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From: HCCLARK@cc.owu.edu
Subject: Blues Traveler Spring Tour '92
Reply-To: HCCLARK@cc.owu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1992 15:51:29 GMT

        Hi all, I have this phunny feeling there are a lot of people into
Blues Traveler.  So I am taking the liberty to post the first half of
their tour dates.   If people out there dislike BT, just hit "return" and
I apologise.      **Blues Traveler 1992 Spring Tour**:

4/3    Birmingham Southern College        Birmingham, Alabama
4/4    Univ of Tennesse/Knoxville         Knoxville, Tennessee
4/5    Van Reiper's Festival              Nelson County, Virginia
4/6    Univ of Maryland                   College Park, Maryland
4/8    Tilles Center, C.W. Post           Greenvale, New York
4/10   John Hopkins Univ                  Baltimore, Maryland
4/11   Univ of Pennsylvania               Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4/12   Dickinson College                  Carlise, Pennsylvania
4/15   The Pheonix Hill Tavern            Louisville, Kentucky
4/16   Ohio Wesleyan Univ        (yeh!!)  Delaware, Ohio
4/17   State Theater                      Kalamazoo, Michigan
4/18   State Theater                      Detroit, Michigan
4/20   Kresge Auditorium, DePauw          Greencastle, Indiana
4/21   Bogarts                            Cincinnati, Ohio
4/23   University of Vermont              Burlington, Vermont
4/24   Babson College                     Babson Park, Massachusetts
4/25
1:00pm Tufts University                   Medford, Massachusetts
9:00pm Colby-Sawyer College               Concord, New Hampshire
4/26   Ithaca College                     Ithaca, New York
4/29   Roseland Ballroom                  New York City, New York
4/30   Fitzgerald's                       Houston, Texas

I'm sorry I've run out of time!!  I'll try to post the May dates tomorrow.
Even if you're not into Blues Travaler, check out how MUCH they play!!!!
And I thought Phish travelled all over the place.  These guys can do TWO
shows in ONE day.  And then be able to play in NY one night, and then go
to Texas the next night.  Just a thought to ponder!!!
                -Hadley-        "Wind from beyond the Mountain"
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Mark Hays <hays@math.arizona.edu>
Subject: truffles
Reply-To: hays@math.arizona.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:21:42 GMT

I agree, After the Gold Rush is a nice venue.
By the way, they played Fluffhead and Yamar there,
as well as a bunch of other stuff that is hazy in my mind...
A question: has anyone heard any talk (seriously) of
Gamewich. I've been hearing the term from the road crew for a 
while, and they refuse to elucidate. Any info would be 
greatly appreciated.
Piece Four Ehvur,
Ahlecks
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: roek@frith.egr.msu.edu
Subject: Decks and Henrietta
Reply-To: roek@frith.egr.msu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:43:16 GMT

One of the things I noticed about double decks is, unless you blow a lot
of cash and get one with a separate moter for each side, the tape
speed gets screwed up.  I know someone who did this and after only a
couple of gens. it was noticibly faster.  The best way is to get 2 single
decks and make sure they're set at the same speed (take them in somewhere
you trust).

Also, didn't Trey announce at the Catalyst '91 (the one from the tree)
that Henrietta is dead?  At Ziggy's in Winston-Salem (3-26-92) he 
intorduces Fish as 'Henrietta.'  Did we see a ghost singing Cracklin'
Rose that evening?

Dan
From: jwisgird@landau.ucdavis.edu (Joe Wisgirda)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Townsend
Summary: Who knows
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:02:03 GMT
Distribution: rec.music.phish
Organization: Physics, UC Davis


      Is there anybody out there who knows anything about Townsend
 this summer? I was pretty sure that it was gonna go down again
 this July, but with all the talk of the BT/ARU/WP/Phish etc.
 Lollapalooza - type tour this summer will it happen again. If anybody
 knows anything or has talked to the boyz or other pholks who know, please
 let me know. Also, jamie, could you send me the name and e-adress
 of the dude right above me on the Ann Arbor tree. I had the damn thing
 in my backpack but I lost it.
       The supertour this summer sounds cool but I would much, much rather
 see Townsend happen again. Oh well.
                                    Peace to all.

                                                 - Joey
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Mercury Lee <merc@pro-odyssey.cts.com>
Subject: Subscribe
Reply-To: merc@pro-odyssey.cts.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 07:25:24 GMT

Please add me to the mailing list. Thanx!!!!

