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4/20/08 - It's 4/20
Celebrate. Dream. Count. Read. Hope. Duck.

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4/6/08 - MFF Auctions Festival Passes!
The Mimi Fishman Foundation has launched another in their continuing series of on-line charity auctions, this time an all-festival auction - most of which includes VIP passes. The auction, which concludes April 24, 2008, will benefit Rock the Earth and the Delta Gamma Center for Children With Visual Impairments. The auction items include VIP packages to Bonnaroo, 10,000 Lakes Festival, Summer Camp, Northwest String Summit, and Gathering of the Vibes, as well as a Rothbury package.
In addition, a very special guitar with tons of signatures (to benefit The Victory School) is still available for bidding through April 9. David Crosby, Graham Nash, Yonder Mountain, Billy Nershi, and many other signatures are included.
To view and/or bid on the auction, as well as read about the charities the auction supports, please visit the Mimi Fishman Foundation auction page http://www.mimifishman.org/auctions/

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3/31/08 - Imagined phone call to Trey...
Phunny blogger Wayne Fontes has imagined Mike, Fish, and Page calling Trey about the upcoming Jammy event, lol.

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3/26/08 - MFF Auctions Guitars
The current Mimi Fishman Foundation auction features signed guitars among other items. Many of the guitars are a benefit for the Station Family Fund. Just added to all the "Phoenix Rising" guitars are the signatures of 2 original members of BOSTON (Tom Scholz and Gary Pihl). In addition, there is a signed guitar with all proceeds to go to The Victory School for Children with Autism. This guitar is signed by many artists including David Crosby, Graham Nash, all of Yonder Mountain String Band, all of Railroad Earth, Michael Franti, Billy Nerhsi (String Cheese Incident), Derek Trucks (Allman Brothers, DTB), STS9 and others. The bidding ends on all Station Family Fund items on April 3. The bidding on the Victory House item ends April 9. Check it out at www.mimifishman.org/auctions/.

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3/14/08 - Phish sighting in Porn Catalog
The Winter 2008 catalog (no. 423) for TLAraw.com includes this description, on page 54, for Snatch Patch (2007, 120 min, discounted from $19.99 to $9.99): "The only place you can get two hours of hairy snatch for this cheap is tailgaiting at a Phish show, but then you'll end up on a bad trip that ends in Crabcrotch U.S.A. Save yourself the trouble and get your muff fix from us!"

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2/29/08 - "Fans of the band Phish allegedly consume marijuana"
This shocking revelation appears as the photo comment in a broader story: "God Smiles on Stoners, Eases Drought in Kentucky".

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2/27/08 - Langerado at Big Cypress
The Langerado Festival will be at the home of Phish's millenial New Year's celebration, and will include REM, Beastie Boys, and the Wailers.

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2/6/08 - Metallica and Lez Zeppelin @ Bonnaroo!
Okay, there's no Phish connection - it's not Led Zeppelin - but it's a damned fine lineup, announced just hours ago!

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2/6/08 - Dude of Life Spotted in Company of Small Children
New York Press' Becca Tucker tracked down Phish lyricist Steve Pollak, now a schoolteacher and suburban dad, and interviewed him alongside his three-year-old daughter Jamie (not to be confused with Jim) and five-year-old son Jesse. Good stuff, and some surprises - from him now being "the responsible one" to his continued plans to conquer the rock world (or at least his "mid-life crisis"). .. And, by the way, it is "just a matter of time"... dammit!

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2/4/08 - New Mimi Fishman Foundation Auction
The Mimi Fishman Foundation has just launched another auction, which concludes February 21 and includes rare and signed memorabilia donated by Phish, Oysterhead, moe., Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident), and artist Scramble Campbell among others. To view and/or bid on the auction, as well as read about the charities the auction supports, please visit the Mimi Fishman Foundation at www.mimifishman.org.

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1/30/08 - Trey plays for Road Recovery Teens
Phish frontman Trey Anastasio - just a few weeks out of prison for missing a drug counseling sessoin - spent three hours with recovering teens, and performed a new untitled song, last night in Schuylerville, NY, near where he now lives.

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1/31/08 - Run Run Run Run Running for Mockingbird
Mockingbird Foundation board member and marathon maven Charlie Dirksen will run in two more long dashes in coming weeks to help raise funds for music education. If anyone else is running and would like to help raise funds, or just get some encouragement from mention here, please let us know!

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1/28/08 - Phix to Reunite at Big Cypress for Langerado Festival
Mesmerizing tribute band, and longtime Mockingbird supporters, Phix will take the stage together once again, at the site of Phish's millenium mayhem!

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1/23/08 - The Bad Lieutenant Jailed
Trey spent January 16th-18th in jail after he failed to show up for a court-ordered appointment.

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1/22/08 - Gordon Plays Weekly @ Nectar's
Upbeat article about the Burlington music scence mentions that Phish bassist Mike Gordon "sits in on a weekly jam known as Honky Tonk Tuesday at the Radio Bean".

