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Videos on instagram from last night are out of this world. Fomo hitting like Mike Tyson this morning. Under water show…just wow. Also the dog licking the sphere during YEM vocal jam incredibly funny
Videos on instagram from last night are out of this world. Fomo hitting like Mike Tyson this morning. Under water show…just wow. Also the dog licking the sphere during YEM vocal jam incredibly funny
The biggest fomo. Also listening back to last night, at the top of their game musically. Last night seems like they were firing on all cylinders. Seems worth the crazy price of admission.
Videos on instagram from last night are out of this world. Fomo hitting like Mike Tyson this morning. Under water show…just wow. Also the dog licking the sphere during YEM vocal jam incredibly funny
The biggest fomo. Also listening back to last night, at the top of their game musically. Last night seems like they were firing on all cylinders. Seems worth the crazy price of admission.
Oh I know, really hoping they make this an annual tradition.
Post by death crab on Apr 22, 2024 23:06:05 GMT -5
sphere n1 recap (only show i went to of the run)
short phish at sphere review: best show i've ever seen! phish is playing very good and the entire thing was overwhelming on the senses pretty much the entire time. the visuals feel so larger than life and when you closed your eyes the sound was so good that it sounded like you were listening to a cd. you could feel mike's basslines with the haptic vibrations in the seats. i also think the phish shows were better than the u2 shows and i'm curious if other acts are going to utilize the sphere effects as well as phish did. this was also basically my first phish show and i got some pretty sweet songs so i'm really happy about that. rip harris wittels.
i'll start my recap off by saying this was my first phish show so i feel like i might be overselling the show but damn the whole thing was so cool. i saw them a little bit on sunday night at bonnaroo in 2019 but i honestly wasn't paying attention and didn't dislike them but didn't follow them that hard at the time. another important point to make is that it's really difficult to describe the phish at sphere experience and why it was so cool. i took some photos and videos on my phone just as keepsakes but looking up professional photos online is more effective at conveying what it's like to be at sphere. you simply had to be there to take in the fusion of musical and technological greatness. from what i've seen of the webcasts i think they got some good camera angles to show everything off. and i listened to some of n2 and n3 on the plane on livephish the sets were amazing but the combo of seeing a visual on each song (some, if not all, were improvisational) and hearing the band with basically a soundboard directly to your ears was surreal. i really did have goosebumps and my mouth agape most of the time. it's hard to describe the experience but let's dig in!
i went with my dad and two of my friends. my dad was very excited for the show and i'm proud to report that i think he's turning in a head after going lol. he's never liked jam bands and walked out of a grateful dead show in 1979 because it wasn't his thing. he flew home earlier than i did but the next time i talked to him he was asking about when they play deer creek <3. my other friends thought the sphere was cool but clearly didn't like phish. so it goes.
ticket showtime was 730 but i think everyone knew the show wouldn't start until around 8 and they started a little past that. we'd driven around the area of the sphere around 4 and there was already traffic so that got me worried about going to there. luckily there was someone in our group that wasn't going to the show so he drove us as close to the sphere as possible then we walked over. i talked to an uber driver about the sphere a couple of days later and he said getting to the sphere is the biggest pain in the ass and he either doesn't pick people up from there or makes people walk to the wynn for pickup. we'd gotten there around 630 and there were a lot of people and HUNDREDS of people looking for a miracle. i didn't see a single person inquire with a ticket. there were a couple of entrances to get in and lines were understandably long but they honestly moved along quick and getting through security was fine. people were in good spirits about getting in too.
man the sphere is so fucking big. i was stunned watching dune part 2 and oppenheimer in 70mm imax and that screen size was a mere fraction compared to this thing. i got some photos from outside of the sphere but you'd have to walk a block or two away to get a photo with the entire thing in background.
now getting in and getting to your seat was also a crazy experience in itself. if you can find some atrium photos they had some really neat art installations up and everything looked futuristic in a cool way. i'd bought some merch when i'd got in and they had early merch set up every day and they put sphere merch up on their webstore so good on the band for having open opportunities for souvenirs. i would've loved to have gotten a poster but vegas is a very fun city and i didn't want to spend hours waiting in line compared to doing just about anything else in the city.
