WEBVTT 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:13.800 Welcome to my weekly mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:16.820 takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:16.820 --> 00:00:19.420 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:22.120 Joining me tonight once again as guest curator 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:25.760 is the one and only Sean Faust. Welcome back, 00:00:25.780 --> 00:00:29.179 my friend. Dude, I'm psyched to finally be back 00:00:29.179 --> 00:00:32.159 on this show that you never invite me to. I'm 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.859 really heartbroken about it. But now here we 00:00:34.859 --> 00:00:37.280 are talking about one of my favorite bands ever, 00:00:37.460 --> 00:00:41.600 Dream Theater. Wait, that's not it. Here we are 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.579 talking about one of my favorite bands ever, 00:00:43.700 --> 00:00:46.979 Pink Floyd. That's not it. Wait, hold on. Here 00:00:46.979 --> 00:00:49.020 we are talking about one of my favorite bands 00:00:49.020 --> 00:00:52.399 ever, The Fish from Vermont. Did I get it right 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:54.539 that time? You got it right that time. I won't 00:00:54.539 --> 00:00:59.640 have to edit it. All right. Now, look, I got 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:03.359 to be honest here. Fish is going to be a tough 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:07.060 musical road to go down because depending on 00:01:07.579 --> 00:01:10.760 Where you are in terms of your fandom and that's 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:15.000 pH in fandom. If I'm doing this correctly, there 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.980 are a lot of fish fans out there that would build 00:01:17.980 --> 00:01:22.840 their ultimate fish mixtape using specific live 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:26.680 recordings from various tours over the years. 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:31.079 But tonight you and I are taking on the challenge 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:35.680 of creating the ultimate fish one -on -one mixtape, 00:01:35.739 --> 00:01:39.400 meaning. This is a nice introduction to the band, 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:44.060 their vibe, and their sound. If you've only heard 00:01:44.060 --> 00:01:47.519 of Phish but have never heard them play a single 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:51.859 note, did you find any aspect of that challenging 00:01:51.859 --> 00:01:54.560 when you were pulling your songs for this? Not 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:56.900 really, because I just thought about before. 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:03.170 I've got my life that's BP and then PP. and don't 00:02:03.170 --> 00:02:06.609 be crude but there's vp of course before fish 00:02:06.609 --> 00:02:10.530 uh i guess before fandom and then um i guess 00:02:10.530 --> 00:02:13.389 well i mean pp could be dp it could be during 00:02:13.389 --> 00:02:15.750 fandom or ap whatever whatever we're calling 00:02:15.750 --> 00:02:18.669 it now i'm a fan i'm a huge fan but i'm gonna 00:02:18.669 --> 00:02:21.909 go with like a lot of what i was introduced to 00:02:21.909 --> 00:02:24.689 along with stuff that i just kind of you know 00:02:24.689 --> 00:02:28.210 as new albums come out or just stuff i discovered 00:02:28.210 --> 00:02:30.370 on my own just from listening to countless amounts 00:02:30.370 --> 00:02:33.560 of bootlegs and then Hearing the album. And then 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.099 do you think there's going to be any stigma with 00:02:36.099 --> 00:02:39.560 the hardcore fish fans that we are doing a studio 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:42.800 mix here? Because at the end of the day, there 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:47.259 are some fans that will always steer people to 00:02:47.259 --> 00:02:50.759 the live albums before any of the studio albums. 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.280 And I kind of disagree with that because I think 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:56.340 at least through the songs I'm bringing to the 00:02:56.340 --> 00:02:59.159 bank tonight, there's actually a lot of magic 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.639 happening on the studio renditions. A lot of 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:05.099 the diehards I know are going to be like, wait, 00:03:05.219 --> 00:03:08.280 you guys are talking studio? And you want me 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:09.780 to listen to this? And I'm like, yeah, I want 00:03:09.780 --> 00:03:11.500 you to listen to this. Because if you don't, 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:13.439 you're not a real fan if you don't listen to 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:15.379 everything that says Fish, man. You're not a 00:03:15.379 --> 00:03:17.400 real fan. You're not a real fan if you don't 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:20.460 like it. No, I mean, I'm even one of those people. 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:22.819 I can throw on some albums and be like, oh, I 00:03:22.819 --> 00:03:26.180 love this so much. But I'm a live guy, too. But 00:03:26.180 --> 00:03:31.210 also, my intro to Fish. Was studio stuff as we'll 00:03:31.210 --> 00:03:35.810 get into. Well, there's always a part two where 00:03:35.810 --> 00:03:40.340 we can do a live. renditions episode. But before 00:03:40.340 --> 00:03:43.479 that, let's get down to business on tonight's 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.759 topic, where tonight, Sean and I will be curating 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:49.960 the ultimate fish mixtape, and we'll use the 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.900 old cassette deck approach. Sean, as my special 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:55.280 guest, will begin side A with his first song 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:57.900 choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel 00:03:57.900 --> 00:04:00.500 best follows up that choice. We'll then flip 00:04:00.500 --> 00:04:03.300 -flop choosing songs until we've mapped out 10 00:04:03.300 --> 00:04:06.360 tracks for side A. We'll then give our mixtape 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:09.000 a proverbial flip and we'll map outside. Be only 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.560 this time I'll kick things off with Sean choosing 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:14.620 second. Our overall goal for the episode is to 00:04:14.620 --> 00:04:18.079 craft the best fish mixtape possible through 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:21.060 only 20 songs. At the end of the show, you can 00:04:21.060 --> 00:04:23.680 take our conversation to the next level by visiting 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.139 the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com to give 00:04:27.139 --> 00:04:30.279 our final mixtape a listen via the embedded playlist. 00:04:30.889 --> 00:04:32.810 And if you like what you're hearing on the show, 00:04:32.990 --> 00:04:35.250 you can help me out by either telling a friend, 00:04:35.410 --> 00:04:37.670 leaving the show a five -star review wherever 00:04:37.670 --> 00:04:40.990 you're tuning in, or becoming a part of the Patreon 00:04:40.990 --> 00:04:44.509 mixtaper community at patreon .com forward slash 00:04:44.509 --> 00:04:48.649 myweeklymixtape. There you'll find ad -free episodes 00:04:48.649 --> 00:04:51.310 of the show, gain immediate access to future 00:04:51.310 --> 00:04:54.670 My Weekly Mixtape episodes, hear exclusive bonus 00:04:54.670 --> 00:04:57.529 banter clips, chime in on upcoming show topics, 00:04:57.670 --> 00:05:00.600 become a future guest, and so much more. And 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:02.759 a few of the Patreon mixtapers chimed in with 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.500 the songs they would use to kick things off tonight. 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:07.699 And I want to give a quick shout out to a few 00:05:07.699 --> 00:05:10.600 of those. Brandon from Virginia chimed in saying 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.759 he's got to go old school with Chalk Dust Torture, 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:16.379 saying Trey knocks it out of the park with his 00:05:16.379 --> 00:05:19.839 solo. Tom Hutchinson chimed in saying that he 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:22.920 knows that I'm a sucker for covers. So he went 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:26.370 with the band's take. on the Beastie Boys' Sabotage. 00:05:26.689 --> 00:05:29.829 And Jason Donchus chimed in, saying that the 00:05:29.829 --> 00:05:33.129 team over at the R4 podcast is recording their 00:05:33.129 --> 00:05:36.389 Billy Breeze episode. So since he's primed on 00:05:36.389 --> 00:05:39.269 that album at the moment, free, opening that 00:05:39.269 --> 00:05:41.970 record is fantastic. So that's what he'd start 00:05:41.970 --> 00:05:44.170 the mixtape with. And I'm looking forward to 00:05:44.170 --> 00:05:46.490 hearing that R4 episode on Billy Breeze when 00:05:46.490 --> 00:05:50.350 it drops. Now, Sean, along with the Patreon mixtapers, 00:05:50.550 --> 00:05:52.810 I tried something new for this episode tonight. 00:05:53.209 --> 00:05:56.750 A few weeks back, I posted an album dive episode 00:05:56.750 --> 00:06:00.709 on Moe's brand new studio album, Circle of Giants, 00:06:00.769 --> 00:06:03.129 which is an incredible record, I should add. 00:06:03.290 --> 00:06:06.189 But Jim Laughlin from the band joined me, and 00:06:06.189 --> 00:06:08.170 when we were done with the episode, I decided 00:06:08.170 --> 00:06:11.269 to ask him what he'd start his Ultimate Fish 00:06:11.269 --> 00:06:13.790 playlist with, and here's what he had to say. 00:06:14.209 --> 00:06:19.009 I would pick Maze off a riff. It's probably the 00:06:19.009 --> 00:06:22.290 first song, like, I'm not the biggest. fish fan 00:06:22.290 --> 00:06:24.930 but they were really big obviously when i was 00:06:24.930 --> 00:06:26.709 in college it was right when they started hitting 00:06:26.709 --> 00:06:30.370 their stride and rift and picture and nectar 00:06:30.370 --> 00:06:34.370 are probably the my two most familiar fish records 00:06:34.370 --> 00:06:39.149 and i had went to see them at the riviera theater 00:06:39.149 --> 00:06:42.050 in buffalo or just outside of buffalo with vin 00:06:42.050 --> 00:06:44.850 and a couple other guys back in the day and this 00:06:44.850 --> 00:06:47.110 was before i'd never seen him before i wasn't 00:06:47.110 --> 00:06:50.160 familiar with them at all And that particular 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:53.439 song, just again, it was a song that just hit 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:57.720 me like, wow, like these guys are extremely talented. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:02.279 To see and watch the song live is you really, 00:07:02.339 --> 00:07:05.259 if you're a player, you don't even have to, but 00:07:05.259 --> 00:07:08.120 you can really, it points out their internal 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:11.980 clocks, the time and how much they know each 00:07:11.980 --> 00:07:15.019 other on a stage. Like that was the stuff that 00:07:15.019 --> 00:07:18.699 just got me like, holy cow. They're so solid 00:07:18.699 --> 00:07:22.680 and they clearly know exactly what the other 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:25.180 one is going to do at any given point in time. 00:07:25.379 --> 00:07:27.600 You know, the vocal harmonies on at the end, 00:07:27.660 --> 00:07:31.680 like everything about that song really gave me 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:33.699 a just tremendous amount of respect for them 00:07:33.699 --> 00:07:37.480 as players, you know, as musicians, as songwriters 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:41.579 is just like, wow, that's, I wasn't sure you 00:07:41.579 --> 00:07:44.569 could do that, but apparently people can. Now, 00:07:44.569 --> 00:07:46.850 once again, if you'd like to chime in for future 00:07:46.850 --> 00:07:49.829 My Weekly Mixtape episodes, join the Mixtaper 00:07:49.829 --> 00:07:54.089 community at patreon .com forward slash My Weekly 00:07:54.089 --> 00:07:57.449 Mixtape. And now, Sean, I'm officially pressing 00:07:57.449 --> 00:08:00.470 the record button on our mixtape tonight, and 00:08:00.470 --> 00:08:08.889 you are free to talk about your first tube song 00:08:08.889 --> 00:08:12.069 choice of the evening. I got to tell you, man, 00:08:12.069 --> 00:08:17.370 these jokes are just not on fuego. Including 00:08:17.370 --> 00:08:21.230 that one that I just made. So to kick off this 00:08:21.230 --> 00:08:23.889 tape, I thought of the first song that I knew 00:08:23.889 --> 00:08:28.470 for a fact was Fish. And the funny thing about 00:08:28.470 --> 00:08:31.009 it is I thought it was the Red Hot Chili Peppers 00:08:31.009 --> 00:08:33.450 the first time I heard it on the radio. Because 00:08:33.450 --> 00:08:36.570 of the stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. 00:08:36.909 --> 00:08:39.230 So it kind of weirded me out when I was like, 00:08:39.269 --> 00:08:42.519 wait, that's not the Chili Peppers? which I guess 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.620 that worked out to my benefit anyway. But Down 00:08:45.620 --> 00:08:48.940 With Disease is that song that hooked me immediately. 00:08:49.740 --> 00:08:52.759 It's also the first time I saw Fish was years 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:57.039 later. It was 2003 at The Burn or whatever it 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.620 was called at the time. And B .B. King sat in. 00:08:59.659 --> 00:09:02.779 But the only tune, as far as I recalled, that 00:09:02.779 --> 00:09:05.940 I knew was Down With Disease. And they opened 00:09:05.940 --> 00:09:09.889 with it. What a way to just let's introduce me 00:09:09.889 --> 00:09:11.830 to the live aspect of Phish and let's introduce 00:09:11.830 --> 00:09:16.429 people that don't know Phish to Phish. From 1994's 00:09:16.429 --> 00:09:20.269 Hoist, written by Trey Anastasio and Tom Marshall, 00:09:20.330 --> 00:09:23.889 a songwriting duo you might hear about as much 00:09:23.889 --> 00:09:27.870 tonight as Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller mentioned 00:09:27.870 --> 00:09:31.230 during the My Weekly Mixtape Oldies episodes. 00:09:31.850 --> 00:09:35.350 The song reached number 33. on the Billboard 00:09:35.350 --> 00:09:38.549 U .S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. And I'm going 00:09:38.549 --> 00:09:41.210 to say this now, we're not going to be talking 00:09:41.210 --> 00:09:44.730 a lot of Billboard charts tonight because Phish 00:09:44.730 --> 00:09:48.289 is a band that, and I'll use quote unquote here, 00:09:48.509 --> 00:09:52.870 made it in a very untraditional sense. They had 00:09:52.870 --> 00:09:55.889 no label machine really behind them. Yes, they 00:09:55.889 --> 00:09:59.330 were signed to Elektra. Yes, they were on a major 00:09:59.330 --> 00:10:02.830 label. But at the end of the day, They were not 00:10:02.830 --> 00:10:07.490 known as a radio MTV band. They made a name for 00:10:07.490 --> 00:10:10.990 themselves via their live shows, the tapers, 00:10:10.990 --> 00:10:14.929 and the word of mouth that truly drove this band 00:10:14.929 --> 00:10:18.909 to the levels that they're at now. I love the 00:10:18.909 --> 00:10:20.850 fact that you started this with something a little 00:10:20.850 --> 00:10:23.710 funky, a little fun, a little upbeat. It is a 00:10:23.710 --> 00:10:26.509 perfect set opener. Usually I think when they 00:10:26.509 --> 00:10:28.690 do it live, it's your second set opener, but 00:10:28.690 --> 00:10:31.809 I have seen them set one at a few times, which 00:10:31.809 --> 00:10:34.649 is surprising. It's always fun to hear it, whatever 00:10:34.649 --> 00:10:38.470 point of the show they play it. And it's the 00:10:38.470 --> 00:10:43.809 only fish music video in their entire career, 00:10:43.909 --> 00:10:47.899 except. For Esther, which was a quote -unquote 00:10:47.899 --> 00:10:53.580 semi -official 1991 fan -made video. So if you 00:10:53.580 --> 00:10:56.100 were to be exposed to any Phish music video, 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:58.799 this is pretty much it, besides live content. 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:03.639 And you saw it through a Phish eye lens. You 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.179 did. Well, I am going to follow up your sentiment, 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:12.539 Sean, with the exact same story, believe it or 00:11:12.539 --> 00:11:16.009 not. This is one of the songs that... got me 00:11:16.009 --> 00:11:19.309 to fall in love with Phish, and coincidentally, 00:11:19.450 --> 00:11:22.990 it's the first song I ever saw Phish play live. 00:11:23.309 --> 00:11:26.730 So I am going to follow up Down With Disease 00:11:26.730 --> 00:11:32.350 with Heavy Things from 2000's Farmhouse, written 00:11:32.350 --> 00:11:36.429 by Trey and Tom along with Scott Herman. It's 00:11:36.429 --> 00:11:40.269 the band's fifth most streamed song on Spotify 00:11:40.269 --> 00:11:45.710 with 11 .6 million streams. So technically, if 00:11:45.710 --> 00:11:49.269 you want to call it a quote unquote hit, it's 00:11:49.269 --> 00:11:51.970 one of the band's more known songs. It's the 00:11:51.970 --> 00:11:55.049 first Phish song that I truly fell in love with. 00:11:55.370 --> 00:11:59.789 And it was my personal musical gateway drug to 00:11:59.789 --> 00:12:02.909 this band, because what made me fall in love 00:12:02.909 --> 00:12:05.669 with this song is the yin and yang situation 00:12:05.669 --> 00:12:08.769 that's playing out. The song itself is. Very 00:12:08.769 --> 00:12:11.590 light and breezy, I guess you want to call it, 00:12:11.629 --> 00:12:13.649 but the lyrics kind of paint a different picture. 00:12:13.769 --> 00:12:16.070 And that's something that happens a lot in music. 00:12:16.110 --> 00:12:19.289 And for some reason, it always piques my interest 00:12:19.289 --> 00:12:23.129 because it could either really set a song to 00:12:23.129 --> 00:12:26.730 new levels or it could actually backfire and 00:12:26.730 --> 00:12:30.490 make the song almost too much to digest. Trey's 00:12:30.490 --> 00:12:34.830 guitar work on the song is perfect because this 00:12:34.830 --> 00:12:39.649 type of song doesn't require Anything stratospheric. 00:12:39.649 --> 00:12:42.629 So he never overplays in this song. He just kind 00:12:42.629 --> 00:12:45.490 of doodles for the guitar solo, if you want to 00:12:45.490 --> 00:12:49.690 call it that. But it feels very breezy and airy 00:12:49.690 --> 00:12:53.190 of a jam on his part. So there's something in 00:12:53.190 --> 00:12:57.509 this song. I don't know. It's hypnotic. It's 00:12:57.509 --> 00:13:00.870 like the Pied Piper of Hamlet on guitar. And 00:13:00.870 --> 00:13:03.090 Trey is just kind of bouncing down the street. 00:13:03.450 --> 00:13:05.190 Wow, you missed a good pun there where you could 00:13:05.190 --> 00:13:06.789 have said he's bouncing around. Oh, you already 00:13:06.789 --> 00:13:10.490 said Pipe Piper. I like that song. We've jammed 00:13:10.490 --> 00:13:13.429 that many a times. That's the song that we didn't 00:13:13.429 --> 00:13:16.210 overplay that I loved playing with you. Not that 00:13:16.210 --> 00:13:18.190 I don't love the other song, which maybe we'll 00:13:18.190 --> 00:13:19.850 get to that. Maybe we won't. We'll find out. 00:13:20.629 --> 00:13:22.789 All right. So what are you following up heavy 00:13:22.789 --> 00:13:27.029 things with? Okay. So I know I said Down With 00:13:27.029 --> 00:13:28.950 Disease is like the first Phish tune for me. 00:13:29.009 --> 00:13:30.950 It's the first tune that got me into Phish. However. 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:34.659 The year before, I remember Rift coming out and 00:13:34.659 --> 00:13:39.179 my good friend Eric made a mixtape for me. Pretty 00:13:39.179 --> 00:13:42.220 cool, right? Here we go. Old school. It's a mixtape. 00:13:42.220 --> 00:13:44.200 And I remember a lot of the stuff that was on 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:47.139 it too. And some of that stuff I wish they would 00:13:47.139 --> 00:13:49.879 bring back into their repertoire. But I didn't 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:52.000 really like start listening to the tape on a 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.340 regular basis until after I got into Down With 00:13:55.340 --> 00:13:57.159 The Z's. And the funny thing about this mixtape 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:00.379 of Phish is that... The Blues Traveler album 00:14:00.379 --> 00:14:02.379 had just come out. I don't remember what album 00:14:02.379 --> 00:14:06.580 it was, so forgive me. But the B -side, after 00:14:06.580 --> 00:14:08.840 the Blues Traveler album was copied for me, sorry 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:12.799 guys, was a mix of Phish stuff. And the first 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:16.720 tune that was on it that really grabbed me was 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.960 My Friend, My Friend. Nice. I love arrangements 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:22.960 like that. I love composition like that. You 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:25.519 know me, I'm a prog rock guy, so I'm into stuff 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:27.720 like that with the long instrumental intros and 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:31.830 all that stuff. And man, just even how the beat 00:14:31.830 --> 00:14:34.090 gets flipped, how Fishman flips the beat once 00:14:34.090 --> 00:14:38.090 it kicks in. I love My Friend, My Friend. That's 00:14:38.090 --> 00:14:39.830 a driving tune. And I love the fact that they've 00:14:39.830 --> 00:14:42.370 been jamming a lot lately. Yeah, they've been 00:14:42.370 --> 00:14:45.870 definitely opening that one up from 1993's Rift. 00:14:45.970 --> 00:14:50.429 Three in a row for Trey and Tom for our first 00:14:50.429 --> 00:14:53.830 three songs, which obviously it's your main songwriting 00:14:53.830 --> 00:14:56.889 duo and Fish. So don't be too shocked if that 00:14:56.889 --> 00:14:59.840 happens a lot tonight. Like you mentioned, I 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:02.500 have to agree. The opening of My Friend, My Friend 00:15:02.500 --> 00:15:05.679 is very whimsical. I'll almost say it gives me 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:10.659 a Jethro Tull -ish type vibe. I'm not saying 00:15:10.659 --> 00:15:13.600 it's Jethro Tull, but I'm saying I catch vibes 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.320 of it, at least in the first two and a half minutes 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:19.580 before, like you said, Fishman just flips the 00:15:19.580 --> 00:15:21.759 song on its side and you transition into this 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:26.250 darker groove. Rift was the first concept album 00:15:26.250 --> 00:15:31.429 for Phish, not counting Trey's 1988 album, The 00:15:31.429 --> 00:15:34.669 Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, which was his 00:15:34.669 --> 00:15:38.590 senior thesis over at Goddard College. And believe 00:15:38.590 --> 00:15:40.870 it or not, I'm actually surprised the band hasn't 00:15:40.870 --> 00:15:43.909 released like an archive of it to like at least 00:15:43.909 --> 00:15:47.029 Nugs or something, considering songs like Wilson, 00:15:47.250 --> 00:15:50.730 The Lizard and Possum are all. live staples this 00:15:50.730 --> 00:15:52.909 would have been their quote unquote studio versions 00:15:52.909 --> 00:15:57.330 but i digress it's out there yeah and i'll tell 00:15:57.330 --> 00:16:00.850 you what's funny you bring up the uh more it's 00:16:00.850 --> 00:16:03.129 not a concept as much as a theme it shares a 00:16:03.129 --> 00:16:08.129 theme of sleep and dreams so i'm gonna i mentioned 00:16:08.129 --> 00:16:10.509 dream theater earlier their album that just came 00:16:10.509 --> 00:16:13.789 out