Can we get a consensus on Phish?
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Lord, I hate Phish... My cousin is the biggest f'n fan. She's spent most of her life collecting and trading tapes before file sharing that is. Following them around america. And playing them for everybody that comes over to her house. I tried to like them. Really I did. But, they just suck. Jam bands always do. Suck Suck Suck. I don't feel the big energy snake coming from the stage!!! WTF
I did a lot of drugs at Phish concerts.<b,121<b,121Do we really need a consensus on this band? i mean, really...
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Come on guys Grateful Dead and Phish are not that much alike.<b,121<b,121Point One: Jerry Garcia was in the Grateful Dead <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/game.gif" alt="" /1<b,121<b,121Point Two: Phish intentionally migrated their music towards stadiums. Trey went to rehab for herb. And Phish Freaks are like the yuppies. And Barack Obama doesn't like Phish. <b,121<b,121<b,121later.<b,121<b,121lilmonstu
Phish's first album is pretty good if you like prog rock and captain beefheart with stupid lyrics.
there were/are millions of adrift disjointed younger deadheads that had just started doing acid and enjoying the scene in the 90s and they needed something to follow<b,121after garcia's death <b,121i reckon phish filled that void by default<b,121<b,121those dudes have chops for daze but the final product is rather feces like<b,121<b,121i mean if you are white,from vermont or some other middle class caucasian infested enviorn ,semi educated,liberal,non thuggish,lazy,a peaceful soul,a weed smoker and a "non conformist"aside from cypress hill,or bob marley where else could you honestly pledge your allegence?<b,121<b,121<b,121did you know that garcia died cradling an apple in his hands like a baby?<b,121<b,121that apple was phish
ok what about Phish side projects? I remember really liking the first Trey Anastasio solo album (s/t), although I haven't really listened to his stuff since. I also remember liking Vida Blue, the keyboardist's side project, which included hometown hero Russell Batiste on drums.<b,121<b,121p.s. i never liked phish. a bunch of my friends in high school and at the beginning of college used to love them, although luckily they basically stopped listening to them. anyway, i could never really get into it. i appreciated their talent and all, but they just never really did it for me.
only folls from Colorado and Oregon should even be allowed to opine on this subject.<b,121<b,121I mean, who else among us could even understand</i1 the meaning of Phish?
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<font class="post"1<b,121<b,121I don't think I've ever knowingly heard Phish, nor any of these other so-called "jam bands". I think I've heard the Dave Matthews Band twice, maybe three times. I've never once felt as if I might be missing out. Something about that shit doesn't really travel, especially not to a country that could comfortably fit within the boundaries of New York State.
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<font class="post"1<b,121I was living in the Philly area at the time but traveled around on their tours.<b,121I've seen them live over 30 times. Those were my high school years, mid to late 90s. I did mix it up with at least as many Roots shows and raves and local funk & soul events. I definitely didn't have the blinders on that a lot of people in that scene did.<b,121<b,121I haven't intentionally listened to them in years but those were great times - hitchhiking around, living super-meagerly. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/poor.gif" alt="" /1<b, /1Modern-day adventuring. For real.<b,121<b,121They earned their spot in musical history (chops and improv skills for days).<b,121I had a tough time dancing to it, though, unless I was high as f**k.
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<font class="post"1<b,121<b,121Heh. Seriously, though, it's probably something to do with why there are no decent British road movies, or why the Dead were only ever a cult band over here - there simply aren't the huge expanses of space or levels of population here that could sustain a Phish-type act to the extent that they'd exist beyond the absolute margins to any meaningful extent, or that the idea of following them all over the country could have a kind of romantic, counter-cultural appeal to tens of thousands of people. I guess the nearest equivalent over here would be Hawkwind or Gong, but they're very much a throwback to the 60s and, committed as their audiences are, I doubt they're in the same numbers as Phish's.
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