"Phish's Chicago Adventure: Unpacking the Three-Night Run"
Larry Mishkin talks about his experience at a recent Phish concert in Chicago. He mentions the uniqueness of this Phish show and focuses on their cover songs, specifically mentioning their cover of Talking Heads' "Remain in Light" album and the way Phish adds their signature jamming style to it. Larry also discusses a rare cover of Neil Young's "Albuquerque" and the joy of seeing a band like Phish covering classics. He mentions the fan culture at Phish concerts, including the prevalence of nitrous oxide vendors in the parking lot. He shares his experience over three nights of the concert and highlights the setlist from each night. Larry also talks about Phish covering Little Feat's "Spanish Moon" and its significance, given that it's a rarely played song by Phish.
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Phish Weekend in Chicago
October 13 – 15, 2023
United Center
Today is the Phish covers which were spectacular
Play amazing covers by incredible artists – sometimes they dig deep into the other performer’s catalogue to pull out rarities. Other times they cover the hits. This weekend featured some great examples.
INTRO: Cross Eyed and Painless
Phish Cross Eyed and Painless 2023 10 13 Chicago Illinois - YouTube
2:00 – 3:40
October 13, 2023, Second set, out of Tweezer and into Light.
Who doesn’t love a cover of a Talking Heads tune, ANY Talking Heads tune. But this one is special. Second song on Remain In Light, one of the greatest albums of all time. Released on October 8, 1980 by Sire Records, the band’s fourth album. Last Heads album produced by Brian Eno.
Phish debuted the tune on October 31, 1996 at the Phish Halloween show at the Omni in Atlanta, GA, covered Remain In Light as their Musical Costume
Played 62 times overall
They really jam it out in a way the Talking Heads did not.
Always well received and this show was no different
Last played on August 4, 2023 at MSG, 7 shows ago
SHOW #1 Albuquerque
:50 – 2:18
October 13, 2023, First set, out of a killer Ghost and into Saw It Again.
Beautiful Neil Young tune from Tonight’s The Night released in 1975
Phish first played this song on July 26, 1998 at the Starplex Amphitheatre in Dallas, TX.
Played a total of 17 times
Last played on June 11, 2011 at Merriweather Post Pavillion outside of D.C., gap of 457 shows
SHOW #2: Spanish Moon
:50 – 2:05
October 15, 2023, Second set out of Pebbles and Marbles and into A Wave of Hope
Little Feat cover, one of their most popular tunes.
From the album, Feats Don’t Fail Me Now, released in 1974
Phish debuted it live on October 31, 2010 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City when Phish’s musical costume was Waiting For Columbus, the famed Little Feat live album.
Phish has performed it live only 3 times
Last before this show was on February 21, 2019 at Barcelo Maya Beach, Riviera Maya, Qunitana Roo, Mexico, gap of 170 shows
SHOW #3: No Quarter
1:53 – 3:25
October 14, 2023, Second Set, out of Everything’s Right, into Fluffhead
"No Quarter" is a song by Led Zeppelin that appears on their 1973 album Houses of the Holy. It was written by John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant. The song became a centerpiece at all Led Zeppelin concerts thereafter, until their final tour. It appears in both the film versions and both live album versions of The Song Remains the Same, released in 1976 and expanded in 2007. It appeared once more in 1994 on Page and Plant's reunion album as the title track. It also appears on Led Zeppelin's 2012 live album Celebration Day, which documented their 2007 reunion performance at the O2 Arena in London. It was re-released on the deluxe edition of Houses of the Holy.
The title is derived from the military practice of showing no mercy to a vanquished opponent and from the brave act of not asking for mercy when vanquished. This theme is captured in several of the song's lyrics. Like "Immigrant Song" two albums prior, it evokes imagery from the Vikings and Norse mythology, with lyrics such as “the winds of Thor are blowing cold.”
Record producer Rick Rubin remarked on the song's structure, "It takes such confidence to be able to get really quiet and loose for such a long time. [Led] Zeppelin completely changed how we look at what popular music can be."
Phish debuted the song on June 1, 2011 at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ
Phish has performed the song 19 times
Last before this show was on April 23, 2023 at the Hollywood Bowl, gap of 32 shows
SHOW #4 Izabella
:35 – 1:14
October 13, 2023, Encore
Written by Jimi Hendrix, released on Band of Gypsys, released April 8, 1970
Phish debuted the song on June 13, 1997 at The S.F.X. Centre in Dublin, Ireland
Phish has performed the Song 17 times
Last before this show July 30, 2023 at MSG in NYC, gap of 15 shows
OUTRO: Loving Cup
Phish Remastered - 10 - 15 - 2023 - United Center, Chicago, Illinois - YouTube
2:34:50 – 2:36:23
October 15, 2023, Second set, out of Evolve, set closer.
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, released on Exile on Main Street (1971)
Phish debuted the song on February 3, 1993 at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine
Interesting because they did eventually cover Exile On Main Street as a Halloween musical costume on October 31, 2009 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, part of Phish Festival 8.
Clearly one of their favorite covers, and a crowd pleaser, played 148 times.
Last played before this show on August 5, 2023 at MSG, gap of 13 shows
Larry (00:38.914)
Hello everyone, this is Larry Mishkin of the Deadhead Cannabis Show. Welcome to another episode of our show today. I'm coming to you live from lovely Northfield, Illinois. Today is October 23rd, 2023. And 10 days ago at the United Center in Chicago, this happened.
Larry (02:21.834)
No, you don't have to check your dial. This is the Deadhead Cannabis Show, but that was Phish. And today we're talking about Phish. Phish just closed up a great weekend run in Chicago. Actually, by the time you hear this, it'll be two weekends ago. Not this weekend that just passed, but the weekend before, October 13th through the 15th. First time they ever played the United Center in Chicago. And I managed to get there all three nights. It was wonderful. My brother, Steven, from St. Louis came up and joined me. Local buddy of my son, Kevin, was there.
uh... my good buddy j t showed up one night my son johnny was there my wife judy made it one night a real family affair for the michigans when fish makes it to chicago uh... and i was so impressed by the shows and we'll talk about the shows themselves too but today i just wanted to uh... specifically focus on uh... the covers played by fish this uh... at this three-night run uh... and fish you know famously has uh... had to live with people often referring to them
as a cover band most famously or infamously right before the donut run, the Baker's Dozen in Madison Square Garden in August of 2017. And there's a little neck-to-neck competition between Fish and Billy Joel for who played the most shows in Madison Square Garden. They had both passed the Grateful Dead by that point. And Billy Joel made some comments along the lines of, well, what is, you know, Fish, they're just a cover band.
