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Well, the sticker price hurt but I’m officially seeing all 4 nights of Phish at the Las Vegas Sphere next month!
So what, 10 songs across the shows?
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Oh man if only. Phish Golf is a real thing! But they’ve confirmed that each night will have different visuals so I have to assume at *least* 10 songs are planned
It was an amazing experience. Really worth going if this screens in your area.GreatWhen the weather is good I will go to Scheveningen first to enjoy the sea side and then relax at the Dome with DSOTM.
This just in, Phish will be webcasting their Sphere shows (that I’m going to!), these are the first shows that will be broadcast from the venue:
https://webcast.livephish.com/
U2’s official clips are highly highly edited, with lots of sweeping camera angles and cuts. Shows how big the place is, and that there’s a screen, but not much else:
Phish’s webcasts are usually pretty great, camera wise, here’s an example, using a jam I saw:
https://webcast.livephish.com/
U2’s official clips are highly highly edited, with lots of sweeping camera angles and cuts. Shows how big the place is, and that there’s a screen, but not much else:
Phish’s webcasts are usually pretty great, camera wise, here’s an example, using a jam I saw:
MUSIC
...with Mellencamp, there are always contradictions. Including to his own edicts, like the one about booking only smallish venues. Later this year, he’ll play 15 outdoor dates on the Outlaw Music Festival Tour with his longtime Farm Aid fellows and ’09 ballpark tour mates, Willie and Bob.
But when he isn’t sharing the bill with other headliners, he’s sticking to theaters.
And he’d like some decorum.
“I do expect etiquette inside of the theater, the same way you would at a Broadway show,” he says.
“My shows are not really concerts anymore. They’re performances, and there’s a difference between a performance and a concert.
Look, I’m not for everyone anymore. I’m just not. And if you want to come and scream and yell and get drunk, don’t come to my show.”
https://wapo.st/3UcGp1W
John Mellencamp would like you to behave. Or ‘don’t come to my show.’
...with Mellencamp, there are always contradictions. Including to his own edicts, like the one about booking only smallish venues. Later this year, he’ll play 15 outdoor dates on the Outlaw Music Festival Tour with his longtime Farm Aid fellows and ’09 ballpark tour mates, Willie and Bob.
But when he isn’t sharing the bill with other headliners, he’s sticking to theaters.
And he’d like some decorum.
“I do expect etiquette inside of the theater, the same way you would at a Broadway show,” he says.
“My shows are not really concerts anymore. They’re performances, and there’s a difference between a performance and a concert.
Look, I’m not for everyone anymore. I’m just not. And if you want to come and scream and yell and get drunk, don’t come to my show.”
https://wapo.st/3UcGp1W
Snarky Puppy at University of Connecticut tomorrow night.
I'm about 10 days out from seeing The Toasters. I have been trying to see them for over 20 years and have never had a schedule line up properly.
What? Toasters?
Popping out tonight to my local jazz venue, The Bear Club in Luton, to see Connor Selby. Until a couple of weeks ago I had not heard of him. It was the charity release of Mark Knopfler's Going Home with multiple famous guitarists - he is on the long list of the musicians on that recording. I looked him up, found some YouTube videos and then discovered this gig - he is a talented blues guitarist. He is mid-20s now and was the opening support for The Who at Wembley Stadium in 2019. So... no decision necessary...I'll be there!
Set break here at Night 1 of 4 of Phish at Sphere! Truly incredible
Ok, I can safely say that Connor Selby is a talent to watch for the future. Great gig in a small 90 seat club. If he is playing anywhere near you I can thoroughly recommend buying a ticket.
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Hiromi's Sonicwonder was phenomenal tonight in Evanston, IL, at Space!
https://www.icloud.com/photos/#0dbyfWD8DhdR-btS7GrFDpHTw
I feel a lil bit like I've been hit by a truck, but I'm back from seeing Phish do 4 nights at the Vegas Sphere. The link above is all 191 photos/videos I took during that time (annoyingly I can't share them forever it seems, that link expires on May 22nd... so take a peep before then)
Kinda the only way to break this down is by section so here we go:
The sound at the Sphere is in fact incredible. Believe the hype you've heard about it, its true. Phish talked a big game in pre-show interviews (oddly, this is the biggest mainstream media/news push Phish has gotten in 41 years, between these Sphere shows and a new album coming in July) about trying to even best U2, which Trey found to be "mono and booming from the stage". So Phish's mix was much wider and more stereo. They also ping ponged sounds around the room... which... didn't sound especially great at first but got dialed in over time. Similarly that "wider and more stereo" mix was... off... until song 3 of night one. Voices sounded like they had a filter or were coming from a radio. This very much was a "hey we're figuring this thing out along with you all" aspect of the show, and by nights 3 and 4 it was effectively locked down.
