06/27 - MPP - Columbia, MD - Post-Show Discussion and Review

[Alumni]

I'm glad that alphapig had a sweet stream going. I heard a few seconds of the crap I was sending out. wtf? all sorts of problems going on. Oh well. Was worth a shot.

Dear Phish,
Why do you hate me?
Sincerely,
MPP

Dear Phish,
Thanks. We're good now.
-MPP

[Superfreakie]

I'm glad that alphapig had a sweet stream going. I heard a few seconds of the crap I was sending out. wtf? all sorts of problems going on. Oh well. Was worth a shot.

Dear Phish,
Why do you hate me?
Sincerely,
MPP

Dear Phish,
Thanks. We're good now.
-MPP

:-D awesome.

dude, don't apologize for sharts. Last year, we stomached through sharts that I still am amazed I sat through. As someone said in the LST, this is like listening to Hendrix aud boots from back in the day.

[whatapiper]

Damn, what did I miss?

[redrum]

The Other Mike Gordon Band played the Ghost song @ MPP2.

& sum other fun stuffs

[Buffalo Budd]

Damn, what did I miss?

And the ghost shows itself.  Looks awesome on paper, can't wait to give her a listen.

[mistercharlie]

The Other Mike Gordon Band

Love it. Best name for Phish ever, even better than when they used to be to original Classic TAB.

[mattstick]

Trey's out of tune riffery in Piper is not pleasant on the ears.

[rowjimmy]

I liked that Gin & Antelope with B&R teases in the intro...

[willsteele]

Thinking they rushed through the beginnings of Piper so that they could get to the wicked awesome jam.

Can't wait to listen to this on a proper source.

[rowjimmy]

I'm not generally one to complain about the transitions/segues but dudes, the ">" from Meatstick into I Saw it Again is tranwreck'd

[Marmar]

The Piper is about the only good thing with this show.....and even that is kinda, meh?...took 9 minutes to get to the interesting groove, and then FREE WILLY!!!!....wtf... :roll:  then the groove gets left in the dust for the '99 Trey lick.....it's almost as if they couldn't decide as a group which way the groove should go.....the 12min mark, wtf? that should have been the groove the WHOLE time....way to screw the pooch boys!

The Ghost @ 9 minutes in length is pathetic....

Mellow Mood is nice....the Gin is standard fare, boring jam though......Saw it again, I hope I never.....Jumpin Jack Flash is jumping like an amputee.....My Soul......

Shit all it needed is a Tweezer and it wouldda been a show chock full 'o hate from me.

This one gets one thumb up, one thumb down from me.

[Tomapella]

I'm not generally one to complain about the transitions/segues but dudes, the ">" from Meatstick into I Saw it Again is tranwreck'd

Yeah, I originally had that as ~>, really messy fo sho.  Still excited to listen to this set, though.

[VDB]

Had a whirlwind of an epic weekend in MD. Got up at 4:30 this morning to catch our flight back. So here are just some initial, sleep-deprived impressions:

Walfredo - Cute. Home-town shout-out. Page even provides a capable drum fill or two.
Mellow Mood - Great summertime "opener."
Stealing Time - I like this song. So there.
Divided Sky - Fine.
Tela - Treat.
My Soul - Rock out. The old lady likes this one too.
Ginseng Sullivan - Yes, thank you.
Sample - I swear Trey took the outro solo out further than I've heard it done before. For whatever that's worth.
Bathtub Gin - On fire. It looked as if Trey was shaking his hands out afterwards, as though to chase the pain of the preceding shreddage. Slow it down with
Brian and Robert
Antelope - Feisty.

Wilson - It was fine. No big set-opening jammer, I guess.
Meatstick - Didn't see this coming right here. Admirably jammed; this was no throwaway Meatstick. It's around this point in the show when I start to imagine what it must be like for people down front and center who are tripping their balls off. I like to think about how they would be reacting to the music. Japanese lyrics here would have seemed wild, I'm sure. Sounded like they were starting to go somewhere, the beat changes then it falls out and Trey is strumming the opening to
Saw It Again - At the time the transition sounded like it might have been a little rough. Will listen again before passing judgment on why/how. Anyway this was a real mean little piece of psychedelia played underneath the repetitively intoned refrain. Again I think to my hypothetical psychonaut in the pavilion and he's probably shared shitless about now. As things die down along comes
Piper - Need to hear this again. It sounded like there was a lot going on. Like the band kept changing ideas, rapidly. Honestly I can't tell you at this moment how well it worked.
Ghost - I can tell you I thought there was a good chance we'd hear this tonight. Very early on in the jam Mike (who sounded awesome all night, by the way) develops a little idea and they rage on that for a while then right into
Jumpin Jack Flash - Can't quite comment on the quality of this performance. It was fun and novel to see. The end dropped into some mean psychadelic shit and back for a reprise of
Saw It Again - Fun to see these quite capable transitions.
Contact - This is off Junta. So I like it.
YEM - Surely did not expect this. Thought it had been played too recently. But this was especially welcome since right before the show we had picked up from the airport a friend who's living overseas now, and with whom I had gone to see all my first shows years ago. He doesn't really listen to Phish these days but wanted to come to the show and see some folks. He mentioned wanting them to play YEM and I said I doubted they would. And they did anyway. Jumpin Jack Flash teases in the jam were cool. Drums and bass = badass. And the vocal jam was actually very well done. Like actual, real jamming in there, including the anticipated Saw It Again references.
Fire - If curfew's 11 then they were already about 10 minutes past that so I figured this would be a quick encore.


All in all I had a great time. Got to see some other friends I don't see much these days including some guys I'd not seen in years. Looking very much forward to revisiting some of these major jams (Gin, Piper, Ghost) and the 2nd set overall.

Oh yeah, and we got to see the Orioles beat the Nationals earlier in the day. So take that, Nationals fans.

[mehead]

I'm not generally one to complain about the transitions/segues but dudes, the ">" from Meatstick into I Saw it Again is tranwreck'd

giving this my 1st listen and almost had to get off the tracks...ouch!

[danje]

I'm not generally one to complain about the transitions/segues but dudes, the ">" from Meatstick into I Saw it Again is tranwreck'd

Trey actually put his hand up and apologized to either Mike or Fish after it happened, which made me laugh.