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General Discussions => Tribal Funk Affliction => Topic started by: Wolfman on June 18, 2004, 09:20:50 am
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Both nights were great. I have never seen Trey so talkative and just downright funny in a while. That whole Tears of a Clown fiasco is a prime example of why I love bands like these, great **** right there, no matter how bad it sounded.
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The first show had better jamming, but Fishman made last night\'s performance for me. A slightly better setlist. A slightly more fun show. On a scale of 7 to 8, I\'d have to give last night\'s show an 8.
Pitch
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Originally posted by Wolfman
Pecoraro not getting out in time to beat the traffic? I\'m dissapointed. I was parked way in near the venue, having arrrived at 3:45pm, but my buddy and I booked it after the last note and made a 100% clean getaway. The clusterfuck you experienced is the standard Mansfield clusterfuck. If you\'re not rolling within 3 minutes of the last note, you\'re waiting 30-90 minutes depending on your location. If it\'s more than 15 minutes since the show ended, your wait is 1-3 hours to get out guaranteed.
wasn\'t that kind of clusterfuck.. booked it in plenty of time.. the clusterfuck we experienced was due to teenage parking attendants not knowing how to park people, and trying to fit a bowling ball through a garden hose. still got out pretty quick, once the 20 minute ordeal was over.
i\'ve learned a lot from going to greatwoods through the years. it took me 2 hours to get out of that lot in \'99. never again. i now know what time to arrive, which lane to enter in to get near the front, and to never stay till the last note. :) got out in record time last night (at the expense of a phaddy Bouncin/Tweeprise encore, boo hoo), and were on the road enjoying the remainder of our staven apizza before you could say \'ambesol\'.
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Pecoraro not getting out in time to beat the traffic? I\'m dissapointed. I was parked way in near the venue, having arrrived at 3:45pm, but my buddy and I booked it after the last note and made a 100% clean getaway. The clusterfuck you experienced is the standard Mansfield clusterfuck. If you\'re not rolling within 3 minutes of the last note, you\'re waiting 30-90 minutes depending on your location. If it\'s more than 15 minutes since the show ended, your wait is 1-3 hours to get out guaranteed.
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Personally, I was really bored during the first set. The jams just didn\'t seem to go anywhere. To me, it was borderline noise instead of music at points. I did enjoy wolfman\'s brother though.
Second set was definitely redemption for me. Fantastic Weekapaug and Harry Hood! Jams were tight and there was a lot of energy! Hope they can carry that into tonight!
Dave, what about the clusterfuck getting out of that parking lot??? Maybe we should look into taking mountain bikes tonight....
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High quality performance. Best Birds of a Feather I\'ve ever heard, a 20-minute piece exploring territories way beyond the song with Mike leading the way. Fishman led the opening Bag, which was also solid, with a sort of punkish drum beat. Mike\'s Groove was compact and energetic with Trey shouting "Go" (I think) into the mic during Weekapaug. Dog Faced Boy continued my streak of 34 shows with always seeing at least one first-timer every show. I\'m a fan of Friday, that was a another first-timer, and was a fine contrast to the Hood that closed regulation and the Possum that shut down shop for the night. Won\'t be easy to top.
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I: AC/DC Bag, Heavy Things, Punch You in the Eye, Wolfman\'s Brother, Theme From the Bottom, Birds of a Feather
II: Mike\'s Song > I am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > Piper > Makisupa Policeman, Dog Faced Boy, Friday, Harry Hood
E: Possum
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excellent show. first set had good songs, and some really good jamming, BUT, it seemed like they got to a point in all of them where they didn\'t know what to do with it, and mostly all of the jams just evaporated abruptly... weird.. 1st set gets a 6.5 from me..
second set was fantastic. weekapaug and hood were among the best i\'ve ever heard. the \'ocean\' was a little rough (pun completely intended), but the jam out of it and into piper was on point. i believe it was only my 2nd dog faced boy, which i love, and then friday, which i\'m also a huge fan of.. madness. 2nd set gets a 9 - 9.5. it was that good.
overall, i\'ll give the show an 8.5-9. i was really, really happy with it, and look forward to more of the same tonight.
