for the third time in as many days, the doctor is in. happy 7th anniversary of the third of three amazing nights of phil and friends shows (with page and trey) at the warfield. this was world colliding - the blending of phish and gd as phil assembled john molo, steve kimock, page and trey for this once-in-a-lifetime stand of shows in san francisco. donna jean godchaux also joined the band this night as well as for some of 4/16 as they tore through songs from gd and phish catalogs as well as songs by steve kimock, dylan, pink floyd and others. tickets were extremely difficult to get for these shows despite the fact that nobody had a clue how it would turn out. we were not disappointed. a powerful convergence took place, progressing over the course of these three nights. the resulting musical and emotional highs surpassed everyone's expectations live and on tape. all three of these shows (from a dozen sources!) and most if not all phil shows are available for free streaming or download in a dizzying array of formats at archive.org. for the 24-track rough mixes i played on livephish radio, try the following links: 4/15/99, 4/16/99 and 4/17/99.

tune in to livephish radio where we'll be streaming live for the next few hours or more, celebrating the magic of 4/17/99 and beyond, starting officially at 4:17 (though a minor tech glitch caused a slightly early launch today). that was the only glitch, so i'm grateful. the text feature is working correctly today so we're defintely improving the interface. it's all a work in progress, but i'm glad to be able to share these occasions with you, however they turn out.

i'll update the list as we go so you can follow along as i craft the show in real time. this live impromptu "from the archives" on livephish radio started around 3:30p EST with the following tracks:

-ya mar 12/13/97 albany, ny
-harry hood 12/30/95 new york, ny (by request)
-welcome/voice break
**entire show - 4/17/99 phil and friends w/ trey and page @ warfield, san francisco**
-set I: dark star >
-it's up to you
-days between >
-dark star >
-my favorite things
-mississippi half-step (with donna jean godchaux)
-bird song (with donna)
-setbreak voice break
-set II: terrapin
-down with disesase >
-dark star
-friend of the devil
-casey jones
-morning dew >
-going down the road feeling bad (with donna)
-we bid you goodnight (with donna)
-donor rap
-encore - box of rain
-band intros
-voice break
-mike's song > 11/16/94 hill auditorium, ann arbor, mi
-simple > 11/16/94 ann arbor
-jam (mike on 1-string bass) - 11/16/94 ann arbor
-fluffhead 8/17/96 clifford ball, plattsburgh, ny
-on your way down - 8/3/88 telluride, co
-wolfman's brother - 12/1/03 albany, ny (livephish.com download)
-2001 > 7/9/94 great woods, mansfield, ma
-split open and melt - 7/9/94 great woods
-ghost - 5/22/00 radio city music hall, nyc
-higway to hell - 5/3/93 new brunswick, nj
-amazing grace > grace jam - 5/8/93 durham, nh (livephish.com download)
-thanks/voice break

phil and friends actually started about 4:10p and ended about 7p, when we dove into more phish cuts from the archives. today's "from the archives" livephish radio special ended about 9:20p EST. i can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon, so hopefully we can do it again soon. i'll add some details and links later. thanks again for listening and for your feedback and support. this 3-day marathon was a smashing success as a tribute to phil and a great leap without-a-net into another exciting way to share our love for the band and to stay connected. Enjoy!

--ks


http://myspace.com/phisharchives blog entry 31
From The Archives on LP Radio (Posted 04/17/06 4:17p EST)

happy easter and happy 7th anniversary of the second of three incredible nights of phil and friends shows (with page and trey) at the warfield. donna joined the band this night as well as 4/17 for added effect and the gigs just got deeper each night inspiring a beautifully intense range of emotions for everyone present. tune in to livephish radio where we'll be streaming live for the next few hours or more, celebrating the magic of 4/16/99 and beyond, starting at 4:16.

as i said yesterday, usually when we broadcast lp radio live remote we stream text that indicates it's "from the archives" or words to that effect. that's not working today so, depending where you look, the text scroll is either stuck on the song before i took over (wedge 2/18/03) or says "loading track data from server, please wait...". until that's fixed, you'll have to take my word for it that the doctor is in.

i'll update the list as we go so you can follow along as i work on voice breaks. this is true radio improv going down. i'm scrambling around de island in real time, recording stuff, grabbing tracks and bouncing files around to my laptop from which this live stream originates. it's then relayed to a livephish radio server (with a varying delay that's pretty hard to anticipate) and finally to the .net and your ears. this live impromptu "from the archives" on livephish radio started around 3:52p EST with the following:

