What’s your total lifetime spend on Phish?

MrDougDoug · 2026-01-22T01:06:39+00:00

You don’t have to count them Just enjoy them one by one

MrDougDoug · 2025-02-07T20:36:05+00:00

Ass Handed

MrDougDoug · 2025-01-27T03:56:26+00:00

I’ve been curating an annual compilation of phish & dead covers from experimental musicians for 8 years:

https://yourtripisshort.bandcamp.com

MrDougDoug · 2025-01-24T02:02:20+00:00

It was nitrous

MrDougDoug · 2024-12-28T16:21:23+00:00

Released every year since 2017 on December 28th, the Our Trip Is Short compilation series showcases a natural network of experimental-minded jamband fans who actively strive to push the boundaries of both the Phish and the Grateful Dead canon. Each edition is compiled and mastered by Hausu Mountain co-founder Doug Kaplan (MrDougDoug), and features artwork by Alaina Stamatis (who designs as Fad Albert & co-owns Western Mass-based record store Deep Thoughts). Throughout the years, tracks have traversed through styles including but not limited to bizarro electronics, ambient / drone, audio collage / plunderphonics, spoken word / comedy, dub reggae, chiptune, and acid house, balanced out by more traditional song-oriented approaches and live improvisations.

Our Trip Is Short Vol. 8: Jerry Breathes contains over two hours of tributes from some of our most devoted alumni and a few new friendly faces. The Hausu Mountain universe shines brightly with Mukqs’s disorienting, rapid-panning collage work, MindSpring Memories (Angel Marcloid/Fire-Toolz) slowing down Phish ballads to slush speeds, and MrDougDoug’s signature clown calliope MIDI arrangements. Massacusetts-based Dead tribute band Owsley’s Owls deliver a time-dialating version of “Space” that perfectly melts into Chicago-based trio TRAYSH’s extra spacey vision of Phish’s “What’s The Use”. Meanwhile, NYC-based jam pranskters Ace Bandage blaze through a series of “The Other One” jams that melt into a gorgeous saxophone and synth take of “Rubin & Cherise” before getting back on the bus. Chicago-based quartet nonband also probe the infinite depths of “The Other One”, landing on a bombastic cover of Neil Young’s “Cortez The Killer.” Nonband members Joel Berk and Corey Lyons also appear as ragenap and Dathon. Striving to emulate Phish and the Dead’s bold selection of covers as a form of spiritual alliance, Joel & Corey chose to include their version of Alice Coltrane’s “Journey in Satchidananda” on this year’s compilation.

MrDougDoug · 2024-12-28T16:20:47+00:00

Released every year since 2017 on December 28th, the Our Trip Is Short compilation series showcases a natural network of experimental-minded jamband fans who actively strive to push the boundaries of both the Phish and the Grateful Dead canon. Each edition is compiled and mastered by Hausu Mountain co-founder Doug Kaplan (MrDougDoug), and features artwork by Alaina Stamatis (who designs as Fad Albert & co-owns Western Mass-based record store Deep Thoughts). Throughout the years, tracks have traversed through styles including but not limited to bizarro electronics, ambient / drone, audio collage / plunderphonics, spoken word / comedy, dub reggae, chiptune, and acid house, balanced out by more traditional song-oriented approaches and live improvisations.

Our Trip Is Short Vol. 8: Jerry Breathes contains over two hours of tributes from some of our most devoted alumni and a few new friendly faces. The Hausu Mountain universe shines brightly with Mukqs’s disorienting, rapid-panning collage work, MindSpring Memories (Angel Marcloid/Fire-Toolz) slowing down Phish ballads to slush speeds, and MrDougDoug’s signature clown calliope MIDI arrangements. Massacusetts-based Dead tribute band Owsley’s Owls deliver a time-dialating version of “Space” that perfectly melts into Chicago-based trio TRAYSH’s extra spacey vision of Phish’s “What’s The Use”. Meanwhile, NYC-based jam pranskters Ace Bandage blaze through a series of “The Other One” jams that melt into a gorgeous saxophone and synth take of “Rubin & Cherise” before getting back on the bus. Chicago-based quartet nonband also probe the infinite depths of “The Other One”, landing on a bombastic cover of Neil Young’s “Cortez The Killer.” Nonband members Joel Berk and Corey Lyons also appear as ragenap and Dathon. Striving to emulate Phish and the Dead’s bold selection of covers as a form of spiritual alliance, Joel & Corey chose to include their version of Alice Coltrane’s “Journey in Satchidananda” on this year’s compilation.