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Great show last night.......i\'m thinking alittle better than a 7...probally an 8. The weekapaug was INCREDIBLE!!!! and a solid version of hood to close the set. Looking forward for tonight, have a feeling that were gonna get somesort of old school bust out.
Hey gencs, thanks for those goodies.....they really hit the spot :)
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8/10 Pretty good show, they were definitely trying. 15 minute Bag to open the show, you know they want it. It didn\'t stack up to night 1 of Brooklyn by any means, but I think a 7 is appropriate. They jammed almost every tune and kept things moving, better than Brooklyn night 2 when there was nearly no jamming at all. Good Hood and Wolfman\'s. I went with my friend Mike, so it was kinda cool that we heard Wolfman\'s and Mike\'s Song, and the Bag opener, which we used to cover with a high school band. Good times.
I can\'t believe what happened to my tape collection. 300 tapes, 5 years of spinning and writing J-Cards and emailing and trips to the post office and cataloguing, GONE in 15 minutes. As soon as we parked I just yelled "FREE TAPES!" and the crowd was 10 deep until all the tapes were gone 15 minutes later. I hope they\'re all spinning right now.
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LOL Spelling/Grammar Patrol
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Originally posted by weekapaug19
I\'ll be their both night!!!!!! look for my drunk ass aroudn the lots
did you start early? ;)
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I\'ll be their both night!!!!!! look for my drunk ass aroudn the lots
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see ya there ..ooompah pah oooom pah pah oom pah paaaah ooom pah paaaaaaah!!!
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My ride is somewhere between Hampton and CT.....
looking to leave fro about 12:30 or so....
supposed DEG tease in Bowie last night...
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I\'ll be there and at Camden. I\'m excited, although I don\'t get that super can\'t-sleep level of excitement anymore until about 30 minutes before the show. I really hope they play Dave\'s Energy Guide and Dear Mrs. Reagan and Prep School Hippie, I\'ll be crushed if they don\'t. I am giving away my entire tape collection in the lot, over 300 tapes.
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Who else here is going? This post may be a little too late, but y\'all are free to chime in after the shows as well. I\'m so pumped, I didn\'t sleep at all tonight.
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thank you for the download...it was a good time and i look forward to hearing it in the car.
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from what I saw on TV it looked like a good time, also was pondering why Fishman was sporting a UConn t-shirt. . .
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late show download here (http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=5506). (full performance)
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Set I: Scents and Subtle Sounds, Scents and Subtle Sounds, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Wilson, Chalkdust Torture, Tweezer, Tweezer Reprise
That\'s where they played, right on top of the marquee! The first 20 minutes they were onstage were very much made-for-TV. There were about 7-8 minutes in between takes of Scents, which is an excellent Phish tune. It\'s sounds like something that should be on Billy Breathes, has a nice vocal arrangement and the different sections meld really well. There was even PA music between takes, which to me means that it was actually a setbreak. Setlists geeks, thoughts please. Right after Take II they played the shortest ever 2001, but it got people geeked out anyways because now we knew they were actually going to have some fun. Wilson was a great call, I think people probably heard the chant from Battery Park to Harlem! They kept cranking out the fun tunes the rest of the time, all songs under 6 minutes, just getting in as much as they could. The crowd didn\'t get too big, they didn\'t even close the street, it was kinda funny watching buses roll by between you and the band. People were hanging out the windows all the way up behind the band, it was pretty surreal. Hard to judge this show due to its uniqueness. They played fun songs and the novelty factor was through the roof, so let\'s just say it was a great time!
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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Lucky for me, Ill be gettin outta work on 49th and 8th at 5:30!!!
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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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imagine if it had been ol\' dirty representin the brooklyn zoo...
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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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who the **** 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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Jayz=Brooklyn.....and his latest single is a rock/rap record produced by Rick Rubin. Thats the point.
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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=**** stupid. whats the point?
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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 **** 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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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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Set I: AC/DC Bag, Camel Walk, Crowd Control, Stash, Cars Trucks Buses, Carini, My Sweet One, Character Zero > Tweezer
Set II: Wilson, Down With Disease, 99 Problems, Big Pimpin\', Chalkdust Torture, Harry Hood > Taste
Encore: Bug, Tweezer Reprise
Are they SER? These guys are charging out of the gate like their name was Smarty Jones. Nothing like opeing a show in 2004 with two White Tape era songs. First 3 songs were solid and great selections, with no real jamming. More of a let\'s-warmup-and-let-everyone-get-in feel. Nothing wrong with that. Stash was tightly played, followed by a long-awaited CTB, with some great solos. Carini slammed as always. Tweezer was a great placement because I\'m sure a lot of people thought that 0 would be the set closer. 0 really did have the place rockin\', but it\'s a ho-hum closer at this point, so to come out with a jammed out Tweezer after that was great. Tweezer was the only real jam of the short set. Overall the show was a lot shorter and ended 30 minutes earlier than last night, presumably becuase they have to get the gear to Saratoga for tomorrow.
Set II no waiting around, Wilson and an early set DWD. Bam! Decent DWD jam. The place went nuts when Jay-Z was introduced, myself included. How the hell do these 4 white dudes with a hippie jamband hang out with Jay-Z? Hey, when you\'re huge, you\'re huge. Seeing Phish play 99 Problems and Big Pimpin\' was awesome. They couldn\'t be any whiter if they rolled around in the snow. At least Fishman didn\'t try taking a verse. The only thing that could have made it better would have been if they made Jay-Z sing a Phish song. (Hmmm...I could see Fee with a hip-hop beat...) Chalkdust after that, now you\'ve got Wilson, DWD, and Chalkdust in the same set, wow. Good Hood and Taste to close. Again they threw in the extra song (Taste) after the usual set closer (Hood), I like that tactic a lot. Encore was cool again, letting the smoke go for Tweezer Reprise.
Another excellent show, strong 8/10. Not too much in terms of jamming and segues, but great selection and playing and a great guest. Can they keep posting shows like this?
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theater i was at in Branford was havin a good time as well. fred and i ducking from glowstick bombardment and meetin Tim later on in the second theater for some beers. great show..only Phish could do something like that..as far as Jay Z and the second night...wish there was a second viewing. the close ups were great on the big screen and watching the rain come down during Maze looked great.
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Originally posted by realisthis
They must have come on here and looked at my title....;)
LOL First person I thought of when I read it. It had to be better than that trainwreck Girls in Vegas. But then the mack was there so it had to be decent huh?
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They must have come on here and looked at my title....;)
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Jay-Z guesting on 99 Problems and Big Pimpin\'. OMG Phish seems to be enjoying their mainstream profile huh? Going out in STYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The close up on Trey\'s finger as he is waiting on the "silent note " in Divided was AWESOME! You could see his finger twitching in anticipation.lol Our theater was packed w/ NO COPS or SECURITY. Never been in a theater w/ smoke so prevalent. Beers snuck in and flowing. NO RAIN I wish they had thought of this earlier. Paid less than 1/2 price of a normal ticket, saw the same show w/ Great sound and my friends. It was one of the best Phish experiences I ever had. Trey has obviously been practicing and other than a few screw-ups was pretty solid. I rather like the new tunes played and the reworking of some songs like Birds and Free.
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I saw the show live last night at a movie theater right by my house... my first show since Hartford 2000... and also my last show. The theater experience was cool... obviously, it was nothing like being there, but everyone was going nuts. Great show. Loved the bass solo going into Free... definitely a highlight for me. Glad they played some old ****... I have a feeling they will busting out old **** for the rest of the tour.
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Ohh....ok, I was thinkin it was a 7:30 ticket time, so ya, that does make sense
Anybody goin to SPAC? maybe we can get a breakfast crowd game of frisbee goin or just a few beers
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7:35 start, i believe. ticket time was 7:00, so that\'s about right.
