CashorTrade.org, the official face value ticket trading community, would like to say Thank You for ‘Embracing the Face’ in 2012. To show their continued dedication and support to all who have participated, CashorTrade.org is giving away14 tickets to 7 bands this New Year’s Eve. Join the voice and support this fair trade marketplace, the Internet’s own face value alternative. Spread the word and help the website reach 20,000 registered members.
CashorTrade.org now includes personal storefront pages that give creative members the chance to brand themselves and sell their arts, crafts, clothing, jewelry, and the like. Best of all…like everything on CashorTrade.org, its completely Free!
Also, amongst the ‘friends’ feature, there are now individual group options, in which members can create their own groups in efforts to better trade with those they are closest with, or within a particular sub group, like a Facebook group, or maybe an old group of college buddies.
From the trading of tickets, to hotel reservations, airline miles, clothing, jewelry, and even work or services…CashorTrade.org has become a trading hub were members feel safe connecting with like minded folks who are friends of friends and support one another.
Stay tuned as they launch many new features in 2013. Thank you for your participation.
Welcome to the Fourth Annual PhanArt Holiday Gift Guide! Since we don’t have Shakedown to hit off to do our Holiday shopping (remember Fall Tour?), PhanArt brings you the best of the lot here, compiling great art and deals for Phish fans. Get everything you need for family and friends, as well as phamily and phriends. Stay tuned for great deals as this page will be updated throughout the holiday season.
This year the Gift Guide is broken down into Seven Categories: Special Deals, Posters, Books, Shirts, Pins, Jewelery and Stickers. There are also select items that benefit The Mockingbird Foundation, including limited edition posters.
SPECIAL DEALS
Cody Schibihas free shipping on all orders and free prints when you spend $15 or more
Nate Duval’sholiday sale includes free shipping through 12/14 and deals for different days of the week
TRiPPis offering 25% off and free shipping on all orders Tuesday 11/27 through Wednesday Night and 25% off orders until Wednesday night with code “wassail”. From 11/29 through 12/31, code rudolPH will work to give you 20% off, plus if you spend $100 or more you get free shipping through 12/31. Don’t forget to check out holiday cards and limited edition archived prints.
TRiPP also has Mystery Tubes with 5 random prints for $50 (GD Family, Phish, WSP or Colorado)
Doctor Fluff Tees is offering holiday specials store-wide. Use one of their two coupons to get even greater discounts! 20% off on Cyber Monday with code GIVETHANKS and 10% off with code PHANART through 12/31 (but you can only use one code on Cyber Monday, so go with GIVETHANKS)
Among other deals, Tube, Tweezer and Doctor Fluff posters are all 25% off!
Plus all Tie-dye Grateful Dead shirts are 25% off and you can pre-order these onesies pictured below.
Four posters for $40 – With a great deal of posters donated to PhanArt to benefit The Mockingbird Foundation, there’s a ton of great posters to get and for $40, you get FOUR prints, with the $40 going to benefit The Mockingbird Foundation for music education. If you want to request a tour or a specific artist (who has been featured on PhanArt.net in the past few years), we will try to honor your request as best as we can.
Branden Otto has four prints just added to the site, and if you Buy 2, you get 1 FREE. Click over to see Branden’s latest and pick up some incredible art. He’s had an incredible year! All orders will also receive a promo code for 25% off Otto’s NYE poster that will be released in early December.
The PhanArt ‘Read the F#$%ing Book Club‘ has reviews and links to buy all 14 books written on Phish, as well as reviews by members of the Phish community. Prices vary.
PhanFoodcookbooks, the first cookbook by Phish fans for Phish fans is available for only $20, with net profits benefiting the Chittenden Food Bank in Burlington, Vermont. PhanFood features appetizers, salads, soups, sandwiches, entrees, desserts, drinks (with and without alcohol) and a variety of other concoctions that Phish fans enjoy while they are in the lots, at the site, or just sitting at home waiting for the next tour to be announced.
The Woods Tees in three colors are now discounted to $18!
Indigo
Count 8 Festivals shirts are only $10 each, with just TWO remaining! These shirts from Festival 8 features Count von Count in sizes Medium and Large only. Free shipping on orders.
