phish makes cool music

Found the first, having difficulty with the second, will never find the third.

Eh, I've wasted a day in worse ways...

my instinct says these are all from the guts of various Mike's

I think I know the 2nd

I got screwed last week - I reveal no more

@PhreePhish said:

Found the first, having difficulty with the second, will never find the third.

Eh, I've wasted a day in worse ways...

Haven't seen you comment in some time, so in case you haven't seen the new format, you should know that all three jams share something in common (beyond all being played by Phish). Thus far we've had commonalities such as "All jams played in Canada," "All jams segue into Tweezer," and "All jams were Chalk Dust Torture played at Dick's." In other words, if you truly found one of them, you're well on your way...

@uctweezer said:

@PhreePhish said:

Found the first, having difficulty with the second, will never find the third.

Eh, I've wasted a day in worse ways...

Haven't seen you comment in some time, so in case you haven't seen the new format, you should know that all three jams share something in common (beyond all being played by Phish). Thus far we've had commonalities such as "All jams played in Canada," "All jams segue into Tweezer," and "All jams were Chalk Dust Torture played at Dick's." In other words, if you truly found one of them, you're well on your way...

Oh I've been around the whole time ucpete! I just haven't been able to guess any in a long time (and haven't had a Monday off in a long time)!

Must say you've been doing a great job with your selections since you took over (not that the last person was bad or anything. Far from it.)!

@PhreePhish said:

@uctweezer said:

@PhreePhish said:

Found the first, having difficulty with the second, will never find the third.

Eh, I've wasted a day in worse ways...

Haven't seen you comment in some time, so in case you haven't seen the new format, you should know that all three jams share something in common (beyond all being played by Phish). Thus far we've had commonalities such as "All jams played in Canada," "All jams segue into Tweezer," and "All jams were Chalk Dust Torture played at Dick's." In other words, if you truly found one of them, you're well on your way...

Oh I've been around the whole time ucpete! I just haven't been able to guess any in a long time (and haven't had a Monday off in a long time)!

Must say you've been doing a great job with your selections since you took over (not that the last person was bad or anything. Far from it.)!

Sweet, glad to hear it; and thanks for the kind words! The positive feedback and the weekly crowd are what keep me going

@jibler said:

my instinct says these are all from the guts of various Mike's

I think I know the 2nd

I got screwed last week - I reveal no more

Don't think you've got the commonality, and it's the second clip that makes me think that. I've not figured it out either, but my curiosity is piqued. See ya'll tomorrow?

im out of class soon so ill jump in soon

@jibler said:

my instinct says these are all from the guts of various Mike's

I think I know the 2nd

I got screwed last week - I reveal no more

They are jams by Phish done sometime ago.

have one of the three found and was hoping the hint would clear some things up, but no dice

Damn, @uctweezer, these clips are great and so are the hints.

What do I get for just knowing what the hint means?

@andrewrose said:

What do I get for just knowing what the hint means?

A head start on everyone else when it comes to identifying the three clips?

what's the record on number of hints given for any one MMJ? We're going to need a few here i am sure.

Wow, this one is a peach.

I've trailed a few theories down the rabbit hole, and each has failed.

That third clip kills it. Nothing lines up from that era.

I'm not licked yet...

wow the first jam is siiiiiickkkkkkkkkkk

That's all I got

I keep getting lost on like 3 different tracks of thought thinking I'm making progress but having no luck. That being said, scrolling through songs on phishtracks on my phone is hard and phish.in doesnt have sound for some reason. I hope someone hits it, this is a good one.

My brain is fried for today.

On to the Wednesday hint!

Prince = Mpls.
Lidocaine? = Golgi Apparatus? Squirming Coil? Bathtub Gin?

On to the next hint...

I can't tell if you guys are joking or not, but there is no next hint. Tomorrow before 10 AM PT I provide the answer, the blog wins, and we play for two codes next week... unless someone figures it out in the next 11 hours...

I wanted to bring that up haha, thats ok though, potentially 2 codes to win next week

@Svenzhenz said:

Prince = Mpls.
Lidocaine? = Golgi Apparatus? Squirming Coil? Bathtub Gin?

On to the next hint...

Desperate attempt to prevent blog win: Lidocaine is used as numbing agent in pregnancy. So, Prince's birthday? 6/7? Only I couldn't identify any jams from the many 6/7 shows (90, 95, 09, 11, 12).

Prince's birthplace? Minneapolis? I got nothing.

That first jam is sick.

Maybe I'm wrong about the pregnancy thing. Dental work? NO2? Again, I got nothing.

Okay, hail mary with my ramblings thus far...

Lidocaine = Sample in a Jar
Mr Rogers = Cavern (ie take care of your shoes)
Nelson Muntz = Ha Ha Ha

some date crosschecking, all 3 of those songs were only played once, 6/22/95. And I can't map anything with those songs preceding, or following, anything of note.

And then the trail goes cold. And put my head back in the vice clamp.

Having said all that, my gut says they all sound like the beginning of the outro to The Coil.

