Phish 4.0

[redrum]

..I truly hope Trey's Feb tour injects a little somethin somethin into him..

uhhh, be careful what you wish for. (..or how you word your posts!)

[VA $l!m]

there's nothing there for me in the NYE run to somehow completely separate it from the other shows and label it as 4.0..or 3.1..as was w/ plenty of other shows NYE had it's moments - been listening to the Ghost a lot lately  :banana:
..sure there were bustouts but shit look at the bustouts at cccc alone..for me the NYE was pretty much on par w/ 3.0 - nothing more, nothing less...I truly hope Trey's Feb tour injects a little somethin somethin into him..with that said, I'm super stoked that they are back together and can't wait til summer tour

cool.
the only thing that consoles me about the fact that it seems a lot of people dont hear what i hear in these shows, is the fact that many other people DO agree with me 100%. not being alone is a start, but its FUcking really Odd when i consider pretty much 90-100% of the songs played in miami to be the best versions of the year by Miles and miles. like not even in the same ball park. oh well.

[mehead]

there's nothing there for me in the NYE run to somehow completely separate it from the other shows and label it as 4.0..or 3.1..as was w/ plenty of other shows NYE had it's moments - been listening to the Ghost a lot lately  :banana:
..sure there were bustouts but shit look at the bustouts at cccc alone..for me the NYE was pretty much on par w/ 3.0 - nothing more, nothing less...I truly hope Trey's Feb tour injects a little somethin somethin into him..with that said, I'm super stoked that they are back together and can't wait til summer tour

cool.
the only thing that consoles me about the fact that it seems a lot of people dont hear what i hear in these shows, is the fact that many other people DO agree with me 100%. not being alone is a start, but its FUcking really Odd when i consider pretty much 90-100% of the songs played in miami to be the best versions of the year by Miles and miles. like not even in the same ball park. oh well.

why do you need consoling about this issue?  it's all opinions brah..I don't think you are wrong and I am right...I don't think the run was shit by any means - I just don't walk away thinking "wow, they've def. turned the corner and now we're on to 4.0"

[mehead]

..I truly hope Trey's Feb tour injects a little somethin somethin into him..

uhhh, be careful what you wish for. (..or how you word your posts!)

agreed..I tend to do that every now and then    8-)

[mattstick]

This thread is too melodramatic.

[mehead]

This thread is too melodramatic.

yup...peeps need to stop getting defensive if someone doesn't agree w/ their opinion.............








still fun though  :wink:

[VA $l!m]

This thread is too melodramatic.

yeah, i apologize for coming off as defensive or whatever when i posted a few times here.
no excuses, its all good. i still think these shows are on a completely different level than the rest of the year. so,  thanks to the band from me at least.
i guess there's nothing more to really say about 09 now, i just hope that these shows were a sign that maybe 2010 will put an end to what i consider was a somewhat inconsistently meh year of comeback shows.
carry on,  you bitchez.  :wink:

-slimmmmm

[Declan]

peoples opinions seem very hard to change around here.

I was entirely optimistic while attending these shows and it paid off

[susep]

This thread is too melodramatic.

back on topic, I've been listening to my Summer '09 Mix and its preety good, the music that is.  After I was thinking about making a 'ween/Fall/NYE compilation to round out the year but the music/jams from the latter half of the year hasn't inspired me as much to want to do it.  I might come back and do it anyway for shits and giggles.  Specifically I compared versions of Drowned from 19June and 22Nov. and I thought the DC version smoked it hard.     

[Gumbo72203]

Slim, I think I can see where you're coming from.  I haven't super-dissected the whole run yet, but a few things jumped out at me right off the bat.

First off, I had already claimed here that the Jibboo > Wilson > Jibboo > Heavy Things bit was the most important thing they played all year, because it signaled that they were now able to drop into that hole of having a goofy, retardedly absurd of a fun time on stage, and able to also seamlessly meld their spur-of-the-moment whims into the current show being played, AND to make it WORK. 

When was the last time that ANY Phish song was broken in half, after '95?  Aside from the Moby Dick show, which was a return to that goofball-ness itself...


But aside from that fact, the jamming in Tweezer and GBOTT point to a completely new entity.  The jamming is so different from everything theyve done...  its all spaced out, and it moves forward, but it doesn't peak like Chalkdust or an Arrival. 

I gotta get to class now.... but i'll be back

[G. Augusto]

When was the last time that ANY Phish song was broken in half, after '95?  Aside from the Moby Dick show, which was a return to that goofball-ness itself...

06-22-2000 Harry > DFB > Hood

[thatfargone]

When was the last time that ANY Phish song was broken in half, after '95?  Aside from the Moby Dick show, which was a return to that goofball-ness itself...

Did you REALLY just ask this? :?

Seriously I'll just start with 2009:

2009.06.12: YEM>Wilson>YEM

[mattstick]

12/31/03 Chalkdust > Slave > Chalkdust

[G. Augusto]

08-01-1998 2001 > Magilla > 2001

[G. Augusto]

07-07-2000 Maze > Shafty > Maze