And so they took it to heart and they played 13 shows without duplicating a song throughout the entire run, which was...
pretty amazing but nonetheless they do happen to be a wonderful cover band when they choose to cover other bands music we spent a lot of time talking about tunes of the Grateful Dead cover and all the various artists out there whose music they've played and you know it's good to do it with Fish too because Fish just reaches out everywhere and they just go in so many different directions we talked about them playing Golden Age a song by TV on the radio and you know stuff like that but
Larry (04:25.734)
These shows, it just was really, really special. They tend to cover really incredible artists, as you'll see from some of the selections we're gonna get into today. Other times they will dig deep into a performer's catalog to pull out a particular song or a rarity. And then other times like this, they cover the hits. And really, who doesn't love a great talking heads tune, any talking heads tune really, but this one is special. It's the second song on Remain in Light, one of the greatest albums of all time, in my opinion.
which was released back in October of 1980 by Sire Records, the Talking Heads fourth album, the Last Heads album produced by the legendary Brian Eno. Fish debuted the tune on October 31st, 1996 at the Fish Halloween show at the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia where they covered Remain in Light as their musical costumate. Fish tradition were on Halloween. They won't just cover a tune or two. They will actually pick an entire album.
uh... typically a classical album of rock and roll and cover the entire album although in later years they've uh... kind of resorted to much more creative things on halloween such as uh... when you're going as a uh... it was a swedish rock band or an islandic rock band i don't know exactly which and they actually wrote uh...
They put together an entire album that was supposed to be the band's album that they were coming and playing on stage there and everything. So they do fun things like that, but you know there's no replacing classics like Remain in Light when they covered that on Halloween on October 31st, 1996. And so that was the first time that they played this tune. Since then they've now played it, including the show I just saw, a total of 62 times.
And what they bring to it that's different is, and I don't want talking heads fans to take this the wrong way, I'm a huge talking heads fan, is that they really jam it out in a way that the talking heads didn't, right? The talking heads had a very specific type of sound, and within that sound they were very creative and they did a lot of things, but they didn't really take the tunes and stretch them out the way Fish does or the way Grateful Dead does or the way...
Larry (06:33.662)
bands like Goose or other classical jam bands do. And that's always one of the nice things, right? I mean, the dead would take a three minute Dylan tune and turn it into a 10 minute Dylan tune that they were covering. And Fish tends to do the same thing, not necessarily because they play it slower, but because they do jam it out. And when I tell you that this, the entire show on the 13th was just an absolutely tremendous show. And one of the reasons why I'm doing the covers that they played is because there's just no way to get to.
all the other songs they played, but they just had one huge jam after another opening with Karini and then a big rift and then a nice Haley's Common and then a ghost really you know for the ages. Now I'm not a big fish, as big a fish fan in terms of the number of shows that I've seen so you have to take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I thought it was an absolutely amazing ghost with a tremendous jam in it and this is confirmed by Matthew's good buddy Kevin who was at the shows and he was there with his brother-in-law Aaron a couple of nights.
We all drove back and forth together and had a chance to talk about all of this. And you know, those guys have seen them a hundred and 150 plus times. So I like to kind of, you know, see if I can stand up with them in a, in a conversation about all things fish. But, uh, the second set was no different. They opened with sand, which was great. Uh, a, a tremendous tweezer, a cross-eyed and painless. Then of course.
Light Mountains in the Mist, Golgi Apparatus, Harry Hood, and to Talk, which I didn't even know was a fish tune. It turns out they haven't played it since 2011. So somehow I lucked my way into a real rarity there and great encores. And the show on the 13th was just fantastic. This was one of the reasons why. And it was very, very well received at this show. And God bless the talking heads. They are such a...
such a force in the world of rock and roll music. And I think they're, if I'm not mistaken, maybe they're going to be, or maybe by the time you heard this, they've been on Stephen Colbert, all four of them together, Chris Franz and Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth, along with David Byrne, maybe for the first time in 20 or 30 years, all sitting down for an interview with him, because I believe...
Larry (08:44.954)
stop making sense maybe as 40 or 45 years. I don't know. I can't. I don't know exactly why, but at any rate, they're a band that if they decided they were going to play again today, it would be impossible to get tickets to go see. And you can't just cover the talking heads. You really have to play it well. And Fish does a tremendous job with it. And they did that night. And it's the second time actually I've seen Fish play this. I saw him do it at Alpine Valley in
Larry (09:13.374)
So I kind of consider myself lucky in that regard, right? They've only played it a total of 62 times and apparently recently they just hit their 2000th show and they're now past that. So, but I'll hear it anytime they wanna play it because it's a great song and they really play it well. In fact, my good buddy, Kerry was there as well. Kerry had seen Fish in the 1990s and then not seen them again until...
the first two of these shows just recently in Chicago. And after that first night, he loved it so much, he came back the second night, not quite enough to come back the third night maybe, but he was definitely there and he's a huge, he's part of a group of guys, this whole Detroit group of guys that are big rockers that we all went to Michigan with, who are huge, huge talking heads fans.
And those were the guys who really got me into that band for the first time. And Kerry was blown away by it. And so everybody was, it was great to hear, it was a lot of fun. And in Fish Parlins, it wasn't very much of a rarity because they had just played at seven shows prior on August 4th, 2023 at Madison Square Garden. And for those keeping score at home, they did play it in the second set out of tweezer and into light. So I love when you go on the fish.
song list pages. They give you all of this information. When was the first time they played it? When was the most recent time they played it before this? What set was it in? What song did it come out of? What song did it go into? And you know, you can be, if you're a deadhead nerd, you can be a fish nerd really easily too and dive right back into this kind of stuff. So that's really a lot of fun. Now the next clip we're going to play is amazing because A, it's an amazing song and B, it's amazing to me that Fish would even cover it at all and C, they hadn't covered it in so long.
that it was absolutely amazing. It's a Neil Young tune, and let's listen to how this went down also on October 13th.
Dan Humiston (11:13.06)
Larry, can you switch your headphones to the other side?
Larry (12:34.094)
Albuquerque is a great tune. It's a Neil Young tune. It was released on Neil's album Tonight's the Night in 1975. And I was a little blown away when they started playing it. I turned to the young fish dude standing next to me who was doing his fish dance a mile a minute and said, hey man, but is this? He said, yeah, that's Albuquerque. And here's the thing, you know.
