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People always ask "What was your first show?" or "How did you hear about Phish?"My question is simply what was the first song you heard by them and when? Did you like it? Was it a live version or a studio version.
The first song I ever heard by Phish was 'The Curtain With.' I heard it in 2005 when I first heard of Phish. I decided to give them a listen so I youtubed them. This was the early days of Youtube. So all the appeared was 'The Curtain With' from Coventry. Ironically the last song Phish ever played (we all know how that turned out!)
Anyway I loved the song. Still my favorite song by them.
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Pebbles and Marbles. I suppose I had "heard" other Phish songs before, but the first time I sat down to listen to Phish I played Pebbles and Marbles. Round Room will always be special to me for that
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Dwd not sure what year or show... story goes one of my friends was like i wana take you to a phish show i already bought us tickets and sent me an email of about 15 songs and said to check them out... anyway checked out songs in email and this was like two months before the show didnt do any other listening pre show, saw that show and then went bunk downloading the upcoming weeks little did i know it would be a life changing show
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Julius. My dad made me listen to it cause he thought it was cool that they were from VT. It remains one of my favorite tunes.
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DWD studio version. Fell in love. My friend I was in a band with had it for some reason and thought i'd dig it because I played bass.
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YEM (from Roxy '93), but I was so closed-minded and in love with the Dead that I said,"this is meh compared to Dead". Then, I listened to a couple more things on my own (including IT) and the Lizards from the IT DVD mixed with Meatstick from NYE 2010 drew me in for life.
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Free.. studio versionBilly Breathes was my first album before i knew anything about the band.. i think it was given to me by my aunt but i can't recall
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speaking of which? Does anyone have a good video recording of 'The Curtain With' from Coventry?
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Gumbo from A Live One while being introduced. Asked my buddy to play another and he went to YEM. And that was that.
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@SconnieGuy said: Gumbo from A Live One while being introduced. Asked my buddy to play another and he went to YEM. And that was that.
Annnnnnnnd boom goes the dynamite
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Harpua
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Bouncing from A Live One. First thing I ever owned or heard from them. I bought it just from seeing Phish patches on people's packs at my first and only Dead show October '94. Those images always stuck with me, for some reason. In talking to a grungy hippie kid at North Station summer '95, who also had a Phish patch on his pack, he recommended ALO to me (after me asking what album I should get. His response, of course was "they are a live band" but ALO just came out).
I don't remember being blown away by Bouncing. Chalkdust got me interested. YEM, after a few listens is the song that hooked me. I bought almost every album I could find from them before summer was out and saw my first show December 5th 1995. Saw the two at Worcester that holiday run, and I was off and running. 17 years later, almost 100 shows, and I love them now more then ever.
And after going through a love hate affair with Bouncing, I actually really like the tune now. I don't want it in the meat of a 2nd set, but I can enjoy it and sing along a bit most times.
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Whenever my buddies would get together and jam Wading was a song that came up frequently. When I first heard that song I had know idea about Phish (yet), but I always liked the tune. Thought the lyrics were a little strange (how do you wade in a velvet sea anyways?), but little did I know that I would come to love the band that wrote Velvet Sea. Thanks to @stagebanter for unknowingly indoctrinating me!
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Divided Sky Studio Version. Disliked phish until hearing the emotion & bliss in the song. Getting into blazing probably complemented the love too!
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Fee somewheres around 89 or 90 can't remember. Thank you to my cousin at the time living in Ventura come to think about it my first show was Ventura as well what a coinqidink!BTW it was Junta version
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the squirming coil from the lawn boy studio album was my first time hearing phish. I was in middle school, probably sometime around 97, just learning how to play the guitar and a friend of mines older brother recomended i listen to the entire album. after hearing the first section of coil, i was hooked. then came Junta, and much like Golgi_Groove, the studio version of Divided Sky took my love of this (new to me) band to a whole new level. I had never been struck emotionally by music like that before and a true love for both of these studio albums holds dear to me. oddly enough, it wasn't until a couple of years later, freshman year of highschool, that i discovered the magical bliss of live phish. needless to say over 15 years later, my love for this band continues to grow and am still inspired to say the least. wow, I haven't thought about this in a long time. great thread!
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Simple, Summer of 1994. I remember hearing this weird ass song and falling in love with it. Then a friend of mine gave me junta and Rift. I saw them not to long after this awaking of music. I was a huge grunge fan and still am, I loved Pearl Jam, Soundgarden etc... but it changed my views on music for the remaining years. I lived right near the VT border so radiostations like WEQX always played Phish so i was aware of some of the stuff they had broadcasted over the airwaves but live shows on tape was my hook.
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My buddy played me YEM off of Junta and I liked it but the first song that I really dug into was Harry Hood from 12/28/10. After that, I was hoked.
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@dkast85 said: speaking of which? Does anyone have a good video recording of 'The Curtain With' from Coventry?Not Coventry, but here's another '04 Curtain (With) video that I've never seen:
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Farmhouse.
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Sample in a Jar 12/28/09
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Why weigh on a sunny day?
