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6/18: Phish in Hartford 6/25: Phish in Camden 7/2-7/4: Nateva 7/17: God Street Wine at Irving Plaza 7/23-7/25: String Cheese at Red Rocks!! 8/17-8/18: Phish at Jones Beach 9/3: Rush at PNC
This Bonnaroo lineup is in dire need of some Rush.
I've really been getting into Phish over the past month. I am so psyched for their shows. Quick quesiton, what albums to they draw most heavily from live? Or is it a pretty all over the place?
All over the place. With two shows at Roo you can bet you'll be getting a heavy dose of Farmhouse, Story of the Ghost, Billy Breathes, A Picture of Nectar, Lawn Boy, Rift, and everything else. Just less Round Room and Undermind please. Def some new songs will be played too.
All over the place. With two shows at Roo you can bet you'll be getting a heavy dose of Farmhouse, Story of the Ghost, Billy Breathes, A Picture of Nectar, Lawn Boy, Rift, and everything else. Just less Round Room and Undermind please. Def some new songs will be played too.
All over the place. With two shows at Roo you can bet you'll be getting a heavy dose of Farmhouse, Story of the Ghost, Billy Breathes, A Picture of Nectar, Lawn Boy, Rift, and everything else. Just less Round Room and Undermind please. Def some new songs will be played too.
You'd be surprised... one of the things I tell people about how cool Hampton was is that they played Heavy Things (one of my least favorites) and it freaking rocked. Same with Undermind... I didn't realize how much I liked that song. Phish have the ability to make their mediocre songs rock hard, though they failed at that for a while toward the end of that last era. I'm sure you'll see what I mean.
I don't care about Gamehenge (I'll freaking take it!), but PLEASE give me a Forbin > Mockingbird.
I heard rumors that Phish sent people into the audience to see what they wanted to hear. At a Greenville show in 98, a guy came up to me in the smoking area during the set break and asked me what my number 1 song I wanted to hear was. I said Lizards, no question. They played it early in the next set... I've always wondered if I was tapped for that one.
Post by candyflippedaround on May 23, 2009 0:07:51 GMT -5
god damn i am so puzzled by the people who will skip this late night, my close personal friends included. i just dont get it. if i was to skip either set it would be the sunday show for sure. all the people who are like, oh dont worry ill see phish sunday ... i just dont get it. ;D
god damn i am so puzzled by the people who will skip this late night, my close personal friends included. i just dont get it. if i was to skip either set it would be the sunday show for sure. all the people who are like, oh dont worry ill see phish sunday ... i just dont get it. ;D
There are a lot of people who "don't like" Phish for a lot of reasons. I was once one of them. I remember making fun of my high school peers who were excited about seeing Phish at the Omni on Halloween 1994 (Talking Heads: Remain in the Light). What I would give now to have been at that show! The bottom line is that people are different. As much as we want to force them to love our heroes as we do, we can't. We can only beg them to see a couple of songs and hope they are grabbed.
Knowing what they are up against, I would STRONGLY suggest that even the staunchest hater attend the 1st couple of songs in Phish's set Friday night. I like to think you will be so blown away, you won't be able to pull yourself away. I know that won't happen for all of you, but I do hope that at least one person will give it a shot.
I actually think that everyone who doesn't care about Phish will be surrounded by 4 groups of campers who do. I hope some of them will show the new guys what we all felt at Lemonwheel and Big Cypress (my only two Phish fests) and they will become infected with our enthusiasm. I know I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into fandom.
Post by strumntheguitar on May 23, 2009 2:03:55 GMT -5
I can only hope that people who don't love or obsess over Phish can let those to do bask in their glory over seeing anywhere from 6 to 9 hours of their favorite band over a weekend without giving them grief about it. For those of us that will be there every second of both Phish performances, we will be having the times of our lives and that's all that really matters. Everyone who is elsewhere will probably also be having the times of their lives, so it's a win-win situation... what's the big deal? ???
