Flashback

This is Part 2 of a series looking at the history of Phish in Albany. Read Part 1 and Part 3 ahead of Phish’s return to the Capital District and MVP Arena. The anticipation that builds on South Pearl Street outside the Knick/Pepsi/Times…

The Allman Betts Band brought their 2019 fall tour to The Paramount on November 10, 2019. The tour was supporting their latest album, Down to the River which came out earlier in the year. The supporting acts were Joanne Shaw Taylor and and…

Picture Central Park today. Beautiful bridges and architecture throughout a green, shaded landscape. A place where people can enjoy their hour lunch break, or a destination for buskers trying to earn some cash. In the 1970's, the park had…

It's been 23 years since Garth Brooks rocked the Big Apple with a powerful concert dubbed "Garthstock" in Central Park, and people are still talking about it. An estimated 980,000 people attended the 1997 Garth Brooks concert. On…

Two years after releasing Tommy and just ahead of the release of Who's Next, UK rock stalwarts The Who performed at Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center on Monday, August 2, 1971. The show would serve as The Who's only performance…

"Phish felt like this big inside joke at the time, and the festival was astounding in that we all looked around and acknowledged that a lot of people were in on the joke."

On a Friday night in late March of 1992, the 20th to be exact, everything changed. Phish had more or less hooked me the prior July and I had worn through my tapes of Junta and Lawn Boy and the handful of bootlegs I had acquired. The band's…