07-28-2015
Austin360 Amphitheater
Austin, TX
I: Party Time, Free, Halley's Comet, Wolfman's Brother, Possum*, Lawn Boy, Bouncing Around the Room, Water in the Sky, Dirt^, Devotion to a Dream, Sugar Shack, Run Like an Antelope
II: 46 Days -> The Dogs -> 46 Days > Piper > Ghost > Shade, Gotta Jibboo, Waiting All Night, Blaze On, Wading in the Velvet Sea, David Bowie, Suzy Greenberg > Tweezer Reprise
E: Loving Cup
* Page and Trey shoutouts to Trey's "homecoming"
^ LTP 2013-10-25 (60 show gap)
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I liked it. Psyched for tomorrow.
that's a lot of songs. looks fun though
The show is song-y & has some Trey flubs. It's not terrible though.
He messes on some early bit of Antelope, for example, but then he pulls together some interesting melodic leads on the middle part that are worth it.
Dallass will get smoked.
The jam/stuff/generic 3.0 ambient space between 46 Days and Piper was my fave.
So this show had some really fucking fantastic stuff, but also some really meh stuff.
That 46 Days sandwich was absolutely outstanding. And the Ghost.... that Ghost had a shot at top-5 of 3.0 status, but they couldn't keep it together. That power-rock riff theme that Trey came up with was absolutely slamming, and then he looped that higher note over top and it was awesome, but then the whole thing just disintegrated out of nowhere. They tried to come back to it, but.... it was gone. It's such a cool riff though.
I like Shade. I don't know why. I'm a sucker for the cycling vocals thing they do. Fell asleep during the Jibboo jam, and wake up to find a whole lot more songs played that set, haha weird.
I don't like sets like this though, because they drop all the "big jam songs" but don't actually give them any big jams. Another show where nothing cracked the 12 minute mark.
LST was fun
:shakehead:
Havent listened to any of this show yet, doesn't look that good on paper.
Apparently Dirt was for Harris Wittels (parks and rec producer), Mike posted a pic with him in a Harris/Phish shirt
So far, I think the really only consistent thing about this tour is the incredibly shitty first sets. My god. At this point, I am kinda tempted to wait in the lot until set break this weekend. :evil: :roll: :frustrated:
This is another one where they gain and lose momentum within a blink of the eye. I'm left wondering if they are winging it? And no setlist is written out? Because on paper, I would just have to think, there is no fucking way all of four of them see this on a page and think its a good idea.
Again, the playing is fine. It's just really boring to me. I don't think there music is interesting enough to play it the same way every time. Especially the new songs, they aren't good enough for that.
Live for Live Music's recap describes The Bouncing/Water in the Sky combo as, "both enjoyable first set rockers." I believe I'll be getting my recaps elsewhere from now on.
Quote from: JPhishman on July 29, 2015, 11:19:51 AM
Live for Live Music's recap describes The Bouncing/Water in the Sky combo as, "both enjoyable first set rockers." I believe I'll be getting my recaps elsewhere from now on.
LOL.
As for the lost momentum, I think Trey is trying to do like the Dead and have "tender" moments with slow emotional tunes. He may be swinging and missing, but that's what he's going for, IMO.
46 Days -> The Dogs -> 46 Days
Pretty nice segue in and out dogs, jam after dogs is really nice imo. Hits a very melodic, kinda "soaring" style to it. I'd like to see how the lights matched it.
Piper -> Ghost
kinda flubby in the composed section of Piper. The jam takes off right away. Mildly interesting. I don't think they really hit any new territory in it. The "peak" of the jam is pretty sloppy to me. The whole attempt at two note trilling brings me back to earlier 3.0 Trey. It really sounds like he is just having an off night here.
Kinda fizzles out into Ghost
The "spacey" fade out into Ghost is cool.
jam in Ghost is pretty solid. I like to hear Trey bringing back the descending A minor arrpegio riffage, a la 1.0 and 2.0. Some creativity blossoming with this.
This has all the makings to peak really well ~7:00
major key change ->
sounds good. But I was digging the darker sound they had developing a few minutes back. A lot more trills and simple runs
~9:15 okay, I see what Gumbo is talking about. It falls apart too quick. That was pretty nifty. He falls back on the trills :frustrated: :frustrated:
should have kept that one going
I think 45 seconds of awesome in 12 minutes of mundane doesn't make it a top version, but that's just me.
Quote from: PGLHAH on July 29, 2015, 11:23:34 AM
Quote from: JPhishman on July 29, 2015, 11:19:51 AM
Live for Live Music's recap describes The Bouncing/Water in the Sky combo as, "both enjoyable first set rockers." I believe I'll be getting my recaps elsewhere from now on.
LOL.
LOL as well.
Quote from: mehead on July 29, 2015, 12:07:32 PM
Quote from: PGLHAH on July 29, 2015, 11:23:34 AM
Quote from: JPhishman on July 29, 2015, 11:19:51 AM
Live for Live Music's recap describes The Bouncing/Water in the Sky combo as, "both enjoyable first set rockers." I believe I'll be getting my recaps elsewhere from now on.
LOL.
LOL as well.
L4LM is the worst click bait, always sounds like some 8th grader wrote it
NOBODY MENTIONED THE MUTRON-PEDAL-SUZY!!!!
Scathing review of last night's outing...
http://onlinephishtour.com/2015/07/29/treys-texas-homecoming/ (http://onlinephishtour.com/2015/07/29/treys-texas-homecoming/)
Quote from: mattstick on July 29, 2015, 01:12:03 PM
NOBODY MENTIONED THE MUTRON-PEDAL-SUZY!!!!
With the Judas Priest tease.
Quote from: rowjimmy on July 29, 2015, 03:01:50 PM
Quote from: mattstick on July 29, 2015, 01:12:03 PM
NOBODY MENTIONED THE MUTRON-PEDAL-SUZY!!!!
With the Judas Priest tease.
Yeah, I think I mentioned something about the song in the LST...I fucking loved that Suzy. I didn't notice the Mutron (which is odd, since that is my favorite pedal/sound), but that could be because I was drunkenly playing a mean air guitar on my back porch, much to the delight of my neighbor, who had brought over his tablet with the purchased webcast.
Moral of the story...we approved. And we'll be moving to his backyard for tonight's festivities. Expect some solid LST-ing... :beers: :smoke: :rockout:
Is that Trey's guitar farting at the beginning of Loving Cup?
i rather enjoyed the 46 Dogs > Piper > Ghost.
the other tracks i checked out seemed less interesting.
First show of the year for me.. I loved the first part of the first set. I wish they would have just eliminated Possum and extended the Wolfman's. I also hate Devotion to a Dream, replace that with Monica or something along those lines and it's not a bad first set. Not the most groundbreaking set by any means but not a bad start.
Loved that 46 days sandwich to start the second set. Then the rest was just a disappointment. We'll never get a slow-intro Piper again and the Ghost had potential for a second then just went flat. Shade to Wading was just brutal. Yeah, Jibboo is neat but damn. Loving Cup was just the icing on the cake & I'm a HUGE RS fan....
Hope Magnaball and Dick's don't disappoint.
bonus tweezer reprises are the best