Phish
1989 Studio + Live Demo Tape
© 1987 Ernest Anastasio III

Side 1: Studio Recordings

01 You Enjoy Myself *
02 Fee
03 David Bowie
04 Esther
05 Golgi Apparatus ^

Side 2: Live Recordings

06 Wilson (12/10/88 The Red Barn, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA)
07 Alumni Blues (11/03/88 Molly's Cafe, Boston, MA)
08 The Lizards (7/23/88 Pete's Phabulous Phish Phest, Underhill, VT)
09 The Sloth (12/10/88 The Red Barn, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA)
10 Mike's Song (7/23/88 Pete's Phabulous Phish Phest, Underhill, VT)

* only second half of the song
^ Trey's count in is heard at top of track

Side 1 recorded at Euphoria Sound Studio, Revere, MA by engineer Gordon Hookailo (Junta Sessions)
Side 2 recorded at three different live shows as noted

Mike's Song is actually Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove and fades in and out from the original recording.

Source:

Original Demo Cassette > Nakamichi BX-125 > Zoom F8 > WAV > FLAC24
transferred and re-mastered by Clinton Vadnais (Jan 2023)
from the collection of Mark Florczyk

Note:

To the best of my knowledge Phish started recording what would become Junta in December 1987. This demo tape features live recordings from mid to late 1988. Junta was self-released on cassette in May of 1989. I'm deducing this demo tape was from the time between December 88 and May of 1989.

Minor print-through is audible in between songs. I opted to not remove or hide it but to leave it as it was. Side 1 appears to have been produced in reverse stereo (l+r swap). This was fixed for this file set. Please do not alter or re-master this full fidelity 24bit source. Definitely do not sell it!


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