Catch of the Week Vol. 4: June 1995

Summer 1995 could very well be my (easo91) absolute favorite tour in all of Phish's 35 years of touring. Every night seems to have atleast one stand out moment, the band played with a ferocity that followed into the winter months that surpassed even '94s intensity. It was the final year of face-melting phish, the culmination of their entire first 12 years before transitioning into the also spectacular cow funk. (96 was an odd transition year). I might have a personal bias though, since 95 tapes were the first I came across in my early listening and I came to know them well.

An obscene number of jams pushed beyond the 20 minute mark in June of '95, Bowie and Mike's had multiple excellent renditions through the tour, Saratoga broke free into an entirely new monster, Tweezer took up nearly the entirety of a set twice this summer. Something was in the water, and it comes through in the playing. Shows on a whole are far easier to listen through start to finish, the playing was frantic, but also precise, I don't think Trey played a wrong note between 1991 and 1997. 

Picking just four (this case pushing five) hours for tonight was difficult, practically impossible. Too much will be left unplayed, but I guess that just means we'll have to revisit summer '95 again (God forbid, without going through the Summer of '89). What's here tonight is 4 hours of massive summer jams steeped in frantic psychedelia. A 30 minute Runaway Jim, a grimey Mike's, a truly explorative Bowie, enjoy!

Catch of the Week Vol. 4: June 1995

01. Don't You Want To Go?, 06/08/95, Salt Lake City, UT

02. Divided Sky, 06/17/95, Gainesville, VA

03. Runaway Jim -> Free, 06/16/95, Raleigh, NC

04. Stash -> I Didn't Know, 06/15/1995, Atlanta, GA

05. Reba, 06/13/95, Maryland Heights, MO

06. Also Sprach Zarathustra -> Halley's Comet > David Bowie, 06/24/95, Philadelphia, PA

Break

07. Mike's Song -> Contact > Weekapaug Groove, 06/20/95, Cuyahoga Falls, OH

08. You Enjoy Myself, 06/29/95, Wamtagh. NY

09. Theme From the Bottom -> Tweezer > Tweezer Reprise, 06/22/95, Canandaigua, NY

10. Harry Hood, 06/17/95, Gainesville, VA

Every episode can be found in FLAC below:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t7v6rPgehvSJ3t0PG-KtJNKSpOPve40d

Also check out our discord while we build it up leading into tour:

https://discord.gg/abhkRh

Catch of the Week Vol. 3 Recap: Early 99 pt. 2

4 hours just wasn't enough to cover all that pre-Oswego had to offer, and so last week we came back with a part 2 of early 99. I still don't feel like I covered everything...Oh well, we'll have to leave those for table scraps!

Catch of the Week Vol. 3

01. Tube > Funky Bitch. 07/03/99, Atlanta, GA

02. Halley's Comet -> Roses Are Free ->NO2, 07/13/99, Mansfield, MA

03. Chalkdust Torture -> Roggae, 07/10/99, Camden, NJ

04. Theme From the Bottom, 07/15/99, Holmden, NJ

05. Bathtub Gin, 07/10/99, Camden, NJ

06. Reba, 07/13/99, Mansfield, MA

07. David Bowie, 07/04/99, Atlanta, GA

08. Also Sprach Zarathustra, 07/07/99, Charlotte, NC

09. Down With Disease, 07/01/99, Antioch, TN

10. Birds of a Feather, 07/10/99, Camden, NJ

11. The Squirming Coil -> Free, 06/30/99, Bonner Springs, KS

12. Mike's Song -> Twist -> Weekapaug Groove, 07/09/99, Columbia, MD

I forget where I marked the break!

Every episode can be found in FLAC below:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t7v6rPgehvSJ3t0PG-KtJNKSpOPve40d

Stay tuned for Vol. 4 starting Tonight around 7:30 EST.

Also check out our discord while we build it up leading into tour:

https://discord.gg/jpfsQ5

Catch of the Week Vol 2.: Early 1999 Pt. 1

99 has a lot of great material to sift through, so much so that we needed to dedicate 2 weeks just to the shows leading up to the first festival of the year, Oswego. Here's the tracklist for week one of the Early '99 recap.

1. Simple > Harry Hood, 12/31/98 (After Midnight) New York, NY
2. Bathtub Gin, 06/30/99, Bonner Springs, KS
3. Ya Mar, 07/04/99, Atlanta, GA
4. Down With Disease, 07/12/99, Mansfield, MA
5. Ghost, 07/15/99, Holmden, NJ
6. Fee,  07/08/99, Virginia Beach, VA
7. Taste, 07/03/99. Atlanta, GA

Break

8. Wolfman's Brother, 07/13/99, Mansfield, MA
9. Birds of a Feather. 07/08/99, Virginia Beach, VA
10. Tweezer, 07/10/99, Camden, NJ
11. David Bowie, 07/12/99, Mansfield, MA
12. Split Open and Melt ->Kung -> Jam, 07/15/99 Holmden, NJ

Every episode can be found in FLAC below:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t7v6rPgehvSJ3t0PG-KtJNKSpOPve40d

Stay tuned for Vol.5 starting around 7:30 EST Monday, June 25, 2018.

