jon, is someone paying you to keep that display name all summer?
― how's life, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Just too lazy to think of something new.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 February 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
HOOSy Steenberg
― how's life, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
waht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_r54FPveiA&feature=youtu.be
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:55 (seven years ago) link
waht?
― brontosaur, Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:09 (seven years ago) link
Trey Anastasio's free jazz side project with MARSHALL ALLEN
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
oh lord this radiohead cover is terriblehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmLPnbH7T0c
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
fishmans singing there right? that @ least used to mean its kinda a joke
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
Not sure what stirred this one from the depths of my mind this morning.
BUFFALO BILLOriginally performed by Phish(Anastasio, Marshall)© Who Is She? Music (BMI)"Looking for owls?" The young man askedHoping to lighten the tensionAnd the scowl he received as his only replyMade him smile as he relived the mentionAnd the coward fool walked on aloneQuite proud of the fear he instilledAnd later they found himtied to a logBent over and buffalo billed
(Anastasio, Marshall)© Who Is She? Music (BMI)
"Looking for owls?" The young man askedHoping to lighten the tensionAnd the scowl he received as his only replyMade him smile as he relived the mention
And the coward fool walked on aloneQuite proud of the fear he instilledAnd later they found himtied to a logBent over and buffalo billed
― how's life, Saturday, 2 December 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
I think the worst thing about Phish might be the music.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 September 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
Rye rye roccoMarco EsquandolasBeen you to have any spike, man?
― how's life, Thursday, 6 September 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
I think the best thing about Faberge eggs might be the precious jewels
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 September 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
The Phish bassist has more strings than the band has good songs.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 September 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
comin down on phish like the wolfman's brother over here
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 September 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― tobo73, Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
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.
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
I second that^^^
― tobo73, Sunday, 28 July 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
I was gonna say “you can’t be serious” but I actually don’t like or hate phish so nevermind
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:27 (four years ago) link
is it like that Celine Dion 33 1/3
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:28 (four years ago) link
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).
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link
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.
― crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 July 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
http://renameforall.com/get-involved/suggest-a-name/
There is a petition to suggest names for Denver, CO's Stapleton neighborhood, which was originally named after a former Denver mayor and KKK member. Right now the Phishheads are in the lead with Gamehendge. If you know, you know; if you don't, it's really stupid but here. I'm sure this petition is non-binding. I just want you to please click the link and help put the stupid hippies back in their place.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
Oh good, someone is going through the suggestions and policing for morons.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
Glad to see Westrbook back up in the lead by a comfortable margin.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
I get it that they are a live thing, but I love it when fans defend them but go on to say that they don’t really have any good songs or make good albums
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 19 June 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
The name could only beThe one, the onlyThe great and the knowlegeable
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 June 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link
lol
― peace, man, Friday, 19 June 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link
i owned farmhouse when i was a kid and also loved billy breathes but have never seen phish live and prob know better at this point that to try to get into them again
regardless i do want to talk about how the story of the ghost is a really rad record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 July 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
I loved SOTG back when I was a Phishhead. It was a huge record for me. I listened to it again recently to grade my original vinyl before selling it. It was pretty good! Guyute really didn't fit in, stylistically, and I have a personal aversion to all the circus imagery in Roggae, but everything else was solid. Particularly like the title track, Brian and Robert, Shafty.
― peace, man, Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
i will say one of the very best things about the story of the ghost is that it tricks you into thinking the members of phish are good singers. crediting andy wallace with this
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
and i think "guyute" works on a record that also has, like, "limb by limb" and "water in the sky"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
also it's possible "guyute" is so good that it asserts its place on that record for me regardless of sonic identity
i think... that for me, to be able to sit with certain aspects of phish's songwriting, to sit with the horror and disgust those aspects evoke in me, without dismissing them as being necessarily fundamentally grotesque and repulsive, while at the same time acknowledging the positive things about their songwriting, the ways in which their music continues to appeal to me... i think that this is an instructive and useful act for me.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 July 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
Yeah, Guyute's a good song and all, but it's very much a throwback to 80s Phish - their longer, primarily instrumental songs like Divided Sky or David Bowie or You Enjoy Myself. And they actually debuted it in 1994, three years before the batch of songs that became SOTG. So just because I was listening to Phish extremely actively at the time, it kinda felt shoehorned in there and I guess my prejudices may remain.I also remember preferring the more trad country version of Water in the Sky that they had debuted in 97 (available on the Walnut Creek show they released). Similarly, I still think I like that one better but am not quite sure.
― peace, man, Saturday, 18 July 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
that's really fair! i am of course completely disengaged from that kind of phish fandom, but i always got the sense fans didn't really like farmhouse because it's full of oddly-realized studio versions of what were by that time several-years-old live jams
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 19 July 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
i ended up downloading a show because i wanted to see what a 20 minute version of "ghost" was like (11/17/97) and wow this is really great :(((((
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 19 July 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
"hey this is pretty cool, who is this?" –me, to a bartender who was playing Phish off his iPod over the speakers
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Sunday, 19 July 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)
yeah that's a fucking amazing show, they were killing it in fall of '97
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Saturday, July 27, 2019 7:54 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― tobo73, Saturday, July 27, 2019 8:09 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
i started this today! it's great. i hate scott aukerman but he's kind of the antagonist of this show anyway
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 20 July 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
went to their show at the garden on dec 30th and fell asleep during a 35-minute version of tweezer
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Monday, 20 July 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link
my wife once fell asleep watching king crimson play "starless"
"starless" is a great song, but she was tired
and it was a seated show, which didn't help
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 20 July 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
xxp Cool! I’ve listened to the whole thing, several times thru (well, skipping the digression episodes in the middle that are about “Jaws” or something).
― FAC 179 (morrisp), Monday, 20 July 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
it occurs to me that i am one of, possibly, the few people on this board who would rather listen to phish play literally _anything_ than listen to a podcast
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 20 July 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
This is widely consider by lots of Phish fans to be one of the best jams of the bands current, 3.0, era.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 20 July 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
step into the freezerfall asleep to tweezer
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 20 July 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
tbf to me, it was widely considered to be one of the drunkest nights of my current approaching 30 era
xp
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Monday, 20 July 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
idk if it's just me but i feel like the song portion of this is much less obnoxious than that time in '95 they played the song for 45 damn minutes straight
i mean it's still a terrible song but it sounds less terrible somehow?
mind you if the "jam" portion has anything whatsoever to do with the "song" portion the relation is too musically advanced for me to be able to parse
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 20 July 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link