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Venue Preview: Ameris Bank Amphitheater, Alpharetta, GA w/Dave Defeo
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44:16Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. Today, we continue our 2025 miniseries where we preview each venue on Phish’s late summer tour by visiting an old favorite: the Ameris Bank Amphitheater in Alpharetta, GA–colloquially known simply as “Alpharetta.” And when I say “an old favorite,” I mean for…
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Venue Preview: Coca-Cola Amphitheater, Birmingham, AL w/Bobby Shirley
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45:59Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. Today, we continue our 2025 miniseries of previewing each venue on Phish’s late summer or early fall tour with a brand new venue–not just new to Phish fans but new to the world–the Coca Cola Amphitheater in Birmingham, Alabama. Today’s guest to give us the i…
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Venue Preview: Bourbon & Beyond, Lexington, KY w/Andrew
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47:10Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. We are at the start of the late summer/early fall 2025 tour, and so it is time to look ahead to the venues Phish will be playing. This run is 8 shows in 4 separate venues, including today’s preview of the Bourbon and Beyond Festival in Louisville, KY on Sept…
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9/3/22 @ Dick's w/Jordan from Venue Llama
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1:07:22Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. I think that all Phish fans, or fans of live music in general, would agree that the venue in which you see a show is inextricably linked to your experience at that show. It’s almost impossible, at least for me, to separate the setting…
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"Sharing in the Groove" and The Went Gin w/Mike Ayers
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1:24:02Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today's episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s guest is journalist and writer Mike Ayers. Mike’s new book, “Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the ‘90s Jamband Explosion” covers exactly that–it’s an oral history of how a new scene and community developed, grew, and thr…
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12/7/95 @ The Niagara Falls Convention Center w/ Brian Blatt
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1:26:12Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Whenever a guest messages me and wants to tell a story about a show from the fall 1995 tour, it’s nearly impossible to say no. And when it’s a guest who has previously been on the podcast, I know it’ll be a compelling conversation. Su…
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7/1/99 @ Starwood Amphitheater w/ Ric Hickey
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1:37:07Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. I would imagine that most of us have been there: a Phish show where the first set gets off to a typical start, and then something happens-maybe a bustout or a special guest-that makes the show instantly memorable. Or maybe a show where th…
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BONUS: Forest Hills 2025 Recap w/JW
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1:25:30Send us a text Hello everybody and welcome to today's bonus episode of Attendance Bias. Today is a recap episode, so it's going to be a little different from what you may expect from normal episodes. I do have a co-host today that is JW Josh from the Stub Me Down Podcast. He and I tend to do recaps after Phish runs that we've attended either toget…
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Using AI to Brand and Customize a Community: Lessons from Advania’s Launch
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20:38When Advania set out to launch its customer community, Senior Community Manager Lorena Seco de Herrera Ortega didn’t have a developer or a background in coding. What she did have was a clear vision for a branded, intuitive experience and a willingness to experiment with AI. In this episode of Higher Logic's “Power of Connection” podcast, Lorena joi…
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2025 Venue Preview: SPAC, Saratoga Springs, NY w/ Liz Ratto
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36:30Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to the last episode of this Attendance Bias mini-series, in which we previewed each venue Phish will play during their upcoming summer 2025 tour: We just took a look at a new venue to the Phish world: Forest Hills Stadium. Today, we turn our attention to an old favorite; a venue that has been a part of the Ph…
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2025 Venue Preview: Forest Hills Stadium, w/Michela Ratto
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58:06Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. Get ready for some venue whiplash; after three nights at the largest indoor venue on the tour in Chicago, Phish leaves the second city to arrive in New York. More specifically, July 22 and 23 at Forest Hills Stadium in Forest Hills, Queens; home to The Ramon…
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2025 Venue Preview: The United Center, Chicago, IL w/Brendan D
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42:55Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome back to the Attendance Bias mini series of previewing each venue of the Phish 2025 summer tour. By now, we’ve gotten the scoop on the SNHU Arena in Manchester, The Pete in Pittsburgh, the Moody Center in Austin, Folsom Field in Boulder, the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, the North Charleston Coliseum, and …
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2025 Venue Preview: The Mann, Philadelphia, PA w/Steph and Tom
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38:10Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. We are just past the mid-point of this Attendance Bias mini-series, in which we preview each venue Phish will play during their upcoming summer 2025 tour. We are coming off our visit to the Palmetto State for the North Charleston Coliseum, and today’s episod…
