Inspired by the Pre-show PA music thread, I decided to spin up this: Phish Walk-In & Setbreak Music.2009-2017, a playlist by Julia Mordaunt on Spotify Anyone else catching the free Dayton 'cast tonight?
Loving the show so far! Real nice quality on the webcast too - Looks and sounds great coming through the Apple TV on my main system
Cool, thanks! I walked in when they were doing that "bouncing around the room" verse in Free and got confused... thought it was some kind of ">" medley or something.
Great second set tonight. They've really been on fire in those 3rd quarter jams the last few nights. I'm really excited for Baker's Dozen!
Well, I finally had chance to get my Live Phish CDs out of storage to see how bad the damage was from the weird plastic melting/decomposition issue. For now I just got them out of the sleeves and have them laid out on some towels to "air out" (for whatever that is worth) until I can try and clean them and get some new jewel cases. But I can tell already that I've definitely lost 20-30% of my discs. I'm very, very unhappy tonight and considering giving up collecting for good. I had 10 of the first 12 volumes, I can tell without any cleaning that Volumes 1, 10 and 12 are never going to work again. The goo ate clear through the CDs, so you can see globs of almost completely transparent sections straight through the disc. The other discs all look good enough on the playing side, but who knows. I'm going to bed tonight a very, very unhappy person.
Such a bummer, but we've known about this issue for years--what took you so long? I only bought about three or four of the volumes when they came out, including a couple of the Halloween shows, and I gave up on trying to de-goo them. They're toast. It's a bummer, they weren't cheap.
I only learned about it through these very forums, a year or so ago when I first joined. Now that I've googled it for an hour, I'm shocked myself at how I could have possible missed it. But I did. I dunno, I never really hang around at the phish.net forums or other Phish forums, but I'm surprised I didn't hear about the issue sooner. I know its my own fault for not getting them out sooner, which makes me more furious with myself and ready to throw in the towel.
You have my complete sympathy, I have a lot of LivePhish volumes and didn't even know about the melt issue until I read it here maybe 2 years ago. They were in storage for many years, but I'd flip through them once in a while and every time after I received an order from Dry Goods, because I was keeping all the complimentary logo and other stickers (which I still have of course) in the "Showcase." Anyway, after reading about it here, I checked my discs for melt and it had happened, but only in a minor way such that none of the discs were ruined. I kind of think of the Showcase and Coventry in the same way--the dark, bummer side of the Phish experience. Anyway, you're entitled to your grieving process, but you won't stop collecting.
Thanks, I know I'm far from the only one to deal with this issue. It just sucks, particularly because I've always been very diligent about taking great care of my collection.
I ignored those discs for years thinking someday I needed to clean them. Didn't realize how bad it would be. They were all ruined. I threw out all of them a couple of weeks ago. I had all the volumes.
Man, I'm sorry to hear that. Such a bummer that a lazy (cheap?) packaging decision could render so much music worthless for so many.
I lived in a rented house for a year. I had all my discs in the basement because I've ripped everything to lossless. Anyway, I keep them real nice in special plastic CD storage trays. One day I moved one of the storage trays to the center of this basement room to look for something. When I was done, I left the tray on the floor under a water pipe. I noted it was under a water pipe and I should move it back, but I was lazy. And what's the chance the pipe would ever leak anyway? I had no reason to think that would ever happen. Months later, the pipe leaked, and the water totally ruined the booklets and inserts for about 20 CDs, including Pete Townshend's White City which I bought in London in the 80s when it came out. These things happen. You can't take them with you, anyway.
