Send us a text Hi everybody, and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. My guest on today’s episode of Attendance Bias is Scott Mikita of Wook Plus . We’ve had Tim of WookPlus on the podcast previously , and those guys do such a good job that it was exciting to dip back into the well and have another member of the team to talk about a favorite jam. Scott chose to talk about “Cavern” from April 5, 1998 at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island . There’s some...
Nov 10, 2021•41 min
Send us a text In 1999, we were all high school juniors, 17 years old and getting our licenses. My friend Mike was given permission to borrow his parents’ car for the show and we got our tickets. However, roughly 48 hours before we were due to leave, Mike’s parents had a sudden change of heart and told him that he was too new, too young and inexperienced, to drive three of his friends to Hartford from Long Island. Now, at 39 years old, I totally agree with them; But at the time, I flipped out. T...
Nov 03, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. This week’s guest is fan and teacher, Scott Barsamian. Scott contacted me a while ago about discussing Phish’s first large-scale festival, The Clifford Ball . Now, when an Attendance Bias guest chooses a festival, I always get hesitant. Phish festivals are so big, they loom so large in the imagination, and in reality, I am intimidated to take them on for an hour-long discussion. Bu...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Send us a text Hi everybody, and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. And boy, do I have a heck of a show for you today. A few things to note before we get started: First, I was so excited to talk to today’s guests that I literally forgot to plug in my microphone before I hit record. Yes, really. As a result, the computer mic picked up my voice, and it doesn’t sound as clear as usual. I couldn’t believe it once I noticed, but after about two minutes of listening back to t...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. This week’s special guest is Brian Brinkman of Osiris Media . Brian is all over the place in the Phish podcasting world, having co-hosted Beyond the Pond , current host of The Drop and The Ravine , and the producer of Undermine as well as 36 From the Vault . I’ll have to check again, but I think I got it all. During Phish’s 2021 summer tour, Brian hosted wrap up episodes of every r...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. This week’s guest is the co-host of the very popular podcast, “ The Corner of Grey Street ,” Bruce Woodall. “The Corner of Grey Street” is a podcast centered around the Dave Matthews Band. Bruce and his co-host Nolan are huge fans of DMB, and their podcast dives into the past, present, and future of the band. Personally, my passion for the Dave Matthews Band is firmly rooted in the...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 62
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Sep 29, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. This week’s guest is Dennis Baker, who first came to my attention toward the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. At that time, I noticed someone on a Twitter account who began to stream video of Phish shows throughout their history . Sort of like a do it yourself version of Dinner and a Movie. The big difference is that Dennis was streaming these videos every single night. After watching a few of Denn...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Send us a text Hi everybody, and welcome to today's episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. I have to be honest: I love every single episode of Attendance Bias. I'm proud of every episode and I'm grateful to every single guest who's willing to come onto the show and talk about a favorite jam or a favorite show. That said, I also have to tell you that, just like everyone, my interest of Phish goes beyond the music and extends into their history, the mythology of the band's ea...
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 59
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Sep 08, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 58
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Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. This week’s guest is a name that Phish podcast fans will recognize: RJB, the CEO and Co-Founder of Osiris Media . As a podcaster, I’m always looking up to the professionals and in the Phish podcast world, you can’t get more professional than Osiris Media. A few months ago, I had Tom Marshall on Attendance Bias to talk about being the face of Osiris Media, the Undermine podcast whic...
Sep 01, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brain Weinstein. This week’s guest is the John Purcell, who I’ll refer to as Purcy throughout the conversation. As you’ll hear us explain during the episode, Percy and I went back and forth a few times about which show or jam to discuss. As the host, I do my best to stay out of the decision making process, since the story and the Attendance Bias belongs to the guest. In this case, Purcy had a littl...
Aug 25, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Send us a text Hi everybody, and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. This week’s guest is the host of the Cinema Dave Media YouTube channel , Dave Burland. When Dave and I got in touch, two things stood out to me that made me want to speak with him about Phish: first, he is a huge fan of The Who, just like I am, so we have a lot of shared musical DNA. Second, he is a huge movie buff. And although I wouldn’t call myself a film buff , I will say that, after music, movies are my bigg...
Aug 18, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today's episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today, we wish Attendance Bias a HAPPY BIRTHDAY since it appeared on Apple Podcasts for the first time one year ago today, August 11, 2020. It's been a full year of episodes, and I'd like to thank you all SO MUCH for listening. In celebration, I thought it would be fun to have a guest host so I could take a break and be the guest for once. I was lucky enough to have previous Attendance...
Aug 11, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Send us a text Hello everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. This week’s guest is Illinois native, Brett Kreiner. Brett messaged me on Phish.net, explaining that he was a fan of the podcast and that an earlier episode, where actor Luke LaGraff talked about the importance of the song “Lizards,” inspired him to reach out and tell his story about “Miss You.” At first, Brett said that he wanted to talk about the performance of “Miss You” from October 28, 2018 at Allstate Are...
Aug 04, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Send us a text Hi everyone, and welcome to today's episode of Attendance Bias. My guest today is Dave Waxman. Dave is a former employee of Phish Dry Goods , he worked at a bar with former Phish road manager Jason Colton, and he also recently created a merchandise website called Maybe So Maybe Lot . While I was promoting an earlier episode, Dave messaged me and asked that if I ever needed anyone to discuss the band's version of " Waste " from 8/9/98 , that he was available. "Waste" is usually a d...
