Updates

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It’s been a slow start to the year, but we’re good over here. New tunes next weekend. Some of the new tapes that have come in aren’t in great shape. (PSA: Let go of your tapes!). But, before that there’s going to be a few super old concert updates.

We got another shipment from OG Boiler Hall of Famer Steve Washick, the Johnson tapes are rolling and rolling and rolling, and I’m going to reach out to a few old friends this week to see if we can get a few more tapes in to add to the variety a bit.

And, the 2024 Concert Series is shaping up. We’ve already knocked two off the list, and we got one next month, followed by the Stones in May and a trip to the Sphere in June. Just waiting impatiently for Phish dates.

So, all’s well.

94 for 24

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That’s the goal. 94 shows for the rest of the year. I’m shooting to post Installment #1,000 at 11:45 PM on 12/31/24, unless I’m inside of Madison Square Garden.

2023 was full of highs and lows in the music department for me. I missed an unprecedented amount of shows for unforeseen reasons, but I also saw some real bangers (Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros. 2/7&8/23 @ the Cap, moe. 4/14/23 @ Higher Ground, Dead & Co. 6/25/23 @ Fenway, and Phish 12/28&29/23 @ MSG stand out the most).

I also neglected this site and the sister Furthur Project site horribly.

I aim to remedy both of these with a massive concert schedule, site maintenance and installment push in the next 360-whatever days. I’ve already got tickets in hand to seven shows and a ton of tapes ready to plow through. It’s going to be a big year.

Installment #906 – moe. 11/4/01 – Kalamazoo State Theater

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Torrent Link: N/A
Archive Link: https://archive.org/details/moe2001-11-04
etreeID: Submitted / Pending

When I had COVID a few weeks ago, I was super incredibly bored while fighting off fever. So, I spent a little time thumbing through the dozens of CD books that I still have laying around. To my delight I found a bunch of moe. shows that are not currently listed in circulation, so I gave one a rip. This one.

11/4/01 is a pretty good show from a great tour. This one has a few stand out moments. The first set is very first set-y until the Do You Feel Like We Do? that seems to come out of nowhere. The second set highlights come at the end with the Lazarus / Sensory > Rec Chem. Quality show from a tour that is heavily circulated. I was honestly surprised that this wasn’t already out there.

Holding to my previously implemented rule of not putting up CD Rips as torrents, this is only available at the archive. Enjoy. This wraps up the 2023 NYE10.

moe.
11/4/01
Kalamazoo State Theater – Kalamazoo, MI

Source: Unknown AUD
Transfer: CD > EAC > WAV > Audacity > TLH > FLAC
Taper Unknown
Extracted & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Set 1 ~

  1. Crowd / Banter
  2. She Sends Me
  3. Okayalright
  4. Y.O.Y.
  5. Time Ed >
  6. Water
  7. The Ghost of Ralph’s Mom
  8. Do You Feel Like We Do?

~ Set 2 ~

  1. Crowd / Banter
  2. The Harder They Come
  3. Gone
  4. You Livin’ Again >
  5. Lazarus
  6. Sensory Deprivation Bank >
  7. Recreational Chemistry

~ Encore ~

  1. Crowd / Banter
  2. Bodhisattva

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Installments #901 – #905 – Multiple Acts from Leguna Seca Daze – 5/25 & 26/96

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I don’t normally like to bulk together so many installments under on listing, but for this occasion, I think it’s appropriate because A.) I think this is awesome, and B.) I don’t have tons say about a couple of the sets.

So, this is not sets from all the bands that you see listed on the poster above, it’s just five of them: Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Ratdog, Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box, the Neville Brothers, and God Street Wine. But what is particularly fascinating to me is how this two day festival in May relates to The Furthur Project.

This festival marked the first time that Mickey Hart brought the Mint Julips into our lives and threw the Mystery Box out on stage for people to see. That’s pretty significant. I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been trying to track down this set since way before the Furthur Project was born, so I’m excited to bring it to light 28 years later. Also, the Ratdog set, also impossible to find, provided a glimpse of what Bobby was going to do throughout the summer…lots of blues, lots of covers, very little Grateful Dead tunes.

Finally, a gigantic and massive thanks goes out to new-ish friend of the program Michael Pfeil for these files and for braving the elements wearing Schoeps in his hat, and being a human mic stand. 

