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Yea I've literally fell in love with Phish since they were announced on this lineup...And do you wanna know the funny thing? I was at Bonnaroo 2009 and I saw Public Enemy instead of seeing them for their latenight Friday set! Oh what could have been if i found out how amazing Phish was 10 years ago. But yea, they're everything I love about music wrapped up into an engaging band.
Anything specific that got you into them? Haven't dived (dove? diven? doved? doveden?) into them too much but would love to know what got you into them.
Post by Nathan Fieldcяab on Mar 7, 2019 12:05:48 GMT -5
My first Phish show was while working at the venue in pouring rain. I wasn't a phan at the time and didn't particularly enjoy it because I spent most of the time trying to corral friendly but intensely high concertgoers into following basic safety instructions.
Suffice it to say, I'm much more excited for the Bonnaroo set!
Yea I've literally fell in love with Phish since they were announced on this lineup...And do you wanna know the funny thing? I was at Bonnaroo 2009 and I saw Public Enemy instead of seeing them for their latenight Friday set! Oh what could have been if i found out how amazing Phish was 10 years ago. But yea, they're everything I love about music wrapped up into an engaging band.
that's cool, so roo friday will be your first phish show?
unfortunately i can't go to roo this year, but i will be in Colorado for work when they play Dicks, so you bet your ass i'll be there
Yea I've literally fell in love with Phish since they were announced on this lineup...And do you wanna know the funny thing? I was at Bonnaroo 2009 and I saw Public Enemy instead of seeing them for their latenight Friday set! Oh what could have been if i found out how amazing Phish was 10 years ago. But yea, they're everything I love about music wrapped up into an engaging band.
Anything specific that got you into them? Haven't dived (dove? diven? doved? doveden?) into them too much but would love to know what got you into them.
Well let me start off by saying that I was really into Frank Zappa in high school/college. His jams/live shows are very simialar what Phish has created and I honestly had no idea that Phish was influenced by FZ until about 2 months ago when my buddies played me their Peaches en Regalia cover... So I really had a love of jam music even before I realized I did...Even tho FZ is a bit more structured? Also, going to Hulaween the last few years has gotten me more into/exposed to jam. But what really got me hooked on the band was their Vegas 96' record. For me it has some of the most immediate jams/songs on it and it's just a fun record overall. If you like Zappa, I highly reccommend checking out Junta, as that has the most Zappa-esque stuff on it. Do you like Frank Zappa?
happy ten year anniversary of the beginning of 3.0!
I have only seen Phish 3.0. I got into them in high school, but they broke up right before my senior year. I traveled a lot for Panic, Umphrey's, and Dave Matthews in college, but never saw a phish show. I had a wook friend in knoxville who followed SCI around, and I remember being at a bar downtown and he tells me Phish was gonna reunite (during my super senior year), and I figured it was all just PT/message board bullshit. But then like two or three days later they announce the Hampton shows and I was so pumped. I graduated in December, and was still figuring shiz out, so I ended up skipping hampton but doing Asheville>Knoxville>bonnaroo.
while I was typing this, I was watching phish vids - here's a good one from them on letterman in '97
I do wanna say it's really fun to hear people getting into Phish now. Like I'd love if a large contingent of fans at the What stage are newly converted/first time phish fans
We have this incredible audience and they honor us. The longer it goes, the more I feel like I want to honor them. The number of times they’ve come to see us, the responsibility and the excitement of the risk grows in my mind. Kasvot Växt that Phish just did was that: just, let’s just do something amazing fresh and new. These people have come to 200 concerts. We owe them.
Sometimes I see people later in their careers, and that mentality that starts to happen — “Hey, I’m in a big band. Come pay a lot of money and see me because I’m so great.” I feel the opposite. You’ve seen it already. It’s my job to do something new and to progress. It’s not like everybody is going to like everything. That isn’t my job, but I want to care. The bands that I loved cared.
