Phish at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville Setlist, Photos and More

Tonight is the last night of Fall Tour 2009, and it's been a great one. Reminds me of late 1990s fall runs. John Paul Jones is also the name of Led Zeppelin's bass player. Will there be a Zep bust out tonight? Stay tuned ...

On a side note, I can't believe the New York Times has nothing about the shows, considering it's the first sold-out run at the Garden in 2009.

PHISH AT JOHN PAUL JONES ARENA IN CHARLOTTESVILLE SETLIST

SET ONE
AC/DC Bag, Chalk Dust Torture, Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan, The Divided Sky, Ya Mar*, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley -> Vocal Jam, Old Home Place, Cavern, Funky Bitch, David Bowie, The Wedge, Axis: Bold As Love

SET TWO
Tweezer -> Light -> Piper -> Free, Sweet Virginia, Harry Hood, Suzy Greenberg, Golgi Apparatus, Run Like an Antelope**

ENCORE
Loving Cup, Tweeprise

SHOW NOTES
*Naked dude ran onstage, "Let's hear it for the naked dude!" -Trey ... "He was a Naked Pa .."; **"You've got to run like a naked guy out of control!"

PHOTOS
In front of the arena
Waiting to get in line
From the second row
Supposed decibel reading at MSG last night
The Butter Room's Charlottesville Tab from today!!! True Professionals!!!
Angeled view of the arena
Exit ... Stage Fishman
Divided Sky
The note
Naked guy during Ya Mar
Sneakin' Sally
If you dance too hard!
Old Home Place
Light
Harry Hood
In, looking out
Golgi Apparatus

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Mr. Minor's No Spoilers Audience Recording

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Phish at Madison Square Garden Night Three Setlist, Photos and Download Links

Last night's second set was purely awesome Phish. It's a must-have download from Fall Tour 2009. The Down with Disease -> Piper -> Fluffhead is a perfect example of Phish 3.0 firing on all cylinders. Click here to download an audience recording of the show. And, of course, you can listen and watch tonight's show via HoodStream. The last two nights the sound and video stream have been great, so check it out. The chat room is fun as hell, too.

PHISH AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NIGHT THREE SETLIST

SET ONE
Heavy Things, Possum, Wilson, Kill Devil Falls, Glide, 46 Days, Bouncing Around the Room, Reba, Dinner and a Movie, Guyute, Maze*, First Tube

SET TWO
Scents and Subtle Sounds**, Rock and Roll -> Seven Below -> Twist, Mike's Song -> I Am Hydrogen -> Weekapaug Groove, The Horse -> Silent in the Morning, You Enjoy Myself

ENCORE
Shine a Light

SHOW NOTES
*Absolutely explosive solos by both Trey and Page ... much more so than usual; **Last time played 8/12/04, and this only the 14th time ever played;

PHOTOS
PhishChic, a near and dear friend of The Wagger's, standing in front of Trey Wednesday night
PhishChic again, a little later that night
Waiting on showtime
Kill Devil Falls
Guyute
Port City Music Hall urinal
Heavy Things
Outside the Garden
Lot goodies
A setlist book

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Phish at Madison Square Garden Night Two Setlist

It's the stuff dreams are made of ...

PHISH AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NIGHT TWO SETLIST

SET ONE
Punch You in the Eye, Backwards Down the Number Line, Axilla, Taste, Boogie on Reggae Woman, Stash, Lawn Boy, Time Turns Elastic, Back on the Train, Julius

SET TWO
Down with Disease -> Piper -> Fluffhead, Cities, Free, Halley's Comet -> 2001 -> David Bowie

ENCORE
Character Zero

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Mr. Minor's No Spoilers Audience Jem

Phish at Madison Square Garden Setlist, 26th Anniversary Show

Tonight is night one of Phish in New York City, which always feels a little like Christmas Eve did when you were a kid. Tonight is also the 26th anniversary of the first Phish show. Will the boys do anything to mark the occasion?

While we're waiting, here is an incredible video playlist from the Portland show, thanks to the YEMBlog. Live stream tonight at HoodStream. Dig it!!!