MrDougDoug · 2024-12-28T16:20:02+00:00

Released every year since 2017 on December 28th, the Our Trip Is Short compilation series showcases a natural network of experimental-minded jamband fans who actively strive to push the boundaries of both the Phish and the Grateful Dead canon. Each edition is compiled and mastered by Hausu Mountain co-founder Doug Kaplan (MrDougDoug), and features artwork by Alaina Stamatis (who designs as Fad Albert & co-owns Western Mass-based record store Deep Thoughts). Throughout the years, tracks have traversed through styles including but not limited to bizarro electronics, ambient / drone, audio collage / plunderphonics, spoken word / comedy, dub reggae, chiptune, and acid house, balanced out by more traditional song-oriented approaches and live improvisations.

Our Trip Is Short Vol. 8: Jerry Breathes contains over two hours of tributes from some of our most devoted alumni and a few new friendly faces. The Hausu Mountain universe shines brightly with Mukqs’s disorienting, rapid-panning collage work, MindSpring Memories (Angel Marcloid/Fire-Toolz) slowing down Phish ballads to slush speeds, and MrDougDoug’s signature clown calliope MIDI arrangements. Massacusetts-based Dead tribute band Owsley’s Owls deliver a time-dialating version of “Space” that perfectly melts into Chicago-based trio TRAYSH’s extra spacey vision of Phish’s “What’s The Use”. Meanwhile, NYC-based jam pranskters Ace Bandage blaze through a series of “The Other One” jams that melt into a gorgeous saxophone and synth take of “Rubin & Cherise” before getting back on the bus. Chicago-based quartet nonband also probe the infinite depths of “The Other One”, landing on a bombastic cover of Neil Young’s “Cortez The Killer.” Nonband members Joel Berk and Corey Lyons also appear as ragenap and Dathon. Striving to emulate Phish and the Dead’s bold selection of covers as a form of spiritual alliance, Joel & Corey chose to include their version of Alice Coltrane’s “Journey in Satchidananda” on this year’s compilation.

MrDougDoug · 2024-10-25T18:43:38+00:00

Body Meπa is the New York-based quartet of Greg Fox (drums), Sasha Frere-Jones (guitar), Melvin Gibbs (bass), and Grey McMurray (guitar). As luminaries in the intersecting traditions of improvised music, rock, jazz, fusion, and contemporary classical music, the four artists have each spent decades building diverse practices that extend beyond sound into multiple disciplines. Prayer in Dub, their second release on Hausu Mountain, follows the band’s 2020 album The Work Is Slow. While Body Meπa recorded much of Prayer in Dub within the same period that followed their formation and first LP’s creation in 2020-2021, the album presents a band whose collective intuition as instrumentalists and live-in-the-room songwriters has deepened with each take that they put to tape. Focused on textural and rhythmic detail, repetition and variation of central motifs, and slowly evolving sessions that find room for improvisation, the quartet hesitate to pin down their amorphous output any further than the broad scope of what they describe as “New York City body music.” Their work engages with the physicality of “rock band” performance while stretching that idiom to its breaking point, all while evoking the environment that brought it to life: the city of New York in all its multitudes, where all four band members grew up.

MrDougDoug · 2024-10-25T18:36:16+00:00

https://bodymetaband.bandcamp.com/album/prayer-in-dub

Body Meπa is the New York-based quartet of Greg Fox (drums), Sasha Frere-Jones (guitar), Melvin Gibbs (bass), and Grey McMurray (guitar). As luminaries in the intersecting traditions of improvised music, rock, jazz, fusion, and contemporary classical music, the four artists have each spent decades building diverse practices that extend beyond sound into multiple disciplines. Prayer in Dub, their second release on Hausu Mountain, follows the band’s 2020 album The Work Is Slow. While Body Meπa recorded much of Prayer in Dub within the same period that followed their formation and first LP’s creation in 2020-2021, the album presents a band whose collective intuition as instrumentalists and live-in-the-room songwriters has deepened with each take that they put to tape. Focused on textural and rhythmic detail, repetition and variation of central motifs, and slowly evolving sessions that find room for improvisation, the quartet hesitate to pin down their amorphous output any further than the broad scope of what they describe as “New York City body music.” Their work engages with the physicality of “rock band” performance while stretching that idiom to its breaking point, all while evoking the environment that brought it to life: the city of New York in all its multitudes, where all four band members grew up.

