there, and a tad rose-colored, but with the exception of this recent in crime. This woman always has my back, can dance her ass off, encounter, I have never met a woman Phish fan I didn’t like. There and is an easy sell when I make the argument that we can add seems to be an inherent commonality in women who Phish. Yes, we another show to the run. Thank you to the amazing group of ladies all like Phish. However, I get a sense of kindred spirits in who we who Phish! Ladies who Phish rock! Be safe, dance, dance, dance, are, what we believe in, and how we live our lives besides Phish, kick ass, and take names this summer, bitches! doing something meaningful to help the less fortunate, you can learn from Kyle. If you are interested in seeing our country by foot, enjoying off-road walking, trail hiking, you can learn from Kyle.

And if you are at a point in your life where you are wondering, ”What is

the central theme to this !"#$%&$'()#*+$&,"-./0+#.$12+30.1+4 By Sydne Kasle, Fresno, CA everlasting spoof,” then you can learn from Kyle. It is my great honor to write the next installment chronicling There is so much to write about that I am going to split this Kyle Johnson’s “Walk Across America.” For more information on into a few parts. This part will primarily focus on the progress and the background story, you can access previous STTF articles in logistics of the Walk, and subsequent installments will focus on the Issues #45, pg. 35, and #54, pg. 28. people he has met along the way. Kyle Johnson is 31 year-old Kyle took about two years to ex-Navy Midwesterner Green Crew plan his Walk. He needed to plan his member who is carving his own path route, consider the weather, where he in life by balancing work, family, knew people, water and food sources, friends, Phish, and charity. Kyle equipment and so on. He wanted to spent two months volunteering at the spend the least amount of money as Happy Life Children’s Home located possible on himself, and take any in Nairobi, Kenya which provides donations and send them all to the housing, education, and medical care children. He is walking in phases, and to abandoned children in Kenya. To his next phase will begin after Phish date, Kyle has raised $6,000 for the NYE. Kyle figures the entire Walk will children through GoFundme, which take him three to five years, including you can access at: the breaks. Kyle as already been https://www.gofundme.com/k9fup8, doing his Walk for two years, but only from total strangers who give him one year of actual walking. along his Walk, and sales of his T- '()#$5$+%6#$%&$13#$70-+$&.%6$13#$%.83/"/9#$0"$'#"(/$ Kyle started in Seattle, WA, on Shirt which you can find on Phish the Olympic Peninsula. From there he Tour this year and online by walked on HWY 101 from Olympic contacting Kyle. “I sent National Park to Portland, then took the Pacific Crest Trail in Fishman and the whole band Oregon, then on Hwy 1 through California. Leg 2 went from San t-shirts and asked Fishman to Diego to Yuma, AZ, then to Phoenix, Las Cruces, NM, and ended in wear the shirt on stage, but Lubbock, TX. He was honored with some press coverage during he hasn’t answered me yet,” this Leg, with articles appearing in The Monterey County Herald and said Kyle. Fishman, by the New Mexico’s The Herald of Truth or Consequences. way, donated $500 to Kyle’s When he begins Leg 3, he will resume in Lubbock. Kyle Walk, and so Kyle sends a said, “I will be returning to Lubbock and will walk along the Red big THANK YOU to him for River to Alexandria, LA, then along the road to New Orleans and on that money! to Florida, then head north up the Appalachian Trail to Maine, then I have been head west to Buffalo, then take the North Coast Trail to North following his Walk on Dakota, then along the Missouri River then the Flathead River to Facebook, which you can do Seattle. It should take me three years.” If you happen to live in the by Liking the page: area, you are welcome to reach out to Kyle and offer your hospitality https://www.facebook.com/ and/or local support. As Kyle’s friend Dave Kriner from Columbus, kyleswalk/. I asked him all OH said, “Kyle's the kind of guy who you could let sleep on your sorts of questions, and there couch for six months and be sad the day he moves on to his next adventure; the kind of guy who would show up to your house the '()#$:013$13#$/,13%.$/1$;.09)#( is a lot for us all to learn from Kyle. If you are interested in morning of your (See STILL WALKING Con’d on Page 29) By Gary Lerner, Fort the book and Myers, FL filled it with psychedelic The Phish marble paper community is that seemed to overflowing with carry the vibe of creativity in its vast Phish. A lot of array of art forms. people really There is a magnitude !"