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1/8/08 - Page on Nightline
Phish keyboardist Page McConnell was featured on Nightline, discussing favorite songs, musical influences, and more. Site includes article, interview clips, and a video clip.

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12/31/07 - Mockingbird Announces New Grants!
The Mockingbird Foundation, an all-volunteer group of Phish fans organized in 1996, has announced seven new grants, totalling more than $25,000, to mark New Year's Eve. This twelfth round of competitive grants brings the total number of Mockingbird disbursements to 175 grants totalling more than $550,000 - and more are planned for later this year. There's still time to make a tax-deductible contribution - and The Phish Companion and Sharin' in the Groove make excellent Christmas, Channakuh, or Kwanza gifts for anyone you forgot this year!

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12/28/07 - Fishman in Nasvhille NYE
Tennessean.com reports that Phish drummer Jon Fishman will perform with the Del McCoury Band, IBMA award-winners Steep Canyon Rangers, Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman (of Leftover Salmon), and Ronnie Bowman at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nasvhille New Year's Eve. Show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $24.50-$49.5; call 889-3060.

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12/27/07 - DMB Credits Oswego
Oswego is cited as givin the Del McCoury Band their "full initiation into the jam-band world" by Nashville Scene.

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12/20/07 - Claypool Comments on Vegas
Primus bassist Les Claypool comments in an interview with Jambands on the 12/6/96 show (recently released) at which he sat in for YEM and a bass duel.

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12/19/07 - Plattsburgh Airpot Revamped
The site of the Clifford Ball has gotten a huge influx of federal and state investment - and the Ball continues to be mentioned in every article about the place, lol.

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12/18/07 - Vegas as Catalyst
Jambase contest award winner's words about how 12/6/96 hooked him (well after it happened) provide inspiration - and a win. :)

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12/9/07 - Gordon w/ Levon
Phish bassist Mike Gordon sat in for "Chest Fever" with the Levon Helm Band last night (12/8/07) in Woodstock, as reported by the Poughkeepsie Journal.

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12/4/07 - Mimi Auction Ends Tonight!
Bidding on all items on the current Mimi Fishman Foundation charity auction (except for the Michael Kang Golf Package and Mandolin) will end at various times throughout the late afternnoon and evening.

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12/2/07 - Here Ducks the Bride
Ryan Hoherd's 11/30/07 wedding included this glowstick war to the tune of "Down with Disease" from Red Rocks '04. Catch a clip on YouTube.

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11/29/07 - Another Mimi Auction is on!
The current Mimi Fishman Foundation charity auction goes until December 4th, featuring items donated by Phish,String Cheese Incident, moe., Yonder Mountain String Band, Scramble Campbell, The Meters, The Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, Disco Biscuits, Umphrey's McGee, Dave Matthews Band, Vegoose, Jack Johnson, Keller Williams, Jam Cruise, Ozzy Osbourne, and Michael Franti.

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11/20/07 - Rowe's Posters Back
Mike Rowe has revised a collection of scans Phish posters he collected 1989-1990. The collection was originally on the Brown U. server Netspace that Lee Silverman set up circa 1991 to house the original Phish.net files. At some point, that server disappeared and Rowe's site went with it. Now... it's back!

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11/27/07 - ALO in Best 25?
Rolling Stone lists A Live One among the "best 25 live albums".

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11/15/07 - Reunion NYE in Dubai?
No. Is it funny? Kinda.

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10/23 - Podes Knows Phish
Hockey great Shjon Podein played 699 NHL games, for Edmonton, Philadelphia, Colorado and St. Louis, as well as in Japan and Sweden, scoring exactly 100 career goals. In a recent interview, he mentions getting hooked on Phish by John LeClair.

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10/21/07 - Trey w/ Phil and Friends
Trey sat in for the entirety of last night's Phil and Friends show. Clips are scattered on YouTube, and an intersting discussion is taking place @ the Terrapin site.

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10/3/07 - A musician who doesn't understand improv
Winonans writer Brandon Rompa suggests that Phish, like other jambands, "gives listeners the illusion of musical freedom and explosive creativity when it is actually just sound flowing aimlessly." Editorial comment: Rompa is either confusing free jazz (which lacks any structure whatsover) and the band-wide transitions of jambands, or is simply ignorant about the latter.

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9/27/07 - Mockingbird Foundation announces Phish Reunion Fund!
Celebrate your hopes of a return, while supporting music education for kids!

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9/5/07 - French Eye Phish FLACs?
Okay... Only a small mention, and it was mostly the alliterative opportunity that appealed, but... Live Phish is mentioned in a Paris post to the International Herald Tribune about "anti-MP3 audiophiles".

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8/30/07 - Twelve Reasons Phish Should Reunite
Good for a chuckle - and/or a sigh...