SET 1: 46 Days, Everything's Right, Sand, What's Going Through Your Mind [1], Ghost [2]
This performance was part of Crossroads Guitar Festival 2026. What's Going Through Your Mind featured John Mayer on guitar and vocals. John Mayer also played guitar on Ghost.
AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD: SURRENDER TO THE FLOW ISSUE NO. 95, FALL TOUR 2026
[This post is courtesy of STTF's Christy Articola. -Ed.]
STTF #95: Fall Tour 2026 is available now for download here! We are excited to get this 32-pager out to you for this very exciting Phish Fall Tour. As always, STTF is available in digital format for download for free or by donation.
SET 1: Speak to Me, Howlite, Solid Air > I'll Be Seeing You, Northern Shuffle [1]
This performance was part of Crossroads Guitar Festival 2026. Trey sat in on guitar for Northern Shuffle.
SET 1: Got My Mojo Working, Who Am I, Future Soul, I Walk on Guilded Splinters, Wah-Wah [1], Little Wing [2], Keep On Growing, Empty Pages, Anyday, Layla, Got to Get Better in a Little While [3]
This performance was part of Crossroads Guitar Festival 2026. Wah-Wah and Little Wing featured Trey on guitar. Little Wing also featured Trey on vocals. John Mayer joined on guitar for Keep On Growing, Empty Pages, and Got to Get Better in a Little While. Anyday through Got to Get Better in a Little While featured Eric Clapton on guitar and vocals and Doyle Bramhall II on guitar. Got To Get Better in a Little While also featured Trey, Marcus King, Eric Gale, Billy Gibbons, and Jimmie Vaughan on guitar, Dirk Powell on fiddle, and Amelia Powell on tambourine.
MEET THE AUTHOR #2 ð
The Mockingbird Foundation's (Read the) Book Club will have its second Zoom discussion session and Meet the Author on Wednesday September 30th, 5:30 pm Pacific / 8:30 pm Eastern. We are reading, and will be discussing, Walter "Waxbanks" Holland's Phish's A Live One, part of the 33 1/2 series and selected by a decisive margin in the recent forum vote. Advanced registration is required, and the passcode will be the release date of A Live One: 062795.
MIMI FISHMAN TICKET AUCTION ðïļ
The Mimi Fishman Foundation is running a new auction, benefitting the Waterwheel Foundation, with ticket packages for the fall tour - and some of the offerings don't even have bids yet. Get a deal, support a great cause, and encourage others to jump into the fray!
NORAH'S NOT THE WOOK - A PUZZLE ð§Đ
(Updated...)
Somewhere in this randomized list of the over 600 unique first names from the Phish universe, hiding among band members, family, friends, fellow musicians, crew, song characters, and other assorted identities, is the name of the tour wook who introduced themself to your crew as Lotus Rainwalker. After mooching your beer all weekend, they stole your tickets then bartered them for a fat satchel of heady dread beads blessed by a crystal healer in the presence of a lamb drinking unfiltered water smuggled from the Ganges.
To find the wook, here are some clues. Their real name doesn't start or end with a vowel, nor with any part of the acronym for folk legends Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; it doesn't contain consecutive consonants, consecutive vowels, or any letter worth more than four points in (English) Scrabble; and it doesn't rhyme with hiker, diaper, or trashcan, even though "Lotus"'s longest story contained one of each. Also, the wookâs name has two syllables, each with a different vowel, but itâs not Norah.
To the first five people who email the solution to [email protected], Iâll mail a copy of the double-disc tribute album Sharinâ in the Groove and a couple of Mockingbird Foundation stickers. We have 2 winners so far; 3 more prize packages to be had!
(names below the "fold")
Down With Music Mold ðĩ
Less than a week after Phish's longest "Down with Disease" ever, the fan-run, all-volunteer Mockingbird Foundation has announced a $3,000 emergency grant to help recover from a mold infestation in the music wing of Hixson High School in Tennessee.
DICKS3 RECAP: THE CENTER STILL HOLDS
[We would like to thank Jon Allison (@Laudanum) for recapping last night's show. -Ed.]
Call me crazy, but from the moment of the first atmospheric wash of sound that opened the âGhost,â you could feel a charge in the air.
Hello. Itâs Dickâs 2026. Night three. I had soaked up sun, dust, and the buzz of being around so many like-minded people in the lot for hours before the show. It being over two and a half years since my last show, I had missed this tremendously.
If itâs been a while since you, too, have been at one of these, donât worry. The center still holds.
DICKS2 RECAP: ALL GAS AND JUST HOW WE LIKE IT
[We would like to thank Katie Stone (@strangedesign23) aka @katie.with.a.fan on IG for recapping last night's show. -Ed.]
Sunday shows are pedestalized in this culture of ours, and rightfully so. But there is something I greatly revere about Night Two, especially during a 3-pack run. My Night One preshow excitement always manifests as a specific flavor of anxiety from the moment I wake up and as the day progresses. This dynamic is exacerbated for hometown shows, when my daily life ungracefully melds into my arrival at the gates of Wookville. The uncomfortable buzzing ramps up as I get ready, it frays my nerves as we conquer I-70 traffic getting to Commerce City, and it hits a peak tension point inside the venue as jubilant reunions and scream-hugging go down, spots are claimed, water bottles are filled and psychedelics are consumed, and the clock inches closer to 8:05.
