Sharing an episode from our other podcast, the Helping Friendly Podcast, where the hosts discuss and choose their top 4 versions of Carini. Enjoy! -- Thanks for joining us for our Carini Mt. Rushmore episode! Join us next week for our Summer 2025 Venue Draft. RJ (official) 2/17/97 12/30/12 8/3/18 7/26/23 Brian 2/17/97 10/31/13 9/3/21 10/16/21 Megan 2/17/97 10/18/13 9/1/17 10/16/21 Please give us a call at (484) 416-0488 and leave us your thoughts and questions! And give us a review wherever you ...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 19 min
Here's an episode from our other podcast, the Helping Friendly Podcast, where the hosts choose their top 4 versions of Down With Disease. Enjoy! -- Thanks for joining us to talk about our top versions of Down With Disease. Our picks are below. Enjoy! Brian (official) 8/17/97 12/31/99 10/29/13 7/16/22 Megan 6/26/95 6/15/00 10/29/13 4/21/24 RJ 12/12/95 6/15/00 6/3/11 10/29/13 And vote on the 2001 Mt. Rushmore, which we'll be discussing in two weeks: osirispod.com/rushmore Please give us a call...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Here's a fun one from our friends at HF Pod. -- Today we have a brief conversation about live music fandom, and whether you need to be at the show to really "get it." And vote on the Down With Disease Mt. Rushmore, which we'll be discussing next week: osirispod.com/rushmore Please give us a call at (484) 416-0488 and leave us your thoughts and questions! And give us a review wherever you listen to podcasts. The Helping Friendly Podcast is hosted and produced by Brian Brinkman, Megan Glionna,...
Jun 06, 2025•52 min
Here's an episode from our friends at HF Pod, where they each choose the top 4 versions of Harry Hood. Enjoy! -- We're ready to put the top 4 versions of Harry Hood on Mt. Rushmore! Thanks for joining us. Next episode, we're doing Light. To vote for your top four versions, go here: OsirisPod.com/Rushmore Please give us a call at (484) 416-0488 and leave us your thoughts and questions! And give us a review wherever you listen to podcasts. The Helping Friendly Podcast is hosted and produced by B...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Sharing an episode of our longest-running Phish podcast, HF Pod. Here's the first episode of a fun new series, Mt. Rushmore. -- Welcome to the first episode of our new series, Mt. Rushmore! Today we're talking about the four versions of Bathtub Gin that belong on that mountain. Thanks for listening! Next week we're tackling Harry Hood. To vote for your top four versions, go here: OsirisPod.com/Rushmore Please give us a call at (484) 416-0488 and leave us your thoughts and questions! And give us ...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 36 min
We wanted to bring you a couple episodes from our longest-running Phish podcast, the Helping Friendly Podcast. We thought you'd enjoy some of these draft episodes. Thank you. -- That's right folks, we brought the draft back and we brought it back real serious like. We're drafting Tweezers. Please give us a call at (484) 416-0488 and leave us your thoughts and questions! And give us a review wherever you listen to podcasts. The Helping Friendly Podcast is hosted and produced by Brian Brinkman, Me...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 51 min
We wanted to bring you a couple episodes from our longest-running Phish podcast, the Helping Friendly Podcast. We thought you'd enjoy some of these draft episodes. Thank you. -- Today we have a special draft episode! Brian, Megan, and RJ each chose one show from each region / city / state where Phish will be playing this Summer. Below are our draft choices. Let us know who you think emerged victorious! RJ 7/1/95 10/27/13 6/26/04 7/29/98 7/25/99 8/12/93 10/31/94 Big Cypress 8/31/12 Megan 7/8/94 1...
