Big Cypress, Couch Tour, Jim Pollock — This "Long May They Run" podcast promises a major 10-episode dive into Phish world

It’s no secret we’re very blessed in Phish world with all the great podcast offerings out there on the market: Under the Scales, Beyond The Pond, Helping Friendly Podcast, Analyze Phish, Tweezer Tonight, and on and on and on.

Well, there’s a newcomer coming tomorrow, and we’re losing our minds with excitement because it’s promising something different and entirely new: Long May They Run, which promises to be an in-depth, documentary-style look at Phish’s unique musical journey.

Here’s the trailer. It’s great — Trey finally realizes we’re all in a cult.

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Hosted by Dean Budnick (The guy who’s not Trey in the photo above — he’s Editor-in-Chief of Relix Magazine) Long May They Run is pitched as “a groundbreaking music documentary series about iconic touring bands who have a lasting impact on music culture, the industry, music streaming, touring, their fans and beyond.”

You’ll be able to stream it and subscribe right here starting sometime tomorrow, Sept. 18, 2019.

“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to share these stories in this format. Phish is such an innovative band and many of the group’s pioneering endeavors have been overlooked or nearly lost to history.” - Dean

The podcast’s entire first season — all 10 episodes — will be about Phish.

Long May They Run, Season One: Phish—which features new interviews with band members and the music of Phish—will explore how Phish revolutionized the music industry, shedding light on all of the areas that the band has helped to pioneer, from self-produced multi-day music festivals that created a blueprint for events like Bonnaroo to ticketing initiatives that disrupted the status quo to unprecedented streaming ventures.

The series will also explore the Phish’s unique relationship with its devoted audience, its lasting impact on the concert industry and the many trails they blazed. With more than seventy-five interviews—including the voices of band members—Long May They Run, Season One: Phish will give listeners a rich and textured portrait of a band who pioneered an entire industry on many impactful and important levels, on their own terms.

I’m told the first two episodes will focus on the band’s iconic festivals — The Clifford Ball and Big Cypress — as well as their impact on the wider music industry (Bonnaroo, for example).

Here’s the logo:

Other topics to expect (note: this comes to me via press release):

• The personal and professional legacy of former Paradigm head of music Chip Hooper, the renowned booking agent who helped Phish secure its independence through the deals he masterminded with Ticketmaster and venues around the country
• The band’s pioneering efforts in cyberspace, which has resulted in the creation of an environment where fans can now congregate and travel show to show via “Couch Tour”
• The art of Phish, from their Jim Pollock-designed poster, tickets, and merchandise to fan art; why the band carries on the tradition started by the Grateful Dead of allowing tapers at their shows
• The band’s activism through its Waterwheel Foundation and beyond
• Phish’s famed Halloween shows, at which they don a “musical costume” and perform another artist’s album in its entirety
• Phish’s ethos of taking the music but not themselves seriously, and the many gags the band is known for, from their annual stunts at their legendary New Year’s Eve shows at Madison Square Garden to the trampoline they bring on stage to the vacuum played by drummer Jon Fishman
• References to Phish in pop culture including The Simpsons, The Office and Parks and Rec
• The early days of the band in Vermont

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Later,

Brian