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Before the last New Year’s run, my Christmas gift from my 21-year-old daughter was a book that she made with the help of people online who are Phish fans. She asked everyone who had met their wife or husband, or best friend, at Phish shows to send in a photo and a little message. She had it all bound in a hardcover book and gave it to me Christmas morning. And I was literally sobbing. The whole thing just blew my mind. It’s just pages and pages and pages of these amazing people: Pictures of their kids and the first time they met, or in front of the stage. It made me think this has gotten so much bigger and wider than a band. We’re just four of these little people on the side, is the way I look at it. I know how that sounds, but it’s true. They’re big threads in the tapestry and we’ve all been doing this for so long.
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Lately, you’ve been doing solo acoustic tours, Phish, TAB and now Ghosts of the Forest. What drives you?
I think the risk makes me feel alive. Change is the one thing you can count on. Everything is turning and changing all the time. There’s a lot of music tours on the road now that are from, like, Seventies nostalgia? A lot. And that’s great. And yet, it’s over. I mean, I want to hear King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, which is all I listen to now. I’m just obsessed with these guys. I mean, they put out five albums last year and they’re cool. I’d rather hear something new. I feel blessed that the fact that so much of what Phish does is improvised means that’s built into our whole thing. Ever night is going to become new.
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You’re playing a bunch of huge festivals with Phish this year, like Bonnaroo and Fenway Park. How are you feeling about this summer?
I think the most exciting thing right now about Phish is the level that the teamwork and camaraderie has got to. I wonder if it’s noticeable, but it really amazes me. When I’m with them, I feel like I can’t believe I’m lucky enough to get to be in a room with these three guys. They’re that smart, cool, funny and talented. It’s a running feeling that I have, at catering, in the band room. I’m really grateful that it’s still going on. I’m not even totally sure where we’re going this summer, but I always have it on my radar, “How long do I have to wait before I can see these guys again?” Page said something to me [in Mexico recently]. We were in the band practice room laughing about something, and as we were walking out, he said something like, “It’s not fair that we can be laughing that much at work.” I just thought it was so on point.
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There’s a documentary about you, Between Me & My Mind, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26th. I’m surprised you gave filmmakers the access.
People have asked over the years many, many times to do movies. Only one time have we agreed. It was Todd Phillips [for 2000’s Bittersweet Motel]. That was a long time ago and, whatever, that was what it was. But the reason we took the meeting, was because one of the two guys at Stick Figure was a fan and his selling point was, “We would like to make a documentary because nobody understands or has ever been invited into the process of how the doughnuts are made.” That kind of piqued our interest enough. At the meeting they said, “Look, you just did ‘Petrichor,’ which had dancers and umbrellas. And then Kasvot Växt, and all these complicated songs. It would be fascinating to invite people into the process.”
We let them come and once they started going they were going. They just were around for a year. I’m a fan of [Steven Cantor]’s work; I like his Sally Mann movie. We became friends because you just start getting used to them being around, and they feel like flies on the wall. They came out on tour and traveled on the bus. At first you’re kind of on guard and then eventually you forget they even exist. That’s when it gets dangerous, because you start speaking honestly. As you know, because you’re a great journalist — I know that’s happened to you when a band forgot they were doing an interview.
It was a fascinating year that they were around. They were around during the period of Ghosts of the Forest, the “Soul Planet” thing, probably a little teeny bit of the birth of Kasvot Växt. It was a good year. It was an interesting year in the Phish world. A fascinating year. That was a lot of fun. I mean, I’m nervous about it. I’m not going to lie.
Anyone who watches themselves on film is going to hate it. But I kind of became friends with these guys. They’re cool guys. So, I don’t know … I don’t really know what I can say about that, because, you know, it’s coming out, I guess. It could be the end of everything. You never knew what an asshole this guy was.
Post by Dale Cooper on Apr 2, 2019 16:53:18 GMT -5
I’ve become minorly obsessed with the 2000 Japan show. The drone of the Fukuoka* jams doesn’t do a ton for me but i adore the versions of Cities, Gumbo, Back on the Train, Heavy Things, Walk Away and 2001.
My wife worked at my favorite dive in knoxville for quite a bit, and when I'd visit her in the afternoon, I'd always put on a long ass Phish song on the jukebox on my way out.
This guy though is a treasure. He's an attorney who's rated all the dive bars in AZ and had an amazing thread about the peloton.
