I'm still up side down with the music.

Ok, I don't listen to Phish for 26 years but still there first show was on 2nd December 1983.

Part of my little celebration here will be to catch up with the present by listening to the Set II of the 29th November show in Portland. This way, i'll be ready to listen to MSG I tomorrow.

I hope that this flyer will be well spread amongst phans tonight for a big Happy Birthday chant !

 

I also got some presents by post this morning and one of them made me laugh.

So I received Phish: the Biography, a book about the band written by former senior editor of Rolling Stone Parke Puterbaugh. I read good and bad reviews of it (respectively in PT and Relix) so I can't wait to read it. The book is bigger than expected and with a hard cover.

Don't expect a lot of picture like in The Phish Book. It's all text with a small bunch of pages with some black and white photos in the middle. Some of them are really old and quite funny.

 

 

 

The laugh of the day was provided by livephish.com.
I ordered on sunday the 22th the 3 Limited Edition slotMusic cards of Festival 8. And yes, I received them today, a week and a half later. The small usb mini-sd card reader come in a plastic cd-size case with a custom Festival 8 cover. There is no track listing on the back because the 3 inlays are exactly the same (it reads "10/30, 10/31, 01/11/2009"). The only difference between the 3 is a little sticker with the date written on it on the back of the case. There's a big picture inside the sleeve but I don't know if it was taken during the festival.

I wonder if the micro Sd given (or sold ?) during the festival (or here) came with this same case. I could be as it could have been printed before the shows (if the inside picture is from this summer).

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for my Joy Box which should have been shipped (thanks to a 59$ fee) on the 17th November. I will sure check the date and price written on the parcel when it'll arrive.
I got a blank space where my Joy Box should be !

LivePhish.com 1 - Dry Goods 0

...that I'm in my living room in Lyon, France, with my baby, listening to Phish as they play live in California !
And I get some pictures too !

01. Water in the Sky
02. Back on the Train
03. Brian and Robert
04. Invisible
05. Strange Design
06. Mountains in the Mist
07. The Curtain With (Damned my Internet connection cut the intro !!!)
08. Army of One
09. Sleep Again
10. My Sweet One
11. Let me Lie
12. Bouncing Around the Room
13. Train Song
14. Wilson > Story about siting down > Wilson
15. McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters
16. Driver (cut almost entierly on Sirius...)
17. Talk
18. Secret Smile

http://fromtheroad.phish.com/tour/2009-11-01-festival-8
http://twitpic.com/photos/Liveshowreport
http://www.flickr.com/photos/livemusicblog/sets/72157622587182569/

Here is the schedule of Festival 8 for us european fans. The right hours are for France. It'll be easy to add or remove an hour for nearby country.

The Satellite Radio Sirius channel Jam On will stream the 8 set. You can listen to Jam On on the Internet with a 7 day free trial here.

Friday, October 30th, 2009
Set 1	7:30PM	3:30 (sat. 31th)
Set 2	10:00PM	6:00 (sat. 31th)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Set 1	3:00PM	23:00 (sat. 31th)
HalloSet	7:30PM	3:30 (sun. 1st)
Set 3	10:00PM	6:00 (sun. 1st)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
AcouSet	12:00PM	20:00 (sun. 1st)
Set 2	5:30PM	1:30 (mon. 2nd)
Set 3	8:30PM	4:30 (mon. 2nd)

 

 

1. It will be awesome
2. They will play Yon Enjoy Myself
3. Unfortunatly, I won't start listen to it before it's ended
4. They will play Time Turns Elastic
5. The acoustic set will be hard to listen to on site
6. They will play Off the Wall
7. I will be spoiled about what they'll play before I can listen to the shows
8. They won't play a surprise set