Larry (13:04.854)
I would say you have to be a pretty devoted Neil Young fan, you know, and really know all of his albums really well and all of his material, you know, to immediately hear that song and know what it is. And I don't mean that, you know, say that some people are more versed in Neil Young, although certainly some people are. But
you know, I knew enough to know it was Neil Young and I was pretty sure that that's what it was and young Fish dude knew because Fish plays it so uh... you know that's one of those cool things and um... talked again my buddy Rob was there the first night and uh... you know, carry with those guys I mean these are hardcore rockin' guys who go to see as many shows as they can get their hands on it everybody was just blown away by this tune it's a uh... song that sees Neil Young returning to a theme that has filled his music uh... from very early on
the vapidity of fame. It's something he seems to struggle with even more than most other musicians, or at least it's something he's chosen to sing about more often than most. It may in fact be the most common theme of all of his music besides obvious stuff like, you know, heartbreak and love and overdoses. And Albuquerque Young is thinking about running a car and driving from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Santa Fe, just to be alone and independent from the scene. He never tells us why he's in Albuquerque to begin with, but he does tell us,
that he wants to roll a joint, run a car, and stop to eat some fried eggs and country ham along the way. And I guess the country ham is kind of interesting because country ham is a food popular in the Southeast rather than the Southwest where he's placing the story. It may just be a simple oversight on Neil's part, but it also may reveal another common thread in his music. The escape into rural simplicity is a cure for the craziness and fakeness of modern day life.
I don't mean to sound quite so deep on Neil, but there's a wonderful site on the internet.
Larry (14:58.826)
musical site where if you type in what does such and such a song mean it gives you these great these great answers so I just get enough credit for being able to find it and incorporate it into my presentation here but I thought it sounded pretty darn good and if you heard me read it and not hear the second part then you know you want to think that I'm some deep young guy go right ahead I've got no problem with that. Fish played this song for the first time on July 26 1998 at the Starplex amphitheater in Dallas Texas they have only played this song a total of 17 times
uh... and just to show how rare it is in this instance it was last played on june eleventh twenty eleven at the merry weather post pavilion just outside of washington dc which represented a gap of four hundred and fifty seven shows that is along long time for a song to kind of be put off to the side uh... and they just pulled out and played and not only just played the played really well
You know, it's a slow tune, it's a tune with Neil Young type lyrics, and I think that Trey really nails it. He gets some great backing vocals from the guys, and it just sounds really, really good. It was a real pleasure to hear. It was a first set tune. They played it out of that Killer Ghost I was talking about, and then they went in to saw it again.
But after that, that kind of became the talk of the set break, was how tight they were playing, all the great jamming. And my gosh, they covered Albuquerque and really did a very, very admirable job with it. It was fascinating for me being at a three-show run. I'd been at Alpine Valley, like I say, summer before, summer of 22.
And I've seen so many shows up at Alpine Valley that, you know, seeing those shows up there just kind of felt a little bit of normal and the same.
Larry (16:54.442)
But it was, at the time, my first really multi-day fish experience. And just like with the dead, having a chance to roll into it on day one, really start to get into it on day two, and be totally jamming by day three, only to realize that your time with the band is winding down kind of thing. But at the United Center, being afraid of traffic conditions as they continue to fiddle around on the Kennedy Express Way, which is the major artery for anybody living
to get into downtown Chicago and the United Center is located pretty much in downtown Chicago just west of the loop actually but with all that construction on the highway and a Friday night normal busy Friday night plus all the fish heads on their way to the United Center we were leaving early each night to give ourselves plenty of cushion and of course is what always happens in those same situations is that we didn't run into the traffic we were expecting to run into and wound up getting out there
Uh, with plenty of time to spare. In fact, so much time that the first night, uh, Kevin and, uh, his brother-in-law, Aaron and I made our way over to the shakedown street lot, um, which was just another one of the, uh, United center, uh, reserve parking lots for bulls and Blackhawks games and things like that. Um, and we made it over there and I have to say it was, it was, it was, it was disappointing and it was borderline sad. Um.
there wasn't much to see other than everybody selling Whippets anywhere, balloons being sold everywhere. And just in case anybody's wondering, the current price for Whippets in Chicago is three large balloons for $20. And I've told that that's a bargain because for a while it had been two large balloons for $20. But maybe out of the goodness of their hearts, the Whippet Mafia or the whatever they call themselves these days.
It's so organized and so run, they'll accept payments on Zelle and Venmo, they'll accept credit card or debit card payments, and they're out there selling these balloons like nobody's business. I was never a big Whippet fan. I'm sure I tried them once or twice along the way. Probably the biggest involvement I ever saw them with was, happened to be the night we were at Madison Square Garden in 1983, the night they played St. Stephen.
Larry (19:15.21)
And I had done one a little bit earlier, but hadn't done one still. And some of my buddies, they were doing them during the space. And of course they came out of the space into St. Stephen and, uh, you know, as opposed to some of them, it was a very uplifting experience and for some of them, it might've been, oops, I wish I hadn't done this right before St. Stephen, uh, but we all pretty much stopped one of our buddies after an Alpine Valley show one summer, uh, was walking with us in the parking lot, did a nice big whip and the next thing we knew he was faced down in the dirt and we were like, oops.
uh... that is a problem uh... he swore them off uh... most of the rest of us were them off and it's still fun to see them uh... i guess fun but not like a half funny kinda way fun and kind of an almost an interesting amusing way but not only they still around but they're as hot as they've ever been and it's not just fish or the dead or whatever any show you come out of in the chicagoland area these days i suppose although i didn't ask maybe they didn't have them after the taylor swift shows but uh...
Certainly after just about most other rock concerts around, there is going to be some part of the Whippet Market out there selling this stuff. Just part of the fish scene right now, just like on a smaller scale, it was part of the dead scene way back in the day. Fish heads all come in and everybody gets their stuff ready to go. Some people light up before the lights go out. Some people wait for the lights to go out.
