Good first set - Camel Walk makes a welcome return, they slay It's Ice again like they have the whole tour, Yarmouth Road is getting tighter and tighter, and they play a very nice, tightly wound Stash that grips at the throat and squeezes at about the 8 minute mark. You don't care.
The second...
Review of the Tweezer
This jam really has five distinct sections (in my opinion), with a final Tweezer breakdown at the end.
Regular Tweezer Jam
4:44 Jam drops- Page on Grand Piano, Fishman on open hi-hat driving beat, Gordo thumping, Trey playing subtle rhythmic melodies.
8:12 Page...
Free probably wasn't anyones guess as the opener but always welcomed. Possum gets you moving and then bam.... We enter into our first two headed monster of the tour with The Moma Dance into Ghost. 30 minutes of set 1 bliss. Funky Bitch is pretty standard, Mike's purple hair is not. What a...
I have struggled to understand Phish. When my brother, @Penn42, starting listening to them years ago they almost gave me a headache. I didn't understand what they were doing. Despite this, I agreed to go see the gorge shows of theirs in 2011. Those shows helped me understand what Phish was...
'Show had some rarities! Camel Walk, Brian and Robert, Lawn Boy, and Tela all in the same show? That alone is pretty notable! Not to mention one of the longest jams ever! This Tweezer is a great great jam. So great, in fact, that it renders any complaints someone may have about this show...
THIS is the reason why people go to Phish shows, and the reason they keep coming back for more.
When I give a show 5 stars I want it to be one where every song from the opening note to the final encore is through the roof. Then there are shows that come along which merit 5 stars for specific...
Sometimes....the stars align perfectly and each one of us is treated to something so special, that it creates a buzz that no one outside of this phamily will ever understand. What I mean by that is every phan is feeling the exact same way today. Complete euphoria and awe combined with an...
I've said this before about other shows but obviously I don't think I quite knew what the hell I was talking about.
THIS show is where IT's at.
I'll say it again.
THIS show. Is where IT's at.
My favorite band has such a tight grasp of their art right now. It's not just jamming for...
Phish continued their trek through the western states Tuesday night by musically blazing the night away in Tahoe. As a sold-out show that was available for pay-per-view live streaming, Phish picked up where they left at the Gorge and recovered from their Hollywood Bowl issues of complete jamming...
twas there.
first set runs down like this:
no bullshit CDT
funky ass Camel (HUMP DAAAAAAAAAAAAAY)
standard but rockabilly type BOTT
another top shelf 3.0 Ice
a tear jerking breather in Brian and Robert
Yarmouth gets better every time they play it
KDF - I reached for a beer and was...
One of the most magnificently focused, sustained, and enchanting improvisations in Phish history, with several discrete sections, and audience participation taboot.
Forgoes the usual bluesy Ocelet jam for a slower, dreamier jam (thanks to some superb work from Page) that builds to a low-key, satisfying peak and then rolls back into "Ocelot" proper to close.
Page-guided white water rafting trip through a buttressed cathedral of an ice cream sundae. [A spirited first-set version that dives into a lovely Page-driven dreamscape before moving at Fish's urging to a driving, hard rocking jam. The jam closes with an amusing take on the usual "Ghost" ending, as the band slows down the tempo while dropping chromatically with each note played, almost like a turntable being played at an increasingly slower speed.]
Heavy-duty "Storage Jam"-like improv. While lacking the melodic grandeur of some versions, it out-improvs nearly all other versions in a very cool space out jam.