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Summer 2021 Phish Prints

2020 sucked. I wouldn’t say 2021 is a lot better, but at least we have live Phish concerts, which allows me to create new phan art prints! Most of my prints for this tour were started in early 2020, still unaware of what would occur that year. In previous years I have often done a series of posters with a common theme (check them out here:2016, 2018, 2019). It is a fun project, but involves a lot of research and preparation, and a lot of stress! I had decided back in 2019 that my next series of prints wouldn’t have a theme. This gave me the freedom to create them using different styles and mediums. I had been taking some graduate courses and was also able to apply some new and forgotten knowledge to my work!

My original plan for 2021 was to create only two posters for the shows I was attending, Hershey and Atlantic City. I’m not sure what happened, but I now have created artwork for most of the summer tour! They range in styles and sizes. Check out the gallery to see them, and scroll down to learn more about each print and where to purchase.

All Prints and postcards are available in my shop and the PhanArt Show in AC!

Summer Tour Print

This was a print that I had started working on last year, inspired by a stickerart collaboration I had drawn years ago. I liked the image due to the net imagery, which reminds me of the song “Mercury”. I’m also a big fan of space-related things, especially wormholes and black holes. The pink “worm” is actually inspired by a diagram of what a wormhole might look like!

Prints now available in my shop with free shipping!

11×17 on 100 lb paper, signed edition of 50

Southern Gentlelopes (AR, AL, GA)

For the first three shows of the tour, I created some postcards based on linocuts I had done not too long ago. These images were created to be used as examples of different carving styles when teaching printmaking to my students. I played with the idea of doing more in the series for the whole tour early on but decided against it. Some back issues recently returned that would have made carving and hand printing impossible. I later decided to use the images to create mini-prints on postcards, which I have often done for my prints. I’ve often heard the phrase “I love it, but I don’t know where I’ll put it” way too many times. A postcard can go up on the fridge, or framed alone or in a set! These postcards are available on their own or as a set of the first 5 shows

Nashville

Nashville’s mini print uses one of my favorite things to draw, robots! For their show at Ascend Amphitheater, some ascending robots seemed appropriate. The original drawing was ink and watercolor. This postcard is available on its own or as a set of the first 5 shows!

Deer Creek

My Deer Creek (I refuse to address it by any other name) print has quickly become one of my favorites for the tour. It was created by accident while playing around in Illustrator after learning how to actually use it! Prior to this, I had no idea how to use Illustrator and everything I knew about Photoshop was the result of trial and error. The sign and the deer were watercolor paintings, and the rest was digitally created. This was just going to be a postcard design, but I got enough feedback telling me it should also be a print. Printed on 11×17 100lb uncoated smooth paper, they are signed and numbered and limited to an edition of 50.

Prints available here. Postcards available on its own or as a set of the first 5 shows.

Hershey

Hershey holds a special place in my heart for many reasons. I grew up near there, I used to work at Hersheypark during the summers in college, and it was there where I first met my wife! For this print I drew inspiration from old framed advertisements that I’d see in employee areas at Hershey. Based on an ad for Hershey’s Syrup (turns out they used to be sold in cans!), the original was an ink and gouache painting which I then scanned and digitally arranged. Prints are 11×14, printed on 110lb smooth uncoated paper. They are signed and numbered, limited to an edition of 100. I will have them with me at Hershey, and can be found walking the lot selling them. Prints are also available in my shop

Atlantic City

My AC print is another that began in 2020, revisiting an old style that I haven done in a while. It’s inspired by the song Tube, and includes many images from the song in the asteroid debris, as well as random Phish related nonsense. This probably took my the longest to draw due to the stippling style of inking found in the asteroid. The original drawing was done with Micron pens and gouache paint. The print measures 13×19 and is printed on 120 lb smooth uncoated matte paper, printed by Fireball Printing in Philadelphia. Each print is signed and numbered and limited to an edition of 100. These are now available in my shop, as well as the Phanart show in AC.

More prints and postcards coming in the near future! Be sure to follow my FB, Instagram, or Twitter for updates!

Phish Hampton 11/22/97 (Dinner and a Movie)

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SET 1: Mike’s Song -> I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Harry Hood > Train Song, Billy Breathes, Frankenstein > Izabella

SET 2: Halley’s Comet > Tweezer > Black-Eyed Katy > Piper > Run Like an Antelope^[1]

ENCORE: Bouncing Around the Room > Tweezer Reprise

Mike’s Song and Tweezer both contained BEK teases, with the ones in Tweezer taking place well before the segue into BEK. Fans of stage banter will want to seek out the second set for Trey’s humorous response to the crowd’s Destiny Unbound chant before Halley’s. The “Marco Esquandolas” lyric in Antelope was changed to “Michael Esquandolas.” This show was released as part of the Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97 box set.

