Listen to their "Big Pimpin," with all of its soft edges, jazzy guitar licks, and total lack of punch. It's true to its source material on a technical level, but never comes close to either replicating the original's swagger or offering a compelling alternative reading. The band knows all the right notes, but they don't know what they mean.
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In the parking lot, some jokers end up doing whip-its. One time, a putz ran in front of my car and nearly got killed. At a New Year's concert a blitzed-out girl covered in flashing lights and wearing a unicorn horn kept wanting to hug my wife. Sure, why not? Later, well past midnight, she asked when the countdown would start. She was standing right there when thousands of balloons fell inside Madison Square Garden.
Despite all the open drug use, whacked-out lyrics "Split Open and Melt" , and occasional shouting of "Kush! The other members of the group are, according to lore, "pretty much sober," these days, too, either for their own well-being or to avoid enabling their frontman. Years ago, their backstage antics were in tune with the crowd, but now, seconds after the final encore, each member of the group gets on his individual bus that whisks them away from the venue, a temptation-avoidance strategy borrowed from Neil Young.
Still, a lot of people enjoy the show with nothing more than a can of 7UP. During the summer shows, many people take their kids and let them run around on the back of the lawn. Everyone is groovin' and having a good time. There's never an opening act at a Phish show, but that hasn't prevented some extraordinary stamps-of-approval by musicians you know.
Each member of Phish has a life outside the group. Bassist Mike Gordon has his own band, too, but he's also made two feature films: one an experimental art-house movie, the other, Rising Low , a documentary about bass players.
And even though you may not know any Phish songs, the band's all about covering songs you do know. The list goes on. Most summers this year being something of an anomaly there is a three-day camp-out festival on an abandoned Air Force base or a mushy national preserve in the Florida Everglades. This can lead to some unexpected developments like the middle-of-the-night "Tower Jam" in Maine, in which the band played an unannounced ambient set on what, when lit, looked like a rocket ship.
Dancers rappelled down the side, unless I hallucinated that part. The mini-festivals have a bit of a Burning Man feel, with art expositions in tents and not much bathing. New Year's shows are huge for Phish fans, too, with recent midnight surprises including audience levitation , runaway golf carts , and a United Nations-esque ode to flying hot dogs.
One show leads to another and, yes, some people really do take half the year off to travel with the band, earning a living selling "wares" in the parking lot. There are occasional locations that still have available tickets the week of the concert, but chances are, the gig will be sold out well in advance.
This band you've never heard has giant crowds of people clamoring to get in! In fact, demand can be so great at certain stops that there is a lottery system to try and keep things democratic. Though everyone usually bugs their roommate to put a bid in for them to try and get great seats -- they're the band that launched a thousand Venmos!
What's remarkable about going to numerous Phish shows is that you inevitably start running into the same people. You won't remember their names, they won't remember yours, but those "hey, it's this guy! There's nothing like jumping on a bus or pulling into a nearby Days Inn and seeing someone who's there for the Phish show. Phish's record output mirrors what the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia once said: "Making a record is like building a ship in a bottle.
Playing live music is like being in a rowboat in the ocean. To get to the heart of Phish, and to do so free of charge, listen to the "Island Tour ," four concerts from April The run showcases the band at the top of their game: energetic and exploratory, mixing classic rock guitar with shimmering, echoey digital delays that almost take on a techno sound.
There's a deep keyboard funk and an almost inhuman steady drum groove. The first time you hear it, you'll bob your head; the fifth time you hear it, you'll be swaying right there in your living room; and when you eventually see them perform it live, you'll be lifting up your arms and losing your mind. The April 4th show has a minute version of their cover of Eumir Deodato's arrangement of the opening to Richard Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra" also known as the theme from A Space Odyssey and it's arguably the most quintessential Phish riff out there.
It's silly, but it has occurred to me that the solace many find in attending religious services is somewhat mirrored for me in seeing Phish. Christians already know the story of Christ, but they go to church to hear it again with a new spin from this week's sermon. These are rituals. I cross state lines each summer to see the same four dopes play variants of songs I've heard a hundred times before, only in new combinations and with varied emphasis.
I find joy in being with others similarly enamored of the experience, and come away invigorated and inspired. And I guess you could call articles like this one representative of an urge to proselytize.
So maybe Phish is a religion. And if so, after being a fan for so long, I should have enough of a tax deduction to see them an extra time this year. Skip to main content Entertainment. What is Phish? A common criticism of the band among those who hate them is that its fan base is too blasted on drugs to hear the band anyway. What do you say to that? I strongly suggest you stay away from Phish. It seems like your soul is too crushed by life to appreciate fun.
One must be prudent in blast, yes. Humans have been altering their experience with anything we could get our digits on since we flopped out of the ooze. Haters are tedious.
I know happen to also be musicians. NC : All four guys are tremendous virtuosos that dedicated countless hours to mastering not just music, but achieving the goal of every great musician: possessing a singularity in sound; a voice that is uniquely yours. Each of the four guys uniquely sounds like themselves.
Tell us your best Phish hater story. FD : Nothing much stands out. I do take shit from some of my co-workers, and Twitter followers for tweeting about Phish during tour etc. How do you take that kind of thing? Are you able to laugh it off, or is it irritating. Why for either? FD : Every time I see the band, my soul is filled up with love and happiness.
Though the world is a fucked-up place, we find a little utopia with our friends on tour, and then are recharged and can take a little of that loving kindness and acceptance into the real world with us.
Phish is the one place you can wear whatever you want, dance like a total dork, and be free.
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