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
@garretc: i think i wrote a paper on Lord Jim back in college…but never read it. will give it a whirl though. my wife has a guy in her writing group that is completely tubed-out wth Heart of Darkness…he brings it up in every class…so reading Lord Jim might be good to swing me back around…
lower your eyelids to die with the sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEyo3hDbjk0
I have Lord Jim, but Heart of Darkness was horrible from a PoCo perspective
so I’m afraid to read Lord Jim
http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=553460
Radiohead – March 9, 2012
Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO
source: Schoeps mk4v (DINa/FOB)
d1t01 Intro
d1t02 Bloom
d1t03 15 Step
d1t04 Airbag
d1t05 Little By Little
d1t06 Morning Mr Magpie
d1t07 Myxomatosis
d1t08 Kid A
d1t09 Videotape
d1t10 The Daily Mail
d1t11 The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy
d1t12 Karma Police
d1t13 Identikit
d2t01 Lotus Flower
d2t02 There There
d2t03 Feral
d2t04 Reckoner
Encore:
d2t05 Separator
d2t06 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
d2t07 Lucky
d2t08 Everything In Its Right Place
Second Encore:
d2t09 Give Up The Ghost
d2t10 You And Whose Army?
d2t11 Idioteque
24bit also available
Nice Sumo! Thanks.
Yeah JerseyJim. Great albums. Red House Painters great too. Telas turned me onto in the TT. Most of the music I listen to I get turned onto in TT.
Just watched The Departed again. Great movie. Didn’t realize Brad Pitt produced it.
TT has hipped me to some fine tunes
@jjim
I read HoD a few weeks before Lord Jim, definitely a lot of similarities, but also feels very different. Being a novel rather than HoD as more of a novella lends it a much more clear, coherent narrative, and while it deals with a lot of similar themes, it takes a wholly different tact to examine them. And like I said, the writing itself is superb.
@Silly
I didn’t think HoD was so bad on the PC aspect, particularly when taken in context of its time. Saying “it could have been a lot worse” doesn’t mean it’s a-ok, but I feel like Conrad at least recognizes the racial differences as stemming more from cultural differences and even geographical considerations, rather than any inherent superiority of the white man.
Lord Jim has a similar white man ruling the native thing going on, but in a very different way, and besides the occasional casual racism of the era, the novel is more about psychology than any of the racial themes. Plus it paints a glorious picture of the life of merchant marines in the 18th/19th centuries. Glorious in the detail and realism, not the subject matter itself…
Been meaning to read both of those being a huge Apocolypse Now fan.
Morning folks. Today in Chicago is, perhaps, the most obnoxious event of the year – the Southside Irish Parade. I grew up 3 blocks from the parade route, am in fact part Irish and am southside, but man oh man… never again. People love that shit, though. It is like an all ages frat party with lots of kelly green, dyed green animals, bagpipes (cringe), politicians, mardigras beads (why?), and an excess amount of schwagy canned beer.
Culture!
I think parades, in general, are pains in the asses for most people that live in the parade zone. I actually was in Chicago for a St. Patricks Day parade years ago ( ’99 maybe). Parade wasn’t reason for visit, but it was unavoidable.
angryjoggerz Says:
March 10th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Seriously? I found it refreshing to see people just have fun and not give a shit. Life is short, do your thing.
We should be getting a Miner Symphony review soon. Wasn’t LA show last night?
Oh snap. I agree. Just don’t puke green beer puke on my lawn. This one is easy – don’t go.
Northside Swedish, bitches.
Huge thunderstorms and bright outside. I hope it rains like this all week!
Sorry AJ, I liked your joie de vivre enthusiasm yesterday.
“What are you going to do with your life?” In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer… “Live each day as if it’s your last’, that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn’t practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”
― David Nicholls, One Day
which Tony Allen records do I need????
On a much more positive note, it does mark the beginning of cargo shorts and green Cat in the Hat hat season.
But don’t puke green beer issue good idea too.
Is a …
Beautiful day here, though. Brunch with some friends coming up and then wine shopping. Im also hoping for a nap. Maybe some spring sneak shopping too. Woot.
Sounds like a great day AJ. My dog doesn’t comprehend thunderstorms and not walking.
Duder, I only have what spotify has, but so far, it’s been “all of them”
Definitely like “Black Voices”
looks like I’m SOL on the ‘nerd for TA
I don’t like parades in general
I think it stems from being made to watch the Macy Parade when I was little
All I wanted to do was eat, but my dad always made us watch it