If we remember nothing else about Halloween 2009, maybe we’ll at least recall it was the night that two of the world’s marquee jambands both turned in ace renditions of the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street obscurity Ventilator Blues. Stranger things have happened, right? Right? Bueller? [All Photos by Heath Robson from Mule.Net ] On a smaller scale than some marginal little festival...
Did anybody else want to know what album Phish covered last night when they got online this morning? Admit it, hipsters who went to college. You’ve spent some time with Phish and wanted to know too. Plus when a band has covered Talking Heads’ Remain in Ligh t, Velvet Underground’s Loaded and The Beatles’ White Album , you have to admit, at the very least, that they have good...
Admittedly, I am not the biggest fan of The Rolling Stones. Certainly don’t hate them, but they’re not at the top of any lists for me. None of that matter when it became clear just a few tunes into set two, Phish’s full performance of Exile On Main Street, that this would be the most tightly performed Phish set in recent history. If Phish played their catalog as cleanly and precisely...
Phish - Saturday, 10.31.2009 - Indio, CA (Festival 8 Day 2) - Courtesy of Phish.net Set 1: Sample in a Jar, The Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, Kill Devil Falls, Bathtub Gin, The Squirming Coil, Runaway Jim > Possum, Run Like an Antelope Set 2: Rocks Off, Rip This Joint, Shake Your Hips, Casino Boogie, Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Torn and Frayed, Sweet Black Angel, Loving Cup, Happy, Turd on the Run,...