Nobody really seems to mind, you know, that the ushers are right there and the ushers don't really seem to mind So there's a lot of that same dead vibe in terms of you know, when you're in a fish show or a dead show You know, you kind of enter your own little world where the regular rules don't exactly apply and you just have to make sure you understand What the local rules are but the locals made it very clear early on that they didn't care. We parked over in a spot
that I knew because we used to park there all the time for bulls games back in the day when we were going down and seeing Michael do his thing. But we parked over there and it was cheap too. It was only like $25 easy in, easy out. And there was this same woman there all three nights. You know, the first night, you know, she seemed a little old and a little slow. It wasn't quite clear, but she said something about, and there's no tailgating in this parking lot. And when we
Larry (21:33.73)
There was an old guy driving around in a van with a red light in the front window. And it appeared to me that he must be looking to see who was doing what. So we just got up and got out of the car and left and, uh, night two, the same kind of thing, although we did stick around in the car for a few minutes and, and enjoy ourselves a little bit. But when we pulled in for night three and we rolled down the window to pay, she goes, you know, I've been meaning to tell you guys the last two nights, your car has the best smelling marijuana smell of all the cars that come in here. You must be smoking some really good marijuana.
And we said, well, yeah, you know, she goes, okay, well, that's fine. I said, speaking of that, when you say no tailgating, does that mean we're not allowed to, uh, to be smoking in your parking lot? And she said, well, you can't get out of the car and stand around. If you stand around, you're tailgating. But if you're sitting in your car, we don't care what you're doing. So we said, thank you. We all pulled in, sat in the car for 20 minutes, got stoned, and then got out of the car and went, went headed towards the show, but these are the kind of people, you know, hats off to.
the United Center in the city of Chicago for having the right kind of people handling this show as opposed to our friends over at the Salt Shed who gave me such a hard time previously that we've talked about on other shows in the past. So, you know, but I really enjoyed that. I enjoyed, you know, everybody.
is friendly and everybody will, if they see you looking at your cell phone, hey man, don't worry, it's this song or that song and everybody's passing around their joints and everybody's doing all that stuff and a very mellow crowd as we are hanging out during the set break and all of that kind of stuff. So yeah, it was very, very enjoyable. It was very pleasant. You get your money's worth when you see fish. All three nights were...
very, very close to 90 minutes of music. What am I saying? 90 minutes of music per set. And yes, there's a lot of jamming involved with all of that. And yes, they do get out there with it and all of that, but it is what it is and we love it. I understand why my boys are into it. I understand why my wife's cousin, Susie, and her husband are into it so much. I get...
Larry (23:52.23)
all of these people why they like fishing quite frankly uh... my buddy johnny who went with me on uh... sunday night uh... his only his second fish show ever in his first in a while though he's all set to go back and see him again because they do they come out they play they're so tight they're so right on uh... the show on saturday night the fourteenth
They opened with a really strong runaway gym and then they play a song that I confess I know and I'm not a big fan of which is Martian Monster and I just think it's a little too gimmicky it was one of their Halloween science fiction songs once and I just I They do get eventually get into a good jam in it and all of that But it starts off it sounds like you're waiting to get on the space mount You know, it's that same voice get ready. Your adventure is about to begin, you know, and you're like, ah
But they play that, Sample in a Jar, which is always a fun song. One of his favorite songs, my brother Steve, Way, Carina, Not to be Confused with the Grateful Dead's Carina. I believe this is a Taj Mahal's version, but they play it really well. Two, 46 Days, NICU, a tune called Most Events Aren't Planned, and The Cavern, and Into More, which is a very, very fun song and a nice one to jam on at the end with a very
Positive upbeat message to it. Um, and then they came out the second set opening up with chalk dust torture You can never go wrong with that into oblivion Split open and melt in here folks is where I'm gonna say that I step away from Your average fish fan because in the middle of split open and melt There was this jam that was that was dark and ominous and you know really not a lot of fun to be listening to and my wife was there with me on Saturday night and
She likes Fish, she's not the biggest Fish fan, but she enjoys going and there's certain tunes she likes and others she doesn't. And I turned to her with a nodding glance and said, I know, I know if we were in the car you'd make me turn the channel right now on the radio. And she acknowledged that, but they came out of that to What's the Use and our back into Everything's Right. And I love it when they do more and Everything's Right in the same show. Some other tunes that we'll get to in a minute and was just really great and fun all the way around.
Larry (26:03.07)
skipping ahead to Sunday night for a second here, and then we'll go back to a little bit of, a little bit more of Saturday night, but skipping ahead to Sunday night, Fish came out and they played a tune that they do not play very often at all, but they decided this was gonna be the night that they were gonna play it, and covering one of my favorite bands, Little Feet.
Larry (27:44.578)
So Spanish Moon is one of Little Feet's best songs, in my opinion, certainly one of their most popular tunes. It's from the Little Feet album, Feet Don't Fail Me Now, which was released in 1974, which may be my favorite Little Feet album that isn't waiting for Columbus, their live album, which is one of the best live albums out there. But this was great. Loved seeing them cover a band like Little Feet. Loved seeing the fact that this crowd,
uh... i'm going to bet ninety percent of whom were not even born when uh... feedstone family now dropped in nineteen seventy four uh... but just loving it and many of them knowing the words to the songs you know it did it's not just the grateful dead music that survives all of these years but little feet has survived in so many of those bands the music that they made at that time uh... still has such strong followings these days and
It's a wonderful thing to see and it's a wonderful thing to, uh, um, you know, to be able to observe. But it was also very funny. I thought because, um, it was a little, uh, prescient, if I can use that word on the part of fish, uh, because the very next night, uh, Monday, uh, October 17th, little feet in fact was in Chicago playing at the Vic theater on the north side of the city and my buddy, John, who was with me on Sunday night at this show.
uh... was going the next night to see little feet and since this was the end of the fish tour it cause both of us to speculate for a minute on the possibility of uh... tray or maybe one of the other guys or all of them who knows uh... making their way over to the big theater uh... to have an opportunity to jam with little feet uh... i will report uh... that i heard from john that the little feet show was tremendous uh... not quite as strongly attended as the fish show but giving everybody plenty of room to dance and hang out and do what they want to do
Uh, they played all the favorites and there was no appearance by Trey or any of the other fish guys. Um, so, uh, at least we all know that, but it was just so funny. And in fact, my son, Matthew called it. I had talked to him earlier in the day and we were talking about songs they might play and he's the one that remembered that little feet was playing the next night and said, maybe they'll play something from little feet. And I, you know, my thought process was, ah, you know, they, they can't be following everybody else's travel schedule that closely and whether they knew it or not.