parasomnia when i first heard the description 00:16:13.789 --> 00:16:16.330 of it the theme is like dreams and nightmares 00:16:16.330 --> 00:16:19.210 and stuff like that i'm like wait So the theme 00:16:19.210 --> 00:16:22.009 of this prog rock band's album is dreams. Didn't 00:16:22.009 --> 00:16:26.350 Phish already do that in 1993? So, I mean, and 00:16:26.350 --> 00:16:28.730 trust me, like I'm very happy with the new Dream 00:16:28.730 --> 00:16:31.990 Theater album. And, you know, I'm talking apples 00:16:31.990 --> 00:16:33.850 and walnuts right now, so I can't even compare 00:16:33.850 --> 00:16:36.149 them. But it's cool that like two of my favorite 00:16:36.149 --> 00:16:40.269 bands have done an album about dreams. Well, 00:16:40.389 --> 00:16:44.429 following that up, there's a small part of me 00:16:44.429 --> 00:16:48.620 that wants to think in a live sense here. Because 00:16:48.620 --> 00:16:50.820 at the end of the song, you've got the repetition 00:16:50.820 --> 00:16:53.360 of my friend, my friend, he's got a knife to 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:57.720 close the song. And for some reason in my head, 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:00.899 if they were doing this live, I can almost hear 00:17:00.899 --> 00:17:06.619 the panning and swirling opening to ghost underneath 00:17:06.619 --> 00:17:12.099 those lyrics in repetition. And as soon as they 00:17:12.099 --> 00:17:14.700 hit the last, my friend, my friend, he's got 00:17:14.700 --> 00:17:17.940 a knife. Mike and Fishman kick in with the beat 00:17:17.940 --> 00:17:21.880 from 1998's The Story of the Ghost and tonight's 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:26.599 first album opening track. The song is perfect 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:29.880 for that musical gateway drug into the band because 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:32.299 the studio version clocks in at three minutes 00:17:32.299 --> 00:17:36.319 and 52 seconds. However, pretty much any time 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:39.740 this song is played live, it's always opened 00:17:39.740 --> 00:17:43.519 up and explored in some facet with. a lot of 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:46.039 the live versions clocking in well over 20 minutes. 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:49.900 Then you kind of hone in on the song, even on 00:17:49.900 --> 00:17:52.680 the studio version, Mike's slap bass during the 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:55.559 breakdown kind of seals the deal on this track 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:59.200 for me as it brings out the funkiness in the 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:03.319 band, but it's not in such a manic red hot chili 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:06.579 pepper sense, like down with disease was. So 00:18:06.579 --> 00:18:09.319 anytime I'm trying to introduce someone to fish, 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:13.230 I like to keep ghost. pretty close to the front 00:18:13.230 --> 00:18:17.529 because it's a fun, easily digestible song from 00:18:17.529 --> 00:18:21.009 a studio length standpoint. But it also gives 00:18:21.009 --> 00:18:24.390 you teases of what you can expect from them in 00:18:24.390 --> 00:18:27.789 a live setting. Well, you know, that album was 00:18:27.789 --> 00:18:31.289 recorded from jam sessions where they took parts 00:18:31.289 --> 00:18:34.789 of the jam and wrote around that. And now that 00:18:34.789 --> 00:18:37.450 might not be a million percent accurate, but 00:18:37.450 --> 00:18:40.609 I'm 99 % sure that that's exactly. how the album 00:18:40.609 --> 00:18:43.789 is. So you, you are kind of still getting that 00:18:43.789 --> 00:18:48.009 live vibe from fish. What an awesome choice. 00:18:48.190 --> 00:18:50.910 What an awesome album. And I actually hear what 00:18:50.910 --> 00:18:52.329 you're telling my friend, my friend, he's got 00:18:52.329 --> 00:18:57.089 knife. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Exactly. That's, 00:18:57.089 --> 00:19:01.490 that's awesome. That's awesome. Well, when you're 00:19:01.490 --> 00:19:03.430 listening to ghost and you're coming out of ghost 00:19:03.430 --> 00:19:07.049 in this jam. You reach into your pocket, right? 00:19:07.190 --> 00:19:10.890 And you pull out a big doobie and you blaze on. 00:19:11.069 --> 00:19:13.009 You see what I did there? You see what I did 00:19:13.009 --> 00:19:16.190 there? I made a pun. I made a pun. But yeah, 00:19:16.250 --> 00:19:17.990 you know, I'm going to follow it up with blaze 00:19:17.990 --> 00:19:20.049 on. I remember the first time I heard that, that 00:19:20.049 --> 00:19:23.630 was 2015. And I was listening to the show on 00:19:23.630 --> 00:19:26.710 the drive out to Pittsburgh for a gig with the 00:19:26.710 --> 00:19:29.109 Pittsburgh Browncoats for I Can't Stop the Serenity 00:19:29.109 --> 00:19:32.289 event. I do have to give my browncoats some love. 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:37.460 And Blazon came on. And Robert Fulton, who I've 00:19:37.460 --> 00:19:40.400 played with in several facets, was telling me 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:41.680 like, oh, yeah, you're going to dig this new 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:43.039 tune. You're going to dig this new tune. And 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:46.500 not even a minute in, I'm like, my God, Blazon 00:19:46.500 --> 00:19:49.880 is an instant classic. Of course, I'm not going 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:51.759 from that show. I'm going from the album Big 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:55.839 Boat. But Blazon just, that's, it's just instant 00:19:55.839 --> 00:20:00.700 classic fish. Absolutely right. 2016's Big Boat. 00:20:00.700 --> 00:20:03.599 Once again, Trey and Tom, the writers on this 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:08.619 one. It is my favorite song from Big Boat. So 00:20:08.619 --> 00:20:11.279 I'm glad you picked it because it was in my bank. 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:15.299 I will say this as a spoiler, it was the only 00:20:15.299 --> 00:20:17.720 song in my bank, although there are other ones. 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:21.059 I feel like when you get into songs like Petrichor 00:20:21.059 --> 00:20:24.180 that might be a little too much for that 101 00:20:24.180 --> 00:20:30.920 vibe, Blazon definitely is closer to the, I don't 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:32.960 know if you want to call it radio -friendly side 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:36.559 of Phish, but it's definitely a digestible track 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:39.720 where Petrichor is definitely a lot more experimental. 00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:42.079 And I think we're going to get to some of that 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:44.759 tonight. but we're not quite there yet. Petrichor 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:47.220 is prog rock. It's straight up. It's total prog 00:20:47.220 --> 00:20:49.740 rock, yeah. But the funny thing is, too, is like, 00:20:49.819 --> 00:20:52.299 all right, so it's not rain, but I mean, Petrichor, 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.680 the word itself, a pleasant smell because of 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:57.759 the rain. And like, well, Blazon is also a pleasant 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:00.440 smell. So we could say either of these songs, 00:21:00.500 --> 00:21:02.700 but I'm going with Blazon. All right, all right. 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:06.400 Well, we're now at track six on Side A, and I'm 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:08.819 thinking again, even though we're putting studio 00:21:08.819 --> 00:21:11.819 songs out there, I'm thinking, okay, if this 00:21:11.819 --> 00:21:14.289 was a set, What would happen in this point of 00:21:14.289 --> 00:21:17.670 the set? And I think this is the point where 00:21:17.670 --> 00:21:20.130 we'd bring it down a notch, or at least in this 00:21:20.130 --> 00:21:23.349 case, several notches. And I said, bring it down. 00:21:24.170 --> 00:21:28.190 Thank you. No, we're not going with guar sick 00:21:28.190 --> 00:21:32.349 of you. Oh, sorry. All right. My bad. From 1996 00:21:32.349 --> 00:21:35.930 is Billy breathes, which the whole album actually 00:21:35.930 --> 00:21:38.710 peaked at number seven on the billboard 200 chart. 00:21:38.970 --> 00:21:41.609 And it's the highest the band has ever charted. 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.599 So from there, I guess, biggest album, I am going 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:48.579 to go with Waste, which is the fourth highest 00:21:48.579 --> 00:21:52.200 streamed song on Spotify at 11 .9 million streams. 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.420 And for the sixth song in a row, Trey and Tom 00:21:56.420 --> 00:21:59.059 are the writers for this one. But, you know, 00:21:59.059 --> 00:22:00.859 like I said, that's going to happen a lot tonight. 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:03.900 And I got a kind of a fun story about this song. 00:22:04.059 --> 00:22:05.880 How you scooped me on it. That's yeah, that's 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:09.259 a really fun story. Yeah, I scooped Sean on Waste. 00:22:09.819 --> 00:22:12.869 Also. Back when I took the family to Disney, 00:22:13.109 --> 00:22:16.670 I want to say this is, I don't know, a good 10, 00:22:16.750 --> 00:22:18.250 15 years ago for the first time. Are you allowed 00:22:18.250 --> 00:22:20.250 to say that word without getting sued? Yeah, 00:22:20.289 --> 00:22:22.009 it's a place. Okay. It's a location. Okay, cool. 00:22:22.109 --> 00:22:25.569 Yeah. So my folks said, if you and the missus 00:22:25.569 --> 00:22:28.410 want a night out, go to the boardwalk and have 00:22:28.410 --> 00:22:31.369 some fun. So we did. And we went to a place called 00:22:31.369 --> 00:22:34.529 Jelly Rolls. And Jelly Rolls is a dueling piano 00:22:34.529 --> 00:22:37.990 bar in Disney. And you sit at tables, you have 00:22:37.990 --> 00:22:41.700 drinks. There's a stack of napkins on your table 00:22:41.700 --> 00:22:44.619 with a pen next to it. And you throw a tip into 00:22:44.619 --> 00:22:47.319 the napkin. You write a song title, you crumple 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:50.480 it up and you throw it to the stage. So I literally 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:56.500 put my tip in and just wrote P H I S H period, 00:22:56.579 --> 00:23:00.039 crumpled it up and threw it in about five or 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:01.880 six songs. Later, the guy opens it up and he 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:03.980 looks in the crowd. He goes, all right, which 00:23:03.980 --> 00:23:06.960 one he asked for fish. And I, and I raised my 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:10.880 hand and he's like, I can only do one that I 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:13.619 think I could do justice. And he started the 00:23:13.619 --> 00:23:16.259 opening piano for Waste. And I literally sat 00:23:16.259 --> 00:23:19.019 back in the chair. And as he was singing it, 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:22.619 the other piano player didn't play, just started 00:23:22.619 --> 00:23:25.740 harmonizing them. And they did the whole song. 00:23:25.900 --> 00:23:29.500 And it was frigging perfect. And there's something 00:23:29.500 --> 00:23:34.799 about this song that is just so beautiful. And 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:37.200 this is a side of Fish that I think a lot of 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:39.789 people that picture the band, Don't go here. 00:23:39.950 --> 00:23:43.329 And they should, because this is a place in the 00:23:43.329 --> 00:23:48.009 band's sound that I think is truly underrated. 00:23:48.829 --> 00:23:52.349 I love pages playing on this a lot. He's like 00:23:52.349 --> 00:23:56.130 the standout. You scooped me. I love your story. 