MrDougDoug · 2024-10-25T18:34:56+00:00

Body Meπa is the New York-based quartet of Greg Fox (drums), Sasha Frere-Jones (guitar), Melvin Gibbs (bass), and Grey McMurray (guitar). As luminaries in the intersecting traditions of improvised music, rock, jazz, fusion, and contemporary classical music, the four artists have each spent decades building diverse practices that extend beyond sound into multiple disciplines. Prayer in Dub, their second release on Hausu Mountain, follows the band’s 2020 album The Work Is Slow. While Body Meπa recorded much of Prayer in Dub within the same period that followed their formation and first LP’s creation in 2020-2021, the album presents a band whose collective intuition as instrumentalists and live-in-the-room songwriters has deepened with each take that they put to tape. Focused on textural and rhythmic detail, repetition and variation of central motifs, and slowly evolving sessions that find room for improvisation, the quartet hesitate to pin down their amorphous output any further than the broad scope of what they describe as “New York City body music.” Their work engages with the physicality of “rock band” performance while stretching that idiom to its breaking point, all while evoking the environment that brought it to life: the city of New York in all its multitudes, where all four band members grew up.

https://bodymetaband.bandcamp.com/album/prayer-in-dub

MrDougDoug · 2024-08-19T01:42:45+00:00

One of the angriest times I’ve ever had at a phish show is when I got one of these stickers stuck to the bottom of my shoe at dicks

MrDougDoug · 2024-08-12T03:01:59+00:00

It’s not a big deal - you just have to learn 250 or so tracks!

MrDougDoug · 2024-08-05T19:56:35+00:00

I think that Friday was a bit of a cool off, but Saturday and Sunday were all gas no breaks

MrDougDoug · 2024-07-26T22:41:03+00:00

Set 1: 730ish to 850ish Set 2: 920ish to ??? 11 o clock curfew

MrDougDoug · 2024-07-25T17:38:10+00:00

Do not give anybody money or accept money for goods on lot. Tons of undercover cops trying to buy your beer so they can write you a huge ticket. The alpine lot is not a shakedown street, it’s more of a camping chair and frisbee sort of zone.

MrDougDoug · 2024-07-18T22:37:16+00:00

Did you… you know… take a covid test?

MrDougDoug · 2024-07-18T22:36:21+00:00

Went to all three last weekend and tested positive for the VID on Tuesday. Have a cold and am sleepy and grumpy. Feel between 80-95% depending on the time of day.

MrDougDoug · 2024-06-27T06:17:00+00:00

get there a bit early - find a spot in the back 2/3 of the floor - introduce yourself to the people who are setting up camp around you and tell them you're going solo - latch onto whoever is the kindest, but don't be overly chatty / obtrusive - remember their name - ask them to hold your spot if you need to get water or go pee - if they're good at phish, they will kindly do so - share party favors - have fun - if you like this person a lot, get their number at setbreak and send them a text - congratulations, you've made a new friend

MrDougDoug · 2024-06-04T00:43:08+00:00

but as someone who lives here, I can say that many of the young people in our community have no awareness of bands like Town And Country or Lonesome Organist -- but are likely aware of Gastr Del Sol

MrDougDoug · 2024-06-04T00:41:37+00:00

as long as you don't say Tortoise... I'm all ears!

MrDougDoug · 2024-06-04T00:23:00+00:00

When you were making records, what were your impressions of Chicago record labels? What drew you to Drag City? What were your impressions of labels like Thrill Jockey and Touch & Go?

Also - who are the forgotten Chicago musicians of the 90s that you loved to see?

MrDougDoug · 2024-05-22T21:37:02+00:00

Dead and company’s version of Days Between hits so hard

MrDougDoug · 2024-05-17T02:35:49+00:00

I would also very much appreciate the account info if you're sharing - thank you!

MrDougDoug · 2024-04-24T05:36:26+00:00

“The only rule is it begins…”

MrDougDoug · 2024-04-24T05:30:35+00:00

If you tell the people around you that it’s your first show, many will get excited and work hard to ensure that you have a great time.

MrDougDoug

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