One of my favorite parts of Phish festivals are the From The Archives shows broadcast over each event’s radio station that feature amazing segments from the band’s archive. These programs, hosted by Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro, have been a staple of the group’s festivals since Clifford Ball. Last summer, I decided to put together a compilation of tracks I’d choose if I ever got to host an episode of From The Archives. I shared these choices with our pal KernelForbin who downloaded the segments from the Phish Spreadsheet and lovingly remastered them for the first installment of a series we’ve dubbed “Faux The Archives.” Today, we present Faux The Archives Volume 4.
[Graphic by Brian Levine]
We’ll debut Faux The Archives – Volume 4 in ThePhish room on Turntable.FM starting at 2PM ET this afternoon. Once we’ve finished running through the tracks, a download link will be posted here.
Our fourth installment kicks off with one of only two versions of Letter to Jimmy Page that wasn’t delivered in the middle of Alumni Blues. This second set opener from Jones Beach ’94 leads into a great David Bowie, complete with Jessica (Allman Bros.) jam. Next up we bring you the Phish debut of Sweet Virginia (Rolling Stones) from the band’s most recent show in New Orleans. Now that we’re warmed up we’ll dive into a twisted Down With Disease from Japan ’00 that approaches the 25-minute mark and a gorgeous, Type-II heavy Tweezer from Dayton ’95 that slyly segues into Makisupa Policeman. A What’s The Use? that was played as the sun set behind Great Woods in 1999 gives us a breather before we jump back in to an outstanding take on You Enjoy Myself from St. Louis ’93. Dude of Life helps out on a most interesting Mike’s Song from the quartet’s final show at The Front that leads into an I Am Hydrogen which finds Page McConnell utilizing a cheap Casio synth. The Mike’s Groove finishes with a highly underrated Weekapaug from Kansas City ’95. Finally, we end the compilation with the first and only Phish version of Rhinoceros by Smashing Pumpkins.
07/15/94 – Letter to Jimmy Page > David Bowie (19:36)
09/26/99 – Sweet Virginia (04:30)
06/10/00 – Down With Disease (24:13)
11/30/95 – Tweezer -> Makisupa Policeman (26:29)
07/12/99 – What’s The Use? (08:41)
04/14/93 – You Enjoy Myself -> Spooky Jam > You Enjoy Myself (24:53)
05/12/91 – Mike’s Song > I Am Hydrogen (09:03)
10/19/95 – Weekapaug Groove (13:11)
08/03/98 – Rhinoceros (06:43)
Total Time: 2h 17m
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One of my favorite parts of Phish festivals are the From The Archives shows broadcast over each event’s radio station that feature amazing segments from the band’s archive. These programs, hosted by Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro, have been a staple of the group’s festivals since Clifford Ball. Earlier this summer, I decided to put together a compilation of tracks I’d choose if I got to host an episode of From The Archives. I shared these choices with our pal KernelForbin who downloaded the segments from the Phish Spreadsheet and lovingly remastered them for the first installment of a series we’ve dubbed “Faux The Archives.” Today, we present Faux The Archives Volume 3.
[Artwork by Brian Levine]
We’ll debut Faux The Archives – Volume 3 in ThePhish room on Turntable.FM starting at 2PM ET this afternoon. Once we’ve finished running through the tracks, a download link will be posted here. Our third installment starts out with a Ha Ha Ha from Germany that has a deliciously bizarre, albeit short, “heavy metal jam” tagged on to the end. If you’ve never heard the second set Reba from Laguna Seca ’94, you are in for a treat. Next, we’ve got an extremely fun and potent version of David Bowie, complete with a Lion Sleeps Tonight jam, also from 1994. Phish has only jammed Suzy Greenberg a few times in their history and we’ve got one of those times. To break things up, we offer one of the only Phish covers of Sam & Dave’s When Something Is Wrong With My Baby, before turning to Hershey ’96 for its inventive Wilson > Jam. Our compilation’s Harry Hood is all about what happens at the end – a ferocious peak. Finally, we finish the two-hour compilation off with a Mike’s Groove we’ve cut together ourselves. A spacey Mike’s Song from October of ’95 works its way into a Breathe (Pink Floyd) jam, then we turn to a Trey solo show for the only performance of White Tape classic Aftermath and end with a Weekapaug from ’92 filled with Trey’s machine gun antics.
