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Monday, January 13, 2014

Phish Review: Hartford, CT 10/27/13

Originally published in STTF # 40


by Mike Akers 


Hartford, CT – 10-27-13
XL Center


Hartford, CT – There is a specific superfluous energy that reprises each night during fall tour that is absent from the summer months.   It would be a pass to say that being indoors is the main reason.  The easy Sunday vibe or the festive fall feeling? I will say that Phish played one of their best shows in New England since the return at the XL Center in Hartford.        
On the evening of the day when art lost a long time legend in Lou Reed, the typical fan knew they would homage him with tribute a la Rock and Roll or Sweet Jane.  The former ended up opening the show.  It came with a bit of surprise since it usually kicks off set two and is a major jam vehicle to lie out the theme for the rest of the show.   Something simple to keep in mind when observing anything artistic is to limit what you expect. Reed’s mentor and cultural pioneer Andy Warhol famously said, “If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”
To assume Trey Anastasio was channeling Reed’s youthful self from the synergy shared with Warhol might be a long shot.  But, it was obvious Phish wanted to pay a quiet tribute to their late hero.  They did so by being themselves, without filter. The kinetic blast of energy continued strong into their own Ocelot.   A quick Tube got them warmed up with electricity that charged the rest of the set.  3.0 rarity, Fee got weird quick and was a blast from the past.  Ignoring the three newer songs played from the new era, the dingy arena certainly gave this particular fall show a throwback feel to it. Other first set highlights included Halfway to the Moon and Walls of the Cave.
Tweezer was the highlight of the year.  It sizes up and trumps Tahoe in almost half the time, and contains teases of a song (Fuego) we do not even know exists yet.  The best Golden Age since its debut in 2009, perhaps commentary on Reed’s vision of art-rock some fifty years prior.  Digital guitar delay littered the fade out of the song with pulses of light into a soaring and most appropriately placed Halley’s Comet.  Melting like butter with 2001, the cosmic theme continued.  A sloppy Fluffhead was obvious, but it did not matter.  Nothing could deter the bliss that Slave to the Traffic Light adds to the song narrative.
            At the end of the best tour in five years just a few nights later, it was evident in its triumph they were being the band they knew before we caught on following their own genesis almost thirty years to the date in the sleepy Vermont college town.   Warhol created art and recognized brilliance in Reed’s.  Phish is continuing in the tradition of making and sharing others’ art on the surface, as it is meant to be.
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Organic Jam Radio Playlist 1-12-14


Organic Jam
WGAO
January 12, 2014

1.     Fight – Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds – Fight
2.     One Big Song – Spiritual Rez – Apocalypse Whenever
3.     Proof – Paul Simon – Rhythm of the Saints
4.     Stranger to My Happiness – Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings – Give the People What They Want
5.     Old Man Trouble – Otis Redding – Otis Blue
6.     Lariat – Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Wig Out at Jag Bags
7.     Moonage Daydream – David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
8.     Paradise – Wild Nothing – Nocturne
9.     Denial – I Break Horses – Chiaroscuro
10. Shelter Song – Temples – Sun Structures
11. Why Won’t They Talk To Me – Tame Impala – Lonerism
12. Hell is Chrome – Wilco – A Ghost is Born
13. Irresistable – Deafhaven – Sunbather
14. Perfect Day – Lou Reed – Transformer
15. Brother Sport – Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
16. My Girls – