Retro Post: Exploring on the Eighth
8.15.11 - UIC Pavilion (Michael Stein)
Today, I’ll let my blog do my work for me. Here’s a link to last year’s December 8th installment of December jam memoirs, a series of posts in which I tracked the calendar using Phish jams. The intro is below.
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Today, our December focus shift onto two sprawling excursions that took place on the eighth day of the month in 1995 and 1999. Both selections — Cleveland’s “Tweezer > Kung > Tweezer” and Cumberland County Civic Center’s “Piper” — feature musical explorations that veer far off the beaten path, providing snapshots of the band’s experimental side as seen through the lenses of 1995 and 1999…Read On!
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Jam of the Day:
“Piper > Dog-Faced Boy” 12.8.99 II
Part of a stellar second set at Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine. Read about it in the article linked above.
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VIDEO OF THE DAY: “Jennifer Dances” 12.7.99 II
One of the three December ’99 performances of the much-maligned tune. I’ve always wondered, “What’s not to like?”
I’m just sittin here watchin the wheels go round and round, I really love to watch them roll. love me some solo Lennon.
Listened to Bag > Slave while making dinner with the slf tonight. She dug it more than other long jams I’ve put on (maybe it was the CD qualiy?) we ate, then had beverages.
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97 Phish would’ve slayed Fame by Bowie and Lennon.
@BB I just scored a 30th! 400 level, but whatever. Up top in MSG can be fun ! I was upstairs behind the stage for the 12/30/95… After all of this time, that one still stands up to everything else I’ve seen live.
that ticker, on the top of the page, looks sexy with the days in the teens
Need 1 NYE
evan DOT hirschhorn AT gmail
7-3 is it?
Woot woot esteban! congrats!
Nice esteban!
The end of that game in the last 4 minutes put 25 pts to my FF.
You guys are the best. And those are NYC taxi cabs on 42nd street in my gravatar pic. Wish I could be there.
FZ: Good night!
John Lennon: Good night, thank you!
Yoko Ono: Thank, thank you
John Lennon: We’d like to thank Frank for having us on here
Yoko Ono: Yeah, he’s great, isn’t he? He’s the greatest . . .
If anyone saw glowing hot pink shirts at the Gorge or in Denver that read “Jennifer Dances” on them that was us, I think we had close to 50 at the Gorge. Look for mine behind the stage at MSG – you can’t miss it!
A little less salt, in the gravy tonight!
see y’all at MSG!!!!
I’m going to intentionally put a kink in here.
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