 

tonight is the one year anniversary of the last time (hopefully) we will know a world with no phish. my life has changed so much since october 1, 2008. i was at an awful part of my life, stuck in a completely trainwrecked relationship, borderline failing out of school. then on october 1, 2008, i woke up to 7 texts and 3 missed calls. i hadn't been pt'ing too much at the time, so phish was at the way back of my mind. my initial reaction was that there had been a family emergency, but alas, it was friends and family telling my that my band was back together. i could not contain my excitement, i skipped class, reconnected with long lost phish friends, and since then, have completely turned my life around again.

it is stupid to say that phish's reunion helped me get my life back together, because that simply isnt true. but they did rekindle my passion for music, how much i enjoy playing it, and how it is the only thing that makes sense to me in the entire world. i started listening to my favorite albums again, like revolver, and started listening to phish again, and how fresh and new the world was. i have had a new, optimistic and music filled life since 10/1/08, and tonight is the anniversary of when i said goodbye to a sad existence.

ends sweet blog

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I love Phish, the band that can play an acoustic set at noon on a sunday, complete with coffee and donuts !

Crazy stuff...

Can't wait to grab the no spoilers or livephish mp3, sit back in my couch with coffee and croissant and enjoy Time Turns Acoustic !

 

We are pleased to announce the performance schedule for Festival 8, which will include Phish's first full-length acoustic set. The set will take place at the crack of noon on Sunday morning. Coffee and donuts will be served.

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL 8 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

FRIDAY (10/30)
4:00PM Concert field opens
7:30PM Set 1
10:00PM Set 2

SATURDAY (10/31)
12:00PM Concert field opens
3:00PM Set 1
7:30PM The Halloween Set
10:00PM Set 3

SUNDAY (11/01)
10:00AM Concert field opens
12:00PM Acoustic Set
5:30PM Set 2
8:30PM Set 3

With lush green fields and palm trees, and surrounded by vistas of California's majestic Santa Rosa mountains, the festival site is simply breathtaking. The band will play eight sets over the course of three days, and as with all past Phish festivals, fans will enjoy on-site camping, numerous attractions and art installations throughout the weekend.

http://www.phish.com/news/index.php?year=2009#story455

 

You can also listen to a funny interview of Trey, speaking about the album they will cover during the Halloween set or Britney Spears.

Eden, my 2 months old son, loves Phish.

Still no news of confirmed dates for upcoming shows. Everybody oversea is waiting for fall and NYE dates to be announced. Maybe this week as it's when we'll see the official release of the news Phish Album : Joy. Although it has been leaked over the web for 2 weeks now and is streaming on Myspace since last week, a release date is a release date. Oh and there's this funny website that let you generate your own Joy live album : http://www.wecanstillhavejoy.com [no longer active]

I like the new album but it doesn't feel like an album. I mean It has been mostly recorded live (except for Time Turns Elastic, which I love) and it really sounds like this. It can seems silly when speaking of Phish but when I listen to a studio album, I don't want it to sound live. I love Billy Breathes of The Story of the Ghost because it has sounds and feels which are only in the studio album and not in the live version of the songs. On Undermind, songs like Scents and Subtle Sounds (Intro) or Secret Smile are really unique. When I listened to the news songs during this summer tour, I was waiting to hear the studio version, expecting another approach of the tunes. When I heard the album, I thought "Well, that's good songs and they are well played but just like in concert, minus the jams"...

So my favorite studio version is Time Turns Elastic, Kill Devil Falls and Stealing Times for the Faulty Plan are close seconds. I love the Light intro (the only studio-only part of the record), but I'm not fond of the segued and the actual song.

 

Based on the Phishtistics web site as of 8.16.09

1214 shows
67 only in Europe
697 songs
283 onetimers

Wordle

12 years ago, I discovered Phish and their fabulous shows.
12 years ago, I started waiting to see them live.
5 years ago, I was crying thinking it would never happen.
10 month ago, hope came back when they announced 3 shows at the Hampton Coliseum.
Now I'm ready to buy countless tickets and book countless trains and flights.

The only thing's missing is a European tour...