Mar 03, 2025•2 hr 7 min
We wanted to bring you a couple episodes from our longest-running Phish podcast, the Helping Friendly Podcast. We thought you'd enjoy some of these draft episodes. Thank you. -- We're back with another fun, competitive, and intense draft. This one is really fun. We each draft jams in different categories (see below, spoiler alert!). Thanks for listening, and if you have thoughts on who you think won the draft, please leave us a voicemail (484-416-0488) or email us. Please give us a review wherev...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 19 min
We wanted to bring you a couple episodes from our longest-running Phish podcast, the Helping Friendly Podcast. We thought you'd enjoy some of these draft episodes. Thank you. -- We're back with a new, exciting draft, this time of 2024 shows. Megan defends her crown and Brian and RJ try to claw their way back to the top. It'll be fierce and competitive. But the real draft win is the friends we made along the way. Vote for the winner here: osirispod.com/vote Please give us a call at (484) 416-0488...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 41 min
We wanted to bring you a couple episodes from our longest-running Phish podcast, the Helping Friendly Podcast. We thought you'd enjoy some of these draft episodes. Thank you. -- Thanks for joining us as we do dive back into drafts, this time of Phish's studio albums. This one was a lot of fun and we hope you enjoy. Vote on who you thought won the draft: OsirisPod.com/draft Share your top versions of Bathtub Gin for our Mt. Rushmore series: OsirisPod.com/Rushmore Please give us a call at (484) 41...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 46 min
For the series finale, we go back to the Fort. Join us as we bring you the sights and sounds we experienced at Fort Adams as Newport Folk returned after a necessary break in 2020, and presented their six-day, half capacity 2021 festival, Folk On. We'll take you from the meaningful first notes sung by the first performers to grace the stage, Resistance Revival Chorus, to one of the last - Lake Street Dive, and their tribute to beloved member of the folk family and former WFUV Program Director, th...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 5 min
We're hearing a lot about diversity and inclusion these days (which is great!) but as we'll learn in this episode, those two words and what they stand for are at the very core of what guided the earliest days of Newport Folk and Jazz over sixty years ago, continuing to this day. And as we know, there is still much work to be done to make our world a just and equal place. Listen in as the women of Our Native Daughters share the experience of their powerful performance at Newport in 2019, their mi...
Feb 13, 2025•46 min
There’s one thing you can be sure about when you go to Newport: Expect the Unexpected. From the festival’s inception, it’s been an event packed with surprise sit-ins and once-in-a-lifetime collaborations. In this episode, you’ll hear about some of the most memorable, emotional, and legendary moments in Newport’s recent past, from the people who participated in them. We’ll bring you vivid memories and behind-the-scenes stories from the teary-eyed John Prine & Friends set in 2017, Brandi Carli...
Feb 10, 2025•56 min
Now that you’ve heard what a special place Newport Folk has become, let’s go back in time to learn a bit more about how we got here. Guided by the founder of the Newport Folk Festival, the legendary George Wein, we’ll take you to the roots of the festival with one-time Newport board member Judy Collins, and we'll hear from Preservation Hall’s Ben Jaffe about the role Newport played in developing the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which you may have learned about in Season 1. We’ll tra...
Feb 06, 2025•56 min
Welcome to Festival Circuit: Newport Folk! In our first episode, we take you straight to historic Fort Adams State Park, the site where the Newport Folk family gathers to celebrate music and community each July. We learn directly from Newport crew members about the energy, planning, work, and love that goes into envisioning and building the festival each year. We’ll take you across the Harbor, through the gates, and into the Fort to experience Newport through the eyes, ears, and hearts of some o...
Feb 03, 2025•48 min
Welcome to episode 5 of Festival Circuit: New Orleans. In this final episode, we wrap things up by looking at what the future holds for live music and jazz fest and how the music industry needs to change, and we pay tribute to some of the people who made New Orleans music what it is today. We include an interview with Tank from Tank and the Bangas, and hear from many other interviewees as well. As we mentioned at the end of the episode, we'd love to hear from you. We want to know what festival y...
Jan 30, 2025•43 min
Welcome back to Festival Circuit: New Orleans. In this episode, we’re going to explore the late night music scene around jazz fest. We hear from George Porter, Papa Mali and Robert Walter about the magic of one-time late night collaborations, and we talk with Irma Thomas about performing with Allen Toussaint on the President. We also explore the growth of Frenchmen Street as a destination, the legacy of Tipitina’s, and amazing late night shows over the past 50 years. If you like the show, please...
Jan 27, 2025•50 min
Welcome back to Festival Circuit: New Orleans. In episode 3, we’re going to jazz fest! We’ll look at how the festival started, hear from interviewees about standout performances, talk about the evolution of the festival itself, and of course, talk a bit about jazz fest food. We spend some time in the Gospel Tent, dance with Mardi Gras Indians, and look at the explosive growth of the festival over the past 20 years. And of course, there’s plenty of music. This would have been the 51st jazz fest, ...
