Helping Phriendly Hour

Listen to live Phish here! Solely for the purpose of instigating your deepest musical frenzy, tune in for a carefully selected hour of creative bliss from nearly thirty years of funked-out improvisations and untamed chaos otherwise known as the Phish archives. Each show is personally selected for absorption by your delighted ears, so whatever you do, don't miss a single one. Have a favorite sleeper set? Don't keep that goodness to yourself.... Listen LIVE on Sunday 7-9pm with replay on Friday 10pm - 12am

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Radha

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A simple recipe for greatness: Red Rocks + Phish in 1995 Thu, 03/29/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha Today's show heralds from Red Rocks Amphitheater - the gorgeous outdoor venue that banned Phish for over a decade - on Friday, June 9, 1995. Tight and riding the creative edge, tonight's show is one boogie-friendly song after another. Thanks to Casey, our local punk-rockin' newbie for hosting the tunes! (He's the nice guy in the row behind you who starts chatting you up during a super-sweet Bowie opener...) Dearest New Listener, don't be afraid of Split Open and Melt as it gestates into its evil intensity. All will be well and any rough edges will smooth right out with a glorious Wedge, followed by Scent of A Mule, the extraordinary extraterrestrial tale of Kitty Malone and her light and elegant lemonade. The whole set is crisp and tight, and there are a few true rare gems in there like Acoustic Army, a gentle jam whose first and last appearances both took place in 1995, and a Sweet a capella Adeline. Enjoy! Read more about A simple recipe for greatness: Red Rocks + Phish in 1995 1 comment Add new comment
Phish March Madness! Listen to the Phinal Four and VOTE! Thu, 03/22/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha It's been a busy month for basketball and Phish Phans alike! Phish March Madness has come and is going...going...going... Thanks to Trey-Is-My-Friend for the Phun we've all been having voting for the match-ups. It has been heartwrenching to watch some favorites disappear in the first round -- Wedge, My Friend, Tela and Lizards were early to go, sadly. The voting has become more difficult as the rounds go on and we have had to send great jams like Free and Bowie, Gin and Mike's Song, on their way down. But I digress -- it's time for the Phinal Four! Read more about Phish March Madness! Listen to the Phinal Four and VOTE! 1 comment Add new comment
Live Phish from the Murat Shrine Temple Thu, 03/15/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha Tonight's Helping Phriendly Hour opens with a delicate Lengthwise. It must have been slightly haunting as the opener for a show played inside the largest Shriner's Temple in North America to an audience of less than 2,000 folks. Although Set II (full of intense rockin' out, man...) is the better known, Set I is an oft-overlooked gem featuring a little of everything for all kinds of listeners. Reggae phans will enjoy Makisupa Policeman, and bluegrass-ers get Ginseng Sullivan and My Mind's Got a Mind of Its Own (a rarity during the 3.0 incarnation). For the classic rockers among us, the band offers up Llama (taboot!). Stash, Foam and Fluffhead give us the darkness and light along the line line between music and Read more about Live Phish from the Murat Shrine Temple Add new comment
Run Away! World's longest Runaway Jim, 11-29-1997 Thu, 03/08/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha Since the night of its live Ohio debut back in 1990, Runaway Jim gets played a lot...as in every three or four shows. According to the most precise of statistics, it's been played 1,200 times (22.57% of all shows). But this version, clockin' in at just under an hour, is special. There is no competition for this, one of the craziest, darkest, lightest, most entertaining Runaway Jims ever. It was performed at the Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA, on Nov. 29, 1997. Enjoy! Read more about Run Away! World's longest Runaway Jim, 11-29-1997 Add new comment
Love the live Phish: Night two at Austin Music Hall, 10-15-1995 Thu, 03/01/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha 1995 will forever be known as the Year Phish Blew It Up. As the band stepped into bigger venues and bigger sounds than ever before, there are many extraordinary shows from this epic year of Phish. In my opinion, it was the first year of band/audience co-creation magic in the Universal Sound MindSpace. Tonight's show is a perfect example, with a crisp Buried Alive opener and a gorgeous first set Slave To The Traffic Light. Second set slips us a Simple sliding into a slightly scary Tweezer...don't worry, there's an exit from that darkness into one of the prettiest Harry Hoods. Thanks to PhishMaster Phill Schutt for co-hosting tonight's show! Send YOUR favorite set in, and see what happens next... Read more about Love the live Phish: Night two at Austin Music Hall, 10-15-1995 27 comments Add new comment
It's a Phish rock-a-thon in Columbus, Ohio (6-22-94) Thu, 02/23/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha Strap on your hightops, tonight's show is a serious rocker from start to finish. I'm not kidding... It's also the night that the Rockets beat the Knicks in game 7 of the NBA playoffs. If you ask me though, I bet that even the saddest Knicks fan in the crowd couldn't be miserable for long. Set 2 is nonstop, with virtually no pauses and a crazy Icculus - READ THE BOOK!! Set 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Mike's Song -> Simple -> Midnight Rider Jam -> Catapult -> Simple -> Icculus, Simple -> Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove -> The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > Read more about It's a Phish rock-a-thon in Columbus, Ohio (6-22-94) 1 comment Add new comment
Lovely Phish Acoustic Set from Festival 8, 11-1-09 Thu, 02/16/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha This is one of the most beautiful Phish sets ever. The midday sun was hot and high at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif. It was the morning after a six-hour, three-set Grand-Halloween-Throwdown, and the third day of the first Phish Festival in five years. Everyone was content and relaxed. Our brains were full on music, and as we listened to the band play, we munched on donuts shaped like the number 8. The only other time I had heard Phish play acoustic was during the Bridge School Benefit in 1998. It's still a sweet memory. This set was even better, with a long and gentle Mountains In The Mist, the treat of a Curtain With, Read more about Lovely Phish Acoustic Set from Festival 8, 11-1-09 Add new comment
Phish (on the back of the Worm!) at Club Paradiso in Amsterdam, 7-1-97 Thu, 02/02/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha On this recording you will hear music bouncing off the walls of this old and ornate church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands during Set II of a musically wild show. Only 1,000 phans were able to enjoy this one, and it's dense with cool intensity and jammed-out grooves. Timber Ho is upbeat and entertaining. The Bathtub Gin turns to liquid sound seeping through wide-open spaces. From there, all roads lead to a very dance-able Cities...at least for a while. At 20+ minutes, it's one of the longer Cities on record and, like most of this show, it gets quite a bit noodle-y and occasionally bewildering (in the most fun way...) To soothe the soul, the hour finishes with a joyful Slave followed by a quiet and elegant Horn (from back in set 1, but I couldn't resist...). Here is the setlist for the entire show : Set 1: Ghost, Horn, Ya Mar, Limb By Limb -> Ain't Love Funny, Saw It Again, Dirt, Reba, Dogs Stole Things Read more about Phish (on the back of the Worm!) at Club Paradiso in Amsterdam, 7-1-97 Add new comment
Helping Phriendly Hour Jan 26th, 2012 Thu, 01/26/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha Read more about Helping Phriendly Hour Jan 26th, 2012 Add new comment
Helping Phriendly Hour Jan 19th, 2012 Thu, 01/19/2012 - 6:00pm \| Radha Read more about Helping Phriendly Hour Jan 19th, 2012 Add new comment