Good point.
The LW version is extended ever-so slightly…crisp jamming throughout!!
12/11/99 show opener. I love the idea of taking songs that usually go somewhere and sticking them somewhere else entirely.
The 12.18.99 show opener is an excellent hood!! Really good stuff…nice and long. The YEM to close the same set is a must-hear also!
I know I’ve bored you all with my sorrows about me breaking up with my girlfriend, and even started a thread about it. But, this morning on the way to work i hit shuffle on my stereo and Hood came on. It made me feel a bit better (along with all of your suggestions) and I actually cracked a smile… what can Phish do for you?
me too!!
Space is underrated, yes.
But space has no place in “Hood.”
Is Harry Hood the most popular song to follow the HYHU sandwich?
I think so…
I tried to consult the Companion for official statistics, but, alas, no stats were provided.
Definitely, Possum and Cavern also.
Mentioned it earlier this morning… listened to the Cypress Hood last night and it just put me in an amazing mood.
A lot of great stuff going on, Bill mentioned it was one of his favorite half hours of music (along with the HOT GTBT after the Hood). Trey using a lot of loops, quite a bit going on. VERY enjoyable.
personally, i like the 7.16.94 sugarbush hood the best. Its the type of thing I listen to when im driving 90 on the highway, and the divided sky tease is sick.
^ There’s some red and blue lights that are shining right behind me. That pig’s a pretty mean bastard!
Wahoo!
5-17-92 is gorgeous.
Trey’s playing is incredibly mellifluous. It seems as if he knows where he wants the notes to go before he hits them…all of them more or less nailed perfectly in the peak!
Fish is crashing down with the cymbals! Here comes Page!
You definitely can feel good about Hood.
10/29/94 may be my new favorite version.
so there
now you know
and thats good
to know
and
stuff
but
seriously
have yourselves a listen
good stuff
k
bye
peas
There’s
always
another.
Until
there
is
not!
11/12/94 - Kent, OH
Outstanding Hood from a great show. This show is up on etree now, and the recording is top notch!
Great Lengthwise tease in 1993-02-04!
Gooooooo Trey! Yeah! Woohoo!
Love the guys at GhostOfWayneFontes!
http://ghostsofwaynefontes.blogspot.com/2007/12/gowf-10-favorite-harry-hoods-of-all.html
I remember when I bought A Live One in the Autumn of '95. I had heard the BATR from that release on the local college radio station, and thought the arrangement so unique, that I thought I would give this group, Phish a second listen after not really connecting with A Picture of Nectar that I had purchased the year before.
There was a lot of music on ALO that I dismissed in the same way I dismissed APON, mostly the atonal and unstructured sections of Stash, the Tweezer and Chalkdust jams. I was just unable to comprehend what Phish was all about at that time in my life.
But I stayed with the album thank gawd, and with Phish, mostly because of the Harry Hood (10/23/94 Gainsville) on ALO. It almost instantly became one of those songs that I just couldn’t get enough of. If BATR was the song that sparked my interest enough to get me listening to Phish again, it was this Harry Hood that motivated me to stay with the music and understand all of the other incredible things that Phish did with their sound.
I’m high on this Hood at the moment, having listened to it this morning on the way into work. I had reached the parking lot much before it ended but couldn’t dare turn it off without listening it to the very end. It once again gave me the chills that certain Phish versions are always able to do, not matter how many times I’ve heard them in the past.
I have many friends and relatives who, over the past couple of years, have asked about Phish and wondered whether I’ve moved on from my “obsession” with them. And although, quite honestly, I haven’t been listening to them quite as much as I have in the past, in my mind, there still isn’t any music that gets me so excited and in awe of my own reaction to it as Phish music.
I couldn’t understand or explain my reaction ten plus years ago, and I still can’t explain why I had to listen to the end of Hood before stepping out of my car this morning. If this is an addiction that closes my ears to other things, I still don’t care. I really don’t need anything else at times than a good dose of Phish to make me happy, and make all the four points of the world come into perfect balance.
Thanks, my friends, for being some of the few people in this existence who understand my divine madness. If I couldn’t regurgitate this to someone who shares in this with me, I would probably just bust open from the frustration.
So from one Phish lover to another, all I can hope for is that you’ve also had your dose of Phishy samadhi, and are walking more lightly on your feet as well. Have a great day!