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

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