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New York Times:

An earlier version of this article missated the title of one of Phish’s songs. The song is “I Am Hydrogen,” not “This Is Hydrogen.” And an earlier version of this correction erroneously stated that the song is an album.

So sloppy. This is why you won’t get my $700 per year. Sheesh.

I know. You’re all like, “what videos should I watch on Vimeo now that I get Vimeo on my Apple TV 2?”

Ans: Phish on Vimeo

A video of Trey Anastasio describing Phish’s reaction to the glow sticks that fans started (and to this day continue) to toss around the crowd:

Once that started to happen we instantly started playing to it.

More from Trey in the phish.net FAQ on glow sticks (Associated Press, 7/3/1994):

A great spontaneous event is happening. The feeling is, we’re all in this together. It’s different from being entertained by us.

Coincidentally, 7/3/1994 was the night of my first show.

David Hajdu on Bob Dylan and generational effects in the history of music:

Fourteen is a formative age, especially for people growing up in social contexts framed by pop culture. You’re in the ninth grade, confronting the tyrannies of sex and adulthood, struggling to figure out what kind of adult you’d like to be, and you turn to the cultural products most important in your day as sources of cool — the capital of young life.

Trey Anastasio:

I liked Clapton, Jimmy Page. But there was this one year that changed me. It was when I saw Pat Metheny. He came to Richardson Auditorium, and he was playing with a jazz, harmonic vocabulary but with a pop sensibility. I saw King Crimson around that time, too. Robert Fripp was playing these crazy mathematical patterns. He’d be playing in a time signature of 7/4 while the other guy, Adrian Belew, played in 5/4, and they’d meet up thirty-five notes later. This kind of thing. But you have to put yourself in 1978. I was born in ’64. So I was fourteen. I saw Stanley Jordan in that same place. And Wynton Marsalis. All those concerts were in one year, and that’s the year I got into improvisation. That was the year before I left Princeton, New Jersey.

The awesome Believer interview via Seth and also Mets Fan #1 (who made the connection to Trey from the New York Times Op-Ed).

This is a compilation of songs from Fall ‘97 that was made by a fan. All of the segues from song to song are flawless and all the songs are also soundboard quality. This is a must have for any Phish fan or anyone that appreciates incredible funky improvisational music!

You had me at 97.