#$%"&'"($)*'"+$*&,-',$%"''-.*$/(0.1$ love that one.” of distinctive artists in the Phish Personally, I have community. From glass blowers to .&"*,"'$ )"*2,-3245$ 60"7637*78-0+$ never seen a ticket album like poster designers to pinners, there is *4)29'$,6$',6&"$(62&$,-.8",$.644".,-60:$ hers before, and I doubt any fan something that everyone can has either. Jess said, “I feel like I connect with and be inspired haven’t seeing anything like I do from. I would like to introduce the in the Phish community over the Phish community to art they last ten years. It excites me to might have never witnessed introduce it and I know people before. Jessica Lynch from collect tickets, but I did not know Butler, New Jersey, is an how crazy it really was until I emerging graphic designer and started collecting them myself. book artist in the Phish For some people it doesn’t community. I have known Jess matter, and others are really into since 2011 where we met at mail-order tickets. I want to get Phish shows. In the beginning of more into personalizing them. our friendship, I saw her great Mostly my focus now is to make potential in the world of graphic them look unique and different.” design and artistry. I wanted to Next, I asked Jess to learn more about her different discuss the future of her ticket designs and her inspirations in albums. “In terms of ticket the art she develops. I decided to albums, I really want to focus on interview her about her work in making them more personalized the Phish community and her with different sizes. I really want creative background. I sat down to focus on putting the ticket on with Jess in May 2017 for a brief the page and leaving room for a interview. set list, notes about the show, Jess started her design and artistic life through college something like that.” I have never seen a ticket album like that, and using recycled materials. “I took a class in college called Creative her creativity and desire for the customer’s personal experience as Book Arts. In the class I was taught different book-binding priority amazes me. She later explained that she wants to techniques using recycled materials. I got interested in repurposed incorporate tour memories into the albums. “Some people want to and recycled materials and figuring out how the natural process flip through the book, and in the Phish community people have develops; how each book develops. I had over 100 books and really bumper stickers, notes, things you collect at shows or on tour, that wanted to share the creative possibilities of recycling and promoting bring the memories back. More than just a viewing of the ticket. That art and creative expression through that.” would be the next direction for the ticket albums.” Her interest in book-making and design grew after college. Finally, Jess gave some concluding thoughts on her art “So, most of them were sketch books and journals. Then I started that shows her love for the community. “The point of making the using recycled beer packaging to make calendars, photo albums books is having something aesthetically interesting and functional and ticket albums. I started to use my own drawings for ticket for the art community. You want to make something specific, but albums and progressed from there.” each book I make is one of a kind. It is never the same exact thing. I Jess Lynch’s introduction to the Phish community started in really enjoy that people take time to make and contribute their own 2009 at Bonnaroo, and then again in 2010 in Hartford, Connecticut. art, and the craftsmanship and everything put into it. I want people “I had a lot of fun and it was my first crazy psychedelic experience. to use them. That’s my goal. To remind people that you can do it Wandering on lot and witnessing the glow-stick war during that too! Get inspired and try something new.” double Tweeprise sucked me in. I had never been to a show like One thing that makes the Phish community unique is its that before.” Once she got into the Phish world, her art started to eclectic artists, and Jess Lynch is a pioneer in the community with reflect her musical interests. “A lot of the ticket albums I designed her contribution of environmentally conscious and mind-blowing were focused on Phish in the beginning. The first album I made was ticket albums. Jess will be in attendance during the Baker’s Dozen for a Phish friend and I used the vinyl cover of Joy as the outside of run and her products can be found at: www.etsy.com/shop/looksiebooksieshop and www.jlynchstudio.com.

