Tag: phish art

Phish 12/30-1/2 MSG NYE Run

2nmxnvf

Link Wednesday, 12/30/2015
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

Set 1: Sample in a Jar, Free, Simple > Back on the Train, Waiting All Night, 555,Roggae, The Dogs > 46 Days

Set 2: Chalk Dust Torture > Ghost > Can’t Always Listen[1] > Ghost > Waves > Bathtub Gin > Mike’s Song > Bouncing Around the Room > Weekapaug Groove -> What’s the Use? > Weekapaug Groove

Encore: Character Zero

[1] Debut.

Teases:
· Auld Lang Syne and What’s the Use? teases in Weekapaug Groove
· Magilla tease in Simple

 

Prints available

pebfdei

Link Thursday, 12/31/2015
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

Set 1: The Moma Dance > Possum, Wolfman’s Brother, Birds of a Feather, I Didn’t Know, Happy Birthday to You[1], Martian Monster, Reba, Walls of the Cave

Set 2: The Wedge, Wilson > A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, Yarmouth Road, Kill Devil Falls > Piper > Twist

Set 3: No Men In No Man’s Land, Auld Lang Syne > Blaze On > Carini > David Bowie,The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Backwards Down the Number Line

Encore: Tube > Cavern

[1] Sung by Fish and the crowd for his daughter Ella.

Teases:
· The Birds quote in Birds of a Feather

Notes: This show was webcast via Live Phish. BOAF contained a quote of The Birds. During I Didn’t Know, Trey introduced Fishman as “The Man Mulcahy.” The crowd sang the last verse of I Didn’t Know, and Fish then asked the crowd to join him in singing Happy Birthday to his daughter, Ella. The third set began with the band on a second stage beneath a funnel-shaped screen suspended from the ceiling. As the band jammed, part of the screen descended and became an hourglass shape surrounding the stage, on which a series of images were projected. As the jam continued and the countdown to midnight approached, the band returned to the main stage.

Prints Available

n03t0nt

Link Friday, 01/01/2016
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

Set 1: Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Heavy Things, How Many People Are You,Stash, Undermind > Rift, Wingsuit, Ocelot, Lawn Boy, Run Like an Antelope

Set 2: Down with Disease[1] > Dirt, Halfway to the Moon > Theme From the Bottom >Light > Fuego > Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Farmhouse

[1] Unfinished.

Teases:
· Stash, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, and How Many People Are You teases in Undermind
· Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Stash, and How Many People Are You teases in Run Like an Antelope
· Manteca tease in Light

Prints Available

p8gnr38

Link Saturday, 01/02/2016
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

Set 1: Your Pet Cat, AC/DC Bag > NICU, It’s Ice > Horn > Divided Sky, Axilla > Maze,Train Song > Julius

Set 2: Tweezer > Sand > Limb By Limb > Suzy Greenberg > Harry Hood > You Enjoy Myself[1]

Encore: The Lizards, Tweezer Reprise

[1] Trey and Fish on drums.

Teases:
· Stash tease in Divided Sky

Prints Available

 

Setlist/notes © 1990-2016 The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc.

The Phish Skull Studies

20151211_153617

A shower thought (and drawing lots of Dead art) led me to doing some skull studies recently.  My original thought was some kind of Mike Gordon Steal Your Face/F ck Your Face mashup, and led to this series of Skulls inspired by the members of the band.  I started these over Thanksgiving weekend (Trey was drawn while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to be ready) and got a positive response online.  I had originally done these to as practice drawing skulls/ using crosshatching techniques, but upon the insistence of the interwebs, finished up the set and made prints for sale.

Prints are for sale in my shop, and I have them available in several sizes.  I have prints of all four images in 11×17 and 8.5×11 sizes, as well individual prints of Cactus, Big Red, Henrietta, and the Chairman of the Boards, or a suite of all four prints.

New art added to my shop!

I just added over 30 new prints and original watercolors to my shop this weekend!  I found a bunch of prints that were made originally the the Phanart Show that took place at World Live Cafe during the Phish run at the Mann Center.  I forgot about them until recently when I found a portfolio with the unsold prints. The prints were made from the original watercolors I used for the song illustrations I use in my setlists.