when i bought my seats i knew they were obstructed view. i was on the last row in sec 208 and we did have some speakers and lights hanging in front of us. i went ahead and bought them when i got them in my cart because in my research the only obstructed views i knew about were the back half of the 100s. i'm honestly glad i did because everything was so neat the obstructed view didn't matter. if i sat down i could crane my neck around to see the top and there were some seats open in the row in front of us if we wanted to step down to see the full scale show. if i sat down and looked straight at the stage i had a full view of the screen and could pretend there wasn't overhang around me. trey kept saying in the press that the band checked out all of the worst seats and tried building their show so every had a good view and i believe they achieved this. it seemed like the higher up you were the more screen you saw. not every song had visuals that encompassed every pixel on the screen and in many cases the visuals didn't extend farther than the view we had. if i was able to go to another night with an obstructed view ticket with an affordable price i would've. the lowest i saw for n2 or n3 was $1,000 but sunday had some obstructed tickets for $600 an hour before the show and i would've paid that price if i was still in town.
before the show the entire screen was an entire color and transitioned in and out of different ones. i only really remember green and red being used. the band's stage was positioned as far down and back as they possibly could be and they were able to get a lighting rig on the stage. ck5 had 6 massive light towers and some backlighting for the band. there weren't any amps on stage and barely any cables. there was a small door that kept opening and closing behind fish's drums so everyone was waiting for the band to come out of the truman show-esque door. the band had some preshow music play that blended with their opening jam then they went into everything's right.
seeing the sphere visuals being debuted was jaw dropping and being able to step in a seat ahead of us to experience the full-scale screen will be something i never forget. my mouth was open the whole time and i just kept looking over at my dad to make sure that we were on the same page that we were experiencing something astounding. in u talking u2 2 me's review of the u2 sphere show, scott aukerman said that he felt like the band was 25% of the experience and i agree with that. when the visuals filled the entire screen it was hard to look away and i wasn't looking at the band. i noticed on the webcast there were many shots were it was just the screen and no band and i'm glad they had shots like that because that's what it was like watching this show. there were some visuals that would be just behind the band and only reached vertically to the ceiling and in those moment i paid attention to the band more. it's also notable that there was a visual for every song. for u2's show only some of the song had sphere visuals then most of the show was massive shots of the band. getting wolfman's brother, maze, leaves, and carini in my first phish set made me a very happy phan.
at set break the entire screen was in all green with various animations to advertise mondegreen then they launched into sand to start set 2. they have a video up on their youtube of this performance to check out the visuals yourself. sand went into tweezer which was the jam of the night and my favorite visual. for tweezer there were psychedelic looking animated cars that kept appearing and disappearing and reappearing based on the tension and release of the band's music. by this point it was obvious that the visuals were somewhat improvised because the amount of cars would grow across the screen as the jam would build tension and peak out. fucking dope. the visuals for mike's song -> lifeboy showed a futuristic silver tree that kept growing and evolving as the background changed through day and night and through the seasons. this was the most detailed visual so i recommend finding a video to check it out.
they did weekapaug groove then went into blaze on. i loved that they did blaze on n1 because there were a lot of conversations of "can we smoke weed in the sphere" online leading up to the show and from what i saw nobody got bounced out of the venue but there was security staff getting onto people that were being obvious. security was polite about this based off my observations. blaze on was the weed stress test for the sphere and the building was certainly in distress.
set 2 closer was fluffhead and this was my highlight of the night for a personal reason. i rarely get moved to tears at shows but i was almost sobbing during fluffhead. i listened to analyze phish when it was around when i wasn't even into the band and loved harris wittels and thought it was so funny. the episodes where scott and harris go to msg and the hollywood bowl are the funniest podcast episodes i've listened to. i'll listen to the show with my wife and play audio clips and she even thinks it's funny. we watch the episode of parks and rec where he works in animal control for pawnee more fairly often. i'd gotten into the show before harris died and was heartbroken when it happened. at the end of the first episode of analyze phish, harris says that fluffhead is one of his favorite phish songs then scott belly laughs at him while he's playing it because he thinks it's so dumb. my eyes welled up when they started playing fluffhead because i've seen enough jam to know that they aren't going to bust out your favorite songs every show but to get a song as somewhat rare and personal as fluffhead was such a special cosmic present. it really was a moment that moved me so hard and reminded me why i think about and love music so much and how glad i am to share that love with other people.
