[This post is courtesy of Christy Articola, thank you Christy! -Ed.]

Here is Surrender to the Flow's Albany 2024 issue! We think you're really going to love this issue!

PHISH has announced that they'll perform four shows at Madison Square Garden beginning Saturday, December 28, through Tuesday, December 31.The Phish Tickets request period is underway and will run until noon e.t. on Monday, October 7. The general public onsale is Friday, October 11, at noon e.t.  A limited number of travel packages (hotel + tickets) will go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, October 2, at noon e.t. at https://phishnye.100xhospitality.com. For complete ticketing information, visit https://phish.com/tours.

Feeling grateful for Trey's sobriety and decades of generosity, including the Beacon Jams during a tremendously difficult time for the world four years ago?

Please consider celebrating Trey's life by donating in his honor in any amount that you can to the Divided Sky Foundation, the WaterWheel Foundation, or The Mockingbird Foundation, three charities that Trey cares greatly about and that he and Phish routinely support.

We love you, Trey!

Thanks to Jnan Blau (@thephunkydrb) for this exciting update!]

Greetings, phans and phellow phreaks! Your attention, please... Phish Studies 101 is now officially ready to go. A lecture series by and for Phish nerds across the Phishiverse. A webinar series that will absolutely scratch your itch to love and appreciate Phish even more, experience and understand the band, the experience, and the culture ever more deeply.

Phish Studies 101, the three-part webinar series that will probably change your life, is upcoming in October, is super exciting and thought-provoking, and is ready for you to register. For more information on Phish Studies 101, see this recent blog post from the recent past, as seen right here on our beloved Phish Dot Net. There, you will find a full write-up of what this wonderful Phish Studies 101 affair is all about, the backstory, what you stand to learn, how your life will change, etcetera.

[“From the Forum” is a running blog feature that highlights quality posts from the Phish.net forum to share more broadly. This edition was originally posted by @Flubhead on July 13, 2024. If you would like to listen along to the versions of songs mentioned in this blog post, open the accompanying playlist on phish.in. -Ed.]

The long and rollicking history of the Mike's Groove suite is full of ups, downs, peaks, valleys, and a whole lot of repetition. The first “Mike's Song” that we know of happened on 5/3/1985 at UVM. An auspicious thing, to be born around the same time as the band itself - 5/3/1985 is only the sixth show that we have a recording of. [While the official debut of “Mike’s Song” is listed as 3/16/85, and there is also a version listed in setlists before THAT from 2/1/85, which may be a misidentified tape of 2/3/86, 5/3/85 is indeed the first “Mike’s” that we have on tape.” -Ed.]

The first “I Am Hydrogen” that we have a recording of would appear on 10/15/86 at Hunt's in Burlington. The first performance that we know of was on 4/6/1985, but there's no extant recording of this show as of July 2024. Did its debut predate the actual debut of "Mike's Song"? Another mystery from the early days... It wasn't attached to "Mike's Song" at first. That would happen on 8/29/1987 at The Ranch in Burlington. The first “Hydrogens” seemed to be searching for an appropriate placement in their sets, but it most often preceded the nascent “Who Do? We Do?,” which itself was searching for its appropriate placement.

“Weekapaug Groove, the last piece of the M>I>W puzzle, debuted (we think!) on 7/23/88 at Pete’s Phabulous Phish Phest. “Weekapaug” was preceded by “Hydrogen” in its debut performance; no other song would precede it until 1992, when on 5/14/92 in Port Chester, they played the trifle “Wait” before “Weekapaug.” Clearly weird things were afoot in spring 1992, but dropping “Hydrogen” in favor of some other song preceding “Weekapaug” in the Mike’s Groove suite wouldn’t really begin in earnest until 1993.