Capture2

I have some of the original watercolors from which the prints were made from.  These are ink and watercolor on 6×8 140lb cold press paper.

Capture3

I also have some of the original watercolor paintings that I used for some of the show headers.  While I generally do a mixture of tradition and digital for my headers, these are done traditionally (ink and waterolor) on 8.5×11 paper.

Capture4

They are all reasonably priced ($25 and under) and be sure to follow me on twitter, and instagram for special sales and whatnot!

 

The Phish 2015 Headers: An Explanation

I recently got a message from somebody stating ” I love the setlists, but the header makes no sense!”  They were upset that I drew mountain for the Kansas City show, everyone knowing that Kansas has no mountains.  I was kind of excited, because this was the first time I’d received a comment regarding my headers.  I’d consider these my favorite part of creating my illustrated setlists, since each one is different, and carries a significance about the show.  When I started doing the setlists in 2014, most were an illustration based on the venue itself.  They were inked drawings that were colored digitally, and I was never a fan of them (I’ve had no formal Photoshop training, so it’s been a learning process).  When I was sketching out ideas for this year’s setlists, one of my main goals was to avoid digital as much as possible. My second concern was what the theme would be.  I didn’t want to do the same thing as last year, since I figured they would play venues they’d played in 2014.  Right before summer tour started, I had done a commissioned piece that consisted of illustrations of the whole Gamehendge saga, including all the other songs that have been confirmed to be related to TMWSIY, or took place in Gamehendge (at least according to the internet).  Having sketched (and drawn)  all these songs, it seemed fitting to use this as the basis of 2015’s summer tour.  I used all the songs from TMWSIY, as well as a couple songs that are Gamehendge related.  The last couple shows are based on songs played at the shows.

The Headers:

7-21 Bend I

The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday:  Col. Forbin steps through the door into Gamehendge

7-22 Bend II

The Lizards : “We can swim it if we tried”

7-24 Shoreline

Tela

7-25 Forum

Wilson

7-28 Austin

AC/DC Bag

7-29 Grand Prairie

Fly Famous Mockingbird

7-31 ATL I

Col. Forbin’s Ascent

8-1 ATL II

The Sloth

8-2 Tuscaloosa

Punch You in the Eye.

8-4 Nashville

Possum

8-5 KC

Divided Sky.  Probably would’ve been better without mountains, based on the location.

8-7 Blossom

Llama

8-8 Alpine I

Kung

8-9 Alpine II

Esther

8-11 Mann

Scent of a Mule (Played at the show)

8-12 Mann II

Slave to the Traffic Light.  It seemed fitting, seeing how close the Philadelphia Zoo is to the Mann Center.  I actually made a poster based off this song  for the Mann 2014 shows.

8-14 Walnut Creek

Reba.  My favorite header.

8-15 MPP I

Run Like an Antelope (played at the show)

8-16 MPP II

Wingsuit. I prefer a literal interpretation of this rather than the convention definition of the word

8-21 Magna I

An interpretation of the camping based on photos of Magnaball since I couldn’t make it 😦

8-22 Magna II

Inspired by the “Poster is Dead – Poster’s so Dead” plane flyby.

8-23 Magna III

Inspired by the Drive-In set the night before.  Marquee includes a mashup of songs played that night.

9-14 Dicks I

Bike. Played at 2.42% of live shows

9-5 Dicks II

Sleeping Monkey. Leo’s choice.

9-6 Dicks III

The “Thank You” encore called for a minimal header in order to fit in my setlist.

These headers were quite a blast (and a challenge) to draw.  I do have some original ink and watercolors of some of the headers available (email me or contact via ig, twitter, fb for availability), and can make some custom posters using the headers based on shows attended.

Phish 8/15-8/16/15 Merriweather Post Pavilion

Saturday, 08/15/2015
Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD

Soundcheck: Sparkle, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Friday, Nothing (x5), Stir It Up (instrumental)

Set 1: Simple Glide Buried Alive McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters RoggaeLimb By Limb Big Black Furry Creature from Mars Your Pet Cat Big Black Furry Creature from Mars Horn Blaze On Run Like an Antelope[1]

Set 2: Halley’s Comet 46 Days Bug Steam What’s the Use? Steam Piper Tweezer[2]NO2 Tweezer Walls of the Cave

Encore: Sleeping Monkey Tweezer Reprise

[1] Marco Esquandolas lyric changed to “Gaktoidler Esquandolas.”
[2] Trey on megaphone.