As for the venue itself... there are some aspects that have revealed themselves over a 4 night run of shows that wouldn't have been apparent for the single nights people were seeing U2 or that movie (which I wish I saw but didn't get around to. No daytime shows of that when concerts are happening). I was in the high 400s and it's steep. People were saying it was exceptionally steep but... seemed like regular stadium seating steep to me. There are reports of at least one person tumbling 10 rows on 4/20, but I don't know how accurate they are. Also... the bathrooms. Boy howdy how did they goof this up. At the 400's at least (apparently it's slightly different on lower levels) the bathrooms have a *door*. It's not the standard "open hole in wall" entrance that most stadiums have. They also didn't put the paper towels (no automatic dryers) anywhere logical, making you have to go towards the urinals to dry your hands... nor is there an exit door to the bathroom. Just a single door for everyone. Similarly, the water fountains are just the standard drinking kind, they didn't go the extra mile to put in those fancy bottle filler ones. This place cost 2.3 billion dollars, and these oversights makes that number seem... ridiculous. Also they don't play the show out in the lobby/bathroom, instead they had some dynamically generated ambient music based on loops that Trey made. Why can't I hear the show I paid money for if I want to slip out and get a beer or use the bathroom? Madness!
Night 2 the gloves came off and we got better playing, better sound, and better visuals. Most people are in agreement that Friday was probably the best night of the 4, and I might be inclined to agree.
Night 3 saw the second ever longest Fuego (and I was there for the first!) and the first standalone I Am Hydrogen outside a Mike's Groove since 1987. It was also this night, 4/20 that I tried 2 edibles instead of one. Do not recommend. It is... a lot at once.
Night 4 was the band now fully confident in their ability to use this thing to melt faces, and was truly extraordinary.
The band webstreamed all 4 nights and have been uploading official pro-shot snippets to their youtube... complete with new footage from drones that were zipping around all 4 nights... I have to wonder if they plan on selling these shows (perhaps with some sort of surround mix to capture the audio effects from the venue themselves) with this drone footage inserted. Here's what they've uploaded so far (I have a feeling more are coming)
I feel a lil bit like I've been hit by a truck, but I'm back from seeing Phish do 4 nights at the Vegas Sphere. The link above is all 191 photos/videos I took during that time (annoyingly I can't share them forever it seems, that link expires on May 22nd... so take a peep before then)
Kinda the only way to break this down is by section so here we go:
- Sound
The sound at the Sphere is in fact incredible. Believe the hype you've heard about it, its true. Phish talked a big game in pre-show interviews (oddly, this is the biggest mainstream media/news push Phish has gotten in 41 years, between these Sphere shows and a new album coming in July) about trying to even best U2, which Trey found to be "mono and booming from the stage". So Phish's mix was much wider and more stereo. They also ping ponged sounds around the room... which... didn't sound especially great at first but got dialed in over time. Similarly that "wider and more stereo" mix was... off... until song 3 of night one. Voices sounded like they had a filter or were coming from a radio. This very much was a "hey we're figuring this thing out along with you all" aspect of the show, and by nights 3 and 4 it was effectively locked down.
- Effects/Venue
As for the venue itself... there are some aspects that have revealed themselves over a 4 night run of shows that wouldn't have been apparent for the single nights people were seeing U2 or that movie (which I wish I saw but didn't get around to. No daytime shows of that when concerts are happening). I was in the high 400s and it's steep. People were saying it was exceptionally steep but... seemed like regular stadium seating steep to me. There are reports of at least one person tumbling 10 rows on 4/20, but I don't know how accurate they are. Also... the bathrooms. Boy howdy how did they goof this up. At the 400's at least (apparently it's slightly different on lower levels) the bathrooms have a *door*. It's not the standard "open hole in wall" entrance that most stadiums have. They also didn't put the paper towels (no automatic dryers) anywhere logical, making you have to go towards the urinals to dry your hands... nor is there an exit door to the bathroom. Just a single door for everyone. Similarly, the water fountains are just the standard drinking kind, they didn't go the extra mile to put in those fancy bottle filler ones. This place cost 2.3 billion dollars, and these oversights makes that number seem... ridiculous. Also they don't play the show out in the lobby/bathroom, instead they had some dynamically generated ambient music based on loops that Trey made. Why can't I hear the show I paid money for if I want to slip out and get a beer or use the bathroom? Madness!
