I am ecstatic to share my print for the Phish New Year’s Run at Madison Square Garden in NYC! This print is 12×18, printed on 100lb glossy cover paper. Prints are signed and limited to an edition of 200. Inspired by the New Yorker magazine, I sought to capture the sights outside MSG during the new year’s runs, often firsthand! I also included over 30 song references throughout the print. This print was comprised of over a dozen small gouache paintings, which were then scanned and digitally arranged.
The inspiration for my print.
The print is directly inspired by the May 25th, 1940 cover of the New Yorker, painted by Joseph Low, who created many covers from 1940-1980. While I did not initially plan to do a New Yorker cover, it was Low’s style for this painting that spoke to me. It felt familiar, but I knew I hadn’t seen this image before. I saw the possibilities of creating song references in this style, and went for it!
My biggest challenge in creating the painting was the lack of outlines. I’m fond of using outlines in my work, so this required rethinking my process. I would sketch up an image, darken the lines, and place it on a light table. I then placed a watercolor paper on top of it and would paint an image without lines! As I became familiar with Low’s style, I began painting without sketching first, and my painting started to get smaller. It felt very natural, and while researching more of Joseph Low’s work, I suddenly knew why.
My first encounter with Low’s work.
I first came across the October 22nd, 1942 cover some time in elementary school. It may have been an issue of Scholastic Arts magazine or a framed cover in the library, but it was an image ingrained in my brain. I remember trying to replicate the style with markers, but never quite got it. I eventually moved on to other things, but that cover really stuck with me. Who would’ve thought I would rediscover these covers years later!
So, the reaction to my print was mind-blowing! I posted a picture of it when I got my test prints and was bombarded about how to get one. I decided to do a preorder of 50 prints which sold out instantly! My general on sale sold out within hours, so at the moment it is not available in my shop. I will have the remaining prints in the edition available at the PhanArt show at the Stewart Hotel on 12/30 during the New Years Run. I will have a small amount of Artist and Test proofs in my shop in early January. I will also have a surprise print that will be only available at PhanArt!
I’ve finally gotten around to finishing up the Fall Tour setlists! It’s been a busy couple of months with hybrid teaching and working on my MSG print (I’ll be posting about it next week!)
ENCORE: Drift While You’re Sleeping This show featured the Phish debut of I Never Left Home. Down with Disease was unfinished and contained a There is a Mountain tease. After Stash, Trey spoke about the two fans who had fallen at the previous show, expressed love and sorrow, and encouraged everyone to be safe. Trey teased Hey, Ho, Nobody Home during Plasma. Trey teased I Always Wanted It This Way in Also Sprach Zarathustra.
ENCORE: Wilson > Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. Mike teased Hatikvah in Timber (Jerry the Mule). Trey teased Divided Sky in the first Split Open and Melt. End of Session was performed for the first time since July 25, 2017 (126 shows). Page teased Lonely Trip in Golden Age.
Setlists are available as single shows, or both night sets, as well as digital copies in my shop: www.joseeen.etsy.com
ENCORE: Suzy Greenberg > Cavern Mike teased Foam in Martian Monster. Trey teased Brother in Soul Planet. My Friend did not contain the “Myfe” ending. Ghost ended with a Julius jam. Trey teased Manteca and Third Stone From the Sun in Everything’s Right.
ENCORE: Carini Frankie Says was performed for the first time since August 8, 2015 (196 shows), contained Manteca teases from Trey, and ended with Bathtub Gin teases. Moma Dance contained a Monkey Man jam with quotes from Fish. This was the rescheduled date from the show that had been postponed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.
ENCORE: Lawn Boy, Wolfman’s Brother Steam contained a Dave’s Energy Guide tease. Chalk Dust Torture included a Wingsuit tease. This was the rescheduled date from the show that had been postponed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.
Setlists are available as single shows, or both night sets, as well as digital copies in my shop: www.joseeen.etsy.com
ENCORE: Sand This show featured the debut of And so to Bed which had been previously been released on The White Tape 35 years earlier. Trey quoted Psycho Killer in Sigma Oasis. Tube was unfinished and contained a Tears of the Clown tease from Trey. Brother was restarted after the first verse and was performed for the first time since December 30, 2017 (107 shows). Mike teased “Charge!” after Brother.
I’ve slowly been catching up on Fall Tour setlists! This school year has been like no other, taking up what little free time I have. I was glad to do a handful of live streams and setlists, but will be finishing up the rest soon!
ENCORE: Backwards Down the Number Line, Grind This show featured a setlist with all songs featuring a number in their name in descending order including the Phish debut of If 6 Was 9 and several bustouts: 1999 (last played July 26, 2017, or 130 shows), Five Years (last played October 31, 2016, or 147 shows), Two Versions of Me (last played November 27, 2009, or 435 shows), and NO2 (last played September 6, 2015, or 192 shows). Trey teased L.A. Woman in Also Sprach Zarathustra and Seven Below in First Tube. In place of the usual number of days lived, Grind featured the band singing the setlist ended by noting that the songs added up to “4,680 digits.”
ENCORE: Julius > Tweezer Reprise Trey and Mike quoted Little Squirrel throughout the first set (after Olivia’s Pool, and during Axilla and Weekapaug Groove), and during the final vocal chorus of Reba. Trey teased Martian Monster in Mike’s Song and Who Knows in I Always Wanted It This Way. Reba contained a verse with an Ass Handed quote by Trey in the final vocal chorus. Trey teased Tweezer during Sand.
