TTFF: Energy and Exploration—Fall ’09
MSG—12.2.09 (Wendy Rogell)
After Summer ’09 and Indio—featuring a masterful take on Exile on Main Street and a well-loved acoustic set—the energy and anticipation was sky high for Phish’s first all-indoor, fall tour since 1997. Historically, things got crazier when Phish took their show inside the walls of arenas across the country, but when Fall ’09 started, that wasn’t necessarily the case. Jamming not so frequently and often in linear fashion, while relying on high energy rock and roll, the band perplexed many fans by their on stage decisions. But on the second night of Albany, someone put something in the water backstage, and the band came out and tore through 50 of the most sublime minutes of music since they had returned in “Seven Below > Ghost.” The band went on to finish the final week of tour on this crest of momentum, and getting into far more interesting jams on the way. This musical momentum would come to a head in Miami over New Year’s Run, the band was finally on the same page and moving into the future. Enjoy these Fall ’09 highlights as we fade into the weekend.
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“46 Days” 11.18 II, Detroit, MI
In the first set of fall, Phish got into an infectious and retro funk jam that melted into an ambient soundscape.
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“Split Open and Melt” 11.21 I, Cincinatti, OH
Possibly the best “Split” of this era from the third set of four at The Crown.
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“Disease > Twenty Years Later” 11.24 II, Philadelphia, PA
A gorgeous jam amidst a smoking show at the Wachovia Center.
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“Seven Below > Ghost” 11.28 II, Albany, NY
The night everything turned around.
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“Undermind” 11.29 I, Portland, ME
A lively take on the 2004 title track featuring lockstep interplay between Trey and Mike.
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“Light > Slave” 12.2 II, NYC, NY
“Light” had been expanding throughout the fall, but this version set a new improvisational paradigm for the 3.0 vehicle.
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“Disease > Piper” 12.3 II, NYC, NY
The improvisational centerpiece from the second night at MSG—a furious song pairing with a level of jamming spurned on by the events in Albany of November 28th. A very different “Disease” jam than the delicate Philly rendition.
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“Reba” 12.4 I, NYC, NY
An urgent, yet blissful, jam that reminded me of versions of an era past.
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“You Enjoy Myself” 12.4 II. NYC, NY
The return of YEMSG—a song with a lush history at the midtiown venue.
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“Tweezer -> Light” 12.5 II, Charlottesville, VA
The best “Tweezer” of tour was followed by a dark and mind-fucklingly abstract “Light” of the likes we hadn’t heard before. This sequence set Charlottesville’s tour finale in Charlottesville.
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Tags: 2009, Fall '09, Jams, TTFF
Thanks Pig and halcy. Heh, my login at cbssports.com is still valid, even though I think the last round I did there was fantasy football in like ’02 or something.
Dr P- BK was hangin’ in the TT room last week.
Morning BBers!
skinny jerk
Bragging rights or duckets involved in the bracket?
Morning BB. I think I’m going to revisit the Greek here today at work. It’s been awhile. Starting with 8/5 now.
Via YemBlog
Arrowhead Ranch 7/20/91
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAC3EE6592844DBDE
I know many of you had these tapes, and played them to death. Ragin 1.0 here.
If anyone is on Pinterest I have started a board called Trey Face. If you want to add to it with Trey Face pics let me know, would love to build a big collection
http://pinterest.com/seif69/trey-face/
(I am aware there is a similar FB page, but I don’t do FB)
@Hal: thanks for the link for the Tourney.
Tt sesh?
Good list, some cuts not here that shouldn’t be missed:
Birds-Philly night 2 (best birds of 3.0)
Meat- Portland
Giant Country Horns need to make an appearance.
Kaveh
Just sent you an email from my above posted email address.
i woke up singing a Damned tune today. can’t be a good sign.
Or it could ….
I love when I can help start a hetty conversation, then leave. Allowing much more smarter cats like MiA, Silly, Garret, GP, Snow to finish.
Miner is correct, it’s much deeper than just the historical ‘facts’ being thrown around.
