Attendance Bias

Send us Fan Mail My guests this week are JW and Skinny from the Stub Me Down podcast . It seems that since the pandemic got serious in March, lots of Phish podcasts have popped up, with mixed results. One of the better ones that I heard is called “Stub Me Down,” in which our two guests today literally pick a ticket stub from their collection and use it as a jumping off point to discuss the show, s...

Send us Fan Mail My guest on todays mini-episode of Attendance Bias is the founder and creator of Tour Stories , Lizzie Morelli.  Tour Stories is a website that provides reviews, features, and interviews to share "the stuff fans rarely get to know about." For today's episode, Lizzie chose to discuss Phish's performance of "Makisupa Policeman" from 5/28/11 . This was t...

Send us Fan Mail My guest for today’s episode is Alyssa Poland of The Phunky Fox Etsy shop . If you’re looking for fun, glittery, Phish related show gear the Phunky Fox should be your first stop.  Alyssa chose Phish’s show at the BB&T Pavilion, otherwise known as Camden, on June 28, 2019 . My first thought was that the show was so recent! How much could there be to say about it? The answer was...

Send us Fan Mail Hometown shows,  cookie dough, and Atlanta in August. In today's episode, NYC resident Brad Mislow talks us through Phish's performance of "2001" from the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park, or simply, Alpharetta. This version closed a 3-night run and is, to date, the only version of the song to close a show. Although he has lived in New York for the...

Send us Fan Mail  It’s a family affair today on Attendance Bias! My guests for this episode are father and son, Jeff and Ben Fortgang. Jeff and Ben chose to discuss the Phish show from July 15, 2016 at the Gorge, the legendary outdoor amphitheater in George, Washington.  When Ben told me that his dad is a veteran taper who went to over 300 Grateful Dead shows, yet it was Ben who got his father int...

Send us Fan Mail We f irst met Chris on one of Attendance Bias’ earliest episodes, where we spoke about 11/28/97 at the Worcester Centrum. If anyone wants to hear more about Chris’ background as a fan or as an artist, please feel free to go back and listen to that episode.  This show was played toward the beginning of the 1999 December tour, which was fourteen shows total. The whole tour built up...

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Send us Fan Mail Missed opportunities. Everyone’s had at least one. when it comes to Phish, there’s always the one that got away. The show you decided to skip because you had a test the next day. The one that was just too far away to make it back before work. The one you slept on getting tickets for and couldn’t find an extra. Hopefully, it doesn’t happen too often…but unfortunately it does happen...

Send us Fan Mail Hi everybody, and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. My guest for today’s episode is Tim of Wook-Plus, also known by his Twitter handle, @WeekendWook.  If you’ve engaged with the Phish community on Twitter over the past three years, no doubt that you’ve come across one of Tim’s “Phish Brackets,” in which songs, tours, or venues are pitted against one anot...

Send us Fan Mail Mini-Episode #14: Twist, 12/31/15, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY If New Year’s Eve is traditionally about celebration, reflection, and renewal, then NYE 2015 was tailor made for me. As I discussed in the first mini-episode of Attendance Bias, I was divorced toward the beginning of 2015. With Fare Thee Well and Phish’s extensive summer tour in 2015, I took every opportunity I...

Send us Fan Mail By now, it’s a cliche to state that 2020 was an awful year for. But it needs to be noted that for Phish,  2020 was not an TOTAL loss. Let’s remember that for four  days and nights in February of 2020, Phish played incredible shows at the Moon Palace resort in Cancun. I was lucky enough to attend those shows, and when the pandemic hit, I frequently went back to pictures, relistened...

Send us Fan Mail Mini-Episode #13: Suzy Greenberg, 9/14/00, Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien, NY  Hi everybody, and welcome to mini-episode #13 of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Mini-episodes of Attendance Bias feature a breakdown of a single song or jam from a show that I’ve attended. I’ll give a little background about what makes the song or jam so special to me, and...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today on Attendance Bias is Jeff Sommar. Jeff reached out to me on the Phish.net forum and asked if he could come on Attendance Bias because he would love to talk about seeing phish during his backpacking days in Europe.  Eventually, Jeff chose to discuss the Phish show from July 12, 1996 at the Melkweg Theater in Amsterdam, Holland .  Once he brought up Phish’s Europe ‘9...