Of course, there are Golgi/Google, Tweezer/Twitter shirts, plus “Me No are no Nice Girl” shirts for ladies (only sizes left are: 1 small, 1 large, 1 XL and 1 XXL – shirts run a little small). All shirts come with a free sticker and free shipping. Order in the PhanArt Store.
Also, the pre-order for YEMSG shirts and hoodies has been extended until 11/30! Pick them up in the PhanArt Store because they are only available on pre-order. Free YEMSG sticker and NYEMSG 2011-2012 sticker with each order! Shirts ship in mid-December (free shipping too!)
PINS
Phanbadge MSG Subway Tokens and Manhole covers are $15-16 each or in a three pack with a free bonus pin included!
Pin Me Down has your the freshest new pin designs on the market, offering Phish, GD and many more designs. Pins cost $8-35, with a few pins costing only $5 during their holiday sale. As always free shipping on orders over $30.
Crazyredbeard has a number of pins for sale, notably his new Birds of a Feather Omnidirectional Love pin. This pin is an original design by Jonathan Blake, a raven and an eagle interlocked in the center by a heart with the four directions of the compass symbolizing love radiating outward in all directions. This pin is only $15 plus $3 shipping.
Zenster has Phish, Grateful Dead, Nug and Lebowski pins for sale. With each purchase, get a free pin!
JEWELRY and MORE
Jennifer Kahn’s 2012 Commemorative NYE NYC MSG Token pendant is available in Sterling Silver or Brass. Her 3rd token, this design features an upward spiral emanating from the big apple. Take the New Year’s run energy and grow, expand, move forward and reach out in the coming year. There’s nowhere to go but UP!
Glowstickwars.com is having a Red, Green and Blue sale. From now until Boxing Day (thats December 26th to you and me, tubes of Red Show Sticks,Green Show Sticks, andBlue Show Sticks can be ordered from the GSW online store for as low as $6.49 per tube of 100 8″ glowsticks, with 100 bracelet/necklace connectors included. That’s a 35% discount! And remember, 10% of all Show Sticks sales are donated to The Mockingbird Foundation. Take advantage of this great limited time offer and MAKE IT RAIN this Holiday season!
STICKERS
Stickers are a great stocking stuffer!
Jiggs stickers include Kuroda / Laser Pointer and Stop Analyzing
Also, conceived by Andy Cary and designed by Jiggs is the runaway sticker design of the summer, “My Other Car is a Second Set Tweezer”, available in the PhanArt Store
YEM Family Decal stickers – A spoof of those stickers we see on the back of cars detailing who is in the family. Well, this one is for phamily, via Glowstickwars.com – less than Three Dollars!
On Staten Island, an art show featuring previously unseen artwork has been made available to the public. The exhibition “Rose From The Dead: A Retrospective of Grateful Dead Artwork” showcases the art of Antonio Reonegro, known for his Grateful Dead designs of the 1980s and 1990s. Among other things, he designed numerous backstage passes, which went unnoticed by the public, because naturally, backstage passes are hard to come by, even on Dead tour.
These credentials, and other art, will be on display at the Wagner College Gallery in Staten Island, NY from now until January 5th. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 11am-4pm, and extended hours on Thursday until 11pm.
Occasionally, events and topics in the Phish community become heated topics of discussion and thoughts are shared on PhanArt. Artist and Contributor to PhanArt, Shirzad Khusrokhan, had some thoughts to share on the Justin Bieber’s recent foray into the Phish extended family, particularly the lukewarm reception that some fans (not all) have given to Bieber.
In the last few months there has been a disturbance in the Phish community. A tween heartthrob known as Justin Bieber has crashed our party, and his presence is making some waves. As is typical in environments that don’t experience much contamination from the outside world, the community’s hyperactive immune system is jerking its knees in an attempt to engulf and neutralize the invading body. While certain well-meaning phagocytes may feel they have cause for alarm (Justin Bieber’s music wouldn’t exactly be a welcome influence on the Phish repertoire, even if the band has repeatedly proved that it can absorb even the most disparate influences into its musical patchwork with elegance), it is this writer’s opinion that Phish fans wear graciousness better than derision, and that no more public contempt for Bieber should be meted out than is customarily reserved for a noob.