Teases:
· Magilla tease in Simple
· Your Pet Cat and Theme from I Dream of Jeannie quotes in Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
· Call to the Post tease in Run Like an Antelope
· Sleeping Monkey quote in Tweezer Reprise
· Martian Monster quote in NO2

Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. Simple included a Magilla tease. The first Big Black Furry Creature from Mars included an I Dream of Jeannie theme tease from Mike and a Your Pet Cat quote. Run Like an Antelope included a Call To The Post tease and the lyrics were changed to “Gaktoidler Esquandolas.” Piper included a Steam tease. Tweezer included Trey on megaphone. NO2 was last played August 12, 2010 (202 shows) and included a Martian Monster quote. During the intro to Sleeping Monkey, Trey said that backstage the band had read a website that ranked Phish songs and they were surprised that Page’s all-time favorite song was not on the top of the list, so they were going to play it for the crowd right now. Trey then said every night walking off during encore breaks Page asks to play it and Mike says “No Page, not tonight, tonight’s not your night, man.” Tweezer Reprise included a Sleeping Monkey quote from Fish.

Prints Available

Sunday, 08/16/2015
Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD

Soundcheck: Foam, The Mango Song, My Soul

Set 1: Golgi Apparatus Undermind Julius 555 Nothing No Men In No Man’s Land StashDavid Bowie Possum

Set 2: Down with Disease[1] Slave to the Traffic Light Light Twist Shine a Light FuegoSneakin’ Sally Through the Alley You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Backwards Down the Number Line

[1] Lyrics changed to “Mike’s head.” Unfinished.

Teases:
· Charge! tease
· Sleeping Monkey quote in You Enjoy Myself

Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. Sleeping Monkey was teased and quoted before the show and also quoted in the YEM vocal jam. Mike teased “Charge!” before the show as well. Nothing was played for the first time since June 7, 2012 (139 shows). DWD’s lyrics were changed to reference “Mike’s head.” DWD was also unfinished.

Prints Available

Setlists/notes © 1990-2015 The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc.

Phish 8/8-8/9/15 Alpine Valley Run

Saturday, 08/08/2015
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI

Set 1: No Men In No Man’s Land, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Poor Heart,Julius, Frankie Says > Maze, Mercury, Reba, Possum

Set 2: Down with Disease[1] > Halley’s Comet -> Twist > Light > What’s the Use? >Fuego > Backwards Down the Number Line > Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Meatstick > Character Zero

[1] Unfinished.

Teases:
· Theme from Mission: Impossible tease in Maze

Notes: Page teased the Mission: Impossible theme in Maze. DWD was unfinished.

Prints available

Sunday, 08/09/2015
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI

Set 1: The Very Long Fuse, Colonel Forbin’s Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Brian and Robert, Saw It Again, Esther, Weigh, The Sloth, Sanity > Split Open and Melt

Set 2: Run Like an Antelope > Carini > Waves -> Tweezer > Dirt > Mike’s Song >Blaze On > Weekapaug Groove > Tweezer Reprise

Encore: Contact, Frankenstein

Teases:
· The Very Long Fuse quote in Sanity

Notes: Mockingbird featured narration about Trey walking around Alpine Valley and having a bird shit on him, inspiring him to play the song that night. He also acknowledged that this was the band’s 17th show at Alpine and that the following day would be the 19th anniversary of their first appearance (August 10, 1996). The Very Long Fuse was quoted in Sanity.

Prints available

Setlist/notes © 1990-2015 The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc.

