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Until The Nut Comes Out

Phish
The Baker’s Dozen – Night 1
Madison Square Garden
July 21st

David Bowie is no longer with us, and yet I was super lucky to even see him 1.2 times in concert.  Junior Senior are no longer together, but caught them twice and super loved it.  I missed out on those Page/Plant shows of the 90s, but I did get to hear Robert Plant some Led Zep tunes in my ear once!  The incredible Harry Nilsson barely toured when he was living, but I only grew into his genius 17 years after his passing

As for Phish, I’ve now seen them 3 times – which means I’ve seen them more than I got to see David Bowie and Robert Plant play live combined!!!  In my mind that is plain wrong, but life doesn’t work on plain wrongs – it works on plain truths.  I’ve said before that I care not for Phish and their original music, BUT they are certainly a ball of fun to see live, and are perhaps the greatest cover band of all time!  And in fact, they covered ALL the artists I mentioned above and I loved all them covers!

Donuts are handed out every night of Phish’s ‘Baker’s Dozen’ residency at MSG, and the night’s chosen flavor sets the tone for the show.  Night one’s flavor was coconut, and while Nilsson’s ‘Coconut’ was an obvious cover choice, much to the crowd’s surprise, and to mine – they opened with a cover of Junior Senior’s ‘Shake Your Coconuts’.  The Phish phollowing probably knew zero about Jr Sr, which is fitting cause I know next to nothing about Phish, and am well versed in the Denmark’s duo oeuvre, but after 3 minutes of tearing through the rip-roaring track, band, audience and me were all on the same page from the get-go

Just keep on dancing now
Just keep on getting down
Just keep on having fun
The party’s just began

it was all such awesome plain truth!

so much so, that I won’t even bother to make up a faux setlist like I did for the previous two shows I done saw!  if only Phish did a whole Junior Senior show.  that would be something… and maybe even count as my 3rd Junior Senior show, and not a 4th Phish show  

here’s another plain truth – I will probably see Phish a 4th time.  COVER ME GOODD!!

Set One – Shake Your Coconuts (Junior Senior cover) / Martian Monster / Timber (Josh White cover) / 555 / Pigtail (Trey Anastasio song) / Halfway to the Moon / Reba / Moonage Daydream (David Bowie cover) / Walls of the Cave

Set Two - Tweezer / Seven Below /  Billy Breathes /  Sparkle / Everything’s Right (Trey Anastasio Band cover) /  Slave to the Traffic Light / Suzy Greenberg /  Coconut (Harry Nilsson cover)

Encore - The Mango Song / Good Times Bad Times (Led Zeppelin cover)

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VT, Fone Homeboys

Phish
The Garden
December 2nd

There’s something seriously wrong with me/we. How on Earth have we been goaded into seeing Phish twice in one year (the previous show, our phirst ever, was this past summer at Jones Beach), esp since we’ve now see them play ‘A Day In The Life’ as many times as we’ves seens Paul McCartney do it (so that makes it FOUR times we’ve heard that song in concert since June!!!?!?!?)?? Last nite’s show was fab lobvs course, but didn’t have a clue as to what was going on (elastic, elastic, balls apart?) and now wees needs to take 8 showers to get the stench of middle class dirty neo-hippie semi-homelessness off of mees! Two things we learnsed this time that we didn’t the phirst time: crowds are 86% men (mainly sweaty ones) and the 12% of womens are usually 81% smokin’ (the remaining 2% is butterscotch ripple, btw)! The other thing is that no one claps during the songs remains the sames. No one does that at any concert in general and in sergeant cause everyone is lame, but the Phish peoples are so into Phish that you’d think they’d have more clapping going on, but guess theys too busy smelling like mid-90s post-teen spirit to bothers. OK, enuff of the whatever, and now for the real chocolate reasons why yer still reading this… our totally made-up made-down set list (with no repeats from last nites tweet guesses)

Set One

  1. A Case of The Squeegees
  2. Uncle Dippy
  3. Hot Pantaloons
  4. Yanklet
  5. A Tents Moment
  6. Georgetown Goyas
  7. Squantovision
  8. Jack of Threes*
  9. Taint Misbehavin’
  10. Vector & Hictor
  11. unParallelogram

Set Two

  1. Hookerfranken >
  2. Eight Is Earmuff >
  3. Fancakes >
  4. Gertrude Awakening >
  5. Dog o’ Nine Tales
  6. Tigris-Youafraidies?
  7. Pookled
  8. Bloomin’ Funyuns^
  9. Too Hot To Panhandle
  10. Gyros & Villains

Encore

  1. Jai Ho, A.R. Rahman cover
  2. Gertrude Re-Awakening

Notes

  • ^ with Jelly’s Last Jam outro
  • * 501st time played

(real set list)

and oh yeah, there’s a bit in Phish’s ‘Slave To The Traffic Light’ that was totally jacked from the Ewok celebration joint to end all joints, ‘Yub Yub’. basterds!!!

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Me Enjoy Youself

Phish
Jones Beach Theater
June 5th

duuuuude, we saw Phish for the very first time last noche (our concertmate, who forced us against our last will and testicles to go with him, has seen em 100ish times), and since you’re reading this it means we hactually survived the patchouli oil spills (and periodic rainstorms), AND to be unperfectly honest, we hactually had a rip roaring time, even though we hadn’t a clue what songs Phish were playing or why everyone had a beard thicker than Zach Galifianakis or why the bearded men, and women, were all dancing like a bunch of douche bags. it was a night of many firsts, including watching a grown man play a vacuum (it’s not as cool as it sounds, and the way it sounds isn’t cool), watching many grown men urinate in sinks, and also, don’t think we’ve heard a guy puke as hard and as long as we did during a second set pee break. speaking of sets, here’s our guess as to what they played…

Set One

  1. Helga
  2. Pouring Porridge
  3. Carpetbagger
  4. Acey Deucey Busey
  5. Where Is My Mime?
  6. O Canada, P Canada
  7. Yo Yo Pa
  8. Theme From The Thames & Jim Thome
  9. Seether, Veruca Salt cover
  10. Half Made Sandwich

Set Two

  1. Blanket Belt
  2. Orange Juilliard^ >
  3. Philbert >
  4. 20 Pesos To The Left >
  5. Help Me Honda
  6. Marshmallow Yellow Fluff *
  7. 3001
  8. Guaca Molehill

Encore

  1. Back In Time, Huey Lewis & The News cover

Notes

(real set list)

+ mug shots of VA Phisheads

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