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What up! New Quick Hit with listener Mike about night 2 of St. Louis. You can listen to night 2 on LivePhish. We're excited to be partnering with Nugs.net—click here to get 35% off an annual subscription and listen to tons and tons of live music. Grab some earplugs from Eardial! Protect your ears, yo. Eardial is offering our listeners 20% off of their earplugs! And please enter the Passion House n...

Quick Hits are back, friends. We talk with listener Kevin about night 1 of the tour. You can listen to night one on LivePhish. We're excited to be partnering with Nugs.net—click here to get 35% off an annual subscription and listen to tons and tons of live music. And please enter the Passion House naming contest if you haven't already, and get 30% off of their coffee. Enter Osiris at checkout. Las...

It's time for Summer Tour, friends! This week we jump into a Summer Tour preview and talk about a set that we really appreciate from a tour opener—6.7.12. We hope you enjoy. We'll be back with some Quick Hits starting in just about two weeks! Thanks to one of our new sponsors, Passion House Coffee. Click here to enter the coffee naming contest. If you win, you can score some free coffee. And get 3...

Join us for the first of several celebrations of the 25th anniversary of a magical year for Phish: 1994. Scott Bernstein of Yemblog and Jambase joins us to talk about three pivotal shows on the first tour of a year that would see Phish grow from theaters to Madison Square Garden in the span of eight months. Jonathan and Matt go deep with Scotty on 4/15/94, 5/7/94, and 5/28/94. Are you interested i...

Join RJ and Matt as they catch up on the latest Phish news. We discuss the new Trey documentary "Between Me and My Mind" as well as the latest LivePhish archival release: 11/11/98 from Grand Rapids, MI. RJ was lucky enough to see the premier of the documentary film at the Beacon and has many thoughts about it. Matt tries to explain multitrack recording in less than two minutes. We play some tunes....

This week we're back with an episode addressing the fantastic Ghosts of the Forest shows and tour. We hope everyone has enjoyed these special shows as much as we have. If you like what you hear, please give us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. And keep your Big Cypress memories coming! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about y...

This week we have a unique episode. We brought our friend Harvey on, who hosts the podcast Bluest Tape, also on the Osiris network. His podcast focuses on Widespread Panic, but this week we're turning him on to Phish... To prep for the episode, we gave Harvey some homework—to listen to 4.16.92, 11.17.97 and 7.25.17. We run through these shows and get Harvey's feedback and thoughts on Phish. We als...

Welcome back! This week we're starting a new feature, called Back Tracking, looking back at each Phish album. These album review episodes will be mixed in with our regular episodes. We hope you enjoy it. "Phish", aka "The White Tape," is of course the first "album," which was self-produced and recorded in 1986. We walk through the songs one-by-one, and talk about some of the gems on this one. We d...

This week, we're celebrating our 150th episode in style, looking back on the run that started it all for this era of Phish, Hampton 2009. We start the episode reflecting on the 150 episodes of HF Pod, and then we get into discussing these shows with a lot of music, of course. We mention this NYT article that came out around Hampton '09. ICYMI, here's the Beyond the Pond Mexico recap with our very...

We're back with the second part of our recap of Winter Tour 2003. We continue to break it down show by show and bring you plenty of music. BIG CYPRESS! As we mention in the episode, we're embarking on a big retrospective this year with our friends from Osiris. We want your thoughts, memories, videos, photos, whatever you have to share. They will be put to good use. Read more about it here, and ema...

It's time for another deep dive into a tour, this time it's Winter Tour 2003. This is a two-part episode, so we'll be back with part two next week. This is a tour that has a lot of contradictions—some overlooked shows, one of the best shows ever. Some less than perfect playing, some of the best jamming you'll hear. We break it down show by show and bring you plenty of music. BIG CYPRESS! As we men...

This week we hop in the time machine and take a trip back to 1992 to talk about and listen to some of a show from Providence, 3/13/92. This tour featured a lot of debuts from "Rift" and some really great early jamming that would preview jams to come. You can read more about this month from Phish's perspective on Phish.com. Thanks for listening, and please give us a review on Apple Podcasts if you...

