MarcO

I think it's safe to say we're all in shock.... She always seemed so grounded and calm....

So far, it's Waves for me. Gotta love those clean piano/distorted guitar sus2 chords that keep things moving along.

That could change at any time though!

Just bought mine at Cheapies for 17.99.

^^^

The Siket Disc is my favorite studio Phish CD because it best represents what the band is all about without mucking it up with over-ambitious production approaches. I am a HUGE Phish fan but I'll never fool myself into thinking their songs are always really great. Some of them are but a lot of them aren't (although I think Trey is getting much better at writing good *songs* - see: "Drifting"). In fact, to my mind, the strongest Phish-related disc song-wise is definitely Trey's solo album.

The Siket Disc is what it is, which is the only Phish studio CD I really ever bother to put on unless I'm looking to reference something. Press play and let it flow. No cringing. No asking "why?". No convoluted lyrical turns. Nothing clever for the sake of being clever. Just Phish doing what they were put here to do....

yes, me and half the western world.

I still have hope though.

PTBM bent me over like a homecoming queen this time around. From a random sampling on other boards, more people were shut out for most shows, even people who ordered singles.

I'm not sure stadiums are the answer until Phish actually has a radio hit but what I do hope they do is just tour and tour and tour all over North America this year so everyone can get their fix and then just chill out a little bit. I'm sure that if Long Island and Philly and Worcester Rosemont were multiple-night runs, it would have taken some of the pressure off.

There is a piece of me that would be relieved to have a little extra cash this Christmas, though.

Dude, at least you get to see Toto! What I wouldn't give for a Toto Canadian tour this Winter....

Steve - well, we booked a room at the Newport, KY Travelodge but we got shut out of MO. If we don't get hooked up Saturday with TM, we're out of the game until summertime.

I think DMB often gets unfairly criticized. Alone amongst their "jamband" peers, they had to deal with the realities of being a mainstream phenomenon as opposed to the luxury of sitting on the fringes, where supposedly they would be cooler. The only DMB studio release I don't have is "Everyday" and that's because it is a poor album. I do like "Busted Stuff" and continue to enjoy each of their other albums. Live, DMB never disappointed me, although I haven't seen them since 1999. In fact, their 1996 Toronto show is among my top 5 favorite concerts by anyone anywhere! And they have used their stature to put many an up-and-coming band on the bill with them, giving the likes of MMW, Soulive, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones and Antibalas exposure to a wider audience.

Also, who would have predicted a multi-racial band led by sax and violin and fronted by a freak would do so well?

I like 'em! Not to mention the sweetness of any Dave & Tim recordings you may find. Shame that had to end, but I understand why. When I saw Dave & Tim in Syracuse in 1999, it was the rudest audience I've ever dealt with (well maybe taht honour should go to the moe. show at Lafayette Square in Buffalo last year but....).

Congratulations to both of you, I had no idea you were a couple.

I mean, just check out Fishman's shirt!

Originally posted by MarcO:

[qb] I'm just trying

not

to envision what they offspring (read: "spawn") would be like...

QB]

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most likely kind of like this:

Anna Nicole Smith marrying Michael Jackson.

Debate.

Discuss:

Have you been drinking?!?

you're on the right track....

apparently every Fatties gig from 1997 is currently being transferred from original analog to digital (!).

Johnny used to just throw a mike up at every show and let it go. I always thought listening to those shows may be a devastating experience, for fear of hearing myself indulging in some stooooopid drunken conversation some night, somewhere that I wouldn't even remember the next day, let alone five years later!

Once those shows are transferred, I'm thinking of starting a Fat Cats cover band, featuring faithful recreation of every 1997 show.... ha!

or how about this: start a Dark Star Orchestra cover band.....

what?!?

Bobby joined dso at a benefit, commenting on "how this is the way the dead meant to sound"....

Seeing as how the DSO agenda is to recreate Dead shows right down to the equipment used, it's kinda hard to figure out what Bobby could possibly have meant by that, but whaddya expect from a dyslexic freak who had to quit doing acid by 1966 just as the rest of the world got turned on?

Please don't get me wrong, I understand the impulse to attend a DSO show and it's not surprising to me that they should be doing so well, there's obviously a generation of younger people who never had the chance to see the Dead (as Steve seems to mention to me every single chance he gets) and I guess if you want it bad enough this is a way to experience something. I just find the enterprise in and of itself bizarre, to say the least.

Someone sent me a DSO show as part of a b&p once and I checked it out. It was impressive inasmuch as they nailed the material but I couldn't get through the whole thing. All it did was make me want to listen to the Dead (which I proceeded to do). Maybe that's the point, I don't know....

I just find it beyond bizarre that with all the young original touring acts out there anyone would want to go see a band recreate another band's shows.

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Friday night was fun.... from what I can remember!

Seemed like this was a bit of a wide-open question last I heard. So, are they playing Sunday night? At the Casbah?

Anybody??