-down with disease > - 11/23/97 winston-salem, nc
-low rider > 11/23/97 winston-salem
-disease 11/23/97 winston-salem
**entire show - 4/16/99 phil and friends w/ trey and page @ warfield, san francisco**
-set I: help on the way >
-slipknot! >
-franklin's tower
-wish you were here >
-tennessee jed
-stella blue instrumental
-alligator
-set II: bertha > (with donna jean godchaux)
-prince caspian >
-st. stephen >
-the eleven >
-unbroken chain
-chalk dust torture >
-mountains of the moon >
-scarlet begonias > (with donna)
-fire on the mountain (with donna)
-donor rap
-band intros
-encore - ripple (with donna)
-debut livephish radio voice break
-west la fadeaway - 10/6/00 mountain view, ca (with bob weir) 1st 2d-to-last gig ever
-tweezer - 6/24/00 atlanta, ga
-voice break outro - cut during return to regularly scheduled livephish radio.

today's "from the archives" special ended about 8:15p EST. thanks again for listening. check lp radio at the appropriate time tomorrow. if all goes well, we'll spin the end of the warfield run and more. until we perfect voice breaks, text scrolling and other features, i'll try to update the blog so you'll know what's happening with live broadcasts. it's been pleasure to again celebrate the resurrection of this music, the communion of gd with phish and the blending of deadheads with phishheads heralded by these shows. it's fun to play and hear this stuff over livephish radio. tune in tomorrow for the final installment. until then, the doctor is out. One Love. Enjoy!

--ks


http://myspace.com/phisharchives blog entry 30
From The Archives on LP Radio (Posted 04/16/06 4:16p EST)

happy 7th anniversary of the first of three incredible nights of phil and friends shows (with page and trey) at the warfield. i'll fill in the full list and info later. in the meantime, tune in to livephish radio if you have a chance. we'll be streaming live for the next few hours or more, celebrating the magic of 4/15/99 and beyond.

usually when we broadcast lp radio live remote (we've only tried it once before) we stream text that indicates it's "from the archives" or words to that effect. apparently that's not working today so it's either stuck on the song before i took over (cavern 12/1/92) or saying "loading track data from server" depending where you look. so you'll have to take my word for it when i say the doctor is (was) in.

this paragraph was added after the fact around 11p, EST after reaching the end of another "from the archives" special streamed on livephish radio. this impromptu special was once again all music without announcements, starting around 4:00p EST. here's a list of what was played:

-vultures 8/3/97 the gorge
**entire show - 4/15/99 phil and friends w/ trey and page @ warfield, san francisco**
-set I: hello old friend
-viola lee blues
-big railroad blues
-jack-a-roe
-cosmic charlie
-wolfman's brother >
-uncle john's band
-set II: alabama getaway
-sugaree
-like a rolling stone >
-i know you rider
-row jimmy
-shakedown street >
-the wheel >
-not fade away
-phil's organ donor rap
-band intros
-encore - mr. tambourine man
-you enjoy myself - 11/14/95 orlando, fl
-llama (w/ santana, perazzo, rekow) - opening for santana stowe, vt
-rock and roll > 12/2/03 boston, ma (20th anniversary show - livephish.com download)
-weekapaug groove 12/2/03 boston
-tweezer reprise (with mike's song lyrics) 12/2/03 boston
-maze 12/2/03 boston
-waste 12/2/03 boston
-bug 12/2/03 boston
-auld lang syne > 12/31/93 the centrum, worcester, ma
-down with disease jam > 12/31/93 worcester
-split open and melt 12/31/93 worcester
-david bowie > 5/8/93 durham, nh (livephish.com download)
-jessica > 5/8/93 durham
-bowie > 5/8/93 durham
-have mercy > 5/8/93 durham
-moma dance > 6/17/04 coney island, brooklyn, ny (livephish.com download)
-free 6/17/04 brooklyn
-funky bitch - (w/ santana, perazzo, rekow) - opening for santana stowe, vt
-terrapin station 8/9/98 virginia beach, va.

today's marathon "from the archives" ended about 10:50p EST, when we returned to regular livephish radio programming. it was fun to celebrate this historic show and to share some other favorites. as always, thanks for listening. keep your ears peeled at the appropriate time tomorrow and monday as i'm inclined to complete the trifecta by paying homage to 4/16 and 4/17 and more from the archives. as i said last time we took over the lp radio, i hope this becomes semi-regular. until we perfect the text scrolling and other features for live broadcasts, i'll try to update the blog to give those interested a heads-up.

