March 12th, 1999 Toad’s Place New Haven, CT
I: Superfly Phaddy Fat, The Vermont Song, The Grand Scheme of Things* > Peaches en Regalia
* First Time Played
this had to be my first pb show, but I know i saw mokijam before this as far back as fall/winter 97.
As I recall, the first time I saw moki jam it was at toads place, and I thought the band was good, the percussionist was great, but the band was eh, whatever.
I talked with them afterwards and they were all cool, and I went to see them a few times around new haven. Then I heard they broke up. Dave pec told me one day that tim adrien and ron had left the band, and we\'re starting up something new. not moki jam, not naked society, but they were jamming with this organist from staven and it was up there with phish now. This I had to see, but I waited for whatever reasons, and it was still a few months before the toads show. I distintly remember the day dave told be about pb, and my second moki jam show though, so here they are:
It was a beutiful day at school as I was walking across the quad, and Dave cameup to me and said "I just got rift! weight is the best song ever! what an album" Dave had just started listening to phish, and he knew little compared to me at the time. That all changed in about a week and a half. daves now somewhere around 80+ phish shows and I\'m at 32; and we started with the same show! Anyway, dave kept going on and on about tims new band and that I had to check them out or I would be kicking myself for every show I missed that I could have seen. I waited, and I\'ve been kicking myself for that. I figure I missed a good 20 shows at the beginging between the time dave told me and my first show, but once I started going, I didn\'t stop untill the point of work interfering. Life was good when I would get out of work, and go see pb as part of my normal day. Ah, college.. seening pb 3-6 times a week. what a time in life.
Anyway, my second moki jam show was billed as "jazz night at toads place." I went with a girl I worked with at the college radio station bc we could get in for free, and I remembered that the percusioninst was really good. Moki jam was one of about 5 bands, and was only the 2nd or 3rd on. I didnt recognise ANYONE there. Probably because there were about 30 people in there, including all the bands and crew. it was a weird night in toads place; no gate, and all the tables were moved out in front of the stage, like a jazz club. We grabed a table right in front of the stage, and then I saw tim. went over to talk to him and he said a line I\'ll never forget: "Hey, after we play, make as much noise as you can, because we only get to do an encore if the croud likes us, and we figured out peaches in regalia, and we want to play it. So please clap." Peaches was one of the only zappa sogs I knew at the time, so we were clapping even if they sounded bad, but intypical form, they turned the croud and got to do there encore. I wish I had a camera or video camera at the time, but I\'ll never forget the look on there faces as they walked back out on the stage to play peaches. Tim never looked so happy.
The rest of that show was all jazz stuff i didn\'t know at the time, but I di remember phantastic television (or whatever the name of that song is), and Simpleton were played (not son of simpleton, but simpleton). damn... that was five years ago!!!
