...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

 

I wanted to keep this one for a latter post about my collection but the announcement yesterday that Phish will play a full acoustic set during Festival 8 made me dust off this CD earlier.

This is a 1 track promo CD edited by Electra Records showcasing an acoustic radio show Phish did on the 3rd November 1998 in Boulder, CO. The radio is KBCO and the show is part of the "Live in Studio C" serie.

The first link with Festival 8 is that it's an acoustic set. The songs played (Driver, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Possum and Roggae) are perfect for this outfit. It's also funny to see that they choose thoose songs so that each band member can sing : Trey on Driver, Page on Vevet Sea, Mike on Possum and Fish (with the 3 others) on Roggae.

The second link takes place during the interviews between songs. The show is recorded right after the 1998 Halloween show, where the band covered the Velvet Underground's album Loaded, and a show at the E Centre in West Valley City, where they covered Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon ! As they say during the interview, the surprise for the next day show in Denver is that they will not cover an entier album !

Several FM sources have been circulated since 1998 and I remember heavily listening to the show when I was a student in Valence. But db.etree.org doesn't list the Promo CD source. I got this CD quite easily on eBay, like most of my Promo CD I'll present latter, but I can't remember when. There was a time when I bought many many CD on eBay and didn't track what I received and when.

So here is this show in mp3 320kbs direct download or Flac Torrent.

11-03-98 KBCO (97.3 FM) Studios, Boulder, CO

01 Intro
02 Driver
03 Interview
04 Wading in the Velvet Sea
05 Interview
06 Possum
07 Interview
08 Roggae
09 Outro

Acoustic.
Played between 4:30 pm and 5:00 pm for KBCO's "Studio C" series, where musicians coming to the Denver area are interviewed and perform live on the radio.

Source : Electra Records Promo CD
Promo CD > WAV > Tracking with Creative Wave Studio > Flac

While we're at it, the Facebook group about Festival 8 has released a bunch of photos of the Empire Polo Club where the festival will take place.

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.

I was watching the Clifford Ball, day 2 set 2, Run Like An Antelope. A girl was coming on stage to dance on a rope when my wife came back from work. I hit the X button of my PS3 controller (I watch my DVD with my PS3 for its better HD upscaling) to pause... but instead of freezing the frame, it switched to a footage of Trey and Mike on a couch, in front of a TV, watching this very girl coming on stage to dance on a rope !!

Speaking of a freaky moment !

Then I realized it was an easter egg hidden in the dvd that you can view when you press Enter on your remote. I did a search on the internet about it and found nothing but a vaguely reference on the week4paug forum where someone states that there is another bonus footage in The Curtain on this same dvd.
But as it's rather annoying to watch the whole DVD while pressing Enter all the time, I went to search for the bonus videos with my computer.

I came upon (a lamp post) a full bunch of new footage in the structure of the DVD (17 videos to be precise). I search the 7 DVDs of the box set but there ware hidden videos only in this #5.
In all the videos, the band is in front of Clifford Ball footage and make comments, jokes or laugh at themselves. It's like a multi-angle feature or a video version of the audio commentary you find on many movie DVD. The footage comes from the same "session" of some videos found in the bonus DVD of the set (#7). I don't know when it was filmed but it's rather old as Marley is still here. They are with another guy whom I can't identify. He looks like a young Dave Matthews but it may be Kevin Shapiro.
The songs featured are The Curtain, Fluffhead, Runaway Jim, Run Like a Antelope and Slave to the Traffic Lights. Some comments are really epic if you ask me, like "That laser guy should be f**ing beaten" or, speaking of Mike's t-shirt, "You look like you're radioactive".

So I ripped them and decided to show them here as it's far more easy than keeping hitting Enter on the remote... Ok, it's rather poor quality when you compare to the new Big Cypress footages showed in the The8tre yesterday but anyway...

Enjoy !