Pre-Ball Odds and Ends
6.10.11 (G.Lucas)
Trey In Rolling Stone: In a short but candid interview published in Rolling Stone yesterday, Trey mentioned that Phish will be working on a new album this winter, 2012 will be light on touring, and that he is considering covering Metallica’s “Master of Puppets.” Read the whole piece here!
An interesting excerpt from Trey on the history of Phish festivals:
The festivals grew organically out of our early scene in Vermont. We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot. People always seemed to show up. I remember a big pig roast at our friend Ian’s farm one summer – everyone came and slept in the field. We did a gig at our friend Amy’s farm in Maine and suddenly it was 5,000 people. Then we went to Plattsburgh and it was 50,000. You have to keep in mind, though, that there were no festivals to speak of when Phish was doing those early ones. I remember hearing about Burning Man, but even that was just getting going in the Nineties. Now there are tons, but it all felt very cutting edge in the mid-Nineties. There was no playbook. We were making it up as we went along.
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Live Bait Vol. 5
Live Bait Volume 5: With Super Ball IX just around the corner, Phish archivist, Kevin Shapiro, dropped yet another in the ongoing series of free (MP3) Live Bait download compilations. This time, Kevin featured selections exclusively from Phish “festivals” dating all the way back to 1989. Totaling 34 tracks, this is the most extensive Live Bait to date. Download the selections here!
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Phish Thoughts Book Contest #2 Results: This time around, there was much more parity amongst the top contenders, with only two points separating 13 entries. But the only person to score 7 points was Dave Lieben! Congrats, Dave, your prognostication skills have won you a free, signed copy of Phish Thoughts: The Book! Contest #3 is now open. Make your picks for the second leg of Summer Tour, including Colorado. Get your entries in by June 21st to qualify for a free, signed copy of Mr. Miner’s Phish Thoughts: An Anthology By a Fan For the Fans! Below are the tight results of contest #2.
7 – Dave Lieben
6 – Shane Collins, Peter Jans, Lauren
5- Matty Tiscornia, Proj Mersch, Michael Pearlman, Matt Colna, Martin Foster, Kimchi McGee, J.R. Haun, Ed Mello, Don Kane
Tags: Culture
GP420: I’m cool w/ 6.17. have the sbd. but welcome your thoughts on the 6.18 and 6.19 tapes.
@kaya – is tosh deep in thought or just baned out of his skull?
I like the b&w, kaya. Adds contrast.
Just got Went Gin’d. aj was right, today WILL be a good day!
@kaya – reviews for 18th and 19th will be done early this week, then a tour summary, perhaps a best of tour playlist, then waiting for superball recordings to come out.
This place is great. driving today to work (yoga class) and remembered the warm robear hug I received upon pulling up to party central, pre-PNC 2. I’m grateful for that moment among many BB related memories. i could go on, but will skip the sentimentality.
Have met some really choice folk through this board, and those I know only digitally seem similarly choice. cheers.
I am Grade AA choice, bra.
Grade AA Choice was named after me.
That’s how fuckin sweet I am.
having a tough time eliminating fluffheads form the playlist, other than 5.29. 6.19 fluff just finished up and it’s a choice version.
GP 420: both. tosh was usually herbalized, so that’s a given. love p.tosh.
got the entire june tour on shuffle w/ some funky meters 1.14.2011 in there for variety. just about fills a 16GB iaudio player (i’ve whittled the shows down considerably, eliminating inferior versions of oft played tunes)
ahhh, kid invasion.
peace.
speaking of kid invasion, it finally dawned on me to go upstairs and take a look at the damage that 20 kids did to the play room. Whoah. Serious, serious mess.
Fuckin’ Hackbar.
Go fall into a trap.
Miner, you’d need to *cough* jailbreak *cough* unless AT&T has gotten cool with that phone recently? I don’t sell shit so I’m not a great resource.
What about using the live Phish tent? Free wifi no?
In related news, my daughter has WAY TOO many Barbies, and added to the stash considerably at the party yesterday.
Holy crap. Reba from Shoreline ’95. Actual video kicks in about 0:20. Tops 12/31/95 imho.
Was a great night to cap off a 4-day run for me. Buddy met with a phamily member pre-show, he said to expect “something special”…sold out of beer in like an hour, then within seconds of walking in the gate, my best friend from home greets me and promptly sticks 2 on my tongue. On my way out of the bathroom preshow, brushed by Tom Constanten, wearing a jacket that smelled like the Fillmore East. I knew it would be a good night. And it was!
Saturday, 09/30/1995
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
Set 1: My Friend, My Friend, Cars Trucks Buses, White Rabbit Jam > Reba, Uncle Pen, Horn, Run Like an Antelope, I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome[1], Sample in a Jar
Set 2: Runaway Jim > The Fog That Surrounds, If I Could > Scent of a Mule, Mike’s Song -> Keyboard Army, Weekapaug Groove -> Suspicious Minds[2] > Hold Your Head Up > Cavern
Encore: Amazing Grace, Good Times Bad Times
[1] Acoustic.
[2] Phish debut.
Anyone need a room for SBIX in Ithaca? My bro has extra rooms on reserve.
Holy crap indeed voopa! That Reba is beyond words. Its amazing to see the control Trey has over his instrument in ’95. I mean, obviously. But still so much fun to watch
Rock and Roll from MPP1 is pretty darn good.
@ Joe
I think Kevin put only the “Split Jam” (and not the complete song) from Coventry on the LIVEbait selection because Trey almost cried through the first verses. I can’t imagine that anyone wants to hear that again. Particularily after the Harpua jokes & laughter on the first tracks of the selection…….would have been a nice contrast though
Speaking of REBAs. If you haven’t listend to the Deer Creek 95 version (6/19/95) don’t sit on your PC. Get the tape now. ‘Cause it ain’t gettin’ better than that. Multiple peaks and such a great bluesy jam…still and always my favorite forever.
Al!!!! I pimp that Reba every few months and get ignored by all but AW! Probably my personal favorite. It always stuck out more to me than NYE.
I’m on that 6.19.95 reba like green on herb. anything else I need from that show?
Deer Creek ’95 was my first show. We had VIP box seats. Kind of got me hooked….
that was my second show. Great Bowie and a good YEM as well.
PEACE.
as usual I’m the last person to catch onto a modern album but this
Shawn Lee and Clutchy Hopkins – CLutch of the Tiger album from 2008
is great
can’t believe I’ve never heard this