Midwestern Memoirs
Alpine 2010 DVD/CD Box Set
Before we begin to analyze a blazing Fall Tour, today let’s take a preview at Phish’s upcoming DVD/CD release from this past summer at Alpine Valley. Commemorating August 14, 2010, one of the Summer most impressive shows, the box set also includes highlights from the following night at the legendary Midwestern shed. With a release date of December 14, only four months from the performance itself, this is – by far – the quickest turnaround we’ve ever seen from a show to an official release. The three hours of music was recorded using 57 channels of digital multi-track and then mixed and mastered in 5.1 Dolby surround and PCM stereo. The video features a 7-camera shoot, recorded and post-edited in High Definition. Pre-orders, available now through Dry Goods, will include a bonus CD entitled “Phish: Wisconsin Edition,” featuring highlights from Phish’s fourteen-year history at Alpine Valley.
Highlights of August 14 at Alpine include the sublime “Disease > What’s The Use?,” an exquisite “Reba,” and the second set “Mike’s Dirty Sally Groove.” Selections from both sets of the night two are included as bonus footage on the DVDs. Featured from the first half of August 15 are “AC/DC Bag,” “On Your Way Down,” “Divided Sky,” “Stealing Time” and “David Bowie.” While the opening sequence of the second set – “Ghost > Theme > Big Black Furry Creatures From Mars” – fills disc two. Check out some video and audio clips from the upcoming release below.
8.14.10 - (Dave Vann via Phish)
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Jams of the Day: (From upcoming release)
“Disease > What’s the Use?” 8.14.10
[audio:http://phishthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/20100814ph_d2t02-03_Down_With_Disease-Whats_The_Use_edit.mp3]“Dirt” 8.14.10
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Video Clips:
“Reba” 8.14.10 I
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“Bug” 8.14.10 II
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“Down With Disease > What’s the Use?” 8.14.10 II
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8.15.10 (Dave Vann via Phish)
Smoking cigs for me is something that is triggered at shows When I’m drinking, rolling, electric ..etc. Just one if those things. I never smoke in my normal, everyday life.
Just had a Palmer family Friday night dance party to the AC 2001. Even the baby was bouncing.
C, wrapping batteries in tinfoil just connects the circuit right? Does it just get hot? We used to try and make them explode when I was a kid by unfolding a paper clip and trying to complete the circuit. Same idea?
re: Boise I srsly doubt that the jam itself was practiced per se, though you never know when one of these big thematic jams they drop is something that came up in the practice room at some point before. However I don’t think there’s any question that they blow up rooms like Boise on purpose. If I had to guess I’d say they all just knew going into it that since it was a locals and hardcores only, off the beaten path show, they wanted to go big if they could, and they found a way to do it
i mean, let’s hope some nights Trey says “hey Mike lets kill it tonite”
yeah Mitch they started getting hot and stinking, giving off fumes from the foil
Are any tracks on the TAB out for the new studio Album?
Use steel wool with a9 volt and you got a fire. prefereably 000 steel wool
that Boise show was fun
this fall def has the consistency you expect from the band
I won’t comment on the other tours. def were pretty up and down for me.
but this fall was pretty straight up all the way through. no true clunkers just a handful of boring rock based shows but nothing too bad
a bunch of top rate shows. a few scorchers. tons of highlight jams
like this fuckin Stash. damn
but how do you really feel about that stash?
to be clear I don’t think they say “hey you know that wicked E-flat major jam we came up with in practice, let’s blow that thing up out of DC Bag as a kickdown for these Boise kids” but I can def. see them walking onstage for that second set knowing that they wanted to hit one out of the park
I have no idea if the boise jam has anything to do with e flat major, that was just my made up musician talk
Is it December 30th yet?
yes it is Palmer
you’re missing the show RIGHT NOW
@Duke – yes, i brought that rumor to the BB. but with reason – lillywhite himself told my good friend flat out that he had an idea for a concept album and he brought it to trey and trey was all for it.
I imagine there is some conversation at set break as far as Fish playing so many bars of a certain feel and then dropping into this beat and so on
I think there are more blueprints going into those jams as far as feels and turns but not pre planned melodies usually.
but I doubt they are usually just feeling AC/DC bag that night so they go nuts on it.
probably some forms of the idea put out there I imagine for a song that’s usually played straight like Bag.
hot bag at UIC 98 also.
well, trey likes everything, right? in the moment I mean
About 2 minutes in to the Camden CDT , Trey walked over to mike and told him something. Plain as day. Saw it at show and on the subsequent video release. So, that was planned IMO. Of course he could have told him to check out a chick in the front row, but I think it was music related.
man it’d be nice to read an interview where someone actually asked the band questions like this
I guess my point was a Tweezer or Light would have a better chance of just stumbling into an open jam than a AC/DC bag or a Poor Heart or a Chalkdust
I’m sure the more open style songs have more organic jam discoveries like some of the Greek one’s
I wonder who could do said interview???
I will
Hey Trey
How come you play these first sets that fuckin suck?
Just posted my source review for 10-31-10. I know its late, but c’est la vie. I went with the AKG source, though the taylorc MK41 source is really equally excellent, the AKG source has slightly better highs.
Jibboo->Gin is the segue you speak of, Mr C. Wild drop into Gin
I think about that sometimes as well: how can Phish go from a huge run like Augusta/Utica/Providence or Camden/MPP, then not consistently build on those shows as the tour goes on? It just seems really strange that we never saw anything like the MPP I Saw It Again set in summer, although Fall did pick up after Amherst.
I still think some of the jams from the Gorge 2009 are some of the best improv of 3.0, for that matter.
MPP 2009 46 Days came completely out of nowhere, in a relatively mediocre set. Same with Cobo 46 Days – if Phish can just pull big jams out randomly, seemingly whenever they want to, why do they play shows like Amherst?
I’m going to go spin the MPP 09′ 46 Days for the first time in awhile. Excited.
oh sure
just as simple as saying “Chalkdust to open, but let’s take it out, so Fish you do X at point Y and we’ll ride it”
it’s probably all over the map really
some completely contrived, some kind of outlined, some totally spontaneous