you almost got it with the commentary before the song starts but i actually figured out what trey said just today listening to this in my car. Trey: Wanna play a jammier song? Mike: Play a what song? Trey: A jammier song? Just to get a sound on stage? Mike: Yep! I do! Trey: Do you wanna play waves, cuz we haven't played it in a long time? Trey: You guys are awesome!
There were a few handfuls of people around the outside of the venue listening to this. I remember a jammed out Foam as well. Beautiful version, and the one the following night at the show is a winner too
I almost cried as i beheld the realm of light that the spirits were telling me about on my way to get some food. I knew i was in hell. With my body riddled with the poisons and my death drawing near i shuffled my way home in pain to listen to some phish. Phish would be an astronomically mean band in the realm of light. Thousand times the accuracy, mental capabilities, speed and stamina. We could even have a llama there on stage.
Wow this is really something else man and I've been listening to these guys 96-2004 then a lot this year.......this cut is spectacular.............so is that Fukowkwa Twist by the way
why can't they do more of this at shows instead of warm ups? I mean I loved the bethel shows especially the first 2. But why can't we see a glimpse of some more of this extended stuff? confused.
can someone please play this for the band and make them relisten to it? maybe they would play like this at shows if people weren't chatting away like its a high school reunion
Well, to be fair Dick's and MSG both sported a bunch of quality extended jams, but I know what you mean. There's an intimate quality to this jam that is largely absent from shows these days. I feel like they're going to lay down something similar to this at the festival this year. I can feel it.
Summer's coming - you'll be off the wagon and back up to 4 times a day. There is a cure though - but you have to go to a show ;) ~ Wait sorry, no cure available. All you can do is keep satisfying the urges.
It's sad when they play their best music during the soundcheck...fuckers they proved here that they can bring interesting extended jamming to the stage, yet they make a conscious decision not to even though most of us got into phish because of their jamming.
Gonna try: for pure psychedelia, Walls of the Cave, 2/23/03 (I think? Cincinnati, 2nd night) For p-punk AC/DC Bag 12/30/97, For Uber-melodic phish: Gin from The Great Went. Best Jam I Did Not Attend: Houses in Motion/Seen and Not Seen 10/31/96
On second thought Phish has several "jamming styles", in THIS particular style, the DTE Center Dw/D is the only jam that compares. Like this "Waves", it's Mike-Driven, Phunkless, and very psychedelic. No "shredder" Trey (blubadablubadaWHEEEEEEEblubbada) no whale calls, or brown chicken brown cows.
One could argue this has always been the case... the Coventry soundcheck is probably my favorite piece of music they’ve made (though that’s really hard to choose, the Amsterdam stash, Camden 99 CDT, IT waves/46 days, most of 97 are all super close contenders) but they just don’t go THIS deep and loose during shows
not much substance til the last 10mins or so for me, jams are all about tightness - not length a lot of noodling around until 20mins or so in... still enjoyable - seeing this live would have still been great (if it hadnt been a soundcheck...)