Silly, It’s okay to feel a bit depressed. It’s a sign of your compassion and understanding. My new bumper sticker:
“If you’re not cynical, you’re not paying attention”
Phish plays such an important role in the transformation we are all musing about. That’s why I get peeved when they take their job for granted.
Not to fire it up again, but I agree that this system is screwed up. Corruption is terrible.
But that shouldn’t depress you.
Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!
Since it came up again this week, I’d like to take s moment to thank all who have shared here on their struggles with substance abuse. Thanks in large part to the ongoing support of you faceless bit-trons, I will mark six months free of alcohol next week, an accomplishment of whose impossibility I was certain only that many months ago. It can be done and is so so worth it. I don’t even feel left out of the beer talk. It’s just something I used to do that I don’t do anymore, and I’m ok with that.
Cheers folks
@ gavinsdad, I will be at the lively town of worcester and the classiest city in all of New Jersey…ATLANTIC CITY. that will be about it.
Happy Friday BB!
Half day of work then a team building outing for work consisting of lunch followed by brewery tour and beers at Oskar Blues. Not too shabby. Then one last dinner for Denver Restaurant Week.
Have a good one.
Congrats DNW
This Seven Below -> Ghost is much better than it was upon listening it to right after it surfaced. (Halfway through Ghosh now)
The bottom line on last night’s convo for my money, reposted cuz its just that good:
“the next big step for humanity is to realize that cultural affiliation is detrimental…before this, though, we have to address the degradation of the planet…mortality is a type of agitation, which is consciousness bred of evolution, and should we wish to maintain this consciousness, we must have some level of agitation. i would choose acceptance and rebirth through a total awareness of the benefits of selfish altruism.”-fly
Copied & pasted into my best of the bb doc
Well said sir
Nice work perrosellamawilson
As I like to say it, eveybody has their last drink. Some of us sooner than others.
Btw, alcohol is a poison when consumed in massive quantites. Othewise a complex sugar, and that ain’t too god for you either.
To each their own. I only miss the scotch. Mmm scotchy scotchy scotch scotch scotch! Not going back though
“As I like to say it, eveybody has their last drink. Some of us sooner than others.”
I like to say Retired Professional. I’ve had my life’s allotment and it’s time for me to leave some for everybody else.
That tt sesh you called for is underway…
Thanks mike
This Ghost is really good; the pushes that the band makes are truly great. Not as tight as the MSG Ghost, just consider this the just as powerful switch hitter to the MSG version.
Honestly, there’s so much more underlying my acts of writing what I did last night.
First, this whole Phish trip has been as much about me learning about who I am as it has been about music or touring or having a good time.
Integral to my Phish experience has been the introduction of people into my life who have encouraged me to develop my own authenticity. I often forget or ignore that at 24 years old it’s natural for me to feel confused, to feel passion, to feel depression, joy, awkwardness, to not know what to do or how to act. But, in this community this type of existence is expected, celebrated even.
For the last several months, I’ve had lots of reasons to realize what Phish and Phish kids have added to my life.
It’s been kids I’ve met through Phish who have helped me understand the anxiety and depression I’ve been struggling with is natural, and because it’s natural is something that can and will be coped with.
It’s a young woman I’ve been dating who I met because of Phish who is encouraging me to “own my personality” to be unapologetic about the passions that I feel and who has demonstrated an eagerness to understand them and encourage them.
So last night, while my brain was focused on debating, what was really going on was I was exercising my ability to voice ideas that for whatever reason I feel I am unable to in other settings.
I’ve learned a lot about my personality over the last year. I learned that I’m really good at being outwardly flexible, while being inwardly anguished. I’ve learned that a sign of honesty exhibits itself in my ability to say what I really think in a situation and then to not feel guilty for expressing it.
Old Silly would have been upset and axious for a couple of days worrying that what I expressed would push people away from me.
New Silly focuses on trust. I expressed something because I felt comfortable expressing it, now it’s time to trust that comfort and move on and away from the fear and anxiety.
So, that’s what happened last night, and it was way way deeper than a historical debate.