the late 1960s. While they (who was also formerly with the travelled nationally playing with Allmans & now is lead bassist for the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Dead and Co.) These are just a Airplane, and Zappa, to name a few of the guys that got started few, they always returned home with Hampton in the 1990s. to Atlanta. (I highly !recommend ARU and Phish toured together, checking out his early music and did some co-billed shows, and Wiki page.) During these home were on the first (1992) gigs, Hampton got the okay to H.O.R.D.E tour together. This play live music in Chastain Park, set the stage for them to have a and these early gigs paved the life-long bond. Gordon and way for the large outdoor Fishman were for sure the closet concerts that would eventually to Hampton. Hampton always grow to be a huge part of the said, "let Phish do what they are Atlanta music scene. He was here to do," again, seeing their considered to be the potential much before Phish’s "grandfather/guardian of the jam- late-1990s peak. Hampton band scene", and in the 90's really showed Phish a lot about became a huge part of who was the power of losing ego, to be booked for H.O.R.D.E tour. His able to attain "grease" in music. gift was deeper than just seeing It is his direct influence that we the potential in the up-and- see when they lay on the floor comers in the scene. He could playing on their backs with feet see it in managers, producers, in the air, and Fish's dress has By Jenny Chadbourne; Asheville NC really any internal talent he was lasted as his way of remaining

"Seventy years ago, a spaceship passed close to directly tapped into, and he made egoless in performance. Most of planet Earth and dropped off a passenger. Someday that a life of making careers for these this secret language was spaceship shall return... Colonel Bruce… Colonel Bruce..." people. Often, over the last encouraged by Hampton’s kooky Kevin Kinney said this when he took the stage at the Fox twenty years, these talents have spirited influence. Theater in Atlanta, Georgia on May 1, 2017. This was only one risen to higher levels of personal Hampton was a master of many things that were said and felt during the incredible success then Hampton himself. of the absurd as he was able to birthday party/live mix tape that Colonel Bruce Hampton This is where Phish and take the obscurest thing and subconsciously created to be his exit music. the Colonel intersect. In 1990, make it music, once only saying The night fell one day after Hampton's actual Bruce met Phish. At that time, "hose" for over two hours over seventieth birthday, April 30. Hampton, a life-long astrologer, a Hampton’s Band was Aquarium experimental jazz licks. For Taurus himself to the core, took his gift of bringing people Rescue Unit (ARU). It featured years in Atlanta in the late 1980s together through music to a new level. A year or more was put Bruce, Jeff Sipe, aka Apt Q-258, and early 1990s, he did stand-up into booking, rehearsing, and planning this event, a flawlessly Jimmy Herring, Oteil Burbridge, comedy with equal performed collection of Bruce's favorite music, played by his Matt Mundy, and Count M’Butu. I experimentation. He said that favorite people. am sure you all have seen the comedy days were really a Bruce was an extraordinary individual. He had a knack Herring (formerly with the Allman way for him to learn crowd for seeing the "destiny of a soul" years before the destiny was Brothers for years, and now out control, (See COL BRUCE realized. He began playing with The Hampton Grease Band in with John McLaughlin) and Oteil Con’d on the next page) (COL BRUCE Con’d from Page 25) seeing so that all fifty musicians would get featured (20 YEARS LATER Con’d from Page 11) just how long it took to drive various in the best light. allowed by touring Europe twice in six audiences to leave the room to find sanity. As most of you know, Hampton tragically, months drove them to craft sets and full He had an insane ability to gauge time and yet in a truly weird juxtaposition, perfectly shows that more resembled their distances. Before cell phones when maps ascended human form on stage during the soundcheck jams than a standard Rock were used for navigation, he could direct you last song, Lovelight, which was his all-time show. This freedom led to a confidence that and give you travel times from memory. favorite. This was the final encore and the would completely alter their approach upon Hours were killed on road trips trying to whole group, about fifty people, were on arrival in Virginia Beach on 7/21. stump him, but it was next to impossible. stage at once. Hampton was on lead vocals, From a jamming standpoint, Phish On then during the jam, utilized segues and full sets to build thematic May 1, 2017, got up and walked to pieces which would help shift the overall Hampton Derek Trucks, stylistic approach of the band for years going created