Most Of The Tapes I Didn't Liquidate (Primarily For Personal Reasons) So please, if you appreciate this content, indicate as much in the Comments. In any event, if this post gets enough attention, I’ll consider posting the 'setlists' (so to speak) of the other ten or so mixes that I have, which I do not seem to have ever typed-up, and so I would need to pull the tapes to type them up (not easily done without the full use of my right leg, as I continue to recover from ruptured right anterior tibialis tendon repair surgery). It's surprising to me that not everything on those tapes circulates today online (sigh), so I may be giving such tapes to someone to digitize the material that has yet to circulate online (more sighing). And at that time, there wasn't access to Phish's recordings online, and so I preserved certain versions of songs (usually jam segments only) that I wanted to hear again (or again and again and again) and didn’t want to lose for all eternity by dubbing them onto two dozen or so 100-minute mixtapes or mixed tapes.Īnd here are the first 13 of them for your amusement. I liquidated hundreds of tapes because I had too many and wanted them to go to better homes. IT was not uncommon in the 1990's for fans with too many cassette tapes to either give them away or 'liquidate' them for the cost of buying a new tape (at the time, around $1.50 a tape including shipping costs). ANYWAY, I hope you find the following entertaining if not also useful and inspiring! And if you don’t? You just might, maybe, perhaps, if only a little, suck at Phish. Fish on Undun, the intro to the 4/27/89 Bowie).Īnd I’m just now finding out that apparently the 5/11/87 Clod (on Tape 14) doesn’t circulate online (I bothered to save it to tape so it must have been on my tapes of 5/11/87 that I liquidated decades ago, sigh). And there are definitely many other “must hear” versions of Phish songs below, like the 6/24/94 Antelope (and some hilarious versions of songs, too, e.g. I have 22 of such tapes numbered as such, and you can see the first 13 tapes’ track lists in the original post, and the track lists of tapes 14-22 below.īottom line? Since I bothered to record (preserve) the versions below on new tapes before liquidating the shows/tapes that they were on, I recommend you listen to them, even though with the benefit of decades of hindsight, they may not necessarily be jamchart-worthy or 'must hear.' That said, I see my favorite normal-lengthed Stash ( 5/19/94) is here, as is the Linus and Lucy Hood, and my favorite FEFY (8/17/93). Simply put, in the late 1990s, I liquidated a lot of tapes in my collection for a number of reasons, and because, waaay waaaaay back then, it wasn’t possible to (re)listen to everything online with ease, I saved/preserved certain versions of songs on tapes aka mixtapes to listen to again. This is a continuation of the “ Remember Mix(ed) Tapes? No? What Are ‘Tapes’?” blog post from last year, which you may want to review before reading further. Sticker I Was Handed In Line At The Warfield, April 15, 1999

The shows continue to be among the greatest improvisational musical performances I have ever seen, and you'll hear more from me about that than you ever needed or wanted to know if you listen to the Attendance Bias podcast episode about these shows with host Brian Weinstein you can listen to it wherever you listen to your podcasts.

The magnificent, transcendent music of the April 1999 Phil Lesh and Friends Warfield shows, featuring Phil on bass, Steve Kimock and Trey on rhythm and lead guitars, Page McConnell on keyboards, and John Molo on drums, has been exhaustively discussed by many, including in detailed reviews posted in the glow of the events 25 years ago. The month also featured two Zero shows at the Maritime Hall the weekend of April 9 three Santana Fillmore shows, the third of which on April 18 featured Trey and Page on a few tunes (my review of it on this site is at /review-archive/shows/4-18-99.html a stealth-taped fob-daud of this show used to circulate on DAT, CDR and cassette but I can't find it online today) two Jazz Is Dead shows at the Maritime Hall with Kimock on April 23 and 24 and then a Kimock, Vega, Hertz and (Jimmy) Herring (“KVHH”) show on April 30 up 101 north in Petaluma! This was certainly among the greatest months of music in my life and the lives of many others. That's because in addition to the three Warfield PhilSH shows mid-month-which you can (re)listen to here or on Archive.Org or even watch video of on YouTube-April 1999 began with two legendary KVHW shows at the Great American Music Hall. Those who loved the Grateful Dead, Phish, Steve Kimock (and Zero and KVHW, among the greatest improvisational rock bands in history imnsfho), and Carlos Santana couldn’t be happier. IT has been twenty-five years since April 1999, a musically awe-inspiring month for Bay Area fans of improvisational rock.

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