Jan 23, 2025•52 min
Welcome back Festival Circuit: New Orleans. In episode 2, we explore the idea of family in New Orleans, in all the ways that it manifests—the famous musical families of the city, the broader New Orleans musical family, and the idea that the city feels like one big family in many ways. There's discussion of food, a lot of music, and so much more. We also talk about how the New Orleans family came together around a tragedy, after Hurricane Katrina. For this series, we interviewed Ivan Neville, Geo...
Jan 20, 2025•45 min
Welcome to Festival Circuit. This is a new narrative series focusing on the history and impact of festivals and cities around the world. The first season, focused on the music of New Orleans and the annual jazz festival, premieres today. In episode 1, we explore the history of the city and the history of music in New Orleans, including how the institution of slavery influenced the unique rhythms of the city. We also trace the evolution of jazz music and how that led to the creation of the jazz f...
Jan 17, 2025•50 min
This is the final Under the Scales episode! We are merging with two other Phish podcasts to form Undermine, a new weekly podcast starting in February 2021. In this episode, friend and Osiris colleague Mike Finoia joins Tom to discuss the song Two Versions of Me, a Phish song written in 2003. Originally released in 2020. Please support our work by visiting OsirisPod.com/Premium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 08, 2025•50 min
Tom is joined by fellow Osiris podcaster Mike Finoia (Comes a Time). Mike pilots the submarine as they do a deep dive into the 1998 Phish song Mountains in the Mist. Awaken beasts! Originally released in 2020. Please support our work by visiting OsirisPod.com/Premium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 06, 2025•45 min
This November, the top 3 Osiris Phish podcasts are focusing on November 1995 - a great era in Phish history. Under the Scales welcomes back Brad Sands who appeared two years ago on Episode 40 in June 2018. Brad and Tom today discuss Phish’s November 1995. Coming after their ambitious cover of The Who’s Quadrophenia for Halloween that year, Phish was off to the races. Their playing was stellar, and their antics were top-shelf Phish. Listen to Brad look back at that era as he relives it show-by-sh...
Dec 20, 2024•56 min
Fall 2000 was a tumultuous time — politics were dividing the country, the internet was advancing faster than society could keep up, and the recording industry was undergoing major change. We take another look at this time through the lens of another band, Radiohead. Steven Hyden, author of a great book “This isn’t Happening” about Radiohead’s revolutionary album “Kid A” which came out in October 2000, joins Tom for a discussion which covers Phish, Radiohead and everything in between. This Isn’t ...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 8 min
As part of the Osiris Phish podcast ‘October Project’, along with Beyond the Pond and HF Pod, we are examining Phish’s epic Fall 2000 tour. In this second of two episodes, Tom interviews John Paluska who was Phish’s first manager. John sheds light on Phish’s decision to take their first hiatus after playing hard on the road for 17 years. Originally released in 2020. Please support our work by visiting OsirisPod.com/Premium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 16, 2024•46 min
As part of the Osiris Phish podcast ‘October Project’, along with Beyond the Pond and HF Pod, we are examining Phish’s epic Fall 2000 tour. In this first of two episodes, Tom interviews Andy Gadiel, the founder of Jambase, who was at every show for the latter part of this tour. Andy sheds light from the audience perspective on what it meant to have the band take their first break from touring for 17 years. Originally released in 2020. Please support our work by visiting OsirisPod.com/Premium. Le...
Dec 13, 2024•1 hr 10 min
RJ and Tom dive deeply to examine the Phish song Leaves. Originally released in 2020. Please support our work by visiting OsirisPod.com/Premium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 11, 2024•21 min
Tom talks with Bob Lefsetz, music industry analyst, author, podcaster and Phish fan about the state of music in the world today. Check out the Lefsetz Letter archive: https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/ Subscribe to the Lefsetz Letter: https://lefsetz.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id=1 Originally released in 2020. Please support our work by visiting OsirisPod.com/Premium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 5 min
RJ Bee and Tom take a deep dive into the lyrics of Chalkdust Torture. Originally released in 2020. Please support our work by visiting OsirisPod.com/Premium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 06, 2024•31 min
Tom speaks to the multiple grammy-winning producer, engineer and mixer responsible for so much of the great music we all listen to, Vance Powell. Recently having completed co-production of Sigma Oasis, he tells us how he got here and about some of the other fantastic artists who rely upon him to create their own signature sound. Audio Engineer: Jesse Lauter @jesselauter Audio Engineer: Matt Dwyer @mdphunk Photography: Rene Huemer @rene_huemer Originally released in 2020. Please support our work ...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 9 min
