I miss Phish.

I mean it. I miss Phish.

Here I am , listening to my very first concert ever, at The Mann Music Center in Philadelphia 7-01-1994 streaming to me from Sugarmegs.org, and I am ENTHRALLED. This is an INCREDIBLE RUNAWAY JIM, and the first time I listened to it since the first time I ever heard Phish.

I can't believe its over. Its been how long, and I STILL can't get over it.

By the way, I seem to be the only one writing on this blog. Did I intimidate everyone away or what happened? COME ON PEOPLE, it's LONELY out here.

In any case, I am going to sit back and listen to this INCREDIBLE SHOW.

I remember it well. I was a golf caddy at Aronimink Golf Club, site of the 2003 U.S. PGA SENIOR OPEN. A buddy of mine whose Dad was a member who was also a renowned pot smoker came up to me and said "Hey Joel, are you going to Phish?"

Here is a write up I did of it for my autobiography:
"This was also the summer of my first Phish show. Late one afternoon, a friend whose parents were members of the club let me in on something. I remember it crystal clearly. The man later was to be one of my most steadfast friends even through my hardest years. He was later my bassist, guitar player, vocalist and keyboardist in various bands. This day Will turned to me and addressed me for the first time.“Hey Joel, you going to the Phish show? You should! Yeah, Man, hehee, tonight at the Mann, heheh… You going? Alright! I’ll see you there!” He made me feel special in that moment, his eyes gleaming as if I had just been let into some special circle without being given choice. It felt right, it felt nothing but good, and I determined right there to find my way to the Mann Music Center that night. It was magical, an instant love in my life. My girlfriend and I stood in the crowd that night, through Suzie Greenberg sarcasm, vacuum cleaner solo madness, through Gamehenge tales, Sparkle and riff’s that seemed to light from inside of the crowd themselves. We owned no seats, dancing straight to the front row and knowing no hostility from any crowd member. For me, it was something bigger, something that would lead the events in my life through an expanding sense of the creative aspects of living. This was the show, just my type of circus come to town."

The set list is as follows:
1.)07-01-94 Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, PA1: Runaway Jim, Foam, Sample in a Jar, NICU, Stash, The Mango Song, It's Ice, Tela, Julius, Suzy Greenberg 2: David Bowie, If I Could, Fluffhead, Down With Disease, TMWSIY-> Avenu Malkenu-> TMWSIY, Possum, Terrapin-> Harry Hood, Cavern E: Rocky Top

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/


Good Runaway Jim
INCREDIBLE OPEN TO FOAM
I mean lets face it, folks this is BACK IN THE DAY and the band was overflowing with TOGETHER ENERGY... that still playing the old stuff TIGHT without Trey having to outsolo on ten different space jam trips... Page does a killer solo TIGHT with Phishman... and jazzes it up on the upper octaves while slamming down off beat chord mixtures on the bass clef... ending it all with a swirling multi - octave arpeggio going into Treys technical difficulties in getting into the solo which becomes a tenacious wait for his bubbling line to come through frought with crowd tension and yells. But he does....

IN any case... check out the show!!!

Its a goodie.

I'll never this guy next to my girlfriend and I, tripping so hard he was crosseyed... just FREAKING OUT during the vaccuum cleaner solo. At this time I had never done any psychadelics... better off for it I had thought.

Wow. Thanks sugarmegs. Aww... I want to go to a show. BAD.

REAL BAD.

Guess this will have to do.

I am going to have consult my shrink on this.