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Post by 3post1jack1 on Oct 8, 2021 10:27:26 GMT -5
two observations on MSG Hood Guy:
1. love that the camera knew to cut back to him at the peak. it's like kuroda knowing to hit those white lights.
2. so much of the coverage of this guy was about him "losing his mind" when in actuality he is mostly standing very still with a smile on his face and possibly praying/meditating.
Post by Murray The K on Oct 8, 2021 12:30:49 GMT -5
Did about an hour. Was only going for 12/29, and got through many times but kept getting the same error message when I added tickets telling me I had to use a different computer, app, or tablet. Oh well.
Luckily Ticketmaster did send me 8 “verify it’s really you” texts, so they knew exactly who I was.
Did about an hour. Was only going for 12/29, and got through many times but kept getting the same error message when I added tickets telling me I had to use a different computer, app, or tablet. Oh well.
Luckily Ticketmaster did send me 8 “verify it’s really you” texts, so they knew exactly who I was.
Had a pretty similar experience, going for 1/1. Pretty frustrating. But then Platinum seats appeared at 3-5 hundred a pop, to which I had to say no thanks.
Did about an hour. Was only going for 12/29, and got through many times but kept getting the same error message when I added tickets telling me I had to use a different computer, app, or tablet. Oh well.
Luckily Ticketmaster did send me 8 “verify it’s really you” texts, so they knew exactly who I was.
Had a pretty similar experience, going for 1/1. Pretty frustrating. But then Platinum seats appeared at 3-5 hundred a pop, to which I had to say no thanks.
was primarily going for 12/31, one time i got non-platinum tickets and got the use a different device error.
i actually pulled this one goddamn platinum ticket a hundred times that I would've been happy to pay for: section 112 behind the stage for $150. but every time i got the "oops another fan got this ticket" error.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Oct 18, 2021 12:15:06 GMT -5
someone jumped from the upper section last night during the show at the Chase Center and died. horrendous. details are sketchy but plenty of people saw it and said it was intentional, reportedly the guy ran and jumped.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Oct 21, 2021 12:00:36 GMT -5
struggling a bit with whether to make NYE happen. i got tickets for 12/31 and 1/1 in one of my favorite spots in an arena (first level behind the stage, i love it because it's loud as hell and i feel like i'm in the band) but damn it travelling to NYE is so expensive. plus i hate leaving my wife on NYE even though she's given me the go ahead. and i feel guilty going to NYC without her because we both love it so much (she's not interested in coming with me on a quick trip where i'm at shows every night).
having said that i haven't seen phish on NYE in 11 years, and i'm still riding that "phish is back!" wave of joy.
struggling a bit with whether to make NYE happen. i got tickets for 12/31 and 1/1 in one of my favorite spots in an arena (first level behind the stage, i love it because it's loud as hell and i feel like i'm in the band) but damn it travelling to NYE is so expensive. plus i hate leaving my wife on NYE even though she's given me the go ahead. and i feel guilty going to NYC without her because we both love it so much (she's not interested in coming with me on a quick trip where i'm at shows every night).
having said that i haven't seen phish on NYE in 11 years, and i'm still riding that "phish is back!" wave of joy.
I get expense but if she gave you the go ahead then I wouldn’t feel guilty. I usually try and make it up by letting telling her to plan another trip. Sometimes she lets me go even.
Hotels are super cheap right now in NYC. It’s the flights that kill you. Hopefully you’ll get that worked out.
E: because I’m laughing at “letting” my wife. Bad wording.
struggling a bit with whether to make NYE happen. i got tickets for 12/31 and 1/1 in one of my favorite spots in an arena (first level behind the stage, i love it because it's loud as hell and i feel like i'm in the band) but damn it travelling to NYE is so expensive. plus i hate leaving my wife on NYE even though she's given me the go ahead. and i feel guilty going to NYC without her because we both love it so much (she's not interested in coming with me on a quick trip where i'm at shows every night).
having said that i haven't seen phish on NYE in 11 years, and i'm still riding that "phish is back!" wave of joy.
I get expense but if she gave you the go ahead then I wouldn’t feel guilty. I usually try and make it up by letting her plan another trip. Sometimes she lets me go even.
Hotels are super cheap right now in NYC. It’s the flights that kill you. Hopefully you’ll get that worked out.
yeah i'm lucky to have a spouse who says what she means and doesn't bullshit. at first she was upset at the idea of missing out on an NYC trip, but after she slept on it she said she was all good and I should go have fun. so you're right about that but i can't control my feelings and that bit o' guilt is still there.
re: hotels i dunno about regular times in NYC right now but for NYE they are pricey to me. ~$250/night minimum in manhattan, most are more like $300+, certainly if you want to be close to MSG (which isn't necessary but it's nice to be able to walk to and from the show).
and yeah flights are pricey. prices are hopping around as they do but it'll be at least $500 to get from the sleepy south to the city that never sleeps.
leaning towards going but still got some stuff to process. i have a couple of cancellable hotel options booked already, but i'm not locked in until i purchase the flight.
