Gone PHISHing:
Well, another day. Whoopee. Didn't go out last night; didn't even play my new bass. Watched the original Dawn of the Dead and then a live PHISH DVD I have from Vegas - the second of 2 nights. I'm trying to find the first night - I have the next night on a CD boot but want to find it on DVD - I'm sure it was filmed. The one i have on DVD is killer - They play each others' instruments on the "Walfredo" opener and at the end of the encore, "Emotional Rescue," Trey and Mike have a wizard-like duel waving their guitar & bass at each other like magic wands or lightsabers and feeding back for quite a while. Trey "wins" the battle. Fishman is wearing a dress throughout the show. The next night, the one I ony have on audio, has Kid Rock join them for lead vocals on Walk This Way, Rapper's Delight --> You shook Me all Night Long, and the We're an American Band encore. Smoking; I'd just like to see it instead of just hearing it. Here're the setlists for both nights with comments:
09-29-00 Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV
Soundcheck: Gingeng Sullivan, Mellow Mood, You Enjoy Myself
1: Carini*, Rift, Frankenstein, Mellow Mood, Wilson > Spock's Brain > Bathtub Gin > Character Zero (1:02)
2: Dinner and a Movie, The Moma Dance > Also Sprach Zarathustra, Fluffhead > Meatstick**, Walk This Way#, Rapper's Delight## > You Shook Me (All Night Long)### (1:00)
E: We're An American Band#### (0:04)
Kid Rock was seen riding around the lots in a golf cart and signing autographs before the show. *Preceeded by a "Wilson" tease and Trey experiencing guitar problems, forcing techs (including Pete Carini) to come out on 4 occasions, including a visit from Paul Languadoc to assess the situation. **With Japanese lyrics and Trey and Mike doing the Meatstick Dance. #Aerosmith cover; first time played; with Kid Rock on vocals. ##Sugar Hill Gang cover; first time played; Kid Rock on vocals; Jon came out and rapped one verse with Kid Rock; Trey went back on drums and Jon picked up and played Trey's guitar. ###AC/DC cover; first time played (previously soundchecked 07/06/97 and "jammed" on 04/20/89); Kid Rock on vocals. ####Grand Funk Railroad cover; Kid Rock on vocals; included made up lyrics about the Mandalay Bay casino.
09-30-00 Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV
Soundcheck: Harry Hood
1: Walfredo*, The Curtain With, Maze, Roggae, I Didn't Know**, Mike's Song -> Simple -> I Saw it Again, Esther*** > Weekapaug Groove (1:27)
2: ****Timber (Jerry), AC/DC Bag, Colonel Forbin's Ascent# >Fly Famous Mockingbird, Twist > Sand## > A Day in the Life (1:09)
E: Emotional Rescue### (0:13)
*Trey on keys, Jon on bass, Page on drums, Mike on guitar. **Trey began to introduce Fish as 'Robert' before Fish interrupted, asking that he just be called 'Joe C,'the name of Kid Rock's sidekick. ***Trey flubs the entire last verse of the song, ending the song with "She died. Dead." ****As the band returned to the stage, the crowd sang "Happy Birthday" to Trey for his 36th birthday. #Trey takes the time to thank the people who have supported them, including the crew (the greatest crew in the history of music) and to talk about the hiatus and how they'll use it to write songs and recharge (so they can come back and play another 17 years) after these next 6 shows before talking about the strange dream he had last night that he was sitting in the middle of a field on a beautiful day, when suddenly he saw from the periphery of his vision people walking towards him...an army of people surrounding him before sitting down. One of them took an apple and handed it to him and explained that they wanted him to eat the apple as a gift, but he realized he had no teeth...but then a giant tooth grew out of his upper gum. But you can't eat an apple with one tooth. He began to get nervous that people would wonder why he wasn't eating the apple and he had a moment of panic. Luckily, at that moment, the sun flew closer to the sun than it had ever been in history, and as a result his first thought was that the earth would burn up, but instead, the earth acted in the way that a grape acts...it shrivled and turned into a raisin version of the earth. The ground wrinkled and became mountains and the people got crushed together into a big pile. Only moments before he'd been panicking, but being crushed together, he realized that all of his senses became much more vivid in the way that a raisin is more intense tasting than a grape...Sounds, emotions, love...And just as the earth was becoming a much more rich and vivid place, he found himself in this pile of people. This pile of people became a groping pile of love and goo and he realized that Gamehendge is a state of mind and you don't have to get there physically. He decided then that everyone needed to know how simple it was to turn yourself into a seething pile of goo, so he called upon the Famous Mockingbird to spread the word about this... ##With Trey on keys. ###Rolling Stones cover; song ended with Trey setting up a delay loop before he and Mike moved to the front of the stage and began a bizarre synchonized duel involving them swinging their guitar and bass at each other and around themselves while wandering across the front of the stage and putting strange hats on Page and Jon; at one point Trey and Mike put both the guitar and bass down on the stage and kicked/stomped the stage beside them to produce more feedback; in the end Trey finally "defeated" Mike before the band walked off stage.
