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« Reply #15 on: June 19, 2004, 02:24:40 pm »
I find it hilarious that after Trey mentioning not wanting to be a nostalgia act  the songs best played are all old tunes!!
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« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2004, 03:39:29 pm »
I: AC/DC Bag, Camel Walk, Crowd Control, Stash, Cars Trucks Buses, Carini, My Sweet One, Character Zero, Tweezer

II: Wilson > Down With Disease, 99 Problems*, Big Pimpin\'*, Chalk Dust Torture, Harry Hood**, Taste

E: Bug, Tweezer Reprise

* Jay-Z cover; first time played; with Jay-Z; Cyro Baptista on percussion.
** unfinished. :(


well, i started writing this early this morning.. got busy, and now here it goes.

i\'m gonna have to disagree with wolf about this show. to me, this was a show to find out if phish was for real on this tour or not. they teased me in the beginning, and almost had me, but then it just reminded me of what the last couple years have been like.

first of all, song selection = very good. on paper, i think this show looks very very promising. and starting things off with acdc/camel walk gave me goosebumps, because i was expecting more of what i got the night before.

but i dunno.. it just seemed like the energy wasn\'t there. even with carini, a hard hitting phish song that i\'m usually banging my head to, didn\'t have it on this night. this show was filled with all of the flubs, uncertainty, and lack of energy that i\'ve seen for the past few years (post-hiatus). first set, great song selection, but lack of energy had me hoping for a better second set.

wilson - great kickoff, but again, a slamming song that didn\'t slam. very rushed. no build-up to either \'now you got me back thinkin...\' or \'blat, boom...\'. there\'s usually a good jam before the former and a good pause before the latter to get you ready for them, but trey rushed right into both, and imo, took the balls out of it.

dwd was good. i got a little teary-eyed actually, because the \'waiting for the time when i can finally say, this has all been wonderful, but now i\'m on my way\' line really got me thinking about how this was it, and after this summer, i wouldn\'t have this any more. i really enjoyed the dwd.

the jay-z intro was great! i was pumped. and as soon as i heard him say \'if you\'re havin\' girl problems i feel bad for you, son\', i SCREAMED \'i got 99 problems but a bitch ain\'t one!!\'. incredible. great guest work there.. jay-z left while the band jammed out the end of big pimpin, and they closed it and immediately went into chalkdust. i was happy to hear another rockin\' song, but the flubs killed it. trey rushed into the verses in the beginning - fine. but he completely forgot how to come out of the jam/solo in the middle, and a whole section of the song was left out. it\'s just not good when phish is playing jay-z songs better than phish songs.

hood - a personal favorite, and another forgotton song. unfinished. not like the \'97 unfinished hoods - this one trey clearly forgot the end (page was trying to go into it, but trey never followed). it eventually dissolved into nothing, and they started a pretty weak taste. bah.

encore was decent, but expected. overall, absolutely nothing like the night before, even though i only caught 2/E the previous night. i\'ll give it a 6/10, with the song selection saving it from a 4-5.

that said, i\'m still not convinced either way about what band is touring right now. it won\'t be till august that i see them again, but i\'m hoping they get it together over these next few shows.

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« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2004, 11:31:05 am »
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99 Problems*, Big Pimpin\'*,

Lame. i didn\'t see/ hear it, but come on, Jay-z, thats bullshit. Mainstream rap sucks. mainstream rap+phish during their last tour=fucking stupid. whats the point?
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« Reply #18 on: June 20, 2004, 12:39:38 pm »
Jayz=Brooklyn.....and his latest single is a rock/rap record produced by Rick Rubin. Thats the point.
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« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2004, 12:55:06 pm »
who the fuck cares?
i dont see the connection except for obviously brooklyn. why not collaborate with some real musicians like new years w/ george clinton.
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« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2004, 01:09:05 pm »
Jayz is an excellent 33 yr old performer who brings soo much energy to his live performance...One of the best mcs of all time...Beasties? Booooring If Phish brought out 50 cent I might also have a problem with it, but Jayz? Nah
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« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2004, 06:20:54 pm »
imagine if it had been ol\' dirty representin the brooklyn zoo...

