Phish C/D

(Many years after the overthrow of Wilson, a rebel soldier crouching
high on a hilltop above the war torn forests of Gamehendge spots a
group of loyalists approaching from their lakeside encampment below.

His trusty llama stands beside him, loaded down with a canvas pack
that holds two large bazooka type guns to the animal's sides. Near the
man sits a cache of blastoplast, each capable of destroying the entire
hillside in an instant...)

Sunrise over the turquoise mountains
Messenger birds in sight
They came up through the valley
Both sides at a time
Through the cold steady rain
Raid!
I bend down
Poke a double decker on a llama
Taboot
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Trigger a blastoplast, ramshackle laker recedes
I start to run
It was the loudest thing I'd ever heard
And I knew my time had come
To enter the delta

Leave it on press [2x]
Depress, Depress
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Leave it on press
Depress, Depress
Llama, Taboot Taboot

Llama, Taboot Taboot
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Taboot Taboot
Taboot Taboot
Taboot

Looking back, I have no idea how I stuck with Phish through so much "Llama Taboot" and yet somehow "Gotta Jibboo" was enough to bring the whole thing screeching to a halt for me.

what did they do last night cover their own new album or was that just an elaborate fake out? admittedly i dont really care @ all

Yeah, apparently they just debuted their new album. Also featured a dancing Abe Vigoda in a wombat suit.

http://cdn.hypervocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/vigoda.jpg

Looking back, I have no idea how I stuck with Phish through so much "Llama Taboot" and yet somehow "Gotta Jibboo" was enough to bring the whole thing screeching to a halt for me.

― how's life, Friday, November 1, 2013 2:06 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, yes.

phishloving coworker (who flew out to the show last night) said that one halloween they psyched ppl in to thinking they would do the dark side of the moon but didnt- then played it the next night at a small venue.

at one point he was saying he thought they were gonna do marquee moon, but later said no, it might be some elton john album.

iirc it was the fans who psyched themselves into thinking that Phish was going to do DSOTM that Halloween.

I think I could actually listen to a ton of isolated instrumental tracks from Phish. Weirdly hypnotic.

is there something really wrong with me, or is the new on, fuego, really kind of good?

I can't listen to Phish in very large doses these days. I made it about 2.5 minutes into the title track. I liked the shambling piano and the dark lyrics; wasn't really braced for the jazz boogie that followed. The second song, The Line, started off feeling like some of the more middling entries in their catalog, but it really picks up! I love the background vocals too. I also listened to 555 though and that starts off like all my Mike Gordon thump bass nightmares, so I don't know. I'll check out some of the other songs, maybe later.

As far as Phish studio albums go, it's pretty damn solid. It's probably my favorite stduio album of theirs since Billy Breathes or maybe Ghost. I'll be seeing them again later this month, now the third straight summer I've seen Phish 3.0 live.

"gumbo" is really the only phish song i like. they played it tuesday nite in philly @ mann center.

I was listening to "Gotta Jibboo" today on my ride home; I really love that song.

fyi see also people dancing to Phish

their guitar tone is shit

I think I could actually listen to a ton of isolated instrumental tracks from Phish. Weirdly hypnotic.

― Walter Galt, Friday, November 1, 2013 12:24 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but i was just thinking this too

Another thing I ask myself sometimes is "did I really spend 7 years listening to a band that basically had a love song named after a He-Man character?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTRVdogFaWI

Q: how many dogs/cats did you know named Tela?

Thought this might be about the non-ironic huge Spin article ranking 333 of their songs. I knew as soon as the appreciation for Juggalo culture started, Phish would be next. First it was the Vampire Weekend dude professing his Phish love and now Spin. I'm guessing Whiney will probably follow them on Fall Tour for a book (which, all joking aside, I would definitely read).

xp:

LOL. I was giving away a piano last year to some guy on freecycle and took it over to his house in my father-in-law's pickup truck. The guy opens his door and a little dog comes running out. "Tela, go back inside! Good girl." Sure enough, after we're done hauling the piano into his den, there's a Phish concert poster mounted above the mantel.

I would totally read a WGW-penned Phish book.

http://www.spin.com/articles/all-333-phish-songs-ranked/

Any list in which Simple is ranked higher than You Enjoy Myself is a sham.

Pleasingly high showing for the title track from Rift though!

i just want to say that if i owned two identical range rovers, i wouldn't want that to get out in the press. it'd make me look like john mccain, or something. (in fact, the two range rovers i own are completely different colors, so i'm safe on that one!)