the whispered in his ear forward. (When one considers the extended most magical and they laughed. As jamming of 2.0, and the continued demand music event for he was on his way for jamming from the fanbase in 3.0, you can the rock/jam back to his stool, he thank Europe 1997 for planting this seed in scene I have dove down at the feet both the band and fans.) One has to look no ever witnessed. of thirteen-year-old further than opening night’s Chalk Dust He took over a Brandon Niederauer. Torture -> Ghost -> Olivia’s Pool to year to curate We thought he was understand. In the tour to come, this perfect doing a typical 6/19’s Stash -> Ghost -> Saw It Again, show. He was Hampton improv bow, 6/20’s Taste > Jam -> Cities > Horn -> Ain't approached by but then he didn’t Love Funny -> Limb By Limb -> I Don't local promotor come up. The music Care > Run Like an Antelope, and long-time continued for less 06/24’s Runaway Jim -> Gypsy Queen -> friend Matt than five minutes, but Runaway Jim, 6/25’s Down With Disease -> Wilson to have as the concern for him Piper -> Down With Disease -> Meatstick, an epic grew, you could see it 7/1 and 7/2’s second sets and 7/10’s entire seventieth on the faces across show all showcased a band filled with a birthday show. the stage. As the song creative energy that was nearly unmatched The two ended, Colonel to that point in their career. worked By Cori Richards; Fort Bruce Hampton, the For everything that 1997 would tirelessly side- Collins, CO – IG: @coricat gentle giant, was become, the foundation—set in November by-side for over carried off the stage 1996—was fully formed by mid-July 1997. a year to create the Hampton 70 event. by eight stage hands. It took hours to For a fanbase clamoring for an idea of what Performers included JB, Dave Schools, confirm what had happened. Hampton had kind of music the band was playing, in an Duane Trucks, Peter Buck, Karl Denison, often been carried off the stage in the past, age pre-dating couch tour and next-day- Drew Emmitt, Vince Herman, Jon Fishman, so it was hugely uncertain (to the public) if streaming services, the build-up to Summer Warren Haynes, Chuck Leavell, Derek this was a joke, or a real emergency, as this 1997 was unthinkable. Two tours that will Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, John Popper and is classic Hampton. He had stories he told in always be overshadowed by their late- many more. The performance was almost jest for years about "the musician who died summer and fall counterparts, Europe 1997 four hours long, with four mini set breaks. on stage and became more famous in death was when Phish began to shed their skin Unlike the chaotic Zambieland, shows which then he had been in life." So, on May 2, and evolve intentionally toward a new style were an annual event on the winter solstices when CNN announced that he had in fact that would forever define them. in Atlanta for many years, this show was died on stage within two minutes of bowing orchestrated. There were no open-ended to the ground due to a massive heart attack, jams that seem to fall into a funk loop. This it was clear that Hampton had had the last were four hours of songs, all placed in a very laugh. He died with his left arm over a intentional flow. Highlights include There monitor blasting his favorite song, played by was a Time, She Caught the Katy, Working a lifetime of his best friends spanning four on a Building, Rip This Joint, Good Morning generations on his stage. It could not have Little School Girl, Jessica, Time is Free (JB been more tragically perfect then this. Rest on vocals), Throndossa, Smokestack in peace, dear Colonel Bruce. Lighting, Space is the Place and Turn on your Lovelight (the audio link is still up via Live for Live Music). One can see the variety of songs that were carefully handpicked, but Hampton also put a lot of care into the order

! (BOOKS Con’d from Page 9) just like Gamehendge. We (NYE Con’d from Page want to know more, we are inclined to want answers, yet 13) The Who's, Sparks, Stephen King allows us to imagine what “could” be that world. last played at the famed He says Gilead is a world “we don’t remember,” which allows "S" show. Talk about bust I: Don’t Bogart That Joint, Your Pet Cat > Kill us to believe we are in a dream, or heaven…or Hell? outs!! Which led into a Devil Falls > Back on the Train > My Soul, Why I feel this series competes with other fantastical slow and dirty, Ghost jam, LawnBoy, Divided Sky, Ya Mar, Character worlds is that there’s no blueprint. He allows you to imagine which was also nearly Zero, Walls of the Cave what “could” be appropriated, or what could be laid in front of seventeen-minute, (what II: 2001 > Carini > Twist > Piper > Ass the Gunslinger, when he meets Brown, or Jake Chalmers is this 1998??). Then a Handed > Piper > Sand, Slave to the Traffic (initials JC? You can predict what his role is in this story…), gorgeous Light which Light, More