Phish - 1983-87 Documentary ~ With jam highlights
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- This is the first episode in my original series covering the live years of the band Phish. The series will be a combination of quality highlights, interview clips, footage of shows, pictures, and other fun stuff from the band's history. I'm basically trying to put every aspect of this band on full display to show why Phish phans are, well, Phish phans, and why they don't just listen to a handful of songs from dozens of different bands/artists like a normal person!
Years of research and editing went into these projects, and I hope you enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed making them!
Starting out at the University of Vermont Burlington, the band Phish consisted of Guitarists Trey Anastasio and Jeff Holdsworth, drummer Jon Fishman, and bassist Mike Gordon. Keyboardist Page McConnell ended up convincing Trey to let him join in 1985, and then 'recruited' Trey and Fishman to switch to Goddard College for school. Holdsworth ended up leaving the band in '86 due to the complex proggy nature of the music. The boys played here and there over this four year period on campuses, bars, and outdoor gatherings. During these years, Trey was writing his most ambitious compositions whilst him and his band were trying to find their footing by drawing from different American genres.
0:00 Intro
3:08 Harry Hood 10/30/85 (Song history)
6:29 Fire on the Mountain 12/2/83 (Mike talks about the first gig)
7:10 Slave to the Traffic Light 12/1/84
7:47 Icculus 10/31/86 (Nectar's)
8:25 David Bowie 10/31/86
10:05 Bowie 8/10/87
10:16 Bowie 8/29/87
10:34 Timber 11/19/87
11:29 Jam 10/31/87
12:06 Big Black Furry Creature from Mars 8/21/87
12:45 Mike's Song 8/21/87
13:49 Makisupa Policeman 8/29/87 (Fish talks about drumming experience before UVM, Trey talks about meeting Fish)
15:21 Dinner and a Movie 11/19/87
16:37 Punch Me in the Eye 4/24/87
18:33 Skippy the Wondermouse 3/4/85 (The poem Tom Marshall wrote to Trey that sparked the creation of Gamehendge)
19:06 McGrupp 11/19/87
20:58 Jam 12/6/86
21:43 Fluffhead (Practice footage)
22:46 The Chase 5/20/87 (Trey talks about the vibe of the early gigs)
23:15 Antelope 5/20/87
23:41 YEM 5/20/87 (Song history)
24:41 Harry Hood 5/20/87
25:12 First known version of Divided Sky 5/11/87
25:57 Lushington 10/15/86
27:52 Whipping Post Jam 11/23/85
Mike Gordon on the "Whipping Post Jam 11/23/85"
From The Phish Book, p. 140-143:
"I had my peak musical experience of all time during a gig at Goddard College in November 1985. At the time I was an engineering student pondering a transfer to film. I'd just completed a series of tests, and the pressure was temporarily off me. The entire week was a peak experience of sorts. The snow had just fallen for the first time that fall the night we played. Goddard was something of an anti-institution at the time. Only about fifty people were on campus the night we played, and of the ten people who came to the dance, eight left after the first set.
Jeff was playing volume swells on his guitar, which I thought was the most incredible sound I'd ever heard. We turned off all the lights, and I started jumping up and down with the beat, not caring how I looked for perhaps the first time in my entire life. as we jammed, I felt more spiritually in tune than ever before. I felt at one with the building, wall outlets, chandeliers, and these people I loved. as we kept jamming, my ecstatic state didn't diminish no matter how I played or what style we played in. At one point I had a vision of Trey standing beside me in white tails with a pocket watch, as if we were performing during the 1920s.
The whole experience was like viewing a huge well-lit room after having been blind. I felt completely illuminated. I decided then and then there to start a journal, and I've kept one ever since. The first two volumes were completely about that experience, then they branched off to concern related experiences of life, art, and music. How do music and art help me and others to actualize ourselves? What's the formula, if there is one? What conditions make it most likely to occur?
I was more like myself that show than ever before, but I was also part of Phish, five people in a circle who seemed to hover above the forest and move slowly through the trees. I wandered into the woods after the second set and decided never to return. Yes, film-making was better than engineering. But film had nothing on the musical experience I'd just had, and I was afraid I'd never be able to recapture it. So why bother? When I did return, the rest of the band decided to play another set. I was terrified another set would soil my past experience, but it turned out to be just as great! We played for hours to the two or three people listening to us in the darkness. I decided my goals in life were to live in the woods, travel around from city to city, and try to replicate the experience I'd just had as often as possible. The whole gig's on tape, but I'll probably never listen to it.”
/ @aavfx - Hudba
This sent me back to university in the very early 90s.... 10 years later I grew out of phish last seeing them in 2002... then last year met a friend who got me listening again... This really reminds me of what i loved about this magical band. I watched the Gamehendge set and just had visible cheers during the Lizards. This was cool!