while listening to 4/15, i re-read the comments of my colleague and friend dick latvala about the show and the worlds that collided at the warfield. dick and i both got to be involved leading up to the shows - me sending phish music to phil's camp and dick passing along grateful dead for trey and page. none of has had any inkling it would be quite as powerful as it was. by the time the lights went down this first night, we were all aglow. then viola lee started to develop...further and furthur, setting the tone for all three nights' climbing improvisational alchemy. i'll refrain from more explanation because i think dick did a better job putting the intensity in context than i can.

this stream is a mix from the 24-track a-dat tapes he references in his post and all three shows are available from this source at archive.org. stunning aud's from the drink rail that reveal the super-charged electric atmosphere also circulate though dick probably scoffed at those, g_d bless him. i believe his message was originally posted at rec.music.gd or dead.net. i pasted it below to recall the spirit of joy and wonder at these shows and as a tribute to LATVALA. with that, the doctor is out. Enjoy!

--ks


===== re: 4/15/99 phil and friends at warfield ======

(posted by) Dick Latvala
02:11am Apr 16, 1999 PDT (..312 of 330)

"ok, let me be the first to give a first hand account of the monsterous
magic that occurred at the Warfield Theater last night. (4/15/99) I deliberately
stayed away from the worksite this past week so that I didn't hear what
these guys were working on. I was afraid that I would be greatly
dissappointed if they simply did renditions of GD or Phish tunes. I wanted
a free form jamming experience from these awfully talented group of
musicians. I figured that Trey wouldn't stand for anything half-assed and
boy was I not prepared for what ensued. This was one of those nights where
you knew while it was happening that miracles and magic was at hand. This
was easily the finest most brilliant music that I have seen live in many a
year. Another apprehension that I was operating from was that Steve would
"lay back", as is his style. Last night the man was playing like Warren
Haynes, and Trey and Steve showed a sense of communication that has far
outseeded anything that I have ever heard before. It was like these 2 guys
were in some kind of mind meld. It seemed like they had been playing
together for all their lives. It was extremely smooth in delivery. Page
and Molo were perfection. Phil was appearing to me to be looking quite
proud of what he started. I still will never recover from the awesomely
aggressive manner in which Steve and Trey layed their lines down. This was
indeed an historical night. And what could be better than getting to go
for the next two nights. John Cutler and Jeffrey Norman recorded these 3
shows on 24 track A-DAT. I can't help but see this show come out in its
entirety. These guys were serious and they delivered the real goods.
I'm somewhat anxious to hear what anybody else, that was there, felt about
the music. I was amazed and thrilled and proud of the effort. Sometimes it
seems very clear that special music can "cure" any sickness you have. This
experience was right up there with the closing of Winterland. Is that
enough hi-per-bully?"



http://myspace.com/phisharchives blog entry 29
From The Archives on LP Radio (Posted 04/15/06 4:15p EST)

thanks for all the great comments and feedback lately. this little snapshot of the community has a good feel that helps the mind wander and the pen flow smoothly. it also inspires stirring up the mix with newer tracks and some reposted classics like this one. fast enough for you from 11/19/92 is the second song i posted here in late fall of 2005. it pre-dated the blog so now it gets a well-deserved entry. another reposted track from burlington, dave`s energy guide from page`s first gig 9/26/85, was removed to make room for this pearl, which is now downloadable as well as streaming.

the opening show of fall tour, 11/19/92 st. michael`s college in colchester, vt, was a meaningful show for me although i didn`t get to attend. after seeing a bunch of shows that spring and summer (the run up the ca coast will always be among my most treasured phish memories), i had to wait to wait until december to catch the midwest and holiday shows. soon after the tour started in vermont, the dat`s started to flow in and we gathered around the stereo to study the new songs and shows. phish.net (rec.music.phish) was becoming more popular as people streamed online and that, along with more people seeing more consecutive shows, helped more phishheads connect. re: that word - believe it or not, some online fans around this time decided they preferred to be called "glides". call-it-what-you-will, the band was playing at an extremely high level as they criss-crossed the continent leaving expanded and sometimes exploded heads in their wake. the spring and fall tours featured material from a picture of nectar and from rift - the second new record for the elektra label which was due to be released in early 1993. around this time some of us tapers and traders decided to organize a little in order to more consistently document the shows. tapers from each region would connect through friends online and by phone to swap stories, freak out about what we`d caught/missed and trade sections of tour. someone would catch six shows in the northeast, someone else five in the south, 2 in canada and so on. we shared gear, rides and hotels, taping every show we saw and setting up some interesting early cloning setups wherever we landed afterward. we would trade our respective sections of tour on dat as quickly as possible, spinning countless cassette copies for friends. some of the more online-savvy people started expanding tape trees and b & p offers to the next level, with increasingly broader and more efficient ways to get more music to more eager ears faster.