Ghost Mike's Song/weekapaug Bouncing Around the Room Punch you in the eye Cities and/or Crosseyed and Painless Tweezer 2001 Farmhouse Charactero Zero (fuck the too hardcore Phans, i havent seen it) Divided Sky Back on the Train Gumbo Twist Loving Cup
Ghost Mike's Song/weekapaug Bouncing Around the Room Punch you in the eye Cities and/or Crosseyed and Painless Tweezer 2001 Farmhouse Charactero Zero (fuck the too hardcore Phans, i havent seen it) Divided Sky Back on the Train Gumbo Twist Loving Cup
I am with you on this list. I also want blaze on, carini, and gotta jibboo.
There was a recent conference of academics who all got together to talk about Phish.
Jnan Blau’s keynote, “We Are Aphicionados, We Are Vernacular Theorists!: A Critical Reconsideration and Anti-Hegemonic Recasting of Phish, Phandom and Fan Praxis,” set the tone for a weekend of reconsidering the impact this community can have on the future of academia. Blau asserted the importance of reexamining phandom in order to create more acceptance of our pop culture-related identity and shed the negative connotations that surround it along the way. In other words, in order to combat the negative perceptions around phandom, aca-phans need to stake their claims in the world of academia.
Post by trantsgiving on May 24, 2019 9:16:59 GMT -5
Also 3post1jack1 do you have any insight on how they write their setlists? Do they just play whatever they feel like at the time, put aside like 20 songs and just pull from them, write it before they go on, write in weeks in advance? Curious how it works.
Also 3post1jack1 do you have any insight on how they write their setlists? Do they just play whatever they feel like at the time, put aside like 20 songs and just pull from them, write it before they go on, write in weeks in advance? Curious how it works.
It's mostly audibles from Trey. You can see it happen on stage, he'll walk over to page and say a song name, then to Mike, Mike to Fish. Or if it's a song Mike sings he'll ask Mike first, etc. Or he'll just start playing a riff and the rest of the band will pick up on it and start playing it.
Basically there aren't any totally preplanned setlists these days, even when they walk out on stage Trey doesn't always know what they are going to open with.
But they will generally discuss what songs they want to play on that night or run, especially if it's a new song or a song that isn't played frequently. Trey used "Tela" as an example of this in a recent interview, like he wouldn't just bust into Tela in the middle of a set without discussing with the rest of the band before the show, because it's a less frequently played song and he wants to make sure everyone is comfortable playing it. But Trey doesn't need to make sure everyone is cool with "Chalkdust Torture" because they play that song all the time.
Even then sometimes they'll just try and slip into a cover that obviously wasn't planned, like at Alpharetta a few years back when during a jam Trey realized he was riffing on "Heartbreaker" so they just did a quick verse and then teased it during multiple jams throughout the rest of the show. Fun stuff like that can happen even when songs aren't planned.
The fact that sometimes the band has just as little an idea of what song is coming next as the audience does makes for an exciting show.
Post by Nathan Fieldcяab on May 25, 2019 13:15:48 GMT -5
After having done enough listening, here's my wishlist of songs to hear:
Harry Hood Ghost Maze Simple Piper Heavy Things Weekapaug Groove First Tube Tweezer David Bowie You Enjoy Myself Reba Divided Sky Carini Run Like an Antelope Wolfman's Brother It's Ice Character Zero Kill Devil Falls Down With Disease Sample in a Jar Fee My Friend, My Friend Twist Bouncing Around the Room
As a Phish noob , Carini , is my fav jam. Any other songs I should check out ?
All the main shit is good. Harry Hood, Run Like an Antelope, Sample in a Jar, Down With Disease, Carini like you said, Harpua, etc. You’ll never hear any of them played the same way twice just like you’ll never see the same set. The live event and surrounding phreak sideshow is really where they are distinguished from most other live acts.
As a Phish noob , Carini , is my fav jam. Any other songs I should check out ?
All the main shit is good. Harry Hood, Run Like an Antelope, Sample in a Jar, Down With Disease, Carini like you said, Harpua, etc. You’ll never hear any of them played the same way twice just like you’ll never see the same set. The live event and surrounding phreak sideshow is really where they are distinguished from most other live acts.
I appreciate it , I’ve been listening to random live albums on Apple Music. Getting more and more excited to see them , it’ll be my first time.
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