Send us Fan Mail When Phish announced their early summer tour in 2009, the comeback tour, two dates stood out to me: June 4 and 5 at Jones Beach Amphitheater. Like the Nassau Coliseum , Jones Beach has a special place in my life. Though I’ve seen fewer and fewer shows there in recent years, several of my formative musical experiences happened there. Jones Beach Amphitheater   is a beautiful concer...

Send us Fan Mail This week, my guest is the cultivation director at the 7 Points Cannabis Cultivation Facility in Portland Oregon: Joseph Rosenberg. Joseph and I have never met in person, but we’ve been talking, discussing, and occasionally arguing about Phish for nearly two decades on a small online Phish forum. Over that time, I’ve learned that Joseph is very opinionated about Phish, and also ha...

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to naming your favorite Phish song, I have my stock answer, and then maybe question it with a few backup answers. But it’s been a constant in the 24 years that I’ve been listening to Phish—my first favorite song is still my favorite today, and that song is Glide. I’ve mentioned it several times on this podcast, but Glide was the big bang for me. Every show I’ve seen,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Attendance Bias! Today, my guest is author Jason Gershuny. Jason is the co-author of the book: “ 100 Things Phish Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die. ” Jason chose to discuss Phish’s show on August 6, 2017 at Madison Square Garden , which you may recognize as the final show of the historic Baker’s Dozen , also known as Glazed Night.  There was a lot for Jason and I...

Send us Fan Mail Hi everybody, and welcome to mini-episode #10 of Attendance Bias. Today’s mini-episode features “ Crimes of the Mind ” from November 28, 2003 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York .  When someone brings up "Nassau 2003," I would guess that 100% of Phish fans automatically think of the show on February 28 , with the "Destiny Unbound " bustout and the all...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Attendance Bias. Today, my guest is Cully Naramore, who is the Canning Line Operator of Treehouse Brewing in Charlton, Massachusetts .  If you’re deep at all into the craft beer scene, you have definitely heard of Treehouse. Not only do they print Phish lyrics on the bottom of their cans, but they’ve become the darlings of the craft beer scene over the past four or five...

Send us Fan Mail I think it’s fair to say that When the band returned in 2009, it was something of a reset for everyone: for Trey, for the band, for the fans, and for the trends we all got used to during 1.0 and 2.0. 3.0 was a fresh start for everyone and everything, including the rhythms of the setlist. One precedent that the Hampton Run set was that the band’s setlist would be much more extensiv...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the eighth mini-episode of Attendance Bias! Mini-episodes feature a breakdown of a single song or jam from a show that I’ve attended. I’ll pick a song or jam for any given reason—it was the highlight of the show, it meant something special to me, it's widely renown--who knows?  Mini-episodes are posted on a bi-weekly basis in between full episodes of Attendance Bia...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is the anchor of Fox 5 News at 5 and 10 in New York City: Steve Lacy .  Steve chose to discuss Phish's July 12, 1999 show at  the Great Woods Amphitheater . Having grown up in Massachusetts, this was a hometown show for Steve. Not only that, but it was the band’s first show back at Great Woods after a wild weekend in 1995 , and it felt like a homecoming for all...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the seventh mini-episode of Attendance Bias! Mini-episodes feature a breakdown of a single song or jam from a show that I’ve attended. I’ll pick a song or jam for any given reason—it was the highlight of the show, it meant something special to me, it's widely renown--who knows?  Mini-episodes are posted on a bi-weekly basis in between full episodes of Attendance Bi...

Send us Fan Mail If you've been into the Phish scene for any amount of time, you've heard of, or been to a PhanArt show. For years, artists have creators have sold their wares outside of venues but it wasn't until relatively recently that they've had a localized, organized location to set up shop.  And who got this whole shebang organized? Pete Mason--otherwise known as PhanArt...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the sixth mini-episode of Attendance Bias. Mini-episodes feature a breakdown of a single song or jam from a show that I’ve attended. I’ll pick a song or jam for any given reason—it was the highlight of the show, it meant something special to me, it's widely renown--who knows?  Mini-episodes are posted on a bi-weekly basis in between full episodes of Attendance Bias...