the scene was truly all in the family in those days and we were evangelical in our attempts to turn on anyone who would listen. if some unsuspecting listener didn`t agree this was the most talented, insightful and moving band of the day, they were obviously wrong and our prescription was more phish. by this fall tour, a critical mass was adopting dat technology intent on capturing and spreading every sweet note in the highest possible quality. this was also the band`s first tour using dat recorders for every gig. the cool, new minkin backdrops were featured, having been been debuted at the new aud show in worcester the previous new year`s eve. the taping section and mail order ticketing didn`t exist yet. both began the following year.

there was a palpable excitement surrounding phish at this time and their popularity grew steadily. horde tour had gone down that summer to solid success, especially musically and particularly for phish. the band`s summer trek to europe with violent femmes and their late-summer opening stint with santana were also under their belt now, leaving them freshly focused on the ways of the hose. spirits around the scene were at least as high as the musical peaks. on a radio interview earlier that day, the band members joked with wizn dj mike luoma about hiding tickets to the sold-out show in burlington`s city hall park. the tour kicked off in grand style as the band wove teases from those were the days (from all in the family) throughout the show and unveiled new material from rift as well as inspiring renditions of antelope, mike`s groove, tweezer > creature > tweezer reprise and perhaps the thickest, funniest lengthwise ever. fast enough for you is one of the new songs from rift debuted that night with gordon stone guesting on haunting pedal steel, which he also added to the studio version. for added inspiration, a photo of the rift studio reels has been added to the photos section.

tapes of this show circulate from a few good sources, so check out the whole show when you have a chance. gordon also joins on llama and just about everything played this night (and much of this fall tour) is worth a listen.

before i sign off i want to briefly acknowledge the 12th anniversary of the three-night beacon theater run. that's definitely the subject for another blog or three, but it is hard to believe it was that long ago. if time were only part of the equation...

happy passover, happy easter. Enjoy!

--ks

p.s. check out this video of chalk dust torture from 12/31/95 madison square garden here and if you dont already own the new year`s eve 1995 cd set and downloads, you can pick them up at drygoods.phish.com or livephish.com. while chalk is up here, you can add it to your profile.



http://myspace.com/phisharchives blog entry 28
Fast Enough For You 11/19/92 w/ Gordon Stone (Posted 04/14/06 11:19a EST)

original blog:

Happy New Year!

after days of wrangling, myspace has finally uploaded a new track for me. it won't let me add a cool image to it yet, but it's nye. i'll match wits with their content mgt. system later.

i have an especially vivid memory of this soundcheck and a huge love for quinn and words don't begin to describe the experience that was big cypress, so i'll just say Enjoy!

repost:

this repost of quinn the eskimo (mighty quinn) occupies the spot previously filled by 12/6/97 izabella. keep an eye out for other tracks from that funky palace show as i'll definitely post some sooner than later. like other covers this is streaming only, but i like the song and this version so much i can't help but share it with you again. have a wonderful weekend.

--ks


http://myspace.com/phisharchives blog entry 14
Quinn 12/29/99 Big Cypress Soundcheck (blog 14 12/31/05 repost)
(originally posted 12/31/05 9:35p EST. reposted 4/7/06 12:29p EST)

http://myspace.com/phisharchives blog entry 27
(Posted 03/31/06 11:18p EST)

as promised, here's one of the tracks from tonight's "from the archives" livephish radio stream - simple from 11/18/96 memphis, home of elvis and the ancient greeks. this isn't an especially well known show or simple. it is a unique version, flowing out of the set II opener 2001 in a combination that occurred only once before in 1994 when the song was still in relative infancy. from the start of this track you can tell the band is having a great time with it and some spell-binding interplay during the jam makes it more than worth a listen. for most of the end of this set, phish was joined by gary "el buho" gazaway who also added trumpet to the band's third legendary halloween musical costume, a set-long cover of the talking heads "remain in light" album. the incredible 10/31/96 show is available as livephish 15 and includes, among many highlights, another beautiful simple as the song continued to stretch out as an improvisational anthem.

the playlist from tonight's "from the archives" special is listed in my previous myspace blog. i hope you like this track as much as i do. it was especially cool to play (and hear) it over livephish radio. now it's here for your downloading and listening pleasure. the 11/6/98 split open and melt was removed to make space for this track. have a happy april fool's day and a great weekend. Enjoy!

