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

[McGrupp]

Gothamist with a great review of the show including some great pictures... here's my favorite of the bunch:



full review here:

http://gothamist.com/2013/01/02/photos_video_phish_stage_nye_runawa.php#photo-1

guy says it was the 1st time they played Iron man. thats not right is it?

anyway, lots of win in the comments for that article.
my favorite has to be this one:
"Shut the fuck up with your overly contrived comment. Phish suck a bowl of dicks and so do you."

:hereitisyousentimentalbastard

I like the dude with dreads who said that he slapped a custie with his meatstick. And am I the only one who clicked on the bathroom floor shit pic?

Are you kidding me? It was probably one of us who shit on the floor.
George, Im looking in your direction.

The corn threw me off, too many vegetables.

If there was corn it couldn't have been me. I was on a strictly halal diet.

[PIE-GUY]

Gothamist with a great review of the show including some great pictures... here's my favorite of the bunch:



full review here:

http://gothamist.com/2013/01/02/photos_video_phish_stage_nye_runawa.php#photo-1

guy says it was the 1st time they played Iron man. thats not right is it?

anyway, lots of win in the comments for that article.
my favorite has to be this one:
"Shut the fuck up with your overly contrived comment. Phish suck a bowl of dicks and so do you."

:hereitisyousentimentalbastard

I like the dude with dreads who said that he slapped a custie with his meatstick. And am I the only one who clicked on the bathroom floor shit pic?

Are you kidding me? It was probably one of us who shit on the floor.
George, Im looking in your direction.

The corn threw me off, too many vegetables.

If there was corn it couldn't have been me. I was on a strictly halal diet.

It's funny cuz it's true.

[mbw]

Girl lays down on subway tracks after show goes night night

[mehead]

yikes

[DoW]

Girl lays down on subway tracks after show goes night night

can't even imagine what her fiance is going through.
I know it is a NY Post article using PT as a source, but should people really be kicked out of concerts for smoking cigarettes?
horrible story.

[Buffalo Budd]

Awful story, horrible start to 2013.

[Undermind]

Awful story.

[birdman]

Take care of your family. Shit like this doesn't need to happen.

[Caravan2001]

Gothamist with a great review of the show including some great pictures... here's my favorite of the bunch:



full review here:

http://gothamist.com/2013/01/02/photos_video_phish_stage_nye_runawa.php#photo-1

guy says it was the 1st time they played Iron man. thats not right is it?

anyway, lots of win in the comments for that article.
my favorite has to be this one:
"Shut the fuck up with your overly contrived comment. Phish suck a bowl of dicks and so do you."

:hereitisyousentimentalbastard

I know both of the guys in that picture 

[Gumbo72203]

So, this show's Wedge.  This needs to be talked about.


I'm not sure whether this performance rabidly infuriates me, or fills me with radiant hope. 

The groove that develops at the end, LED BY TREY, is quite possibly one of the most sublimely insistent and propulsively-spacious marches I've ever heard the band do.  Its just SO pocket, catchy, melodic, and has that ephemeral transcendent quality to it.  It feels and SOUNDS important.  Its not just the band vamping on chords in time together.  Its MUSIC.  But I'm torn....  because, on the one hand, they were able to GET THERE, but the on the other hand, they let it die so fast!!!

You know what part I'm talking about; its the instant the song goes Type II at the end.  First, there is that initial Type II section with Page on the piano.  They do about 4 bars, and then Trey moves up the fretboard to higher chords, does that for 2 measures and then we enter The Groove!. 

From 7:21 to 7:51, Phish may have played the deepest, most genuine music of 3.0.  It fucking makes me think of Cypress shit; it has that same down-tempo air-groove edge to it.  Its significant.  But then it just dies!



This Sand is pretty fucking amazing, too.  Trey's thinking within this performance is really re-assuring.  The chops aren't there, technically, but the way Trey played during that Sand made me think of 1.0 more than anything I think I've heard during 3.0.  Just the way he's connecting notes, finally relying on theme-development instead of being like the Dead and never fucking playing the same god damn thing twice to showcase any form of structure or order. 


Also, this might be the best-sounding 3.0 YEM for the composed sections.  At least the intro.  The relaxed tempo for the intro...  it just works.  It sounds so good. 

Loving the delay in Ghost for the pause chord....  fucking win, Trey.  I love when he does shit like this; he's PLAYING with his songs, and his pedals.  This is the Trey we want. 

[Gumbo72203]

OMG THEY MODULATE IN GHOST LIKE IN THE 90's!!!!!!!!   FUCK!!!!



This Ghost!  Radio City Fish Beat!!!   YEAHHH!!!!!   11/28/09 Seven Below jam theme tease!!!

[Caravan2001]

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

[sunrisevt]

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

Yep.   ^This x2.

The old school has spoken.

[Thrillhouse]

 

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

Yep.   ^This x2.

The old school has spoken.

:-D

[birdman]

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

Yep.   ^This x2.

The old school has spoken.

I only listen to Gumbo