- The Screen
- The Actual Shows Themselves With All Of The Above
Night 2 the gloves came off and we got better playing, better sound, and better visuals. Most people are in agreement that Friday was probably the best night of the 4, and I might be inclined to agree.
Night 3 saw the second ever longest Fuego (and I was there for the first!) and the first standalone I Am Hydrogen outside a Mike's Groove since 1987. It was also this night, 4/20 that I tried 2 edibles instead of one. Do not recommend. It is... a lot at once.
Night 4 was the band now fully confident in their ability to use this thing to melt faces, and was truly extraordinary.
The band webstreamed all 4 nights and have been uploading official pro-shot snippets to their youtube... complete with new footage from drones that were zipping around all 4 nights... I have to wonder if they plan on selling these shows (perhaps with some sort of surround mix to capture the audio effects from the venue themselves) with this drone footage inserted. Here's what they've uploaded so far (I have a feeling more are coming)
- Summary
Well, a couple of weeks ago, thanks to the cash-starved but intrepid programmers who are keeping my small university's concert series going, I heard a nice long set by rising-star saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and his fine quartet. Nothing mind-blowing, but some good, chill grooves, plenty of excellent musicianship, and a couple of transcendent moments, including a great Wayne Shorter cover.
I'd been eagerly anticipating another installment in the series, the jazz-funk-hip-hop unit Butcher Brown, this weekend. Only...I'm not inviting a "political" discussion here, but...after a very low-key anti-war protest (and occupation of the building that houses the perpetually absent president's office) broke out earlier this week, the brain trust of mediocrities who administer the campus decided that an appropriate response would be a) to call in a helicopter and some belligerent cops to provoke a confrontation and rough some people up, and, when that didn't achieve the desired results, b) to close campus for a couple of days--and then to extend that closure through the weekend (so far).
So now, not only has an annual campus HIp-Hop Conference--scheduled guest speaker: Chuck D; theme: Power to the People!--been cancelled (guess who failed to register the irony?), so has Butcher Brown. At least we've got them in Atmos on Apple Music:
So now, not only has an annual campus HIp-Hop Conference--scheduled guest speaker: Chuck D; theme: Power to the People!--been cancelled (guess who failed to register the irony?), so has Butcher Brown. At least we've got them in Atmos on Apple Music:
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Wow, thanks for your fantastic report on Phish at the Sphere. It clearly was almost in another universe gig wise. I sampled the YouTube videos and will spare some time to enjoy them properly soon. Just amazing. Now for the shocker....I have been following your posts building up to your visit to Las Vegas but...until then I had never heard of Phish - only the ex-front man of Marillion (different spelling!) but the short parts of the songs I heard with the videos definitely caught my interest. Absolutely amazing, what an experience - thanks again.
My next post will cover the gig that I went to last night - somewhat less extravagant - but also very enjoyable.
And I want to apologise for adding any posts after yours as I think it needs to stay visible for a while so that many more of our QQ friends can enjoy it. Perhaps it could do with being a sticky post (I think that's the right description) by which I mean easy to find again.
Thank you for your kind words!
The funny thing is in a CBS interview, frontman Trey Anastasio was asked what it felt like to be playing sphere when most people would be asking “who?”, and he said it’s their biggest blessing. “You don’t have to one up your success when you never had any in the first place”.
If you’re getting started I recommend:
A Live One (their first live album, cobbled together from jams from 94-95)
7/22/97
7/10/99
6/14/00 (my favorite, the second set is effectively one hour long hazy ambient jam)
2/26/03
And my first show in person: 7/28/23
All but the last one should be available on Apple Music/Spotify/et al. Much like the Grateful Dead, they have studio albums… don’t listen to the studio albums (at least not to start). Their real magic comes from their live performances.
In gig news, this Wednesday I’m seeing Slowdive. Will be interesting to see if the Sphere really did ruin me for other shows going forward.
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