DICKS1 RECAP: RAGING WITH THE ALIENS ON A CHILL NIGHT 1 AT PHISH DICKS
[We would like to thank @Grape_Ape aka April Dawn E for recapping last night's show. -Ed.]
The May 2nd Phish Sphere show may have caused my brain to meltdown, and while I got the âFrankensteinâ Iâve craved since South Park Meadows in 1998, that show, combined with the chemicals ingested, was just too damn much, so Iâve been feeling some trepidation mixed with anticipation about night 1 of Phish at Dickâs. I know that Las Vegas and Commerce City/Denver are two completely different vibes and experiences, but the brain and gut connection canât be ignored or downplayed by the person living it.
Life has been a lot lately, and I really need this annual pilgrimage on my calendar. Time to set that âOut of Officeâ message and head west!
DENVER WEATHER FORECAST ð
Rain has added complexity at some Phish Dick's weekends, with compressed "one long-ass set" on 9/2/22 and 9/3/23. This coming weekend, however, is looking solid, with highs in the upper 80s, lows around 60, and mostly sunny skies. The only currently projected chances of rain are low, maybe 10% Friday and Sunday, though Saturday and Sunday may have increasing clouds prior to precipitation Monday, and the meteorologist at 9News has raised some concerns about possible storms.
BOOK CLUB PICK 2: WAXBANKS' ALO ð
The second selection in the Mockingbird (read the) Book Club will be Walter "Waxbanks" Holland's Phish's A Live One. Part of Bloomsbury Publishing's fabulous 33 1/3 series, this is a 160-page retrospective twenty years after Phish's first live release, which followed years of the band being asked, "When are you going to release a live one?"... and, so, they did.
As Bloomsbury details it, A Live One was and is "a mix of weirdo acid-psych, ambient moonscapes, vaudevillian Americana, and riotous arena-rock energy, all filtered through bandleader Trey Anastasio's screwball compositional sensibility and the band's idiosyncratic approach to spontaneous group creativity." The book "places Phish and their fandom in historical and cultural context, and picks apart the mechanics of their extended group jams. And it examines the mystery of how a quartet of nice boys from Burlington, VT could have been, all at once, one of America's biggest touring acts and one of its best-kept secrets."
Forum and blog discussions will start nearly four weeks from now, on September 23rd, and the Zoom Meet the Author will be Wednesday, September 30th, at 5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern.
SURRENDER TO THE FLOW ISSUE NO. 94: COLORADO 2026
Hey folks!
Dick's Run 2026 is just around the corner, and STTF #94: Colorado 2026 is now available in digital format for download! It's great reading material for the plane, the car, the hotel, set break, or the couch!
Download now at www.gum.co/sttf94 and enjoy! It's available FREE or by donation!
SOMETHING LIVING HERE
Back To School Drive ðŦ
The Mockingbird Foundation has announced it's 4th Back to School Fund Drive. As schools across the country gear up for their 2026-2027 school year, many can use our support to help close funding gaps for their music programs - particularly because so often, those programs have been deemed an "extra" that can be shrunk or cut entirely. We know that is not the case, as we observe the power of music education firsthand, through the grants we are able to provide thanks to gifts from donors like you!
To help your donation go even further, one of our incredible donors has kindly offered to match all donations up to $5,000! This is an amazing opportunity to double your donation for maximum impact. We are extremely thankful for the generosity of our donors! The campaign is running now through Labor Day. You can donate here: https://donate.mbird.org/campaigns/406
DANCING IN MIDAIR
RUBY WAVES
Cast Aside Your Foolish Pride; We Updated The Vote ð
We've rolled out a massive update to how show ratings on Phish.net are calculated. The Top Rated Shows list is one of the most-loved (and most-debated) corners of the site, and we want it to reflect the genuine consensus of the community as faithfully as possible.
To get there, we assembled a team of statisticians, economists, and programmers, and introduced a number of systematic adjustments to the ratings algorithm. These adjustments address long-considered issues including recency bias, the different ways people use the scale, longtime-versus-newer voting patterns, and common methods of ratings manipulation.
You may notice some shifts in the rankings as the new calculation settles in; that's expected, and it's the list doing its job better. We'll continue to refine the algorithm on an ongoing basis, with a consistent emphasis on ensuring that the rankings accurately reflect the consensus of the Phish community.
Nothing will change from your end. Keep rating shows exactly the way you always have, and go backwards down the line, hearing and rating old shows whenever you get a chance. Thanks for being part of what makes the Phish.net community special. Now, go rate a show!
Mockingbird's 36th Tour Grants ðļ
The all-volunteer, Phish-fan-run Mockingbird Foundation has announced nine new tour grants totaling $18,000, one in each city in which Phish is performing during its 21-show summer tour. These grants include Mockingbird's 800th grant, and 250th tour grant, and help bring total disbursements above $3M.
For complete details on all nine grantees, including what these grants will fund and what you can do to help support future grants, visit the complete announcement at mbird.org.
