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Remember Mix(ed) Tapes? No? What Are "Tapes"?, posted by Icculus

IT was not uncommon in the 1990's for fans with too many cassette tapes to either give them away or "liquidate" them for the cost of buying a new tape (at the time, around $1.50 a tape including shipping costs). I liquidated hundreds of tapes because I had too many and wanted them to go to better homes. And at that time, there wasn't access to Phish's recordings online, and so I preserved certain versions of songs (usually jam segments only) that I wanted to hear again (or again and again and again) and didn’t want to lose for all eternity by dubbing them onto two dozen or so 100-minute mixtapes or mixed tapes.

And here are the first 13 of them for your amusement. It's surprising to me that not everything on those tapes circulates today online (sigh), so I may be giving such tapes to someone to digitize the material that has yet to circulate online (more sighing). In any event, if this post gets enough attention, I’ll consider posting the "setlists" (so to speak) of the other ten or so mixes that I have, which I do not seem to have ever typed-up, and so I would need to pull the tapes to type them up (not easily done without the full use of my right leg, as I continue to recover from ruptured right anterior tibialis tendon repair surgery). So please, if you appreciate this content, indicate as much in the Comments. Thank you!

Tape One

Side A	Side B
11/30/91 Brother	03/13/92 Antelope->BBFCFM->Antelope
05/08/92 ...Reba Jam	04/07/92 Split Open
11/15/95 Mike's Song	12/13/92 Wilson
04/23/93 Weekapaug->	06/13/94 Stash
04/23/93 Lengthwise	07/23/93 Chalkdust Torture

Tape Two

Side A	Side B
03/25/92 YEM (Setting Sail)	04/11/94 Foam
04/14/94 Runaway Jim	04/11/94 Fast Enough for You
05/20/94 Bathtub Gin	04/29/92 Possum
07/31/93 Split Open	04/08/94 ...DWD jam segment
04/11/94 Caravan	04/08/94 If I Could (!)
	04/22/90 Harry Hood

Tape Three

Side A	Side B
04/29/94 Mike's Song	10/18/91 Brother
04/22/93 ...Reba Jam	05/03/91 Tweezer
05/06/92 ...Stash Jam	05/08/92 David Bowie
05/06/92 Chalkdust	07/15/92 Antelope
06/05/90 Caravan	04/12/91 FunkyBitch (sdchk)
06/05/90 Whippin Post	03/13/91 ...Reba Jam
12/07/92 ...YEM Jam

Tape Four

Side A	Side B
04/18/93 Mike's ->	07/23/93 Bluesy Jam (sdchk) [doesn’t circulate online?]
04/18/93 Yamar	02/11/93 David Bowie
03/02/93 Tweezer	12/29/92 ...Stash Jam
10/07/94 ...Reba Jam	12/05/92 Rollaway Brad (sdchk)
09/28/95 Fog	10/19/91 Terrapin (w/Mimi)
07/23/93 Assorted Jams from Sdchk [doesn’t circulate online?? wuuut? how!?]	10/19/91 Harry Hood

Tape Five

Side A	Side B
10/21/95 ...Reba Jam	09/28/95 ...Tweezer (continued from Side A)
07/15/94 Ltr Jimmy Page	12/08/95 Antelope
07/15/94 ->Bowie	12/08/95 Come Together
09/28/95 Fog (I put it on two mixes apparently lol)	06/19/92 YEM
09/28/95 Theme	11/01/91 Eliza
09/28/95 Tweezer...	11/01/91 Landlady->Destiny Unbound
	11/01/91 Tube

Tape Six

Side A	Side B
12/07/92 Chalkdust	11/30/91 Antelope
12/07/92 Reba	05/02/92 David Bowie >
12/07/92 Vibration	05/02/92 CREW FOOTBALL THEME SONG >
02/11/93 Foam [typo, as no Foam was played on 2/11, it may be 2/4/93]	05/02/92 David Bowie
03/17/92 Ice	10/20/94 Harry Hood (experimental!)
11/30/91 I Didn't Know
06/14/94 ...DWD Jam

Tape Seven

Side A	Side B
03/16/89 DividedSky [from mislabeled tape, actually 3/3/89]	10/20/94 McGrupp's
06/14/94 Guelah	05/04/90 WhippinPost (real thing)
06/18/94 Ice	07/03/94 Split Open (!?!?!?!)
12/02/95 ...SimpleJam>	07/03/94 Antelope (w/fireworks)
12/02/95 Faht >
12/02/95 Tweezer

Tape Eight

Side A	Side B
12/09/94 Antelope	10/28/95 You Enjoy Myself
10/25/94 SOAM	11/04/90 Sdchk: Yamar [doesn’t circulate online??]
07/13/94 DWD Jam	11/04/90 Sdchk: Have Mercy [same?!?!?!]
11/02/94 Scent	10/10/91 Brother
10/14/94 Yamar	10/10/91 Reba
	05/07/93 Caravan

Tape Nine

Side A	Side B
11/24/95 ...Stash	05/08/94 Antelope
11/24/95 ...Reba	05/08/94 ...YEM jam
11/24/95 Bike	05/07/92 ...Tweezer
04/25/94 Runaway Jim	04/16/93 ...SOAM
10/17/95 ...Stash	10/01/89 Reba (first version)
04/26/96 ...Bowie	05/05/93 ...Maze

Tape Ten

Side A	Side B
12/09/94 Wilson	07/14/94 Chalkdust Torture
12/09/94 ...Tweezer...	04/22/88 Fluffhead
04/14/93 KungHorse	10/13/95 Tube
03/22/91 Antelope	04/21/91 Foam
04/30/93 ...Stash	09/09/89 Bowie
04/30/93 ...YEM...
03/30/92 Weigh
06/28/95 ...Tweezer>DEG>Tweezer...

Tape 11

Side A	Side B
05/04/94 Antelope	05/03/91 ...YEM...
04/05/94 Yamar	05/03/91 Harpua
04/05/94 Tweezer >	04/06/94 ...Stash
04/05/94 If I Could	*White Album* (low gen) (Nitrous->Minkin)
04/05/94 YEM...

Tape 12

Side A	Side B
03/19/92 Sdchk:	07/11/88 …Curtain (With) continued from Side A
03/19/92 Shaggy Dog	07/11/88 Alumni Blues
03/19/92 Jam >	10/25/94 ...Weekapaug
03/19/92 Hey Andrew! >	06/19/94 ...Reba
03/19/92 Jam	06/19/94 Makisupa
03/19/92 Lullaby
03/09/90 ... YEM > La Grange
03/09/90 Whipping Post
03/01/90 Rhombus Story
03/01/90 ...Possum
07/11/88 Curtain >

Tape 13

Side A	Side B
*The Original Bliss* [sigh I thought this would be available online somewhere by now I released it on etree years ago]	04/22/92 Wilson
05/02/93 Antelope	11/28/92 Mike's Hydro Groove
05/12/92 ...YEM...	11/28/92 My Sweet One
04/22/92 Language	07/11/88 Suzy Greenberg...

p.s. So if you look at the image of the mixed tapes (their jcards refer to Tape 1 thru Tape 22, and say PHISH MIX) it looks like the WinTaper software program (Dan Tepper's tape jcard label creating software) that I used to create the jcards required me to put some kind of date in the date field of the interface, and so I just put ??/??/YY in a bunch of them even where the music on the mixes wasn't from YY (year) at all.

p.p.s. As noted above I apparently have some Phish that doesn't circulate online, somehow (two soundchecks and the Original "Bliss"), so if you do find any of this music online please note as much in the Comments and link to it. It is a pain in the ass to get music I've got only on tape circulating online, but the fact I bothered to preserve these soundchecks on tape means they were worth saving. Soooo sadly unless one of you finds 'em online and links to them, I'm gonna feel morally compelled to get them circulating For The Benefit Of The Phish Community. Thank you!