Also check out our discord while we build it up leading into tour:
https://discord.gg/tgzh6y

Catch of the Week Vol. 1 Recap

Every Monday on WFAM features a new broadcast of Catch of the Week; the one time we take away from broadcasting full shows to get right to the point, cut out all the filler and enjoy 4 hours of prime phish cuts. The inaugural Vol. 1 was a bit scattered in it's organization, but that's the nature of pilots.

Vol. 4 is scheduled for 7:30 pm EST on Monday 6/25. In the mean time, here's a break down of Vol. 1 and a linked to all the archived broadcasts in glorious FLAC.

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1t7v6rPgehvSJ3t0PG-KtJNKSpOPve40d

Catch of the Week Vol. 1: The Pilot

Buried Alive -> If You Need a Fool, 7/29/1998, Maryland Heights, MO
Wilson > Run Like an Antelope, 5/20/1987, Shelburne, VT
Halley's Comet -> Whipping Post, 10/29/1988, Plainfield, VT
Chalkdust Torture, 07/09/2014, Philadelphia, PA
It's Ice > The Wedge, 08/20/1993, Morrison, CO
The Ballad of Curtis Loew, 06/05/1990, Chapel Hill, NC
Gotta Jobboo, 02/20/2003, Rosemont, IL
Possum > The Vibration of Life > Possum, 12/06/1992, Chicago, IL

Break

Mike's Song, 06/25/1995, Philadelphia, PA
Tweezer, 09/09/1999, British Columbia, Canada
Ghost > Wolfman's Brother, 07/30/2009, Morrison, CO
Demand > David Bowie, 04/24/1994, Charlotte, NC
Rock and Roll, 07/12/2013, Wantagh, NY
Scent of a Mule -> Delay Loop Jam ->Scent of a Mule, 08/17/1997, Limestone, ME
Tweezer Reprise, 09/09/1999, British Columbia, Canada
Weekapaug Groove, 06/25/1995, Philadelphia, PA

We'll be catching up with the rest of the Vols. and staying up to date here in the future.

Also don't forget to check out our discord in the run up to tour, we're trying to get a chat going that won't be flooded with a few hundred people as couch tour gets under way.

https://discord.gg/q8uD7r

Avoid the Chaos of Summer Couch Tour Chat

Last year when we were barely a blip on Mixlr, we were still regularly getting 100+ listeners in the chat during 2017 recaps, and while we're thrilled that we've grown over the last year, chats can get almost impossible to follow when there are that many people in one single chat stream. (Recent JRAD and Dead and Co. streams have more than one post per second). In the run up to tour, we're trying to set up a space for regulars to hang and chat while also tuning in. We aren't abandoning mixlr or the mixlr chat, but this discord channel gives us a chance to keep the pace of conversation manageable for the people who've joined and gotten used to our quiet corner of the web while we can still provide a landing pad for newcomers to FAM land.

So if you find the summer months have turned the chat into a chaotic mess, give the link below a try:

https://discord.gg/QFu4y3

Note: These links are only active for 24 hours, we're still trying to figure out how to vet people without being exclusionary, it's gonna be a balance I'm sure we don't nail right out of the gate, but we're airing on the side of controlling to start. If the invite's expired, shoot an email to the address below, and we'll get you set up.

WFAM.AF@gmail.com

Intrinsic Fun but Meaningful

Psychedelics are intrinsically fun.   


      that is is its just fun to be high on them.   

      but it's interesting how they always stimulate the bran to new thoughts   

      crazy thoughts   

      thoughts you can't recall   

      great thoughts   

      I've always wondered about the efficacy of those thoughts that were recallled.   

      did they make a difference   

      If those thoughts are ever applied

Joy Daily Companion

  are you surrounded by love   

      encased in love   

      bursting with love   

      or at least joy   

      is joy your daily companion   

Pretending my thoughts matter

Me:    hey Fam chatter

        
Fam Chatter :

      Hi    


Me:
      how are you   


      Are you feeling deep and contemplative or just craving a phish fix   









oh she left   


      ran like the wind   

      I got too personal with my question   

      not everyone wants to to be fam   

      they just want to consume a service   

      and there's nothing wrong with that it's a choice   

      I'm glad I didnt make that choice   

      it's funny because when it was just the early mixlr crew I was really paranoid   

      I had never really focused on the .net ethos that people meet each other.   


