"We Are the Champions" reprise is on the table
In which we examine the likelihood of Phish reprising Queen for the Blues, and GOTF on Phish tour.
Hello and welcome to another edition of Jam Sandwich. It’s Tuesday, June 4th.
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Lights
🏆We Are the Champions redux
Phish will be playing in St. Louis the same night St. Louis would be playing the Boston Bruins in a Game 7 for the Stanley Cup, if it comes to that.
This means “We Are the Champions” is on the table. Right?
It probably wouldn’t be as magical as San Fransisco’s hair-raising tease (Moma > Champions > Moma) — which happened the moment the Giants won the World Series — because the game is away. But still!
Alternate scenario is a “Loser” debut. Trey may still know the material from Fare Thee Well.
👻 😔Are Ghosts of the Forest songs too sad for Phish?
We all know Trey’s Ghosts of the Forests songs are beautiful. And lord knows a few of them in Phish’s hands this summer will rip.
But some folks on Twitter were debating the other day whether they’re just too damn sad to break out in the midst of an otherwise joyful set.
Phish isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. We’ve had “Miss You” for a while now, and it means a lot to a lot of people for a lot of their own reasons. Plus the whole damn Phish experience is an emotional rollercoaster! Always has been.
But GOTF is a whole album of mournful material written so explicitly for and about a dying friend. It’s unquestionably about one’s mortality and what comes after. Is that too heavy?
Can they go Reba > In Long Lines > Wombat?
Can you?
🎸 New Trey acoustic dates
Trey Anastasio, the hermit guitarist so rarely seen outside of his Upper West Side prepper-bunker, has announced new solo acoustic shows mostly in the Midwest taking place the second half of October in the lead up to Carnegie Hall. This batch starts in Geneva, NY, and concludes at the historic Ryman in Nashville, TN, which will be special.
How to get tickets: A real-time presale begins Wednesday, June 5 at 12pm ET here. General on-sale is Fri, June 7 at 10am ET, for whatever’s left.
The tour:
- Oct 15 Geneva, NY – Smith Opera House
- Oct 16 Dayton, OH – Victoria Theatre
- Oct 18 Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
- Oct 19 Minneapolis, MN – State Theatre
- Oct 21 Eau Claire, WI – The Pablo Center at the Confluence
- Oct 23 Canton, OH – Palace Theatre
- Oct 25 Ann Arbor, MI – Michigan Theater
- Oct 26 Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
- Oct 27 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
✍🏼 David Welker print drop
David Welker, the fantastic artist known best by Phish fans for creating Rift’s art, as well as a bunch of show posters including Reading, the Baker’s Dozen, a couple NYE runs, and GOTF, will release a few remaining prints from his real-time gallery opening on Wednesday, June 5th, at 12 pm ET in his online shop.
(Yes, competing with Trey.)
If you’re going for any and it’s your first rodeo, I wish you good luck. They’ll go fast and you’ll have about 15 seconds to cart and checkout. The best pro tip I can offer you is log in ahead of time and save your credit card and shipping address in Chrome’s auto fill. Then it’s up to the gods.
👀 Fish out of water
Our guy was spotted making someone’s day out in Ridgewood, Queens, earlier this week.
Tweeter Reprise
The Shakedown
Grateful Dads: Rock and Roll Playhouse is putting on kid-friendly Grateful Dead shows all across the country for Father’s Day.
Boxed out: Merriweather Post Pavilion has new corporate suites that sure look like they make the lawn worse than SPAC. That’s a bummer. Make Lawns Great Again.
The Slip, which has been on hiatus since 2012 (minus one show in 2015), reunited in San Francisco last night to celebrate Jambase’s 20th anniversary. There be videos. [Related: Here’s a massive Dropbox full of audience recordings from their live shows, via PT]
BFFs: This is a nice photo of Trey and Jennifer.
That’s all for now, thanks for reading. If you’ve gotten a couple of these now I would love to hear what you think! What do you want more of? Less of? Holler. - @moneyries