Oh Boy!! Gritty Kitty!!


Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy.
From: ryaker@uts.amdahl.com (Richard Yaker)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: Blues T.
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:45:24 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Apr3.180749.25054@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> cbrewste@muselab.ac.runet.edu writes:
>
>
>
>    I don't know how many netters out there are interested but while hanging
>    out with Blues T. at their recent Roanoke show, they informed me that 
>    this was going to be their first show in the U.S.  since Jan.
>
>    Believe it or not they did 20+ shows with Leornard Skynard (sp?) all
>    over Europe.  Crazy eh.....?
>
>    Hopefully Phish is next.....
>
>    Peace.   Brew-ha.

Anybody heard of any tapes from the BT Europe tour floating around?

-- 
"Why don't you play it like you					Richard Yaker
did on the tape?                			ryaker@uts.amdahl.com
I don't remember how I 					rich@skinny.masa.com
played it on the tape"
liner notes "Up For Grabs", Spin Doctors
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Robert Williams Dobson <rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: Re: Phish Digest #308
Reply-To: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:56:56 GMT

Ok, two crabby bitchy things I have to say on this Monday
morning:

1) Why the F**K are all these posts about industrial noise music
(crossposted to rec.music.industrial and talk.bizarre) coming up
on the Phish digest. Jesus, its hard enough wading through these
digests without having to read about the new Goats Penis
self-titled cd, and whether or not its better than Mutilated
Corpse's Organ Feast cassette. Spare us, please; I dont subscribe
to rec.music.industrial for a reason

2) If you want to be added or dropped to the Phish net, send mail
to phish-request@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU, NOT
phish@fuggles...etc. Again, no one wants to read "please
(un)subscribe me..." messages.

Ok, enough bitching. Its Monday, Im still working on the first
cup of coffee, so....as for the double deck controversy, I am
very pleased that this hasnt turned into a flame war; people have
been discussing their opinions very civilly, avoiding "well, if
you werent such a little-dicked loser youd be able to tell how
much better a double deck can sound..." etc. etc. This politeness
is missing on many .nets (some of which, of course, are supposed
to be rude but thats a different story :-) I personally prefer to
wire on deck directly into the other, bypassing the amp. I work
at a Music library and this is what we do here, too, when dubbing
tapes. It works really well, you can adjust the levels, and use
your amp to listen to something else. But hey, different strokes
for different folks, and if I get a tape that sounds good, I dont
care how it was made...

peace
rob


Cigarette, n.:
	A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco in
between.
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: corsiB@moravian.edu
Subject: lawnboy
Reply-To: corsiB@moravian.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 00:45:28 GMT

According to CMJ(a college radio magazine)says that lawnboy will be rereleased
on 4-14-92. I have found these dates are pretty much accurate. so a couple days
after you might want to check your local record store.
	Know does any one know why PHISH doesn't play Fluffhead any more.
					-Brian-
is it for this my life i sought...

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: cbrewste@muselab.ac.runet.edu
Subject: Vacuum playing?
Reply-To: cbrewste@muselab.ac.runet.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:26:09 GMT



   I didn't have the time to check the faqs file or past digests, but I was
   seriously wondering if ** anyone ** knows how and why John Fishman ever
   realized he had the talent and ability to stick his cheek and gums near
   the end of a running Hoover and make notes or sounds or whatever....

   It's not something the average drummer does, so how did it come about????

   (not to say any of the members of Phish are anywhere near average!)

   "The horses eyes are glassy, he breathed the city in his lungs last 
    night"... WSP 

    peace.. Brew-ha.
From: joelfire@elaine5.Stanford.EDU ( Firehammer)
Subject: Re: Double decks
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:39:48 GMT

jamie@access.digex.com (James Treworgy) writes:

>I wouldn't dream of taping through my amp (my tape decks are pretty good,
>but I can't deny that my amp is a piece of shit). I have them connected in
>sequence... i.e. it goes out of amp, into deck 1, into deck 2, back into
>amp. So I can only play back tapes on one deck (my recording deck).  I can
>however do anything else like listen to a CD while my tapes are being
>made without rewiring anything.