for the encore a massive farmhouse was on the screen with a beautiful night sky behind it as if the entire audience was standing in a vermont field in front of the. another beautiful song to start to close out the night then the night concluded with run like an antelope with the last note played at 12:17am. it seemed like the band could play longer not only because they were in vegas, but because the soundproofing was so good at the sphere. if you walked out of your section you couldn't hear any music through the walls.
when it comes to breaking down this show, i feel like the technical aspects make this the best show i've ever seen (overtaking the long held spot by paul mccartney at bonnaroo 2013). i'd spoken to several phish fans across vegas and they seemed a lot more into the band and had specific criticisms while still really liking the shows. musically it might not have been like the best phish show ever and there are better breakdowns of the music on the phish.net recaps, but for me it was about the vibes and simultaneously taking in phish and the sphere for the first time and i don't think i could've had a better experience.
i really fucking wish you could've made it to the sphere harris. rip.
and this has been the best writeup i've seen about the sphere shows. it was written by rob mitchum. he's written for pitchfork and other music journo outlets and has a substack where he's trying to write an essay about every phish show from 1994 on.
Yeah that's cool and all but how was the TNA show?
HAHAHAHAHAHA. i brought my sign asking for a phish miracle but i only held it up a few times because i knew people wouldn’t get it. going to tna was a lot of fun but i can’t say i would’ve bought the ppv or would’ve flown to vegas for it 🤷♂️ i watched broken matt hardy debut again for what felt like the 70,000th time and watched sami callihan debut for the ending of an anticipated women’s match. show was alright but watching wrestling is always fun. best matches were alexander v hammerstone and mustafa ali v jake something.
and for context for everyone else i went to a pro wrestling ppv and had a sign that said “NEED MIRACLE 4 PHISH”
short phish at sphere review: best show i've ever seen! phish is playing very good and the entire thing was overwhelming on the senses pretty much the entire time. the visuals feel so larger than life and when you closed your eyes the sound was so good that it sounded like you were listening to a cd. you could feel mike's basslines with the haptic vibrations in the seats. i also think the phish shows were better than the u2 shows and i'm curious if other acts are going to utilize the sphere effects as well as phish did. this was also basically my first phish show and i got some pretty sweet songs so i'm really happy about that. rip harris wittels.
i'll start my recap off by saying this was my first phish show so i feel like i might be overselling the show but damn the whole thing was so cool. i saw them a little bit on sunday night at bonnaroo in 2019 but i honestly wasn't paying attention and didn't dislike them but didn't follow them that hard at the time. another important point to make is that it's really difficult to describe the phish at sphere experience and why it was so cool. i took some photos and videos on my phone just as keepsakes but looking up professional photos online is more effective at conveying what it's like to be at sphere. you simply had to be there to take in the fusion of musical and technological greatness. from what i've seen of the webcasts i think they got some good camera angles to show everything off. and i listened to some of n2 and n3 on the plane on livephish the sets were amazing but the combo of seeing a visual on each song (some, if not all, were improvisational) and hearing the band with basically a soundboard directly to your ears was surreal. i really did have goosebumps and my mouth agape most of the time. it's hard to describe the experience but let's dig in!
i went with my dad and two of my friends. my dad was very excited for the show and i'm proud to report that i think he's turning in a head after going lol. he's never liked jam bands and walked out of a grateful dead show in 1979 because it wasn't his thing. he flew home earlier than i did but the next time i talked to him he was asking about when they play deer creek <3. my other friends thought the sphere was cool but clearly didn't like phish. so it goes.
ticket showtime was 730 but i think everyone knew the show wouldn't start until around 8 and they started a little past that. we'd driven around the area of the sphere around 4 and there was already traffic so that got me worried about going to there. luckily there was someone in our group that wasn't going to the show so he drove us as close to the sphere as possible then we walked over. i talked to an uber driver about the sphere a couple of days later and he said getting to the sphere is the biggest pain in the ass and he either doesn't pick people up from there or makes people walk to the wynn for pickup. we'd gotten there around 630 and there were a lot of people and HUNDREDS of people looking for a miracle. i didn't see a single person inquire with a ticket. there were a couple of entrances to get in and lines were understandably long but they honestly moved along quick and getting through security was fine. people were in good spirits about getting in too.
man the sphere is so fucking big. i was stunned watching dune part 2 and oppenheimer in 70mm imax and that screen size was a mere fraction compared to this thing. i got some photos from outside of the sphere but you'd have to walk a block or two away to get a photo with the entire thing in background.
now getting in and getting to your seat was also a crazy experience in itself. if you can find some atrium photos they had some really neat art installations up and everything looked futuristic in a cool way. i'd bought some merch when i'd got in and they had early merch set up every day and they put sphere merch up on their webstore so good on the band for having open opportunities for souvenirs. i would've loved to have gotten a poster but vegas is a very fun city and i didn't want to spend hours waiting in line compared to doing just about anything else in the city.
when i bought my seats i knew they were obstructed view. i was on the last row in sec 208 and we did have some speakers and lights hanging in front of us. i went ahead and bought them when i got them in my cart because in my research the only obstructed views i knew about were the back half of the 100s. i'm honestly glad i did because everything was so neat the obstructed view didn't matter. if i sat down i could crane my neck around to see the top and there were some seats open in the row in front of us if we wanted to step down to see the full scale show. if i sat down and looked straight at the stage i had a full view of the screen and could pretend there wasn't overhang around me. trey kept saying in the press that the band checked out all of the worst seats and tried building their show so every had a good view and i believe they achieved this. it seemed like the higher up you were the more screen you saw. not every song had visuals that encompassed every pixel on the screen and in many cases the visuals didn't extend farther than the view we had. if i was able to go to another night with an obstructed view ticket with an affordable price i would've. the lowest i saw for n2 or n3 was $1,000 but sunday had some obstructed tickets for $600 an hour before the show and i would've paid that price if i was still in town.
before the show the entire screen was an entire color and transitioned in and out of different ones. i only really remember green and red being used. the band's stage was positioned as far down and back as they possibly could be and they were able to get a lighting rig on the stage. ck5 had 6 massive light towers and some backlighting for the band. there weren't any amps on stage and barely any cables. there was a small door that kept opening and closing behind fish's drums so everyone was waiting for the band to come out of the truman show-esque door. the band had some preshow music play that blended with their opening jam then they went into everything's right.
seeing the sphere visuals being debuted was jaw dropping and being able to step in a seat ahead of us to experience the full-scale screen will be something i never forget. my mouth was open the whole time and i just kept looking over at my dad to make sure that we were on the same page that we were experiencing something astounding. in u talking u2 2 me's review of the u2 sphere show, scott aukerman said that he felt like the band was 25% of the experience and i agree with that. when the visuals filled the entire screen it was hard to look away and i wasn't looking at the band. i noticed on the webcast there were many shots were it was just the screen and no band and i'm glad they had shots like that because that's what it was like watching this show. there were some visuals that would be just behind the band and only reached vertically to the ceiling and in those moment i paid attention to the band more. it's also notable that there was a visual for every song. for u2's show only some of the song had sphere visuals then most of the show was massive shots of the band. getting wolfman's brother, maze, leaves, and carini in my first phish set made me a very happy phan.
at set break the entire screen was in all green with various animations to advertise mondegreen then they launched into sand to start set 2. they have a video up on their youtube of this performance to check out the visuals yourself. sand went into tweezer which was the jam of the night and my favorite visual. for tweezer there were psychedelic looking animated cars that kept appearing and disappearing and reappearing based on the tension and release of the band's music. by this point it was obvious that the visuals were somewhat improvised because the amount of cars would grow across the screen as the jam would build tension and peak out. fucking dope. the visuals for mike's song -> lifeboy showed a futuristic silver tree that kept growing and evolving as the background changed through day and night and through the seasons. this was the most detailed visual so i recommend finding a video to check it out.
they did weekapaug groove then went into blaze on. i loved that they did blaze on n1 because there were a lot of conversations of "can we smoke weed in the sphere" online leading up to the show and from what i saw nobody got bounced out of the venue but there was security staff getting onto people that were being obvious. security was polite about this based off my observations. blaze on was the weed stress test for the sphere and the building was certainly in distress.
set 2 closer was fluffhead and this was my highlight of the night for a personal reason. i rarely get moved to tears at shows but i was almost sobbing during fluffhead. i listened to analyze phish when it was around when i wasn't even into the band and loved harris wittels and thought it was so funny. the episodes where scott and harris go to msg and the hollywood bowl are the funniest podcast episodes i've listened to. i'll listen to the show with my wife and play audio clips and she even thinks it's funny. we watch the episode of parks and rec where he works in animal control for pawnee more fairly often. i'd gotten into the show before harris died and was heartbroken when it happened. at the end of the first episode of analyze phish, harris says that fluffhead is one of his favorite phish songs then scott belly laughs at him while he's playing it because he thinks it's so dumb. my eyes welled up when they started playing fluffhead because i've seen enough jam to know that they aren't going to bust out your favorite songs every show but to get a song as somewhat rare and personal as fluffhead was such a special cosmic present. it really was a moment that moved me so hard and reminded me why i think about and love music so much and how glad i am to share that love with other people.