Phish 8/4/15 Nashville, TN

Tuesday, 08/04/2015
Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, TN

Soundcheck: Jam, Mercury

Set 1: Free, No Men In No Man’s Land, Wolfman’s Brother, 555, Birds of a Feather,Funky Bitch, When the Circus Comes, Stash, Lawn Boy, Walls of the Cave

Set 2: Golden Age > Light > Shade, Mike’s Song > Piper > Crosseyed and Painless -> Weekapaug Groove

Encore: Slave to the Traffic Light

Teases:
· The Birds quote in Birds of a Feather
· Crosseyed and Painless quote in Weekapaug Groove

Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. BOAF contained quotes from The Birds. During Lawn Boy, Page walked all the way over and said hello to “Mike Side.” Light’s lyrics were changed to mention Tom Marshall, who was in attendance at the show. Weekapaug included Crosseyed quotes. During the Weekapaug jam, Trey and Mike stood face to face before turning to the front of the stage and stepping in unison with the music.

Purchase Print

Setlist/notes © 1990-2015 The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc.

Phish 8/8-8/9/15 Alpine Valley Run

Saturday, 08/08/2015
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI

Set 1: No Men In No Man’s Land, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Poor Heart,Julius, Frankie Says > Maze, Mercury, Reba, Possum

Set 2: Down with Disease[1] > Halley’s Comet -> Twist > Light > What’s the Use? >Fuego > Backwards Down the Number Line > Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Meatstick > Character Zero

[1] Unfinished.

Teases:
· Theme from Mission: Impossible tease in Maze

Notes: Page teased the Mission: Impossible theme in Maze. DWD was unfinished.

Prints available

Sunday, 08/09/2015
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI

Set 1: The Very Long Fuse, Colonel Forbin’s Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Brian and Robert, Saw It Again, Esther, Weigh, The Sloth, Sanity > Split Open and Melt

Set 2: Run Like an Antelope > Carini > Waves -> Tweezer > Dirt > Mike’s Song >Blaze On > Weekapaug Groove > Tweezer Reprise

Encore: Contact, Frankenstein

Teases:
· The Very Long Fuse tease in Sanity

Notes: Mockingbird featured narration about Trey walking around Alpine Valley and having a bird shit on him, inspiring him to play the song that night. He also acknowledged that this was the band’s 17th show at Alpine and that the following day would be the 19th anniversary of their first appearance (August 10, 1996). The Very Long Fuse was quoted in Sanity.

Prints Available

Setlists/notes © 1990-2015 The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc.

Phish 7/31/15 Atlanta, GA

Friday, 07/31/2015
Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA

Set 1: Prince Caspian[1] No Men In No Man’s Land Ghost The Wedge The Moma Dance How Many People Are You? Rift Mike’s Song I Am Hydrogen Weekapaug Groove

Set 2: Kill Devil Falls Martian Monster[2] Twist Back on the Train Reba[1] Bathtub Gin

Encore: Farmhouse Character Zero

[1] Unfinished.
[2] Trey on clavinet and drums, Mike on drums and guitar, and Fish on bass.

Teases:
· Reba, Apostrophe, Kill Devil Falls, and Funkytown whistlings in Bathtub Gin

Notes: Caspian was unfinished. During Martian Monster, Trey joined Page on clavinet and Trey and Mike both joined Fish on drums. Fish then played Mike’s bass with Trey and Mike still on drums before Mike left to play Trey’s guitar. Reba did not contain the whistling ending. Bathtub Gin included the whistling portion from Reba, a Reba tease from Page, a Funkytown tease from Mike, Apostrophe teases, and a Kill Devil Falls quote.

Setlist/notes © 1990-2015 The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc.

Prints Available

Phish 7/29/15 Grand Prairie, TX

7-29-15 grand prairie copy

Wednesday, 07/29/2015
Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, Grand Prairie, TX

Set 1: Tube Guelah Papyrus Punch You In the Eye Steam Poor Heart NICU I Didn’t Know Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan Divided Sky The Squirming Coil

Set 2: Chalk Dust Torture[1] Simple Silent in the Morning The Line Birds of a FeatherFuego Julius Harry Hood

Encore: The Connection First Tube

[1] Unfinished.

Teases:
· Magilla tease in Simple
· The Birds quote in Birds of a Feather

Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. Chalk Dust was unfinished. Simple contained a Magilla tease from Page. BOAF contained a quote of The Birds. The Connection was played for the first time since June 29, 2010 (200 shows).

Setlist/notes © 1990-2015 The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc.

Prints Available