MarcO

Cool! Love the hair!

The show I saw, they encored with........ "Aqualung"?!?!?

And then there was the time I was in Grade 8 and my buddy Mike Clark and I played our "when-will-we-be-old-enough-to-do-lots-of-acid?" version of Interstellar Overdrive to some horrified little kids at the end of the year talent school at Dundana (his school, not mine). I still remember the principal asking me never to come back there, a problem since my Mom was the custodian there for years. :: hahahaha

Pink Floyd was an important band for me. They were the first major live act I ever saw (at CNE, late Summer 1987) and even before that, the one act I had seen was Clearlight, a local Floyd cover band (I was in Grade 7 or 8, they played at Highland Secondary in the gym - it was great!). They were, after Led Zeppelin, a major obsession of mine. I went to record shows and used record shops looking for bootleg records and cassettes, and proudly chased after rare recordings of them doing Dark Side in it's original form, of the Wall being performed in LA, of early Syd Barrett stuff, the Obscured By Clouds material that they performed once or twice, BBC stuff, Pompeii. There were, of course, the Ivor Wynne 75 show and the Oakland 77 show circulating in great quality. Had all the solo albums, including the Rick Wright and Nick Mason stuff. Have you ever heard "Music From The Body" by Riger Waters? Well, I have and it's nuts!

I never really chose to stop listening to them, I just kind of went on to other things. Years later, after high school, I went through a period of rediscovering them and came to the conclusion - which I still hold today - that clearly their prime stuff leads them to Dark Side Of The Moon. With the exception of Animals after that, their albums became more cumbersome, self-absorbed, arrogant and neurotic. Why do I exclude Animals? I dunno - because it's almost got a raw punky feeling, a palpible anger that lends those long trippy tracks just the right touch of venom without allowing Waters to completely override the entire project with his horrible, self-absorbed visions of grandeur. As an album, it's perfect: spooky, weird, great playing, interesting lyrics, sonically sound and not over-exposed.

As compared to The Wall, such a loser of an album, in my opinion. I know it sold gazillions, and you can count me as one of those kids who played it over and over alone in his room, watched the movie three billion times, trying….. trying…… trying to make it out to be more than it was. In actuality, as time has passed, I've come to realize it is the worst kind of music imaginable: self-absorbed to the point of embarassment, "heavy, man", ponderous, over-ambitious, clearly the sound of a man who not only has contempt for his band but his audience and himself. "Plastic Ono Band" it is not. You can probably infer what I think of The Final Cut! The fact that Waters feels The Wall is the work of genius doesn't help. The guy is nuts. And not nuts in a good way, like Ol' Dirty Bastard, just a horrible human being. I honestly would rather listen to Human League than The Wall! And I'm still blown away by the utter lunacy of his craptacular "The Wall Live In Berlin". Roger Waters must be the most miserable person alive.

I'm not so sure I can pick a favorite but Meddle might come close. That, along with classics like Obscured By Clouds, More, Ummagumma, those are the sounds of a four-piece art band creating psychedelic spaces and quality tunes, examining the vagarities of life but holding together as a unit, a band as vital as the Stones were at the time, a major contribution to music. But I never need to hear "Welcome To The Machine" or "Run Like Hell" ever again.

Ok then, my favorite Pink Floyd album is Animals. ::

Actually, it was my two favorite albums that were first to go - Siket Disc & Round Room.

So, sorry Low Roller, at that point I lost interest but I'd be happy to play so as not to discourage any future Survivor games - I think they're fun! Please don't get discourgaed! Also, this one, being Phish-specific is bound to attract lesser numbers than previous editions. This one just got off in the wrong direction for me. Hell, those 2 are the only 2 I really ever want to hear. Otherwise, I'll just put on a live show.

That being said, today I will vote for Hoist!

I hear at midnight paisley will burst butt-naked out of a giant cake......

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Not making any point bro, no criticism intended. Just a random thing.

Gotta love Lenny & Karl! ::

so i guess MarcO - why're you such a downer?

Ok, Gumby - then spell it out for us. Tell all of us why it's ok to sort women out by their breast size and have them race topless around a track for money. Be sure to explain why I'm a downer for expressing my negative reaction to it too. It's an important point apparently - you raised it, so go ahead, I can't wait.

Go on.

Carl: Oh no! Homer's going over those falls!

Lenny: Oh good! He snagged that tree branch.

Carl: Oh no! The branch broke off!

Lenny: Oh good! He can grab onto them pointy rocks!

Carl: Oh no! Them pointy rocks broke his arms and legs.

Lenny: Oh good! Those helpful beavers are swimming out to save him!

Carl: Oh no! They're biting him, and stealing his pants!

Cavern!

