GRACE POTTER, ON GROWING UP IN VERMONT
Interview with Aidin Vaziri in the San Fransisco Chronicle, from sfgate.com (1/28/11)"I grew up in Vermont, where you went to a Phish concert and took acid "
DEPARTMENT OF DISASTER ANALOGIES DEPARTMENT
New York TimesThe storm that tormented the East Coast delivered its knockout punch here in the nation’s capital, where almost 200,000 people remained without electricity on Thursday, and disruptions across the metropolitan area caused some of the worst commuting delays on the Eastern Seaboard.
Contending for the title of worst commute was Adam Rosenberg, a communications director for a software company, who spent almost 12 hours driving 50 miles from Dupont Circle in Washington through a landscape of abandoned cars, stuck buses and drivers who had given up and gone to sleep.
Mr. Rosenberg knows traffic. He used to follow the band Phish with hordes of other fans. But nothing could have prepared him for what he saw on Wednesday night. Inclines sowed chaos. Cars spun helplessly and buses slid into other lanes, leaving an obstacle course of paralyzed vehicles."
PHISH AND DMB THIS SUMMER?
Dave Matthews Band bassist Stefan Lessard tweeted this:
“DMB & Pearl Jam or DMB & Phish?”
The funny thing is that both Phish fans and Pearl Jam fans have been tweeted back “Pearl Jam.” The rumor mill is suggesting that this is perhaps for Watkins Glen, the proposed AC festival, or (please let this not be so and let us have a real run there) the Gorge. It’s interesting if nothing else.
PHISH W/ DMB THIS SUMMER?
Dave Matthews Band bassist Stefan Lessard tweeted this:
“DMB & Pearl Jam or DMB & Phish?”
The funny thing is that both Phish fans and Pearl Jam fans have been tweeted back “Pearl Jam.” The rumor mill is suggesting that this is perhaps for Watkins Glen, the proposed AC festival, or (please let this not be so and let us have a real run there) the Gorge. It’s interesting if nothing else.
HIGHER GROUND BENEFIT FEB. 3 FEATURING PAGE AND FISH
This has not been announced on the Higher Ground website, but according to an article in the Burlington Free Press here, Page McConnell and Jon Fishman will join other Vermont musicians including Russ Lawton and Ray Paczkowski (both of whom play with TAB), Bob Wagner, Joshua Panda, Jer Coons and others for a benefit performance at the South Burlington nightspot on Februrary 3rd. The show will benefit Pete's Greens, a northern Vermont organic farm which suffered a fire last month.
More details will be available on Brent Hallenbeck's blog, Brent's Notebook, on the Free Press site which broke the story, as well as the Higher Ground website.
Tickets are expected to go on sale at 11 am tomorrow, Friday, January 28.
UPDATE: Tickets are not on sale yet, but a "bookmarkable" ticketing page is up on Higher Ground's website for the February 3 benefit event here.
UPDATE 2: Thanks to @johnnyd and @joechip for correcting earlier mistakes in this posting!
PHISH.NET BLOG NOW NATIVE!
Today, we're very excited to announce another great enhancement on the Phish.net site. Recently, as some of you net-savvy folks may be aware, we've had several outages with our blog. Our blog is was hosted over at Tumblr, a startup microblogging service. We've enjoyed partnering with Tumblr, they have an awesome and simple interface and a lot of great ideas, but a combination of factors including flaky reliability and lack of integration ultimately led to the decision to bring our blog in house. So, today, we're unveiling our new blog.
You will now be able to comment on our blog entries using your Phish.net account. Your profile will track your blog comments just like your other comments on the site. And, perhaps most importantly, the experience will be consistent throughout phish.net.
For a limited time, the blog archive will be available at phishnet.tumblr.com. Our goal is to import those entries into our blog here and eventually, phase out the old archive.
Don't worry, none of your favorite features are going away! We'll still post images, videos, and our weekly Mystery Jam, as well as feature articles by the Phish.net staff.
WHITHER THE MYSTERY JAM?
Due to tumblr issues, the Blog was unable to post the Mystery Jam before departing MJHQ for the day. Thus, we will have yet another Mystery Jam Tuesday. See you all tomorrow
TONGUE-IN-CHEEK TIRADE
Christwire - a religiously toned Onion-like site - takes tongue-in-cheek swipes at The Phish from Vermont.
MIKE GORDON TOUR PRESALE ON NOW!
According to Mike’s website, a limited number of tickets for his upcoming 17 city tour from March 5 - 26 are available for fan presale at Mike’s site here until Thursday, January 20th.
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FISHMAN IN STUDIO W/ EVERYONE ORCHESTRA
Matt Butler, the mastermind behind the Everyone Orchestra will be taking the EO concept into the studio for the first time in the 10 years of its existence. The recording sessions will take place January 17th and 18th, 2011 in Brooklyn and will feature the following lineup:
Jon Fishman, Reed Mathis, Al Schnier, Jeff Coffin, Marco Beneveto, Steve Kimock, Jennifer Hartswick, Jans Ingber, and Jamie Masefield.
If you are not familiar with the Everyone Orchestra, here is a quick bio:
The Everyone Orchestra is a revolving cast of stellar musicians brought together by drummer/conductor Matt Butler for concerts, festival super jams and special benefit events. EO performances are designed to create space for each performer’s musical personality to shine, engage the audience as participants in the jam and to facilitate a massive celebratory coming together featuring a conductor directing both musicians and audience alike in interactive, lively, and highly danceable movements.
Everyone Orchestra, You Enjoy Myself Pt. 1: (Youtube)
Everyone Orchestra, You Enjoy Myself Pt. 2: (Youtube)
Everyone Orchestra, You Enjoy Myself Pt. 3: (Youtube)
THE PHISH.NET MEME GAME
A "meme" is defined as "a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)". On the internet, a meme is often a recurring theme, typically originating from a specific joke in a specific genre (such as a video game, see "All your base are belong to us") or pop culture (see Kanye West's "Imma let you finish").
The Phish.net site is constantly adding new features. This week, we're excited to unveil a new game in our "Just for Fun" section: The Meme Game.
The Meme Game features 50 images based on the Joseph Ducreux meme. Ducreaux was a French painter who painted the amusing self-portrait located below in 1793. Recently, it has become the backdrop for modern phrases or lyrics translated, sarcastically, into more formal English.
Above is an example game. The lyrics "It is my supposition that I have not yet accurately relayed the tale of the apparation" is, of course, a parody of the Phish song "Ghost," whose lyrics are "I feel I've never told you the story of the ghost."
Can you guess the other 49 songs? You can play The Meme Game now, answers will be posted within the next few days.
THE PHISH.NET MEME GAME
A “meme” is defined as “a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)”. On the internet, a meme is often a recurring theme, typically originating from a specific joke in a specific genre (such as a video game, see “All your base are belong to us”) or pop culture (see Kanye West’s “Imma let you finish”).
The Phish.net site is constantly adding new features. This week, we’re excited to unveil a new game in our “Just for Fun” section: The Meme Game.
The Meme Game features 50 images based on the Joseph Ducreux meme. Ducreaux was a French painter who painted the amusing self-portrait located below in 1793. Recently, it has become the backdrop for modern phrases or lyrics translated, sarcastically, into more formal English.
Above is an example game. The lyrics “It is my supposition that I have not yet accurately relayed the tale of the apparation” is, of course, a parody of the Phish song “Ghost,” whose lyrics are “I feel I’ve never told you the story of the ghost.”
Can you guess the other 49 songs? You can play The Meme Game now, answers will be posted within the next few days.
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