09/01 - Dick's Sporting Goods Park - Denver CO - Post-Show Discussion and Review

[gainesvillegreen]

Liking this Caspian > Light combo. So too the Backwards/Tweezer.

So, are people preferring this Light to the San Francisco version or vice versa? (I haven't listened to the San Fran version yet).

[VDB]

Oh boy. Just finished the Golden Age > Caspian > Light sequence.

This Caspian has some TEETH y'all. I hate Fuckerpants as much as the next guy, but damn. If they gotta play it, this is how to do it.

Light was huge. Funk meets plinko meets groove. Love the gorgeous, understated passage before Trey steps out front and starts throwing down nasty licks. Thrilling, uplifting rock-peak shreddage to close it out. I can only imagine people in attendance were flipping their shit during and at the end of this. I love the little mini-jam for the comedown > finish.

I loved the San Fran Light and, without having heard that one too recently, I'm not sure but I think this may have it beat.

[Alumni]

Liking this Caspian > Light combo. So too the Backwards/Tweezer.

So, are people preferring this Light to the San Francisco version or vice versa? (I haven't listened to the San Fran version yet).

Leaning toward last night.

[whatapiper]

With the 8/19 Light being such a beast it has me pretty stoked to hear last night's.  One more day and I can finally get caught up on the last few shows!

[Gumbo72203]

this Light has a lot of cool stuff in it.  Trey's playing is interesting; he picks up a chord progression early, and then periodically abandons it.  13 minutes in, not a WHOLE lot has happened.  A lot of cool, understated grooving.  Fishman dropped out once, and then tried swinging the beat a bit when Trey did his delay-gooping thing where he smears the beat. 

Thought I heard a Golden Age or Manteca thing a bunch of times, like right now at 13:45.

WOAH, this just got REALLY COOL at 14:00.  Super chill groove, Trey playing notes, and just a chill, lazy-back groove.  Open, and breathe-y.  YEAH TREY!!!!  14:35!!!  OMG FISH RIDE CYMBAL!!!!!!  YEAHHHH!!!!!!

Holy shit, this is SUPER CHILL.  SUPER SUPER CHILL.  WOW!  Love this!!!  Trey's doing cool things with his delay, making sparkly ghost guitar.  HAHA OH MAN pentatonic lick perfectly placed!!!!

Dude this is serious jamming.  Wow.  This is like what '99 Phish would sound like if they took a Simple jam DEEEEP.  OH MAN MINOR KEY CHANGE!!!!!  More Manteca-ness a little, and its getting heavier....


haha dude holy shit this is so cool.  16:45 Trey has a wicked nice theme building, Fish adding nicely....    17:21 Trey switches to chords, ditching the single-note thing he was playing.  This is cool... OMG PAGE PIANO!!!!  SIGNIFICANT!!!!!  Stately!!! 

haha holy shit this Light guys.  WOW!!!!!!  YEAH!!!!!  Theres no peak yet, and this is already so epic.  Its been a perfect, smooth ascent into that pressure-feeling when the jam is raging inside you.  HAHAH OMG!!!  I LOVE Fish's work at 18:31.  Ride cymbal perfection.

Trey's kind of back to the earlier single-note theme...  omg PAGE YESSSS and Trey comes in with lead!!!!   19:15!!!  Fish!!!!!!

HOLY SHIT FUCKING ASS BALLS THIS JAM!!!!!!  OMG FUCK!!!!!   hahahahahahahhahahahah YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gumbo72203]

[Gumbo72203]

hahahahahahaha omg guys.  hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!  YEAH!  hahahahahahhaha

[VDB]

Gumbo, you should get a job with your local newspaper to write concert reviews for them.

[Gumbo72203]

I think when normal people write, sentences are supposed to outnumber exclamation points.


I cannot do that. 

[Wolfmansbrother]

From like 12:48-12:53 the video shows a ton of fucking cute girls in the front row...please tell me Page is hittin' some of that?

[mehead]

finally gave the Light a listen to - I approve

[cactusfan]

really?

this is the first song i've listened to of the weekend. and wow is it ever bland. that must be the most boring 24 minute phish jam of all time. did they go anywhere different or unusual? the first 14 minutes are a total wash. then it feels like it might do something interesting for a few minutes, then they tack on a spare KDF rock jam they had handy before ending it. yawn.

[GBL]

really?

this is the first song i've listened to of the weekend. and wow is it ever bland. that must be the most boring 24 minute phish jam of all time. did they go anywhere different or unusual? the first 14 minutes are a total wash. then it feels like it might do something interesting for a few minutes, then they tack on a spare KDF rock jam they had handy before ending it. yawn.

Try Carini, Undermind, Jim, Farmhouse, or CDT from the night before..

[mbw]

I'm glad cactus fan said it, cause I didn't want to be the first.
It starts awkward, trey doesn't even play his guitar for the first 20 mins of boring plinko, then the typical rock to end it.
It bored the shit out of me.

[Gumbo72203]

I can see how it would bore some people.  Its very linear....  kind of like a slow, straight-line ascent to the top. 

I mean, it works for me on levels beyond simply what is BEING played.  Its the fact that they're listening to each other, and allowing the expanse to congeal into multitudinalities of length-time inflationary states.  And then capping it off with fireworks.  From a guitar. 

Its not the best jam ever but its great.  And what it MEANS and IMPLIES, in my opinion, transcends the minutiae and mundane objective details of the note choices.  Its the operating concept that delights me.