Phish In A Barrel is a weekly Tomorrow’s Verse feature collecting Phish news, videos, covers & more.
Trey Anastasio Band shares pro-shot videos from 2020 New Orleans run
This past week marked a year from Trey Anastasio Band completing a two-night run at New Orleans venue The Civic Theatre, shows that closed out the band’s winter tour. To mark the anniversary, the Phish guitarist shared two pro-shot videos from the run. Watch an energetic “Set Your Soul Free” from 1/31/20 and a funky “Love Is What We Are” from 2/1/20 below.
Video footage of a Phish set from 5/13/90 appears on YouTube
It isn’t every week, or month, that 30-year-old Phish footage emerges, so fans should certainly be aware of the newest addition YouTube. The video features eight of ten songs from the evening’s opening set at The Front in Burlington, Vermont, a hometown venue that housed more than 50 Phish shows in the band’s early years. Read the setlist included in the video and watch it below.
Bathtub Gin, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag, Dinner and a Movie > Bouncing Around The Room > Runaway Jim, Uncle Pen, Divided Sky
Ben & Jerry’s announces plans to sell vegan version of popular ‘Phish Food’ flavor
For more than 20 years, Ben & Jerry’s has been selling ‘Phish Food,’ an ice cream named after the band that consists of chocolate, caramel and marshmallow. Amongst the company’s most iconic flavors, it makes sense that it would be a prime candidate to receive the vegan, plant-based treatment, with proceeds still being donated to The Waterwheel Foundation. Read more about this on Delish.
Additionally, Ben and Jerry’s is teaming with the band for a new contest. The “Strange Design” contest challenges Phish fans to use a Jim Pollock line drawing of a cow to design their own artwork revolving around the ‘cows on vacation’ theme. The winner will receive two tickets to a Phish show of their choice, a signed Pollock print, a year’s supply of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and $2,000. Read the details here.
Trey Anastasio shares pro-shot “If I Could See The World” from The Beacon Jams
Amongst the most exciting Phish news during quarantine came in the form of Anastasio’s livestreams from New York City’s Beacon Theatre that took place in October and November of 2020. Though “If I Could See The World” would appear on studio album Lonely Trip, it’s live debut appeared during the first night of The Beacon Jams. Watch this debut below, as well as “A Wave Of Hope.”
Jon Fishman interviewed for ‘Ten Minutes With Tamara’
Drummer Jon Fishman took part in virtual interviews with Tamara Rubin, an activist in raising awareness of lead-based poisoning in children. While the three-part interview does touch on his child’s unsafe exposure to lead, it finds Fishman in good spirits, discussing performing with Phish, parenting during COVID lockdown, his past experiences owning a Dairy, and much more. Watch the interviews below.
Trey Anastasio shares pro-shot “Mozambique” from the final night of The Beacon Jams
What better way to end this week’s list than a clip from the finale of Trey Anastasio’s Beacon Jams? The guitarist recently shared a video of “Mozambique” from 11/27/20, the two month run’s conclusion. The horn-filled song find’s the band’s energy at unbelievable heights, its celebratory feel appropriate for the night.