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Attendance Bias

Brian Weinstein

227 episodes

5 days ago

Send us a text Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Several guests have come on the podcast to discuss Phish’s famous Halloween shows, and there’s always plenty to say. Today’s guest, Kevin Rovner of the Kevin Rovner Band chose not only the most controversial Halloween show in Phish’s history–the infamous Wingsuit set from 2013, but he also chose to zero in on one specific song from that set: “You Never Know.” The last song from that...

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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. Several guests have come on the podcast to discuss Phish’s famous Halloween shows, and there’s always plenty to say. Today’s guest, Kevin Rovner of the Kevin Rovner Band chose not only the most controversial Halloween show in Phish’s history–the infamous Wingsuit set from 2013, but he also chose to zero in on one specific song from that set: “You Never Know.” The last song from that...

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Venue Preview: Bourbon & Beyond, Lexington, KY w/Andrew

Send 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 September 12. While the rest of this tour is made up of familiar, or at least traditional, venues, this one night show on September 12 is the first t...

3 days ago

47 minutes

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9/3/22 @ Dick's w/Jordan from Venue Llama

Send 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 from the experience. We go deep into that idea with today’s guest, Jordan, the founder and owner of the VenueLlama website as well as Fire on the ...

1 week ago

1 hour 7 minutes

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"Sharing in the Groove" and The Went Gin w/Mike Ayers

Send 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 thrived in from the late 80s to the turn of the century. I read it in about 2 and a half days, and if you have any interest at all about the roots of ...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 24 minutes

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12/7/95 @ The Niagara Falls Convention Center w/ Brian Blatt

Send 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. Such is the case today, when Brian Blatt joins me to tell about Phish’s incredible show from December 7, 1995 at the Niagara Falls Convention Center ...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 26 minutes

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7/1/99 @ Starwood Amphitheater w/ Ric Hickey

Send 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 the weather takes a turn for the worse and the show has to end early or there’s a downpour that’s almost as memorable as the music. Well, today’s gue...

1 month ago

1 hour 37 minutes

Attendance Bias

BONUS: Forest Hills 2025 Recap w/JW

Send 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 together, or at least both of us attended at the same time. And today is hot on the heels of the Forest Hills 2025, summer, two-night run, we both had ...

1 month ago

1 hour 25 minutes

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2025 Venue Preview: SPAC, Saratoga Springs, NY w/ Liz Ratto

Send 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 Phish conversation longer than some fans have been alive, literally. Today, I am joined by family: My sister in law, Liz Ratto, who coincidentally is...

2 months ago

36 minutes

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2025 Venue Preview: Forest Hills Stadium, w/Michela Ratto

Send 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 Ramones, Simon and Garfunkel, and Peter Parker. If you’ve listened to Attendance Bias for any amount of time, you’ve probably heard me mention tha...

2 months ago

58 minutes

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2025 Venue Preview: The United Center, Chicago, IL w/Brendan D

Send 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 the Mann in Philadelphia. We are nearing the end of this series as our episode today focuses on Phish’s three-night run at the United Center in Chi...

3 months ago

42 minutes

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2025 Venue Preview: The Mann, Philadelphia, PA w/Steph and Tom

Send 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 episode is all about a venue that feels like it’s been around forever in the Phish world: the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia, PA. I always group Phila...

3 months ago

38 minutes

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2025 Venue Preview: N. Charleston Coliseum, N. Charleston, SC w/Dave Scozarro

Send 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 city brimming with both American history and Phish history, we are lucky enough today to be joined by Charleston native Dave Scozarro who tells us...

3 months ago

42 minutes

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2025 Venue Preview: The Schottenstein Center, Columbus, OH w/Ryan and Shannon

Send 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 Phish’s first time playing at the Schot, and luckily, today’s guests have a deep well of knowledge about both Columbus and the venue itself. My frien...

3 months ago

44 minutes

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2025 Venue Preview: Folsom Field, Boulder, CO w/ Bryan from Boulder

Send 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 instead celebrating our country’s independence with a July 4th weekend party at a college football stadium almost double the size of Dick’s: July 3...

4 months ago

43 minutes

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2025 Venue Preview: The Moody Center, Austin, TX w/Dianna Hank

Send 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 in Austin–it’s been about 15 years since the capitol city entertained the band and its fans. Today’s guest, Dianna Hank (known in social medi...

4 months ago

38 minutes

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2025 Venue Preview: The Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh, PA w/ Emily Bush

Send 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 skip Star Lake in Burgettstown in favor of this modest-size collegiate arena that has played host to Phish twice in recent memory. But if you’r...

4 months ago

42 minutes

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2025 Venue Preview: SNHU Arena, Manchester, NH w/ Casey and Jenn

Send 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 am joined by returning guest Chris Casey and his partner Jenn, both New Hampshire natives, to give us a local view of the SNHU Arena, or the “SNU,” ...

4 months ago

33 minutes

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Albany 2000 w/Brad Rosen

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 what about those 52 shows that capped the 1.0 era? Today’s guest, Brad Rosen, joins us today all the way from Israel to help plug in that gap....

4 months ago

1 hour 28 minutes

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8/9/24 @ Bethel Woods w/ Jeffrey Rosenberg

Send 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 choices at any given show and, sometimes, craft a motif, theme, or narrative that might change a listener’s perspective and they would see and hear th...

4 months ago

1 hour 42 minutes

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"DWD>Carini" from 12/29/13 @ MSG w/ Rachael Wesley

Send 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 working on the sixth draft of what would become Second Set Chances. At the time, she didn’t have much to say about the memoir, as it was sti...

5 months ago

59 minutes

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"Simple" from 7/27/24 @ Alpine Valley w/ Andy Rapacz

Send 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 themselves as different bands for Halloween, releasing several albums, changing their touring setup to allow for more multi-night runs, or the tried-and...

5 months ago

1 hour 1 minute