--ks

p.s. i also rotated some new photos into the gallery, courtesy of my assistant and resident photo guru jen.

http://myspace.com/phisharchives blog entry 26
(Posted 03/31/06 9:20p EST)

i want to share the list of songs broadcast in real-time tonight on an experimental, first "from the archives" streamed on livephish radio, which is available free at livephish.com. we're working on podcasts and more sophisticated streams with announcements, but this inaugural special was all music. i'll share some of the tracks here, but for now, just want to post a list. the show started at 7:15pEST and went like this:

never - trey and tom; trampled by lambs and pecked by the dove
mountains in the mist - farmhouse japanese bonus track
brief accidental jimmy cliff interlude ("how you feeling burlington") - 3/25/05 easter @ higher ground
bathtub gin - 8/16/96 clifford ball
bluegrass jam > 11/16/94 ann arbor, mi (w/ rev. jeff mosier)
swing low sweet chariot - 11/16/94 ann arbor (w/ rev. jeff mosier)
tube - 11/2/98 west valley, ut
taste 7/22/97 raleigh, nc
prep school hippy (a/k/a trust fund baby) - 9/26/85 wruv "exposure" radio show in burlington, vt
somewhere over the rainbow - 8/9/98 virginia beach, va
sand - 12/31/99 big cypress
i don't care - trampled by lambs and pecked by the dove
fluffhead - 7/30/88 telluride, co
simple - 11/18/96 memphis, tn
harry hood = 11/12/94 kent, oh
ripple - 4/16/99 phil and friends w/ trey and page @ warfield, san francisco, ca

"from the archives" ended about 9:20p EST, when we returned to regularly scheduled programming. this has been lots of fun. for those of you listening, thanks for sharing in this week-ending research project. we hope to repeat it semi-regularly in some format or another in the future. in the meantime, the doctor is...out. Enjoy!

--ks

http://myspace.com/phisharchives blog entry 25
(Posted 03/24/06 6:18p EST)

the number 25 is significant for many reasons. in my microcosmic blog world, 25 flew by quickly between last november and now. six minutes is the new six months. following the stream of consciousness from the murat opens many doors, but one that's wedged open for the rest of my days is the memory of phish's 6/18/94 performance at chicago's uic pavilion.

there's the obvious appeal of the show itself, with life altering renditions of david bowie, tweezer and yem. this show also has near-perfect flow and incredible combinations like wilson > rift opener, mango song > down with disease, tweezer > lifeboy (another tie to the murat beyond my midwest theory) and the show-capping bouncing > tweezer reprise encore. divided sky during which trey communed with the light creatures is another ultra-high moment. the most heralded combination of the show and indeed a high moment in all of phish history is the set II opener - peaches en regalia > "mind left body" jam > david bowie. this show is a real beauty and the bowie must be heard again and again.

like august '93, summer '94 is legendary among phishheads for good reason. the phrase "you snooze you lose" was our mantra and truer words have never been spoken. as a strapping 25 year-old law student, i was able to catch two runs of shows that summer. the first started with uic the night after the "oj show" (ouch) and ended in cleveland the night before the "game-hoist" show (double ouch). during that week, we celebrated the solstice in fire-prone cincinnati, read the book and saved our lives in columbus, got poured on at the phoenix plaza (a/k/a roof of parking garage - where tickets were so plentiful they were littered around the entrance at showtime), returned to the murat for another stunning performance and landed back at nautica stage for the second time in less than a year. it was a once in a lifetime chance to see the band at their most creative in extremely variable venues with a growing circle of fans touring so as not to miss a note of it.

