Since 1992, Gordon has kept a list in his magazine entitled “Bass Play Ideas”. You read many entries such as Koans: “High note can be felt as low and repeated.” It was a useful warehouse for his self -meditation. “Acceptance has been a great topic for Phish over the years,” he said. “In the 1990s, we had something where we would get the scenes between the groups and talk about the group. Then we decided that it was no longer allowed. For me, the offers got twice at that point, because I knew that I would not judge.”
Fishman re -drafted Charlie Parker: “Study, study and learn everything you can, then forget this disgust and play.” This surrounding jam is the safest and most comfortable place that I know in life. “
Anastasio said: “It is like hanging hanging, meaning that you are doing all kinds of preparation to ensure that you are safe – you can check your equipment and tighten the knot,” said Anastasio. “But you still have to jump from the abyss.” He added: “You will never find four people who are happy to dive from the shelf of the four players in Phish.”
There is a certain moment that fans are waiting for. This does not happen in each show, and it is difficult to describe without looking as if you were a very whiff with your dose, but here goes: there is sometimes a brief but transcendent extension, perhaps ten or twelve minutes or even twenty minutes in the jam, where the band achieves a kind of synchronization in the other world, internally and its audience. This type of moment, despite mystery, was an essential and meaningful part of Gestalt of the band from the beginning. I felt it during the Mondagerine jam – a short but cheerful vacation from myself.
Musically, fake braids make three main elements: formal composition, improvisation, and – despite what you might have heard – hooks. (Strong fans tend to prefer the most vulnerable songs, but the most flowing tracks of the band-“Farmhouse”, “a sample in a jar”, “bounce around the room”-it is the irreplaceable worms. The three are all decisive, in different ways, to anything that opens Trapdoor sometimes in the middle of the group. Last night it became very deep. ”He wrote me one morning, after Fish II of four shows in the Moon Palace, a resort in Rvira Maya, in Mexico. “Twenty years later,” the path that closes “Joy”, the twelfth album of the band, from 2009. It is difficult not to understand the lyrics of songs, written by Anastasio with Tom Marshall, as a branch:
About five minutes away, you can hear the band members find each other and start joining. Phish is generally directed towards euphoria, but there are cases in which it becomes dark, incubator, semi -physical. Fans indicate this as the villain of Fish. (An example of the most stable beloved on Evil Phish is the song “Carini”, which is a ridiculous creeping song that has never appeared in the album. It opens with a evil countryside and fateful songs: “I saw you with Carini and this naked elegance!) And Li Anastasio wrote:” There is often a moment when you feel that safety bars fall down. “” We lose any time. Then I feel safe, which led to people to see what I already feel, which is very terrified of time. About eight minutes, it begins to feel that my heart is wide open. It looks like a pure emotion when music gets this way. There is no feeling of notes/standards. “He added,” This is why people come. “
Achieving this type of separatist bliss is not uncommon when listening to Hinduism bhajans Or Gregorian chants or other forms of religious music; The last time I felt in the Pindus Mountains in northern Greece, when the Claarinettist player played Rome MerologicalOr the lament of the old lament, directly in my ears, at two in the morning, in a dark forest. I simply bring this to say it is unusual that this type of things-a transient entrance to Nirvana-occurs regularly for phish lovers in the small squares in the league.
“When this gate is opened, I don’t remember one thing,” Fishman said. “I know which really good vehicles of the lack of remember. I do things on the drums that I never practiced and I had no idea that I was capable of them. I must return and learn the shit that happened in the jam I don’t know how to do it already.”
One night, I asked Anastasio to walk through what I felt on stage when the band passed through the gate. He said: “I will choose the jam and try to describe what is happening.” “Camden, New Jersey, 1999,” Classes Dust torture “. The song is what it is. After about five minutes, after changing the automatic key, the band begins to communicate musically, change the keys and rhythms.” I take out a melodic phrase, something we can all jump on. This changes another spontaneous key, which can only happen if we all listen completely. Then the universe opens, and I feel that I am not present, “continued.” I am no longer closed in my mind anymore. I fully feel contact with people who return to the grass. I can feel the scale, how important the place is where the place appears from the top, and the small extent in the large scheme. I do not understand any of them-it cann’t be as if it is withdrawn by each time, or what is going on around it. the earth. And- sex.
Phish to visit Anastasio registration studio, in a fold in the green mountains outside Burlington. When I arrived, in February, the city was buried in more than one foot of the snow, and I collected my rented car in a long pass. Anastasio and McConnell were sitting on a wooden table, eating sandwiches. Anastasio jumped and offered to show me. “I would like to give the tour!” He said. “I feel very enthusiastic.” We walked on the deck overlooking the mountains. In the mid-1990s, after obtaining the land-one of the seventy-year-olds-a hundred-year-old banners bought a hundred-year-old. “This is Mount Mansfield,” said Anastasio, noting. “See this white correction? The barn was there.” A team of wooden workers eventually transferred the building, a ray by beam, to its current place. Once the barn reacted, a second structure was built around it, most of it for insulation. Anastasio came out of a photo album and showed me some of the popular shots of its construction. He proudly said: “This is me, I do the saw.” “They allowed me to help. There is for me to drink while drinking beer.”
The interior is warm, rural and attractive. Anastasio said: “There is no one series or screw that has been purchased new in a computers store. Anything gets worse when it became big, and we did not use it,” and it drives me, “Anastasio said. Lighting fixtures were rescued from a local school; The blackboard was used to make tiles to shower. There are many large glass windows. Everything is useful Anastasio, of his grandmother Davborte (“I used to eat nuts on it,” he said, laughing) on a surface of the mosaic made by his mother and two seats from Spectrum Arena Square, in Philadelphia. “When my father took me to see the pilots in the year they won the Stanley Cup, we sat in these two seats,” he said. The floor panels are executed from the cut trees to make the corridor. “This is one of my favorite details,” said Anastasio, pointing to them. “We have done at least fifteen albums here. Long projects, where everyone remains awake until two in the morning, running, skiing on skiing, whatever. These are random sizes, planned on one side. We wanted people to be able to leak beer and feel satisfied. I did not want anything to imagine.”