I get expense but if she gave you the go ahead then I wouldn’t feel guilty. I usually try and make it up by letting her plan another trip. Sometimes she lets me go even.
Hotels are super cheap right now in NYC. It’s the flights that kill you. Hopefully you’ll get that worked out.
yeah i'm lucky to have a spouse who says what she means and doesn't bullshit. at first she was upset at the idea of missing out on an NYC trip, but after she slept on it she said she was all good and I should go have fun. so you're right about that but i can't control my feelings and that bit o' guilt is still there.
re: hotels i dunno about regular times in NYC right now but for NYE they are pricey to me. ~$250/night minimum in manhattan, most are more like $300+, certainly if you want to be close to MSG (which isn't necessary but it's nice to be able to walk to and from the show).
and yeah flights are pricey. prices are hopping around as they do but it'll be at least $500 to get from the sleepy south to the city that never sleeps.
leaning towards going but still got some stuff to process. i have a couple of cancellable hotel options booked already, but i'm not locked in until i purchase the flight.
I took the Amtrak back to Tuscaloosa after the Jack Ü NYE at the garden and it was a remarkably painless process, only cost about $70. Just takes a while
I get expense but if she gave you the go ahead then I wouldn’t feel guilty. I usually try and make it up by letting her plan another trip. Sometimes she lets me go even.
Hotels are super cheap right now in NYC. It’s the flights that kill you. Hopefully you’ll get that worked out.
yeah i'm lucky to have a spouse who says what she means and doesn't bullshit. at first she was upset at the idea of missing out on an NYC trip, but after she slept on it she said she was all good and I should go have fun. so you're right about that but i can't control my feelings and that bit o' guilt is still there.
re: hotels i dunno about regular times in NYC right now but for NYE they are pricey to me. ~$250/night minimum in manhattan, most are more like $300+, certainly if you want to be close to MSG (which isn't necessary but it's nice to be able to walk to and from the show).
and yeah flights are pricey. prices are hopping around as they do but it'll be at least $500 to get from the sleepy south to the city that never sleeps.
leaning towards going but still got some stuff to process. i have a couple of cancellable hotel options booked already, but i'm not locked in until i purchase the flight.
I’m getting $900 for 4 nights at most of the Holiday Inns in Manhattan on Booking. Just saying.
yeah i'm lucky to have a spouse who says what she means and doesn't bullshit. at first she was upset at the idea of missing out on an NYC trip, but after she slept on it she said she was all good and I should go have fun. so you're right about that but i can't control my feelings and that bit o' guilt is still there.
re: hotels i dunno about regular times in NYC right now but for NYE they are pricey to me. ~$250/night minimum in manhattan, most are more like $300+, certainly if you want to be close to MSG (which isn't necessary but it's nice to be able to walk to and from the show).
and yeah flights are pricey. prices are hopping around as they do but it'll be at least $500 to get from the sleepy south to the city that never sleeps.
leaning towards going but still got some stuff to process. i have a couple of cancellable hotel options booked already, but i'm not locked in until i purchase the flight.
I took the Amtrak back to Tuscaloosa after the Jack Ü NYE at the garden and it was a remarkably painless process, only cost about $70. Just takes a while
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travelling by train would be awesome, but that's another thing with this trip is it's gotta be a tight turn around, busy time of year for work.
thank you everyone for your responses. i'm fully aware that whenever i post on inforoo on whether i should go see live music the answer will always be "bro do it".
someone jumped from the upper section last night during the show at the Chase Center and died. horrendous. details are sketchy but plenty of people saw it and said it was intentional, reportedly the guy ran and jumped.
from Pitchfork. good read, although it ends kind of abruptly.
excerpt from the article where he talks about listening to the studio version of "Ghost" for the first time:
Out of a soup of ambient fog I heard… funk? A bassline that was on the verge of being… slapped? I hadn’t expected this, and I immediately lost my footing. Guitar lines were swaying like lightbulbs on chains. The vocal melody fell at an angle that didn’t match anything else happening in the song, like narration projected onto a screen after the final scene of a haunting... It was impossible to tell if I liked it at all.
emphasis mine, made me laugh out loud when i read it. Story of the Ghost was my first phish album, purchased after seeing a guy with a phish logo shirt at mass and wondering what that was all about. i remember having a similar uneasy feeling hearing "Ghost" for the first time.
