Helping Phriendly Hour

Listen to live Phish here! Solely for the purpose of instigating your deepest musical frenzy, tune in for a carefully selected hour of creative bliss from nearly thirty years of funked-out improvisations and untamed chaos otherwise known as the Phish archives. Each show is personally selected for absorption by your delighted ears, so whatever you do, don't miss a single one. Have a favorite sleeper set? Don't keep that goodness to yourself.... Listen LIVE on Sunday 7-9pm with replay on Friday 10pm - 12am

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Radha

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Phish plays live from Bonnaroo, during our show! Sun, 06/10/2012 - 7:00pm \| Radha Luckily for us, Phish closed out Bonnaroo this year at the exact time the Helping Phriendly Hour is on the air. That means tonight's show was an actual LIVE Phish show, broadcast from the festival grounds in Manchester, Tenn., over YouTube...and then streamed right on our little grassroots radio station! Therefore, if you have never heard a live Phish show, tonight was your night, and we played way past our usual end-time. (But who cares! It was a live show!) The show includes the second half of set 1, and all of set 2 plus the encore. During setbreak, we played set 2 from 6/8/12 in Worcester, Mass. The stream is pretty quiet -- turn the volume up and enjoy! Read more about Phish plays live from Bonnaroo, during our show! Add new comment
Two sets of Phish opening for Santana, summers '92 and '96 Sun, 06/03/2012 - 7:00pm \| Radha There were two delightful summers where Phish opened for Carlos Santana. The first was a US tour in the sweet summer of 1992, and the second was a bedazzling whirlwind European tour in the sweeter summer of 1996. On one single occasion (yes, only one), Mr. Santana himself (plus percussionists Karl Perazzo and Raul Rekow) sat in for three Phish songs...and we offer this set up for your listening pleasure. The show took place on 7.25.1992 in an all-ages outdoor amphitheater on the side of a mountain in Stowe, Vermont. I wish I had been there, it was a great show. The second hour is another opener for Santana, this one staged in front of a 10th century Italian cathedral in the Piazza del Duomo in Pistoia, Italy. Can you imagine how good that venue (and show!) must have been? Some Phish...some Santana...some ancient Italian spirituality...aaah...Anyway, this is the set where Trey gets to practice his Italian, he does pretty good. Check it out! Read more about Two sets of Phish opening for Santana, summers '92 and '96 2 comments Add new comment
It's time for the S Show Sun, 05/27/2012 - 7:00pm \| Radha Yes, it's the S show...Seriously. It was Super. And they only played 26% of all their songs that start with the letter S! Nonetheless, it Sure is a Sweet Setlist: I: Sample in a Jar, Sparkle, The Sloth, Sweet Virginia, Susskind Hotel, Strange Design, Stash, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley>Sparks>Scent of a Mule, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Shine a Light, Split Open and Melt, Squirming Coil Set 2: Sand>Simple>Steam>Soul Shakedown Party>Seven Below>Suzy Greenberg>Scents and Subtle Sounds>Slave to the Traffic Light>Silent in the Morning>Sanity, Sweet Adeline Encore: Sabotage Thanks to Cliff for filling in as DJ o' the day. Enjoy! Read more about It's time for the S Show Add new comment
Helping Phriendly Hour May 20th, 2012 Sun, 05/20/2012 - 7:00pm \| Radha Read more about Helping Phriendly Hour May 20th, 2012 Add new comment
What is a band without Lemonwheel? Sun, 05/13/2012 - 7:00pm \| Radha The Lemonwheel was Phish's third ever festival. It took place at the Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, ME, and there were more than 60,000 people in attendance for six two-hour sets of music ( plus a seventh late-night ambient space jam under a starry Maine sky on night one). For three short days, the festival was the largest city in the state of Maine. Very few things in life are as phun as a Phestival, I swear it's true. Tonight's show is Night 2, includes parts of Sets II and III, and is sheer listening pleasure! Enjoy! Read more about What is a band without Lemonwheel? Add new comment
Play that Vinyl Junta! It's the Album Show... Thu, 04/26/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha Three cheers for Record Store Day at Dimple! Phish released their debut album Junta on vinyl, so we get to listen to some early favorites, old-school style. Tonight we hear classics like Fee, Fluffhead, Contact and Glide spinning around on the record player, plus some lesser known tunes from other albums (Shafty, Bliss, Eliza, Faht, In-law Josie Wales). A local Gumbo from UC Davis' Rec Center back in 1994 is also in the mix tonight. Enjoy! Also, starting May 4, we move to a two hour slot on Sundays 7-9pm, with a Friday night replay from 10pm - 12am. That's right, two Hours...Let the Wild Rumpus Begin... Read more about Play that Vinyl Junta! It's the Album Show... Add new comment
Live from Albany, NY 11-28-2009 Thu, 04/19/2012 - 6:09pm \| Radha Conveniently, the mechanical snafu responsible for the loss of the first nine minutes of tonight's show resolved itself immediately before a long and funky Seven Below--followed by an even longer and funkier Ghost. Easy on the ears, these acoustic treats were first played on Thanksgiving weekend, 2009, at the Times Union Center in Albany, NY. Read more about Live from Albany, NY 11-28-2009 Add new comment
Helping Phriendly Hour Apr 19th, 2012 Thu, 04/19/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha Read more about Helping Phriendly Hour Apr 19th, 2012 Add new comment
A very happy Earth Day, 1991: Free Phish show at SUNY Potsdam! Thu, 04/12/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha Rest assured, the music for this set came straight off some nerdy phan's DAT. Remember the DAT? God bless the tapers, for real. Anyway, this set doesn't have the booming sound of shows from more recent years...but who cares because the show rocked, man! Tonight's set features a rare (and brief!) Gamehendge narration between Colonel Forbin's Ascent and Fly Famous Mockingbird. Drummer Jon Fishman (aka Henrietta) plays a mean trombone during a little-bit-silly version of I Didn't Know. Plus, there's the usual shady suspects -- Hood, Fee and Landlady -- to keep piquing your interest. Live from the multipurpose room at the Student Union of State University of New York, Potsdam, on April 21, 1991. Enjoy the show! Read more about A very happy Earth Day, 1991: Free Phish show at SUNY Potsdam! 1 comment Add new comment
Spike your teacup! Phish rocks London - 2/13/1997 Thu, 04/05/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha My favorite thing about this show is, well, actually there are three favorites... First, the band covers Love Me, an old Elvis song that Phish has played less than 10 times. I swear, they do it as good as The King of Rock himself in their own adorable way. Second, there's a beautiful 9-minute jam between Punch You In The Eye and Slave to the Traffic Light, featuring licks from one of the most epic Yes songs ever (the second-grandest band in the history of music), Close to the Edge. I'm listening to that Yes song right now. In fact, if anyone from Phish is reading this, I hope you will seriously consider my humble vote in favor of selecting Close To The Edge (the album) as your next Halloween costume. It would rock the roof off the schoolhouse. I digress. Third favorite thing: This show marks the debut of a phan favorite, My Soul. Even this very first episode, Phish-style, of the blue-sy rock song by Clifton Chenier (1957) blows up into a serious dance party. Read more about Spike your teacup! Phish rocks London - 2/13/1997 1 comment Add new comment