12/31 - Madison Square Garden - New York, NY - Post-Show Discussion and Review

[Thrillhouse]

The Sand Wedge is top shelf. Haters need not apply.

Yep.   ^This x2.

The old school has spoken.

I only listen to Gumbo

YOU TOO?!?!?!?!? Listening back it was like a mountain goat dancing in the stars.....the Earth shifted on its axis for a brief moment and all was right. RIGHT GUYS!?!?!  The galaxy opened up and they whirled and articulated in a musical language only known to a select few....truly inspiring.

Or something like that :wink:

[sophist]

That's more Mr. Miner than Gumbo. 

[Thrillhouse]

That's more Mr. Miner than Gumbo.

Oh well, I put as much effort into that post as I put into everything I do.....which is none.

[sunrisevt]

Don't listen to Rams, Will. He's just bitter he missed the run. That impression was pretty spot on. Miner can suck a dick; I want Gumbo's ramblings in print...












And to be required reading for a quiz at the PTBM entry portal.

[JPhishman]

This YEM still aint touchin the '09 one.

That shit is the shit.


Time to get on the boat.

:banana:

[sophist]

Don't listen to Rams, Will. He's just bitter he missed the run. That impression was pretty spot on. Miner can suck a dick; I want Gumbo's ramblings in print...



And to be required reading for a quiz at the PTBM entry portal.

Considering I never even gave it a second thought or really even a first thought, I'd say no on that theory.    I haven't even listened to it yet.  So I'm not even down on it, or hating it. 

[Gumbo72203]

Phan should love a Ghost like this, *ESPECIALLY* because of the Piper.


This Piper!!!  Holy tangled mess of yarn bought from grandmothers who smell weird but can still get down like its 1942!!!


Ghost hits epic ocean at 7:09.  Mike bouncing jollyly underneith a Page-gasm of piano unhindrance.  Trey sustainiacs his glee-note and then lets himself roll around in the wake of star-blinks as Page crunches his electrofoil covering, allowing the group to undiscover the 11/28/09 Seven Below jam, collecting an energy-burst for upwards motion attendant to all things anti groove-disrupting.  Its going. 

Slow Trey trills triumphantly triggering tremendous tribulational-trembles that temporarily titilate.  This Ghost is so liquid and gooey!  Its like when you watch taffy get made at a candy factory.  Stretching, oozing, twisting, forming shapes that shape themselves into unshapes before being shaped back again, twisted and twirled and writhing in their polymorphous undulations, given to time-centric disruptions based on circular motion and things like Trey's Epic Sustained Note!!!!!!!!!!!


I love Trey extending his note over the Piper intro.  The segue was kind of weak and lame but eh, you don't know whats up with this Piper, so get back in the shed with your funny uncle. 

[Gumbo72203]

So, I can't help but feel a significance to this piece of music.  Trey, single-handedly, controls the band and ramps up the escalation into one more gnarly peak. 

Not only does he ramp it up into a peak, but then he fucking SHREDS like 90's Trey. 


I don't know, I know i have an odd brain and you people can't quite keep up but.....    this feels important.  Significant.  Its different.  This whole Piper is one whirling mass of rapturous tumult. 

I'm almost thinking this Piper is better than SPAC. 

[DoW]

If I was a mod, instead of moving this thread, I'd move you.  :wink:

[sophist]

I peeped the youtube video posted on page II of this thread.  On the Piper now, as for the Ghost.  It's more fluent than usual.  The major key stuff is nice, I think it implodes though, like, they don't know what to do once they do finally go somewhere smoothly and nicely.  It's not that it isn't played and executed well, it is, but....I'd still just like to see them push it past more than one improvised idea.  As quickly as they get there it falls into ambient territory to open up to the awkward and kind of forced segue into Piper. 

I'll say this, they sound a hell of a lot better than they did a year ago.  Nothing in that made me cringe, but at the same time, regretfully, that was also kind of boring, a regurgitation of the same tricks, only done in a much smoother manner. 

The piper is the same to me.  Same bag of tricks, they get louder and faster only to RAWK peak the fuck out of it and fall into a Plinko jam, same as every other 3.0 Piper.  Is it bad?  Not at all, I'm just surprised you guys are losing your shit over the same thing every time. 

I haven't heard the Wedge mentioned in this thread, I'll see if I can find it on youtube. 

[Itsnotanexperience]

I've checked out the shows for the past week and the one thing that remains constant is that they sound very un-practiced in just basic tightness.    They sound like they have not played together since 9/2.    They sound pretty good in spots, but the lack of practice really stands out.   

If this band would actually make time in their lives to practice for 2-3 weeks before they hit the stage, it would certainly make a huge difference.     I think Dick's last summer proved that after they've played together for a few weeks, they can actually put together a tight sound.

[sophist]

Wasn't isn't this shit in the 12/31/12 PSD thread? 

[VDB]

Wasn't isn't this shit in the 12/31/12 PSD thread?

No. It's too significant for that.

[rowjimmy]

Garb post restored to proper place.

[sunrisevt]

Don't listen to Rams, Will. He's just bitter he missed the run. That impression was pretty spot on. Miner can suck a dick; I want Gumbo's ramblings in print...



And to be required reading for a quiz at the PTBM entry portal.

Considering I never even gave it a second thought or really even a first thought, I'd say no on that theory.    I haven't even listened to it yet.  So I'm not even down on it, or hating it.

I think your assessment of the music is perfectly sound. I was referring to your literary opinion vis-à-vis KoP's impression of Gumbo. And I was totally, completely, deadly serious.  :-P