BLOG POSTS WHERE MONTH IS 7, AND DAY IS 12, AND YEAR IS 2017

Wednesday 07/12/2017 by Icculus

NEW TO CIRCULATION: EARLIEST KNOWN "DIVIDED SKY," "HARPUA," AND "BUNDLE OF JOY" (5/11/87)

A number of versions of songs performed on 5/11/87 at Nectar's, likely in the second set, including the earliest known versions of "Divided Sky," "Harpua," and "Bundle of Joy," were recently unearthed, and are available here and now for free download.

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Wednesday 07/12/2017 by Franklin

JAM OF THE YEAR: 2016

[For this guest blog piece, we're pleased to welcome Jeremy Levine (@Franklin), who ran and wrote about the Phish.net Forum's fan-vote on 2016's "Jam of the Year." - ed.]

After a seven-month process, users on the Phish.net Forum have crowned the 10/28/16 "Golden Age" as the "Jam of the Year" for 2016.

You’re probably thinking “Well, yeah. I knew that from the moment they transitioned into 'Simple.'” While your predictive abilities are impressive, that particular jam winning the tournament is pretty far from the point. We vote on "Jam of the Year" not just for the sake of finding an answer to the “What’s the best jam of the year?”, but rather for the sake of improving our critical listening and getting closer to the music. [And having fun. - Editor's note.]

To catch you up: a small group of .netters put together a bracket that pitted 64 of 2016’s finest jams against each other. Each week, we created a forum thread in which people could vote on these individual matchups, with the “winning” jams advancing into further rounds.

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