"Sample in a Jar" is a good song but I just now realized what it's likely about from thinking a microsecond about the title. that's more thinking than I did when I listened to Phish

My dearly departed and much beloved cat, who was already named when I got her at age 4, was named Sample and I always wondered if she was named after the song. (The person I got her from was not her original owner and didn't know anything about the name.)

Back in the olden days I knew a dog named Tela and cats named Fee, Esther, and Fluffhead.

Phish spotted in the wild:

During last night's NFL game, some production team nerd kept playing "Wilson" as bumper music in honor of Seahwaks' QB Russell Wilson.

jon, is someone paying you to keep that display name all summer?

Just too lazy to think of something new.

hadnt realized they played down in mexico, set up looked gorg wow

http://phish.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/PRM2016_0115_190720-0283_ALIVECOVERAGE.jpg

HOOSy Steenberg

waht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_r54FPveiA&feature=youtu.be

waht?

Trey Anastasio's free jazz side project with MARSHALL ALLEN

oh lord this radiohead cover is terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmLPnbH7T0c

fishmans singing there right? that @ least used to mean its kinda a joke

Not sure what stirred this one from the depths of my mind this morning.

BUFFALO BILL
Originally performed by Phish

(Anastasio, Marshall)
© Who Is She? Music (BMI)

"Looking for owls?"
The young man asked
Hoping to lighten the tension
And the scowl he received
as his only reply
Made him smile
as he relived the mention

And the coward fool
walked on alone
Quite proud of the fear he instilled
And later they found him
tied to a log
Bent over and buffalo billed

I think the worst thing about Phish might be the music.

Rye rye rocco
Marco Esquandolas
Been you to have any spike, man?

I think the best thing about Faberge eggs might be the precious jewels

The Phish bassist has more strings than the band has good songs.

comin down on phish like the wolfman's brother over here

I guess in light of my surprising latecoming to the Dead, I've put on You Enjoy Myself a few times lately and tried to listen with "fresh ears," i.e. as though I had no idea phishheads were a thing. It was pleasant and neat I guess but a bit unsatisfying -- the proggy parts aren't proggy enough, the harmonic movement is sort of mickey mouse, there are parts that *almost* evoke Phillip Glass but don't really lean hard enough into that to seem deliberate. Moments that reminded me of Close to the Edge but only in an approximated sort of way. Ultimately nothing that really made me want to revisit it let alone check out more music.

Did a couple of looong solo drives this week in a car w Sirius xm and both times found myself stumbling across the phish channel in a moment of desperation.

There are some solid moments and I’ve always thought their live mixes and each instrument sound really good. The keyboard dude has an awesome rig full of instruments I’d love to be able to afford and I think he uses them well. The drummer is a million times better than the dead’s guys after 1975. Trey seems like a genuinely nice dude who has handled himself quite well.

But in the end it’s just too wanky. And I’m a massive GD apologist.

This band’s saving grace for me is providing fodder for the very entertaining Analyze Phish podcast (R.I.P. Harris Wittels) — a must for fans and haters alike.

I second that^^^

I was gonna say “you can’t be serious” but I actually don’t like or hate phish so nevermind

is it like that Celine Dion 33 1/3

Just start at Ep. 1, you’ll get the idea pretty quickly. I’ve listened to the whole thing twice through (skipping Ep. 5 & 6, which are a detour involving Jaws).

Out of all the thousands of bands I've seen over the decades Phish is still the least enjoyable performance I've ever endured. That was a support slot too, if I'd had to sit through 3 hours of it or however long they play things might have got nasty.

Phish is probably the most ILM-reviled band I kind of love. I went off to college in '94, which was the year they really broke. I mean, I also got into Dream Theater that year, but Dream Theater are the only band I ever stopped liking. Phish, they're still sort of the apotheosis of the hippie jam band thing to me - in '94, I hated the Dead; they were a long, strange train wreck in progress. In the years past I've come around to old Dead and realized the weird mystic power they had that Phish didn't... plus they had some good songs, which Phish never did.

But Phish are all very good musicians who can play well together. I like that. When that first live album of theirs came out I picked up a copy, and I do still enjoy "You Enjoy Myself". I like the intro a lot - I think it's better than the intro to "Firth of Fifth". I could do without the silly mouth noises, but yeah, last October when I realized I'd run out of good Grateful Dead live stuff to listen to I got back to checking out some of the most acclaimed Phish recordings, and there are some very good ones.