his excursion toward finding the MIB inactivates himself from lifted the heavy energy III: Petrichor, Auld Lang Syne > Suzy what he truly is in search of. Yes, we are aware of his built up during that Ghost. Greenberg, No Men in No Man’s Land, covetousness, but he hovers around what truly matters, And, yes, another sixteen Breath and Burning, Tide Turns, 555, Ocelot, which is the world he is immersed in. We have no fucking minute jam!! Continuing to First Tube clue where he is and that is the best part about it. lift the energy, next up E: Loving Cup That’s what is so great about Gamehendge – as was Party Time, I mean, Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. Trey says –it’s a state of mind. You have players, and lands, what other song do you Don’t Bogart That Joint was last played on and victims, and triumphs, and beauty. This is what the want to dance to on New 10/31/10 (238 shows). Piper featured Trey on Gunslinger possesses in his adventure – possibility. There Year’s Run! This is where Marimba Lumina and Mike on keyboards. The are those that crave the narration (rumors at the beginning of Phish shows their MC third set and encore featured James Casey on skills, and plays a tune saxophone, Natalie Cressman on trombone, every tour speculate a Gamehendge narration) and I think it Jennifer Hartswick on trumpet, and Andres would disappoint the older fans. Well, not disappoint, but it that just brings abounding joy to the whole room. Forero on percussion with Jeff Tanski also on would take away the aura and the gossamer nature of its keyboards for Petrichor and Natalie and Jennifer existence in our Phish world. The quirkiness, everything Which again reminds me adding vocals to Petrichor and No Men In No about its birth, nature, and otherwise everlasting elasticity how nice, despite the Man’s Land. Petrichor through Suzy featured with our relationship with Phish, it’s up to us to create what hassle, it is to see Phish dancers on stage. During Petrichor the dancers we want from the vastness of the land of Lizards. indoors. The submersion, had umbrellas and water marbles fell from above. That’s what the Dark Tower imbues – a world that the dialed in awareness, Auld Lang Syne was accompanied by recorded incipiently drives you to want more, yet keenly keeps you in is so key to the cat and dog noises as cat and dog balloons and check to imagine where you truly are, which is up to you. I’m experience. Party Time raindrop-shaped stress balls fell from the ceiling. not going to go into the plot of it, I highly recommend reading ended and then they got it. When you do, think about how King and Anastasio plan Velvet Sea out of the way 2016 was a year of challenges and out their imaginative worlds. It’s unlike the other fantasy (no offense) and brought loss for many, particularly in the music worlds, where you get the idea; no, you have to figure it out. the energy back with community, which notably lost more talent Now –while you figure it out, therein lies an intensity another Southern nod, than any year since 1970. The collective with the characters, which is what really matters. Roland, the Rocky Top, to end the needed a ray of sunshine to wash away the protagonist, struggles wherever he ends up, and we get to set. year, and Phish devised a tailor-made New see why. Like Phish, we grow with them in their adventure, Due to the Tweeze, it was Year’s gag. The show continued its four- and this book is the just the beginning. Follow his purpose, bound to be a two song night stand of A Cappella openers with Don’t why does he search for the Man in Black? The mystery encore, but I was Bogart that Joint, which had not been played begets an intrinsic connection with ourselves, searching for definitely pleasantly in 238 shows. Next up, Your Pet Cat, alluded something that we don’t necessarily know what it is. I like surprised when the came to the upcoming gag. Kill Devil Falls, Back comparing this book to Phish not because it is the magazine out with one of my all time on the Train, and My Soul provided a and I have to, this is just a book review, but when I re-read favorite covers Rock and reflective, but upbeat tone to set one. this book, it brought me closer to the adventure, which Roll. And yes, a final, Pausing to talk to the audience, Trey matters. We look back on our travails, and we ponder on four plus minutes of remarked that he felt like he was having one what they mean. Roland attempts to do that in this book, and Tweezer glory with of Mike’s old stage-fright dreams because of then more questions arise, which intrigues us to read the next Martian Monster teases the unnatural addition of twenty feet at the one…even the next six, for which I also really, really and a KUNG yelled out, to front of the stage. Page knew just what to do recommend. close the night and keep with the extra space as he dazzled the Whatever you do with this story- you watch the us all so excited for what crowd with a loungey Lawn Boy with Mike movie, read the book, or both- remember that if you try and NYE was to bring. – joining him in the spotlight. Divided Sky focus on just the character, you’ll lose interest. If you try and Jenny Chadbourne; showcased the technical procession of the figure out where Tull is, or Gilead is, you’ll be bored. Try and Asheville, NC band. Ya Mar and Character Zero continued conflate the whole world, and then take in who Roland is, set one with Walls of the Cave closing the which is that – he is us. set, giving way to a wild, piercing Type-One shred session. (Con’d on the next page)