Side note: I’m not positive the Neville Brother’s policy, and I just got my knuckles slapped for posting a couple of Leftover Salmon shows that I had zero idea that I wasn’t allowed to post, so the Neville’s set is a WeTransfer link that expires on 1/8/24. Act fast. Without further ado…

Installment #901 – Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals – 5/25/96 – Laguna Seca Recreation Area – Monterrey, CA

Torrent Link: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?torrentId=621065
Archive Link: N/A
etreeID: Submitted / Pending

Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
5/25/96
Laguna Seca Recreation Area – Monterrey, CA

Source: (FOB in Hat w/Light Windscreens) Schoeps CMC64>Sonosax SX-M2> Panasonic sv-255
Transfer: DAT > WAV
Taped & Transferred by Michael Pfeil
Tracked & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Leguna Seca Daze ~

  1. Intro Jam
  2. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
  3. Ground On Down
  4. The Will To Live
  5. Sexual Healing
  6. Please Me Like You Want To
  7. Burn One Down
  8. Don’t Take That Attitude To Your Grave / Concrete Jungle
  9. Gold To Me >
  10. Fight For Your Mind

~ Encore ~

  1. Like A King / I’ll Rise

Massive Thank You to Michael Pfeil for sending me this file!

This show is a Boiler in the Basement Installment –
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Installment #902 – Ratdog – 5/25/96 – Laguna Seca Recreation Area – Monterrey, CA

Torrent Link: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?torrentId=621066
Archive Link: https://archive.org/details/rd1996-05-25.Pfeil
etreeID: https://etreedb.org/shn/166636

Ratdog
5/25/96
Laguna Seca Recreation Area – Monterrey, CA

Source: (FOB in Hat w/Light Windscreens) Schoeps CMC64>Sonosax SX-M2> Panasonic sv-255
Transfer: DAT > WAV
Taped & Transferred by Michael Pfeil
Tracked & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Leguna Seca Daze ~

1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
2. Walkin’ Blues
3. Take Me to the River
4. City Girls >
5. Fever >
6. Eternity
7. K.C. Moan
8. When I Paint My Masterpiece
9. Juke
10. Kansas City
11. The Winners >
12. Easy to Slip >
13. Drums / Bass >
14. Easy Answers

~ Encore ~
15. Crowd
16. Turn On Your Lovelight
17. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

Massive Thank You to Michael Pfeil for sending me this file!

This show is a Boiler in the Basement Installment –
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Installment #903 – Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box – 5/26/96 – Laguna Seca Recreation Area – Monterrey, CA

Torrent Link: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?torrentId=621067
Archive Link: https://archive.org/details/mhb1996-05-26.Pfeil
etreeID: https://etreedb.org/shn/166639

Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box
5/26/96
Laguna Seca Recreation Area – Monterrey, CA

Source: (FOB in Hat w/Light Windscreens) Schoeps CMC64>Sonosax SX-M2> Panasonic sv-255
Transfer: DAT > WAV
Taped & Transferred by Michael Pfeil
Tracked & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Leguna Seca Daze ~

1. Stage Introduction
2. Only The Strange Remain
3. The Sandman
4. Look Away
5. Where Love Goes (Sito)
6. Down the Road
7. Planet Drum
8. John Cage is Dead
9. Don’t Let Him Take Your Love From Me *
10. Sangre De’Christo
11. Band Intros
12. Fire On The Mountain ^
13. The Next Step
14. Full Steam Ahead

~ Encore ~
15. Crowd
16. Not Fade Away

*-Mint Juleps Only
^-w/Bob Weir (Guitar)

Massive Thank You to Michael Pfeil for sending me this file!

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Installment #904 – Neville Brothers – 5/26/96 – Laguna Seca Recreation Area – Monterrey, CA

Torrent Link: N/A
Download Link: (ACTIVE UNTIL 1/8/24) https://we.tl/t-IAE3vpLJG4
etreeID: Submitted / Pending

Neville Brothers
5/26/96
Laguna Seca Recreation Area – Monterrey, CA

Source: (FOB in Hat w/Light Windscreens) Schoeps CMC64>Sonosax SX-M2> Panasonic sv-255
Transfer: DAT > WAV
Taped & Transferred by Michael Pfeil
Tracked & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Leguna Seca Daze ~

  1. Track 1 >
  2. Cissy Strut
  3. All Shook Up >
  4. Hey Pocky Way >
  5. I Walk on Guilded Splinters
  6. Ain’t No Sunshine
  7. Don’t Take Away My Heaven
  8. Fever
  9. Instrumental
  10. Mitakuye Oyasin Oyasin / All My Relations
  11. Whatever You Do
  12. Track 12
  13. Fire On the Mountain *
  14. Brother John >
  15. Iko Iko
  16. Ayiti
  17. Come Together >
  18. Power of Soul (Love) >
  19. Come Together
  20. Amazing Grace
  21. One Love

*-w/Bob Weir (Guitar) & Mickey Hart (Percussion)

Massive Thank You to Michael Pfeil for sending me this file!

