11-08-2005, 04:59 PM
...it wasn't with me. not gambling, at least.
Anyway, After Phil, things got blurry. I caught a shred of Beck as I was running from patient to patient. It sounded good, a lot like you might expect, but I didn' have the luxury to really tune in, as much as I would have liked to...
Dave Matthews had Trey Anastasio sit in and that was the pick of the litter. I caught their cover of Rocky Mountain Way and I'm still humming it. They also did Cripple Creek, and some other great songs. I'm not a big DMB fan. I loved Phish and respect Trey, but he needs someone like Matthews to play off of. Matthews needs someone to bend his sound out of pop into something more interesting. It was a great fusion and my favorite musical part of day one.
That night we got into the aftershow with String Cheese Incident and they blew me away. I've never really liked SCI. I love their crowd but their music was always flat. I really wanted to support Michael Kang, the most prominent Asian in the jam band scene, but I never got SCI. Not until this. SCI blew me away - with a cover of Thriller no less! I'm totally coverted now. They took that song places I never could have imagined, not only musically, but with stage dancers, stilt walkers, and tissue performers. The energy was extraordinary; something I used to experience a lot with the Dead but seldom after. What a show stopper for Halloween! It gave me hope. I'm still inspired by it, and still muttering that Thriller beat under my breath.
Anyway, After Phil, things got blurry. I caught a shred of Beck as I was running from patient to patient. It sounded good, a lot like you might expect, but I didn' have the luxury to really tune in, as much as I would have liked to...
Dave Matthews had Trey Anastasio sit in and that was the pick of the litter. I caught their cover of Rocky Mountain Way and I'm still humming it. They also did Cripple Creek, and some other great songs. I'm not a big DMB fan. I loved Phish and respect Trey, but he needs someone like Matthews to play off of. Matthews needs someone to bend his sound out of pop into something more interesting. It was a great fusion and my favorite musical part of day one.
That night we got into the aftershow with String Cheese Incident and they blew me away. I've never really liked SCI. I love their crowd but their music was always flat. I really wanted to support Michael Kang, the most prominent Asian in the jam band scene, but I never got SCI. Not until this. SCI blew me away - with a cover of Thriller no less! I'm totally coverted now. They took that song places I never could have imagined, not only musically, but with stage dancers, stilt walkers, and tissue performers. The energy was extraordinary; something I used to experience a lot with the Dead but seldom after. What a show stopper for Halloween! It gave me hope. I'm still inspired by it, and still muttering that Thriller beat under my breath.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse