Well, that's old school as hell. We're definitely pitching out of my wheel house today.

9/15/90 David Bowie

antelope 5/3/85

SOAM 11/27/92

4/4/1991 Bowie

12/30/93 Mike's

No clue, but sounds like a Tweezer to me

Antelope 4/18/92

Good Times Bad Timed 2/12/93

@MiguelSanchez said:

Well, that's old school as hell. We're definitely pitching out of my wheel house today.

You mean wheel chair. Ha ha. Get it?

I know it is It's Ice but just can't find the show...GL everyone...

5/9/92 Tweezer

6/29/94 bowie

sounds like SOAM. great recording also - sbd?

Sounds like an Antelope to me. 91-92 by the sound of the recording. I'll see if I can find it...

This one's a humdinger. Page throwing me off. Beautiful selection here. The glory of entertaining yourself as you go down this memory lane of shows while simultaneously frustrating yourself miss after miss.

Bowie 4/17/92

Sounds very early... Will do the 8/10/87 Bowie..

The Other One 5/3/85

Eyes of the world 5/3/85

I can't wait to see the answer. that clip is sick

Sounds like a Mike's to me. Gotta figure out what date though...

Hint makes me believe its a dead cover. I like @CadillacRainb0ws and @mgrant0213 guesses, but can't confirm either is correct.

That clue certainly confirms me thought that this was an 80's thing. I was going to throw something from 5/3/85 out there as a guess, but that's been covered.

I'll go with 4/1/86 help on the way.

Eyes of the World 12/1/84

Slipknot! 4/1/86

I think a Dead tune is too easy for the hint, so I'm going with a show in CHICAGO:

David Bowie - June 18 '94

Antelope 5/3/85

I'm trying to find times in which Phish played in front of a rainbow, which may or may not have occurred on 1992-08-17. But then rainbows got me thinking of marriage equality, which makes me want to look for wedding gigs, especially since the clip sounds like it took place was in a house or studio. Alas, I can't listen to 1988-05-28.

Fishman's snare sounds odd, Page's use of the B-3 is a little unique, Mike's extra poppy, and Trey's tone strikes me as 1990-ish. I'd say it's in the key of A but it could also be related to E, but that's type II...

At this point we have to work collectively on this one.

@PersnicketyJim said:

I'm trying to find times in which Phish played in front of a rainbow, which may or may not have occurred on 1992-08-17. But then rainbows got me thinking of marriage equality, which makes me want to look for wedding gigs, especially since the clip sounds like it took place was in a house or studio. Alas, I can't listen to 1988-05-28.

Fishman's snare sounds odd, Page's use of the B-3 is a little unique, Mike's extra poppy, and Trey's tone strikes me as 1990-ish. I'd say it's in the key of A but it could also be related to E, but that's type II...

At this point we have to work collectively on this one.

That's using your noodle. It's funny because you could see Trey's playing as something from Spring 92 and then you hear Page and you might think this is something from the 80s. A year and a half in the No MJM Penitentiary gave bl002e time to think about how he wanted to confuse and emasculate the Phish fans. I played around too much last night but maybe I'll have a eureka moment later on after work. Big ups to anyone who can nail this one.

tweezer 4/13/91?

11/3/84 St Stephen

I don't think it's from the 80's...I'm thinking early 90's

Antelope 10/18/91

This one is ridiculously tough. I am hoping that if I watch Trey channel Angus Young on Halloween 1989, it will help me see the answer. Plus, Trey with the 'guns out' is almost over the top. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDpLjOfyV0g#t=136

Timber (Jerry) 5/21/1988

Bowie 4/10/93

Probably isn't it but I've been combing through '92 and '93 Bowies and Chalkdusts and think I'm getting close, but gotta split so that's my guess for now. The mix for 4/10/93 sounds similar to the MJM mix at least... (so did the one from 5/2/92, which is an incredible sounding show that I'm happy I found!)

6/28/95 Tweezer

I'm still stuck on Antelope in '92, but Page's use of a B-3 and not piano is throwing that line of thinking off. First shows in CA? San Fran area shows? Trey's guitar certainly sounds like '92. What is our topical connection???

Fairly certain it's not it, but I'm going to go with Mike's, 4/29/94

@Destiny_Bound said:

I'm still stuck on Antelope in '92, but Page's use of a B-3 and not piano is throwing that line of thinking off. First shows in CA? San Fran area shows? Trey's guitar certainly sounds like '92. What is our topical connection???

Topical ointment reference. It was that time at the Front when Trey asked someone from the crowd for some Neosporin. But what Front show....

No, there is no such show with this type of reference. It's funny because the hint could have just been that is a SBD recording but at least there is something to help you; or throw you further into confusion.

its definitely is NOT Love Me Like a Man from 3/18/97...

Jennifer Dances 12-5-99

Call It A Stormy Monday, 2-23-89

Timber Ho 9/2/87

1985-05-03 Scarlet Begonias

You were on to something. It's Antelope from 3/13/92.