Larry (30:07.374)
It doesn't matter because they played it, so Matthew got credit for that one as well. Spanish Moon was written and sung with Little Feet by guitarist Lil George, who was a creative powerhouse and one of the founders of Little Feet. And really, in their early years, it was a band that really revolved around him.
very much so. The other musicians are all amazing, fantastic musicians, and they all play very, very strong roles in the band. But clearly, you know, if you had to pick one guy who was the lead, I think most people would say, lol, George. The song is about a fictional place called the Spanish moon, a seedy club with whiskey and bad cocaine, but a girl singer that made it worth it to go by there. There are many dangers in the Spanish moon, but the ones likely to do...
uh... do you when are the women you really gotta watch out for the women at the uh... at the spanish moon so says uh... so says lol george uh... he was an excellent storyteller he created the spanish moon from his imagination but he lived through the vices he describes in the song in the song especially the cocaine around this time his addictions were starting to overpower him his health started failing he developed hepatitis feedstone family now was the last little feet album where he was clearly the leader
His contributions to the band slowly tailed off in 1979. He released a solo album while on tour supporting it. He died of a heart attack at 34. They had also released Little Feet, an album called Down on the Farm, and Little George sang most of those tunes as well. And that was actually the album that I was introduced to Little Feet on because it got a little bit of FM radio play in St. Louis in 79 and 80 when I was a junior and senior in high school.
And so I bought that album and had bought Feats, Waiting for Columbus, the live album, and really started listening to Little Feat and loved Little George. But just as I'm discovering Little Feat, Little George drops out of a heart attack at 34. No doubt his vice has played a role in that. We've talked about the fact that Little George produced the album Shakedown Street for the Grateful Dead. And we...
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talked about the story that the first time he made it to the Grateful Dead Clubfront studio in the Marin area, the first day he was going there to start working with them on the album, as he walked in, he saw everybody in the place down on the carpeted floor on their hands and knees crawling around with their faces pushed into the carpeting. And when he asked somebody what was going on, they said,
Oh, one of the roadies had just brought out a big, huge tray of cocaine that they were starting to cut up the lines on. And another guy was carrying a piece of equipment and didn't see it and flipped it over and all the cocaine landed in the carpet. And then somebody asked little George, what did you do? Because what do you mean? What did I do? I got down on my hands and knees and started snorting up the cocaine with them. That's what I did. So, you know, this is the kind of guy that little George was, um, you know, the miracle there is that he, he made it seven years past the, the infamous 27 club of, of great rock and rollers.
who died at that ominous age, but he couldn't get much beyond it, and he did die at the age of 34, either 1979 or 1980, I wanna say. But how great was it to see the boys covering Spanish Moon, they, excuse me, they debuted it live on October 31st, 2010, at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, that year for Halloween Fish's musical costume was in fact waiting for Columbus.
as we've said, the famed Little Feet live album. And if you only get one album of Little Feet, it must be waiting for Columbus, although all of them are excellent. So much so that I even have to give a shout out to my buddies at the M Legends Club, who are huge Little Feet fans, and often we'll start the morning by texting over a line from a Little Feet song and seeing who can pick up and play off of it. And what's your three favorite Little Feet tunes? What's your three favorite Little Feet album? You know, on and on and on and...
It's fun and it's all worth it because they were that good. Now here's the thing. Fish has only performed it live three times, including this show that I just saw. So this is not a song that gets a lot of play by fish. And the last time that fish performed it prior to this show was on February 21st, 2019 at the Barcelo Maya beach, uh, hotel, the Riviera Maya in Quintana Roo, Mexico, representing a gap of 170 shows. Um,
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in the show I saw Sunday night the 15th, it was the second set tune, it came out of Pebbles and Marbles and then it went into a wave of hope. But clearly at that point, a song that really to some degree became the song of the night I think as far as we were all concerned, excuse me, this was on the night of the 15th I think, I said the 14th.
on the night of the 15th and you know, out of that, they went into this to a wave of hope and then into evolve and then a couple of other tunes and we'll get to all of those in a minute. But you can't ask, if a band is going to play cover tunes and they're going to come out and they're going to cover Little Feet and they're going to do a great job with it, what more can you ask for from a band? You know, I just don't think there's a whole lot more that you could really ask for unless of course.
Uh, you were asking for that band, uh, to give you yet another amazing, um, cover and by God, uh, fish was ready to do that. Uh, and this is from October 14th, uh, the Saturday night show. Uh, again, I was there with my wife, my son and my brother were also there. And, um, in the second set, uh,
out of Everything's Right and then subsequently into Fluffhead, Fish laid out this amazing Led Zeppelin cover.
Larry (37:53.858)
So here's the thing, you just don't have a lot of bands that cover Led Zeppelin. Because Led Zeppelin had such a unique sound and some of their songs can be so complex that you're really putting your neck out on the line doing it and this is, you know, Fish regularly covers Good Times, Bad Times, another Led Zeppelin tune. But they love this song, No Quarter. And...
while the statistics don't necessarily bear it out, they play it so wonderfully, between Trey and Mike Fishman, 30 seconds into the song, or not even 30 seconds, 10 seconds into the song, it's such, they play the distinctive Led Zeppelin sound so well and create the vocals with the same type of, I don't even know the technical words for it, sorry, but you know,
just the way they're pronouncing their words and holding lines and things like that. And you might even think that was actually Led Zeppelin performing the song because it really comes out like that, I think here. Um, and once again, you know, the crowd is just diving into this tune.
And the, you know, the guys in the front row, or you could see them, they're rocking their heads back and forth, like all the Led Zeppelin, you know, and heavy metalheads do, and their long hair flying all over the place, and they're just, you know, getting into it, and again, this is a song by Led Zeppelin that was released in 1973 on their album, Houses of the Holy. You know, this is like Feet Stone, Feel Me Now. This is an album that was released and produced and adored and loved and...
snapped up by zeppelin fans everywhere and an album that got extensive FM radio play at the time and you know here are people you know 40-50 years later 50 years later jamming on this tune as though it's brand new and one of the reasons why is because of how well Phish plays it you know and they don't just pull a tune out and say well let's give it a try and see what happens and kind of stumble their way through it which the Dead were famous for doing for doing on a few occasions uh they couldn't quite get Blackbird from the Beatles White album
Larry (40:06.486)
all the way through One Night at Alpine Valley. And there's versions of Pigpen singing Hey Jude from back in the day that it would have just been as well if they just sang the coda, the nah, nah part rather than trying to do the whole song. But I always gave them credit for making the effort and trying. But when Fisch does it, they really take the time to do it. So this is Led Zeppelin's song from Houses of the Holy. It became a centerpiece for all of Led Zeppelin's songs.
concerts after that, really up until their final tour. It appears in both the film version and the live album versions of the song Remains the Same, which was released in 1976 and expanded in 2007. It appeared once more in 1994 on Page and Plant's reunion album as the title track. It appears on Led Zeppelin's 2012 live album Celebration Day, which documented their 2007 reunion performance at the O2 Arena in London. And then it was re-released on the deluxe edition of
Houses of the Holy. The title is derived from the military practice of showing no mercy to a vanquished opponent and from the brave act of not asking for mercy when vanquished. This theme is captured in several of the song's lyrics like Immigrant Song, two albums prior, it evokes imagery from the Vikings and Norse mythology with lyrics such as the winds of Thor are blowing cold. Record producer Rick Rubin remarked on the song's structure, it takes such confidence to be able to get really quiet and loose for such a long time.
