DISCO BISCUITS

[Hicks]

I don't know where to begin with this statement.  The 1994/12/29 bowie is one Phish's best attempts at creating "orchestral" improvisation (something bisco tries but fails).  I think you could transcribe this bowie note for note and have any phil harmonic play it, and it would floor any classical music audience.  There is no repetition in this version. 
I'll document that now:
0:00-3:20 Delay loop intro > high hat intro
3:21-4:27 Atonal jam based around C# minor scale, and feedback
4:27-7:51 Composition(verse, chorus, composed sections)
The "Orchestra Movements" Movement # 1
7:52- 1st segment of E minor > D major jam  (slight variations develop)
                   *1st theme 9:10- delay loop and minor modulation that builds and releases, 1/2 step to E flat          minor occurs throughout segment, seamless transition back to E minor
                    *2nd theme 10:40- Mike changes bassline, and Trey builds tension, page layers in tonic key, 2nd modulation occurs, change in rhythm and playing in different time signatures
                    *3rd theme 13:05- vii-i  progression(as you labeled it power chords), however it continues to expand and add new chords.  Mike creates a counter melody, and rest of band reacts.  Tension builds into a faster tempo and key change. 
                     *4th theme 15:52- 2nd E minor > D major exploration, with chromatic scales and tempo change.  Leads back into original Bowie jam- 17:45- 18:30
                      *5th theme 18:31- Ascending theme, with dynamics and slower tempo -> modulation into major key (D major).  Page leads jam (~20:30 mark).  Modulation by page to E major.  Page and Mike interact very nicely.  Continues to build, Trey comes in with a melodic melody, and begins picking the same chords that page was playing.  Nice major key jam, Trey takes the lead 22:50 and builds it nicely.  Trey does a great job of hitting the thirds and fifths of pages chords.  Still building to a climax 24:30, Trey soars 24:50-25:15. 

This leads into the "Lassie Theme" I would label 26:00 minute mark the start of the 2nd movement:
1st theme: minor key w/ whistling/talking and delay loop.  Whistling is off beat from loop and tempo.    This continues until 30:45

3rd Movement
Segue back into the bowie theme (very atonal transition with heavy feedback).  This one of the best transitions done by Phish in my opinion, they absolutely nail it.  This ending is orgasmic. 

BOWIE JAM 32:30-end

oh shit!  phan'd and SKOOL'd!  Thems the facts mang, you can't debate that breakdown as "subjective". 

[rowjimmy]

But you can debate the use of paragraph spacing as a way to make your posts easier to read.

[haleakalari]

"nail it", "orgasmic", "my opinion", "nice", "the best" etc... all about this particular variation on one specific song.
hmm, sounds pretty subjective to me.

[August]

This thread fucking sucks.
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[rowjimmy]

Dropping the 5 - 10 words that express subjective opinion about that song still leaves a very precise and clinical description of a performance that is not particularly repetitious.

[haleakalari]

more subjectivity; "I don't know where to begin with this statement.  The 1994/12/29 bowie is one Phish's best attempts at creating "orchestral" improvisation (something bisco tries but fails).  I think you could transcribe this bowie note for note and have any phil harmonic play it, and it would floor any classical music audience.  There is no repetition in this version." i will not deny it is a thorough attempt at analysis of the song. but it is one individual's analysis, you can break it down differently if you care to put in the effort. if not it doesn't matter. we all seem to enjoy it [this version] so even though i have been a nicely sized chunk of this masturbatory discussion, that is all we have been doing, masturbating, but in the worst way, through a machine without ever achieving orgasm.

[rowjimmy]

wow. you just took a weird turn, huh?

[haleakalari]

damnit. i did. but i was totally expecting someone to chime in with "...it performs my daily functions through a tube in my ween.".

[rowjimmy]

I would say that's probably unlikely.

[Blaise]

and am i the only one who used to BUY X through the slang disco biscuits?

Why does a bisco conversation always have to degenerate into a chat about 'extra-cirricular' use...

WEAK

[haleakalari]

plz expln cirriculars, i wnt 2 knw... i mean um, you made a spelling error. unless that is a new word, which if it is, i would like to know what it means. and if it is not, did you/or whoever you are quoting intend to use curricular or circular?

[rowjimmy]

Why does a bisco conversation always have to degenerate into a chat about 'extra-cirricular' use...

WEAK

While this conversation has not covered very much of that ground... To expect that it shouldn't is, perhaps, naive.

[Bobafett]

This thread Fucking Rocks! :roll:

edit: and fauxrealllyo, you gotta check out the Ozric Tentacles

[Bobafett]

Why does a bisco conversation always have to degenerate into a chat about 'extra-cirricular' use...

WEAK

why does a band name themselves after a steet-lingo drug?  weak saux

[sls.stormyrider]

for the same reason the Allmans symbol is a mushroom