Well, another day. Whoopee. Didn't go out last night; didn't even play my new bass. Watched the original Dawn of the Dead and then a live PHISH DVD I have from Vegas - the second of 2 nights. I'm trying to find the first night - I have the next night on a CD boot but want to find it on DVD - I'm sure it was filmed. The one i have on DVD is killer - They play each others' instruments on the "Walfredo" opener and at the end of the encore, "Emotional Rescue," Trey and Mike have a wizard-like duel waving their guitar & bass at each other like magic wands or lightsabers and feeding back for quite a while. Trey "wins" the battle. Fishman is wearing a dress throughout the show. The next night, the one I ony have on audio, has Kid Rock join them for lead vocals on Walk This Way, Rapper's Delight --> You shook Me all Night Long, and the We're an American Band encore. Smoking; I'd just like to see it instead of just hearing it. Here're the setlists for both nights with comments:
09-29-00 Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV
Soundcheck: Gingeng Sullivan, Mellow Mood, You Enjoy Myself
1: Carini*, Rift, Frankenstein, Mellow Mood, Wilson > Spock's Brain > Bathtub Gin > Character Zero (1:02)
2: Dinner and a Movie, The Moma Dance > Also Sprach Zarathustra, Fluffhead > Meatstick**, Walk This Way#, Rapper's Delight## > You Shook Me (All Night Long)### (1:00)
E: We're An American Band#### (0:04)
Kid Rock was seen riding around the lots in a golf cart and signing autographs before the show. *Preceeded by a "Wilson" tease and Trey experiencing guitar problems, forcing techs (including Pete Carini) to come out on 4 occasions, including a visit from Paul Languadoc to assess the situation. **With Japanese lyrics and Trey and Mike doing the Meatstick Dance. #Aerosmith cover; first time played; with Kid Rock on vocals. ##Sugar Hill Gang cover; first time played; Kid Rock on vocals; Jon came out and rapped one verse with Kid Rock; Trey went back on drums and Jon picked up and played Trey's guitar. ###AC/DC cover; first time played (previously soundchecked 07/06/97 and "jammed" on 04/20/89); Kid Rock on vocals. ####Grand Funk Railroad cover; Kid Rock on vocals; included made up lyrics about the Mandalay Bay casino.
09-30-00 Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV
Soundcheck: Harry Hood
1: Walfredo*, The Curtain With, Maze, Roggae, I Didn't Know**, Mike's Song -> Simple -> I Saw it Again, Esther*** > Weekapaug Groove (1:27)
2: ****Timber (Jerry), AC/DC Bag, Colonel Forbin's Ascent# >Fly Famous Mockingbird, Twist > Sand## > A Day in the Life (1:09)
E: Emotional Rescue### (0:13)
*Trey on keys, Jon on bass, Page on drums, Mike on guitar. **Trey began to introduce Fish as 'Robert' before Fish interrupted, asking that he just be called 'Joe C,'the name of Kid Rock's sidekick. ***Trey flubs the entire last verse of the song, ending the song with "She died. Dead." ****As the band returned to the stage, the crowd sang "Happy Birthday" to Trey for his 36th birthday. #Trey takes the time to thank the people who have supported them, including the crew (the greatest crew in the history of music) and to talk about the hiatus and how they'll use it to write songs and recharge (so they can come back and play another 17 years) after these next 6 shows before talking about the strange dream he had last night that he was sitting in the middle of a field on a beautiful day, when suddenly he saw from the periphery of his vision people walking towards him...an army of people surrounding him before sitting down. One of them took an apple and handed it to him and explained that they wanted him to eat the apple as a gift, but he realized he had no teeth...but then a giant tooth grew out of his upper gum. But you can't eat an apple with one tooth. He began to get nervous that people would wonder why he wasn't eating the apple and he had a moment of panic. Luckily, at that moment, the sun flew closer to the sun than it had ever been in history, and as a result his first thought was that the earth would burn up, but instead, the earth acted in the way that a grape acts...it shrivled and turned into a raisin version of the earth. The ground wrinkled and became mountains and the people got crushed together into a big pile. Only moments before he'd been panicking, but being crushed together, he realized that all of his senses became much more vivid in the way that a raisin is more intense tasting than a grape...Sounds, emotions, love...And just as the earth was becoming a much more rich and vivid place, he found himself in this pile of people. This pile of people became a groping pile of love and goo and he realized that Gamehendge is a state of mind and you don't have to get there physically. He decided then that everyone needed to know how simple it was to turn yourself into a seething pile of goo, so he called upon the Famous Mockingbird to spread the word about this... ##With Trey on keys. ###Rolling Stones cover; song ended with Trey setting up a delay loop before he and Mike moved to the front of the stage and began a bizarre synchonized duel involving them swinging their guitar and bass at each other and around themselves while wandering across the front of the stage and putting strange hats on Page and Jon; at one point Trey and Mike put both the guitar and bass down on the stage and kicked/stomped the stage beside them to produce more feedback; in the end Trey finally "defeated" Mike before the band walked off stage.