Zeppelin completely changed how we look at what popular music can be. They debuted, FISH debuted the song on June 1st, 2011 at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdale, New Jersey. They've only performed this song 19 times. And prior to this show at the United Center, it was last performed on April 23rd, 2023 at the Hollywood Bowl out in LA, a gap of 32 shows. So not even really that significant of a gap considering how few times it's been played, but played with energy and
And by God, everybody just loved it. So great tune there. We're going to step away from fish for a few minutes, and we're going to explore the wonderful and fun world of marijuana. So I will give producer Dan Humiston a chance to do his always famous intro as we segue into this section of our show.
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Saipers Hill, Saipers Hill.
Larry (42:55.338)
Who is it? Cypress Hill. Okay, there we go. Dan keeping us on our toes with his never changing marijuana lead in music. Here's the plus side of allowing marijuana to be sold in our states. Colorado dispensaries have now sold more than 15 billion dollars worth of marijuana since legalization. I believe they started in 2014, so that's just about nine years ago.
generating 2.5 billion in tax revenue. They did first open in 2014. They've generated this incredible amount of cannabis tax revenue to support public programs and services. As of August, Colorado has seen $15,028,995,376 in total legal cannabis sales in 2023 alone so far.
marijuana sales have amounted to $1,052,517,913. These are just incredible numbers we're talking about here, folks. I mean...
Larry (44:07.274)
What else are we selling in society right now, legally, that is at the same price points as marijuana that's generating sales revenue like this? The tax revenue from the last nine years of legalization stands at 2.5 billion as of September of this year. The Colorado Department of Revenue set in a press release on Wednesday. This is, by the way, from our good friends, as always, over at Marijuana Business Daily.
and we appreciate them helping us out with some stories today. We also have some stories from Marijuana Moment, and both of these groups, again, I just want to point out this podcast's primary source of news in the marijuana world. And anyone who really wants to stay up to speed on what's going on in the marijuana world.
should be checking both of these websites on a daily basis or just having it sent to your inbox and then you don't have to remember to go find it. But getting back to this article, spokesperson for Governor Jared Polis said that under the governor's pro-freedom plans, we have seen Colorado's marijuana industry grow stronger, create more jobs and support our thriving economy across the state. He's glad to see the Colorado's cannabis industry is thriving, generating tax revenue for local governments and school construction.
and is hopeful that these sales will responsibly get higher and higher and even surpass 15 billion dollars. It was the first state to launch recreational marijuana sales following voters approval of legalization initiative at the ballot box in 2012. Annual sales peaked in 2021 when they reached about 2.2 billion, but they've since declined and largely leveled out in the past two years. Still, as we saw, sales for this year are already over a billion dollars and going strong.
that's amazing and nothing to ignore. An analysis from the state's nonpartisan legislative council staff that was released in August also showed that Colorado generated more tax revenue from marijuana than alcohol or cigarettes during the last fiscal year, with $280 million in cannabis tax dollars going toward a variety of government programs and services like K through 12 education and healthcare. And this is the great thing, folks, this is wonderful. If more people are buying marijuana than they're buying alcohol or buying cigarettes, people are making a more responsible choice.
Larry (46:28.554)
a safer choice, everything that we've always talked about when comparing all of these substances with one another. And both alcohol and nicotine are substances that are found to be more addictive and...
cause more dependencies and problems, healthcare-wise, misstates of work, all the statistics that are followed. Both of them blow marijuana out of the water in terms of how much more problems they cause. So if we're getting people to stop using them and to smoke marijuana instead, that's a victory for overall health, right? Because don't forget, in states that have marijuana programs,
We saw it, we read a study a couple of weeks ago that told us that overall, healthcare premiums go down. So this is a good thing, marijuana smoking go up, healthcare premiums go down, teenage smoking goes down, all this other stuff that we were talking about. And then all the great things that the money goes to, variety of services in Colorado, substance misuse treatment, early childhood literacy, youth mentorship, bullying prevention, law enforcement training, affordable housing, research, and illicit market interdiction.
There's just so much to see with this. And it's so nice to know that Colorado and Washington, which were the first two to stick their toe in the water of adult use, and really where they are, they're the pioneers in all of this. At the time, the Kola memorandum had been issued, but nobody really knew what the federal government was gonna do. And these two states pushed forward, and they launched this industry on the adult use side. And today, state after state after state is joining in, and it's a wonderful thing to see.
However, when we turn to our next story, coming from up north in Canada, it is a cautionary tale for people who dive into the marijuana industry, because it is the marijuana industry, and even for some of the bigger ones who think that not only are they gonna dive in, but they wanna wrap their arms around it and capitalize it and dominate it as much as possible. And what we're hearing now.
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is that some of Canada's largest cannabis cultivators are turning to vegetables, fruits, and orchids to bolster their bottom line as macroeconomic fundamentals continue to challenge the struggling Canadian cannabis industry. The latest licensed producer to enter the food business is Leamington, Ontario-based Chilray Brands, which recently said it was converting part of its sprawling facilities in Gatineau, Quebec to grow fruits and vegetables. Chilray joins Alberta-based Aurora Cannabis.
and British Columbia headquartered Village Farms International in diversifying their main business at a time when a glut of marijuana has sent wholesale prices tumbling. Last year, Aurora branched into the vegetable propagation and ornamental flowers business with its acquisition of Bevo Agtech, one of North America's largest suppliers of flowers and vegetable seedlings, for $45 million Canadian dollars, $35 million in U.S. dollars.
