Phish C/D

-- was what I thought the order was?

Yes, that's the order. Sometimes I scribble addresses too sloppy when I jot 'em.

Any of you ever listened to STORY OF A GHOST? That's my favorite album of theirs.

I think it's their worst. Gnomic, depressive. A good song or two at best.

First Tube is probably one of the most hilarious songs ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1yrBoO81mU

I still kinda like Phish.

I have a Trey double-disc live album in my car.

i saw 15 phish shows in high school!

kids wont know the meaning of drugs without bands like phish and grateful dead. it's a disaster.

and why is that guy so funny looking? you tell me that.

Classic. True originals, even if you do hate the "weeny guitar tone" (as mentioned upthread, which is kind of OTM and funny even though I like some of his playing) and the goofy tunes and hippie nonsense.

I have a soft spot for many of their hallmarks (again, not even factoring in the music or the 'scene'): genuine grassroots success; never-the-same-show-twice setlists; a deep back catalog that always gets dipped into; a fondness for weird venues; relentless showmanship.

I pulled the witch from out the ditch and turned to face the furry thugs,
The sheep they smiled with teeth agleam,
The weapons in their hooves revolved I detected a prostatic ream,
I gulped and felt my loins dissolve

Make of that what you will.

kinda dud, i think, and not just for the all the phishheads. just not my bag, i guess.

though i was way into phish in a period in high school, but not to the extent of a lot my friends (i knew a lot of tape traders/collectors.... i could never understand the point of needing so many damn phish tapes).

i can still kind of enjoy parts of junta though, which is the only phish album i hung onto (when i was 17 i used to have all the major studio releases and a few live albums, including that hampton box set).

You know what, I think I hate Phish more than DMB. I mean seriously I'll take Bela Fleck, Widespread Panic and Leftover Salmon over these dorks.

since when does DMB not have some good random tracks, as does phish?

Hoos I like the way you represent. I always wanted to be able to get into these guys a little more, because I can really enjoy noodly jam stuff sometimes, but the singing - something about the timbre of dude's voice - always keeps me away.

look at all the nude spocks posting here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS7a14vXuq8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl06ch9FDDs&feature=related

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=23746

:( :( :(

man why you gotta post the youtubes and make me be like "ahhh yeah" and then hit me with that

harshin my steen

So this new one isn't bad, as far as Phish studio albums go. I really like Trey's playing.

I was just reading about Phish covering Neutral Milk Hotel on Stereogum and, you know, I think it make me love them a little bit more for pissing off a whole bunch of those annoying people that hold up NMH as something holy. Some choice comments:

"No one should be allowed to touch this song. This hurt my ears."

"Keep your jam bands off my favorite album. TAKE BACK THE MUSIC!"

I've never heard the original, but Phish's version sounded pretty decent.

Won't you STEP into the FREE-ZER

Dud, because of scenes like this.

http://img3.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/8260/8260733e941cd8222009f855e46620497651f6e.jpg

oh my god, that poor little girl... : (

my child was born at home and yet you have a $400 stroller...trustafarian.

Feel sorry for the young lad. He looks inconsolably depressed, maybe high too. I have a buddy who grew up on Dead tour with a hippie mom, a total tour slut. He has horrible stories about what he and other kids "on tour" saw, the lack of supervision and boundries, the sexual abuse, the drug abuse so rampant among the aduits (and many of the kids, never being taught about little things like basic hygeine...

sweet visor

haha

Kid does look depressed and stoned and kind of like Rupert Grint.

kid on the left looks like he's having a pretty serious ~moment~

he actually looks like he is turning into a mushroom. or...
http://www.vallentyne.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dumb_donald-300x224.jpg

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9339331/after-30-years-consider-phish-great-band

"This won't be a popular opinion in the Phish world," he continued, "but I often think that the closest match for them currently is ICP..."

They should do a joint tour where they perform each other's songs.

i went to a phish show once at msg. i was pretty stoned. i like that hide the gumbo song. also the susie greenberg song. i find most of their stuff pretty samey sounding tho and pretty boring.

Ha! Joint! Like marijuana cigarettes!

"joint tour"

ok waterface, i am 100% sure i know who you are now

"juggalo marijuana"

also the susie greenberg song.