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What time did they go on last night.....it seemed like the song by song setlist was up early....i looked at 8:15 and it was 4 songs deep already
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Originally posted by davepeck
woah.. so they really did that **** to you for NO reason?! dude, if i were you, i wouldn\'t be changing my shirt at my car, i\'d be on the phone with my lawyer. damn..
The reason was that I looked the kid in the eye and said "I\'m sorry, I didn\'t know I was in your way." I thought it was no big deal, and I let it slide that he had already punched me at this point. He walked away, I walked away. Then he came back 5 minutes later. This kid could not have been more than 20, but he was a raging meathead and probably drunk. He was out to explore his power as a security staff member and to get physical with some people, that\'s it. I wrote a long email to the management already. I was over it the second I got back in though, the show was so good it made me forget all about it. :)
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woah.. so they really did that **** to you for NO reason?! dude, if i were you, i wouldn\'t be changing my shirt at my car, i\'d be on the phone with my lawyer. damn..
btw, i\'m gonna rename this thread to be the one and only phish summer \'04 thread, since we already have 4-5 \'current\' phish threads.
as for the show, i\'m mixed. mainly because i\'ve never been late to a phish show in my life, and on my 97th show, i get my first Dinner And A Movie, and i wasn\'t even there for it. :(
the plan was for justin and i to drive in, but it all started to go downhill with a couple of bad haircuts and a late departure. we hit some THICK traffic starting at exit 11 in CT, and it never lightened up. after getting to stamford and driving a half mile in a half hour on 95, we decided to get off, and take the train in to GCT.. got in, walked to the subway, and knew we would be missing a little. little did we know, it\'s a 50-minute subway ride. :( got off and started walking to the park, and heard the end of maze from the outside. by the time we got onto the field, we caught about the last minute of frankenstein, and then setbreak.
i started asking around about the setlist, and found out i\'d missed a dinner and a movie and a curtain with. ugh. i\'ve seen the curtain with before, but i missed out on my only dinner and a movie. awful. and it was pouring. spirits were pretty low at this point.
i jokingly said to justin on the way down that i hope they play a great 2nd set. they must have heard me. holy ****. this might have been the best set i\'ve seen since pre-hiatus. a neverending 46 days to kick it off, with a seamless entry into possum. oh kee pa?! yup, and as soon as it hit, i was instantly ready to start singin\' suzie! the jam after suzie was pretty much a suzie reprise. like they ended the song, but wanted to keep jamming it out. thick funk. the jam then segued into a rockin\' axilla (i was telling myself that the way they were playing, it wouldn\'t have surprised me if they pulled out an axilla2. they didn\'t, but it was still incredible). more thick funk for 2001 (with a couple of miscues on lights), and a \'forced\' segue into BOAF (the only song of the night i could have done without. didn\'t matter. we\'ll take it.). then a long discussion and dedication of the next song to the folks at shinnecock.. i thought it would be lawn boy, but it was kung instead. fun. sweet mike\'s groove (with mike\'s ending - thank you!!), with the exception of some trey rustiness on the hydrogen. divided sky encore?! WHAT??? wow.
can\'t rate the whole show, because i didn\'t see it, but i can easily say that set 2/E get\'s a strong 9 from me. great song selection, great segues, and for the most part, the playing was right on.
looking forward to more of the same tonight (with the exception of the tardiness).
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The lot story:
By complete coincidence, I\'m parked next to Walsh and Madeline. We sold lots of beer and $1 Jell-O shots. It was a lot of fun. Fin.
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The setbreak story:
During setbreak, heavy rain started pouring. A security worker near the field level entrance moved a barricade so that people could go up into the stands and under cover. He moved the barricade enough for a single file of people to go through. I was waiting to go through, but then he closed off the barricade. As soon as the barricade was closed, another security worker punched me quite hard in the back, and shouted into my ear, ?I said get the **** out of my way six times.? I had never heard him say anything. I only replied, ?I?m sorry, I didn?t know I was in your way.?