This week, we're bringing you something a little different. Two longtime listeners, Jason and Mike, join us to talk about an important topic—their experiences with addiction and recovery, and their experiences in the Phish community. We also play some music. You may have read the GQ article that came out yesterday, which featured Trey and a bunch of other musicians talking about how to thrive crea...

Hey everyone, we're bringing you a Quick Hit from New York, recapping nights 3 and 4 with guest Dan. As we mention in this episode, we did a great Couch Report on 12.29 from Relix's headquarters here in the city. We were joined by Mike Greenhaus, editor-in-chief at Relix, Tom Marshall and The Dude of Life. Tom and The Dude play an original song written for Trey. Check it out here on YouTube or her...

Hey everyone, we're bringing you a Quick Hit from New York, recapping nights 1 and 2. As we mention in this episode, we did a great Couch Report yesterday from Relix's headquarters here in the city. We were joined by Mike Greenhaus, editor-in-chief at Relix, Tom Marshall and The Dude of Life. Tom and The Dude play an original song written for Trey. Check it out here on YouTube or here on Facebook....

Join us as we continue with the ranking of December 1995 shows. Which show will come out on top in the battle of some of the greatest shows Phish ever played? Drew and Chris join us once again to share their own experiences and thoughts on this amazing month in Phishtory. If you haven't already, check out Part 1 which came out last week! This is your last chance to get free shipping on all orders...

This week, we have 2 special guests to help us break down one of the most beloved months in Phish history. Drew and Chris share their personal experiences of being at many of these shows. This episode is part 1, with part 2 coming next week. We hope you enjoy. This is your last chance to get free shipping on all orders over $50 using from Ben & Jerry's using the promo code OSIRIS at checkout. Clic...

We've spent a lot of time talking about 2018 recently, for good reason. But for this episode, we're going back to the basics to revisit a show from the past—20 years ago this week, to be exact. There's lots of music and discussion on 11.27.98, some arguing, lots of laughing and some factual errors by RJ. We had a good time revisiting this one and are excited to share lots of jams with you. We're p...

We have come to outlive our brains, phans, and we are help to help recap Fall Tour 2018. We're proud to partner with Ben & Jerry’s to help raise awareness of The WaterWheel Foundation. As mentioned in the episode, listeners can receive free shipping on all orders over $50 using the promo code OSIRIS at checkout. Click here to order "It's Ice...Cream" and pick up a t-shirt. Do it today—the holidays...

Well folks, the Halloween run and the 2018 Fall Tour are a wrap! We're joined by our friend Brian to help recap the full Vegas run. Brian is co-host of Beyond the Pond. Here's his recap of the 11/1 show. If you haven't seen the Couch Report we did from Vegas, check it out to see a full recap of the Halloween show, with guests Marc Brownstein, Benjy Eisen, Jesse Lauter, Mike Finoia and Tom Marshall...

A day before Halloween, we have a special episode, revisiting Halloween 2009 with guest Justin Bolognino, who played a key role in the album mystery and reveal. We also released this today as a YouTube video. Please check it out, and thanks to our producer Alan for his help on this. Lastly, tune in on Thursday 11/1 to the Couch Report at 6:30pm ET. We'll be talking about the Halloween cover album,...

We're dadrock af today as Rob Mitchum checks in with us about his experience Night 3 of Allstate Arena. Check out his recap of the show for Phish.net today! Join RJ, Tom Marshall, and Matt for Couch Report on Thursday for Vegas. Please give us a review on Apple Podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk to listener Jason about his experience seeing night 2 of Allstate Arena with a three week old baby at home! We'll be back with a Couch Report on Thursday for Vegas. Please give us a review on Apple Podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We appreciate listener Tim joining us talking from Nashville. If you were looking for a Quick Hit from yesterday, please check out the Couch Reports we did last night, from both preshow and set break! We'll be back with a Couch Report on Saturday for Chicago. Please give us a review on Apple Podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

That was a crazy weekend in Hampton. Jonathan and RJ talk about Sunday night's show. We'll be back with a Couch Report from Nashville, brought to you in partnership with Relix. Please check us out on Wednesday! Please give us a review on Apple Podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices