The older I get the more likely I am to say something to some bad chompers. I thought this was a free country! Yeah, that’s why I just turned around and told you to STFU and all the people around us clapped.
That’s one of the primary reasons I position myself at shows where that’s simply not accepted or tolerated. My old ass isn’t as good at handling a 3-night run in the pit as I used to be, but it’s still worth it to me. Tarpers and space savers are another kinda of dickishness to deal with, but I know how to navigate that. Everybody in the first 15 rows showed up for the same thing and are going to be all-in. Any chomper that wanders in there is going to quickly realize they are a leper.
I rarely fuck with the pit for anyone anymore. I’ll do the the back of the pit sometimes and if it’s an all GA Floor I’ll probably be near the SB somewhere. Hopefully this sticks https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/phish-says-no-more-tarps/
I have a good friend that’s into the traditional bluegrass as much as I am, but he sings it full throated with the inflections and the full 9. It’s better than chomping I guess, but I want to pop his fucking head and stopped being near him during Billy shows.
Be careful out there https://www.stereogum.com/2313501/a...undreds-of-thousands-of-spotify-streams/news/
King Gizz new album is fun as hell. It's possible I've said this exact same thing 8 times in the last 5 years.
Your regularly scheduled LaMP rips post Coincidentally, I slept on JRAD a bit and have come around on what they do. It’s from listening to/seeing Metzger in this lineup and giving them a better chance.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/jerry-garcia-death-phish-book-excerpt-1235378429/ https://12ft.io/ to skip the paywall Some of Trey’s quotes I dug into Phish before The Dead. I can remember my friend that introduced me to Phish having that feeling of it will never be the same as a Phish fan now. Also that explosion was the start of the Phish v WSP culture wars.
Trey Anastasio (Guitar, vocals, Phish): Just for the record, we have to remember that we were already selling out the Garden before Jerry died. We were cooking with gas.
Phish was a lot easier to go see in the first couple of years I saw them (late 92 - 94) than the sometimes harrowing experience of running gauntlets of cops and bad lot shakedowns seeing the Dead. But that was changing even before Jerry died... late 94 Phish was certainly on the cops' radar, and also the same drunk assholes / dickhole scam / shade artists (plus all the people who definitely did not have their shit together) who plagued the 90s Dead lot were starting to show up to Phish shows. Again, before Jerry died. Once they started moving off of college campuses and into bigger venues, the lot changed, there was more booze at shows, the scene changed. But agree with the premise there, no question Phish bore the brunt of the crush of people after the death of Garcia.
Trey talked a good bit about this topic on both the Marc Maron podcast as well as the Undermine podcast episode on Fall ‘97. It weighed pretty heavy on them. I think they were really struggling understanding the adjustment in that ‘95-‘97 period and then by the end of ‘97 I think they kinda surrendered to it. As Trey said, “and then the party was ON.” Which pretty much ran them off a cliff by the end of the decade.
I always find it funny when guitar players from 90s - 00s era jambands talk about the Grateful Dead like "well, of course, we were aware of them, but they didn't influence what we were doing at the time" as if every single one of them didn't practice triads and mixolydian arpeggios over Fire on the Mountain when they were learning the instrument.
Kinda forgot about Tom’s podcast, so had no idea Trey was on talking about 11/17/97. Just listened. Good stuff, gracias
That was great. A couple firsts for me as well. That was only the 4th Spanish Moon cover. First Wall of The Cave. First slow Llama. Remember last hurrah and mmgamoio being pretty good. I thought The Well deflated the second set a bit. Then I wasn’t too jazzed about Sightless Escape but they stretched it out with Mike driving and took it into CDT. Good start. Tonight we do some cosmic traveling and hoping for a funk fest.
Damn, just listened to that DWD and I loved it. Despite covering a lot of ground, it all felt very disease still. And the Sightless Escape jam was nice. Just soaring happy melodic Trey lines.
I liked Manchester N3, Pittsburgh, both Austin, and Boulder N2, But from my couch, that was best show of tour.