@barisax47 said:

You were on to something. It's Antelope from 3/13/92.

whoops, directed at @destiny_unbound

Sorry for the triple post. Wasted three comments on being wrong, and tagged the wrong person, shoulda double checked. Must've been listening to the sample with that show open in another tab or something...

Barely topical, can't listen to verify... Timber (Jerry) 1988-07-30

Sound's like an 80s Mike's Song to me.

8/17/92 Tweezer, maybe? I was thinking this show because of its being in California, and the first performance of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and related teases (rainbow at Levi's, gay pride, Supreme Court, etc). The recording informed me as well, also being SBD and in the 92-ish zone we've narrowed it down too.

I like your thought process ramsaYEM, I was leaning towards Bowie from the same show - 8.17.92 Bowie

that shows already in the charts, looks perfectly relevant though

We really haven't nailed this yet? I really hate to let the blog win... but it's 11 PM and I have a meeting first thing tomorrow morning. Maybe a little checking wouldn't hurt (and my first thought was late '80s Whipping Post FWIW).

1st ever guess...7/3/95 Bowie?

Antelope 8/14/97

sounds like a 93/94 mikes. ill start combing

Slipknot - 04/01/86

Bowie 6/28/92

Samsonite! I was way off!

Bowie 7/3/94

The blog has to play dirty to win, huh? (Just kidding! Well-played!)

TAB, albeit members of Phish? Blog gets an * for this win.

;-)

Blogs going down next week!!

Blog had to trick us to win. Boo!

That the clip was so difficult to identify, that it sounded to us all like still somewhat amateur Phish to us, further indicts the era between the very late 1990s and 2009, in my opinion.

Tricky but good selection, @bl002e. MJM forces us to fine-tune our ears. Bring it for next week!

Well, that was one shitty hint!!

Either way, I was not going to get that one. Well done MJM. I think it's been a while since you have experienced the sweet taste of victory.

Wow, that's incredible! How do I get the SBD recording of that show? I really like that jam.

I remember the show was billed as "easter jam". I was going to go because I had a feeling it would be trey, but I got sick and bailed. D'oh!

Ugh, the thought crossed my mind that this wasn't a Phish jam, but I thought that was too dirty of a trick (both times it happened). Whatever, the blog needs a few wins from time to time. Blog's going down next week.

dammit! On re-listen, I do hear the tones of the Sand baseline. Trey "side project" is quite a distraction given the other relevant "topical" events of the past and coming weekends. Who would have thunk it would be related to the Dead, and Trey playing with them...only Captain Obvious, duh?

Well played!

@uctweezer said:

Ugh, the thought crossed my mind that this wasn't a Phish jam, but I thought that was too dirty of a trick (both times it happened). Whatever, the blog needs a few wins from time to time. Blog's going down next week.

(Yes, I know this technically is a Phish jam)

@Feel_The_Bern said:

Wow, that's incredible! How do I get the SBD recording of that show? I really like that jam.

From the Phish Download Spreadsheet:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/cdfy87muliarga4/2004-04-11+-+Higher+Ground+-+Winooski%2C+VT.rar

Booo! I want my money back!

Nice win Blog. No cripes from me on this one. The benefit from being way off on the year for this is that I've rifled through a bunch of great jams from '87-'92, which is nice.

sorry, but Trey sitting in with the Dead is not a "Trey side project." A phish member side project would be their own band. Just as Mike Gordon Band is a side project, when Mike played with The Other Ones, that was not a Mike side project, at least I never would consider it to be.

Booo blog!!!

@uctweezer said:

@uctweezer said:

Ugh, the thought crossed my mind that this wasn't a Phish jam, but I thought that was too dirty of a trick (both times it happened). Whatever, the blog needs a few wins from time to time. Blog's going down next week.

(Yes, I know this technically is a Phish jam)

Wasn't the other one that sick Pork Tornado jam from 2006?

@melt_the_tek9 said:

sorry, but Trey sitting in with the Dead is not a "Trey side project." A phish member side project would be their own band. Just as Mike Gordon Band is a side project, when Mike played with The Other Ones, that was not a Mike side project, at least I never would consider it to be.

Booo blog!!!

My explanation may have been a bit off, semantically, but the hint is still perfectly valid: as he did on April 11, 2004 and this past weekend, and as he will do this coming weekend, Trey played a non-Phish show.

Obviously, this hint wasn't exceptionally helpful, but it had been way too long since the contestants were stumped, and I'm a firm believer that the more challenging this game is, the greater the number of people there are who are able to participate, and the more fun it ultimately is. I'd thought of making the hint related to the location (either the state of VT or some reference to the song "Higher Ground" , but I feared that either would give it away to easily, not realizing how stuck most of you would get on this one being from an older show.

And as alluded to by @uctweezer, the precedent of MJMs not necessarily being from an outright Phish show has already been set (see here and here). At least this one featured Phish in its entirety. :-)

Holy crap -- check out the sixth comment (by DogGone) in the first MJM I linked above (MJM #69). The correct answer was right in front of all of you this entire time!

The hint was unhelpful and misleading. I don't see how a TAB show jam is "intentionally topical" because Trey is currently playing these dead shows. Nope nope nope nope nope. But congrats to the blog for winning, nonetheless.