Attendance Bias
Attendance Bias is a podcast for fans to tell a story about an especially meaningful Phish show.
Episodes
183 episodes since 2020
7/6/12 @ SPAC w/ Michael Benjamin
Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. It was an absolute thrill to talk to today’s guest, Michael Benjamin about July 6, 2012 at SPAC. It was a thrill for two main reasons: First, I...
September 18, 2024
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10/31/21 @ The MGM Grand w/ James Del
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. With all of the lore and inside jokes of the Phish universe, conspiracy theories are part and parcel of being a superfan. When we learn the lyrics ...
September 04, 2024
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1:30:48
Mondegreen Recap! w/Stub Me Down and Scott King
It's been about 2 weeks since Phish's 11th festival, and we are just starting to come back to Earth. Luckily, I am joined by the best to recap those 4 amazing days in Delaware. Skinny and JW of the "Stub Me Down" podcast, along with Scott King,...
August 28, 2024
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1:55:46
7/14/19 @ Alpine Valley w/ Chris Bojar
Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. You know, everybody has their own standards for what constitutes a “special” Phish show: a killer setlist, monster jams, rarities, meeting up w...
August 21, 2024
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1:27:46
Coventry: 20 Years Later
Hey all, I'm testing out an idea for a late-summer episode about Coventry. For several reasons, I always figured that it would be impossible to do an Attendance Bias episode about Coventry because...well...who would be biased in thinking that C...
August 13, 2024
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6/22/00 @ AmSouth Amphitheater w/ Thom Epps
Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s special guest is a returning champion: Thom Epps, who was a guest on attendance bias way back in the summer of 2020, when the podcast w...
August 07, 2024
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10/31/95 @ The Rosemont Horizon w/ Jamie Boldt
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s special guest is Jamie Boldt, and boy, did he pick a winner to review today: 10/31/95 at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, Illinois.R...
July 24, 2024
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1:32:55
Flocking Outside CODA: A Miniseries About Goose From 3 Phish Lifers
Episode PlaylistThe Improbable, Unstoppable Rise of Goose, by Charlie Werzel for The Atlantic...
July 17, 2024
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4/6/94 @ The Concert Hall w/ Brian Blatt
Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s guest, Brian Blatt, takes us back 30 years to April 6, 1994 at the Concert Hall in Toronto, Ontario. Phish had just started their sprin...
July 10, 2024
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7/4/00 @ Camden w/ Will Little
Hi everybody and welcome to today's episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. When I began this podcast, I didn’t know too much about the key shows of the end of 1.0. The years 1999 and 2000 weren’t exactly lost t...
July 03, 2024
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12/2/97 @ The Spectrum w/ Matt Hoffman
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s guest, Matt Hoffman, takes us back to an instant classic: December 2, 1997 at The Philadelphia Spectrum, the first night of a 2-night run t...
June 24, 2024
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6/16/00 @ Zepp Osaka w/ Jordan Kahn
Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s episode is about a Phish show, to be sure, but in the larger picture, it’s about an entire tour. Today’s guest, Jordan Kahn, chose to t...
June 12, 2024
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The Phish Mapping Project w/Steven Gripp
Hi everybody and welcome to this week’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today’s guest is Steven Gripp, the creator of the Phish Mapping Project. Steven is here today to tell about one of his favorite segments of Liv...
May 29, 2024
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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 go...
May 15, 2024
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7/23/93 @ Jones Beach w/ Jonathan Frederic
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. When I first began collecting tapes, I would always keep my eyes out for Phish shows at Jones Beach. Having grown up on Long Island, go...
May 01, 2024
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Phil and Phriends from April 1999 w/ Charlie Dirksen
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. I am ecstatic to introduce today’s episode, as it features both a knowledgeable guest who is well known within certain circles of the P...
April 15, 2024
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10/31/94 @ Glens Falls w/ Jeff Paradise
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Today, we’re taking on one of the big ones: one of the most pivotal shows in the band’s 40 year career. Guest Jeff Paradise was at the ...
April 03, 2024
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12/16/99 @ Raleigh, NC w/ Brent Summerville
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein.We’ve covered plenty of shows from the summer of 1999 on Attendance Bias but, lest we forget, there was a lot more to that year than a raucou...
March 20, 2024
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This Time Will Be Different: 15 Years Since Hampton, E3
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias, or more really, the third and final episode of “This Time Will be Different: 15 Years Since Hampton.” I am your host, Brian Weinstein.Today’s episode ends our look back at w...
March 06, 2024
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This Time Will Be Different: 15 Years Since Hampton, E2
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias, or more accurately, episode two of “This Time Will be Different: 15 Years Since Hampton.” I am your host, Brian Weinstein.Today, I join my two co-hosts: Scott Marks and Char...
February 28, 2024
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This Time Will Be Different: 15 Years Since Hampton, E1
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein.The first week of March is always a conspicuous part of the year for me. No religious or secular holidays, no birthdays or wedding anniversar...
February 20, 2024
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6/21/94 @ The Cincinnati Music Hall w/ Kev Hollo
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. If you’ll indulge my Grandpa-Simpson waxing poetic about the past for a second: when I was first getting into Phish, there were some sh...
February 07, 2024
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Mini-Episode: 15 Years Since Hampton and "Life Saving Gun" from 12/30/23
Do you remember where you were when you heard that Phish was returning to Hampton in 2009?To celebrate 15 years since Hampton, I’d love to hear about where you were and what you thought when you found out about Hampton ‘09. I think it w...
January 25, 2024
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10/30/98 @ The Thomas and Mack Center w/ Eric Doyle
Hi everybody and welcome to today’s episode of Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Halloween is, without question, one of the highest profile nights of the Phish calendar. All Phish Halloween shows are judged, compared...
January 24, 2024
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