i've realized over time that a lot of the music that ultimately gets the most excited is music i initially have this reaction to. recently it happened with Nascar Aloe and Sematary. for both of those artists the first time i listened i was blasted with something so intense and so foreign i couldn't tell if it was a joke or if it was pure trash or if it was the best thing i'd heard all year. in both of those cases it was the best thing i'd heard all year.
from Pitchfork. good read, although it ends kind of abruptly.
excerpt from the article where he talks about listening to the studio version of "Ghost" for the first time:
Out of a soup of ambient fog I heard… funk? A bassline that was on the verge of being… slapped? I hadn’t expected this, and I immediately lost my footing. Guitar lines were swaying like lightbulbs on chains. The vocal melody fell at an angle that didn’t match anything else happening in the song, like narration projected onto a screen after the final scene of a haunting... It was impossible to tell if I liked it at all.
emphasis mine, made me laugh out loud when i read it. Story of the Ghost was my first phish album, purchased after seeing a guy with a phish logo shirt at mass and wondering what that was all about. i remember having a similar uneasy feeling hearing "Ghost" for the first time.
i've realized over time that a lot of the music that ultimately gets the most excited is music i initially have this reaction to. recently it happened with Nascar Aloe and Sematary. for both of those artists the first time i listened i was blasted with something so intense and so foreign i couldn't tell if it was a joke or if it was pure trash or if it was the best thing i'd heard all year. in both of those cases it was the best thing i'd heard all year.
ghost came on the halloween playlist while we were doing pumpkins with the kids the other day and my wife said something along the lines of really liking it - then I told her it was phish and she rolled her eyes. small breakthrough though, I think.
the kids were way more into werewolf bar mitzvah though.
from Pitchfork. good read, although it ends kind of abruptly.
excerpt from the article where he talks about listening to the studio version of "Ghost" for the first time:
emphasis mine, made me laugh out loud when i read it. Story of the Ghost was my first phish album, purchased after seeing a guy with a phish logo shirt at mass and wondering what that was all about. i remember having a similar uneasy feeling hearing "Ghost" for the first time.
i've realized over time that a lot of the music that ultimately gets the most excited is music i initially have this reaction to. recently it happened with Nascar Aloe and Sematary. for both of those artists the first time i listened i was blasted with something so intense and so foreign i couldn't tell if it was a joke or if it was pure trash or if it was the best thing i'd heard all year. in both of those cases it was the best thing i'd heard all year.
ghost came on the halloween playlist while we were doing pumpkins with the kids the other day and my wife said something along the lines of really liking it - then I told her it was phish and she rolled her eyes. small breakthrough though, I think.
the kids were way more into werewolf bar mitzvah though.
my wife has a unique talent in that she can identify a song is a phish song after hearing like one note, and immediately tell me to turn it off.
sucks because with that talent and even a cursory knowledge of the catalog she'd be the first one in the venue to differentiate between maze and bowie.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Oct 29, 2021 6:12:27 GMT -5
SETLIST: PHISH, THURSDAY 10/28/2021 MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA Las Vegas, NV
SET 1: Also Sprach Zarathustra, 1999 > 555 > 46 Days, Strawberry Letter 23 > Twenty Years Later
SET 2: Seven Below > If 6 Was 9[1] > Five Years > Two Versions of Me -> NO2, Army of One, My Sweet One, First Tube > Character Zero
ENCORE: Backwards Down the Number Line, Grind[2]
[1] Phish debut. [2] Lyrics changed to reference the show.
This show featured a setlist with all songs featuring a number in their name in descending order including the Phish debut of If 6 Was 9 and several bustouts: 1999 (last played July 26, 2017, or 130 shows), Five Years (last played October 31, 1996, or 147 shows), Two Versions of Me (last played November 27, 2009, or 435 shows), and NO2 (last played September 6, 2015, or 192 shows). Trey teased L.A. Woman in Also Sprach Zarathustra and Seven Below in First Tube. In place of the usual number of days lived, Grind featured the band singing the setlist ended by noting that the songs added up to “4,680 digits.”
Post by 3post1jack1 on Oct 29, 2021 9:13:26 GMT -5
listening now. 2001 was jammed out and took i think nine minutes to get to the first peak, which is great.
but wow, the transition into 1999. while it wasn't particularly smooth it was played with intensity and intention and yes energy. you can hear the crowd freaking out on the soundboard. i like to think i've grown out of ROMO when it comes to phish shows. i've seen some incredible shows and my list of songs i'm chasing now is tiny and not very exciting (my last big cross off was The Sloth which i got at the BD), but listening to this show i really really wish i would've been there.
as scotty b said on twitter, phish must feel really confident in their halloween set to come out swinging like this.
