This show was special for a lot of reasons both personally and historically. Amsterdam has nothing on Freeport Christiania! Amsterdam, you look through glass cases and deal with shops. Here, you dealt with sheds, made out of pallets, 2x4's and cobblestone. There was a weed garden no more than 100...
Excellent first set Down with Disease transitions smoothly into a nice Dog Faced Boy. This Tweezer->2001 to open the 2nd set is about 40 minutes long and is truely epic. I rarely use that term, epic, but I am comfortable using it here. This combo has been done only 4 times and this is easily the...
I did all the 2 set Europe 98 shows. Had a "phriend" living in Praha at the time. My college roommate and I flew into Frankfurt, bussed over to Praha, and met up with her brother who was working at Bohemia Bagel(at the time the only bagel shop in eastern Europe.) Anyways, it was cool. Praha was...
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Anyways, the first night was like a "best of" type show, although it is the longest 2 setter I've seen(even longer than the Alladin.) Stash-> Cities was sweet. Moma was fun. Honestly this is the 1 of the 3 I listen to the least.
2nd and...
I got off the plane in Copenhagen on Monday and went straight to Freetown/Christiana to check out "Den Gra Hal", where Phish would be playing the next three nights. I hung out for a bit and the word came around that the band might soundcheck. I spoke to Page - my first ever contact with the...
First set is in the good to good+ range, pretty tight, interesting song choices (I for one like a midset SOTG excursion) including two debuts, but nothing too exploratory.
The whole second set is A+. Easily my all-time favorite Ghost > a pretty great ambient-tinged Jim -> a rocking Casipan,...
First set highlights are a great Moma (which is a little bit longer/funkier/jammier than the one from the night before), and the post DWD Ambiance -> Dog Faced Boy. The Disease itself is just OK, your typical 10-minute monotone shred fest - > light ambiance -> Disease Reprise. However, the...
The first set is just a set (I can't really get worked up for The Moma Dance) until it gets to DWD, which flies along in the time-honored DWD until gradually delving into a pool of spacey noise, with Trey wringing ugly noise out of his guitar and Fish providing cymbal washes for flavor as Page...
The first show of the 1998 European Tour is a solid, song-based gig. First set highlights include a tight opening LxL, and a smooth Stash -> Cities segue. The Bowie has some moments, including a nice major mode portion of the jam before getting back to typical Bowie darkness. The second set is of...
Volcanic rock to Carmina Burana trance which passes through lush oceanic swells to the ring of fire. [Intense and fiery "Ghost" jamming morphs to pensive, melodic and dark ambient play, then brightens to upbeat and quintessentially '98 ambient transcendence.]
Emerges from a spacey "Tweezer" and creates a mesmerizing groove. All four members are on point and create a beautiful journey into the improvisational galaxy.
Intense "Type I" jam collapses into eerie space, rebuilds to "DwD" to close, then is followed by a really great 5 minute ambient jam before a masterful -> "Dog Faced Boy."