Does anyone know exactly what kind of signal degredation occurs when you
run a signal in and out of an amp (or preamp, to be more precise)?  I would
assume that you would get some sort of interference with any other signals
in the vicinity (due to not-so-good shielding on the signal); also, it
seems that when your signal is split between the outputs to your amp
and your tape out, something's going on to keep that tape out signal at
the correct level (i.e., the same level as the input signal if that input
is another tape deck), and whenever something goes on in electronics, the
signal can only get worse (significantly or insignificantly.)
{speaker, could you get to the point of the question?}
Sorry.  The question is, how good of a preamp do you really need to keep
the noise introduced insignificant?  Or, just to be safe, should you never
go through the pre-amp?
{actually, as far as I'm concerned, this question is purely hypothetical,
since I only have one deck.  Hee, hee}
-Joel
Tboot!
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: rstern@col.hp.com (Richard Stern)
Subject: Re: Beaver Creek 4/3/92
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 14:21:33 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

rstern@col.hp.com I wrote:
> II: Curtain->Sloth, Possum (w/Language), Time, YEM, Mango Song, Llama ..
                                           ^^^^
This is of course Mound, not Time!  How come no one corrected me ????

Richard Stern
rstern@col.hp.com
From: shell@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Shelly Culbertson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: Who heard Phish on Mountain Stage ???
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:26:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.shp0qINNpsm
Organization: Dept. of Statistics, U. C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.berkeley.edu

I remember another netter bumming because their local public radio station
skipped the Mountain Stage program with Phish in order to broadcast the
special "pledge drive" version...a similar event *almost* occurred on KHSU
in Arcata.  But, upon hearing the pledge version being broadcast on the
date scheduled for the Phish show, I resourcefully called the station and
made a pledge contingent on their broadcasting of the show in question the
following week (of course, I would have pledged anyway...:-).  They accepted
my challenge and played the show the following week so now I'm happy :-).

On the show, Phish played: Sparkle, All Things Reconsidered, Foam and
The Landlady.  They sounded a little tense to me until the middle of
Foam...somehow the first line of lyrics of Sparkle was lost (I would
guess that someone other than Paul was mixing the sound due to the radio
broadcast equipment, but I may be wrong), and I'm sure that didn't help.

But no-one else has mentioned that Trey came back and played with 
Buckwheat Zydeco and Joel Saulnier (sp.?) on the last song of the
show ("Juke-Joint Johnny")!  Trey sang a verse and took a solo, and I
think he sounded great - much more relaxed than during the Phish portion
of the show.

take care,
Shelly
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: za046@zeus.unomaha.edu
Subject: River Valley Music Festival(Kansas)
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:45:20 GMT

WELL, HELLO PHRIENDS......

SINCE I KNOW QUITE A FEW OF US/WE/I/THEY/THEM/NOONE ARE FANS OF PHINE MUSICAL 

GROUPS LIKE A.R.U. AND THE TRAVELER I THOUGHT I'D POST THIS BIT OF INFO. ON

UPCOMING (MAY 9TH!!!) JAM SESSION IN RURAL KANSAS.

CALLED THE RIVER VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL THE ROSTER IS TO INCLUDE BLUES TRAVELER/

BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS/AQUARIUM RESCUE UNIT/S.D.I.(?)/AND ONE MORE

GROUP WHOSE NAME ESCAPES ME NOW.

SOUNDS LIKE $20.00 FOR GOOD MUSIC IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS FROM 4 P.M. - 11 P.M.

CALL YOUR LOCAL TICKETBASTARD FOR INFO. ON OBTAINING TIX OR E-MAIL ME AND I CAN

GET YOU THE NUMBER SINCE I LEFT THE FLIER AT HOME!!

THE LOCAL IS BETWEEN LAWERENCE AND K.C. JUST OFF THE EUDORA EXIT, MORE DETAILED

DIRECTIONS CAN BE OBTAINED VIA MAIL ALSO!!!

C YA THERE!!

JONATHAN RICHARDS
 
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: roek@frith.egr.msu.edu
Subject: Have 2 single decks?
Reply-To: roek@frith.egr.msu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 19:09:03 GMT

In Digest #308, Noah Cole hit on a couple of the major drawbacks
of using 2 single decks:  extra interferance from the Amp. and 
not being able to do anything else with your system.  Both can
be avoided by running straight from the line out of one deck to 
the line in of the other.

Dan
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: unclejon@wpi.WPI.EDU (Unclejon)
Subject: Re: Subscribe
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 01:03:10 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.072524.27269@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> merc@pro-odyssey.cts.com writes:
>Please add me to the mailing list. Thanx!!!!