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2025 Venue Preview: N. Charleston Coliseum, N. Charleston, SC w/Dave Scozarro
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42:48Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. We are at the halfway point of the tour by now, having just visited the Schottenstein Center in Columbus for the first time, it is now time to visit an old favorite: The North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, South Carolina for a THREE NIGHT weekend run! A…
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2025 Venue Preview: The Schottenstein Center, Columbus, OH w/Ryan and Shannon
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44:44Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. We are almost at the halfway point of the tour by now, arriving from Phish’s 3-night holiday weekend stand at Folsom Field to one of the larger indoor venues on tour: the Schottenstein Center in Columbus on the campus of THE Ohio State University. This is Ph…
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2025 Venue Preview: Folsom Field, Boulder, CO w/ Bryan from Boulder
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43:19Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. After an odd summertime Texas stop in Austin, Phish is keeping us disoriented this year: it’s now time for a holiday weekend run in Colorado…but not the one we expect. Instead of the end-of-summer blowout at Dick’s over Labor Day Weekend this summer, we are …
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2025 Venue Preview: The Moody Center, Austin, TX w/Dianna Hank
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38:29Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. After two days off and a very very long drive, we are at the third stop of our tour: The Moody Center in Austin, Texas for June 27 and 28. It’s rare that Phish stops in Texas, rare that they stop in Texas for the summer, and even more rare that they’ll play …
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2025 Venue Preview: The Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh, PA w/ Emily Bush
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42:38Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. We are fully on tour by now, having visited Manchester, New Hampshire and now on the 9-and-a-half-hour drive to the Pete–that is the Petersen Events Center, on the University of Pittsburgh campus–in Pittsburgh, PA. For whatever reason, the band decided to sk…
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2025 Venue Preview: SNHU Arena, Manchester, NH w/ Casey and Jenn
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33:49Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to the first episode of this new series of Attendance Bias: over the next few weeks, we are going to take a look at venue Phish is going to play on their upcoming 2025 summer tour; from old favorites like SPAC and The Mann, to first-time visits for Phish, like Folsom Field and Forest Hills Stadium. Today, I a…
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Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Not many guests have come on the podcast to talk about anything from the year 2000. It’s kind of a lost year when most fans consider the tail end of 1.0. 1999 gets a lot of love, Big Cypress is the unquestioned greatest of all time, but w…
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8/9/24 @ Bethel Woods w/ Jeffrey Rosenberg
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1:42:47Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. At Dick’s in 2013, Phish famously used the setlist to spell out the phrase: “Most Shows Spell Something.” It was a good goof at the time, but it also inspired thousands of fans to take the message literally and inspect the band’s song cho…
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Social vs Owned: Weighing the Costs of Where You Build Community with Brian Oblinger
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33:09Our guest on this episode of Higher Logic’s Power of Connection is Brian Oblinger, a career-experienced consultant around community, customer experience, advocacy, strategy, optimization, and more. Brian’s also held staff positions in both platforms and businesses and talks with us about migrating from social media-based communities to owned commun…
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"DWD>Carini" from 12/29/13 @ MSG w/ Rachael Wesley
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59:23Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today, we have a returning guest: published author Rachael Wesley, who–as of today–has released her memoir, “Second Set Chances,” published by Vine Leaves Press. The last time Rachael was on Attendance Bias, about three years ago, she was…
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"Simple" from 7/27/24 @ Alpine Valley w/ Andy Rapacz
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1:01:20Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Since their return to the stage in 2009, all the way to today, Phish has continually proven that they still have the goods–that they’ve avoided the trap of becoming a nostalgia act. They’ve proven it in a number of ways: reinventing thems…
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Building Successful Communities with ModSquad's Izzy Neis
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34:50Paul’s guest on this episode of Higher Logic’s “Power of Connection” is Izzy Neis, Head of Digital at ModSquad. For over 20 years, ModSquad has been providing moderation, customer support, community management, social media, and social listening services for all ranges of businesses with a digital footprint, B2B and B2C. Topics covered include: How…
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6/9/90 @ The Wetlands w/ Josh Gertz
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1:20:55Send us a text Hi everybody, and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. You know, prom night is full of cliches: carnations, gowns, tuxedos, slow dances, limousines, and so on. Now, take all those tropes and add an unexpected twist: your afterparty is taking your limo with a bunch of friends into Manhattan to see Phish play tw…
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10/30/10 @ Boardwalk Hall w/ Karina Rykman!
