Taverner
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Thu Apr-29-04 11:29 PM
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Poll question: Help me settle a bet: Is Phish Prog Rock or Not? |
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I say YES!
All the elements are there, progressive jams, expert musicianship...everything but the pretense.
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Thu Apr-29-04 11:40 PM
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Thu Apr-29-04 11:41 PM
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I have over 60 Phish shows on my HD, and consider myself to be in the top 5% of Phish fans as far as eliteness goes and I guess you could label them prog-rock but that is just one of many labels they encompass. To me they mainly fit the genre of Jam-Rock. And this is coming from a guy who doesn't really like jam bands.
I LOVE Phish. I would recommended all of you all go out and buy Live Phish volume 11. It is 11-17-97. EXCELLENT, CRAZY jamming that GOES PLACES instead of randomly noodling around like the Grateful Dead do so well.
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Thu Apr-29-04 11:46 PM
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Edited on Thu Apr-29-04 11:47 PM by ComerPerro
Great stuff. Probably my favorite of the first 12.
1: Funky Bitch, Ya Mar, Carini, Runaway Jim, Meat, Reba*, The Old Home Place, Dogs Stole Things, Vultures, When the Circus Comes, Birds of a Feather (1:23)
2: Buried Alive, Wipe Out+, Chalk Dust Torture** -> Mirror in the Bathroom# -> Chalk Dust Torture -> Dog Log## -> Chalk Dust Torture > Sanity, Buffalo Bill, Mike's Song^ -> I Am Hydrogen -> Weekapaug Groove^^, Run Like an Antelope (1:18)
E: Wading in the Velvet Sea, Golgi Apparatus -> Wipe Out+ (0:13)
EDIT: Actually, 7 is outstanding as well. 6 & 7.
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Thu Apr-29-04 11:41 PM
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Edited on Thu Apr-29-04 11:45 PM by soundgarden1
though you may have a point. I just don't tend to lump them in with who are classically referred to as progressive.
i guess I don't consider Phish to be transcendent. Perhaps I'm wrong but progressive has a kind of darkly artistic connotation, where Phish IMO substitutes darkness for a kind of quirkiness.
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Thu Apr-29-04 11:46 PM
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I think they are well beyond progressive, in their own world, where questions such as this really don't exist any more.
Why weigh on a sunny day, so much to do so why, oh why weigh.....
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Thu Apr-29-04 11:47 PM
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Edited on Thu Apr-29-04 11:47 PM by Fenris
When I think prog, I think Yes, ELP, Genesis. Phish is more, and I hate using such a wretched pre-fab term, of a jam band.
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Thu Apr-29-04 11:54 PM
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8. Influenced by prog, yes. |
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But they blend it all with, I feel, too much bland country rock, bluegrass, and blues.
I saw a few shows of theirs back in the early 90's in New Haven, but I wouldn't consider myself a fan. Too many huge red arrows pointing at passages marked "look, we're being quirky! It's almost funny, but not!"
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