"Hey I'm game for a little ass play. - Luke Bowden, May 13, 2004

Hey go figure! One man's cum stained pages of a 1972 Penthouse is another mans treasure trove of hardcore german erotica I guess.

Yeah, I guess if I was just completely fucked in the head, I'd put it that way too. ::

"I feel like we spent our first seventeen years learning how to be a good band..... Now we can spend the next twenty years actually being a good band." Jon Fishman, February 2003

"We're back, simple as that...... We went away and came back recharged, which was the goal." - Page McConnell, December, 2002

"We've been in band practice six hours a day...... we're getting excited about playing again." - Mike Gordon, October, 2002

"We don`t practice. We can`t. It`s just... [we haven't practiced] since before the hiatus, probably. Maybe for like a day...... No, we don`t even practice before tours anymore. We just go meet up." - Trey Anastasio, May, 2004

"We have this series of band rules.... we came up with another one: We have to play one show when we're in our eighties...... That's the new band rule. Of course, that means we have to stay alive." - Trey Anastasio, February, 2003

"It's very difficult for me to imagine us ever breaking up again.... Maybe we take another hiatus. But as long as the four of us are alive, on the earth, Phish would exist. Because that is what we are." - Page McConnell, February 2003

"it is important to acknowledge the fact that I've been incredibly tired over the last four years, and the thing has been wearing me down. And my mother and my wife and my dad, everybody's been chiming in, you know, "you can't do this anymore, its got to stop." - Trey Anastasio, May 2004

"It's pretty weird to have the plug pulled on your career just like that." - Mike Gordon, May 2004

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Wasabi's is probably the one CD of all the touring canjam acts that I listen to the most @ home. I love it!

There's merit in the music, kung. Nevermind all the other stuff.

Thanks for the update Greg - and congratulations!

Here's a real opportunity for you to reassess your situation and glean something positive for the future from it!

If I could, I'd hire ya buddy! ::

I see a little birthday cake next to your name today so please allow me to be the first on the board to wish you the best of birthdays!

I miss bumping into you at shows but I appreciate your contributions around here: you always speak your mind with clarity and passion. I say, thanks for that!

Have a great one Sean! ::

Sure it's all great standing behind your team no matter what but you've *got* to start thinking strategically when pre-election polls show such a dead heat between the Libs and the Conservatives. I *want* to vote NDP but that's based on the idea that I assume the Libs will form the next government handily and my vote could be a suggestion to them to turn their policies - especially social policy - further to the left. But if it's as close on June 28th as it is today, I will vote Liberal.

I Do Not Want a Conservative Government In Canada! ::

So is anybody going to, like, vote, or should I just put on my Rush t-shirt? ::

Come on,its Phisheads here,years of "pharmies" and nitrous oxide abuse has caused most of em to drift off topic,sorta a drug induced ADD I guess.

Wait, didn't you just spend like four days awake?!?!? ::

My girlfriend has been working with a young dude who's really into Rush and he's been bringing in live shows and demos and all their albums AND SHE'S STARTING TO LIKE THEM! :: ::

Which means I'll be on the market shortly ladies...... Ow!

just a thought for those w/o accomodations - apparently the Wal-Mart chain will allow people to park in their empty lots overnight, and there is also apparently one in the area. It began as a courtesy to truckers and has now extended to travellers. I'm sure they won't extend the courtesy to anyone hosting a nitrous wookie-orgy in the lot but maybe you could park there after the show and crash with no hassles.

Look into it, I'm just passing along what I've heard.

In!

Production? Proschmucktion! (er....... )

The [color:"purple"]innovative production style of Anastasio/Goggin means Farmhouse sounded dated the day it came out. Round Room will still sound fresh in years to come.

Farmhouse is the failed album. Today it sounds cold, indifferent, a collection of songs (good songs mind you) cobbled together from Trey Band material and back to the 1997 motherlode - a clearing-house of sorts. Round Room is very much a success, that is, demonstrating Phish at a unique juncture in their career honestly and completely, as well as presenting new material that is unique to their catalogue. And yes, I realize Pebbles & Marbles debuted as a Trey Band song. Whatever.

If only I could find the talent to write a song half as beautiful as "Friday" or "All Of These Dreams" (especially AOTD!). I'd be very pleased with myself!

See? :: I think that would make a great TV show.....

Okay MarcO, you're excepted.

And Mr. M has an excuse - he likes Rush, so we'll have to let him slide.

I except your acception.

I'd like to see a reality show where various members of this board take cross-country drives with Kung.

I'd watch that.

Why does everyone have such bad taste around here?

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That's horrible. ::

(sigh).... seeing as though my two favorite Phish CD's are Siket Disc (#1) and Round Room(#2), I don't see much point in even getting into this one.......

[color:"purple"] Duh - d'ya think Billy Breathes or Rift will win? ::