PHISH BACK AT IT

Not in Limestone, Maine but on the road...

I have taking a few years off from listening to this band for reasons that are beyond my comprehension. After hearing Trey tell the same story two nights in a row in a mud filled field, and an overwhelming sense of loss when Page couldn't get through Wadding in the Velvet Sea and that last note of "Curtain" was played, words couldn't explain the lost.

Since then I got into more folk written music that tells a story of someones life. I find folk music to be the last true American Frontier's music. I was always big on Jerry's music with the Dead and without and that Frisco Folk has a nice ring to it. I used to be part of that phantasytour back in the day but stopped soon after I graduated from undergrad. Now with the band back together, I'm trying to get back in the scene.

Since post-post hiatus, if that's write, I have been following the shows and attending my first show in over 5 years. Man, did I get a treat. I was 5 rows from the stage in front of Page. The show kicked off with a Chalkdust into a Fee (thats a fun song to hear), then they got into it with a funky Wolfmans (which I feel they overplay), into a Guyute. From reading the message board, why has no one commented on the Guyute. Its one of their most technical songs and you all rant about a Sand. People, get with it, Guyute is a ridiculous song to play and they nailed it. After hearing Guyute, I knew I was in for a treat for the rest of the show. I mean, they even rocked out a 46 days, which when I heard the intro was ready to sit down. Then they visited gamehenge, what, yea, gamehenge with the Lizard people to conclude the first set with Tube. Insane!

Second set came out hot with Sand and cooled it down with Suzy and Limb by Limb (which is cool to hear Trey's and Page's harmonies). They quickly followed it with a little visit from Rift - the album, and got the party heated up again with a Character Zero into Tweezer.

The encore was the dopest part of the show, with Trey's new ode to not doing drugs out of the way, they quickly teases Antelope and got into a Bouncing into Anteloperepirse!

5 1/2 years since standing knee high in mud in a field in Vermont, I felt at home again.

Now how do I figure out how to skip work and get tickets for the rest of this tour?