for the encore a massive farmhouse was on the screen with a beautiful night sky behind it as if the entire audience was standing in a vermont field in front of the. another beautiful song to start to close out the night then the night concluded with run like an antelope with the last note played at 12:17am. it seemed like the band could play longer not only because they were in vegas, but because the soundproofing was so good at the sphere. if you walked out of your section you couldn't hear any music through the walls.
when it comes to breaking down this show, i feel like the technical aspects make this the best show i've ever seen (overtaking the long held spot by paul mccartney at bonnaroo 2013). i'd spoken to several phish fans across vegas and they seemed a lot more into the band and had specific criticisms while still really liking the shows. musically it might not have been like the best phish show ever and there are better breakdowns of the music on the phish.net recaps, but for me it was about the vibes and simultaneously taking in phish and the sphere for the first time and i don't think i could've had a better experience.
i really fucking wish you could've made it to the sphere harris. rip.
EDIT: fixing some typos
fantastic review, i really enjoyed reading it. makes me very happy you got a fluffhead, song is always amazing to hear live.
short phish at sphere review: best show i've ever seen! phish is playing very good and the entire thing was overwhelming on the senses pretty much the entire time. the visuals feel so larger than life and when you closed your eyes the sound was so good that it sounded like you were listening to a cd. you could feel mike's basslines with the haptic vibrations in the seats. i also think the phish shows were better than the u2 shows and i'm curious if other acts are going to utilize the sphere effects as well as phish did. this was also basically my first phish show and i got some pretty sweet songs so i'm really happy about that. rip harris wittels.
i'll start my recap off by saying this was my first phish show so i feel like i might be overselling the show but damn the whole thing was so cool. i saw them a little bit on sunday night at bonnaroo in 2019 but i honestly wasn't paying attention and didn't dislike them but didn't follow them that hard at the time. another important point to make is that it's really difficult to describe the phish at sphere experience and why it was so cool. i took some photos and videos on my phone just as keepsakes but looking up professional photos online is more effective at conveying what it's like to be at sphere. you simply had to be there to take in the fusion of musical and technological greatness. from what i've seen of the webcasts i think they got some good camera angles to show everything off. and i listened to some of n2 and n3 on the plane on livephish the sets were amazing but the combo of seeing a visual on each song (some, if not all, were improvisational) and hearing the band with basically a soundboard directly to your ears was surreal. i really did have goosebumps and my mouth agape most of the time. it's hard to describe the experience but let's dig in!
i went with my dad and two of my friends. my dad was very excited for the show and i'm proud to report that i think he's turning in a head after going lol. he's never liked jam bands and walked out of a grateful dead show in 1979 because it wasn't his thing. he flew home earlier than i did but the next time i talked to him he was asking about when they play deer creek <3. my other friends thought the sphere was cool but clearly didn't like phish. so it goes.
ticket showtime was 730 but i think everyone knew the show wouldn't start until around 8 and they started a little past that. we'd driven around the area of the sphere around 4 and there was already traffic so that got me worried about going to there. luckily there was someone in our group that wasn't going to the show so he drove us as close to the sphere as possible then we walked over. i talked to an uber driver about the sphere a couple of days later and he said getting to the sphere is the biggest pain in the ass and he either doesn't pick people up from there or makes people walk to the wynn for pickup. we'd gotten there around 630 and there were a lot of people and HUNDREDS of people looking for a miracle. i didn't see a single person inquire with a ticket. there were a couple of entrances to get in and lines were understandably long but they honestly moved along quick and getting through security was fine. people were in good spirits about getting in too.
man the sphere is so fucking big. i was stunned watching dune part 2 and oppenheimer in 70mm imax and that screen size was a mere fraction compared to this thing. i got some photos from outside of the sphere but you'd have to walk a block or two away to get a photo with the entire thing in background.
