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?”
