TTFT: A Big Jump—Summer ’09 Leg II
7.31.09—Red Rocks (Graham Lucas)
Come Leg Two of Summer ’09, Phish ditched their largely linear jams of June and started to explore again. Beginning at Red Rocks and carrying through The Gorge and beyond, the band seemed more confident taking risks on stage during August. Playing far more confidently than in June, Leg Two felt like a breath of fresh air, and many started to believe again. The jams below represent the best of Leg Two ’09.
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“Split Open and Melt” 7.31 II, Morrison, CO
This menacing mind-fuck provided the soundtrack to an oncoming storm. The interaction between the weather and the music was surreal. Check out the video!
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“Tweezer” Red Rocks 7.31 II, Morrison, CO
Grade A, certifiable Phish crack. At the time, this jam felt like the best thing since sliced bread.
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“Disease > Limb” 8.5 II, Mountain View, CA
The most exploratory “Disease” in a summer full of highlight versions.
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“Sneakin’ Sally” 8.7 I, George, WA
A left hook that the audience never saw coming, this “Sally” jam commenced the deeper magic on a mystical night at The Gorge.
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“Light -> Taste” 8.7 II, George, WA
At the time played, this was the most impressive version of “Light” the band had played.
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“Bathtub Gin > Hood” 8.7 II, George, WA
A second set “Gin”of the likes we are salivating for these days—and a serene and delicate “Hood” to cap off the set.
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“Rock and Roll” 8.8 II, George, WA
Though night one at The Gorge was—in my opinion—the show of 2009, this jam the following night vaulted to the top of the weekend.
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“Drowned” 8.13 II, Darien Center, NY
Back on the east coast, Phish kept the improvisational engines running, though to the tune of about once per show.
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“46 Days > Oh! Sweet Nuthin” 8.15 II, Columbia, MD
This dark horse jam amidst a crappy show at Merriweather is a stunning convergence of all four band members. Moving from murky psychedelia to glorified pastures of gold, this one is a keeper—even now.
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“Number Line > Twenty Years Later” 8.16 II, Saratoga Sp, NY
The band finished off the summer with a centerpiece sequence that highlighted two new songs, and when this tour ended, the entire community was pretty jacked on the Phish.
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Tags: 2009, Jams, TTFF
I think Capitalism is a big problem by it’s very terms. I do not think that free markets are ever the answer. I also do not think any type of global economy will work.
Capitalism does not “work” if we defining “working” as facilitating life.
Capitalism is inherently unsustainable and it breeds hatred and competition and destruction.
The goal and end of capitalism is profit. In a world of limited resources unchecked growth will ultimately lead to destruction.
Even with good politicians a democracy that supports capitalism is defending a capitalist’s right to more profits.
And the problem with democracy that is supported by capitalism is that while we are trying to vote people out, people are starving, the environment is damaged (beyond repair? we shall see, but looking more and more like it is) and species are extinct.
Democracy cannot make real changes. One reason is because it was never intended to allow real change.
The argument that it is possible to use democratic means to achieve change is irrelevant for those cultures and species who were extinguished while democracy took it’s time.
It’s also irrelevant for those who do not find themselves in the social class where time is not an issue.
The United States (and other colonial powers including China, GB, France, Germany, etc) sustains itself on the backs and resources of the entire world.
As I see it, government as we know it must cease to exist if the world is to be saved.
And it can be done. Ask the Navajo about life before capitalism and western forms of government. Ask the Maori. Ask the Gaels.
I’d even encourage you to ask the Pawtuckets, the QuaQua, the Yazoo
but they don’t exist anymore.
Amtrak is moving from Penn Station into the old Post Office. A recent article in the Times gave a solid overview of the clusterfuck that is Penn Station and what it would take to make it better. Just moving Amtrak is only scratching the surface
Sadly, moving the Garden is the key to srsly improving Penn Station
One solid sounding proposal is moving it westward where the Javits Convention Center now stands
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Weights & running go awesomely well when paired with Pyramid’99 set 2: Jibboo, 2001, DWD, BBreathes
.. and most of that time was spent listening to the anarchists argue with the socialists about process. Crikey!
Good luck fly!
I’m not a big biker @Kaveh, but I’ll keep a look out. just got a bike last summer and mostly learning that I am soft on the trail. falling on a mt bike hurts.
And that’s the point I was trying to make @MiA – go to the forest and tell that 10% of the trees are not getting 90% of the light!
falling on a mt bike hurts.
^ Just don’t do that then.
Got to learn somehow. Galbraith Mountain is pure pleasure.
As the maples scream ‘Oppression!’