Their first gig was at our Halloween party in October of 1983 at 69 Grant Street in Burlington. A bunch of covers.
Ok, I'll reply to the most interesting comment on here. Tell me more!
@@jjryoungjr I also would like to know more
Do tell!
Yeah man. I grew up in Vermont, and was blown away by Phish in the late 80s. I've seen them at house parties, colleges and tiny bars. These were the golden years
Just got back from SPAC..those two private shows were something special I will always cherish ⭕️Long live the Phish.
My favorite venue to see Phish.
As a fan since the mid 90s I’m stoked to watch this. All these years later and they are still on another level. 12/31/23 ranks in the top shows I ever saw and not just because of gamehendge. Their playing was nothing short of phenomenal
Besides the setlist that show was horrible. It was more of a soundtrack than a show. Phluffer.......
First show I saw in the late 80's. I was doing Dead tour and then jumped over to do Phish tour from 91- 94. Was in Chicago for Jerry's final shows, and then went back to Phish until the early 2000s when I moved to Nepal, then Chile, Mexico, and back to the states. Always have a special place in my soul for Phish. Being a Texan I was so proud when they played here for Treys birthday being that he was born here. Great doc!!! Good work!
93 is when I was first introduced to Phish. Such a great year for them, possibly my favorite because I think that's the year they reached peak performance and energy. They did get better in some ways in later years, but not with the same ferocity that they had in the early 90s, especially 93.
Honestly, I'm so burnt out on 93 and later phish, I've been going back discovering how the songs were finalized and created, and thanks for doing this.
Been there brother. If it weren't for picking up guitar in 2012, I may not have found my way back. That being said, I struggle to like anything released after 2000/Farmhouse, and haven't had the impulse to see them live since the end of the 2000s. I saw them once or twice in the 2010s, but don't really like the way the music is played at their shows these days. It like it's too safe or something, if that makes sense. It's missing the edge it used to have for me. Phish is putting on a festival in my home state(Delaware), about 30 minutes from where I live...and I don't really have a desire to go. I still absolutely love the band and their music...I guess I just miss the old days. 😕
@@erdtree_larrylikewise. I saw probably 50 shows from 93-97 and after 2000 farmhouse I saw maybe 3 shows in early 2000s and I was done. The magic was gone
First show was in a medium sized bar/music hall in ‘92. There was a distinct group of maybe 12 kids obviously on tour with them.
31 years later……..They’ve never been better and are still climbing to the peak of their career powers.
And it’s a beautiful fucking thing man
21 years? I think you're short by quite a few years friend.🤣
@@bluecollar825 only a decade 🤦🏻♂️
They peaked pre hiatus. The rest was nostalgia. Sad you don't know the difference.
@@musicnosuck hey thanks for your input. I def know the difference in their sound in that era to now. As I’m sure you know music is universally subjective and for my preferences I waaay prefer their sound now to the 90s. Sure it had more raw youthful energy and power but in my world that doesn’t equate to better always. In the time since they learned a lot about finesse, spaciousness and nuance. A different depth of soulfulness came into Treys vocals and songwriting. They grew up and lived enough life for it to reflect in the depth of the music. All in my opinion of course. However Trey was interviewed just a couple weeks ago expressing that he feels like they are just now hitting their fullness and stride as a band. I have to agree.
@@novakaya He has tickets to sell. It's all Barnum and Bailey there now. I still have fun at them either way. Not trying to compare their dad rock to them at their height of psychedelic prog rock.
Big cypress was my first so I’m a late 1.0’er 😂but I’ve got 267 shows under my belt…my life has been forever changed (for the better) because of these 4. Than you Phish!
I’m a late 1.0er too, saw them at deer creek, cincy, and alpine that year.
It’s strange looking back,because I had no idea what a bunch of the songs were, and there was no easily accessible recordings to hear rarer non studio tracks, so my only point of reference was the studio and official live releases they had released at that point.
Funny, Big Cypress was my last phish show. Not saying I won't see them again though, I've just had 23 years of other obligations, etc.
The best early years compilation yet. I’ve heard all of this before doing my own research in their beginning and there’s a YT channel with early shows starting from 84 that I’ve listened to. This is wonderful to watch and your dedication doesn’t go unnoticed
Thanks for the work man, interesting stuff. Been on them since 92'
First show was 1993 Greatwoods MA. Love Treys early guitar tone
cOOL Man! Looking forward to all you do with this band that changed/saved/enhanced my life! ✌🏼
Walnut Creek is the home venue thank you very much for this
Thanks for taking the time to pull this together. Nicely done! Love this band!
This is fucking AMAZING. THANK YOU for putting this together!
This is actually really cool. Thanks for putting the work in to make something like this. I think a lot of fans would really enjoy this. Would also work as a podcast.