About 3-5 minutes passed and I thought nothing of what had just taken place. After this time the young worker came back with a compatriot. They both grabbed me and shoved me down onto my stomach on the metal. They began to beat me about the head, neck, and shoulders. Once I struggled my way up, they continued shoving me towards the exit. Then one of them grabbed me tightly around the neck and dragged me out completely by my neck. I never put up any resistance, preferring to just leave rather than be thrown to the ground and beaten.
This is the first concert or event of any kind I ever got thrown out of! So what did I do? I went to my car, which was about two minutes away, changed my shirt for good measure (and to get dry), and waltzed right back in the same entrance. The guy scanned my ticket and it said that it had already been scanned, but I told him that I just went out to change my shirt and he let me in. Miracle #1: Getting thrown out, then not five minutes later getting back in via the same entrance I got thrown out of! And all during setbreak so I didn\'t miss a thing.
So I get back in and realize that my keys are gone. This sucks, but fortunately I have a backup car key so I could at least get home. I watch 2nd set with Walsh, then we go out to our cars, which are next to each other. My keys are long gone. I call my roomate and beg him to wait up for me to let me into the apartment. So I\'m just standing there and this woman comes up to me, "Is that your car?" Yes, why? "I found these keys near it." Oh my god. Only on Phish lot. She wanted me to prove that it was my car though, and I couldn\'t find my registration. Then I remembered that I had my backup key, popped the trunk, and the deal was done. I offered her beer, T-Shirts, even money but she wouldn\'t take anything, just let me give her a quick hug and she was off into the night. Miracle #2 complete. I love lot.
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Set I: Song I Heard The Ocean Sing > Dinner and a Movie > The Curtain With > Sample in a Jar, The Moma Dance> Free, Nothing, Maze, Frankenstein
Set II: 46 Days> Possum, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony> Suzy Greenberg> Jam, Axilla, Also Sprach Zarathustra > Birds of a Feather, Kung, Mike\'s Song> I am Hydrogen> Weekapaug Groove
Encore: The Divided Sky
Oh. My. Goodness!
I was in favor of them hanging it up. Play out a few shows, give everyone their last chance, and then pack it in. Five years of decline would come to a respectable end, and we could all remember the good years.
Forget about me being in favor of them quitting! They can?t quit now, not after this. This was one of the very best Phish shows I?ve ever seen. Probably the best first set I?ve ever seen from them. SIHTOS is the best tune on the new album, they turned it out nicely, then straight into DAAM and into The Curtain. Now that?s a Phish segue! Curtain was nailed, then into Sample which was very well played also. Four songs deep and they stop for the first time, very nice, and three very old songs to go with the best new song, extremely nice. Moma Dance > Free, two more great Phish songs and a creative and smooth segue. Nothing was alright. Maze and Frankenstein to close set I, I mean, hold onto your hats, they?re not fooling around at all! First set = SER.
2nd Set another strong new tune to open, segued into one of their alltime classics, Possum. Then Oh Kee Pah into Suzy Greenberg?!?! Did I just go to sleep and wake up in 1988? Axilla rocked, 2001 was tight, segue into Birds was a little rough but Birds itself built into another excellent jam. They finally took a break for the first time the entire show, taking 3 minutes to decide to play Kung. It didn?t matter at this point though, they had everyone sold that this was going to be a great show. Another minute of deliberation and they went into a sweet Mike?s Groove that left nothing to be desired. All they needed to do now was put the icing on the cake and not come out with a lame encore. Done and done. Divided Sky to finish the show. Holy smokes. What a gig. For those out there who can never get enough of the old material (myself included), do you realize that the entire 2nd set after 46 Days could have been played in 1995? Or that if you take out Birds the entire set could have been played in the eighties? That is one hell of a Phish show.
I?d give this show an immaculate 9/10. I can?t believe they played this well. If this keeps up, they really might get half a million to Coventry.