! A funky Also Sprach Zarathrustra set- teemed onto the stage from the light rig in an (TREY Con’d from Page 16) stanza, with two opener had the crowd in full boogie array of colors. One lead dancer broke from Natalie Cressman’s vocal on Feel It Still, Jen before unleashing Carini. Trey sent his delay the pack to center stage. With mask Hartswick’s back-to-back tour de forces on pedal pulsating out removed, he Clint Eastwood and Black Dog and James through a murky basked in the rain, Casey’s downright absurd solo during the jam finally emerging juggling three encore-closing Push on til The Day all into Twist. The umbrellas. The standing out as particularly memorable. Trey quartet locked into other dancers himself was relatively subdued, clearly a connected unit for swarmed him in enjoying the opportunity to play rhythm and the remainder of mob-like fashion, lead the band rather than continuously the set. Twist attempting to melting faces with his leads (though his turned out Type- suppress the searing leads on Push on til The Day very Two, blissful notes happy juggler back clearly denoted he hasn’t lost a step). with long calls of into their pack. It’s easy, as a seasoned Phish kid, the guitar; fluttering Kuroda to miss what’s so great about Trey’s band, keys and drums worked wonders because their strengths are so different from added to the airy on a line of white what makes Phish great- the setlists are notes and technical umbrellas hanging more ‘shuffled’ than ‘unpredictable,’ and the finger work from from the light rig songs aren’t so much ‘jammed’ as ‘open- Trey, propelling the flowing in tandem ended.’ The sum of all this, however, seems jam to its peak. to the chorus, “and to be a necessary and important part of Only thirty-seven the rain came Trey’s process- he gets to scratch different seconds into Piper, down.” Trey itches on TAB tour than he does with Phish, Fishman burst into announced, “And, and while the chance of catching twenty-five an unexpected it’s never too early minute jams might be hovering around zero, delivery of Ass- to get out of 2016,” it’s certainly hard to argue with the periodic Handed as if to igniting the opportunity for a night of boogie-forward show that that is By Paul DiLena; countdown to revelry with Big Red at the helm in a club truly how life lends Pfafftown, NC midnight. Down setting. He has a great time doing it, and it’s blows—out of poured biodegradable let’s face it- it’s really hard not to move the blue. An idyllic Piper found its way to one cat and dog balloons, as well as tiny blue around when you hear Tony Markellis’ Last of the more complex jam sections of the raindrop-shaped stress balls to wash away Tube bassline. evening. Trey joined Fishman on Marimba 2016. The sounds of barking dogs played Lumina and Mike join Page on keys. over the P.A. accompanying the boys on Intensity running high, the boys bounced and Auld Lang Syne. landed in Sand. Fishman flew across the To set 2017 on the right note, it was drums in effortless fashion backing Trey’s time for a Suzy shine-extravaganza- screaming guitar licks. A beautiful rendition spectacular complete with horns, confetti, of Slave led the charge to the final song. jugglers, and dancers, who tore away their More at Madison Square Garden was every rain gear to don bright yellow outfits. Page bit what I thought it could be. The bouncy laid down the funk while cat and dog reverberation of the stands added to the balloons bounced around the room, finding vibration pouring out of the mothership to the boys playing neck-deep on stage. close set two. With 20,000 fans bouncing, Keeping the energy high, No Men in Man’s singing and celebrating the anthem, the Land allowed the horns section to echo out stadium emanated swords of sound and after the chorus. Breath and Burning and daggers of light. Tide Turns rounded out the five-song But, there was something much more in selection off Big Boat. store in set three—an exquisite production of The horn section backed Page’s organ Petrichor. The third set and encore featured and Mike’s vocals on 555. Trey introduced James Casey on saxophone, Natalie the musicians after a playfully-fitting Ocelot. Cressman on trombone, Jennifer Hartswick The set closed with a raucous First Tube, on trumpet, and Andres providing one last full-ensemble