Phish 6/28-6/29/16 Mann Center

Hometown show!  I’m always feeling grateful that I’ve been able to see Phish 3 years in a row 20 minutes from my apartment.  A good time was had, and with lots of friends (many crashing in my place) it’s always a good time!

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Link Tuesday, 06/28/2016
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Set 1: Wilson > Funky Bitch, No Men In No Man’s Land, Roggae, Nellie Kane, Gumbo> Birds of a Feather, Sleep Again, Things People Do[1], Limb By Limb > Split Open and Melt, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg

Set 2: Fuego > Runaway Jim > Gotta Jibboo > Breath and Burning > Timber (Jerry)> Slave to the Traffic Light > You Enjoy Myself[2]

Encore: Quinn the Eskimo

[1] Debut.
[2] With Trey on Marimba Lumina.

Teases:
· The Birds quote in Birds of a Feather

Notes: The Birds was quoted at the end of Birds of a Feather. Sleep Again was last played August 8, 2010 (224 shows). This show featured the debut of Things People Do.  YEM featured Trey on Marimba Lumina.

Prints Available

 

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Link Wednesday, 06/29/2016
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Set 1: Wolfman’s Brother, Your Pet Cat, Blaze On, Waking Up Dead[1], Llama[2],Devotion To a Dream, Reba, Mike’s Song > Horn > Farmhouse > Weekapaug Groove

Set 2: Crosseyed and Painless -> Friends[1], Down with Disease[3] > What’s the Use? > Meatstick > The Line, Tide Turns[1], Backwards Down the Number Line, Dem Bones

Encore: Dear Prudence > Harry Hood

[1] Debut.
[2] Performed in a slow funk style.
[3] Unfinished.

Teases:
· The Birds quote in Weekapaug Groove
· Whole Lotta Love tease in Llama

Notes: This show featured the debut of Waking Up Dead, Friends, and Tide Turns. Llama was performed in a slow funk style and ended with a Whole Lotta Love tease from Trey. The Birds was quoted in Weekapaug. DWD was unfinished.

Prints Available

Mann Run posters (both nights) available- buy both and save!

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

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Phish Studio Era Compilation pt II

I recently finished up the covers for a studio era compilation series created by Reddit user RiverportGin.  The series covers all of 1.0 Phish (1983-2000) and gave me an opportunity to draw songs that are unlikely to be played anytime soon . I also had fun with the headers, Which were based off a lyric of a song found in each particular album.  Click on the titles for a download link.

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Set the Gearshift- The White Tape/ TMWSIY era (84-87)

  1. Alumni Blues
  2. And So To Bed
  3. You Enjoy Myself
  4. AC/DC Bag
  5. Fuck Your Face
  6. Divided Sky
  7. Slave to the Traffic Light
  8. Aftermath
  9. Ingest
  10. NO2
  11. Fluff’s Travels
  12. Dog Log
  13. He Ent to the Bog
  14. Run Like an Antelope
  15. Minkin
  16. Letter to Jimmy Page

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Ticketstub In Your Hand- Junta Era (88-4/89)

  1. Fee
  2. You Enjoy Myself
  3. Esther
  4. Golgi Apparatus
  5. Foam
  6. Dinner and a Movie
  7. Divided Sky
  8. David Bowie
  9. Fluffhead
  10. Fluff’s Travels
  11. Contact
  12. Union Federal
  13. Sanity
  14. Icculus

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Off To Camp- Lawn Boy Era (5/89-5/91)

  1. The Squirming Coil
  2. Reba
  3. My Sweet One
  4. Split Open and Melt
  5. The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony
  6. Bathtub Gin
  7. Run Like an Antelope
  8. Lawn Boy
  9. Bouncing Around the Room

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While I’m Young- A Picture of Nectar  Era   6/91 – 8/92

  1. Llama
  2. Eliza
  3. Cavern
  4. Poor Heart
  5. Stash
  6. Manteca
  7. Guelah Papyrus
  8. Magilla
  9. The Landlady
  10. Glide
  11. Tweezer
  12. The Mango Song
  13. Chalk Dust Torture
  14. Catapult
  15. Faht
  16. Tweezer Reprise

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The Feeling I Forgot- Billy Breathes Era 2/96 – 3/97

  1. Free
  2. Character Zero
  3. Waste
  4. Taste
  5. Cars Trucks Buses
  6. Talk
  7. Theme From the Bottom
  8. Train Song
  9. Bliss
  10. Billy Breathes
  11. Swept Away
  12. Steep
  13. Prince Caspian

 

These were a blast to do. It was a way to work on different methods of illustration (digital/traditional) as well as practice for the upcoming summer tour.  I had the chance to go back and relisten to a couple gems (the White Tape was a blast!) and draw those seldom heard songs.  While RiverportGin doesn’t have plans to make complilations for the 2.0 and 3.0 albums in the near future, I plan to continue illustrating the rest of the albums, possibly create a poster with them.

Track listings and song histories courtesy of Phish.net

© 1990-2016 The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc.

 

Phish Riviera Maya 1/15-1/17 2016

Phish recently played their first ever shows in Mexico, on the beaches of Barcelo Maya Resort.  I wasn’t able to make it, but at least was able to watch it live via stream.  These show setlists are available for purchase as a 3 print set of the entire run.

