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⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋
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Phish Stats, Math Geek, Doctor Who fan. Occasionally embodies the joy of Phish. Le Minuteur était aussi un Aggie
Jeremy D. Goodwin // JDGSo do we know why Sphere has that batter’s eye way up in the centerfield bleachers?
It gets quieter and then spacey and weird - not a common occurrence in this era of Phish. They use this Page led soundscape to slowly build towards another peak that then suddenly drops into the vocal jam.
This is 1991 Phish pointing at 93-95. It was all there even then. If you can only listen to one 20 minute song today, take a break from the usual Alice's Restaurant. You can hear any mood you want from the Dartmouth Y-E-M (except for boredom).
Before calling it a wrap on today's post, I fired it up. 31 years later, it most definitely holds up as something worth your time. Right before the 10 minute mark, there's a Tweezer Reprise flavored jam and what sounds like a play on Two Tickets to Paradise by Trey at the 10:03 mark.
Then it just explodes! It's Tweezer Reprise but not quite. Then it's more like a DWD a year early. The peak goes on for about 3 minutes but before it can get repetitive, the band just stops on a dime.
Of course, the fact that they were playing in the core of their fanbase in NH and asked if anyone had been to the previous show in VT and exactly one person cheered makes it dubious that they were getting by.
While scouring the Internet to see if I could find photos of said bathrobe, what I did find was references to the YEM.
This makes me wonder if the band was actually making money doing their endless gigs in small clubs everywhere. I've written before about how the economics as a fan touring were so different in 1988-94 than they are today, where it was easy to just grab a cooler and a couple hundred sodas and break even on the summer, but maybe it also worked for the band too. I figured this was them burning through their savings because they believed in what they were doing, but the early 90s were different.
As the David Bowie intro started on 11/24/91, Trey announced that he was going to make a presentation and requested that everyone not go away. As a reward for the crew that was doing such hard work, they handed out monogrammed bathrobes to all of them - although not Marley, despite Trey's joke that she was getting one.
According to this ramble, they handed out bowling balls the year before.
Note: the UI for pasting these into Mastodon via the web is annoying enough that I don't know how much longer I'm going to continue pasting the Morning Coffees here.
11/23/97 has a set where two different subgroups of Phish fans collide. One likes for songs to be counted wherever possible because it's fun having them in their stats. Another likes seeing setlists with very few songs.
Fortunately it would be impossible for the biggest skeptic to call the Low Rider just a jam and a tease, so there's no chance this would be a Gin -> Down With Disease, Bold as Love setlist. Just imagine the debates if it were more borderline. We'd still be fighting.
The joke was that everyone else would be, "See, the label made the same mistake!"
Maybe anger over the rename is what inspired everyone do a horrible cannibalistic chant before the 11/22/97 Halley's Comet. Oh, they wanted to hear Destiny Unbound? That's the official story sure, but if you look at the evidence I present in my new podcast...