We Phish fans revel in our music snobbery. We are proud of the depth and the breadth of our musical knowledge. We also proudly condemn genres of music which we consider pedestrian or puerile. I tout my complete ignorance of Bieber’s music as a good thing, and I’m sure many others in our community do the same. And that’s fine – there’s no reason to be disingenuous in our approach to Bieber the musician. Bieber the phan, however, deserves better.
From the beginning of this unlikely affair, phans have spewed vitriol all over the internet – in blogs, tweets, and ever-expanding facebook comment threads that seem to contain no more than substance-free dissatisfaction and insults. This is particularly ironic given guitarist Dan Kanter’s recounting of Bieber’s first show where everyone was so respectful and nobody came up to bother him, and he enjoyed being left alone in crowd so much that he hung out in the middle of the floor instead of going up to the front of the house, as was arranged for him by security. It made me smile to think about him learning to clap his hands to Stash, throwing glowsticks, and noticing the lights going along with the music. It made me smile because those are wonderful moments that we’ve all experienced, and over the decades that I’ve followed Phish around the country, I’ve always loved the way our crowd rallies around a first-timer to make sure he or she has a great experience. But instead of being allowed to enjoy the excitement of his first throws of phandom, and being encouraged and tutored by the community as we all were, Bieber has been relentlessly attacked and belittled online by phans. I think its safe to assume that if he’s following what’s being written about him and Phish on the internet, he (not to mention his large and fanatical fan base) has a very negative opinion of the Phish community, and I think that’s sad and shameful.
Justin Bieber is a fan of our band. That should make us proud, not threatened. For people so conceited about the superiority of their musical taste, it should be obvious that when Bieber starts quoting Phish songs in his show and dressing up his crew in Bieber-ized Phish logo t-shirts, he has good taste too. He’s just showing the world that he’s a phan, which is what we all do – and most of us are insufferably prolific about it. His music may change irrevocably as a result, and surely that’s not a bad thing. He’s only 18. Maybe his trajectory will mirror another Justin from the recent past with similar origins, who now has a respectable acting career. So what if Trey and Tom go to his shows? So what if CK5 blows other people’s minds outside the Phish sphere? Yes, it’s unlikely and bizarre, but as far as I can tell, it doesn’t, and it won’t, diminish or dilute our experience one bit. And if the much-dreaded Bieber sit-in actually occurs, I admit I may cringe a little bit; but if his entrance is accompanied by an audibly negative audience reaction, I’ll be severely disappointed in a community that I adore.
So please, please, stop with all the hate and rudeness – you’re making us all look bad. Maybe publicly bashing Bieber makes you feel erudite, but nobody’s expecting you to like his music, and he doesn’t need your approval to like Phish’s. You’re supposed to be gracious, generous, kind, and welcoming. You’re a Phish fan. Act like one. Be nice.
Shirzad is an artist, musician, and technology geek with well over a 100 Phish shows under his belt.
Available in the PhanArt Store, all Ryan Kerrigan posters are 20% off, with all three prints available for $30, which includes a $10 donation to the Mockingbird Foundation.
The Satellite Gallery, in conjunction with X-Mas Jam by Day, will hold an art showing on December 14th and 15th in Asheville, NC, prior to the kickoff of the star-studded Christmas Jam concert, hosted by Asheville native Warren Haynes
Starting at Noon on Friday, December 14th, an opening reception to the gallery will be followed by complimentary beer from 4pm to 7pm, with the gallery open during the day on Saturday December 15th until just before showtime at 6pm. Admission is free and will feature the photography and art of:
That’s right, Four posters for $40 – With a great deal of posters donated to PhanArt to benefit The Mockingbird Foundation, there’s a ton of great posters to get and for $40, you get FOUR prints, with the $40 going to benefit The Mockingbird Foundation for music education. If you want to request a tour or a specific artist (who has been featured on PhanArt.net in the past few years), we will try to honor your request as best as we can.
You can peruse the PhanArt Stash to see what posters we DO have, but there are many more not listed on Expresso Beans, so if you want to get some posters and support music education, click buy now and mention a favorite phanartist or tour from 3.0 and we’ll do our best to hook you up! (offer good until 12/24)
Dog Gone Blog has a pair of late night shows this coming NYE run that builds off the great DGB events of the past year in Manhattan and Toronto, as well as last year’s post-shows.