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« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2004, 07:23:13 pm »
PHISH ON BROADWAY TOMORROW EVENING

When Phish plays the Late Show with David Letterman on Monday night, they will perform from the top of the Ed Sullivan Theatre marquee (about two stories up from the street) at 53rd and Broadway in New York City. The band will perform their first song at the end of the Letterman taping. After the show ends, the band will perform an additional 20-25 minutes for fans.

The best place to watch the band perform will be on the far side of the street opposite from the Ed Sullivan Theater. The band will not perform UNTIL 6:25 PM. PLEASE DO NOT SHOW UP ANY EARLIER THAN 6:15 PM.
Is this crazy or what?  These guys are really just Blowing up!! What else are they gonna pull off before calling it quits? LMAO
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« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2004, 10:04:34 pm »
Lucky for me, Ill be gettin outta work on 49th and 8th at 5:30!!!
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« Reply #24 on: June 21, 2004, 06:40:01 am »
jay-z\'s guest appearance with phish was approximately 463 times better than when bb king sat in last year. don\'t know how long you\'ve been into phish, but inviting guests up when they\'re in the NY/NJ area is pretty traditional for them.

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« Reply #25 on: June 21, 2004, 03:14:26 pm »
I: Rift, Julius, Won\'t You Come Home Bill Bailey*, Waves, Gumbo, Water in the Sky, Horn, Poor Heart, Drowned

II: 7 Below> Ghost> Twist, You Enjoy Myself

E: Good Times Bad Times

*with Page\'s dad singing vocals and doing some olde timey tap dancing


*YAWN*

Well, this was probably my last Phish show. Talk about anticlimactic. This show was SO BORING that I sat in a tree half the night. The energy was never there in Rift. Julius I can\'t give a good opinion of because I was all the way on the far left of the lawn and you can\'t hear anything clearly back there, but it sounded ok I think, and I was glad to hear it. Bill Bailey was fun, Page played some ragtimey sounding stuff at one point that was pretty cool, but it was more about the novelty of his dad being on stage than the music itself. Who wrote that song anyhow? Waves sent me to the beer cage. Gumbo unfortately I was still in the cage for, so it\'s hard to say exactly how good it was, but I think it was decent. Anyhow I was dancing and spilling beer all over myself so I think it was pretty good? Boy I was really drunk, I shouldn\'t be commenting on any of this. Nothing else in the first set is really even worth commenting about anyhow. Drowned just about drowned me with its redundant jamming.

Twist, according to most of the people I soke with after the show, was the "highlight." Jesus Mary and Joseph if Twist is the highlight of a show...... ugh... Ok, it was long. I\'ll give them that. But who cares? It didn\'t go ANYWHERE. I thought it was exceptionally LAZY. Maybe I have just gotten used to pb\'s more aggressive playing so this sounded dull..... But I felt like with a lot of the jams last night they were just playing loops over and over and over.... YEM was bare bones. Can\'t tell ya much about GTBT, because I left to try and beat the rush, which I didn\'t... I would have liked to have heard that one too. I heard it was good. But then again, people will spin around in circles to anything these days!

Which brings me to another topic of vexation.... DO PEOPLE HAVE EARS? Come on, make the band work for it just a little!
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« Reply #26 on: June 21, 2004, 03:18:37 pm »
I bet whoever was at the show last night is going to come on now and say how fabulous it was. Perhaps I am being overly critical, or, maybe it\'s just that I don\'t like Phish that much. That\'s probably the root fo the problem.

And I don\'t like Doughboy either! ba bam!
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« Reply #27 on: June 21, 2004, 04:03:25 pm »
2 hours to ROOFTOP SET!  I am PSYCHED!  Broadway is gonna be toast.  I can\'t wait to see how this works out.  They could get 10,000 people to show up to this, and it only takes a crowd of about 1,000 to pulverize a block.  This is gonna be fun!

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« Reply #28 on: June 21, 2004, 06:35:32 pm »
SPAC center had some great highlights and some great jams...Seven Below and Drowned.the show was a blast and the huge marshmellow war before the show was nuts.
sleep a lot...eat a lot, brush em like crazy. Run a lot...do a lot, never be lazy..

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« Reply #29 on: June 21, 2004, 06:47:30 pm »
See that\'s just the thing. They played fine. Clean. good. great. Drowned went on and on. (and on, and on....) but I just felt that it went... nowhere. *sigh*
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