      I had always treate the internet as it's own thing. What happened there stayed there.   


      Never belived that it could actually have the real world effect of making friendships.   

      So it scared me a little at first. People wanted to exchange cell phone numbers and plan meetings   

      And how really good to each other everyone was.   

      I started opening up to them.   

      I trusted them enough.   

      and I didn't get burned   


      So I did finally meet some real life mixlr crew... I guess we were fammers too by then.   


      I got very sick and they helped me.   

      such genrosity and kndness floored me.   

      I'n my life. only family and strangers have helped me at times I needed it.   

      So this group of people I'd just met doing so much was amazing.   

      It gave me a little hope.


  

      And they seemed to like both personalities.   

      I'm tremendously shy in preson.   

      but online I can be kind of a nut job.   

      Interestingly both personalities are not interesting to most people.   


      so It's not like I invetnted a way to be online that would make me more desireable   

      acceptances by big groups is not my destiny.   

      It hurts. I wish I were the type that reached more people.  

      but that would not be me   


      and who knows what I would lose in the process.   


      The trick it seems if you are a freak in life is to find your own way and survive.   

      Survive has been my mantra for many tough times.   

      it's almost the categorical imperative in darwin.   

      And from a spiritual perspective I'm here to do or be something.   

      I'm a little scared of dying because I've done some bad things   

      but mostly I am excited about dying when the time is right   

      my body will reject me like all the friends I never got to know in high school   


      I watched my mother die very slowly to cancer. And from that I got confirmation that       you are not your body really   


      something about us is eternal   

      I think believing that is very helpful.   

      we're not even just our brain. our spirit has emergent properties   


      If you can really dig this kind of music (unusual playlist for wfam) it takes you        places like a long phish jam. And that journey can clarify things too.   


      Well I have expressed many things   

      some of them quite vulnerable   

      but I want to live an open life   

      I can handle any trolls fucking with me   

      I expect no one will really read it   

      and that's okay   


      so I guess this show was just an exercise for me to write a little essay about me.   


      that's a waste of resources  

This Jam

This jam has teeth

And claws

Collaborator

OMG BYRNE'S TOURING WITH A GORILLAZ COLLABORATOR THAT SEALS IT

Junk

like, that i photobomb cat pics with my junk

Winds

Something about winds.

Don't

Don’t meh me

Liver

my liver thinks i'm a dick

We win!!!

https://www.last.fm/music/Phish/+listeners

We're the #1 phish listener overall on last.fm. 

Hamstring

I pulled a hamstring

From dancing to fam

Without stretching

Damn the stretch shamers

I got it by David Bowie

they had me at ub40

Chili

Im having chili

And cornbread

Cause life is joy

WFAM has skills

Wfam has weird ass psychic abilities

It plays the perfect show at perfect moments

Beware its power

Now

Phish is back on the stream for those of you just chatting

Bed

I’m not going to bed

It’s soam

They walked away

They walked away. Now I don't need to worry about this situation anymore hooray

Amswered Questions

after a second it's gone
a second second brings a chance for redemption
but then it's feathers in the dawn

alice laid her hand down on the pillow
I looked from a distance for a very long time


the whole web of lines could say more
but since there would be specific questions
I bent and looked closely
troubled childbirth
long life out living many lovers
too much strife
not enough laughter

but I can't tell her that so bluntly
so I take out a smoke and skip away
"Jam On Sister Girl"

Baked Fish

Jeff was baking a fish thunder crashed and a boat slid into the kitchen thru the window linda was gasping for air and stood up with a firarm taking out the sopha

Spooky

I had to sneak outside quick and somehow turning on music made it feel less spooky.

Missed Connections

I was hoping I might find you in the mixlr room to chat it up a bit, but alas you weren't there.

By Now

Haha I thought by now you’d know that I wouldn’t find keeping touch creepy!

Waste

All I know is I whispered the lyrics of Waste into my moms ears while it was going on as I wanted her to know what the lyrics were

Your Pitch

your pitch was strong and well reasoned and designed perfectly to ensnare me. color me intrigued. i will consider your offer. i have felt very busy lately and not willing to take anything new on. i will get back to you on this subject

Job of Jobs

so now I guess I'm learning how to replace parts of a laptop assembly as opposed to buying a new machine outright

I wish there were still places for artisans

I like tackling problems I have no idea how to solve when first approached

 

what I'm trying to get at, is I wish there was a way to get people coming to me asking to fix their PC hardware, without having to specifically own an electronics repair shop

 

repeat for cooking, stone facing, creative writing, etc

                                                                                                   I want a job of jobs

make sense?

So much love

Just too much love means

making up things to break your heart

Holding out

Even holding out for a long time feels good.

Holding out?

Yeah like clasping your hands outstretched above your head.

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