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Seeing Phish was different -First Live song: Frankenstein. GF, NY 1994Last Live Song: Tweezer Reprise Blossom Ctr 2012
Although, Saw Trey in Columbus this October so Last live song was First Tube. October 2012
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I first was introduced by my buddy sending me a link online to YEM from ALO. I listened to it and thought wow this is pretty good. But I was about 14 and into brutal metal at the time. Around 15-16 I downloaded hoist and farmhouse and listened to songs like dirt and farmhouse, you know real chill songs. Sample a little bit. Then I heard in no particular order Stash, D-Sky, and Slave around 17. At 18 I started listening to the dead. Saw them on the '09 tour. Loved it. Went and caught the SPAC '09 show and was sold for good. First live LLAMA! (One of my least fav songs at the time). But the 3rd song was Guyute which I had never heard. And when those climaxing chords roared at the end and the crowd cheered, I was sold for good.
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Farmhouse, no joke.
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Heavy Things when I was real young.
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First song I heard was the studio version of Free, thought it was alright, but my brother told me Phish is all about the live stuff so I checked out Hampton Comes Alive. Bathtub Gin was the first song of theirs that I reaaaally fell in love with, and I still listen to that version on regular basis.
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Farmhouse
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Idk. Used to listen to Gone Phishin, before that I guess I had some Phish songs on my laptop, DS, YEM, BAR type stuff I think. I loved divided sky just thought it was the prettiest song ever written, I love classical music and that what DS sounds like to me. I will say first "Phish" song though of course it's a cover I heard live was "loving cup" performed by Vince Welnik in a tent in upstate New York with a family I'm not a part of but boy did they make me feel at home.
My first Phish song by Phish, live, Golgi @ my first show and it was awesome.
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Weekapaug groove, and this was right after I picked up the bass in 9th grade. Thought what in the hell was the funky slaptastic groovin goin on in that bass solo at the intro. Then immediately after was Free 'studio version'.
Then I thought... damn this band has some crazy funky bass slapping, shredding guitar solos, and they also can play excellent harmonies. This is my new favorite band.. AND SO IT BEGAN!
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Oh and may I also add I remember thinking Page was killing it on the keys and Fishman was one hell of a metronome.
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Gin and Juice
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But being serious it was Fluffhead. It was the only Phish song I knew for many years cause a friend had it on his computer. We used to get baked and listen to the whole thing, it kinda freaked me out when I was younger but the arrival section has always been straight titties to me.
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at my first show i heard my first song and it was. Dinner and a Movie.
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A guy I dated put on Junta the first time we hung out. It was the summer of '94, I was 18, it was Fee, and it was instant love.
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Picture of Nectar had just come out, a friend said that fish was an awesome College band geared toward intellectuals... He proceeded to play Stash and particuarly pointed out the part where "He cries to his cohorts asleep in the trees." From there it was to the mall to get the tape. The rest is Phishtory...
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It was either Ghost or Birds Of A Feather I think...
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Bouncing ALO in 2001. Very much like in Almost Famous, I was given a piece of music and was given specific instructions, and to carry them out alone at home after school. Never looked back. Must of listened to that album half dozen times before the day ended.
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Contact! Thought it sounded like kids music, guess I was right!
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YEM, It was off one of the live releases, not sure which back in early 08. I was hooked.
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first song i ever heard was bouncing, didn't really grab mefirst song live was acdcbag, was hooked after that
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in around 2004 i had downloaded a bunch of studio songs. i remember not having the patience to listen to yem`
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The Landlady, 7/11/1992.Had never heard, nor heard of, phish prior to getting tickets to the HORDE fest that spring.
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Bouncing maybe? Or Sample...Or Fee.
Either way, I was such a n00b. Couldn't figure out why Bouncing wasn't on my Round Room disc.
Either way, I was such a n00b. Couldn't figure out why Bouncing wasn't on my Round Room disc.
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Fee off the junta cassette - or grey tape of whatever it was called.I remeber it interupted a good dart game in the absement we were in - I'm fairly certain I said - get that shit off!
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@YorkvilleBeerLover said: Fee off the junta cassette - or grey tape of whatever it was called.I spent a good part of late 1992 imploring my brother to "fucking play something else for once."
I remeber it interupted a good dart game in the absement we were in - I'm fairly certain I said - get that shit off!
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Simple-> Icculus from livephish 10My friend got me good.
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Reba from Lawn Boy
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I heard Fee (studio version) when I was really really young. In like middle school I think. I had no idea who Phish was at the time. It's a complete coincidence that I am now obsessed with them.
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"Stash" from Picture of Nectar.It was in a torrent of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos, the list that I think Rolling Stone did. I think, though, that the "Stash" that was in that list should have been the ALO version.
Anyway, I think they were a Spanish / Latino band, and could never remember whether the song title was Stash or Phish.
This was probably 2006, maybe? It took me another 2 years to listen to anything else, which was actually "The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday" - the album not the track.
And then 3 years later I made it to my first show, 12/28/11.
Woo!
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