I'm one of the staunchest defenders of phish on this board, Mordy. But let me just say:

Little Suzy Greenberg, with her head caved in
Soon to let me drown beneath the undertow
You better put that woman in a looney bin
'Cause you know I'd really like to be a part of her show

Suzy is an artist, she paints quite a lot
An artist she may be, but a genius she is not
She says she wants to be a sociologist
But she better first get checked by a neurologist

Suzy, Suzy, Suzy, Suzy
Suzy, Suzy Greenberg
Suzy, Suzy, Suzy, Suzy
Suzy, Suzy Greenberg

Suzy's 'bout as faithful as a slot machine
Pays off once in a while, but then she robs you clean
She's always afraid that she's not sure what she's worth
She's out of her mind, and she's not of this Earth

The woman walks the streets like she's the queen of the town
Doesn't talk very much, she's very profound
Little Suzy Greenberg, always playing a game
But today I bet she's probably forgot my name!

To be fair, that song was written by their college buddy, Dude of Life. But to be fair to everyone else, Phish played that song at roughly 1/4 of their shows.

suzy is totes jewish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ugF6NmI-Bs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL9rrnDbQLw

lololol

http://mashable.com/2013/07/11/journophish

A Phish fan will see a reference in a tweet, and shrug, “We are everywhere” (or type “#weareeverywhere”)

the fiscal-cliff crisis kept them from Phish’s annual three-set extravaganza at Madison Square Garden.

if anyone ever tries to convince me that phish is good, i will play them this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=om2EQ7YXork

For New Year's Eve they did the first full Gamehenge since 1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSO6H7e-Gm0

I'm only up to "Lizards" but it's fun as hell so far. Huge appropriately goofy production values. Everyone is having a blast and seems super well-rehearsed

I haven't watched the video yet, but I've listened to it a few times and it was fun! The "AC/DC Bag" jam was great.

thank you for posting that - i have been meaning to buy the webcast ex post facto so you just saved me $40 :)

(no guilt, phish have pleeeenty of my money from the past 25 years)

I mean, Phish put that out on their official channel for free, so I don't think there's any need for guilt.

of course. excited to watch it!

i was at 12/29, just sort of treated myself to a ticket and went solo in between family stuff up in massachusetts. i really enjoyed it. the first set was very paint-by-numbers but still played exceedingly well, i thought - the little fills and stuff around the edges in the various war horses was all tight and inspired. Second set the Chalkdust was a total mindfuck of dissonance, one of the coolest things I've heard them play in a while. Rest of the set no slouch either. Recommend

Nice! A Phish NYE show is on my bucket list, 12/29 is the only one of the four I haven't yet listened to at all.

I love the 80s stuff. Any Colorado 88 fans up in this?

I've been waiting until I have time to watch it uninterrupted. Very stoked that they did it.

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

his tweets on the subject are even more o_O

This is what it must feel like to cum with a pussy
Because if it’s even close I’m flaying to wherever tomorrow and getting the best pussy money can buy. I don’t need to be a man no more of it means I can feel like this all the time
Fucking keep it bro if I can get this feeling…

— ʎǝɹɐƆ ʍǝɹᗡ (@DrewFromTV) April 22, 2024

i saw that particular tweet over the weekend and 100% thought it was a parody account or something

Drew Carey: This Guy Phishes!

This is what it must feel like to cum with a pussy
Because if it’s even close I’m flaying to wherever tomorrow and getting the best pussy money can buy. I don’t need to be a man no more of it means I can feel like this all the time
Fucking keep it bro if I can get this feeling instead
That was God at work or something
Like it felt like I was being saved by Jesus no lie

jfc

drew uh

so just in case you're serious, i've listened to phish _and_ i've cum with a pussy and no, cumming with a pussy doesn't particularly feel like listening to phish. i'd say it's a "common mistake" but it isn't, really. very, very few people confuse the sensation of listening to phish with the sensation of cumming with a pussy.

i'll also say that like. listening to phish doesn't feel like gender euphoria either. so like i _do_ feel good all the time because of my gender affirming care but not in the same way listening to a really hot phish jam feels.

if you want the best pussy money can by you're gonna probably wanna go to suporn over in thailand. people say amazing things about suporn. he generally has a waitlist but maybe you could skip it on account of being drew carey.

that said i don't find that having a pussy has made a difference in how i cum. there's just not that much difference anatomically between male and female genitalia. the big difference, i've found (and i've found many other trans people say the same) is what hormones i'm on. you _could_ go to thailand and get suporn to give you a pussy, but honestly, you'll probably get better results from spending two years on estrogen.

i wouldn't recommend it, however, simply because you are clearly completely batshit crazy. taking estrogen wouldn't really "fix" that. go deal with whatever other shit you have going on, then maybe you can think about getting based and redpilled and going down the rabbithole. 'k?

drew carey's twitter bio:

It makes zero professional or business sense to be on this platform anymore. Find me on Threads, Instagram or BlueSky (DrewFromTV on all)

y'all, does the shit he says make any goddamn sense on those platforms?

