12/30/13 @ MSG w/ Anton Milioti

Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s guest is Anton Milioti, bass player from the acoustic-ish Grateful Dead cover band, Crickets and Cicadas. Today, Anton and I spend a good deal of time talking about the Grateful Dead and live performance, but the majority of our conversation centers around a show that was Anton’s first, and still holds up in Phish history–December 30, 2013 at Madison Square Garden.  

When a guest chooses a show to discuss, I tend to get excited over shows from the mid-1.0 era; 1992, 1995, 1998...but over the course of today’s conversation, Anton mentioned a few times that it’s been 10 years since the 2013 NYE run. And when we break down some of the jams and remember the Phish zeitgeist around the end of 2013, an argument can be made that they were as different 10 years ago as they were 10 years before that! 

On top of that, there is the recurring theme of the band celebrating its 30 year anniversary in 2013, which takes on extra resonance now, considering that we recently had the privilege of celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary! When taken in that context, this show takes on an entire different dimension.

So let’s join Anton to talk about Phil Lesh, A Live One, and dream setlists as we discuss Phish’s show from December 30, 2013 at Madison Square Garden.