now getting in and getting to your seat was also a crazy experience in itself. if you can find some atrium photos they had some really neat art installations up and everything looked futuristic in a cool way. i'd bought some merch when i'd got in and they had early merch set up every day and they put sphere merch up on their webstore so good on the band for having open opportunities for souvenirs. i would've loved to have gotten a poster but vegas is a very fun city and i didn't want to spend hours waiting in line compared to doing just about anything else in the city.
when i bought my seats i knew they were obstructed view. i was on the last row in sec 208 and we did have some speakers and lights hanging in front of us. i went ahead and bought them when i got them in my cart because in my research the only obstructed views i knew about were the back half of the 100s. i'm honestly glad i did because everything was so neat the obstructed view didn't matter. if i sat down i could crane my neck around to see the top and there were some seats open in the row in front of us if we wanted to step down to see the full scale show. if i sat down and looked straight at the stage i had a full view of the screen and could pretend there wasn't overhang around me. trey kept saying in the press that the band checked out all of the worst seats and tried building their show so every had a good view and i believe they achieved this. it seemed like the higher up you were the more screen you saw. not every song had visuals that encompassed every pixel on the screen and in many cases the visuals didn't extend farther than the view we had. if i was able to go to another night with an obstructed view ticket with an affordable price i would've. the lowest i saw for n2 or n3 was $1,000 but sunday had some obstructed tickets for $600 an hour before the show and i would've paid that price if i was still in town.
before the show the entire screen was an entire color and transitioned in and out of different ones. i only really remember green and red being used. the band's stage was positioned as far down and back as they possibly could be and they were able to get a lighting rig on the stage. ck5 had 6 massive light towers and some backlighting for the band. there weren't any amps on stage and barely any cables. there was a small door that kept opening and closing behind fish's drums so everyone was waiting for the band to come out of the truman show-esque door. the band had some preshow music play that blended with their opening jam then they went into everything's right.
seeing the sphere visuals being debuted was jaw dropping and being able to step in a seat ahead of us to experience the full-scale screen will be something i never forget. my mouth was open the whole time and i just kept looking over at my dad to make sure that we were on the same page that we were experiencing something astounding. in u talking u2 2 me's review of the u2 sphere show, scott aukerman said that he felt like the band was 25% of the experience and i agree with that. when the visuals filled the entire screen it was hard to look away and i wasn't looking at the band. i noticed on the webcast there were many shots were it was just the screen and no band and i'm glad they had shots like that because that's what it was like watching this show. there were some visuals that would be just behind the band and only reached vertically to the ceiling and in those moment i paid attention to the band more. it's also notable that there was a visual for every song. for u2's show only some of the song had sphere visuals then most of the show was massive shots of the band. getting wolfman's brother, maze, leaves, and carini in my first phish set made me a very happy phan.
at set break the entire screen was in all green with various animations to advertise mondegreen then they launched into sand to start set 2. they have a video up on their youtube of this performance to check out the visuals yourself. sand went into tweezer which was the jam of the night and my favorite visual. for tweezer there were psychedelic looking animated cars that kept appearing and disappearing and reappearing based on the tension and release of the band's music. by this point it was obvious that the visuals were somewhat improvised because the amount of cars would grow across the screen as the jam would build tension and peak out. fucking dope. the visuals for mike's song -> lifeboy showed a futuristic silver tree that kept growing and evolving as the background changed through day and night and through the seasons. this was the most detailed visual so i recommend finding a video to check it out.
they did weekapaug groove then went into blaze on. i loved that they did blaze on n1 because there were a lot of conversations of "can we smoke weed in the sphere" online leading up to the show and from what i saw nobody got bounced out of the venue but there was security staff getting onto people that were being obvious. security was polite about this based off my observations. blaze on was the weed stress test for the sphere and the building was certainly in distress.
set 2 closer was fluffhead and this was my highlight of the night for a personal reason. i rarely get moved to tears at shows but i was almost sobbing during fluffhead. i listened to analyze phish when it was around when i wasn't even into the band and loved harris wittels and thought it was so funny. the episodes where scott and harris go to msg and the hollywood bowl are the funniest podcast episodes i've listened to. i'll listen to the show with my wife and play audio clips and she even thinks it's funny. we watch the episode of parks and rec where he works in animal control for pawnee more fairly often. i'd gotten into the show before harris died and was heartbroken when it happened. at the end of the first episode of analyze phish, harris says that fluffhead is one of his favorite phish songs then scott belly laughs at him while he's playing it because he thinks it's so dumb. my eyes welled up when they started playing fluffhead because i've seen enough jam to know that they aren't going to bust out your favorite songs every show but to get a song as somewhat rare and personal as fluffhead was such a special cosmic present. it really was a moment that moved me so hard and reminded me why i think about and love music so much and how glad i am to share that love with other people.