Everybody's trying to figure out what to do with the greenhouses and you're never going to get all your money back, Aurora CEO Miguel Martin said in a phone interview. However, I think it's important to keep them viable and it's been great to see the Edmonton facility full again, right next to the airport health Canada, the federal agency that oversees the cannabis sector noted one key requirement for any licensed producer seeking to diversify. It would be a requirement that individual organization undertaking the growing of vegetables, fruits, or flowers in the same.
facility that's the same as the individual or organization who holds the cultivation license, the agency said in a response to a question, and that they're looking for the same people. Vancouver-based Village Farms already has produced operations in British Columbia, Texas, and Mexico before expanding into cannabis via its pure sun farm subsidiary, Pure Sun Farms.
is one of the largest cannabis producers in Canada by market share. The diversification comes as Canada's cannabis producers confront stark economic realities facing the recreational and medical marijuana sectors in that country. The industry overall still faces an oversupply situation in almost every product category. As of last winter, packaged and unpackaged inventory of dried cannabis jumped to an all-time high of 1.47 billion grams. That's 3.2 million pounds.
Larry (50:55.062)
Health Canada won't release data until next spring accounting for this fall's crop tober when most of the outdoor harvest comes in, but the situation is unlikely to have improved notably. And so the supply and demand mismatch in Canada is one of the main driving factors in addition to fierce competition, which is resulting in lower prices, which adds to the woes of businesses already battling rising input costs because of general inflationary pressure. So this is what we see.
some of these big companies doing in Canada. And, you know, as we say, there is a cautionary tale to this, but the good news is that some of them have been able to roll over into another industry and repurpose all of their cannabis equipment. And the hope would be that if the cannabis market recovers in Canada to a point where they want to flip back, that they can just as seamlessly flip back and dive back in full scale. They're not giving up all of their marijuana growing. They're just giving up part of it.
But it is creative, it is thinking outside of the box, I guess, a little bit, so it's good to know for them. And now we turn to a story that's coming out of my home state, Missouri, that I've been so big to give props and shout outs to because of the way, how quickly they rolled out their program. But now we're finding out that there's a widespread product recall in Missouri that is now having the effect of really upending its fledgling cannabis industry.
And there's a wide scale recall that's targeting tens of thousands of infused cannabis products in Missouri, and it's led to millions of dollars in lost sales and inventory for retailers and manufacturers. At the same time, scores of operators caught up in the fallout have few options to recoup those losses. Some retailers, such as Kansas City-based multi-state operator Greenlight, have locked up thousands of vapens and other products in vaults after Missouri regulators imposed an administrative hold in August on the merches.
on the merchandise that implemented a full-fledged recall. First-hand accounts for manufacturers, such as Kansas City-based Clover, the state's largest, point to multi-million dollar losses after the Division for Cannabis Regulation recalled roughly 62,000 infused marijuana products with distillate manufactured and sold by Delta Extraction, a processor based in Robertsville. On August 2nd, regulators suspended Delta Extraction's business license, alleging the company sourced untested marijuana
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or converted hemp from outside of Missouri, licensed cultivat- outside of a Missouri licensed cultivation facility. And the recall notice, the DCR said the affected products were not compliant, they were not compliantly logged into the statewide track and trace system operated by metric, the state group that monitors these things. As a result, the agency said it was unable to verify if the products were derived from in-state marijuana growers or whether they passed testing requirements before entering the retail market.
Delta extraction has denied the charges. Nevertheless, it's a scandal, if you will, that is growing and growing in Missouri. And what it points to is, on the one hand, it's great to be out there ahead of the crowd. It's great to have a program that moves forward very quickly and allows for that. But at the same time, you have to be careful. You can't cut corners. And if you do, you're setting yourself up for major, major problems. And a recall for products that...
large net number means that these companies have to be prepared to come out of pocket back to the consumers at a minimum for the value of what was paid for this product. I'm going to guess that most of these companies aren't sitting around on cash reserves large enough to be able to do that without having a severe negative impact on their overall financial condition and their ability to continue to move forward as operating businesses. But at the same time, obviously the state...
has an obligation to its citizens to ensure that the products are safe. And so what we're going to really have to find out here is just exactly what the final evidence is. And if these manufacturers and infusers did in fact break the rules, then presumably they are going to have to face punishment. And it may mean that some of them may not be able to financially withstand the prejudicial effect it would have on their business. So that's something we're going to want to...
really watch and see, but at the same time, we're gonna also wanna make sure that, you know, if you're a business owner out there in any state, including Missouri, but any state, for gosh sakes, I tell this to my clients all the time, you need to know the rules. These rules are not optional. They are put in place. This market, this industry is audited.
Larry (55:40.602)
in so many different ways by so much more than any other industries because of all of these rules, because still of people's having fears and concerns about the potential dangers of these products if they're not closely monitored. Yes, there are legitimate concerns about contaminants such as fentanyl possibly becoming involved in the production of things. But
you know, we have to have faith in the state, we have to have faith in the testing systems, and the only thing that can defeat that are manufacturers and producers who try to sidestep that system, all in the name of profiting in a faster period of time. And of course, that has no place in any industry, let alone in the legal cannabis industry.
Lots going on out there, lots of stuff for us to be paying attention to, seeing what's happening. I'm just very happy with the marijuana situation. The way it exists when you walk into it is something like the Fish Concert. Where people are just hanging out, where the good marijuana is being smoked, where everybody's always happy to share what they have either because they want people to know how good it is or because they just don't like seeing anybody not having as good a time as they are.
And there are definitely people there who do not get high. And there are people sitting around us who clearly did not want to participate, but at least they know and they understand that if they go to the show and they're sitting down in the crowd that they are gonna get exposed to it because it is out there. And whether it's just because it interacts so well with jam band music, it's in the right frame of mind, whatever it may do, it's become so inculcated as part of the culture of
uh, jam band music, uh, to really, you know, release you and give you, uh, the, the mental freedom to really let go and, and participate in all of it. And so that's the, that's the good news. Um, but we're going to dive back in now to our concert. Uh, this is a, uh, song that was played by Fish on the first night, October 13th, 2023. It was there on core and it does speak to a member of the, uh, infamous 27 club.
Larry (58:47.786)
Isabella, Jimmy Hendrix tune, Jimmy did, is an unfortunate member of the 27 Club. Now they're covering Jimmy, and they do cover Jimmy. This is not necessarily new or unique, although again, the number of times they've played it and over the number of years they've played it is not a huge number.
but they also play other Jimi Hendrix tunes. But Isabelle is a great tune, I've always loved it. It's off of the Band of Gypsies album that was released in April of 1970. After Hendrix disbanded the Jimi Hendrix experience in early 1969, he formed Gypsy Son and Rainbows, so he would have a band to fulfill his contract to play Woodstock in July of 1969. This was one of the new songs that he introduced at the Woodstock Festival.
after which he was eager to perfect a studio version. He recruited bassist Billy Cox, who had played with him while they were in the army, and his drummer friend, Buddy Miles, for a new ensemble, Band of Gypsies. They recorded this as the B-site to his Stepping Stones single for reprise, but it was quickly pulled after Hendrix complained about the mix. The Band of Gypsies made their live debut at the Fillmore East on New Year's Eve, 1969, and this song was played during their first set. A classic Hendrix tune.