being a fairly responsible guy, i left my peeps on the road to return to my summer internship at canada's house of commons in beautiful ottawa after the 6/25 cleveland show. no regrets, right? thanks to a visionary professor and an outstanding sponsor and staff from the fine province of nova scotia, my experience was excellent. in addition to researching the timely separation issue, i spent countless hours in the house chamber during question period, rode with my dad along the rideau canal where he'd skated as a kid and generally made the most of being a stranger in (my native) strange land. as icing on the cake, i was conveniently living at u. of ottawa when the band caught back up with me at the congress center a couple weeks later. after a night with sandsio "clubbing" in the bizarre community of hull across the bridge and an epic show the next day (don't miss the 7/5 ottawa gin > lifeboy and curtain > letter to jimmy page, among other great moments) my friend emily and i bid adieu to ottawa u, packed my summer belongings into my trusty toyota with taping gear on top and caught the rest of the tour. but july is a subject for another blog or three.

starting with laguna seca days (what would blog 25 be without a nod to this event's acronym?) and ending with sugarbush, this tour cemented the band's place as a live powerhouse before the public took notice. the entire tour is worth close attention. luckily, excellent tapes exist of most of it with credit to a developing gang of dedicated tapers, the advent of dat and a couple helpful crew members who kept soundboards flowing to the people. if you don't have them, you should check out the two livephish releases from this tour LP10 (columbus 6/22/94) and LP02 (7/16/94 tour closer at sugarbush) along with uic and so many others. LP02 is currently sold out but we expect it back in stock sometime this spring along with other missing livephish titles.

the gin-that-broke-the-mold made way for mike's > lifeboy in an extended and much-deserved myspace nod to the '93 murat. now mike's > lifeboy yields to the smoking "mind left" > bowie from 6/18/94 at uic that has been blowing great minds since its inception.

have a great weekend. Enjoy!

--ks

p.s. don't forget to vote for the jammy awards. phish "new year's eve 1995" is nominated for best archival album (as are some other excellent releases including monk/coltrane and gd fillmore west). mike is also nominated for best studio album with leo and tour of the year with the duo. voting is underway now at jammys.com.

http://myspace.com/phisharchives blog entry 3
(originally posted as More Jimi 10/26/05 12p EST. reposted 3/20/06 12:06p EST)

i switched out the incendiary 7/30/97 fire for this funky izabella from set II of 12/6/97 at my "hometown" michigan palace. i missed seeing this show but it is a monster on tape in a tour full of jaw-dropping performances.

i haven't figured out how to post the ridiculous set-opening tweezer at a listenable bitrate so this is as early in this legendary set as i can share for now.

Enjoy!

--ks

http://myspace.com/phisharchives blog entry 5
(originally posted 11/10/05 4:20a EST. reposted 3/14/06 9:26p EST)

original blog:

it's a decade since the fox theatre shows. in the midst of a mostly arena tour, the band treated us to 3 nights at one of the most ornate and sonically pleasing theaters in the country, the fabulous fox. it was in atlanta at a post-show party at yakitori that i first learned the band might hire an archivist. when john paluska asked if I'd help the new hire out, i said I'd be happy to but suggested they just hire me. after 1995 holiday tour (aka "interview tour") i got the offer to move to burlington to start doing what I do now. i can't imagine it happening any other way but don't take it for granted either. every day is a new adventure in past-turned-future. ozzy said it best when he said "today was tomorrow yesterday".

you might ask "why this whole schpeal about the fox and then you post a random track from vermont from a decade before and miles from anything like 11/11/95 mike's song or 2001 > bowie?" that's a fair question and maybe it is a non sequitur, but what's myspace about if not a rambling non sequitur from someone who surely has something better to do. not to mention neither of those monsters, or arguably any before or since, might ever have happened if not for the college radio show that begat this track. in honor of both occasions, this early dave's energy guide replaces 11/19/92 fast enough for you (w/ gordon stone on drippy pedal steel) from st. michael's, the second track posted here and another hometown college gig.

page first sat in with phish at uvm in spring 1985 after hearing them play at goddard (and being slayed by fish's playing as so many of us have since), but he officially joined the band 9/26/85 for a show called wruv "exposure". wruv is uvm's student radio station and exposure still showcases local bands. that local showcase in a city of 40,000 was the first time page loaded his keyboard into a show as a member of phish - as he's done a thousand times since. jeff holdsworth was still in the band then and for most of the following year and the five-member phish played this instrumental along with some other early material to introduce new listeners to the band.

repost:

two quick things to add upon repost. first, the scintillating 10/21/95 reba was removed to make room for this repost of deg rather than the 11/19/92 fast enough mentioned in the original blog (which i'll also eventually repost). second, deg isn't actually up yet as of the time i'm posting this, because it's taking a long time to process at myspace. that means you'll hear it sometime in the next 24 hours, probably sooner than later.

Enjoy!

--ks