What’s your take on the “Harry…Harry…” section of Hood?
Do you prefer it the old, original way with no crowd participation or do you enjoy the newer (older?) version where the crowd yells “Hood!!” (personally, I’m for the original).
Maybe you don’t really care either way. I am just curious.
So???
Harry!..Balls!..Harry!..Balls!
^tru.
I like it without the HOOD. But it doesn’t bother me when people scream it, crowd participation is nice. I just like old school better.
^ Agreed. Well put.
I’m more about not having a glowstick war EVERY TIME during the song than the “Hood” chant. That jam deserves to be the center of attention.
^ word
We also have a Individual Song section of the message board…
where this has been discussed 
^ This is true, I always wait for someone else to be “the bad guy” 
Just informing the new member
i’m one who never got over the glowstick thing. from the first time i saw it until the last, i always thought it was quite a spectacle to behold, and only enhanced the music.
it is too bad about the pointy ends though.
^ I agree, glowstick wars are never a bad thing…
Wait til yer Fiance gets one in the eye!
^agreed, I don’t have a problem with glowring wars though, or tortilla wars - there was a sick one at the gorge in '03.
The audience Hood chant really changes the feeling of the song at that point, and I really prefer the band’s interpretation of that moment in the composition better than the audience’s need to insert itself into the song. I guess there’s nothing wrong with that in some respects because it brings band and audience together, but it distorts the emotion of that moment.
After the musical ‘adventures’ that open the song, and almost soundtrack nature of the composition, as if you’re watching someone walk down the street, or go through some visual events, the intent is to call out to Harry, with a silence following, dangling as if waiting for Harry to answer.
The audience destroys this anticipation of a response or lack thereof, by following the one high note with a Hood on a lower one, thus completing the phase and changing the intent from a “Harry are you there?” type of question to a “Harry Hood” demonstrative statement as if to say Harry is Harry Hood.
I like the unanswered question much more because that’s what makes the ending of the song connect to the beginning. The song is about the unknown, and falling into confusion and misery over it (death), the journey into non-existence, with a definite rebirth at the end, the answer to the intial question.
Whether Trey intentionally or unintentionally realized it, the Hood composition is undeniably rich in classical music structures and mythical archetypes, but that’s only part of what I came to this thread about.
Got to download my first show yesterday onto digital format (thanks to Will’s help). It was 08/14/97, the Darien Lakes Ken Keasey show, and I now have my first and one of my favorite Hood’s on a more portable format than the tapes I’ve had since right after the show.
This is really such a wonderful Hood, and the open jam the followed it before the Forbins just makes it some of the most enjoyable twenty minutes of Phish music for me. I know I’ve touted this version before on this thread, but it never fails to stir such a positive emotion in me that I have to talk about it or I feel I would bust open.
Plus having been there, a flood of visuals come streaming back for me, that just makes it all the more meaningful. What a great time that was. Believing that Hampton will rival that for sure.
^ excellent point
When did people start yelling ‘Hood!!’ ??
I don’t yell Hood. I’ve only seen it twice, but I refuse to. Let the band play the song the way it was meant to be played. I think we should organize some kind of audience participation thingy by getting people to participate in Hood by being QUIET during the Harry part. It doesn’t really bother me when I’m seeing them live I guess, but I really hate hearing it on the recordings.
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Totally, down with teh “Hood” response…I’ve always hated it. For that matter down with singing along with the entire song, I’m sick of hearing two guys and a girl with horrible voices singing over the vocals. Sing in your head!
I love the Hood chant. You guys need to lighten up.
i don’t mind the Hood chant, but Fone’s post makes a lot of sense to me. it would be kinda cool to experience Harry the way it’s meant to be experienced. but really it dosen’t make a whole lot of difference to me; that song is so good it really can’t be ruined for me unless Phish themselves decide they want to ruin it.
i wonder if it started as an official ‘audience participation’ move, much like we have been trying to start the D.Sky hum…?
which leads me to another thought: if that ever does catch on, i wonder if there will be future threads lamenting the hum, wishing for the return of the humless days of old? i LOVE the idea of the zen-like hum. think of how that would affect the band. i imagine they would probably love it equally and it would probably result in some pretty bombastic jamming and a greater sense of band/audience unity.