2013 Year-End Awards
12.28.13 (Jake Silco)
1st Team Type II Jam Vehicles of the Year: “Carini,” “Tweezer,” “Light,” “Down With Disease,” “Chalk Dust Torture,” “Golden Age”
2nd Team: “Ghost,” “Rock and Roll,” “Twist,” “Crosseyed and Painless,” “Piper”
1st Team Type I Jam Vehicles of the Year: “David Bowie,” “Bathtub Gin,” “Stash,” “Harry Hood,” “Wolfman’s Brother”
Jam Vehicle of Year: “Carini”
MVP: Jon Fishman
Best Music of the Year: “Down with Disease > Carini,” 12/29 MSG
Most Succesful Jam of the Year: “Down With Disease” 12/29, MSG
Most Sureal Jam of the Year: “Tweezer” 7/31, Stateline, NV
First Set Jam of Year: “Split Open and Melt” 7/6, SPAC
Most Sinister Jam of the Year: “Carini” 12/29, MSG
Grooviest Jam of the Year: “Carini” 12/29, MSG
Most Unique Jam of the Year: “Tweezer” 11/2, Atlantic City
Unexpected Jam of the Year: “Twenty Years Later” 10/29, Reading
Underrated Jam of the Year: “Carini” 7/5, SPAC
Best Under 10-Minute Jam of the Year: “Chalk Dust Torture” 7/16, Alpharetta
Comeback Jam of the Year:“Twist”
Best New Jam: “Energy”
Best New Original: “Fuego”
Deepest Pocket of the Year: “Carini” 12/29, MSG
Filthiest Funk of the Year: “Twenty Years Later” 10/29, Reading, PA
Most Adrenalized Moment of the Year: “Piper -> Taking Care of Business” 10/20, Hampton, VA
“Holy Shit!” Moment of the Year: “Woos!” in Tahoe Tweezer—like it or not
Phishiest Moment of the Year: “Bush” funk jam in AC “Theme”
Best Guitar Solo: End of “Down With Disease” 10/29, Reading, PA
Most Fluid and Cohesive Second Set: 7/12 Jones Beach
Most Explosive Second Set: 10/20 Hampton Coliseum
Smoothest Segue: 7/6 “Carini -> Architect” SPAC
Worst Attempt at a Segue: “Sand > Light,” 7/10 PNC
Shreddiest Peak: “Ghost” 10/19, Hampton, VA
Blissiest Peak: “Down with Disease” 7/22, Toronto, ON
Best Song in Non-Traditional Spot: “Sneakin’ Sally” E, 11/1 AC
Best 3-Night Stand: 10/31-11/2 Atlantic City
Best 2-Night Stand: 7/26-27 The Gorge
Best 2-Set Show: 12/29, MSG, NY
Best 3-Set Show: 10/31, Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City
Sleeper Show of the Year: 7/16 Alpharetta, GA
Outdoor Venue of the Year (Gorge not included): Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Alpharetta
Indoor Venue of the Year: Glens Falls Civic Center, Glens Falls, NY
Best / Most wide open GA Floor: Civic Center, Hartford, CT
Venue With Chillest Employees: Hampton Coliseum
Top “What Song Are They Playing” Moment: “Chalk Dust Torture,” 7/16 Alpharetta, GA
Most Underachieving Jam: “Backwards Down the Number Line”
Best Individual Performance at a Concert: Jon Fishman 8/31, Dick’s, Commerce City, CO
Best CK5 Moment: the “rain” effect at the drop of the Hartford “Tweezer” jam
Worst Show of the Year: 10/22 Rochester, NY
Most Absurd Moment of the Year: 7/19, Chicago—Canceled show mid “Caspian” with no rain
Hardest Rainstorm of the Year: 7/12 Jones Beach
Tags: 2013, Miner's Picks
Mansfield opener sounds great. That venue needs a scorcher in a bad way. Do we get the Worcester ’12 throwdown or the Bangor warmup?
This much is true, soundcheck for the opener will be the most creative music of leg 1.
We need DATES!!! What’s the link they post them to typically? Like the music today website or whatever
Also, if we only get 3 and 4 at SPAC, where does that leave us for 4 and 5? If those fucks pull a “end the weekend at Darien before the Tuesday Canada date” and send me driving from Buffalo to Boston on the tail end of the biggest holiday weekend of te year, I’m quitting Phish.
Sorry to be that guy, but the “Underrated Jam of the Year: “Carini” 7/5, SPAC” was actually on the sixth. only reason i recognized was because i was absolutely floored by the boys while it unraveled.