Welcome to the 432nd edition of Phish.Net's Mystery Jam Monday, the final and most difficult of August. The winner will receive an MP3 download code courtesy of our friends at LivePhish.com / Nugs.Net. To win, be the first person to identify the song and date of all three mystery clips, which are connected by a theme. Each person gets one guess to start – if no one answers correctly in the first 24 hours, I'll post a hint. After the hint, everyone gets one more guess before Wednesday at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. Good luck!
Hint: All three jams come from sets that start off the same way, but rapidly diverge after that.
Answer: Welp, at least he needed the hint this time? @Cactus_Mike pulled off another impressive win this week - back to back, three of four, and five of eleven now! - to crack this difficult trap-laden nut: 10/29/94 "Down with Disease," 10/29/13 "Down with Disease," and the totally not 10/29/XX "Down with Disease" but also D major jam from 7/8/03 "Harry Hood," all of which were played in second sets that opened with ... "Down with Disease." As mentioned in the comments, I try not to play dirty, but this week I did just that on freaking purpose and still lost. Monday, the difficulty drops several orders of magnitude - and remember: if you've won before, no answers on the blog before the hint! If it makes it that far...
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edit: fixed
The link is back up now, will re-embed later today.
10/29/13 Down with Disease
07/08/03 Harry Hood
I rarely play as dirty as I did this week - choosing two 10/29 jams, both DWD, both set-openers, and have the third jam be in same key (D major) but neither from 10/29, nor DWD, nor a set opener - but you got me again
nice work
Might not be the right forum, but I clicked on the "CA" next to Chula Vista and only California shows from 2008 to present came up. I mean, 4/16/92 through 4/21/92 understand the historical significance of Justin Beiber attending the 2012 Long Beach show, but don't feel that it should lead to their exclusion from any search results on this site or any other Phish site.
Well, you live you learn. Great jorb Cactus_Mike!
Is there a bot or software that you wizards run to get these??? Modulation "D" change?!? So, of the tens of thousands times (I'm guessing) the band has played in D over their 30+ year span, you guys can pull the exact song(s) out of nowhere?? Maybe you guys got copies of The Book and have locked it away from the masses?
F-ing amazed every week
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I'll add that for those of us that play an instrument, once you know what key different Phish songs and jams are in and once you're tuned into the fact that they modulate all the time when they go Type II, certain patterns emerge (e.g. the I->IV modulation is quite common for them)