This year DGB is bringing to Mercury Lounge Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker and his band of Freaks as well along with rising Brooklyn psych-rock outfit Prince Ruperts Drops on December 29th.
Following last year’s soiree with Superhuman Happiness and special guest Colin Stetson (Bon Iver, Arcade Fire), the Brooklyn ensemble will play on December 30th.
by Justin Gabbard
Both shows are taking place at Mercury Lounge on New York’s Lower East Side and will have liquid light shows provided by Planetary Projections. Posters designed by the amazing Justin Gabbard will also be available for purchase. Stay tuned to Dog Gone Blog to hear about special guests and other announcements in the coming weeks.
Doors open at 11pm and the cost for each night is $10. Come join Dog Gone Blog and celebrate the great year that was 2012 while catching some of New York’s best local acts in one of our favorite venues!
Alex Bleeker plays bass in Real Estate, but in his side project Alex Bleeker and the Freaks he is the principal songwriter and rhythm guitarist. The band features a rotating cast of supporting musicians that often includes members of Real Estate and other closely-related groups. Bleeker takes the Freaks on extended improvisational sound quests that often venture into Crazyhorse style noise or transcendent Grateful Dead inspired jams.
Superhuman Happiness was founded in 2008 to seek joy and love through shared rhythm and melody, composed and improvised. Their mission is to pursue a happiness greater than that experienced by an individual mind.
They have two CDs out: Fall Down Seven Times Stand Up Eight (2009), The Physical EP (2011) and 4 7″/45rpm records. The band can also be heard on Red Hot and Rio 2, in a collaboration with Cults on the track Um Canto de Afoxe para o Bloco do Ile, as well as in the soundtrack to the documentary How To Survive a Plague.
Performing highlights include two consecutive summers at the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival, tours supporting friends Marco Benevento, Rubblebucket, and numerous late nights at the legendary Zebulon in Brooklyn.
The group is currently mixing their second full length record, collaboratively composed over the course of a year using various theater/music games to develop a potent and fresh style of performing music.
At the inspired urging of original bassist Brad Truax (Home, Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue, Interpol, to name a few) the somewhat secretive Prince Rupert’s Drops formed in Brooklyn, NY in 2005, comprised of acclaimed comics-artist Leslie Stein (guitar, vox), fellow former Broke Revue-er Bruno Meyrick-Jones (guitar, vox), and former Osprey Steve McGuirl (drums, percussion). The band soon drew comparisons to the likes of The Groundhogs & Captain Beefheart – a sound that quickly developed and broadened to accommodate the emerging songwriting styles of each member. Following Brad’s departure in 2008, the band were joined by longtime friend and multi-talented bassist Chad Laird (Land of Tomorrow, Jantar), thus adding another powerful cylinder to the songwriting engine.
Their increasingly versatile and engaging approach has won them occupying support slots for acts broad in scope as psychedelic noiseniks Black Dice to country rockers Oakley Hall (to whom Steve has lent his talents on occasion). In 2012 PRD has been joined on stage and in the studio by another longtime-friend and former guest-musician, synthesizer-sorceress Kirsten Nordine (Jantar), turning the musical feast into a rich sonic banquet set to wow the ears of one and all.
Conceived and designed by Jeremy Willinger for PhanArt, this YEM WE CAN! sticker measures 7″ by 1.625″ and is a quality, vinyl semi-gloss sticker. Cost is 1 for $3, 2 for $5, available in thePhanArt Store. A portion of the sale of these stickers benefits The Mockingbird Foundation.
I’ll admit, I’m a little nostalgic. Hitting 100 shows is an achievement for Phish fans, a centennial celebration to mark a long journey over many years of seeing Phish. Very few jump on tour and don’t miss a show for 3 or 4 years, netting 100 shows in one quick succession of years. Rather, the journey takes many years. There are some who have seen the band since the late 1980s have yet to crack 100 while a few who started in 2004 are soon to break the barrier sometime this summer. The longevity adds to who you are and says where you have been.
My 100th show was 12/28/11 (as was Dan McKnight’s) and going in, I left all expectations at the door for once. A Ya Mar opener, just like my first show (12/13/97) was my only request and the first ever Free opener erased the thought from my head and gladly so. The New Years Run was devoid of expectations thereafter and my enjoyment of the shows was great, as it started off with an achievement. I looked forward to it and my friends who are soon to crack 100 themselves talked it up.