rock. The Forero on percussion, with Jeff Tanski also boys encored with Loving Cup, leaving our on keyboard. Dancers took the stage cups runneth over with love after a musical By Veronica Murphy; dressed in dark trench coats and black production fit for Broadway. We were left to Homer, AK masks concealing their faces, dancing to the bask in the love and light of a beautiful buzz. orchestrated number. Recycled rain marbles – Carla Hamilton, Mount Vernon, ME (MIDWEST Con’d from Page 21) pneumonia, a tore Some other cool areas of the city to up knee, and check out are the Southside and Station walking up under Square. Both are filled with bars, water after the tide restaurants, coffee cafes, shops and more. rolled in. Yet he is While you’re in Station Square, you can not giving up! make like Colonel Forbin and ascend As he told Pittsburgh’s Mt. Washington…in an incline me, “The desert was so the conditions are much more favorable. the most challenging You’ll find a spectacular view of the city at because it was the top. extreme in Did you know Pittsburgh is the everything. When it birthplace of pop artist Andy Warhol? It’s was windy it was also home to the Andy Warhol Museum, really windy, when it which is the largest collection of his work was hot it was really and archival materials. If you dig modern art, hot, when it was check out the Mattress Factory – a cold it was really contemporary art museum and experiential cold. There was a lab for artists in residence from around the lot more time to world. think because the Make your visit even funkier with a towns are so spread trip into a psychedelic dream at Randyland. out, so there is a lot It’s a vibrant oasis in a formerly downtrodden of time to reflect. neighborhood. Artist Randy Gilson The desert transformed a chunk of Pittsburgh’s toughened me up, Northside neighborhood into a wonderland and it is probably filled with gardens, murals, brightly painted the hardest furniture and other junk-rehabbed conditions I’ve ever installations. It’s fun, colorful and makes for had. It makes you thing from Kyle, it is that our desire to help some pretty cool pictures. go crazy to a certain extent because of the others can be stronger than our need to help Hopefully this helps you make the solitude and the thinking.” ourselves. I’m proud to call Kyle my friend. most of your Midwest run. Enjoy the shows Stay tuned for the next installment and everything in between! that will feature highlights from his Answers to “10 Songs by 4 (5) Guys” interactions with people he has met along from Page 31! the way. You will (STILL WALKING Con’d from Page 23) be happy to read wedding and be invited inside. Kyle is the that most of kind of guy who focuses on making a encounters have positive impact wherever he goes, leaving a been positive and trail of smiles and laughter as he walks into supportive and the distant horizon, a true example of a incredibly friend. “ uplifting. Kyle Because I have been following Kyle encourages all of on Facebook, I am able to report from my you to get point of view what his Walk is like. All I can involved in say is, wow, I am in awe, and I could never whatever social do that! In addition to Kyle being much cause is speaking younger and slimmer than I am, he seems to to you. He says, have the most happy-go-lucky, “we can learn “Start out with from each experience” attitude that I have your community ever encountered. Whereas I would be and do something calling someone to pick me up and take me local. Do your to the nearest hotel with running water, Kyle research, use the figures out a way to stay true to himself, internet, and continue his Walk, and spend the least make amount of money on himself as humanly interpersonal possible. So far Kyle has endured countless connections.” If blisters, poison oak, sunburn, heatstroke, we can learn one We are thrilled to have this forum to run celebratory announcements for our community! If you’d like to see your event listed here, free of charge, or celebrate the life of someone who has passed, email your information to us at [email protected]. We accept donations of $3-$5 per listing for this service via PayPal to that address but no pressure; we’ll also run them for free! This page is compiled with the help of AmyBeth Luchans; Tel Aviv, Israel