This message leads me to believe that there is an email mailing list.  Is
this true, and if so, do I subscribe just like above?

-Justin
From: DLD116@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: FREE merl! FREE merl! FREE merl!
Date: 13 Apr 92 01:52:14 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

hello again all!

                lately there's been a lot of talk about some phree shows
here and there- the stanford show and the UMASS show come to mind...
well i thought many of you would be interested in learning how you too
could get some phree musical pleasure...

      in two weeks or so (on EARTH DAY)...

              MERL SAUNDERS AND THE RAINFOREST BAND

          will be playing for phree on the Penn State campus! no fences, no
barbed wire, no dogs, landmines, or trenches! just loads o'phun for the whole
family!

just thought ya might like to know! if anybody is interested just let me know
if you need a place to crash...i know there's probably stuph going on all
over the place for EARTH DAY but if enough merl fans come out we'll make a
net gathering out of it!
                                   smile!
                                       -ryan
                                   "control for smilers can't be bought"
From: JOHNSORN@bcvax1.bc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: Phish Digest #301
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:38:33 GMT
Reply-To: johnsorn@bcvax1.bc.edu
Organization: The Internet

Sorry, I hit the wrong key. Thi is to the following: Johannes Smith
						     Ed Ingraffia
						     Tony Sirna

My Email address is: Johnsorn@bcvms.bc.edu , not sohnsorn@bcvms.bc.edu as is
listed in the final draft of the Gamehenge tree. Please take note of this.

					So Long, and Thanks for All the Phish,
						Robert Johnson
						Johnsorn@bcvms.bc.edu
From: vosshall@apple.com (Pete Vosshall)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Phish at Stanford?
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:19:34 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

I remember reading a while back that Phish was supposedly doing a free concert
on April 18 at Wilbur Field at Stanford.  Is this still the case?  If anyone
has information about this please let me know.

	- Pete

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: William Herzog <herzog@buphy.bu.edu>
Subject: GDMO
Reply-To: herzog@buphy.bu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 03:33:05 GMT

tommorrow is mail order for east coast and i do not know prices.  I
also need confirmation that the box# is 8190 and not 8150.  Sorry to
post this here, but my gdead.news scroll is always 4 days behind...

you show me yours and i'll show you mine...
bill

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Erik Jespersen <ewjes@mvax.cc.conncoll.edu>
Subject: Cause I got a degree!
Reply-To: ewjes@mvax.cc.conncoll.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 06:12:47 GMT


	As one of those shedding undergraduate work next month, I spent some
time with Alumni Blues to find a real gem that I hope is not redundant or
obvious to all. Never really listening with sharpened ears, I always thought
the first verse to be a humorous play on expectation, but I found out Phish
is far too witty for merely that.
	Case in point: I WASN'T walking NOWHERE (Translation: I was walking
							somewhere)
		       'Cause I DIDN'T have NO legs ( I did have some legs)

and why is he Ok? Probably in English 101 he learned the function of double
negatives => degree.

At any rate I enjoyed it. Any clues to the other verses would be appreciated.

	Second and last - IF ANYONE HAS A GOOD VERSION OF "MOUND" I WOULD
	  do nearly anything for it (Exploitation time) It is by far my favorite
	  song of the new series, although I much enjoy MAZE. It is a real
	  tour de force (outterm) of rhythmic strength, so If you've got
	  A copy e-mail me immediately.Please! 

		-Erik Jespersen.
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Carl Anderson <anderso2@husc.harvard.edu>
Subject: B.O.C. at Cornell
Reply-To: anderso2@husc.harvard.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 06:50:21 GMT


	Someone mentioned Blue Oyster Cult at Cornell on May 3rd.  I have
a friend who is a great fan of Blue Oyster Cult, and if they are playing
Cornell on May 3rd, that suggests they will be popping around the Northeast
soon, does anyone have further info on their tour schedule?

Optional Phish Content: I have a tape where the vocal jam out of Y.E.M. is
			based on B.O.C.'s "Godzilla".  Very frightening ...