for the encore a massive farmhouse was on the screen with a beautiful night sky behind it as if the entire audience was standing in a vermont field in front of the. another beautiful song to start to close out the night then the night concluded with run like an antelope with the last note played at 12:17am. it seemed like the band could play longer not only because they were in vegas, but because the soundproofing was so good at the sphere. if you walked out of your section you couldn't hear any music through the walls.
when it comes to breaking down this show, i feel like the technical aspects make this the best show i've ever seen (overtaking the long held spot by paul mccartney at bonnaroo 2013). i'd spoken to several phish fans across vegas and they seemed a lot more into the band and had specific criticisms while still really liking the shows. musically it might not have been like the best phish show ever and there are better breakdowns of the music on the phish.net recaps, but for me it was about the vibes and simultaneously taking in phish and the sphere for the first time and i don't think i could've had a better experience.
i really fucking wish you could've made it to the sphere harris. rip.
EDIT: fixing some typos
fantastic review, i really enjoyed reading it. makes me very happy you got a fluffhead, song is always amazing to hear live.
really appreciate it phish god. i like to freeform it when i write so it ends up being long so i’m glad you enjoyed!!!
Do you want to dance while also thinking about all the ways you've failed as a human?
UPCOMING SHOWS 10/22 - Air @ Beacon Theatre 11/1 - The Go! Team @ Irving Plaza 11/18 - Slowdive @ Brooklyn Paramount 11/21 - Caribou @ Avant Gardner 11/23 - LCD Soundsystem @ Knockdown Center 11/25 - TV on the Radio @ Webster Hall 12/5 - LCD Soundsystem @ Knockdown Center
Post by bugs bunny funny moments on Apr 24, 2024 12:42:40 GMT -5
last night I had a dream that I saw Phish but during the set break I tried going to Goodwill and took way too long and I came back the next day and they were still playing
last night I had a dream that I saw Phish but during the set break I tried going to Goodwill and took way too long and I came back the next day and they were still playing
Do you want to dance while also thinking about all the ways you've failed as a human?
UPCOMING SHOWS 10/22 - Air @ Beacon Theatre 11/1 - The Go! Team @ Irving Plaza 11/18 - Slowdive @ Brooklyn Paramount 11/21 - Caribou @ Avant Gardner 11/23 - LCD Soundsystem @ Knockdown Center 11/25 - TV on the Radio @ Webster Hall 12/5 - LCD Soundsystem @ Knockdown Center
i changed the thread title which means you are now obligated to tell us all about the shows!
wanted to take a couple days to let myself return to normalcy in hopes that it will help me objectively review Sunday (was hoping to get a ticket night of for other shows in Vegas but man it was tough scenes).
Going to start with the things that left something to be desired. Our seats were in 110, two rows behind GA. While this is normally excellent news, I feel like we lost out on some of the perspective of the screen. Thankfully, it stretches wide so we were able to scan left to right, but it felt like I spent half the show looking straight up and these old bones just can't do that for three hours. Additionally, the 100 section doesn't have the haptic like seat features that I keep seeing other people talk about. Lastly, the setlist on Sunday was not my favorite.
Now for the good, which starts with the sound. I have been to lots of arenas in the country and I thought the Sphere was by far the best sound I've experienced. The clarity and tonality throughout the show was truly spectacular that even if there wasn't a gigantic screen I'd say this venue was must visit. Additionally, the space is completely sound proof. You cannot hear a thing from the lobby and the lobby cannot hear a thing from the main hall. I've never heard anything like it. Next, the screen. What I did see on the monster wall was so all encompassing it was hard not to get lost in it. The visuals were a psychadelic feast for the eyes. My highlights for sure were Divided Sky, with Trey soaking it all in during the pause and First Tube, as that candy painted vortex was absolutely spellbinding. Finally, the playing. The DwD was all time. The Ghost was perfectly spooky. 2001 and Piper were also raucous.
All in all, it was a stellar weekend. I will be going back for sure.