Helping Phriendly Hour

What's more fun than a rockin' Phish show? How about a rockin' Phish show in one of the plushest golden indoor venues in the country? May 21, 2000 was the first of a two-night run at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Ahhh...nothing feels as good as thick fluffy carpeting tickling your bare dancing feet whilst you boogie to First Tube, Gotta Jiboo, Twist >Piper. Seriously. Fun. My only complaint was (and continues to be...) the complete absence of those scrumptious long-legged Rockettes. What else could they have been doing that night? What's more fun than Phish? Enjoy the show!

Tonight we get to hear a show from this summer - July 6 at SPAC, to be precise. The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (Saratoga, N.Y.) is a lush and green outdoor venue. Tonight's show is an historical event, featuring the first-ever Tube that sets sail into another song (Psychokiller!)... and then sails back into Tube. Henceforth, this shall go down in Phish-tory as the Tube-erang show (at least in my setbook). If that's not enough, there are any number of "tucking" references, as Jon Fishman has recently developed an affinity for tucking his drummer dress into his polka-dotted panties in his own public little mini show. This one's got a whole lotta great jams, so tune in and enjoy your bad self!

With those big midwestern skies and some very chill on-site camping, any show at Deer Creek in Noblesville, Indiana is set up for greatness...but this is Phish, man. Best Show Ever. Tonight's HPH is a blend from Aug. 10 and 11, 1997. Tune in for one of the longest versions of Cities (Talking Heads, 1979), featuring Page McConnell's eerie and mysterious theremin. Then stay tuned for Good Times, Bad Times drifting into a surreal theremin solo. After that, we move to Set 2 from Aug. 11 in its entirety. Tonight's recording is an audience tape including some intermittent sounds of the surrounds. Enjoy!

Obviously, you would like to spend it boogey-ing at a Phish show...so let's do just that. Tonight's show features Set 2 from July 4, 1999. It opens with a kick-ass Ghost and has an extra-tight, bass-heavy Mike's Song near the end. During the second hour, we offer part of Farm Aid, a benefit show from Oct. 3, 1998. Specifically, tune in for 30 minutes of Phish rockin' out with Neil Young on Runaway Jim > Arc > Down By the River. It's a musical treat for the holiday season. Enjoy!