00:23:56.630 --> 00:23:58.890 You scooped me. And I'm sure this is an original. 00:23:58.930 --> 00:24:00.410 We're not the first people. We're the first people 00:24:00.410 --> 00:24:03.049 I know of that did this, but it was my wedding 00:24:03.049 --> 00:24:06.069 song. Well, now I feel really bad for scooping 00:24:06.069 --> 00:24:07.990 you on it. You had to scoop my wedding song. 00:24:08.130 --> 00:24:10.130 Well, you know, I don't know who's got the better 00:24:10.130 --> 00:24:14.529 story, you or me. I mean, I'd say you. I mean, 00:24:14.549 --> 00:24:16.029 like I said, it's probably not the most original 00:24:16.029 --> 00:24:19.210 idea, but I've never been to a wedding of Phish 00:24:19.210 --> 00:24:22.109 fans until mine, and then until after that, and 00:24:22.109 --> 00:24:24.170 not everybody did Waste. I've seen Waste, and 00:24:24.170 --> 00:24:26.490 I haven't seen Waste, and I think it's just that 00:24:26.490 --> 00:24:30.180 song. It's a sweet song. And my poor wife is 00:24:30.180 --> 00:24:33.160 completely wasting her time with me. So it's, 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:37.460 wow, good choice, bro. Good choice. All right. 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:40.400 So you know how I said I love prog rock? I do. 00:24:40.460 --> 00:24:42.400 And yeah, I was kind of surprised to hear that, 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:44.640 but yeah. I know. I never talk about my love 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:46.539 for prog rock or Floyd or Dream Theater, right? 00:24:46.740 --> 00:24:49.359 And I do call, I mean, Phish is a jam band, but 00:24:49.359 --> 00:24:51.559 there's a lot of prog rock influence there. There's 00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:53.539 an everything. They're a melting pot of awesome. 00:24:53.700 --> 00:24:58.109 Yes. And this song. has this middle section that 00:24:58.109 --> 00:25:01.089 is like the jam band equivalent of dream theaters 00:25:01.089 --> 00:25:03.609 metropolis where it just here's the song here's 00:25:03.609 --> 00:25:05.329 the song here's the song here's this what the 00:25:05.329 --> 00:25:08.210 hell is this i think i know where you're going 00:25:08.210 --> 00:25:10.970 from the album lawn boy i'm gonna go with reba 00:25:10.970 --> 00:25:16.230 yeah jazzy proggy fusion prowess all at play 00:25:16.230 --> 00:25:19.470 here i mean you think about the song kind of 00:25:19.470 --> 00:25:22.710 fools you sean you got the whole bag it tag it 00:25:22.990 --> 00:25:25.930 Sell it to the butcher in the store. And you 00:25:25.930 --> 00:25:29.549 just get all caught up in that. But buckle up 00:25:29.549 --> 00:25:32.710 because there's 12 minutes and 27 seconds in 00:25:32.710 --> 00:25:35.710 this song. And I think this is the first time 00:25:35.710 --> 00:25:39.490 tonight we're truly testing the Fish 101 crowd 00:25:39.490 --> 00:25:42.529 with a studio track that starts to bridge us 00:25:42.529 --> 00:25:46.490 into the live aspect of the band, which makes 00:25:46.490 --> 00:25:49.990 sense because Lawn Boy was recorded mostly live 00:25:49.990 --> 00:25:54.130 to tape when they won. studio time after the 00:25:54.130 --> 00:25:57.450 junta album was out and about so if you're lucky 00:25:57.450 --> 00:26:00.869 enough to have the original absolute a go -go 00:26:00.869 --> 00:26:04.109 pressing of this cd which was prior to electro 00:26:04.109 --> 00:26:06.809 remastering and re -releasing it you actually 00:26:06.809 --> 00:26:10.230 get a bonus track of fee but anyway i digress 00:26:10.230 --> 00:26:14.309 love the pick love the exploration in this one 00:26:14.309 --> 00:26:18.309 but from a 101 perspective this definitely is 00:26:18.309 --> 00:26:21.829 going to test new listeners to see if they really 00:26:21.829 --> 00:26:26.109 get fish well here's the thing though man like 00:26:26.109 --> 00:26:28.109 if they're gonna listen to this mixtape right 00:26:28.109 --> 00:26:29.589 and then you're like oh that's a band i would 00:26:29.589 --> 00:26:32.269 definitely go see live well let's prep them sooner 00:26:32.269 --> 00:26:38.190 than later right yes well to follow that up i 00:26:38.190 --> 00:26:42.150 think i'm gonna palate cleanse from a 101 perspective 00:26:42.150 --> 00:26:45.079 because the other part of me wants to go And 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:48.079 just go nuts into some epic long jams here. But 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:52.099 we're thinking 101. And the song I'm going to 00:26:52.099 --> 00:26:54.059 go with, I have to kind of preface with the fact 00:26:54.059 --> 00:26:59.599 that after Trey's Shine solo album, there's a 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:03.920 definite blurring of Trey's solo sound and Phish's 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:08.579 sound. However, there's this gray area in the 00:27:08.579 --> 00:27:13.059 middle that I think post -Joy. the band started 00:27:13.059 --> 00:27:16.680 sitting in very comfortably. And I am going to 00:27:16.680 --> 00:27:22.140 go to 2020's Sigma Oasis. Now, the entire album 00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:25.059 was already familiar with Phish fans as most 00:27:25.059 --> 00:27:28.460 of the songs were previewed live before the studio 00:27:28.460 --> 00:27:31.359 album dropped. And I think it was Mercury and 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:35.579 Shade were both leftovers from Big Boat. Now, 00:27:35.579 --> 00:27:38.599 once again. And in the case of Sigma Oasis, the 00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:42.279 entire album was written by Trey and Tom, with 00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:45.339 Scott Herman contributing to two songs, Evening 00:27:45.339 --> 00:27:49.900 Song, as well as my pick, the title track, Sigma 00:27:49.900 --> 00:27:53.880 Oasis. This album was very memorable to me in 00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:57.200 a positive way because during the 2020 COVID 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:01.059 lockdowns, Phish was doing the Tuesday night 00:28:01.059 --> 00:28:07.079 dinner and a movie series on YouTube. the March 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:11.000 31st edition, they announced that the next night 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:15.000 they were hosting a listening party on Live Fish, 00:28:15.299 --> 00:28:18.519 Sirius XM, and YouTube. And I was quick to look 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:21.220 at the date, March 31st. What's tomorrow's date? 00:28:21.980 --> 00:28:26.420 April 1st. So I honestly thought they were setting 00:28:26.420 --> 00:28:29.980 up everybody for a virtual New Year's Eve gag. 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:33.400 And I had no idea what to expect, but sure enough, 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.410 they weren't bluffing. And they premiered the 00:28:37.410 --> 00:28:40.809 Sigma Oasis album in its entirety. And as soon 00:28:40.809 --> 00:28:44.369 as the album ended, it premiered on all the streaming 00:28:44.369 --> 00:28:49.849 sites. It was a really fun way to debut an album 00:28:49.849 --> 00:28:53.490 in a dark period in time. And that opening song 00:28:53.490 --> 00:28:57.029 just had such a fun, uplifting spirit and vibe. 00:28:57.569 --> 00:29:01.250 And Farmhouse, like I mentioned with Heavy Things, 00:29:01.349 --> 00:29:05.720 is my favorite Phish album. So hearing Sigma 00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:09.680 Oasis' opening, I really did catch a lot of that 00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:13.519 farmhouse sound in the song. So I think the combination 00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:15.640 of those two things is why it resonates with 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.460 me as much as it does. Dude, that's an awesome 00:29:18.460 --> 00:29:21.500 pick. That's one of my, like of the newer stuff 00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:23.940 from Phish, that's one of my favorite newer songs. 00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:27.660 So what a nice choice there. I'm actually still, 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:31.960 I'm hearing that D right there. I don't know 00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:34.319 if you got to watch the Tiny Desk concert, but 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:35.940 they did it at that and it was really awesome. 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.660 Yeah. Yeah. Wow. What a great choice. What a 00:29:38.660 --> 00:29:43.079 great, how do I follow this up, bro? Hmm. We 00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:45.839 keep talking about Trey and Trey and Trey and 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:48.119 Trey. And like, you know, we mentioned, you know, 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:53.140 Mike and Fishman and Page briefly, but how about 00:29:53.140 --> 00:29:57.140 Mike, Page and Fishman completely owning it? 00:29:57.140 --> 00:30:00.099 Now, Trey is awesome on this track too, but there's 00:30:00.099 --> 00:30:02.509 some killer organ. There's that awesome boop, 00:30:02.569 --> 00:30:06.670 boop, boop, boop. And as the gentleman from Moe, 00:30:06.670 --> 00:30:12.130 Jim Laughlin said, maze, bro, maze. Maze. I mean, 00:30:12.150 --> 00:30:14.609 dude, first of all, I mean, Fishman's drumming 00:30:14.609 --> 00:30:17.230 on the entire Rift album is just otherworldly 00:30:17.230 --> 00:30:19.089 and no human being should be able to play that. 00:30:19.309 --> 00:30:22.450 Yet there he is just simply like, oh, yeah, yeah, 00:30:22.470 --> 00:30:24.509 I got this. No problem. And if you listen to 00:30:24.509 --> 00:30:25.930 the drumming on that album, it's out of this 00:30:25.930 --> 00:30:29.049 world. Not only that, I still haven't gotten 00:30:29.049 --> 00:30:32.029 the song Riffed Live, but I digress. Maze is 00:30:32.029 --> 00:30:34.970 always just a pleasure to get. I believe we got 00:30:34.970 --> 00:30:36.190 it the same night that you got the Heavy Things 00:30:36.190 --> 00:30:41.170 opening. And man, Paige just tears it up. Yeah, 00:30:41.190 --> 00:30:43.250 I'm going with Maze. Dude, I just love this album 00:30:43.250 --> 00:30:46.190 so much. It's our first revisit of the night. 00:30:46.289 --> 00:30:48.230 First time we're going back to an album. Once 00:30:48.230 --> 00:30:51.829 again, a Trey and Tom song. Clocking in at 8 00:30:51.829 --> 00:30:54.490 minutes and 13 seconds. We're not quite at the 00:30:54.490 --> 00:30:57.279 Reba level here. But you're certainly testing 00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:01.039 those Fish 101 lines in terms of drawing a musical 00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:04.660 line in the sand. But I think between the two 00:31:04.660 --> 00:31:07.619 longer songs that you've chosen, these are songs 00:31:07.619 --> 00:31:11.400 to me that even on the album itself, they don't 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:14.799 feel as long as their runtimes might allude to. 