Phish: 05/31/2009 Limb By Limb [VQ: B+, AQ: A]
Fans: Yankee Phish Fan Gets His Due [Bostonist]
Remember Ian Ferris? This Yankees-loving Vermonter earned a brief moment in the spotlight when he found a way to scatter the seed of the Evil Empire onto the fabled green grass of Fenway Park. While visiting Fenway for the May 31 Phish concert, Ferris’ feat was an effort to playfully plant - literally - a curse in the heart of Red Sox Nation.
Reviews: I Phucking Love This Band [MIT's The Tech]
In front of me, someone’s taking an early pre-show hit from a marijuana pipe; behind me is third base. I’m shivering in the light drizzle of the 50-degree weather as thousands of people pour into Fenway Park. Everyone’s wondering the same thing: What song will they open with?
Fenway Park: Yankee Fan Gets Revenge at Fenway [Boston Herald]
A sneaky Yankees fan, determined to avenge the indignity of a David Ortiz [stats] jersey that was embedded in the concrete at the new Yankee Stadium last year, says he’s engaged in his own subversive act.
At last week’s Phish show at Fenway Park [map], while other concert-goers snuck in weed, lifelong Yankees fan Ian Ferris claimed he was carrying a commemorative sack of official Yankees grass seed that he threw on hallowed Red Sox [team stats] turf . . . like some kind of Evil Empire Johnny Grass-seed!
Reviews: Phish - We’re Back On [Concord Monitor]
Phish and I were supposed to be through. I said we were done, our relationship was over, and I was moving on. On the pages of this newspaper, I publicly called it quits. In the end I fell, weak to their draw. I tried to resist as long as I could, but Phish raised the bar and announced a show at Fenway Park, and I caved.
Reviews: Phish Rocks Fenway Park [AikenAction]
Still, the interaction between performer and audience that makes a Phish show a Phish show were evident. Members of the audience knew every word to every song except for the very newest and sang along enthusiastically. And take, for example, a moment early in the show when the sun came out and a rainbow replaced the rain that had doused the crowd just moments before showtime.
Posters: Nate Duval’s Batch of Fenway Posters Onsale [OMG Posters]
Phish marked their monumental Fenway show with a poster by a brand new artist (for them), Nate Duval. Nate’s poster is an 18″ x 24″ screenprint with an edition of 1,000. Nate will only have 50 for sale, the rest sold out at the show with the quickness. His portion will go up today (Tuesday, June 2nd) at 12pm EST. Visit Nate’s Etsy Shop.
Reviews: Phish @ Fenway Park [JamBase]
Fenway Park. Home of Bucky Dent’s ghost, Ted Williams’ .406 average and finally, the place where an 80-plus year World Series-less curse ended. Fenway again saw some great moments Sunday night by a pinch hitter called Phish. Otherwise known as Coran Capshaw’s flipside to a Dave Matthews-laced, Red Light Management filled weekend (Matthews played Fenway Friday and Saturday for the northeastern, prepster masses).
Reviews: Phish’s Fenway Destiny [Relix]
Last night in Boston’s Kenmore Square, Phish delivered its debut performance at Fenway Park, just a few miles from the Paradise Rock Club where the group played one of its most important early gigs outside of Vermont, more than 20 years earlier.
Reviews: Phish Dives Deep Into Catalog [Rolling Stone]
The evening had something for everyone — from incredibly rare “bust-outs” like “Destiny Unbound,” a song that had only been played live once since 1991, to a scorching cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times, Bad Times” during the encore. The biggest surprise, though, was the band’s first performance of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “The Ballad of Curtis Loew [sic]” since 1993.