And the oaks just shake their heads
and by the way, I don’t think you guys are being assholes, MiA and Snow
we just see things differently
no need to feel bad or soften your stance. this is how learning happens.
plus, you guys are way more accepting than my roommates. sometimes, we are at a bar and I have to leave I get so worked up.
we’re not even close to being disrespectful, here. At least, not what I’ve read.
Im into that corner office and at the opera socialism, seems posh.
In is interest how – one can try to level society as you will – someone always ends up on top
That’s unavoidable; evolution & hierarchies go hand in hand
And in other news….Woo-hoo! First tick discovery of the new year!
Oh shit, silly’s back when I was going to get some work done.
respect my man. thanks. you too MiA, I find your comments provoking too.
i hear you on your critique of american capitalism as they are. but what are you going to do? who do you think could change things? Do you think obama has a peace and equality button that he refuses to push?
snow,
you’re comparing the global military industrial complex to tall trees and slow gazelles. it’s safe to say we’re not seeing the same ‘it’.
making this a difficult discussion online.
AJ, those guys want everyone else below them be equals. Except them. Same corrupt guys as anyone else.
“In is interest how – one can try to level society as you will – someone always ends up on top
That’s unavoidable; ”
let’s have a bell curve instead of a steeply sided pyramid, for starters.
“but what are you going to do?”
Sisyphus, Snow. Push the rock up the hill out of love.
If you love something, does it matter if it’s change is impossible?
I think the parents out there understand this better than me. If you have a child who is an addict, do you ever stop loving that child, trying to help that child out of it’s addiction?
Well, this world is our child. If we love it, we’ll try and save it, even if it’s not possible.
“who do you think can change things?”
Not sure. But, that doesn’t mean we don’t try. Plus, there are things we can do on a small level. You can tie yourself to the next redwood they are going to cut down.
Just because I won’t do it out of fear, does not mean it’s not the right thing to do.
Here’s a Derrick Jensen quote that hit me hard, and is apt I believe:
“For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities”
Do you think you can “institute” a bell curve?
only with thorough discussion and understanding on a large scale, mike
not getting cats to understand that on here, does make it seem all the more difficult
And I didn’t mean to leave you out Robear, I have great respect for you too.
I’m all for the bell curve instead of the pyramid too. I would even prefer the equal distribution. The problem is: how do you get there? Every system humanity has ever devised leaves the foxes guarding the hen house.
Mmmmmmm singletrack……
Mmmmmmm singletrack……
^THIS!
Iran is more of a theocratic oligarchy.
what if it were spherical?
“evolution and hierarchies go hand in hand”
I’m always wary of evolution. Has had some negative connotations over the years. Social darwinism, of course.
And, I really believe there’s a difference between social hierarchy and the wealth disparity we have now.
Maybe hierarchy is unavoidable (and all Sumodie said was it was unavoidable, he did not talk in terms of degrees, so I don’t mean to direct this at him) but we can certainly alleviate it’s effects. And the unavoidable nature of hierarchy should not stand as an excuse for the wealth disparities we have now.
I’ll make way more money and have a better quality of life than a South American goat herder, but am I evolutionarily superior to him?
In related opinions of Silly:
What humans are doing to the earth is not the drawn out sustainable evolution that takes place over millennia. No, we’re destroying at a pace the world simply has never seen.
Ok, ok, a meteor probably killed the dinosaurs. But, the dinosaurs were extinct. I don’t want to be extinct.
What humans are doing to each other might be a super-mutate-fucked up kind of evolution, but do we really want this?
Hierarchies may be unavoidable, but so is death. Doesn’t mean we excuse death because it’s unavoidable.
I don’t have time to take part in this political debate, but Robear, it seems like you consistently equate pragmatism with a lack of idealism, which seems to not be a fair conclusion in many cases. You shouldn’t discount people’s ideals simply because they advocate for what they see as realistic positive change…
Not every system has left the foxes guarding the hen house.
Indigenous cultures were doing pretty well before the west wanted their land.
Pirates in the garden…
Of course, there is going to be power struggles in local cultures, but they are on such a smaller scale that they do not threaten the existence of human life on the planet.
We must talk degrees. Human nature is no excuse for nuclear weapons. Human nature is no excuse for persistent colonialism.
The Ojibway didn’t colonize Africa.
The Anansi did not force opiates on China.
there were wars between indigenous cultures, of course. But NEVER on the scale that Europe introduced. Indigenous cultures simply were not interested in that level of domination.
there’s a difference in “human nature” at that point.
True PB. Iran is kinda a theocratic oligarcy. As is The Vatican.