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1:20:56Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s guest is kickass bassist, singer, songwriter, bandleader, musical omnivore and big-time Phishhead, Karina Rykman. If you’ve been paying attention to the jamband and jamband-adjacent scene for any time over the past 5 years or so, …
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8/6/24 @ Grand Rapids w/ Patty Gambill
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1:38:50Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. I do my best to be modest about this podcast, but I have to say: today’s episode has pretty much everything that makes this show a joy to listen to and produce: an enthusiastic guest who came with plenty to say about herself and the show …
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What It Takes to Scale Your Community for Global Reach with Dani Weinstein
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25:37Paul’s guest today on Higher Logic’s The Power of Connection podcast is Dani Weinstein, who’s well-known in the community space for running large communities. Dani was on the ground floor in the creation of the Hewlett-Packard social care team, which launched communities that grew to two million members, driving 100 million customers in traffic. He…
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7/24/15 @ Shoreline Amphitheater w/ Ian Rufe
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1:14:46Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s guest is Ian from Montana, who is here to tell about his experience seeing Phish on July 24, 2015 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA where he went from being a casual 3.0 Phish fan to a Phish family man. The show m…
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Revenue Is the Outcome, Not the Strategy: Why Engagement Comes First with Eric Stieg
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31:12In this episode of Higher Logic's "Power of Connection" podcast, Paul Schneider talks with Eric Stieg, Senior Manager and Head of Community at Anaplan. Eric has had extensive experience starting and running communities for many top brands and brings a wealth of expertise to those currently running customer communities. Topics discussed include: Wha…
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8/17/24 @ Mondegreen w/ Seamus Gallivan
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1:27:49Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. By now, everyone recognizes just how special last summer’s Mondegreen festival was, inclusive of the music and the overall experience. Today’s guest, Seamus Gallivan had a premonition of how special the festival would be to him, and email…
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Send us a text Get ready for Wednesday's full episode about 8/17/24 in Dover, DE with Seamus Gallivan! In the meantime, Attendance Bias listeners called in to share some of their favorite memories, and odd musings, from this past summer's Mondegreen Festival! Kill a few minutes in anticipation of Wednesday's full episode. Enjoy!…
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"Buried Alive" from 1996-2024 w/Ryan Miners
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1:05:03Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. If you’re a regular listener of the podcast, you know the typical format. But I love it when a guest has an idea and we have to think a little out of the box so that the guest can tell his or her story while still keeping the familiar seg…
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11/14/95 @ UCF Arena w/ Matthew Wheelwright
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1:34:26Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. While we’ve spent a good amount of time on Attendance Bias discussing the fall 1995 tour, there was a short southeast swing after the Quadrophenia Halloween show that we’ve never touched on, and that I have to admit, I don’t think I’v…
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Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s guest, Cris Coey, chose to speak about Phish’s show at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky from November 7, 1996. It’s a show that is famous in Phish history for mostly one reason–the long, multi-faceted version of Bathtub Gin t…
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How Community Is Changing: Org Structure, AI, and the Shift to Communities of Practice with Nicole Saunders of Coupa
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34:03In this episode of Higher Logic's “Power Of Connection” podcast, Paul Schneider talks with Nicole Saunders, Senior Director of Customer Experience Marketing at Coupa, about customer marketing and how community can play a larger role in it. Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry leading total spend management pl…
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How to Scale Customer Education Using a Community-Led Approach with Bluebeam's Aily Roper
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35:41In this episode of Higher Logic's "Power of Connection" podcast, host Paul Schneider chats with Aily Roper, Senior Manager of Customer Education at Bluebeam. Bluebeam provides digital tools for the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) industry with over three million users and growing. Topics covered include: Scaling customer education. In…
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Community-Building Lessons Learned from ZoomInfo’s Chris Detzel
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27:12In this episode of Higher Logic's "Power of Connection" podcast, host Paul Schneider chats with Chris Detzel, Senior Community Manager at ZoomInfo. ZoomInfo is the go-to-market intelligence platform that empowers businesses to grow faster with AI-ready insights, trusted data, and advanced automation. Topics covered include: Finding the right commun…
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Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. We’ve discussed several shows from the legendary Baker’s Dozen on Attendance Bias, but this is the first episode where we talk about the Baker’s Dozen’s little brother: a show from Phish’s 7-show run in the summer of 2023. Today’s guest i…
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"Theme>SOAMelt" @ The Sphere w/ Katie "The Phunky Witch"
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59:56Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s guest is Katie, but she is probably better known as The Phunky Witch around the Phish Twitter community. For today’s episode, Katie chose a stunning, psychedelic segment from Phish’s visit to the Sphere in Las Vegas: “Theme from t…
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5/27/94 @ The Warfield w/ Adam Jerugim
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1:03:00Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today, we welcome back guest Adam Jerugim. Adam previously told about seeing “Harry Hood” on April 18, 1992 at Stanford University, and after today, he seems to be the Attendance Bias resident expert on west coast Phish in the 90s. In…
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10/22/21 @ Desert Sky Pavilion w/ Ryan Storm
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1:12:27Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. If you pay attention to the Phish podcast world, or the Goose podcast world, then you’re certainly familiar with today’s guest: Ryan Storm. Ryan is the host of the Almost Always There podcast as well as We Move Through Stormy Weather on O…
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Send us a text As we prepare for Ryan Storm's episode about 10/22/21 at The Desert Sky Pavilion in Phoenix, we also are preparing for our next episode with Adam Jerugim: 5/27/94 at The Warfield in San Francisco. Have memories from spring 1994? Call 516-366-5732 and leave a message of your thoughts, opinions, and memories from spring 1994!…
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Send us a text Hi everyone! Do you have memories, thoughts, ideas, or criticisms about 10/22/21 at Desert Sky Pavilion? Want to share them? Call 516-366-5732 and leave a message as we get ready for the next Attendance Bias episode with Ryan Storm of Osiris Media! I can't wait to hear from you!By Brian Weinstein
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11/2/96 @ Coral Sky Amphitheater w/ Josh Buswell-Charkow
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1:36:39Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. There are a lot of Phish shows that are seen as turning points in both the band’s career and the evolution of their sound over 40 years. The Paradise in 1988, Gamehendge in Great Woods, New Year’s ‘95, Halloween 1996, and dozens more. Tho…
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