Carl

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: HCCLARK%OWUCOMCN.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu
Subject: Phish at the Agora!!!
Reply-To: HCCLARK%OWUCOMCN.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:00:34 GMT

        Here is some information for the Phish show at the Agora Ballroom in
Cleveland, Ohio.  Tickets for the show on 5-7-92, are $10.00 (plus $2.50
ticketbastard charge).  I think you can also order tix at the box office, and
that number is (216) 881-6911.  The address for the ballroom is on 5000 Euclid
Ave in Cleveland.
        I've only been to Cleveland once before, and that was to see Phish at
the Agora.  However, I still do NOT know directions to the ballroom.  Anyone
out there that can help us w/ directions?  Any good ideas/places for a net
gathering?  Any info would be phantastic!!!
                -Hadley-         "wind from beyond the mountains"
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: NCALCATE@pearl.tufts.edu
Subject: Communication Breakdown
Reply-To: NCALCATE@pearl.tufts.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 02:25:04 GMT

  I always love it when Phish cover a Zeppelin tune.  I've seen Good Times BAd Times a few times, but I just got a tape with Communication Breakdown and a heavy metal version of Wilson.

  It is labelled as The Front, 1990.  I checked the HPB but could not find which show these songs come from.

  Does anyone know which show thses songs are from, or better yet, does anyone have a board of this show?

                        Nick Calcaterra
                        ncalcate@pearl.tufts.edu

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Jesse Dickman <ST201152@brownvm.brown.edu>
Subject: mailing list
Reply-To: ST201152@brownvm.brown.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:05:28 GMT

Dear Phish network people,
          I appreciate you placing me on your list and sending me the news
letter. I have enjoyed reading it and learned much about phish. But as I
have just recently realized, (I'm rather new to this whole email system) I am
able to access the file from Brown's mainframe. The numerous amounts of
material that you have beem semdimg me has merely jammed my disk with to much
information. So if you could please remove me from your list it would be most
appreciative, and I promise I will read the network on Brown's system.

                                            Thanks,
                                                 Jesse Dickman
From: vs@esv.bgsm.wfu.edu (Vicki Ann Sciorra)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Popper sings with phish ???
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:23:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: uvaarpa.1992Apr8.152337.26730
Reply-To: vs@esv.bgsm.wfu.edu
Organization: The Internet


Does anyone know anything about the summer tour with Phish,
Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors, and Wide Spread Panic??

Popper and phish together would be a killer show.

I heard about this summer tour coming to Winston-Salem, NC, but
I DON'T KNOW MUCH MORE!

If anyone has a clue, let me know.  And if they are coming to
Winston, and if anyone wants to road-trip and needs a place to stay,
well, look me up or let me know, and we'll go phishing together!


peace and other stuff,
Vicki


-- 


                         Here comes the joker
                          We all must laugh
                    Cause we're all in this together
                      and we love to take a bath...


                          vs@esv.bgsm.wfu.edu  
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Bruce Willner <brucew@phaeton.ee.cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: B.O.C.
Reply-To: brucew@phaeton.ee.cornell.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 07:05:50 GMT

        Blue Oyster Cult will be playing at Barton Hall, Cornell University
along with the Violent Femmes, Fishbone, and Tribe on May 3.  That will
be, to my knowledge, an isolated date.  At least one of the members of
BOC lives in Ithaca, and they play in the area on occasion.  I don't
think there will be any kind of tour.

        Here's some ticket info if anyone wants to go to the show.  (I
highly recommend this show solely because Fishbone is one of the best
live bands you'll see anywhere)  Tickets will be on sale to the 
general public on Thursday (I think).  They'll be available thru 
Ticketmaster and various places in Ithaca.  The tickets are $16 plus
whatever the service charge may be.

                                                      Bruce
                                                      <brucew@ee.cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: yeP! <s3583045@titan.ucc.umass.edu>
Subject: UMass update!    <----  *LOOK*
Reply-To: s3583045@titan.ucc.umass.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 16:11:36 GMT



Ok.... so apparently the UPC is pretty pissed that Phish put that
"free show" in the newsletter.  Of course, I don't care one way or
the other.  Um, so... blee... All you pholks that have been sending
me mail about the tix.... I have been saving it all, and I'll send
a message to you all when I know more.  

To re-hash.... you can see the concert from the street or the area
across the lake for free, but if you want to be close (or inside the
fence) you need a ticket.  For those of you who ABSOLUTELY definitely
want tickets, send me a check for $10/tick to:

John Greene
#9 Salem Place
Amherst, MA 01002

This way, in the event that I have only 1 day's notice, I can buy a 
shit laod.  If you are gonna send me money, send mail with a subject
of "$10" so I can save them all to a file.

-John

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