STEWART COPELAND

This is soooo sweet.

Phish's reunion tour kicks off the weekend at the Hampton Coliseum in Virginia. As a present to their fans, Phish will be giving fans access to FREE downloads of the shows the very next way at their website livephish.com. The shows will be in 256 kbps MP3 format.

THESE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR ONLY A LIMITED TIME! So don't procrastinate on downloading them.

If you are an audio snob, you can get the FLACs for $12.95 per night. For the old school peeps, you can get the shows on three CDs for $23 per show.

Each multitrack recording will be professionally mixed on site. This is different from most livephish releases, which have been soundboard and audience recording matrices.

If only someone could convince STEWART to join his old Oysterhead bandmate Trey on stage for an Oysterhead song . . . or maybe even a Police ditty. After all, wasn't STEWART born in Virginia?

If you order all three shows, you get 10% off. This applies only to the FLACs and CDs as I don't think you can take 10% off something that is already free.

Also, to clarify, for now, the only shows being offered are the 3 Virginia shows. I kind of doubt that the rest of the tour will be given away. Or at least, officially by the band.

Cool thanks for this! Crissy used to be a big fan, so this will be a nice little surprise.

Dude, these downloads rule. Very good sound quality. Three shows, about nine hours of material; 84 different songs played with no song played twice.

Downloaded and burned!

There was a cool article in the NY Times I think last week on the reunion tour.
Probably can be viewed on line.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/arts/ ... ish&st=cse

"The demand is there. When seats went on sale for the first announced concerts through Live Nation Ticketing, 10 million requests — from both rabid Phish fans and brokers’ automated Web bots — overwhelmed the relatively new Web site"

I bet

If you did not download these shows already, you are out of luck. They are no longer being offered for free. However, you can still purchase them as FLACs or CDs from livephish.net. They are all very good, but I am very biased. I was talking to VermontFan and he seems to favor the second night. I like the first night the best, though just by a hair; some of the performances that night were some of the worst of the three nights but I liked the set list.

Here's the review and coverage from the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/arts/ ... ish&st=cse

[quote="Throb"]Here's the review and coverage from the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/arts/ ... ish&st=cse[/quote]

This quote is pretty accurate:

“The first night was like a recital. The second night was more ambient, darker. And then tonight they just brought the funk. Phish is back.”