ENCORE: Vultures, Sleeping Monkey > Possum The songs in this show were based on animals. Big Black Furry Creature From Mars and Harpua contained Little Squirrel quotes. Shaggy Dog was played for the first time since June 22, 2012 (331 shows). I Am The Walrus was played for the first time since July 29, 2017 (130 shows). and featured Little Squirrel and Shipwreck quotes. Runaway Jim was unfinished. Harpua was performed for the first time since July 30, 2017 (129 shows) and featured Carini, Your Pet Cat, and If 6 Was 9 quotes as well as This Jesus Must Die scatting from Trey. Part of Harpua was spoken in French by Page and Mike.
ENCORE: Harry Hood For the second set, the band’s “musical costume” was all debuted originals, performed as the invented band Sci-Fi Soldier (a 14-page comic book distributed upon entry detailed the group’s adventure to save the planet). For that set, the band performed in elaborate costumes (helmets and all), with alternate instruments (Trey on a BCR Mockingbird), each playing within a flashing/glowing shape (two circles and two squares), after descending (in the form of holograms) from the ceiling in cylinders of colored light. Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue included extended choreography by Trey and Mike. During Get More Down, matching upright geometric shapes danced around behind the band, reducing to the two circles overlapped by Egg in a Hole, which featured pyrotechnics. Before Clear Your Mind, Trey introduced the band as from the year 4680 (the total of the October 28, 2021 songs as noted during that night’s encore-ending Grind). During The 9th Cube, there were projections of donuts and turtles on a cube above the band. Fireworks rained down on the stage during The Inner Reaches of Outer. For I Am in Miami, Trey switched to an acoustic guitar and the band stood together at stage front with the four-mic a cappella setup. After the set, the band departed as holograms back up the colored tubes. The start of Harry Hood included alternate lyrics (Holy Blankenstein). Soul Planet contained Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue and Don’t Doubt Me quotes.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or 3, or all four shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Summer Tour 2021.
ENCORE: Cavern > Waste > Good Times Bad Times Trey teased Fire (Ohio Players) in 46 Days and Party Time. No Men In No Man’s Land was teased by Trey in Party Time as well. Plasma contained Party Time quotes and 46 Days teases. The second Chalk Dust Torture included Plasma and A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing quotes.
ENCORE: Bold As Love The lyrics in Blaze On were changed to reference Dick’s. Trey teased Fire (Ohio Players) in Drift While You’re Sleeping. Trey teased Tweezer and Carini in the soundcheck after We Are Come To Outlive Our Brains.
ENCORE: More > Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. Sand was unfinished. Reba did not contain the whistling ending. Trey teased No Men In No Man’s Land in Bathtub Gin. The jam after Catapult contained Cool Amber and Mercury and Catapult quotes. Meatstick included Catapult and Lonely Trip quotes.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or all three shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Summer Tour 2021.
ENCORE: Fee, Wilson Forbin’s and Mockingbird were performed for the first time since July 30, 2017 (113 shows). Trey teased In Memory of Elizabeth Reed in Stash. Axilla (Part II) was performed for the first time since December 31, 1995 (855 shows). Fish mentioned Lee “Scratch” Perry (who had recently passed away) in the Hood Intro. Fee featured Trey on megaphone. This was the rescheduled date from the show that had been postponed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. The new date was originally supposed to occur at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys in Stateline, NV but was changed due to wildfires in the area.
ENCORE: A Life Beyond The Dream, Tweezer Reprise Trey teased Walk This Way in Mike’s Song and Passing Through. American Woman was teased by Trey and Mike and quoted by Trey in Tweezer. Trey also teased The Lizards and Dave’s Energy Guide in Tweezer. This was the rescheduled date from the show that had been postponed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. The new date was originally supposed to occur at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys in Stateline, NV but was changed due to wildfires in the area.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or all three shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Summer Tour 2021.
Trey teased Let It Grow in No Men In No Man’s Land. Leaves was performed for the first time since September 3, 2017 (102 shows). Trey teased Super Bad in Tube. Ha Ha Ha was performed for the first time since August 6, 2017 (105 shows). Chalk Dust Torture was unfinished.
Trey teased No Men In No Man’s Land in Back on the Train. My Friend My My Friend didn’t contain the “Myfe” ending. Trey teased L.A. Woman and Fire (Ohio Players) in Character Zero. Mr. Completely contained There is a Mountain teases from Trey and Page. Mr. Completely was teased in Crosseyed. I Always Wanted It This Way contained Mr. Completely and Crosseyed teases.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or all three shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Summer Tour 2021.
[1] Performed in slow, funk style [2] No whistling [3] Did not contain the intro [4] Unfinished
Llama was performed in a slow funk style. Reba did not have the whistling. Trey teased Set Your Soul Free before Melt. Scents and Subtle Sounds did not contain the intro. Chalk Dust Torture was unfinished. The soundcheck’s Funky Bitch contained alternate lyrics from Trey about riding 80 foot waves.
Scents and Subtle Sounds was only the intro. The Moma Dance had a Scents and Subtle Sounds tease and was unfinished. Mike’s Song had a Strawberry Letter 23 tease from Trey. Set Your Soul Free had teases of I’m a Man, Carini, and Linus and Lucy. The soundcheck’s jam contained Soul Planet quotes from Trey.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or all three shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Summer Tour 2021.
