11/01 - Festival 8 - Indio, CA - Post Show Discussion and Review

[shoreline99]

little quiet in here this morning...

[postjack]

at Ontario airport now, no sleep.

glowstick eruption during twiprise was one of the highlights of the weekend. as were pyrotechnics for first 2001 peak.

comfort wise, 8 was the Ritz Carlton of festies.

[PhishPhan]

Crazy stuff. Lost my shit.

[mistercharlie]

A very long day of work ahead followed by relistening to the Acoustic set when I get home.

[McGrupp]

My DL of 11/1 is going reaaaaaal sloooooowwww.......

Moving somewhere between 5 and 15 kbps down....every 5 min going up to 100 ish, but then back down...


:|

[shoreline99]

i'm seeding 10/30 and 10/31, at around 90% on 11/1. pulling down at around 80 kb

[VDB]

I didn't think I'd actually make it to hear set three. (Stupid Pacific time zone!) But I put the headphones on as I lay in bed, watched the end of the WS game (stupid Yankees!) and stayed up well past my bedtime listening. I can't be sure but the audio quality for set three really wasn't too hot over Sirius at times. Could have been not listening through a real audio system as I had for one and two; could have been streaming over 3G instead of WiFi; who knows. I also noticed that at one point (in Maze) the Sirius stream jumped way ahead, only later (during Light) to jump backwards about a minute or so. Odd.

Detailed thoughts on set three since it's freshest in my mind:

Rockin, groovy Tweezer; wish it had gone on longer >
Nice drop into Maze. Some Trey shakiness.
Uptempo Free, sounded good. Sure would love to hear this song actually jammed out again ... *sigh*
Sugar Shack: Sounded better than previous live versions but I still prefer the album version.
Limb by Limb was short and fiery.
Decently hot Theme if also the "condensed version." Well, they can't all be Merriweather 2000.
Mike's Song: We're all wondering when -- if -- the monstrous Mike's jam will return. Call it "Trey's Song" for now >
A well-placed 2001. Here again, they seem fairly disinterested in really stretching this one out these days. Hmm, I'm beginning to see a pattern ... >
Fast-paced, purposeful Light. Several minutes of serious ambiance. I kept hoping something organic and rhythmic would emerge out of it. Instead >
A wonderful Slave. Some apprehensions about this as '09 Slaves have been hit or miss. But Trey basically nailed this. Now I'm thinking, "Could it be? Slave > Weekapaug closer?" And: "This would officially be the most badass Mike's Groove in how long?" Alas, no. Set.
Grind: Their new favorite encore. It loses some novelty but it's fun. And after two sets of what too often sounded to me like sub-par vocals, this one sounded good and that was welcome.
Top it off with one last scary story in Esther. Trey's fingers have a hard time cooperating. I'm still thinking the Weekapaug could surface and I know the place would go bonkers.
Tweezer Reprise. So fixated on the Paug I had actually forgotten about this. Well, duh. But Tweeprise > Paug?? Surely not, right? Right. End show.

I haven't heard every set but from what I gather Fest 8 didn't gave us the massive, paradigm-shifting jam or jams we were hoping for (remember all the big jams at IT?) but hey. Life goes on. To my ears things wrapped up on a pretty high note. Wish I coulda been there, I'm sure it was a superb time.

[Poster Nutbag]

Weekapaug Groove to open Indio halloween fest 2

[Undermind]

Weekapaug Groove to open Indio halloween fest 2

Or Limestone Aug 2010?

[mehead]

I'm a little biased here since I live in Maine but of course I would say it's going to open Limestone 2010...I can only go by what I read on-line but it seems that the traffic situation at Indio was much smoother than past festies (Coventry & It) and I wonder if this will somehow factor in their decision on where to have future festivals.  I know that was one thing the boys liked about the Indio site - the traffic flow was much better then previous locations.

[Undermind]

I'm a little biased here since I live in Maine but of course I would say it's going to open Limestone 2010...I can only go by what I read on-line but it seems that the traffic situation at Indio was much smoother than past festies (Coventry & It) and I wonder if this will somehow factor in their decision on where to have future festivals.  I know that was one thing the boys liked about the Indio site - the traffic flow was much better then previous locations.

Yeah there was less traffic because there were 20-30k less people.   They know they will automatically draw 60-70k in the northeast.  Not positive that is important to them, but they will make more $ here.

[mehead]

correct..they were also saying though regardless of how many people they had, that access to the site was much better than Limestone...but..who gives a shit..we need another old school festie up north to close out summer 2010!!  :banana:

[Tomapella]

correct..they were also saying though regardless of how many people they had, that access to the site was much better than Limestone...but..who gives a shit..we need another old school festie up north to close out summer 2010!!  :banana:

I hope so!  I've been wanting to go to Maine for quite a while, and what better reason to go than a festival!  But it'll probably be months before a word is heard of it if there even is one, so I'll just get excited to go to Cincinnati in a few weeks. :rawk:

[postjack]

not that I would put anything past Phish 3.0, but do you really think we'll have another festival less then a year from 8?

[redrum]

not that I would put anything past Phish 3.0, but do you really think we'll have another festival less then a year from 8?

YES.
In Limestone, Maine the summer of 2010.