*crossing my fingers til bonnaroo that my volunteer schedule doesnt get in the way of friday night phish* god, i can't stand not knowing. it's driving me crazy.
Post by strumntheguitar on May 23, 2009 2:12:46 GMT -5
^^That would drive me insane too... It's like going to a lot in hopes of scoring a ticket and not knowing what will happen, except instead of going to a lot you could very well end up going to work instead!
^haha exactly! luckily ill be at jones beach a few days before so it won't be the end of the world... and hopefully i wont be scheduled during both phish slots at roo, (im not even going to think about that possibility)... but id much rather miss sundays show than friday nights.
My favorite Phish "musical costume" didn't come on Halloween at all, but rather a few days after Halloween in the year of 98
What a thrill it must've been to be in the crowd for THAT show!
that's probably my least favorite actually. While it would've been fun to be there, of the 5 "costumes" they played, Dark Side of the Moon is probably the worst played performance, simply b/c they learned it prior to the show, and during setbreak that day. It definitely comes through on the tapes, the level of sloppiness. Juxtapose that with any of the other 4, which were practiced to weeks on end prior to those shows. 11/2/98 Costume suffers from how rushed it was. Which is unfortunate, b/c given practice time it could've been the best. But that was fall 98 when "practicing regularly" really began to start trailing off for the Phish.... Notice they never did another one again.
Knowing what they are up against, I would STRONGLY suggest that even the staunchest hater attend the 1st couple of songs in Phish's set Friday night. I like to think you will be so blown away, you won't be able to pull yourself away. I know that won't happen for all of you, but I do hope that at least one person will give it a shot.
I actually think that everyone who doesn't care about Phish will be surrounded by 4 groups of campers who do. I hope some of them will show the new guys what we all felt at Lemonwheel and Big Cypress (my only two Phish fests) and they will become infected with our enthusiasm. I know I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into fandom.
My favorite Phish "musical costume" didn't come on Halloween at all, but rather a few days after Halloween in the year of 98
What a thrill it must've been to be in the crowd for THAT show!
that's probably my least favorite actually. While it would've been fun to be there, of the 5 "costumes" they played, Dark Side of the Moon is probably the worst played performance, simply b/c they learned it prior to the show, and during setbreak that day. It definitely comes through on the tapes, the level of sloppiness. Juxtapose that with any of the other 4, which were practiced to weeks on end prior to those shows. 11/2/98 Costume suffers from how rushed it was. Which is unfortunate, b/c given practice time it could've been the best. But that was fall 98 when "practicing regularly" really began to start trailing off for the Phish.... Notice they never did another one again.
I can agree it is the sloppiest and least perfect of them all, but I think the spontaneity is what gets me the most. Everyone in attendance of the halloween shows knew a covered album was on the way. They may not have known which band it would be or which album would be targeted (or maybe they did? Was there an InfoPhish around to leak the info? ) But I can only sit there in awe trying to put myself in that venue as you're standing there awaiting a Harpua narration and all of a sudden you start to hear the beginning riffs of Speak to Me... I would've absolutely lost it! ;D
Speaking of that show... does anybody know who did the vocals for Great Gig in the Sky that night? I suppose it could be seen as sloppy, and my roommates always thought it sounded like crap when I'd blast it and they'd wonder why I'm digging something that resembles a "strangled chicken" But I dig it
That was the only song on the album played prior to that night (debuted in 93), and that night was the last time it was played. Fishman always sang it in every version they played.
god damn i am so puzzled by the people who will skip this late night, my close personal friends included. i just dont get it. if i was to skip either set it would be the sunday show for sure. all the people who are like, oh dont worry ill see phish sunday ... i just dont get it. ;D
It was played 12 times, 11 times between 93-94, and the 12th and final time at west valley E center in Utah
The version from 8/11/93 is available as a filler to live phish 7 (8/14/93), and can be purchased for 99 cents here: www.livephish.com/live-music/0,485/Phish-mp3-flac-download-8-14-1993-World-Music-Theatre-Tinley-Park-IL.html