It's a great one. Trey attacks it, goes right after it. The band really jams it out and while they don't quite have the full Jimmy guitar sound down, they do a pretty good job with it, I think. Fish debuted this song all the way back on June 13, 1997, at the SFX Center in Dublin, Ireland. Fish has performed this song, including this one, 17 times. So again...
not a large number of times that they've performed it. And again, funny enough, right before the show where I saw it, they last performed this on July 30th, 2023 at Madison Square Garden in New York. So here only a gap of 15 shows, meaning it had been sitting at 15 over that extended period of almost 30 years. And then in the last couple of months, they've pulled it out twice. But it's a great song to hear, it's a lot of fun. It was played as the encore of the October 13th show.
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and it was a great way to end the night. We all noticed that they had dropped the Tweezer Repry from that night and instantly leading everyone to start speculating as to when Tweepry would make its appearance. And it was to come on the Sunday night as everybody would expect in a situation like that. But just going back really fast and filling out the rest of the October 14th show.
We heard No Quarter, then they came and they closed out the show with Fluffhead. Um, I like Fluffhead. You know, I don't know that I necessarily buy into it as like one of the all-time great, uh, fish tunes or, or fish tunes, you know, the fish heads like to hear so much, I've heard people, you know, try to compare it to like a St. Stephen type song in terms of, you know, what it means to the fish heads. It's just a strange tune. Um, there are parts of it that I like a lot and there are parts of it that they jam really well on, but there's also parts of it that kind of like go through.
The song goes off in a number of different directions and it's not cohesive in that way, at least for me. Just me speaking here, fish heads don't get mad at me, but that's it. I seem to hear it a lot. Now again, it gets a good reaction from the crowd, so I don't really mind it, but it's just always interesting to me. But they did close out the show with that. And then the encore on Saturday night was Life Beyond the Dream and Character Zero, which is the fish song I've probably heard more than any other fish song in my day.
That's just the way it is. Then we roll into the 15th, the final night, never misses Sunday, right? They come out and open with Everything is Hollow, Timber, Ocelot, Vultures, Monsters, Plasma, Mercury, Stash, Leaves, and finally David Bowie. Now one thing I like about that is I love how Fish has so many songs that are just one word. Timber, Ocelot, Vultures, Monsters, Plasma, Mercury, Stash, Leaves.
their sand, their on and on and on, how many of these songs just have one word names. And I don't know, it just really kind of gets to me. It was a very well played set. I thought that David Bowie at the end of the set, I don't want to say saved the set, but really sent it out on a much stronger note. They really jammed that out pretty well. Again, another 90 minute set. And then in the second set they came down and this was the night of encore's, they opened with drowned off of the Who's Quadrophenia and then...
Larry (01:03:26.702)
appropriately or not went right into a song I heard the ocean sing. They came back and jammed into tweezer again, just so we didn't forget that they had played it on Friday night and left without the tweet pry into a great simple that just kind of rolled into it. And everybody was going crazy pebbles and marbles, which is a tune that I can't say is one of my favorites, but you know, it's there. So we take it. And then into Spanish moon, which we talked about a wave of hope evolve. And then they went into the song we're going to close with here in just a second, loving cup.
which is off of Exile on Main Street. And then they finished up with a three song encore Run Like an Antelope, which is a great tune. Say It to Me Santos, one of their new written for Halloween type tunes, which kind of grows on you after a while. And I think maybe one of the reasons why they play it in Chicago is because the Bears place kicker is named Santos.
And maybe they like to play it when they're here for him, because it's the second time I think I've heard it here. And then they closed out with the aforementioned Tweed Pry, which for the Deadheads would be like the playing in the band repry. It wasn't unusual for the Dead to do the same thing, play playing on a Friday night, come back for the repry at the end of the show on Sunday or in the Sunday encore. And that's what Fish did here. So we're gonna leave you with Loving Cup, again written by Jagger and Richards on their 1971 album, Exile on Main Street.
It's going to be appreciated with time this album. It's an example of a song that became more popular later on in a 2003 interview. Mick Jagger explained on the 40 licks tour when we were playing the setlist, preparing the setlist for a show in Yokohama, Chuck Lavelle suggested we play loving cup, our ballad from exile on Main Street. Jagger said, I don't want to play the tune. And I said, Chuck, this is going to die a death in Yokohama. I can't even remember the bloody song and no one likes it.
I've done it loads of time in America and it doesn't go down that well. It's a very difficult song to sing and I'm fed up with it. Chuck went stick in the mud. So I gave in and put it in the setlist. Lo and behold, we went out, started the song and they all began applauding, which just proves how over time some of these songs acquire a certain existence or value that they never had when they first came out. People will say what a wonderful song that was when it was virtually ignored at the time that it was released. So, uh, this is a song that, that fish fans absolutely adore.
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as you'll hear in a minute, they did Fish debut the song. Interestingly, on February 3rd, 1993, at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine, it's interesting because they did eventually cover Exile on Main Street, the album, as a Halloween musical costume on October 31st, 2009, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, where it was part of the Fish Festival 8. Clearly one of their favorite covers in a crowd pleaser. They've played this one 148 times. So that is very significant.
And in fact, prior to this show, they had last played it on August 5th, 2023 at Madison Square Garden, a gap of only 13 shows. So as you can tell, right, not very significant in terms of how much time passed. And usually not a lot of time goes past between versions of this song. They closed the second set with it out of Evolve. And it's one of those songs that when they close the show with Love and Cup, they're
Everybody goes home with a smile on their face, and although that was not the encore, it was a great way to end, and it's the way that we're gonna end today's show. Thank you again for listening, everyone. Hope you enjoyed a little bit of Phish music here. We will get back into the Grateful Dead next week with another wonderful Dead show, but every now and then we do have to give into all of our Phish fans out there and recognize that they throw down some pretty good music, and that they're certainly worth seeing if they're coming through your town.
So I hope everyone will have a great week, be safe, and as always, enjoy your cannabis responsibly. Thank you.