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:18.940 And the thing I love so much about Maze is this 00:31:18.940 --> 00:31:21.119 is the kind of song that I have to put on headphones 00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:26.039 and listen to because there's so much. separation 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.039 happening in this song it is so well mixed when 00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:33.460 you listen on a good set of headphones the band 00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:38.599 is really surrounding you and it's almost theatrical 00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:43.480 in the way the song was produced you almost feel 00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:47.019 the tension and anxiety in the music and in the 00:31:47.019 --> 00:31:49.640 playing and the way it's mixed in a good set 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:53.200 of headphones It's almost like the band is circling 00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:56.859 you the entire time the song is playing. And 00:31:56.859 --> 00:32:00.480 that is such a difficult thing to achieve on 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.579 a studio track that I feel like this is an example 00:32:05.579 --> 00:32:08.440 that if there was an argument for why you should 00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:12.619 listen to Phish studio albums, it's moments like 00:32:12.619 --> 00:32:16.339 this. That's a very fair assessment. Dude, I 00:32:16.339 --> 00:32:18.200 mean, the production on that album, like you 00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:22.380 said, the space is just... There you are in that 00:32:22.380 --> 00:32:25.960 world. It's immersive entirely. What are you 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:28.119 going to follow that up with, though, bro? Well, 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:31.240 we got to go with a side closer here. So my mind 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:35.640 started thinking, what's a good set closer coming 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:38.599 out of Maze? And I feel like we've touched on 00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:42.160 the whole spectrum of albums from the band. Well, 00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:46.039 not the whole spectrum, but a big swath of their 00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:48.759 musical spectrum. But we haven't gone back. to 00:32:48.759 --> 00:32:51.960 1989 and the album junta so we have to go there 00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:54.819 oh dude are you gonna scoop me well let's find 00:32:54.819 --> 00:32:57.779 out written by trey and tom along with brian 00:32:57.779 --> 00:33:00.900 sutzer and aaron wolf sean maybe you can help 00:33:00.900 --> 00:33:03.559 me out with the lyrics here i looked into the 00:33:03.559 --> 00:33:08.700 finance box just to check my status status look 00:33:08.700 --> 00:33:11.480 it's no surprise to anybody listening that i 00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:15.849 am a huge ska punk fan and while no ska's not 00:33:15.849 --> 00:33:19.349 breaking out the real big fish in this song oh 00:33:19.349 --> 00:33:23.930 i see what you did there there are some ska elements 00:33:23.930 --> 00:33:27.430 to trace playing over the gogi oh woe is me sections 00:33:27.430 --> 00:33:29.910 and every time i hear that song it always puts 00:33:29.910 --> 00:33:34.230 a smile on my face so if you want to hear a fish 00:33:34.230 --> 00:33:37.670 crowd erupt at the end of the set gogi apparatus 00:33:37.670 --> 00:33:41.930 i saw you with a ticket stub in your hand it's 00:33:41.930 --> 00:33:45.950 game over The whole crowd is going crazy. Even 00:33:45.950 --> 00:33:47.910 the people that are singing. I saw you with a 00:33:47.910 --> 00:33:51.730 chicken sub in your hand. It's one of those songs 00:33:51.730 --> 00:33:56.829 that found its home closing out fish sets. So 00:33:56.829 --> 00:33:59.250 I thought what a perfect way to close out side 00:33:59.250 --> 00:34:03.970 a and channel that end of set energy in a studio 00:34:03.970 --> 00:34:06.950 song. You know, what's weird, man. The last time 00:34:06.950 --> 00:34:12.380 I saw them at MSG set one was. All early stuff, 00:34:12.460 --> 00:34:16.360 man. And they closed the set with Golgi. And 00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:19.760 there you have it, mixtapers. Side A of the ultimate 00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:22.940 fish mixtape, which consists of Down With Disease 00:34:22.940 --> 00:34:26.900 from Hoist, Heavy Things from Farmhouse, My Friend, 00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:30.139 My Friend from Rift, Ghost from The Story of 00:34:30.139 --> 00:34:33.960 the Ghost, Blaze On from Big Boat, Waste from 00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:37.929 Billy Breathes, Reba from Longboy, Sigma Oasis 00:34:37.929 --> 00:34:41.170 from the album of the same name, Maze from Rift, 00:34:41.250 --> 00:34:44.969 and Golgi Apparatus from Junta. Head over to 00:34:44.969 --> 00:34:47.650 myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs we've 00:34:47.650 --> 00:34:50.929 discussed in this mix through the playlist embedded 00:34:50.929 --> 00:34:54.929 on the episode page. Now, Sean, you have a new 00:34:54.929 --> 00:34:57.030 tune out that you've been promoting as of late 00:34:57.030 --> 00:35:00.409 on all of the socials. The song is called Status 00:35:00.409 --> 00:35:03.150 Quo Radio. So let's take a quick listen to a 00:35:03.150 --> 00:35:07.730 clip from that. Where do we go from here? Must 00:35:07.730 --> 00:35:14.769 it always be the same songs? There's more to 00:35:14.769 --> 00:35:20.530 be heard and more to be seen if we open our eyes. 00:35:35.720 --> 00:35:38.960 So Sean, why don't you talk about the story behind 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:44.300 Status Quo Radio? So I've been in tributes and 00:35:44.300 --> 00:35:46.699 cover bands and still doing the original thing. 00:35:47.139 --> 00:35:51.059 And it's just this whole addiction to things 00:35:51.059 --> 00:35:54.840 we're familiar with. just looking at our screens 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.199 or just, I saw on social media that everybody 00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:00.539 was doing this and I need to fit in. And I saw 00:36:00.539 --> 00:36:03.380 on social media that this, and I saw on social 00:36:03.380 --> 00:36:06.579 media that, and I was looking at my screen the 00:36:06.579 --> 00:36:08.179 whole time I should have been watching a movie 00:36:08.179 --> 00:36:10.019 because I was in the theater and people just 00:36:10.019 --> 00:36:14.420 get addicted to doing things. Like some people 00:36:14.420 --> 00:36:16.219 like go to the concert just to say that they 00:36:16.219 --> 00:36:18.820 were there, but they don't even like the band 00:36:18.820 --> 00:36:21.900 and they've learned everything they know. on 00:36:21.900 --> 00:36:24.699 status quo radio and that's it's social media 00:36:24.699 --> 00:36:27.519 is just people out there that just need to be 00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:29.480 seen even though they're doing nothing pick you 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:32.380 know let me post pictures of my food oh my food 00:36:32.380 --> 00:36:34.099 looks better than yours let me post a clip of 00:36:34.099 --> 00:36:36.219 this concert i'm at while people are asking me 00:36:36.219 --> 00:36:39.900 to like put my phone down so yeah i mean i'm 00:36:39.900 --> 00:36:45.699 angry you can tell and and i'm angry in some 00:36:45.699 --> 00:36:49.199 really mellow ways and i mean that song is sarcastic 00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:52.400 but it's just an observation like just Be yourself. 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:55.179 Think for yourself. Stop trying to fit in on 00:36:55.179 --> 00:36:57.340 everything because your Uncle Milt posted something 00:36:57.340 --> 00:37:00.559 on Facebook and you read the headline and assumed 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:03.219 the rest of the story. Just go out and do things 00:37:03.219 --> 00:37:05.980 for yourself. And, you know, while I'm at it 00:37:05.980 --> 00:37:10.719 with my anger, be yourself. Buy yourself. But 00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:14.630 come to my shows, please. Well, Sean, since this 00:37:14.630 --> 00:37:17.429 is a fish episode, I want to talk about one other 00:37:17.429 --> 00:37:19.809 song from your back catalog. I guess we'll call 00:37:19.809 --> 00:37:23.050 it that. And that is the title track from your 00:37:23.050 --> 00:37:28.949 Inside Again EP. Oh, wow. OK. Seeing all this 00:37:28.949 --> 00:37:36.429 distance traveled. Just killing time until the 00:37:36.429 --> 00:37:47.860 show. Well, the facts remain inside us. 15 miles, 00:37:48.099 --> 00:39:00.250 20 hours to go. This is a song I think a lot 00:39:00.250 --> 00:39:03.929 of Phish fans can relate to, maybe exactly like 00:39:03.929 --> 00:39:07.730 you did or in one way or another. I mean, I was 00:39:07.730 --> 00:39:10.989 inspired by the people that, I guess, wrote the 00:39:10.989 --> 00:39:13.110 chorus. I mean, I saw that and I was like, wow. 00:39:13.690 --> 00:39:17.349 So we drove up to Coventry and, you know, we 00:39:17.349 --> 00:39:21.690 left about 15 hours before the gates opened or 00:39:21.690 --> 00:39:23.449 something like that. And it's a three hour drive. 00:39:23.929 --> 00:39:27.119 But, you know, Debbie is an expert. at these 00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:29.579 festivals and knew like, it's going to be a long 00:39:29.579 --> 00:39:33.039 line to get in. So we left and we were on the 00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:36.760 side of the road and it's just this big holdup. 00:39:37.179 --> 00:39:40.500 And we were about 20 or 30 miles away. I mean, 00:39:40.539 --> 00:39:43.099 yeah, I mean, I changed the lyric a bit to just 00:39:43.099 --> 00:39:46.000 flow better, 15 miles, 20 hours to go, but it 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:49.579 was more like 20 miles, maybe 24 miles and like 00:39:49.579 --> 00:39:53.750 36 hours to go. until we heard Mike come on the 00:39:53.750 --> 00:39:55.510 radio. If you were not within, I think it was 00:39:55.510 --> 00:39:57.210 five miles, you're not going to get in and we're 00:39:57.210 --> 00:40:01.409 sorry because the grounds got flooded and nobody 00:40:01.409 --> 00:40:03.469 saw that coming. The Farmer's Almanac did not 00:40:03.469 --> 00:40:06.210 see it coming. Like they just weren't prepared 00:40:06.210 --> 00:40:09.170 for the amount of mud. And actually funny thing 00:40:09.170 --> 00:40:11.150 about the mud is that the song Mud City from 00:40:11.150 --> 00:40:14.969 Bar 17 is about that. But I was just getting 00:40:14.969 --> 00:40:17.369 so frustrated and so upset and angry. Like what's 00:40:17.369 --> 00:40:19.789 going on? What's going on? And of course, you 00:40:19.789 --> 00:40:21.900 know, you're listening to the bunny. And they're 00:40:21.900 --> 00:40:24.679 talking about people just completely going in 00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:28.300 the left lane to cut in a few miles in. And I 00:40:28.300 --> 00:40:30.760 don't shame them. I do whatever they want. But 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:33.260 then I got home and I saw online that people 00:40:33.260 --> 00:40:37.039 moved their cars up more and parked on the side 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.119 of the road and walked to Coventry to be there 00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:43.860 for Fish's last show. And had it not been a 20 00:40:43.860 --> 00:40:45.539 -something mile walk and we prepared better, 00:40:45.579 --> 00:40:47.980 we might have done that. But I was so moved that 00:40:47.980 --> 00:40:51.380 everybody... was just so dedicated to being there 00:40:51.380 --> 00:40:54.460 at that moment that I wish I could have thought 00:40:54.460 --> 00:40:57.360 of that at the time or just done that. So that 00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:01.960 song is for those people. All right. Now I get 00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:05.739 to kick things off for side B and I know exactly 00:41:05.739 --> 00:41:07.960 how I'm going to kick this side off. You started 00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:10.800 with down with disease on side a, and that's 00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:15.360 that upbeat, crazy set opening energy. And I'm 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:18.949 going to follow that up with upbeat. Crazy set 00:41:18.949 --> 00:41:23.530 opening energy with Chalk Dust Torture from 1992's 00:41:23.530 --> 00:41:26.110 A Picture of Nectar. And that comes along with 00:41:26.110 --> 00:41:28.889 a shout out to Patreon mixtaper Brandon from 00:41:28.889 --> 00:41:31.969 Virginia, who also chimed in with this one. The 00:41:31.969 --> 00:41:34.889 first promotional single released by Elektra 00:41:34.889 --> 00:41:37.969 Records for the band. It actually peaked at number 00:41:37.969 --> 00:41:42.210 