The Cumming With

Came from Drew Carey's mouth

Will likely exhaust the 1.0 shows he's done pretty soon (basically a bunch of '97 sbd shows like MSG, Raleigh, Hampton, Denver, '98 Island Tour, one of the '00 Japan shows, a few more) and then will try figuring out which of the recent mixes are worth listening to ... but Phil Everson's jam_central YouTube (just came up in the Dark Star thread) is really the ideal way to listen to Phish, I wish there were more to choose from. Zero vocals, all instrumental, unfussy mixes of composed / jam sections.

I know the Clifford Ball shows pretty well but have probably skipped over the Free for a few decades and it popped up in the instrumental mix ... great sludgy 5min section that sounds like it's from the ALO Tweezer.

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

Thought the Tiny Desk concert was pretty cool once they got into the older tunes. Loved Page on the Wurlitzer for YEM.

drum logos second set is still the greatest shit ever made by humans

^^ it's certainly up there!

hello my fellow nerds. i went to the latter two of the 3 shows in my childhood hometown of albany this weekend and had a lot of fun. they are so precise and open to jamming in all sorts of weird points in the show. it is a well-oiled machine. some of the ballads - esp esp Mountains in the Mist, which is surely among their most tasteful songs - were really gorgeous, with the same careful listening between all 4 band members that goes on in full-on jams. my usually criticism of the modern era is that the machine is TOO well-oiled, and they are so good at moving in unison that the music loses any sense of risk or danger. sunday night had a bit of that feel and i don't know that i'll be replaying it, but it was quite a rocking dance party. folks seem to be pretty consistently rating saturday night lower but i thought they got into way weirder and more interesting spaces at several points in the second set. i was contemplating getting down to msg for a new year's run show or two but i think i scratched my itch for awhile. in any case, check out the 10/26 second set starting at Ruby Waves and at least through Golden Age, and then on 10/27 i thought Kill Devil Falls and Chalkdust were the highlights

fyi for those to whom it might mean something who might not otherwise know, they opened the run with "Box of Rain" -- didn't actually say anything about Phil's passing but i imagine that was a pretty poignant moment for those who were there.

oh also the albany arena - currently called MVP but has been through more names to count in my lifetime - put up a banner in the rafter marking Phish as moving into the lead (past the Dead as I understand it) in all time concert ticket sales there - 16 shows. hilariously, the band never acknowledged the banner. i wondered if they were almost embarrassed on behalf of the arena for marking such an unimpressive number? i think the ones they have up at msg are for something in the 50s or 60s

lol I hadn't heard about that specific banner, but someone at one of the shows did post a photo of another sad banner that was in the arena - one celebrating the basketball team's first round loss in the NIT

I haven't listened to the full shows yet, but the "Ruby Waves > Fuego" combo from Saturday night's show was some of the best jamming I've heard from 2024, the "Ruby" went really deep and they pretty much deconstructed the "Fuego". Saw some folks on X point out that "Ruby > Fuego" might be another Dead no, since it's basically "Scarlet > Fire".

oh wow that's great, 99% of the fan theories about the unspoken messages behind setlist choices, teases etc. are absurd, but that one is fun to believe

I could go on about the once knickerbocker arena. there are MANY banners celebrating the "achievements" of Siena College, most of them are pretty embarrassing. professional sports teams i have seen play there include the arena football Albany Firebirds, led by the amazing wide receiver Touchdown Eddie Brown, who would routinely get like 6 of his namesake TDs in a game. He went on to father the similarly great but significantly more psychotic NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown. Later on the minor league hockey Albany River Rats spent many years there and while their hockey record is spotty, they are a vaunted contender for most unappealing name for a sports team ever. Siena only moved in when the arena really needed a regular tenant iirc, I used to go see them often in the more appropriately scaled gym on their campus. But I've seen some great Phish shows in that place, as well as REM, Billy Joel, and I'm sure others that I'm not remembering

Not sure if Ivy or anyone else is paying attention to the summer tour so far, but it's shaping up to be pretty special. Stoked to see them three times later this month.

The must hears for me are the "Tweezer > Mercury > Tweezer > Pillow Jets > Tweezer > Golgi" run from 6/22/24 in New Hampshire (definitely check out the first set "Fluffhead" while you are there) and the 43-minute "What's Going Through Your Mind" from Pittsburgh on 6/24. I'm not always a longer jams = better jams guy, but this one is really special imho.

I am definitely paying attention and I am excited to dive into that WGTYM. However, sadly probably gonna miss this tour unless things break exactly right for one night of SPAC. I assume you’ll be taking in Chicago shows, jvc?