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I have given some thought about how I will handle this “new Phish” as well.
There will be plenty of reviews posted here and other message boards, as well as phish.net. I want to avoid those like you. I think I’ll just download them within a few days and set aside some time where I can listen to the entire show at my leisure (at home rather than at work).
We all know the new shows are gunna be the worst, right?? Let’s just decide that ahead of time so we can skip all the fussin’ and the fightin’.
I fully expect Phish to descend from heaven on white stallions with tongues of fire and silver swords whenceforth they will smite all wrongdoers and decimate the nine headed dragon of Gorgoroth. Once all the evil ones stand judgement, and we reclaim this Earth as the paradise God intended, I imagine I will probably get laid (finally!). They will also open the first show with Alumni Blues. Anything short of this will be total bullshit because Trey is on crack. Fuck Phish.
^Silly. That’s the Beatles you’re thinking of.
Great post.
But I’m afraid it’ll be “Buried Alive!” my friend.
They will also play the Gamehenge saga in it’s entirety including Icculus, Mcgrupp, Llama, PYITE, and Harpua.
Free beer at the show, free doughnuts and coffee the morning after.
Don’t forget about the setbreak massage!
you mean setbreak “massage”!
^Happy ending “massage” would be best
Va. Beach, and Charlotte N.C. July 99. Maybe I was let down after Hot Lanta, but I was generally unmoved by these two. Maybe I’ll download them and give em a 2nd chance. Merryweather was a step up. Camden was better. 1st night Holmdel was unfuckingbeliavable, and 2nd night sucked donkey dick. I’m saying it is very hard for the boys to string a bunch of bad shows together. Sometimes they have tried though.
I strongly disagree if not with all those shows with night 2 of Atlanta alone, sick show.
^ No it wasn’t.
YEM has home town pride
I need a shit sandwich someone please sendspace me something dreadful
Yeah… and it’s an opinion too… frankly I’ll take most of 99 over the roxy in 93, I guess we can agree it wasn’t a catastrophic show. Man some people seem to think the quality of a show is as factual as a math problem or something.
as far as 2004 goes vegas was actually a fairly decent show minus treys voice . . . ugh sounds like drugs!!!
Sounds like way too much cocaine vapor on the vocal cords! Poor guy, instead of hating on him I feel for him, he had a HUGE problem, probably more life-threatening than any of us realize. And it’s obvious he is doing well in his recovery. As an addict myself, I respect his struggle-I mean I can’t even imagine being in a band like PHISH and being hooked on powerful PK’s and basing coke. I’m sure he just had shit thrown at him from many, many places. It’s hard enough to quit those things as it is, and that much more difficult trying to quit when you’re the frontman for Phish. Back to the topic at hand, I’d say the last week. Firstly Coventry and Hampton BLEW, Great Woods was aiiiiight, Camden rocked, and most shitty of all PHISH broke up after that week and wouldn’t play together again for over 4.5 years!!! Hard to argue with that week for me, unless you dig up some OLD pre-baby grand shows. CRACK!!!
^Yes! That’s a solid post.
… Except why do you say Hampton blew? That’s one of my favorites of all of 2004. I thought that show was great.
To play Devil’s advocate, there are only 17 shows to choose from…
runs
I have to say, I’ve been seeing lots of shows a year since '93 (the Roxy run was my first shows), and to be honest the worst week of Phish I ever saw was the final week. I heard Hampton was terrible, Great Woods left a bit to be desired, Camden was good, and Coventry was AWFUL. I’m not gonna sugar coat it, the music that was played at Coventry (albeit understandably, and excluding SOAM and a few other moments) was abysmal. The first week of summer tour in '03 was pretty unspectacular as well, particularly unspectacular even compared to other first weeks of tours. The summer, in particular, they always seemed to take a little bit to get up & going.