@andrewrose said:

@Svenzhenz said:

Prince = Mpls.
Lidocaine? = Golgi Apparatus? Squirming Coil? Bathtub Gin?

On to the next hint...

Desperate attempt to prevent blog win: Lidocaine is used as numbing agent in pregnancy. So, Prince's birthday? 6/7? Only I couldn't identify any jams from the many 6/7 shows (90, 95, 09, 11, 12).

Prince's birthplace? Minneapolis? I got nothing.

That first jam is sick.

I'm wondering how you are getting Prince out of any of the clues?

PRINCE ROGERS NELSON

derp. Prince fits for the third clip for sure. I cant find the other two

Ok. I got no clue but something has to to throw out some picks. Here's what I got

12/3/99 Limb by Limb
6/16/95 Runaway Jim
7/3/95 Bowie (even though at the tail end of the jam i'm hearing Reba)

no clue what the hint is other than I was thinking it had to do with It's Ice but still no idea. I also was sort of convinced all the jams came from Summer 95.

Can't wait to see what the jams end up being.

Nice win @ucpete

racing the clock now, but found the second 2 - first one is tough

@garcia17 said:

racing the clock now, but found the second 2 - first one is tough

I'm going to post the answer when my wife gets home and I head to work, which is sometime around 9 AM PT... good luck!

My guess:

I was (am?) almost positive the commonality was shows containing Purple Rain. The second two jams both fit the bill. I've searched high and low for the first clip but can't seem to find it. I even checked 12-31-98, which has 1999. It sounds to me like it is from 98-00 era, but Deer Creek 99 is the only show during that time period with Purple Rain, and I'm almost positive the clip is not from that show.

I'm starting to think I'm missing something with the commonality. Can't figure out how the Lidocaine ties in.

I think the Lidocaine is a reference to the Princess Bride. Hence the clue, Prince Rogers Nelson.

My final guess:

1) BOAF 7-25-99
2) Tweezer 12-30-94
3) Stash 8-28-93

@garcia17 said:

My final guess:

1) BOAF 7-25-99
2) Tweezer 12-30-94
3) Stash 8-28-93

Oh man, I'm sorry... you came ridiculously close. And you even checked 12/31/98! Did you not check Antelope or did you just miss it?

@uctweezer said:

@garcia17 said:

My final guess:

1) BOAF 7-25-99
2) Tweezer 12-30-94
3) Stash 8-28-93

Oh man, I'm sorry... you came ridiculously close. And you even checked 12/31/98! Did you not check Antelope or did you just miss it?

Crunched for time so I only checked a few of the songs, unfortunately not Antelope. Nice picks on this one.

@garcia17 said:

@uctweezer said:

@garcia17 said:

My final guess:

1) BOAF 7-25-99
2) Tweezer 12-30-94
3) Stash 8-28-93

Oh man, I'm sorry... you came ridiculously close. And you even checked 12/31/98! Did you not check Antelope or did you just miss it?

Crunched for time so I only checked a few of the songs, unfortunately not Antelope. Nice picks on this one.

Thanks. Yep, not bad at all for only finding out what the hint meant this morning! I thought I was being sneaky by having two NYE run MSG shows in there, and thought that folks would get tripped up even further on that, but I don't think anyone got the first jam... I guess the third jam does scream 8/93 though!

Wow, oddly enough shows containing Purple Rain was one of my first hunches, and the first jam sounded like 99 to me. But after listening to the BOAF and not being able to pinpoint it, I gave up. I checked 12/31/98 too. On Monday. Everything but the Antelope. D'oh!

these hints are not good hints.

Excellent MJM! And I thought the hints were fine. Although they led me to search shows containing Purple Rain + simpsons signals. Was also looking for N02 because of the lidocaine. Also looked for Minneapolis shows. Oh well!

@JMart said:

these hints are not good hints.

I thought this hint was one of the best ones MJM hints I've seen. Got me going in the right direction looking at shows w/ prince covers while not even coming close to giving it away and I still wasn't able to find the jams.

If you didn't at least get the Rodgers and Nelson pics being a reference to Prince then this hint just wasn't for you.

I wasn't even in the ballpark, but I tip my hat to this one. Well done. You left just enough bread crumbs to follow a path. See you next week.

@obliviousfool17 said:

@JMart said:

these hints are not good hints.

I thought this hint was one of the best ones MJM hints I've seen. Got me going in the right direction looking at shows w/ prince covers while not even coming close to giving it away and I still wasn't able to find the jams.

If you didn't at least get the Rodgers and Nelson pics being a reference to Prince then this hint just wasn't for you.

Thanks for that. I could have made the hint more obvious, but the point isn't to give away the answer, it's to point people in the right direction -- and in the wake of Prince's death, I didn't think it was too crazy to leave a somewhat cryptic hint. Then again, Mr. Rogers Nelson isn't exactly NSA level shit. Considering numerous folks figured out the Prince connection, and one guesser got two of three, I'm going to assume that @JMart meant that the hints weren't good, they were great. See you next week!