This Time’s Gonna Be Different

Is it a coincidence that so many consider 1995 Phish’s strongest year? Could this be because so many were indoctrinated in those 5 years before 1995 and considered the new material being played at that time exactly what they wanted to hear? Perhaps when Phish writes albums…

Stealing Time

On Preventing Show Theft.

This Must Be the Place

Phish as a Lighthouse

Phish’s “Mercury”

A closer look at the lyrics of the new Phish song “Mercury” written by Tom Marshall…

Magnaball was my first Phish festival. And when I casually mentioned this to a few people this past weekend, no one believed me. The truth is that much of my relationship to and with Phish is about making up for lost time. Because even though I was aware of Phish, listened to their music on tapes and purchased albums such as Hoist, Billy Breathes and…

(five lives in the day of)

Miles Davis, ‘The Ghetto Walk’

About four minutes into this track, substitute(!) drummer Joe Chambers subtly alters his halting drum groove and Dave Holland plays the four ascending chromatic notes that’ve defined the entire arc of the…