Prints available here: Hampton 97 DaaM

I also have these available as digital prints, which you can download and make your own prints, puzzles, shirts, ect.! https://www.etsy.com/listing/260299234/phish-setlist-art-digital-print

A portion of the sales will be donated to Mockingbird Foundation.
Note: Setlist is courtesy of http://www.phish.net and The Mockingbird Foundation and is used with permission

Phish Dinner and Movie Setlists

For the last 20 weeks, Phish has been doing a weekly stream called Dinner and a Movie. They have been streaming past shows, some recent, some very old, and some never before seen. For many of us, this is a source of calm and happiness in such a turbulent world. For me it’s also an opportunity to create some setlist art! Although I’ve created some of them before, there’s something about posting a set right after as if it were a live show. The most exciting are the shows I haven’t created before. I’ve been posting the setlists on social media ( twitter, instagram, facebook, reddit) as I would during a regular tour.

I’ve had people ask about the setlist art, and yes, it is all available for sale! I decided to create an easier way for people to find the Dinner and a Movie setlists in my shop. You can now find every setlist in one listing. I also have them available as a digital file, which you can print yourself in any size you wish or on anything you want!

Dinner and a Movie Setlists: https://www.etsy.com/listing/839502209/phish-dinner-and-a-movie-setlist-art

Any digital setlist: https://www.etsy.com/listing/260299234/phish-setlist-art-digital-print-2013

I will be adding more setlists every week, and I’m slowly working on older setlists as well. Can’t find the setlist you are looking for? I also do commissioned setlists, which can include a personalized header, and would include an 11×17 print, any original artwork I create for the setlist art, as well as a digital file!

Commissioned setlists: https://www.etsy.com/listing/822573525/commissioned-phish-setlist

Phish 7/21/97 (Dinner and a Movie)

While most of the Phish Dinner and the Movie webcasts have been shows I had previously created an illustrated setlist for, I was very excited for this one! I had heard about this show for years, and had tried to find video for after reading about what went on during this show. I was very excited to watch this show as well as make a setlist for !

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SET 1: Ghost > Dogs Stole Things > Piper, Dirt, Ginseng Sullivan > Bathtub Gin > Character Zero

SET 2: Wolfman’s Brother -> Magilla > David Bowie, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Theme From the Bottom -> Jam > Funky Bitch, Slave to the Traffic Light

ENCORE: Loving Cup

The jam during Bathtub Gin featured Trey jumping up and down in time with a syncopated jam, as well as strong Drowned teases. Near the end of the jam, Trey mentioned how good it was to be back home and named the four newer songs that were played. The beginning of Bowie included Radar Love teases from Mike and a Birdland jam and Wolfman’s included a Bathtub Gin tease. The jam out of Theme, as well as Funky Bitch, featured LeRoi Moore on saxophone. The jam with LeRoi included a segment where he played two saxes, Trey played three guitars, Mike played two basses and the Cracklin’ Rosie cymbals, Fish had four drumsticks and Page was lying across his keyboards playing as many as possible. At one point, Trey grabbed two drumsticks and played them on Fish’s cymbals and his guitar before tossing them into the crowd. LeRoi also teased the Woody Woodpecker theme during the jam.

I have these available as digital prints, which you can download and make your own prints, puzzles, shirts, ect.! https://www.etsy.com/listing/260299234/phish-setlist-art-digital-print

Summer Tour 2019: Camden

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“And she knew that what she made would be the finest in the nation”

The eighth print in my Summer 2019 series. I was very excited to work on this for my hometown show! In the hopes of some dark jams and evil Phish during the Camden run, I looked at some of Dürer’s prints for the Book of Revelations. I took a portion of his print “The Whore of Babylon” (1498) and reinterpreted it as Reba on a Multi-beast on the banks of the Delaware with the BB&T burning in the background. They actually ended up playing Reba, Tela, and Antelope during the run, but no Sloth.

