The Pitch

The Mockingbird Foundation is soliciting show reviews on an ongoing basis. We will accept and review submissions from any era of performance, but in particular we'd like more reviews from any of the Europe tours, and '98-'99. The overall theme, though, is "the more the better". There are some quality shows in popular eras (like '95 and '97) which do not yet have a review.

Submission Process

Feel free to use up to the equivalent of two type-written pages, and more if needed. Send to cottonmather@gmail.com. At the top of the review, please type the following sentence: "I hereby submit this piece to be used at the discretion of the Mockingbird Foundation. I will receive no financial renumeration for its use. I understand that this piece may be edited for space, content, style, and/or grammar."

On Content

Feel free to write about your personal experience of the show. We try to avoid the masturbatory "and then I got a hotdog..." style reviews, but remember that there's plenty of leeway on that front. We are harvesting an engaging, surprising and insightful storehouse of stories stemming from the world of Attending Phish Shows in the Late Twentieth Century.

Here are some recomendations for coming up with the kinds of quality reviews we'd like to see. First, think of the shows you've attended in your career. When did you have interesting or funny anecdote-style experiences? Any mid-jam epiphanies...or marriage proposals? What shows were standouts musically? "Important" in the history of Phish? Which were particularly unsatisfying or anti-climactic? Which do you feel you could evoke as a living event, possibly utilizing interesting notes about the venue, on-stage guests, unusual decorations, antics, lights, etc? Did you see a run of shows which had a special cohesive feeling, that you remember and may be able to describe now?

Please comb the mental archives of your show-going carreer, and come share some stories around the fire about the Primary Aspect of the Phish experience...going to shows.

Thanks in advance,

               Jeremy D. Goodwin
               cottonmather@gmail.com