53 on the radio and records album oriented rock 00:41:42.210 --> 00:41:45.550 chart. Like I said, not a lot of charts to talk 00:41:45.550 --> 00:41:47.650 about, but when they happen, I'm going to mention 00:41:47.650 --> 00:41:50.530 them. One of the band's biggest live staples, 00:41:50.550 --> 00:41:54.510 it actually hit its longest version ever, February 00:41:54.510 --> 00:41:59.530 3rd, 2024, at their Riviera Maya event in Cancun, 00:41:59.530 --> 00:42:03.130 Mexico. Now, if you're a Phish 101er and you 00:42:03.130 --> 00:42:07.070 want to explore... What a truly lengthy and epic 00:42:07.070 --> 00:42:11.030 fish jam is like. I'll embed the pro shot live 00:42:11.030 --> 00:42:14.230 version of this monster over on the episode page 00:42:14.230 --> 00:42:17.889 at myweeklymixtape .com. Chalk Dust Torture was 00:42:17.889 --> 00:42:21.849 my ringtone for years. However, at one point 00:42:21.849 --> 00:42:23.989 I just had to change it because anytime it came 00:42:23.989 --> 00:42:26.829 on shuffle in my car, I actually would start 00:42:26.829 --> 00:42:29.909 trying to answer the phone. And I knew at that 00:42:29.909 --> 00:42:32.929 point it was time. But kicking off Side B, Chalk 00:42:32.929 --> 00:42:37.030 Dust Torture. You scooped me on the jam. That's 00:42:37.030 --> 00:42:39.130 a great tune. And I actually like how that was 00:42:39.130 --> 00:42:43.010 recorded with the vocals sped up. So when it 00:42:43.010 --> 00:42:49.929 came back, Oh, wow. What a great tune. Oh man. 00:42:50.190 --> 00:42:52.489 So where do I, you know, I kind of want to go 00:42:52.489 --> 00:42:55.849 mellow sooner because you know how I say Pink 00:42:55.849 --> 00:42:59.360 Floyd is my favorite band, right? Yes. So. It's 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:02.280 the early 2010s, and I see that Bob Ezrin is 00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:07.099 producing the next Phish album, and my head explodes. 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:11.199 The album Fuego comes out. I think, yeah, so 00:43:11.199 --> 00:43:12.920 the first single released was Waiting All Night, 00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:14.039 and I remember listening to that in headphones 00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:17.840 like, oh my God, this is, wow, this is a Bob 00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:20.159 Ezrin production, all right? And I was so into 00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:22.500 it. And then, of course, we knew most of this 00:43:22.500 --> 00:43:24.380 album when it was originally called Wingsuit. 00:43:24.860 --> 00:43:27.760 They debuted it for Halloween the year before. 00:43:29.019 --> 00:43:31.880 And I'm going with the song wingsuit. Now I was 00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:34.199 going to say five 55 for my buddy, Mike, that 00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:36.800 I used to work with. Cause we're five 55 to this 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.480 day. We're always like reaching out to each other. 00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:40.079 Cause we just, Hey, another song with horns, 00:43:40.139 --> 00:43:43.019 by the way, bro. Yeah. And, but wingsuit just, 00:43:43.099 --> 00:43:45.880 it's got that beauty, like this mellow Floydy 00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:48.400 thing. But when it kicks in, it's, it's almost 00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:50.619 like that Gilmore guitar tone that he gets. And 00:43:50.619 --> 00:43:53.849 it's just here, here comes the adventure. And 00:43:53.849 --> 00:43:56.510 Wingsuit just has always done it for me since 00:43:56.510 --> 00:44:00.050 day one. And the production on Fuego is just 00:44:00.050 --> 00:44:04.010 so outstanding. And it feels good because it 00:44:04.010 --> 00:44:08.050 feels good. For the first time tonight, songwriting 00:44:08.050 --> 00:44:11.869 credits go to Phish. Well, Trey, John, Mike and 00:44:11.869 --> 00:44:14.570 Paige respectively on a song. So I thought I 00:44:14.570 --> 00:44:17.090 had to point that out. And I love that you mentioned 00:44:17.090 --> 00:44:20.780 the Halloween 2013 show because. I am trying 00:44:20.780 --> 00:44:23.320 to think of another band that could walk out 00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:27.739 on stage and say, hey, everybody, here's a brand 00:44:27.739 --> 00:44:29.860 new album for you, and we're going to play it 00:44:29.860 --> 00:44:33.340 in its entirety. Like bands will debut a song 00:44:33.340 --> 00:44:36.659 here and there, maybe two in a set if they're 00:44:36.659 --> 00:44:41.019 really being adventurous. But Fish just walks 00:44:41.019 --> 00:44:43.780 out and says, no, we're going to play an entire 00:44:43.780 --> 00:44:49.690 set of music you have never heard before. In 00:44:49.690 --> 00:44:53.909 most musical spaces, I think it's safe to say 00:44:53.909 --> 00:44:57.929 that a lot of audiences would be confused and 00:44:57.929 --> 00:45:01.849 baffled at that notion. But Phish fans embrace 00:45:01.849 --> 00:45:05.969 and welcome this. I mean, I think about the fact 00:45:05.969 --> 00:45:09.789 that they also did the Cosvot Vox album. I have 00:45:09.789 --> 00:45:12.239 no idea if that's how you're supposed to. pronounce 00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:15.139 it but i digress i think that's how it's pronounced 00:45:15.139 --> 00:45:16.920 and you know what you're talking about how like 00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:19.260 fish does that i thought that one was great because 00:45:19.260 --> 00:45:21.699 for those of you that are fish 101 when you go 00:45:21.699 --> 00:45:24.380 into a halloween show you get a playbill and 00:45:24.380 --> 00:45:26.440 that's how you find out what they're doing for 00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:30.219 their halloween set and it was funny to troll 00:45:30.219 --> 00:45:33.119 that because for the cosmod voc set like people 00:45:33.119 --> 00:45:35.059 like oh yeah i kind of remember this album because 00:45:35.059 --> 00:45:37.579 like the playbill was like all 80s looking so 00:45:37.579 --> 00:45:39.780 it was just like there's always that like no 00:45:39.780 --> 00:45:42.719 at all like that just they need to be like oh 00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:45.480 yes i know everything and like just to troll 00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:47.699 people like that and give them like yes i know 00:45:47.699 --> 00:45:50.280 everything uh kazvat vox i remember i had that 00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:53.039 record when i was younger no you didn't and they 00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:54.699 just trolled you and that was freaking awesome 00:45:54.699 --> 00:46:00.119 the 1981 fictional album i rock what a great 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:03.929 way to debut songs and they still incorporate 00:46:03.929 --> 00:46:06.570 a lot of those songs in their sets to this day. 00:46:06.670 --> 00:46:09.929 So it wasn't just a one -off thing. It's part 00:46:09.929 --> 00:46:12.010 of the fish. No, no. And if there was a studio 00:46:12.010 --> 00:46:15.150 album, say to me, Santos would be all over this 00:46:15.150 --> 00:46:18.269 list, but there's no studio album. Well, these 00:46:18.269 --> 00:46:20.289 are songs we'll have to save for the live fish 00:46:20.289 --> 00:46:23.510 episode. We do to follow this one up. Love the 00:46:23.510 --> 00:46:25.949 fact that you picked wingsuit. Love the approach. 00:46:26.730 --> 00:46:29.650 And I'm thinking about the ending of Wingsuit 00:46:29.650 --> 00:46:32.510 because it ends on that crescendo at the end 00:46:32.510 --> 00:46:36.309 of the song. The crescendo happens. And as it's 00:46:36.309 --> 00:46:39.550 ringing out, there's a four count into stealing 00:46:39.550 --> 00:46:45.329 time from the faulty plan from 2009's Joy. I'm 00:46:45.329 --> 00:46:48.349 not going to outright call this a blues song, 00:46:48.530 --> 00:46:51.909 but the way that Trey attacks the lead guitar. 00:46:52.829 --> 00:46:56.530 I would say it's definitely blues rock adjacent 00:46:56.530 --> 00:47:01.130 as only fish could pull off. And the lyrics got 00:47:01.130 --> 00:47:03.969 a blank space where my mind should be written 00:47:03.969 --> 00:47:07.889 by Trey, Tom and Scott Herman. Again, joy starts 00:47:07.889 --> 00:47:11.869 off just so perfect. The one, two punch of backwards 00:47:11.869 --> 00:47:14.230 down the number line into stealing time to open 00:47:14.230 --> 00:47:17.949 an album. But coming out of wingsuit, I felt 00:47:17.949 --> 00:47:20.150 like backwards down the number line might feel 00:47:20.150 --> 00:47:23.789 a little jarring. And I feel like that crescendo 00:47:23.789 --> 00:47:27.289 into stealing time tells a better musical story, 00:47:27.389 --> 00:47:30.829 at least for this side so far. So stealing time 00:47:30.829 --> 00:47:36.150 from the faulty plan. I do, in fact, have a blank 00:47:36.150 --> 00:47:39.989 space where my mind should be. Do you have a 00:47:39.989 --> 00:47:43.090 Clif Bar and some Earl Grey tea then? I've got 00:47:43.090 --> 00:47:46.769 a blank space where my mind should be. I love 00:47:46.769 --> 00:47:48.989 that song. I really like that album. I know a 00:47:48.989 --> 00:47:51.449 lot of fans were like, eh, they're like, eh, 00:47:51.510 --> 00:47:53.929 bad. I really like that album a lot. But I heard 00:47:53.929 --> 00:47:56.690 some of those tunes debuted at the Camden show 00:47:56.690 --> 00:47:58.650 when they came back. I mean, not all of them, 00:47:58.670 --> 00:48:01.090 just some of them. But I didn't hear that one 00:48:01.090 --> 00:48:04.670 until later, I don't think. But, I mean, I digress. 00:48:04.690 --> 00:48:08.909 Great A minor to D to that E7. I would put that 00:48:08.909 --> 00:48:11.969 in the blues. It's a 1 -4 -5 in a minor. Right. 00:48:12.369 --> 00:48:15.710 So how are you following that up then? I got 00:48:15.710 --> 00:48:18.039 a question for you. because I think I know what 00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:19.460 I want to follow it up with, because I guess 00:48:19.460 --> 00:48:23.460 I'm feeling the mellow mellowness now. I'm feeling 00:48:23.460 --> 00:48:27.000 the mellow mellowness, but spacious, but still 00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.619 with a big ending. Okay. Kind of like Wingsuit, 00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:32.940 but this song I want to choose has an intro that 00:48:32.940 --> 00:48:35.719 is another track, but the intro is short enough 00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:38.840 that I want to make it one track, if you'll allow 00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:42.800 me. And when I say what it is, you might just... 00:48:43.099 --> 00:48:45.780 Dude, we make up the rules as we go along here. 00:48:45.900 --> 00:48:49.639 Have at it. The horse into silent in the morning. 00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:52.260 I don't, I don't want to do, I mean, I've, I've, 00:48:52.260 --> 00:48:54.079 I've played silent in the morning live without 00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:56.579 the horse, but this is just something that like 00:48:56.579 --> 00:48:59.639 they blend so well that I don't want to take 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.099 the horse away from silent in the morning. Fair. 00:49:02.260 --> 00:49:04.780 And this, this is another favorite fish tune 00:49:04.780 --> 00:49:08.079 of mine. This song just blows me away every time. 00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:12.039 Just, it's so beautiful. The way it starts, how 00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.159 everything just kind of comes in together slowly 00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:18.539 and it builds. Like I said, I love this album 00:49:18.539 --> 00:49:22.099 a lot. And what a way to close it out. Going 00:49:22.099 --> 00:49:25.900 back to Rift for a third time. And if you're 00:49:25.900 --> 00:49:28.139 talking about both tracks here, it's a twofer 00:49:28.139 --> 00:49:31.460 for Trey and Tom writing. Although, one thing 00:49:31.460 --> 00:49:33.579 you forgot to mention for the first time tonight. 