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This Week in PhanArt History: Winter 2003

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New from PhanArt in 2011 is our weekly Friday Feature: This Week in PhanArt History. Each piece of art we share is from days of Phish in the past, typically from the 1.0 and 2.0 eras, something of note that fans of all ages can appreciate that is featured in the book PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish, with some commentary on the piece by PhanArt Pete. If there is a piece of art or genre of PhanArt you would like to see, leave a suggestion in the comments below.

Winter 2003 was all about the rebirth and renewal of Phish. After 4 shows to ring in 2003, the band went coast to coast in just over 2 weeks, taking some fortunate fans on a whirlwind tour around the country before wrapping up things until July. Fans who were artists or creative enough to make something Phish related found themselves in Disneyland, with 9 separate stops to incorporate into their art.

Ryan Kerrigan’s collection of show posters from 2003 is long sold-out, but his Nassau 2003 was just one example of the great art made for each of the venues. In an edition of 100 prints, its classic Kerrigan.

This shirt was submitted to PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish by Christine and Frank Cortazzo. Their collection was one of the major contributors to the creation of PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish and the PhanArt Archives.

This last piece was drawn by Drew Suto for the Winter 2003 edition of Surrender to the Flow. Drew’s drawings capture neatly the regional personality of venue stops with ease.

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20 years later: Caimen Ruff

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This most recent piece by Caimen Ruff is titled “20 Years Later”. Caimen was inspired to draw this after missing the MSG NYE run. The piece is as much about the 30 years of the band and 20 years of Caimen being a Phish head right along with them.

In this piece are several details that represent some of the lyrics. For instance the long road with the car is Caimen on tour, the upside down persons, the high mountains, the foundation, the 2 figures climbing the mountain, the one person hanging from cliff, the phish in the water surrounded by pebbles going with flow.

This is a fine art piece I drew using prismacolor markers and pencils.The original drawing measures 8 x 10. These are available printed on high quality glossy paper, signed $12.00 which includes shipping.


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MYFE. Designs’ Pins

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MYFE. Designs produces original, custom, and interpretive pins. Their passion for a little quartet from Vermont led to the company being born in February of 2009 overseen by the efforts of Mike and Tanner. MYFE. has been designing phan-focused designs ever since. MYFE. strives to create commemorative and collectible pieces that will be treasured for years to come.

The detail MYFE. adds to each design is meticulously crafted then cast in jewel-quality cloisonné and spare no expense getting each pin up to a showcase status. Once they are finally ready for productions, they press in limited batches of 100 so that fans are guaranteed to have something special and unique.

As seen on the Side Projects page, MYFE. Designs is a conduit for a wide variety of other pin services. Whether you are a non-profit or for-profit, a tight-knit group or mass distributor, we enjoy taking on new projects and guarantee highest quality results.

MYFE has graciously donated a set of pins for later auction for the benefit of The Mockingbird Foundation to support music education.

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This week in PhanArt History: Tre/Che and ‘Technicolor Dreamcoat’ posters for Mockingbird

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New from PhanArt in 2011 is our weekly Friday Feature: This Week in PhanArt History. Each piece of art we share is from days of Phish in the past, typically from the 1.0 and 2.0 eras, something of note that fans of all ages can appreciate that is featured in the book PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish, with some commentary on the piece by PhanArt Pete. If there is a piece of art or genre of PhanArt you would like to see, leave a suggestion in the comments below.

As Trey tour continues this week, we feature a few more pieces of Trey related art from PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish.

Created by Ryan Kerrigan is ‘The Technicolor Dreamcoat’, a poster made in 2000 by Kerrigan in an edition of 500.  Most were sold over the course of 2000 and 3 were recently sold to benefit Mockingbird Foundation at a total of $150.

From 2004 era of shirts, we have Trey as Tre, aka, Che Guevara. While Trey is not a Communist revolutionary (that we know of) he did write some great lyrics for ‘Crowd Control’ which spoke volumes of the state of Phish in the 2003-4 era. This shirt was originally designed by Shirzad Khusrokhan and Marty Millman.

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If Phish Songs 3.0 were a rating scale……

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If Phish songs in the 3.0 era were a rating scale from 1-10, with 1 being the worst, 10 being the best, we think it might look something like this:

1. Time Turns Elastic

2. Let me Lie

3. Grind

4. Sugar Shack

5. Hartford Psycho Kicculus

6. Worcester Hood

7. Miami Tweezer

8. Greek Cities

9. Camden Chalkdust

10. 7 Below -> Ghost

What would your Scale from 1-10 be?

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Summer Tour 2011 Dates, Leg 1 and some possible July/August dates

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Here are the rumored Phish tour dates ready to be announced any time now. Looks like west coast will get love later this summer, and more dates expected to appease west-coasters.

For now, we have TWO Three-night runs in NY, a return to Holmdel, NJ (first in 11 years) and another 2-night run in Alpharetta. Alot of Northeast love as usual, all up and down the east coast and into the midwest.

Where are Alpine Valley, Deer Creek, SPAC, Chicago, Jones Beach and Burgettstown? Think August……

Rumored dates for Summer 2011, Leg 1

(credit to Dogoneblog and Shakedownblog for dates)

5/27-29 Bethel Woods

5/31 – 6/1 PNC Holmdel, NJ

6/3 DTE Energy Center, Detroit, MI

6/4 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH

6/5 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

6/7 Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA

6/8 Darien Lake Amphitheatre

6/10 Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ

6/11-12 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD

6/14-15 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre – Alpharetta, GA

6/17 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC

6/18 Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion, Raleigh, NC

6/19 Ntelos Pavilion at Harbor Center, Portsmouth, VA

Not announced, but probable:

7/01 Watkins Glen, NY

7/02 Watkins Glen, NY

7/03 Watkins Glen, NY

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This Week in PhanArt History: The many faces of Trey

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New from PhanArt in 2011 is our weekly Friday Feature: This Week in PhanArt History. Each piece of art we share is from days of Phish in the past, typically from the 1.0 and 2.0 eras, something of note that fans of all ages can appreciate that is featured in the book PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish, with some commentary on the piece by PhanArt Pete. If there is a piece of art or genre of PhanArt you would like to see, leave a suggestion in the comments below.

There were over 100 submissions to PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish related to the 4 band members, Trey, Jon, Mike and Page, but one stood out, garnering over 40 submissions of art that were ultimately used in the book. Of these many, we will share one or two each week during this Winter TAB Tour.  The first piece is by Louis Arzonico, who captures through a most creative lens the likeness of The Bad Liuetenant. Made around 1999, Louis gets very visual and psychedelic in a cartoony Muppet take on our favorite gutiar player Big Red. The second piece was submitted by Noah Phence, who’s sticker and PhanArt collection was one of the top 5 contributers to the book, adding at 100-150 pieces of unique art that he made or collected over the course of his pre-breakup touring. Simply put, Trey is Good, but he is also Caspian, which means Trey is Fuckerpants. At some points of the later 1.0 and much of 2.0, you could make an argument for the latter and not the former, but he still generates a great deal of love beyond the judgement of a few.

Created by Louis Arzonico
submitted to PhanArt by Noah Phence

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Four Jones Beach Posters up for Auction for Mockingbird

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Continuing with our successful auction for Mockingbird in 2011 that have netted over $150 so far this year, we have four posters from artists featured on the PhanArt Blog who graciously donated their art to support music education. Please take a look at the auction and support The Mockingbird Foundation!

Featured in the auction are four posters from Jones Beach and Summer 2010 tour

Erin Cadigan’s poster for 2nd leg of summer tour. Based on the Virgin of Guadeloupe, the clouds are the venues and dates. The print measures 12″x18″, comes from a signed and numbered edition of 113 and is printed on 1-33 Champagne pearlized 100# cover 34-113 Cougar felted 100#cover (nice white paper). This poster is #80/113

Vinny Naro’s poster is 12×18″ on 100lb. uncoated stock in an edition of 150. Each poster is signed and numbered. This poster is an Artists Proof.

Bruce Horan’s poster is 9.5X15″ and printed on 300 gsm Coventry Rag paper. A 2 color silkscreen
with metallic silver ink, this poster is signed and numbered. This poster number is 23/80.

Jonathan Caplan’s Jones Beach print is a 13” x 19” Giclee print from J Cap Design is a signed and numbered edition of 20. It was printed the day before the Jones Beach shows this August, and features the mock-quote “We don’t want no night sky”. This poster is #7/20

All these prints and more are featured on the PhanArt Blog – www.phanart.net/blog – check it out daily for new art made by Phish fans, with a percent of each donation going to The Mockingbird Foundation

All proceeds from this auction will benefit the Mockingbird Foundation, which supports music education across the country. Check out www.mbird.org for more info.