PHISH AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SETLIST

SET ONE
AC/DC Bag, Chalk Dust Torture, Wolfman's Brother, NICU, Ocelot, Brian and Robert, Poor Heart, Sample in a Jar, Peaches en Regalia*, The Divided Sky, Cavern

SET TWO
Golgi Apparatus -> Light -> Slave to the Traffic Light -> Tweezer -> Joy, Sparkle, Harry Hood -> Wading in the Velvet Sea, Suzy Greenberg, Run Like an Antelope**

ENCORE
A Day in the Life, Tweeprise

SHOW NOTES
*Last time played 9/24/99, 185 shows ago, in Austin, Texas; **Absolutely explosive!!!

PHOTOS
Page's side
New spin on an old product

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Mr. Minor's No Spoilers Audience Hook Up
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PHISH'S GRAMMY NOMINATION AND OTHER NEWS FROM AROUND THE WEB
In case you missed it, according to Phish.com, Phish was nominated in one category for the 52nd annual GRAMMY awards: Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package for their 7-DVD Boxed Set, The Clifford Ball.The GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast on CBS stations on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010 at 8 p.m. ET/PT (although it's doubtful that the awards for these highly prestigious categories will be aired). This is Phish's third GRAMMY nomination, including Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the song "First Tube" off of Farmhouse, and Best Boxed Set Packaging for phish's 1999 6-CD boxed set, Hampton Comes Alive.

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Break on Phish Tour: The Wagger Interviews Leo Kottke

Since we have a day before Phish implodes Madison Square Garden I decided to post a brief interview I did with Leo Kottke back in October to promote a show he was playing here in Bend, Oregon. He doesn't take phone calls so I was asked to submit questions for him to answer via email. The following is the result. Mind you, I was not going to publish this here but have been encouraged by friends because of Leo's relation to Mike and Phish.

I also have an interview planned with drummer Todd Isler from Mike's band in the near future, so stay tuned.

You can access the Leo Kottke article in its original online format, with a photo, here.

The Gift of Kottke: The guitar legend on recording, collaborations and Brett Favre

To see guitarist/songwriter Leo Kottke perform live is a lot like walking downstairs on Christmas morning and seeing all of the brightly wrapped presents under the tree–you’ll receive several gifts you expected, some flat-out surprises and a few more that make everyone in the room glance at each other with beaming smiles.

Kottke, whose personal life is as ambiguous as his chord phrasings, doesn’t give many interviews, but he talked to The Source via e-mail about his long career and his recent exposure to a younger audience.

Has performing live always been more attractive to you than making and marketing recordings?

Yes. Recording is like being interrogated. I don’t like the red light.

There were not many people making a living in the US playing finger-style guitar when you began in the ‘60s; why was the listening audience ready for it in 1967?

They were ready for it in 1915. It was called “parlor guitar” then, and some of it was pretty interesting. There were a lot of women players then as well.

Your original fans came to your music via LP records and live shows, but some new listeners have just recently discovered your music via the Internet. Do you have any control over what they see or what is put out?

None, but I like that, sort of. I always wish I could delete the garbage but why bother? I did it. I also did the good stuff. I prefer artists who screw up now and then. That’s my excuse

You made a record with Phish bass player Mike Gordon, introducing you to a younger audience. Twenty or 30 years ago you recorded with Los Lobos, and also with Lyle Lovett. What leads to you pairing up with such a variety of musicians?

It’s all the same music, including Balinese gong bands. The distinctions are arbitrary – the sources aren’t. I’m not a session player, so I get to play only with music and people I like. I first heard Lyle through a dressing room wall and Mike and I met at a show. Los Lobos, I think I met before we were born. It’s really friendship, kinship, that makes it happen. Mike and I have made two records and are threatening to make another one. It’s hard to have more fun than that. It’s a good way to forget the red light.

Until you’ve seen Rickie Lee Jones on the floor of the vocal booth, laughing too hard to get up, you have not lived. Musicians are wonderful people, but they’re always leaving town.

Los Angeles, New York and Nashville are the big centers for the music industry, and it seems like not many working musicians live in Minnesota, like you do. What is it like living so far from the commercial mainstream?

The commercial mainstream is concerts. You’re referring to industry centers, the mainstream for the labels. Prince and Dylan and Brett Favre and Brian Setzer live in Minnesota. Some of Bad Plus live here.

How do you approach writing new material? Chord progression first? How do you work through getting “stuck” during the songwriting process?

Writing is like running full speed into a wall. You do it again and again, expecting not to get hurt. It’s the only thing I know where that approach actually works … sometimes.

Leo Kottke

7pm Saturday, October 17.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St., $40/$51 reserved seats. Visit towertheatre.org or call 317-0700 for tickets.