Phish.com - From the Road - 2009 [Hampton Shows] ***SPOILER ALERT***

[Hicks]

I'm listening to the second night now, really dug the slightly extended GBOTT groovy stuff right there.

I didn't think I'd ever say this, but they somehow made B&R less effective in concert last night.  

[thechad]

us took the lead in the wbc

I have no idea what that means.

world baseball classic.  united states is playing venezuela.  scored 6 runs so far in the 6th and are winning 8-3

And Youklis just hit a 2 run homer.

[nab]

I'm listening to the second night now, really dug the slightly extended GBOTT groovy stuff right there.

I didn't think I'd ever say this, but they somehow made B&R less effective in concert last night.  

I'll say it again, I really dug the Ghost>Piper>Birds, especially the transition between Piper and Birds

[Wolfmansbrother]

I'm listening to the second night now, really dug the slightly extended GBOTT groovy stuff right there.

I didn't think I'd ever say this, but they somehow made B&R less effective in concert last night.  

good song. poorly placed.

[Ri©h]

Set II:  Jennifer Dances -> Friday

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggggggggggggggg!!!!

[justjezmund]

On second night as well just finished the piper-> birds sick segue

[blastoplast]

man...this seems like a long set break...

[nab]

On second night as well just finished the piper-> birds sick segue

I'm listening to the second night now, really dug the slightly extended GBOTT groovy stuff right there.

I didn't think I'd ever say this, but they somehow made B&R less effective in concert last night.  

I'll say it again, I really dug the Ghost>Piper>Birds, especially the transition between Piper and Birds

[drvinestein]

On second night as well just finished the piper-> birds sick segue

Yeah, I really liked that one.

Come on opener...  I gotta go to bed!

[MiamiPhish]

man...this seems like a long set break...

[Hicks]

I'm listening to the second night now, really dug the slightly extended GBOTT groovy stuff right there.

I didn't think I'd ever say this, but they somehow made B&R less effective in concert last night.  

good song. poorly placed.

Taking Trey's feedback out of the song makes no sense, suddenly its a song named after Brian Eno and Robert Fripp that has none of their aesthetic.  

[Ri©h]

I seem to be all K+ed out.

+k   :wink:

[nab]

I'm listening to the second night now, really dug the slightly extended GBOTT groovy stuff right there.

I didn't think I'd ever say this, but they somehow made B&R less effective in concert last night.  

good song. poorly placed.

Taking Trey's feedback out of the song makes no sense, suddenly its a song named after Brian Eno and Robert Fripp that has none of their aesthetic.  

I agree with you here, loss of the feedback is lame.

[Gumbo72203]

jesus fucking christ people.  Wow...  if i didn't know any better, I'd say some of you are bitter as all shit that you couldn't see any of the shows.

I can't believe the negativity about these shows.  No jamming?  How about you go check out some 80's Phish, or even shit up to 92, when Bowie was NORMALLY only 10 minutes.  

Goes to show what being there does to your perspective...  I couldn't fucking believe that Wolfman's was only like 8 minutes.  It was the perfect length, live.  


And this talk of no ferociousness or fire is just flat out wrong.  I'm sorry.  You're all looking in the wrong places.  GBOTT was DANK.  Trey tore that shit up real good.  Fucking Split Open and Melt drove that place into the ground, and Antelope made shit fucking explode.  


These shows are very, very odd, in my opinion.  They're messing things up that don't normally get messed up, yet they nail Asse Festival and Reba.  I have yet to listen to the shows, but I was quite clear-headed enough to accurately judge the music's execution.



Overall...  I have to say I am disappointed, because that NYTimes article was very misleading, in terms of being the hyper-practiced version of themselves.  They certainly aren't PH all over again, but they most certainly could be tighter.

HOWEVER, and this is the point I think pretty much all of you naysayers out there are completely missing, LOOK AT ALL THE FUCKING SONGS THEY RELEARNED!  Are you fucking kidding me?

Okay...  in 1995, they had been playing all of the most complicated shit like YEM, Bowie, Reba, Fluffhead, Divided Sky, Rift, etc etc etc practically NON-STOP for fucking like...  nearly 10 years.  Okay.  So for them to try to get back all this shit in like, what...  6 months?  I'd say they did a god-damn motherfucking good job.

Lets see you do it.  Yeah, they're Phish, and *cue sarcastic voice* "they're suppoooosed to do it," but they're fucking human, and fallible, just like you and me.  

So, combine having to relearn a life-time's worth of compli-fucking-cated music, the excitement of the situation, and then the pressure and nerves of having to actually execute all of this, then I'd say they're doing a goddamn good job.



No, I am not completely satisfied with the music.  I thought Piper was outright lame, Ghost was disappointing at first, Mike's was...  odd, and not great, and Reba was a fairly life-less jam, but if you could have seen them pretty much nail so many pieces of music, in time with the lights, then your attitude would be entirely different.  

But overall, I think they're trying too hard, and thats whats making them miss.  But thats a GOOD THING.  Can't you see that?  They're setting the bar impossibly high, SO THAT THEY'LL EVENTUALLY REACH IT.  



Would you seriously have rathered them drop a 20 minute Piper into a 30 minute Ghost, followed by a 30 minute Tweezer, play Bouncin, then play a 20 minute Gin, to take up as much time, but leave only a fraction of that time to actually composed music?  Thats what they did PH, and I thought you all hated it...



Sorry if this is all harsh, but you people really need to give them a fucking break, and consider the entirety of their situation.  They have lives.  They can't dedicate every waking second of their lives to making sure they were as tight as Fall '95.  




and Page is the leader of the band right now.  Fish has been the weakest.

[rowjimmy]

Set 6
Dwd