Let's support this gentleman. Thanks so much! #love
Interesting to hear Forbin in that first Hood. l didn't know there was footage. I didn't know...that Harry Hood could be seen on those towers. I thought someone might have photoshopped those. I've known that picture since the Phish Book came out and never noticed the faces. Insane.
Thanks for putting this together Brendan! Really cool. As a OLD fan who saw 100+ shows in the 90's, this was cool to see the even earlier days, song formations, jams, etc. Well done!
It's so weird hearing audio without page.
Right?!?
This is very, very good. Thank you for putting it together! Great job brother!!
This was awesome, great work. There's something about this period that is extra chilling. The guitar sound really resonates
Wow thank you so much! Really informative and the amount of work you did definitely shows.
I love this. Thank you so much!!!
Oh this is real cool, thanks for the work you put into this!
You haven’t dug in until you know ever word on the Crimes of the Mind album.
This is excellent! Thank you!
An incredible piece of work. Very well done!
1.0 Phish, aka the greatest 15 years of music ever created.
For real. I like every era of them but 1.0 was just so obviously different. Youth factor can't be ignored. It's just the way it is lol. Any newer fans please don't think all of us are haters. You would understand if you could have experienced it.
That said I just did the 2 Dayton shows. This is my absolute favorite band I'm talking about.🤝
this was such a joy to listen to and watch. thanks for doing this good work. your entire channel is the shit!
Very nice! Thank you sir! Enjoyed hearing the old school roots of Phish! In my eyes and ears Phish is a legendary American band with the same OG members! Still rocking it today! Have fun at Dicks y’all! See you in Dayton! 🤟
Good old Phish! My first show was 1989 so yeah ..... Kinda a pioneer here!❄️🌎❄️🎈😜👌🎈
This was impressive and enjoyable. Thanks.
Really enjoyed this. Thank you
Nice surprise for a Sunday morning, thanks for putting this together ❤🎉
You can hear Zappa and Garcia quite clearly in this early stuff
Thank you!❤
Great stuff, Brendan!
Gr8 Video..saw my first show 30 years ago, this month
Cool Brendan, one thing that is often overlooked, well, I heard Trey in an interview talked about being at the Dead show at the college I think, in 1983 28:56 29:07 (right?) and how much it meant to him (weir was also in this interview, very cool 🎈😎😁😸👀✌️🎸💨
That was a great talk! I think he was talking about Hartford, CT 10/14/83, and I know there's a theory that Jerry strumming a chord before 'Mama Tried' is what led to creation of the Antelope intro
Excellent job, my friend my friend!
Great job. *Coming from a phan with deep roots to Killington, VT and Rutland, VT. Followed the boys since 1994. Just subscribed. Just as well got all 3x nights in Nashville, Tennessee tickets. Much love and great work! My channel has clips from the Last show (Orange Beach, Alabama) we went to. Much luv! From Justin in Mobile, Alabama
Great work! Thanks for your intelligence and time
First show was the weekend run in '99, 7/15 & 7/16 I believe if I'm remembering correctly, at the PNC center in central Jersey . Was a sophomore in high school and that was the beginning of a decade long obsession that has so many good memories. Haven't thought about them in a while and finding your channel is helping bring many of them back to the surface. Lost my virginity in that parking lot heh... :)
God, I would bathe in blood to conjure up a real, legit ganja gooball from back in the day. Just don't make em like they used too. Or maybe it's that edibles are everywhere now and super corporate, so it seems a little less magical. *Shrug*. Anyway, Good times, set to amazing music!
Thanks for the videos.
they played very similar videos on the screens at the 20th anniversary show in Boston in 2003 and the 30th anniversary NYE show at MSG in 2013. I remember a lot of specific scenes from those, specifically dorm room Fluff cut. Don't ask me how I possibly remember that, but they can both be found on CZcams.
Back in the day you had to beg for a tape copy of a show , or bootleg off a friend ..
The new gen is very spoiled from what there ears can enjoy now .. peace ✌️
Oh I agree! For the record, 6/17/04 and 10/21/95 were the only Phish shows I had for years, as I became a fan right after the breakup. I just didn't think to go deep until that 2018 show reeled me back in
Oh the shitty bootlegs I listened to over & over
Awesome video!
What a journey ✨
You spent your time wisely my friend.
OMG!!! I never noticed harry hood in the picture! and have seen this so many times lol!
Goalie @20:20 is Roger the crazy little kid, with Ernie, Jr.
Interesting stuff. What you label Whipping Post Jam sounds more like The Other One into Wharf Rat to my old deadhead ears.
i hear it too
Definitely hearing the other one
(~);}
True to that
You did it right!
Great video! I subscribed
April 17, 1992 Warfield, San Francisco, CA.
So interesting watching them evolve. See you at Deer Creek this summer!!