00:49:34.510 --> 00:49:37.489 We have lead vocals from someone other than Trey 00:49:37.489 --> 00:49:40.010 as Paige takes the lead for this album closing 00:49:40.010 --> 00:49:44.090 track. So as silent in the morning does build 00:49:44.090 --> 00:49:46.630 in a similar fashion to wingsuit, like you mentioned, 00:49:46.750 --> 00:49:49.650 there's that crescendo at the end of silent in 00:49:49.650 --> 00:49:52.909 the morning as well. I sort of ease this out 00:49:52.909 --> 00:49:57.210 of wingsuit. I'm not doing that again. Come on, 00:49:57.210 --> 00:49:59.869 man. You got to ease on down, ease on down the 00:49:59.869 --> 00:50:03.969 road. Well, I like. Where you're thinking with 00:50:03.969 --> 00:50:06.429 that song, because the song that you just said 00:50:06.429 --> 00:50:09.289 that from is very funky. So let's go with something 00:50:09.289 --> 00:50:13.030 funky and 180 out of silent in the morning and 00:50:13.030 --> 00:50:16.730 use the second single from 2024 is evolve, which 00:50:16.730 --> 00:50:20.010 was my favorite album of 2024. And I'm going 00:50:20.010 --> 00:50:22.170 to go with, you mentioned it earlier during our 00:50:22.170 --> 00:50:25.710 little pun session at the top of the show, oblivion. 00:50:25.889 --> 00:50:30.730 It awaits. I mean, this song is fish's youthful 00:50:30.730 --> 00:50:35.889 spirit. shining through the 3 .0 era sound. This 00:50:35.889 --> 00:50:38.809 song is all sorts of funky. Mike's bass is off 00:50:38.809 --> 00:50:41.730 the rails. This is a track that just makes you 00:50:41.730 --> 00:50:44.989 want to get up and dance. And I don't know, there's 00:50:44.989 --> 00:50:47.150 a part of me that maybe wonders if some longtime 00:50:47.150 --> 00:50:50.570 Phish fans might question the fact that we're 00:50:50.570 --> 00:50:54.139 kind of spreading out. so much across the catalog. 00:50:54.420 --> 00:50:57.300 But again, we're thinking 101 here. And to give 00:50:57.300 --> 00:51:00.099 the full story of what Fish is about, I think 00:51:00.099 --> 00:51:03.099 we need to talk about these newer tracks. And 00:51:03.099 --> 00:51:07.159 honestly, I feel like Oblivion goes over as well 00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:10.039 as over the last year as some of the older tracks. 00:51:10.179 --> 00:51:12.579 I think there's something about this one that 00:51:12.579 --> 00:51:16.219 just has that it factor that slays every time 00:51:16.219 --> 00:51:19.429 they play it. I mean, you chose one of my favorite 00:51:19.429 --> 00:51:23.030 tunes on the album. I think I was at the debut 00:51:23.030 --> 00:51:25.869 of Life Saving Gun, which is just another killer 00:51:25.869 --> 00:51:29.210 track from this album. But Oblivion, it's fish, 00:51:29.409 --> 00:51:32.150 and it sounds like fish. It doesn't sound like 00:51:32.150 --> 00:51:35.190 fish in their Rolling Stones phase of just like, 00:51:35.230 --> 00:51:37.610 hey, let's just keep doing what we do. This is 00:51:37.610 --> 00:51:40.690 fish just being fish. And how do they not be 00:51:40.690 --> 00:51:44.090 fish? I love this album. What a great, great 00:51:44.090 --> 00:51:48.780 pick. And now you get to follow it up. I do. 00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:54.239 You know, okay, I'm tired. I keep hearing written 00:51:54.239 --> 00:51:57.179 by Trey and Tom and everybody else and Trey and 00:51:57.179 --> 00:52:01.739 Tom. And I just mentioned the Camden show with 00:52:01.739 --> 00:52:03.800 the debuts. Now, I know a lot of fans are going 00:52:03.800 --> 00:52:06.380 to give me crap for this, but at the Camden show, 00:52:06.579 --> 00:52:09.579 Trey played the middle of this right. But let's 00:52:09.579 --> 00:52:11.730 go with a song that Mike wrote. Also from the 00:52:11.730 --> 00:52:13.829 Joy album, I want to go with Sugar Shack. Nice. 00:52:13.849 --> 00:52:17.110 It's a fun tune. It's boppy. It's a Mike song. 00:52:17.309 --> 00:52:20.630 Like, you know, boppy, upy, boppy. Like, it's 00:52:20.630 --> 00:52:24.150 just fun. And it's also, you know, let's throw 00:52:24.150 --> 00:52:26.130 some variety in here so people also know that, 00:52:26.170 --> 00:52:29.469 you know, hey, Mike also writes songs. Run through 00:52:29.469 --> 00:52:32.849 the pale, dark woods to that Sugar Shack. We're 00:52:32.849 --> 00:52:36.329 continuing to widen the spectrum of what Fish 00:52:36.329 --> 00:52:39.260 is about. Because we're bringing Paige's vocals 00:52:39.260 --> 00:52:42.340 and Mike's vocals into the mix. So I love that. 00:52:42.500 --> 00:52:45.760 What I love about Sugar Shack is if you listen 00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:48.880 to this song again with headphones, Mike's bass 00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:52.199 is kind of forward in this mix. And he's doing 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:55.800 some ridiculous runs alongside of those lead 00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:58.800 vocals. So I love the fact that you pulled this 00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:02.619 part of Mike's studio side because the mix definitely 00:53:02.619 --> 00:53:06.820 sits out. When you listen to Joy from front to 00:53:06.820 --> 00:53:09.480 back. And I think they purposely brought Mike's 00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:12.059 bass up just a little bit. And I don't know if 00:53:12.059 --> 00:53:14.599 that was intentional or not, but it really drives 00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:17.579 this song. And as a bassist, I have to kind of 00:53:17.579 --> 00:53:22.179 applaud that. All right. To follow this song 00:53:22.179 --> 00:53:26.039 up, I have to go with a song that is very, very 00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:29.800 special to me. Because when my wife and I started 00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:33.530 dating, we were doing the... long distance relationship 00:53:33.530 --> 00:53:37.170 from New Hampshire to New Jersey. And we would 00:53:37.170 --> 00:53:39.349 do one of two things. I would burn mixed CDs 00:53:39.349 --> 00:53:42.369 for her and she would do the same for me. Or 00:53:42.369 --> 00:53:45.389 we would give each other CDs to listen to when 00:53:45.389 --> 00:53:49.289 we were traveling back and forth. And while I 00:53:49.289 --> 00:53:52.269 was familiar with Fish's music in the 90s, the 00:53:52.269 --> 00:53:54.630 first time I sat down and listened to an entire 00:53:54.630 --> 00:53:59.090 Fish album was when my now wife handed me her 00:53:59.090 --> 00:54:02.949 copy of Fish's Farmhouse. Oh, dude, that's so 00:54:02.949 --> 00:54:05.809 sweet. And as I was driving back, I put the album 00:54:05.809 --> 00:54:08.989 in and I spent the next five and a half hours 00:54:08.989 --> 00:54:12.570 listening to the album over and over and over 00:54:12.570 --> 00:54:17.050 again. And I've said it a million times in this 00:54:17.050 --> 00:54:21.750 show. I am a sucker for album openers and Farmhouse. 00:54:21.829 --> 00:54:25.309 The song just grabs me. I know I'm going back 00:54:25.309 --> 00:54:28.869 to Trey and Tom once again, but there's just 00:54:28.869 --> 00:54:32.840 something about this song. That immediately grabs 00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:35.400 your attention. And I know I'm not alone because 00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:38.300 I've talked about twice tonight with heavy things 00:54:38.300 --> 00:54:42.480 in waste that there are the top five streamed 00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:45.320 fish songs on Spotify. There were three other 00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:50.139 songs on that list bouncing around the room sample 00:54:50.139 --> 00:54:53.340 in a jar, which was the second most stream song 00:54:53.340 --> 00:55:00.570 at 13 ,456 ,126 streams. And coming in at number 00:55:00.570 --> 00:55:05.090 one for Phish, their most streamed song by almost 00:55:05.090 --> 00:55:15.449 double, 26 ,660 ,390 streams is Farmhouse. Two 00:55:15.449 --> 00:55:17.250 of those songs I mentioned there, Bouncing Around 00:55:17.250 --> 00:55:19.329 the Room and Sample in a Jar, we haven't gotten 00:55:19.329 --> 00:55:22.690 to as of yet. But I'll say both of them are in 00:55:22.690 --> 00:55:25.510 my bank of songs tonight. Believe it or not, 00:55:25.650 --> 00:55:29.289 according to Spotify, I am going with Phish. 00:55:29.210 --> 00:55:32.530 the band's biggest hit. But I don't care. It's 00:55:32.530 --> 00:55:35.250 just that great of a song. It was my first ever 00:55:35.250 --> 00:55:40.130 encore at my first ever Phish show. And the next 00:55:40.130 --> 00:55:42.570 morning when I got up, I immediately looked for 00:55:42.570 --> 00:55:47.030 this song and had my guitar out within seconds 00:55:47.030 --> 00:55:49.849 just to learn it. And thank God, it's one of 00:55:49.849 --> 00:55:51.710 the easier songs to learn, especially when you're 00:55:51.710 --> 00:55:54.610 getting into Phish. But dude, what a perfect 00:55:54.610 --> 00:55:57.440 choice. I love this song so much. I don't know 00:55:57.440 --> 00:55:59.159 if you scooped me because I had enough mellow 00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:02.019 mellowness. So I never really heard of cluster 00:56:02.019 --> 00:56:07.460 flies. But alas, what will I follow that up with? 00:56:08.500 --> 00:56:14.800 Okay. All right. I'm going to go back sometime 00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:18.500 to another song that I didn't realize was fish 00:56:18.500 --> 00:56:22.679 until I saw them in Camden in 2003. And I was 00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:26.699 like, oh, wow, this is a fish tune. Funny enough, 00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:29.199 I thought it was Train back when Train was a 00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:32.320 blues rock band. And obviously, like, they have 00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:35.159 a song with the same title. But I still thought 00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:37.780 this was also them. And I didn't realize it was 00:56:37.780 --> 00:56:41.059 the same title. But I'm going with Free from 00:56:41.059 --> 00:56:43.079 Billy Breathes. I love this tune. What a great 00:56:43.079 --> 00:56:46.639 song. And once again, like, this is before fandom. 00:56:47.079 --> 00:56:49.960 So I didn't know that it was Phish until I was 00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:51.880 watching Phish and they played it. And I was 00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:56.620 like, ooh, hey, I know this song. Cool. From 00:56:56.620 --> 00:57:00.579 1996's Billy Breeze, written by Trey and Tom, 00:57:00.820 --> 00:57:03.940 and also chimed in by Patreon mixtaper Jason 00:57:03.940 --> 00:57:07.619 Donchus, the song hit number seven on the Billboard 00:57:07.619 --> 00:57:11.280 Adult Alternative Airplay chart, their first 00:57:11.280 --> 00:57:16.099 and only time cracking the top ten. I think our 00:57:16.099 --> 00:57:19.059 friend and fellow Pantheon podcast member Jason 00:57:19.059 --> 00:57:21.260 Whistle of the It's Not That Bad and There Can 00:57:21.260 --> 00:57:24.719 Only Be One podcast will be happy to also learn. 00:57:25.610 --> 00:57:30.210 That Free is the band's first song to chart in 00:57:30.210 --> 00:57:35.010 Canada, hitting number 68. Well, Jason, prepare 00:57:35.010 --> 00:57:38.489 yourself. We're going to do Fish. Love the track. 00:57:38.610 --> 00:57:42.110 It's definitely a live staple. And it's one of 00:57:42.110 --> 00:57:45.409 those songs that, at least in the 3 .0 era, they've 00:57:45.409 --> 00:57:48.050 been opening up a lot more. Dude, that opener 00:57:48.050 --> 00:57:50.250 over the summer was amazing. I can't remember 00:57:50.250 --> 00:57:53.039 where it was. But it was one of those things, 00:57:53.099 --> 00:57:54.820 you know, you can watch the set openers on YouTube. 