Phish - Alpine Valley reviews
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| Rollingstone |
 For many Phish fans, the band's two nights at Wisconsin's Alpine Valley in August were the best gigs of the summer. This new CD-DVD box set proves why, delivering loose, career-spanning jams and set lists that include both rarities — bassist Mike Gordon's "Fuck Your Face" has been played five times since 1987 — and new nuggets like "Alaska," which sounds like a funky hommage to the Dead's "Tennessee Jed." The peak? Night One, when a dizzying 17-minute "Down With Disease" segues into the spacey, Floyd-channeling "What's the Use," with Trey Anastasio bending each reverb-soaked note like a blessed-out David Gilmour. The DVD showcases a crazy light show, although the music should be trippy enough....full text |
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| Blogger |
| Phish captured the August 14-15 shows at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre on film. A box set contains all of the first night on both DVD and CD, while a few tracks of the second night have been added DVD extras. While not the most adventurous of shows the three-part segue of Down With Disease > What's The Use > Scent Of A Mule went down as a memorable one - a jammed Mule is pretty rare. A few day prior to the Alnine tow-night run, the band had unearthed Fuck Your Face, an off-kilter Mike Gordon one-off that had been played at Nectar's in Burlington, VT on April 29, 1987. Fans had been hoping for a second outing for decades and the band gave in during their Charlotte show on August 7. It went down pretty well and they reprised it at Alpine. This blast form the past is followed by Alaska, proof of the more mainstream melodic course that guitar player Trey Anastasio has set for the band....full text |
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| Phishcoventry |
Set 1: Tube, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Funky Bitch, Reba, Fuck Your Face, Alaska, Back on the Train, Taste > When the Circus Comes, Lawn Boy, Sparkle, Gumbo, Run Like an Antelope
Set 2: The Sloth, Down with Disease -> What's the Use? > Scent of a Mule, Mike's Song > Dirt > Sneakin' Sally through the Alley > Weekapaug Groove, Bug...full text |
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