This is awesome
Awesome video
Nice work, def some audio and a few photos I hadn’t seen.
97 will blow your mind. Peak phish.
Blessings and thanks for gifting us with such gems. I'm sure it took some sweat. 'Preesh! BTW, April 28 1987 Nectar's!! phishDOTin/1987-04-29 SBD. pure fuego. the best choice of covers in the history of ever. peace.
Who remembers Franklin &Marshall College Spring Arts ‘91?
Right on man
I was there for lots of it ... i'm a great resource
Waxes nostalgically
only been once to 3.0. did 1.0 and 2.0 to 2004. a coworker gave me his coventry shirt :)
⭕️❤️🚀
doing gods work, riding the light
I was lucky enough to be a UVM student, starting in 1987.
Portion and the word of bliss 😮 beyond the heartland and buckets of piss
Wow, I never heard ‘Punch Me In the Eye’ before, I’m calling for this shit to be brought back it’s awesome!
Welcome to the streams.~!
86 jam Fish and Mike were locked in like a mug 🍵
21:00 does anyone know what building they are in front of? It looks like UVM campus but the date says 12/6/86 which they played the Ranch in South Burlington.
25k views, only 615 likes. Come on. Hook a dude up for putting this together for us. Much appreciated!
Absolutely wonderful!!!!
Phantastically whale done!
I always wondered why this band was so weird. Now i understand a little bit better. 🎉
So if Tom wrote the poem that became McGrupp, was it actually he who first named Tela and the multibeast? And Col. Forbin and McGrupp?
Wow
is that with Lambsbread at 10:06 ??
listen to some of these, everyone sounds like kind of elementary, except for Fishman. he's just a force of nature ig
Loveit
Can someone tell me the name of the first track played during the intro?
The Curtain With from 5/24/88 phish.in/1988-05-24/the-curtain-with?t=11:39
Peaks on Peaks on Peaks
Cool beans
What is playing for two and a half second starting at 0:39?
The ending of the Gorge Rock and Roll from 8/5/11!
Big cypress i gave some shrooms to john the lawyer 10 minutes before midnight
What is going on at 21:31???
Americana
Some of your time codes are off though.
And your point? He’s passionate and took the time. Hats off to the poster.
they aren't though. I guess they start a second before it fades into the next track so that it doesn't cut anything off
back when camcorders were potatoes lol
back before they became christian rock band and trey became Joel Osteen
Don't hate on 4.0. Phish is breaking out some of their all-time best jams on a regular basis nowadays. Trey's changed some of his personal ethos up some, but thanks to that we can expect years and years of him to come.
@@creamcannon825 delusional
@@maroonecho jaded, pessimistic, probably never getting laid
Recovery lyrics are now part of Phish and you hate it. What a fresh take. Never heard this one before.
@@robrenninger5324 fresh take’d
Phish enabled how many hardcore drug addicted burnouts?
Only an addict would fall into the belief that their issues are anyone elses fault but their own. Every rock band in existence has had followers who do drugs. Let's not even get started on the Jazz scene from '60-'85.
@@hippogator Tell me more about the parent funded adults that can afford to live the lifestyle of following a jam band. Tell me more about how simple the song structure needs to be to entertain a crowd full of burnouts.. I’m blaming the band and their fans for not being transparent about the simplicity of parent funded douchery, for all the young adults that actually need their brains to hold down a job because their folks aren’t flipping the bill
@@DividedByAlgorithmsYou exert hostility. You make harsh assumptions about legions of people. You write like you're an asshole in general. You don't seem much better to be around than any number of drug-addled burnouts.
@@DividedByAlgorithmsThe environment of a Phish show propagates the use of drugs, but every person is responsible for their own self. I'm a fan of Phish, and yet I don't indulge in the use of hard drugs. That would be because of my sense of personal responsibility. Trey, Mike, Paige and Fish are responsible for themselves.
@@creamcannon825 cool bro
Their music is devoid of meaning, that's what's kept me from being a fan even though I've seen them many times since 94, I wanted to be a fan but I can't ignore the useless nature of their music
If you can't pull a single moment of meaning out of Phish's entire catalog, you're either really stubborn or a really boring person with a brain devoid of any interesting thought.
The music is far from devoid of meaning. A lot of Phish's music is very spiritual, and much of the meaning to be pulled from it stems from your own personal interactions with it. You'll never hear a Phish song that means something about a conflict happening in another nation or anything in our immediate reality, but there are volumes of messages and lessons to take away from the Phish library.
Haha, Brian! Please tell the class about your infinite wisdom and what help you need.
I mostly listen to jazz and classical because nobody is telling me what to think, and I can make it my own. Phish is the closest thing to that in rock world for me. What music has meaning for
You?
Are you from Raleighwood? I am North in Wake Forest
Greenville, but now I live in SW Montana!