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Has anyone been turned onto Phish by these new live Phish cd packages? There's like 3 cds to a set usually. They're up to Vol. 12 at this point, with 6 more coming in about a month. They're releasing 6 volumes twice a year for who-knows-how-long.

So, I have a crisp CDR copy of Phish's never-recorded mystical album "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday" aka "Gamehenge" (which is only performed live once in a great while in its entirety), the first set of Phish covering the entire Who's "Quadrophenia"... all this I downloaded just out of a vague curiosity. The recordings are very clean for live stuff. So, then, today I went out and grabbed LIVE PHISH Vol. 9.

My opinion is that Phish have clearly misrepresented themselves (and what a genius marketing plan) with their studio disks and occasional boring Live CD. They've laid the perfect groundwork for fans to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on fairly-professionally-recorded (from the soundboard) entire Live shows. Everyone knows these Phish fans trade awful cassettes by the millions each year. For some reason, Phish does sound better live if you have a decent recording. It's almost like a completely different band. So, going into the future, they just have to put out 1 or 2 studio albums ever 5 or 6 years featuring new songs. These new songs will be featured on 12 or more LIVE PHISH cds and fans will buy it all.

― Mr. Serious Question Asker, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 01:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

all of the above... plus a little thing called 'twirling'.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 01:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I would almost like Phish's studio and live recordings if it werent for the constant harrasment of Phish phans. I have no comment on their output, not until all deadhead and phish phans are forced to sit in a very small room and listen to eachother till they realize how annoying they are.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 02:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

I actually don't know any phish phans. I used to know some deadheads. They weren't very annoying, though. They were regular people who'd throw the dead on instead of U2 or whatever. I worked with a girl who liked Phish. She wasn't annoying either. She was nice and quiet. None of 'em smelled like patchoulli.

― Mr. Serious Question Asker, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 03:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

If Phish were an instrumental band, they'd fall from number eight to number 47 on the "Worst Bands in the World" list.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 08:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

are you kidding me. leave this board HIPPY. hheheheheee.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 11:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Andrew Farrell to thread!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 11:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Phish are a Grateful Dead covers band without the Grateful Dead covers. Or, indeed, covers.

― Roger Fascist, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 11:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

So, what is it exactly about Phish that makes them "hippy scum", anyway? Their hair isn't very long, their songs are often cynical or just plain goofy and geeky like Zappa... and all musicians like drugs (or most, anyway). Is it the fans that make them decidedly hippies? Or the fact that they record in a Farmhouse in VT?

I think it's the "Phans," mostly. I like Phish a lot but don't fall into the "pot-smoking hippy" catagory that most of their fans do fall into.

Phish are a Grateful Dead covers band without the Grateful Dead covers. Or, indeed, covers.

You've clearly never listened to either. Phish sound a lot more like Frank Zappa (as noted) & the Talking Heads (they have covered Remain in the Light in its entirety live, and "Cities" was a song they played frequently). They rarely sound like the Grateful Dead... jams and all. Phish's jams are much more rooted in rock.

On a side note: the next live Phish release is only 4 albums; they are the four Halloween shows where they played 4 different albums in their entirety: The White Album, Quadrophenia, Remain in the Light, and Loaded.

― aaron m, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry about the spacing...

― aaron m, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 17:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

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Oh yeah, I concur on this one. The singing on this
record makes it the hands down funniest release of the
year. The instrumentals behind it aren't too bad. I
thought he sounded more like Eddie Vedder than Hootie,
but I'm splitting hairs.

--- Glenn_Danas@alnd.uscourts.gov wrote:
> Over the weekend, a friend of mine played me this
> record by Suntanama.
> Since there are apparently members of the No Neck
> group involved with the
> Suntanama project, I figure some people on this list
> may also have heard
> the record.
>
> I truly thought the record was hipster parody. It
> actually sounds like
> "Hootie" from Hootie and the Blowfish is singing.
> The music is similar to
> Phish, or another of those types of "jam bands."
> You can almost see the
> white kids with dreadlocks doing that "chicken
> dance" while listening to
> this long player. The record is so authentic in its
> rendering of
> Hootie/jam music that it is really surprising and
> hilarious.
>
> glenn

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― steve k, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Phish are a Grateful Dead covers band without the Grateful Dead covers. Or, indeed, covers.

This is pretty funny, Phish have played SEVERAL Grateful Dead covers. Check out Limewire sometime... not to mention the entire Beatles White Album, Who's Quadrophenia, Talking Heads Remain In Light and some other album (can't remember) for their Halloween shows. They put on a "musical costume" for Halloween.

Dang.

― Mr. Serious Question Asker, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Loaded is the fourth album. They also did Dark Side of the Moon once. yes they do do a lot of covers... they've covered pretty much everyone: from Miles Davis to Pavement to Frank Zappa... and so on.

― aaron m, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 04:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't actually know any Phish phans, though that'll apparently change tomorrow.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 08:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's true, Aaron. I had forgotten that Pavement was a little obsession of Trey's for a while. He was quoted in interviews a few times, seemingly very impressed with the attitude of the band. I almost bought that Dark Side of The Moon bootleg, but I don't think I'm too fond of Phish covers. Some of them are cool, but I'm positive I like the original music much better.

― Mr. Serious Question Asker, Thursday, 22 August 2002 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

seventeen years pass...

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/ny-phish-heads-bummed-by-prairie-dogs-canceling-concert-20190822-st7bhvvgcfcv7nrkttlppag37y-story.html
the url, while delightful, buries the lede that this show was canceled over a bubonic plague scare.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link

I don't think the show is cancelled. It just looks like there was supposed to be onsite-camping in an adjacent field and that has been nixed. But that url is awesome.

― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link

right you are

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link

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