Reliving something I was doing 50 years ago, I’ve been listening to The Grateful Dead’s live album, Europe ’72. In high school I bought the 3-LP set on the recommendation of my friend Tom, who was a student at the Groton School.
Tom was really into the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane. He’s now a Harvard-educated attorney who advises world leaders and is certified to present cases before the World Court at the Hauge, Netherlands. I should have listened to more Dead and Airplane!
After listening to Europe ’72 for a couple of years, needing some fast cash in college I sold it along with some other records. Feeling nostalgic, as I often am, I bought the 50th anniversary 2-CD set. If I’d waited a couple of weeks, it would have cost ten bucks less, but such is the way of Amazon.
That’s my long introduction to this new Phish video. The band is currently on tour, keeping the spirit of the Dead alive.
I’ve never seen confirmation the band’s name is a contraction of Phil Lesh’s name, but that’s always been my assumption. Thanks to my pal Scott Murawski, of the legendary New England band Max Creek, I’ve met Phish bassist Mike Gordon. I didn’t ask him about the name, because another assumption of mine is that anybody who knows anything should know the answer.
A collection of Max Creek live shows, going waaaaay back, is on the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/MaxCreek