Prints are 9×12 on 11×14 paper, and hand carved and printed. . Both editions are printed on 140 lb watercolor paper. Black and white are an edition of 30, and a watercolor variant of 7, as well as edition variants. Due to the nature of the process each print may slightly differ in background color. I had these with me on lot at Camden and the remaining prints are now available in my shop: www.joseeen.etsy.com

hb_18.65.8 — Dürer -The Whore of Babylon, from The Apocalypse (1498)

Phish Northerly Island Run

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HUNTINGTON BANK PAVILION AT NORTHERLY ISLAND

Chicago , IL

SET 1: What’s the Use? > Breath and Burning > Wolfman’s Brother, In The Good Old Summer Time^[1], Everything’s Right^[1] >Limb By Limb > Nellie Kane > Theme From the Bottom > Blaze On

SET 2: No Men In No Man’s Land > Fuego > My Friend, My Friend > Your Pet Cat -> Golden Age -> Your Pet Cat > Leaves^[2],Harry Hood > Shine a Light > Julius

ENCORE: Love Is What We Are^[2], Golgi Apparatus

This show featured the Phish debuts of In The Good Old Summer Time and Everything’s Right and the debuts of Leaves and Love Is What We Are. Wolfman’s included a Dave’s Energy Guide tease from Trey. Trey teased Manteca in Golden Age and the second Your Pet Cat. Harry Hood contained a Mountain Jam and What’s The Use? teases from Trey

Prints available

HUNTINGTON BANK PAVILION AT NORTHERLY ISLAND

Chicago , IL

SET 1: Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan > The Moma Dance > The Wedge, Halfway to the Moon > Ya Mar, Martian Monster, Party Time, Wingsuit > Bouncing Around the Room, More

SET 2: Corona^[1] > Simple > Winterqueen > Light -> Scents and Subtle Sounds^[2] -> Cities > Slave to the Traffic Light

ENCORE: Loving Cup

This show featured the Phish debut of Corona. Fish teased Timber (Jerry) in Simple. Scents did not have the intro.

Prints available

HUNTINGTON BANK PAVILION AT NORTHERLY ISLAND

Chicago , IL

Soundcheck: Petrichor, Sugar Shack, I Always Wanted It This Way, Crazy Sometimes. Shade. Heavy Rotation, Mercury

SET 1: Possum, 555, Tube, Ocelot, Lawn Boy, Stash, The Line > Birds of a Feather, Funky Bitch > Run Like an Antelope

SET 2: Carini > Twenty Years Later > Piper > Thread^[1], Bathtub Gin > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Cavern

ENCORE: Wilson > Character Zero

This show featured the debut of Thread. The Birds was quoted at the end of BOAF. 2001 contained Martian Monster teases and a quote and Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine quotes. Carini was teased at the end of Cavern.

Prints available

This is now my fourth year creating these setlists. What started out as little sketches in notebook have evolved to 122 different setlists (and header illustrations) as well as over 300 different song illustrations! I’ll be at the PhanArt Shows in NYC for Baker’s Dozen, and will have plenty of setlists with me!

Commission: 12/31/12

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Monday 12/31/2012

Madison Square Garden

New York , NY

SET 1: Garden Party^[1], Possum, Roses Are Free, Rift > Sample in a Jar, Alaska, Mike’s Song > Walk Away, Weekapaug Groove,Character Zero

SET 2: Birds of a Feather, Ghost > Piper > Light > Also Sprach Zarathustra > The Horse > Silent in the Morning, You Enjoy Myself

SET 3: Party Time, Kung > Chalk Dust Torture > Auld Lang Syne > Tweezer Reprise^[2] > Sand > The Wedge > Fly Like an Eagle^[1] > Wilson, Lawn Boy^[3]

ENCORE: Driver, Iron Man^[4]

This show was webcast via LivePhish. This show featured the floor and stage covered with artificial turf (numerous plants also dotted the stage). Prior to the show, actors played garden sports including croquet, badminton, and mini-golf, while a few more “sunbathed” on a riser behind the stage. During the first setbreak, golfers came on stage and hit soft golf balls into the crowd. Light contained an Auld Lang Syne tease. You Enjoy Myself contained a Birds of a Feather tease. Trey, Page and Mike came out for the third set in golf carts and began hitting golf balls into the crowd. Fish then arrived on a golf cart wearing donut pants and shirt, an argyle vest, and a golf hat. Golf carts were brought back on stage during Kung, then began racing past the stage periodically during Chalk Dust. During the Chalk Dust jam, golfers began getting out of the carts, hitting balls into the crowd and dancing on stage. One of the golfers did the New Year’s countdown from on top of a cart. Auld Lang Syne was accompanied by balloons dropping from the ceiling and ping pong balls fired from cannons. Tweezer Reprise featured Carrie Manolakos on vocals and a number of backup singers. The remainder of the third set and encore featured song titles focusing on a golf theme. Wilson was preceded by an animated Wilson golf ball on the venue’s jumbotrons. Iron Man was preceded by Page coming to the front of the stage to wish the crowd Happy New Year and reference the start of the 30th year of Phish. In an apparent reference to Bob Hope, Page wore a blazer, USS Nimitz ball cap and carried a golf club. Driver was stopped and restarted.This show featured the Phish debuts of Garden Party and Fly Like an Eagle, the first full Phish performance of Iron Man (which was last played December 31, 2003, or 192 shows), and the first ever a cappella Lawn Boy.

