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Phish just finished a three day reunion gig and now is offering shows on their website.
“This has been an incredible weekend,” guitarist Trey Anastasio
told the crowd on Phish’s final performance of their long awaited
reunion shows. The band played another marathon show on Sunday
(March 8) to a delighted audience, dipping into a wide range of
their back catalog as well as dishing out a number of favorite
cover songs.
All three shows are available for free download at livephish.com.
If the first night was high with anticipatory feelings and the
second night more heavy on the funk, night three proved to have
many overt references to the group’s time off. Starting the evening
off with the rare tune “Sanity,” Anastasio grinned and shook his
head during the lines “lost my mind just a couple of times”- a
clear reference to his much documented arrest and struggles with
drug use. “Undermind” repeated the phrase “reinvented, redefined”
throughout and the crowd was ecstatic when Anastasio sung the line
“I feel the feelings I forgot” during “Free.”
The first set clocked in at around an hour and forty minutes, with
the band jumping from the hard rocking “Wilson,” to the dark and
shifty “My Friend, My Friend” and “Maze,” to the sped up country of
“Scent of a Mule.” And while the group has been concentrating on
getting their material back on track, they proved they still have a
few tricks up their sleeve. Bassist Mike Gordon tackled the Dickey
Lee (made famous by George Jones) tune “She Still Thinks I Care”
and Page McConnell emerged from his piano set, only to pick up a
keytar and play it during the classic rock instrumental
“Frankenstein,” which had him standing side by side with Anastasio
and Gordon.
Fans love this band for their improv skills and set two delivered
the heaviest of the free-form explorations, with a 22 minute
version of “Down With Disease” that seemed to be ever-evolving,
with Gordon and drummer Jon Fishman consistently playing with the
rhythm towards the end. Later in the set, the band tackled more
covers, choosing the theme to “2001: A Space Odyssey” and the
Beatles tune, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” “Slave to the Traffic
Light” capped the second set with one of Anastasio’s best lead
moments of the weekend, bringing his band mates to a thundering
crescendo over a course of almost 11 minutes.
Phish will resume touring for two and a half weeks this summer
starting on June 4th at Jones Beach in Wantagh, New York. Aside
from the Bonnaroo festival, all dates are sold out.
All three shows are available for free download at livephish.com.
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