Jul 28, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. This week’s guest is the Director of Marketing for AA minor-league baseball team, the Somerset Patriots , Hal Hansen . If you’ve ever played a trivia game between innings, watched a bunch of sausages race around the bases, or caught a t-shirt launched by an air cannon at a Somerset Patriots game, Hal is the guy to thank. We had a great time today talking about Phish and baseball. For today’s episode Hal chose a hu...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Send us a text Hello everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. This week’s guest is the host of The Bar Line Shift on HomeGrown radio , Amanda Cadran. As you’ll hear Amanda explain, HomeGrown Radio is an internet radio station with deep ties to the Railroad Earth family and Amanda’s show features a thematic playlist made up of everything from jam-centric music to obscure world music that you’ve probably never heard. I caught a few episodes of The Bar Line shift and immedia...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Send us a text Hello everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. This week’s guest is trumpet for DC-based bands, Skyscrapers and the Monumental Brass Quintet , Mike Lowe. As Mike’s band played their first gigs and figured out their sound as indie jam rock, COVID hit and the band had to take a forced hiatus from the stage. But as you’ll hear him say in today’s episode, they’re getting ready to return to the U Street bars in Washington. For today’s episode, Mike picked a mons...
Jul 07, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Send us a text Hi everybody, and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. My guest today on Attendance Bias is sound engineer, Phish.net contributor, and the man responsible for the recent remastering of previously unreleased Phish recordings, Jeff Goldberg. Jeff chose to discuss the legendary Phish show from July 8, 1994 at Great Woods in Mansfield, Massachusetts . If you’ve been paying attention to Phish.net or the Phish.net blog over the past few years, you may have notice...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Send us a text Hi everybody, and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. My guest today on Attendance Bias is Nate Tobey of Northern California. Nate chose to discuss August 2, 2003 at the Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine . If this date sounds familiar to you, it is because it is the first day of the IT festival. IT was my first overnight festival experience and we both had a lot of say about not just the music, but the entire experience. For decades since the festi...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Send us a text Hi everybody, and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. My guest today on Attendance Bias is the creator of the Phish Stats website and the author of “ This Has All Been Wonderful: A Travel Monologue from Summer 1994, the Year Phish Became Phish,” David “Zzyzx” Steinberg. Jeff chose to discuss the Phish show from September 22, 1990 at the Student Union Ballroom at UMass Amherst in Amherst Massachusetts. When I first discovered Phish’s internet presence, Dave...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 45
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Jun 09, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Send us a text Welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias! This week’s guest is President of The Mockingbird Foundation , Adam Scheinberg. The Mockingbird Foundation turns 25 years old this year, and to celebrate, the Foundation is hosting The Mockingbird Sessions ; a series of live streams, performances, and masterclasses on Fans.live for free from June 4-6, 2021. The Mockingbird Foundation is somewhat synonymous with Phish charities, and so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to hear...
Jun 02, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Send us a text My guest today’s mini-episode of Attendance Bias is JoeJo Casone of Easthampton, Long Island. You may not recognize JoeJo’s name offhand but you’ve certainly heard of him. Remember during the April 3rd, 1998 show of the Island Tour when someone jumped onstage during " Loving Cup " before getting chased off by Pete Carini? And then the band teased Carini for the following "Antelope" and the rest of the tour? That someone was JoeJo. For today’s episode, JoeJo chose to tell us about ...
May 26, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Send us a text About his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, writer JRR Tolkein said: “the tale grew in the telling.” That phrase crossed my mind more than once while I spoke with Matt Campbell about the legendary "Ghost" played on May 22, 2000 from Radio City Music Hall . Mini episodes are usually structured to last about 25 to 30 minutes, but as I spoke with Matt about Phish in 2000, this version of Ghost, and his love for the 2.0 era, it became clear that if I were to edit the conversation to 30-...
May 19, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Send us a text My guest today on Attendance Bias is Las Vegas meteorologist and host of the Phish Recaps podcast and co-host of the Deeper Listening podcast , Justin Bruce. Justin chose to discuss the Phish show from July 7, 2000 at the Star Lake Amphitheater in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania . It seems that in the year since COVID became a national and worldwide crisis, everyone started a podcast, myself included. Phish fans would be no different. After listening to, and ranking, every show from th...
May 12, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Send us a text Today's special guest on Attendance Bias is Phish lyricist and Co-Founder of Osiris Media , Tom Marshall. Tom chose to discuss the 35-minute version of "David Bowie" from December 29, 1994 at the Providence Civic Center, in Providence, RI . Most of us know Tom for his lyrics, and there's plenty of information out there about Tom as a lyricist--he has been very open about his relationship with Phish, his lyrics, and more on his podcast, Under the Scales , which has now morphed into...
May 05, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Send us a text My guests this week are JW and Skinny from the Stub Me Down podcast . It seems that since the pandemic got serious in March, lots of Phish podcasts have popped up, with mixed results. One of the better ones that I heard is called “Stub Me Down,” in which our two guests today literally pick a ticket stub from their collection and use it as a jumping off point to discuss the show, stories, music, and their friendship. I immediately thought that we were of a like mind and wanted to h...
Apr 28, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 38
