They built this city
"After Midnight," a podcast that chronicles Phish's Big Cypress festival, is upon us
It’s a heady time for Phish podcasts, that’s for damn sure.
The stellar “Long May They Run” just wrapped its final episode and now a new player has entered the battle.
Along comes Osiris’s “After Midnight.”
Hosted and narrated by the legendary Jesse Jarnow, the narrative podcast aims to tell the 20-year-old story of Phish’s Big Cypress millennium festival.
The first episode will debut sometime tomorrow. It’ll pop up here.
I was lucky enough to hear a preview of the first episode and I’m stoked to say the storytelling here is sharp — it’s made for #realfans. Sure, you can send this one to the folks to say, “SEE!", but this one’s for us.
So says Osirus:
This series will explore how Phish invented their own musical language, built an independent concert industry, and how both came together in the Florida Everglades for a performance that landed a 15-foot-long hot dog with headlights in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Episode 1 highlights:
“I just always was very proud of the fact that we never had any sponsors or never allowed any corporate interests to align with our brand to try to leverage the special mojo we had with our audience for their own purposes. It was too sacred and special to ever allow any corporate interests to participate in that.” — John Paluska, former manager, Phish
“The idea was to play in the continental United States outside all night until the sun comes up. It's the year 2000. Y2K was supposed to happen at the time. All the computers will be off. The world will come to an end. But we will all be together. Having pulled an all nighter. Planes will have fallen out of the sky. You won't be able to get your money out of the bank. Remember? People actually thought that.” — Trey Anastasio, guitarist, Phish
“When Big Cypress came up it was like, oh my God. This is our opportunity to [play] outdoors, on New Year's Eve. We'll go from whenever the last set starts till sunrise—you know we were gonna go from dusk to daylight.” — Jon Fishman, drummer, Phish
In the meantime, relive it:
Yours truly,