00:57:55.340 --> 00:57:57.880 I wish I remember the date, but I remember like 00:57:57.880 --> 00:58:03.039 loving that free a lot. Well, we talked about 00:58:03.039 --> 00:58:06.800 horns earlier, so let's bring some horns into 00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:09.320 this. And I'm going to go with the album opening 00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:13.679 track from 1994 is hoist written by once again, 00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:17.480 Trey and Tom. No kidding. We are going with Julius, 00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:22.639 but in what I think. Is a first for tonight. 00:58:22.739 --> 00:58:25.619 And correct me if I'm wrong Sean. We actually 00:58:25.619 --> 00:58:29.099 have guests. Performing on the studio version. 00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:32.739 Because you've got Rose Stone. Gene McClain. 00:58:32.739 --> 00:58:36.000 And Ricky Grundy Corral. Providing the gospel 00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:39.239 backup vocals. And then you've got. The Tower 00:58:39.239 --> 00:58:42.900 of Power horn section. Adding their awesomeness. 00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:46.940 To the fold. I might be a minority here. But 00:58:46.940 --> 00:58:52.019 I freaking love. Horn sections in jam bands. 00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:54.679 I mean, Trey's solo album. I talked about it 00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:58.099 earlier. I love it for that reason, but the tower 00:58:58.099 --> 00:59:02.659 of power horn section in Julius elevates a great 00:59:02.659 --> 00:59:08.360 fish song into an epic fish song. To me, this 00:59:08.360 --> 00:59:13.760 is fish taking the fans to church. And I'm all 00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:16.000 there with my hand up in the air waiting for 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:20.260 them to preach the gospel of jam. Dude, you're 00:59:20.260 --> 00:59:22.599 right. They do take us to church with this one. 00:59:22.699 --> 00:59:25.500 Man, Julius is such a great song. Did you even 00:59:25.500 --> 00:59:27.260 say the title or did you just get so excited? 00:59:27.260 --> 00:59:28.179 Oh, yeah, I said the title. Okay, all right. 00:59:28.300 --> 00:59:31.340 Because, I mean, I was just hearing it in my 00:59:31.340 --> 00:59:33.019 head as you started talking about the gospel 00:59:33.019 --> 00:59:36.420 and the... The horns. And I'm just hearing my 00:59:36.420 --> 00:59:38.599 head like, oh my God, I need to see them do it 00:59:38.599 --> 00:59:42.380 live that way. Yeah. I feel like the live versions 00:59:42.380 --> 00:59:46.559 when it's just the members of fish and this is 00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:49.260 no knock on it. I feel like this is an instance 00:59:49.260 --> 00:59:51.500 where you can make an argument where the studio 00:59:51.500 --> 00:59:55.440 version is better than a lot of the live versions 00:59:55.440 --> 00:59:58.079 because of the fact that you've got the tower 00:59:58.079 --> 01:00:01.260 of power horn section and the gospel choir in 01:00:01.260 --> 01:00:05.400 it. I've seen them do it live. I wholeheartedly 01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:09.480 disagree. Okay. I have never seen it live. However, 01:00:09.659 --> 01:00:13.900 if I saw them do it live with horns, I would, 01:00:14.019 --> 01:00:19.059 oh. Anyway, yeah, it is epic. It takes us to 01:00:19.059 --> 01:00:21.980 church. That's a perfect choice there, right? 01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:24.760 Oh, my God. I should have chosen that as the 01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:30.079 tape opener. Because, I mean, wow. Well, now 01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:34.829 you have the easy. Job of taking us home for 01:00:34.829 --> 01:00:38.030 the night. What is the exclamation point? The 01:00:38.030 --> 01:00:40.949 set closer, the encore, whatever you want to 01:00:40.949 --> 01:00:45.550 call it for our fish one -on -one mixtape. Now 01:00:45.550 --> 01:00:50.289 you're lucky that the song, like the second night 01:00:50.289 --> 01:00:53.530 in Vegas in 2004, if you, if you weren't there. 01:00:53.590 --> 01:00:55.449 Yeah. I mean, I get it. I know you hate the show, 01:00:55.530 --> 01:00:58.550 but during strange design, I stood up like, Oh 01:00:58.550 --> 01:01:00.369 my God, I get it. This is the greatest band ever. 01:01:01.179 --> 01:01:04.420 But Strange Design is not an album track. It 01:01:04.420 --> 01:01:08.440 is only on the single for free. So you said Epic 01:01:08.440 --> 01:01:13.719 before. And I want to say Epic, Frog Rock, You 01:01:13.719 --> 01:01:18.019 Enjoy Myself from Hunter does that. It gives 01:01:18.019 --> 01:01:19.980 me the Frog Rock and it gives me like, you know, 01:01:19.980 --> 01:01:24.219 like a 2 -5 blues jam later on. And then, of 01:01:24.219 --> 01:01:28.619 course, you know, the vocal jam. Oh, yeah. I'm 01:01:28.619 --> 01:01:31.619 going with You Enjoy Myself from Hunter. Closing 01:01:31.619 --> 01:01:36.159 both side A and side B with songs off of Junta 01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:40.599 written by Trey alone. This time it's the band's 01:01:40.599 --> 01:01:43.679 most frequently played song. So coming from a 01:01:43.679 --> 01:01:46.079 one -on -one perspective, I feel like we'd be 01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:48.119 doing a disservice, not including this song. 01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:51.880 Rolling stone magazine actually ranked you enjoy 01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:55.440 myself. Number 85 in their list of the 100 greatest 01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:59.760 guitar solos of all time. Wow. Really? Yes. That's. 01:02:01.829 --> 01:02:04.530 Wow. Well, I hate to say this and you can bleep 01:02:04.530 --> 01:02:07.329 me if you want to, but they're not relevant anymore. 01:02:07.650 --> 01:02:11.510 Rolling Stone, not fish. I was about to say you 01:02:11.510 --> 01:02:13.730 had a lot of angry fish fans there for a second. 01:02:14.110 --> 01:02:17.150 Now, Sean, I have to wonder here. Entertain this 01:02:17.150 --> 01:02:21.090 notion for me here for a moment. You enjoy myself 01:02:21.090 --> 01:02:26.349 creates a live experience because you get Mike 01:02:26.349 --> 01:02:29.849 and Trey on the trampolines. So I want to ask 01:02:29.849 --> 01:02:33.159 you. As somebody who's seen them live, who knows 01:02:33.159 --> 01:02:37.420 the studio albums, as a Phish fan, do you feel 01:02:37.420 --> 01:02:41.099 like You Enjoy Myself is as popular as it is 01:02:41.099 --> 01:02:46.159 because of the song itself, the visual aspect 01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:49.940 of the live performance, similar to the dance 01:02:49.940 --> 01:02:53.539 that's done during Cavern, or is it a combination 01:02:53.539 --> 01:03:00.199 of both? I mean, they're theatrics. I mean, there's 01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:02.940 also the dance and punch you in the eye. So I 01:03:02.940 --> 01:03:05.619 think the song just is that strong that it stands 01:03:05.619 --> 01:03:07.219 on its own, that the second you hear that first 01:03:07.219 --> 01:03:08.980 doo -doo -doo -doo, everybody knows what it is 01:03:08.980 --> 01:03:10.900 and they're going nuts because they love the 01:03:10.900 --> 01:03:14.059 song. They love how they jam it out live. Yeah, 01:03:14.139 --> 01:03:15.840 the trampolines are awesome, especially that 01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:19.380 really wide twist, not to be confused with the 01:03:19.380 --> 01:03:21.440 song, but the really wide twist that Trey does. 01:03:22.250 --> 01:03:24.909 It's just dangerous. My back hurts watching it. 01:03:24.969 --> 01:03:27.389 Yeah. Oh, my God. Although at the same time, 01:03:27.409 --> 01:03:29.050 I just really want to get up there, but not with 01:03:29.050 --> 01:03:32.429 a guitar. But yeah, I mean, I'm sure that for 01:03:32.429 --> 01:03:35.010 people that haven't seen Fish Live, A, go and 01:03:35.010 --> 01:03:38.150 change that. Chris Carota is the fifth member 01:03:38.150 --> 01:03:40.969 of the band. The light show is phenomenal. And 01:03:40.969 --> 01:03:42.969 of course, they do these little stage theatrics. 01:03:43.090 --> 01:03:45.590 Little. Yeah, right. They do stage theatrics 01:03:45.590 --> 01:03:48.829 that are just so much fun, i .e. trampolines 01:03:48.829 --> 01:03:51.860 and You Enjoy Myself. But I think the song is 01:03:51.860 --> 01:03:53.260 strong enough that it stands on its own, and 01:03:53.260 --> 01:03:55.619 that's why it's popular. Well, there you have 01:03:55.619 --> 01:03:59.480 it, mixtapers. Side B of our ultimate fish mixtape, 01:03:59.579 --> 01:04:02.340 which consists of Chalk Dust Torture from A Picture 01:04:02.340 --> 01:04:05.900 of Nectar, Wingsuit from Fuego, Stealing Time 01:04:05.900 --> 01:04:08.960 from The Faulty Plan from Joy, The Horse and 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:11.820 Silent in the Morning from Rift, Oblivion from 01:04:11.820 --> 01:04:15.539 Evolve, Sugar Shack from Joy, Farmhouse from 01:04:15.539 --> 01:04:19.059 the album of the same name, Free from Billy Breathes, 01:04:19.179 --> 01:04:22.960 Julius from Hoist, and You Enjoy Myself from 01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:26.809 Junta. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com to hear 01:04:26.809 --> 01:04:29.750 all the songs we've discussed in this mix through 01:04:29.750 --> 01:04:33.869 the playlist embedded on the episode page. Sean, 01:04:33.949 --> 01:04:36.010 why don't you remind listeners where to connect 01:04:36.010 --> 01:04:38.730 with you on social and where they can find your 01:04:38.730 --> 01:04:42.670 music? So you can find me, of course, at seanfaustmusic 01:04:42.670 --> 01:04:46.050 .com where there's links to my music, show dates, 01:04:46.230 --> 01:04:48.389 stuff like that. But of course, you know, there's 01:04:48.389 --> 01:04:51.199 the band camp where you can buy the music. I 01:04:51.199 --> 01:04:53.599 mean, of course, I'm streaming everywhere that 01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:57.139 music is streaming, but I'm also available to 01:04:57.139 --> 01:04:59.699 purchase everywhere you purchase. And my song, 01:04:59.780 --> 01:05:02.320 Gin Asylum, I need a million sales of that. I 01:05:02.320 --> 01:05:04.500 want to help animals. I know I say this on every 01:05:04.500 --> 01:05:07.500 show I do, but this is my goal. I want to have 01:05:07.500 --> 01:05:10.059 that cushion. So when somebody needs help with 01:05:10.059 --> 01:05:12.239 an animal, whether it's a vet bill, whether it's 01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:14.760 trapping and putting them somewhere, I want to 01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:16.360 be able to just be like, hey, here, here you 01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:20.139 go. So one million sales of that song. And let's 01:05:20.139 --> 01:05:23.900 go with 10 million streams on Spotify. So please, 01:05:24.139 --> 01:05:27.019 Gin Asylum. And of course, Brian, you were so 01:05:27.019 --> 01:05:28.820 gracious enough to talk about Status Quo Radio 01:05:28.820 --> 01:05:31.219 earlier. I'm kind of proud with how that came 01:05:31.219 --> 01:05:33.579 out. I'm not patting myself on the back. It's 01:05:33.579 --> 01:05:36.119 just a song that I'm very proud with the outcome 01:05:36.119 --> 01:05:40.320 of. So just go buy some music and support indie 01:05:40.320 --> 01:05:42.599 artists. Buy their music. Don't just stream it. 01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:45.320 Buy the music of indie artists. They need your 01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:48.360 support because we're the ones in the trenches. 01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:51.820 That you are. And it's always a pleasure to have 01:05:51.820 --> 01:05:54.059 you come out of the trenches for an hour to talk 01:05:54.059 --> 01:05:56.739 music with me, dude. Thank you so much for joining 01:05:56.739 --> 01:05:58.599 me on my weekly mixtape. Look forward to the 01:05:58.599 --> 01:06:01.639 next one. Thanks brother. Remember you can find 01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:03.960 my weekly mixtape on almost all the social media 01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:07.280 haunts at. My Weekly Mixtape. 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