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Link Friday, 01/15/2016
Barceló Maya Beach, Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Set 1: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > My Soul, Martian Monster > Ya Mar, Halley’s Comet > Fuego > The Wedge, Theme From the Bottom > Free > David Bowie

Set 2: Drowned -> What’s the Use? > Sand -> Ghost -> Also Sprach Zarathustra >Wolfman’s Brother > Possum, Shine a Light

Encore: Rock and Roll

Teases:
· Sneakin’ Sally through the Alley tease in Possum
· Theme from Gilligan’s Island tease in David Bowie

Notes: This show was webcast via Live Phish. David Bowie contained a Theme fromGilligan’s Island tease from Mike. Trey teased Sneakin’ Sally in Possum. Jefferson Waful assisted Chris Kuroda on lights for the first time and would do so for the rest of the weekend’s shows.

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Link Saturday, 01/16/2016
Barceló Maya Beach, Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Set 1: Camel Walk, 555 > Rift, Cities -> Light > Simple -> Timber (Jerry) > Wading in the Velvet Sea, Reba[1], Chalk Dust Torture

Set 2: Golden Age -> Prince Caspian > Halfway to the Moon, Joy, 46 Days ->Twenty Years Later > Julius, Harry Hood

Encore: Character Zero

[1] No whistling.

Teases:
· Magilla tease in Simple
· Reba quote in Chalk Dust Torture

Notes: This show was webcast via Live Phish. Page teased Magilla during Simple. Reba did not contain the whistling ending, but Trey briefly quoted Reba’s whistling coda in Chalk Dust.

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Link Sunday, 01/17/2016
Barceló Maya Beach, Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Set 1: Mexican Cousin, The Curtain With, Sample in a Jar, Yarmouth Road, The Landlady, Army of One, Kill Devil Falls > Bathtub Gin, Funky Bitch > The Moma Dance[1] > Saw It Again

Set 2: Down with Disease[1] > Roggae > Crosseyed and Painless > Farmhouse >Mike’s Song > Bug > Weekapaug Groove, Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: The Ocean[2]

[1] Unfinished.
[2] Phish debut.

Teases:
· Shipwreck and The Rover quotes in Down with Disease
· Shipwreck and I Don’t Live Today quotes in Crosseyed and Painless
· Shipwreck quote in Weekapaug Groove

Notes: This show was webcast via Live Phish and featured the Phish debut of The Ocean. Moma Dance and DWD were unfinished. Trey teased The Rover at the start of DWD. DWD, Crosseyed, and Weekapaug contained Shipwreck quotes. Crosseyed also contained an I Don’t Live Today quote from Fish. Trey teased Your Pet Cat in Weekapaug.

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

 

The Phish Skull Studies

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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.

Phish Fall Tour: 10/17/14 Matthew Knight Arena, Eugene, OR

Phish tour is back on!  They are touring the West Coast, ending with a 3 night Halloween run in Las Vegas.  With school in session, but the 3 hour time difference, I sadly won’t be able to create them live (Maybe for the weekend shows).  I’m trying a new layout and headers, as well as some new drawings for songs.

Prints are available for sale now, as well as every prints from every show of Summer Tour, and as always, a portion of the profits is donated to the Mockingbird Foundation, which helps provide music education to children.

8/31/2014 Phish at Dick’s Night 3

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A bittersweet end to a great run at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, CO.  As sad as I am that I won’t have any shows to draw until Fall tour, although trying to make the setlists live with the time zone difference (I’m in Philly) was exhausting.  This does give me a chance to rework a lot of song sketches that I found weak or have been in heavy rotation during summer tour.  I am excited to play around with some new possible setups for the fall tour setlists.  I’ll also have some other stuff in the works setlist-wise, as well as some Gamehendge related things.  Stay tuned!

Night 3 is available for sale .  25% of proceeds benefit the Mockingbird Foundation

8/29/14 Phish at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park Night 1

Phish is back this weekend for their annual Dick’s run.  They’ll be playing the next 3 nights at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, CO.
Dicks1 copyIt felt good doing this again, even for just 3 days.  I am hoping though to change up the format for the setlists I’ll end up doing for fall tour.  I know I’ll be drawing new versions of songs, so you might see a few during this run.

Prints of 8/29/14 are available via etsy, and  25% of sales from the Dick’s run as well as the themed shows setlists (which will be released shortly) will benefit the Mockingbird Foundation.

Guess the Dick’s Setlist pt II: A PhanArt Collaboration

Round Two!  Can you guess the songs/theme?
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No answer key is provided (yet), so you will have to use your Phish knowledge (although phish.net’s song histories are very helpful).  The only hint I’ll give is that each song has been played by Phish unless noted otherwise.  Each illustration will first appear through Phanart.net, and next day through this site.  We’ll reveal the setlists shortly, but we’d figured we’d give you a couple days to figure them out.

Prints will be available next week or so, with 25% of the proceeds benefiting The Mockingbird Foundation.

Guess the Dick’s Setlist pt I: a PhanArt Collaboration

Dicks show 1It’s that time of year again!  Phish at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Colorado!  Of course everyone is talking about the gag they’ll do the first night.  This has been a tradition since 2011, starting with the “S” set (every song started with “s”).  2012 had their songs spelling out “F-ck your face”, and 2013’s show spelled out “Most shows spell something (in reverse).  As speculations run abound the interwebs, Pete from Phanart.net got a hold of me and we got to collaborating on some possible sets.  He gave me 4 possible scenarios, each based on a theme, which I then illustrated.  We will be releasing 1 each day leading up to Phish at Dicks.  No answer key is provided (yet), so you will have to use your Phish knowledge (although phish.net’s song histories are very helpful).  The only hint I’ll give is that each song has been played by Phish unless noted otherwise.  Each illustration will first appear through Phanart.net, and next day through this site.  We’ll reveal the setlists shortly, but we’d figured we’d give you a couple days to figure them out.

Prints will be available next week or so, with 25% of the proceeds benefiting The Mockingbird Foundation.