Think about it – have you ever done 100 of anything and kept count? Beyond kid stuff, anything as an adult? Been to 100 countries? Ran 100 miles? Biked 100 miles? (that one is possible on a long day…) Seen any other band 100 times? Sure, there are Grateful Dead, Panic, Cheese and Umphrey’s fans who might have hit this milestone but outside of this realm of music, achieving a 100 even on a test is tough to do. When it happens, its rare, and worth celebrating
I recall two other friend’s 100th shows in the 3.0 era. Holly hit 100 on NYE in Miami in 2009 while Amy celebrated in her hometown of Utica on 10/20/10. To mark the occasion, stickers and shirts, respectively, were made to commemorate the occasion.
When my 100th show was approaching, I thought it to be a novel idea to follow suit and make a sticker up. I knew the exact date and thanks to the Essex flood relief show falling on 9/14/11, 12/28/11 would be my 100th show. I contacted my friend Jeffery, who also designed his wife Holly’s 100th sticker, and asked him to design a sticker incorporating all my other 99 shows. The resulting sticker was awesome and brought the sports of Madison Square Garden and the beauty of seeing Phish together very nicely.
What I did with these stickers over those 4 days in NYC was sell them, but not for profit. Likewise with Holly’s sticker and Amy’s shirt, it was more to make ends meet than make profit. With stickers being cheaper to make, usually around $1 after shipping, it made sense that these stickers would be a better investment and to make money back in the end.
As a bonus to this, if you can manage to sell your stickers for a Buck or more, why not take that profit and donate it to The Mockingbird Foundation. Having your 100th show be a reason for celebration is one thing, but to make a feel-good donation it, all it takes is a little effort, no matter how many stickers you buy. Through 123stickers.com or Customstickermakers.com (two sites used frequently and are recommended) you can get stickers in smaller quantities for cheaper, or go for 100 to commemorate the day. Either way, you can make a nice donation to Mockingbird and enjoy a nice way to commemorate a milestone in your history – your phanneversary.
Four simple steps:
1) Design sticker
2) Make sticker (see links above)
3) Sell sticker on lot, or on PhanArt
4) Donate to Mockingbird (if you made any extra $$)
You can collect these stickers or shirts from among your friends. It works out to be a nice way to see where you’ve been. Got a group of 10 friends who have seen 100 shows each? 1000 Phish shows seen is a bit mind-blowing and a cool design makes for great art and a nice piece of nostalgia. As fans approach their 100th show, consider commemorating it with a piece of art and possibly helping out Mockingbird in the process. The group effort would be an enormous one over time if this catches on.
Now, I can’t comment on 200 shows personally, but at Dick’s this past September, I ran into my friends on lot and was handed a sticker to commemorate Holly’s 200th show – about 3 years after the last notable milestone, she hit 200. Pretty remarkable, and creative too. Her husband Jeffery designed this one as well.
Then you have those folks who have made it to milestones some may think of as unreachable and unfathomable. Noah Phence hit 300 shows on the third night of Hampton in 2009. Pretty good timing huh? Noah recalled what he thought of when he made a small postcard to give out to friends: “I instantly thought of the movie 300 and the scene where he bellows “Tonight, we dine in hell!” and simply changed it to “TonightwedanceinHampton!”
Last but not least, Christy Articola, the editor of Surrender to the Flow had a nice surprise treat in St. Louis this summer. She knew in advance that this show would be #365 for her, meaning a YEAR of Phish! Run that one through your head for a second. Mind-blowing, isn’t it? While Christy was taking the show in like no other, a group of her friends worked together to make the small mock-STTF issue (#365) to commemorate the event, they also worked together to raise money to buy the band-signed show poster from The Waterwheel Foundation, even scoring poster #365 in the process! This was a group effort to commemorate a rare milestone for a friend who does tons for others (not to mention publish the best, and only, fan magazine out there) and do some good for others with the effort in the process.
So there you have it. The 100 show milestone, whether you are hitting it for the first time, the second, third or 3.65th time, it’s well worth noting and commemorating with a little art of your own, and possibly a little something for The Mockingbird Foundation. When you hit that mark, share your art with PhanArt and we’ll keep them cataloged for future editions of PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish.