Faux The Archives – Volume 3
02/26/97 – Ha Ha Ha (03:33)
05/28/94 – Reba (12:16)
04/30/94 – David Bowie (18:56)
11/13/96 – Suzy Greenberg (18:01)
04/30/93 – When Something is Wrong with My Baby (05:34)
08/14/96 – Wilson -> Jam (08:45)
03/31/93 – Harry Hood (14:05)
10/25/95 – Mike’s Song -> Breathe Jam (20:53)
05/07/99 – Aftermath (04:13)
04/19/92 – Weekapaug Groove (09:56)
Total Time: 1h 56m
One of my favorite parts of Phish festivals are the From The Archives shows broadcast over each event’s radio station that feature amazing segments from the band’s archive. These programs, hosted by Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro, have been a staple of the group’s festivals since Clifford Ball. Earlier this summer, I decided to put together a compilation of tracks I’d choose if I got to host an episode of From The Archives. I shared these choices with our pal KernelForbin who downloaded the segments from the Phish Spreadsheet and lovingly remastered them for the first installment of a series we’ve dubbed “Faux The Archives.” Today, we present Faux The Archives Volume 2.
We’ll debut Faux The Archives – Volume 2 in ThePhish room on Turntable.FM starting at 2PM ET this afternoon. Once we’ve finished running through the tracks, a download link will be posted at ThePhish.fm. We start with the 1st and only known version of Phish covering The Chicken by James Brown. Then, we offer arguably the best-ever performance of Fee that goes beyond the 20-minute mark and earns the rare “-> Jam” distinction on Phish.net. Next, we’ve got what I like to dub “Smells Like An Antelope” and a severely underrated Tweezer from 1994 that contains a “Slave-like” jam. From there, we give you a Bathtub Gin sandwich, also from ’94, that contains only the second (and last) Phish cover of Jump Monk by Mingus as the filling. An extremely unusual My Sweet One leads into the powerful closing combo of the Deer Creek ’97 Harry Hood (the band changes the usual D-A-G end jam to B-A-G) and the Brickhouse YEM from ’95.
Faux The Archives – Volume 2
03/11/88 – The Chicken (05:25)
07/08/99 – Fee > Jam (21:25)
04/12/92 – Run Like An Antelope (13:09)
12/09/94 – Tweezer (26:08)
04/24/94 – Bathtub Gin > Jump Monk > Bathtub Gin (11:40)
03/31/92 – My Sweet One (03:08)
08/10/97 – Harry Hood (14:37)
11/18/95 – You Enjoy Myself (30:41)
Total Time: 02:06:15
One of my favorite parts of Phish festivals are the From The Archives shows broadcast over each event’s radio station that feature amazing segments from the band’s archive. These programs, hosted by Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro, have been a staple of the group’s festivals since the first one – Clifford Ball. Since there’s no Phish festival this summer, I decided to put together a compilation of tracks I’d choose if I got to host an episode of From The Archives. I shared these choices with our pal KernelForbin who downloaded the segments from the Phish Spreadsheet and lovingly remastered them for the first installment of a compilation series we’ve dubbed “Faux The Archives.”
We’ll debut Faux The Archives – Volume 1 in ThePhish room on Turntable.FM starting at 2PM ET this afternoon. Once we’ve finished running through the tracks, I’ll update this post with a download link. For this installment I picked one segment from each year between 1993 and 2000. We start with The Man Who Stepped Into Mike’s Groove from February 4, 1993, complete with teases of Ween’s Push Th’ Little Daises, and continue with my all-time favorite Harry Hood – The Mahaffey Hood. Down With Disease -> Free from SPAC ’95 shows off the famed Summer ’95 jam style, while a version of The Wedge featuring Karl Perazzo breaks up the long improvisational segments. The no-doubter best Character Zero ever, from Hartford ’97, follows along with the unusual Squirming Coil -> Slave sequence that helped make Phish’s December 30, 1998 show special. We conclude with a pair of gems performed in Burgettstown, Penn. – the marvelous Simple -> My Left Toe from July 21, 1999 and the impressive Maze -> Shafty -> Maze from July 7, 2000.
Phish Faux The Archives – Volume 1
1993-02-04 – Mike’s Song > TMWSIY > Avenu Malkenu > TMWSIY > Weekapaug Groove (25:49)
1994-10-20 – Harry Hood (20:04)
1995-06-26 – Down With Disease -> Free (39:57)
1996-10-29 – The Wedge (05:03)
1997-11-26 – Character Zero (20:32)
1998-12-30 – Squirming Coil -> Slave to the Traffic Light (24:41)
1999-07-21 – Simple -> My Left Toe (26:04)
2000-07-07 – Maze -> Shafty -> Maze (15:04)