Casey Martin has a birthday on RIP Blaze Howard 7/19 in Pittsburgh! In loving memory of Jeremy Scott Jess Eales & Andy Hill of Sarah & Jakeyland of San Bauer, 9/8/75 - 11/27/2011 Springfield, OR were engaged on Francisco, CA had twins on 5/12: In loving memory of Jordan "Like 5/3 at the Sahaile Falls in Oregon. Max & Noah Gukowsky. the River" McElroy Lacy Boughn & Carey Gutmann Kate Sommer will celebrate her Melo Justice Catalano born to RIP Matthew Marcy, 4/22-81- of LA, CA were engaged on Lacy’s 50th show on 7/16. Tara & Miles Catalano of Los 3/22/17. A phan gone too soon. b-day on 12/20/16 in Salyulita, Michael "Spike" Root is Angeles, CA on May 18th, 2017 Gavin P. Simpson 8/23/78 - Mexico. celebrating his 20th show on 7/16. Kerry McGovern & Tim Mahon of 5/30/16, Elkhart, IN/ Clarkston, MI/ Audra Hoffman & Geoff Grubb Bob Johns of Pittsburgh, PA will Baltimore, MD are expecting a Story, WY. He was a metaphorical of Austin, TX were engaged on be celebrating his first show at age baby this September. mastermind. His gear shift was 6/10 in Colorado. 63 on 7/19, with his daughter always set to high. Congrats on your engagement, Maggie May of Santa Rosa, CA, RIP Katy Mayhem, Rob C, LD, Hanna Cullers & Kyle Ford of who has been seeing Phish for LesleyAnn Light will celebrate almost twenty years. Christina, Oliver, Abe, Fritz, Gambier, OH! her birthday on 7/13. SuperDave, Shane, Raines, NES of the ATL will be celebrating VicHarris, Katie Mae, Gayla, Haley Short & William McAuliffe his birthday on 7/14 at Northerly. Dave 'N' Gianna RED Howie, Kellie G, Olen, & Leo Vince DiFabio is celebrating his BALLOONS FOREVER of Denver, CO got married on 4/2 in New Orleans! 35th birthday on 7/16. Lucky Linda Massa will be celebrating her birthday in Chicago

on 7/17. RIP Jeff “Jeffreys” Haraschack Evan Gmora & Elliott Fisher of Jim Pollock will celebrate his RIP Kyle “Titties” Cobey Brooklyn, NY celebrated one year birthday on 7/18 in Dayton. RIP Brad Beaudreau exactly on 1/1/17! RIP Gabe Meijas

Things NOT to Say to a Cop When By Amy F. Fischer; Albany, NY Pulled Over 1) I can't reach my license unless you hold my ______10) Do you know why you ______(verb past tense) me (noun). over? Okay, just so one of us knows. 2) What do you use those rubber ______(plural noun) 11) I was trying to keep up with ______(name of a for anyway? person). Yes, I know there are no other ______(plural 3) Hey, you must have been doing ______(a number) to noun) around, that's how far ahead are. keep up with me. Good job. 12) What do you mean, 'Have I been ______(verb – 4) I thought you had to be in relatively ______(adjective) ing)? YOU'RE the ______(adjective) specialist. shape to be a police officer. 13) Well officer, when I reached down to pick up my bag of 5) I was going to be a cop, but I decided to finish ______(plural noun), my ______(noun) fell off of (a college major) school instead. my lap and got lodged between the brake and the gas pedal, 6) You're not going to check the______(noun) are you? forcing me to speed out of control. 7) Is it true that people become cops because they're too 14) No, YOU assume the ______(noun). ______(adjective) to work with ______(plural noun)? 15) No, offi, offic, lucifer I'm not as ______(adjective) 8) I ______(verb) your salary. you are ______(adjective) I am. I swear to ______9) Gee officer, that's ______(adjective). The last officer (name of a person). only gave me a ______(noun).

By Vince DiFabio; Naperville, IL

Across 1. Credited songwriter on 9 of the starred clues 5. California Wine Region 9. Airline of yesteryear, abbr. 14. “_____ only just begun.” 15. Illegal hacking grp. 16. Some Middle Easterners 17. Thought 18. An end for den 19. What a thorn can do to a finger 20. Things to get checked 22. Actress Sobieski 23. Something wanted for free* 24. Digging tools 26. Don’t win 27. US futbol assn. 28. A place that’s so stupendous to live* 32. ____ Lobos 35. Words separated by “if” in a Crown dependency 37. What Aretha sang about 41. Impairs to the point of stopping 42. Tom Hanks consecutively, once 43. Trick suffix 44. Prompter beginning 45. Esquire’s expertise 47. Mega 51. Ads 4. Brewery needs 37. What Splinter is 54. ______Dragon (80’s Disney movie) 5. Int’l Commerce overseer 38. Ram’s mate 56. End up 6. 1980’s songstress Baker 39. Late night Jimmy’s uncle 59. Amplifying company (and credited 7. One whose end is the road* 40. What a server does with waters songwriter on 6 of the starred clues) 8. Picnic visitor 46. Cuddly but deadly thing discovered 61. ______your sleeve 9. The red, red worm* by a man named Wilson* 62. Competent 10. Cuffed and booked 48. Filling in, with “on one’s” 63. Arrested Development star 11. Head scratcher? 49. And others, in full Shawkat 12. Accept suffix 50. Counts (on) 64. Artistic category 13. Credited songwriter on 4 of the 52. Indian money 65. Swedish auto starred clues 53. Chilean footballer, Marcelo 66. Fibs 21. What bananas get 55. / 67. Rub out 22. The preferred of two evils 56. Credited songwriter on 3 of the 68. ______boy! 25. What we’re glad glad glad that you starred clues 69. Credited songwriter on 4 of the are, with “a”* 57. Computer company starred clues 29. Cost finisher 58. “99 Luftballons” singer 30. Formally prohibit 60. One with a little scoop of plaster Down 31. What inning has three of mix* 1. If you were here more of the day, it 33. One who prances with the beasts 62. ______live and breathe! wouldn’t this* who parade every night* 2. Pair-off again 34. What the horse’s nostrils do* PRINT THIS OUT! Solution on Page 29! 3. “But still!” 36. Easy baskets