Band members instrumental talents...

fishman - fluffhead
trey - YEM
page - reba
mike - contact

Page- YEM,Maze, It’s Ice, Coil, Tube, McGrupp
Trey- Bowie, Maze, It’s Ice, Antelope (He stands out toward the end of pretty much any jam these days too)
Fish- Undermind, Some Funky Bitches, any early compositional piece. FrankenStein
Mike- YEM jam, 2001, Boogie On!, Free

Fish: Limb by Limb (vocals included), Taste (again, vocals), TTE (vocals? in and out of focus, in and out of focus? Is that fish and Page, or just Page?) Anyway, amazing drum part…

EVERY song is a good song for mike gordon to showcase himself. have you ever watched his hands during a song? i don’t think they ever stay in one place for more than a couple measures at a time :open_mouth:

Trey - Antelope
Mike - Antelope
Page - Antelope
Fish - Antelope

Yeah this is what I don’t get about Mike. I play bass, and I just cannot understand the amount of movement across the fretboard that he does. It’s extraordinary. I really really really wish I had a five-string, because that helps tremendously, but still, he plays in all kinds of different octaves and shit that is constantly changing. He is the most dynamic bass player I have ever listened to. People will say, oh Victor Wooten is better, well that’s bullshit. Victor can do some cool stuff with his bass, but as a real, functional bassist that plays with a band and doesn’t dominate the sound, Mike is the best I’ve ever heard.

I view him in exactly the same light!

^Me too. Mike is insane on bass. A drummer’s dream! Shit that goes for all four of them for that matter… :crazy:

Equally impressive are Trey’s fingers during the composed portion of Reba. :open_mouth:

especially the part where he’s playing “follow the leader” with page. that would break my concentration so fast, i could probably do that with a simple scale or something for a few bars but that part is just all over the place!

Mike-Tweezer, Ghost, 2001
Fish-Limb By Limb, Taste, Tweezer
Page-Tube, Lizards, YEM, Ginseng Sullivan
Trey-obvious. pretty much everything.

I’m not really sure what part of Reba you’re talking about. What time on the Lawn Boy version? Sometimes though, in a jam, Page is like Trey’s human loop station. I hear him copying Trey’s progressions so Trey can solo over it.

its at 4:50 in this one. trey and page play the part together then they do it again but trey follows one beat behind starting at 5:25 :crazy:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30KZHN_2DkY[/youtube]

That seems like a section where you just have to play and hope for the best.
Also, just found this on the web. Page’s “The Art of Improvisation”. Enjoy.

thebrewmusic.proboards.com/index … hread=1285

remember how perfectly they played that at knoxville?? :wtf:

Remember how that was like 10 shows after they got back together? :wtf:

Have you not listened to or gone to any shows since then? Because if not, you are missing out on a very special time in Phish’s history. I’ve actually been thinking that ever since I heard the Manchester show: these guys actually do have tremendous potential to reach a higher level than they ever have before. It may be in a different way than they did in the 90’s, but in my opinion, they are all (especially Mike) on the upswing, and they are going full-steam ahead right now. Mark my words: Phish is going to hit a high point that rivals anything they have done in the past. I think they are already on their way.

Fall '10 already has been quite a high point…the sky is the limit baby!

Set One Utica was tremendous.

Trey on 46 Days. Rock Star Trey is my favorite.
See Burgettstown version for recent domination. :thumbup: