2018-12-31 - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - Post Show Discussion

[emay]

Not sure if they showed this on screens at the Garden, its pretty small but I like they added an extra element for the webcasters at home with the gopro cameras on Mike and Trey instruments when they were in the air. Spacey fish eye.

[rowjimmy]

There were no screens.

Video is amazing.
Phish is terrific.
Even when they fuck shit up.

[tet]

The Passing Through ending was rough. They clearly wanted the crowd to pick up the "wayo wayo" and let the energy build and have the Hood jam come screaming out of it... and the whole thing just flopped. Forced crowd interaction almost never works... and this felt so forced.

Brutal.

that's exactly what they were going for, and it was more poorly executed than the Fallout 76 launch.  I was in a luxury box so I couldn't participate in the "wayo wayo" as fully as the rest of you w00ks, so I take no responsibility for your (in)actions!

in other news, NYE fucking rocked.  can't wait to do it again!!!

[ph92]

I had an awesome time, this was the best gag in quite some time I'd say. Glad I ran into the skybridge paug crew! Also nice to see Todd, Scotty, and Michelle

[Hicks]

The GoPro footage wasn't there on the webcast, probably didn't have access to it in the truck. 

Cool to see that they added it in for the youtube, I was wondering if they would. 

[PIE-GUY]

The GoPro footage wasn't there on the webcast, probably didn't have access to it in the truck. 

Cool to see that they added it in for the youtube, I was wondering if they would.

The stills from it are badass.

[mistercharlie]

From watching the NYE video I have a question...

Where there shirts in some of the balloons dropped from the rafters? It sure looks like shirts in them in the video.

[rowjimmy]

From watching the NYE video I have a question...

Where there shirts in some of the balloons dropped from the rafters? It sure looks like shirts in them in the video.

It was like sheets of silvery stuff.

[PIE-GUY]

From watching the NYE video I have a question...

Where there shirts in some of the balloons dropped from the rafters? It sure looks like shirts in them in the video.

It was like sheets of silvery stuff.

Yeah, I think it was just to add weight so they'd fall

[rowjimmy]

From watching the NYE video I have a question...

Where there shirts in some of the balloons dropped from the rafters? It sure looks like shirts in them in the video.

It was like sheets of silvery stuff.

Yeah, I think it was just to add weight so they'd fall

Also shiny.

[cleech74]

Not sure it's been mentioned here yet, but when I watched the Mercury>SANTOS vid, with the shimmering, silvery stuff, and the silver/gray balloons, it reminded me of actual Mercury. If you've ever broken a glass thermometer, the Mercury beads up into little droplets, silvery & mirror-like in color. Not sure if that was intentional, but it looked cool to me, aside from just being one of the better NYE gags in a while. If I'm stating the obvious, my bad. Killer run, for sure. Can't wait to see this band live again, hopefully sometime this coming year.

[emay]

The first human spaceflight program was Project Mercury

[gah]

Mercury is a planet. It's the closest one to the sun. It gets hot on Mercury.

[anthrax]

Not sure it's been mentioned here yet, but when I watched the Mercury>SANTOS vid, with the shimmering, silvery stuff, and the silver/gray balloons, it reminded me of actual Mercury. If you've ever broken a glass thermometer, the Mercury beads up into little droplets, silvery & mirror-like in color. Not sure if that was intentional, but it looked cool to me, aside from just being one of the better NYE gags in a while. If I'm stating the obvious, my bad. Killer run, for sure. Can't wait to see this band live again, hopefully sometime this coming year.

it was totally intentional.  if you dig into the lyrics of mercury, there was a lot of intentional things going on with that gag.  it had been in the works for months.  santos was just a late addition and i'm assuming the pizza/alien weirdness was added late too.

[mistercharlie]

Mercury is a planet. It's the closest one to the sun. It gets hot on Mercury.

That's why you gotta take along the Cool Amber. It keeps you chill.