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Installment #905 – God Street Wine – 5/26/96 – Laguna Seca Recreation Area – Monterrey, CA

Torrent Link: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?torrentId=621068
Archive Link: https://archive.org/details/gsw1996-05-26.Pfeil
etreeID: Submitted / Pending

God Street Wine
5/26/96
Laguna Seca Recreation Area – Monterrey, CA

Source: (FOB in Hat w/Light Windscreens) Schoeps CMC64>Sonosax SX-M2> Panasonic sv-255
Transfer: DAT > WAV
Taped & Transferred by Michael Pfeil
Tracked & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Leguna Seca Daze ~

  1. Untitled Take Two (Angle)
  2. Girl On Fire
  3. Cheap Utah Blues
  4. Waiting for the Tide
  5. Stupid Hat
  6. Goodbye Oklahoma
  7. Get On The Train
  8. If I Can Dream

Massive Thank You to Michael Pfeil for sending me this file!

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Installment #900 – Trey Anastasio Band 8/4/01 – Tweeter Center

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Torrent Link: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?torrentId=621060
Archive Link: N/A
etreeID: https://etreedb.org/shn/166634

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am thrilled to bring to you Installment #900. Installment NineMotherFuckingHundred. Wow.

So, I chose this show for a few reasons. First of all, this is the first set from the newly acquired Johnson Stash, which I cannot wait to spend the few years working on. And second, I have fond memories of this particular show. It came at time when I was particularly missing Phish. The last show I had seen before this one was 9/11/00, which is still think is the worst show I’d ever been to. The band was on what seemed like an indefinite hiatus and this Trey Tour was all there really was to feed the need. So, JPR and I armed with seeming no money and a total of like five cigarettes between the two of us made the trek to Greatwoods. This was also my first Trey Band show.

I was immediately hooked. I had heard plenty of recordings before, but experiencing the horns live and in person immediately appealed to me. I had a great time, lack of cigarettes aside, and was immediately irritated that I did not have tickets to SPAC the next night.

The final reason that I targeted this show as #900 is because I had not listened to it since experiencing it live. Sometimes I do this with shows that I remember being particularly good or that stand out to me for reasons. Likewise, I do the same with shows that I’m concerned that upon register will be tainted for me (Grateful Dead 6/15/95 is at the top of this list). Regardless, I saw the tape in the box and immediately identified it as the first one I wanted to spin.

The first set has some nice highlights. I Done Done It is a nice opener, the Last Tube is a favorite, Drifting and Alive Again are tunes I always want to hear at Trey Band shows, and Moesha is a fun first set song. But for this show, it’s really all about the second set.

I’ll preface this by saying I’m not a massive Mr. Completely fan, but this one has a few nice jams. The It Makes No Difference is that follows is untuckingbelievable. This is a song that Trey was born to sing. As the set progresses its gets better and better. Cayman Review, Burlap Sack and Pumps and Push on Till the Day are all fantastically played.

This is a great show from a down time in Phish History. Most of you probably have a copy of this in your archives already, but this is a new source to circulation. I have no idea who the original taper is and it’s not documented in George’s voluminous field notes, but get in while the getting is good on this one.

Happy New Year.

Trey Anastasio Band
8/4/01
Tweeter Center – Mansfield, MA

Source: AKG 480 / CK61 > Zefero Inbox > DA-P1
Transfer: Tascam DA-30 MKII > Tascam DR-680 > Audacity > WAV > Traders Little Helper > FLAC
Taper Unknown
Patched by George Johnson
Tracked & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Set 1 ~
1. Crowd / Tuning
2. I Done Done It
3. Last Tube
4. Drifting
5. Alive Again
6. Flock of Words
7. Moesha
8. First Tube

~ Set 2 ~
1. Mister Completely
2. It Makes No Difference
3. Cayman Review
4. Burlap Sack and Pumps
5. Sunday Morning
6. Push On Till the Day

~ Encore ~ 
7. Crowd
8. At the Gazebo
9. Mozambique

Huge thanks to George Johnson for letting me borrow the archives.

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Installment #899 – Widespread Panic 10/4/98 – Rave Ballroom

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Torrent Link: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?torrentId=621059
Archive Link: N/A
etreeID: Submitted / Pending

Here we are again, looking down the barrel of another Widespread Panic show that I don’t really know what to do with. In general, I don’t chip away at shows. If I put one on to work on, I will – 95% of the time – plow through it and decide to include it as an Installment, or add it to the Do Not Circulate list. For some reason this one took me forever to work on.

I’m trying with the Widespread stuff. I really am. I want to get it. I’m starting to think I’m making some progress, but I still don’t think it’s very prudent for me to say much about the shows. There are parts of this I really liked (Ride Me High > Hatfield, Who Do You Belong To?, most of the start of the second set), but the rest I have no comment on. Baby steps.