Phish Halloween Run

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FRIDAY 10/28/2016

MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA

Las Vegas , NV

SET 1: Martian Monster, No Men In No Man’s Land, Dogs Stole Things, Beauty of My Dreams, Destiny Unbound, Limb By Limb,Home, When the Circus Comes, Steam > The Wedge, Cavern, Walls of the Cave

SET 2: Crimes of the Mind, Golden Age > Simple > Light > Twenty Years Later > Blaze On, The Squirming Coil

ENCORE: Bouncing Around the Room, Bold As Love

Prints Available

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SATURDAY 10/29/2016

MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA

Las Vegas , NV

SET 1: The Birds, Kill Devil Falls, 555, Roggae, Gumbo, Lawn Boy, Wilson, Maze, Wingsuit, More

SET 2: Mercury > Piper > Scents and Subtle Sounds^[1] > Tweezer > I Always Wanted It This Way^[2], The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Golgi Apparatus

ENCORE: Shine a Light > Tweezer Reprise

MONDAY 10/31/2016

MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA

Las Vegas , NV

SET 1: Carini^[1], Your Pet Cat, AC/DC Bag > Free > Possum, What’s the Use? > Wombat, Tube, Wolfman’s Brother, Ass Handed,Petrichor > Run Like an Antelope^[1]

SET 2: Five Years^[2], Soul Love^[3], Moonage Daydream^[4], Starman^[3], It Ain’t Easy^[5], Lady Stardust^[6], Star^[5], Hang On to Yourself^[5], Ziggy Stardust^[7], Suffragette City^[5], Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide^[4]

SET 3: 46 Days > Sand > Twist^[8], Meatstick > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Backwards Down the Number Line > Slave to the Traffic Light

ENCORE: Space Oddity

[1] Lyrics changed to reference Trey’s shirt.
[2] Phish debut; With Sylvia D’Avanzo, Alisa Horn, Todd Low, Antoine Silverman, Alissa Smith, and Hiroko Taguchi on strings; Trey on acoustic.
[3] Phish debut; With Sylvia D’Avanzo, Alisa Horn, Todd Low, Antoine Silverman, Alissa Smith, and Hiroko Taguchi on strings and Jennifer Hartswick, Celisse Henderson, and Jo Lampert on backing vocals; Trey on acoustic.
[4] Phish debut; With Sylvia D’Avanzo, Alisa Horn, Todd Low, Antoine Silverman, Alissa Smith, and Hiroko Taguchi on strings and Jennifer Hartswick, Celisse Henderson, and Jo Lampert on backing vocals.
[5] Phish debut; With Jennifer Hartswick, Celisse Henderson, and Jo Lampert on backing vocals.
[6] Phish debut; Trey on acoustic.
[7] Phish debut.
[8] Trey on Marimba Lumina and Mike and Page on percussion.

Phish Grand Prairie Run

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Monday 10/24/2016

Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie

Grand Prairie , TX

SET 1: No Men In No Man’s Land, Breath and Burning, Poor Heart, Wolfman’s Brother, Water in the Sky, My Soul > NICU >It’s Ice > Ocelot, Fuck Your Face, Ass Handed, Saw It Again, Running Out of Time > David Bowie

SET 2: Dog Faced Boy > Seven Below > Petrichor, Maze > Dirt, I Always Wanted It This Way^[1] > Piper, Bug

ENCORE: Buffalo Bill > Rock and Roll

Mike teased Sit Still, Look Pretty before Water in the Sky. I Always Wanted It This Way featured Trey on Marimba Lumina. Piper contained a Woman from Tokyo tease from Trey.

Prints Available