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. 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