This show has been in circulation for a while, but from what I can tell this is a new source. Thanks to old friend Michael Schaefer for borrowing this tape. I still have a handful of his tapes that haven’t been uploaded yet.

Widespread Panic 
10/4/98
Rave Ballroom – Milwaukee, WI

Source: AKG 410B + C408B > D7
Transfer: Tascam DA-20 MKII > Tascam DR-680 > Audacity > WAV > Traders Little Helper > FLAC
Taped by Jeff Jansen
Transferred & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Set 1 ~
1. Crowd / Tuning
2. Let’s Get Down To Business
3. Holden Oversoul >
4. You Got Yours 
5. Ride Me High > 
6. Hatfield
7. Who Do You Belong To?
8. Dying Man
9. Jack > 
10. Makes Sense To Me

~ Set 2 ~
1. Going Out West
2. Rebirtha > 
3. Ain’t Life Grand
4. Nobody’s Loss >
5. Pigeons
6. Christmas Katie > 
7. Drums > 
8. Proving Ground > 
9. Me & The Devil > 
10. Proving Ground

~ Encore ~
11. Crowd / Banter
12. Driving Song > 
13. Pusherman > 
14. Driving Song 

Huge thanks to Michael Schaefer for the use of his archives.

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Installment #898 – moe. 5/27/01 – Yokohama Bay Hall

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Torrent Link: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?torrentId=621058
Archive Link: https://archive.org/details/moe2001-05-27.Schaefer
etreeID: Submitted / Pending

In May of 2001, moe. hit Japan for three shows, this Installment is the final show of that run. The first two nights there are really nice sounding recordings, but for some reason, I’ve never been able to track down a really great on from this night.

This is a pretty fun show that provides a pretty good snapshot of what the band was up to around this time. The ends of each set are really the highlights in this reporters opinion. Wank > Buster / The Harder They Come have a lot of energy and the final tune includes an unknown guest doing her best Donna Jean impersonation. The end of the second set’s Brent Black > Meat > Head is a pretty hot way to end a show. More moe. coming soon.

moe.
5/27/01
Yokohama Bay Hall – Yokohoma, Japan

Source: AKG C461s > Wendt NGSX-2 > SBM-1 > D8
Transfer: Tascam DA-30 MKII > Tascam DR-680 > Audacity > WAV > Traders Little Helper > FLAC
Taper Unknown
Transferred & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Set 1 ~ 
1. Crowd / Banter
2. St. Augustine
3. Time Again
4. Jazz Wank >
5. Buster
6. The Harder They Come *

~ Set 2 ~
1. Crowd / Banter
2. Moth >
3. You Livin’ Again
4. Okayalright
5. Brent Black >
6. Meat >
7. Head

~ Encore ~ 
8. Crowd / Banter
9. Spine Of A Dog

Huge thanks to Michael Schaefer for the use of his archives.

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Installment #897 – Strangefolk 12/27/98 – Capitol Theater

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Torrent Link: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?torrentId=621055
Archive Link: https://archive.org/details/sf1998-12-27.Mullins
etreeID: Submitted / Pending

For a band that I never remember buying a ticket to see, I saw Strangefolk an awful lot in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. They seemed to be an upper echelon name at every 4th tier jamband festival that took place during these years. They were fine. Sometimes I liked it, but I never understood the people that really, really liked it. Sometimes I didn’t and I’d just go back to my tent or seek our nourishment. But for some reason when I saw these tapes in the Mullins Collection, I was interested and pulled them out.

The show is fine. It’s about what I remember. Pretty straight-forward Strangefolk. From what I could tell the source did not previously exist, so, behold, 12/27/98 to start out the NYE10.

Strangefolk
12/27/98
Capitol Theater – Port Chester, NY

Source: DSBD
Transfer: Tascam DA-20 MKII > Tascam DR-680 > Audacity > WAV > Traders Little Helper > FLAC
Taper Unknown
Transferred & Seeded by Bill Graves

~ Set 1 ~
1. Stage Introduction
2. Stout Hearted
3. Rachel
4. Walnut
5. Pawn
6. Chasing Away
7. Songbeard
8. Crest of My Wing
9. Like You Anyway

~ Set 2 ~
1. Valhalla
2. Neighbor
3. Mud Spring Draw
4. Sometimes
5. The Shooting of Dan McGrew *
6. Cabin John
7. Poland
8. Blue / Grey
9. Strange Ranger
10. See To
11. Reuben’s Place

~ Encore ~ 
12. Heart Blood
13. So Far Gone

*-Poem written by Yukon poet Robert Service

About These Tapes:
These tapes were graciously donated to the project by James Mullins in 2022.

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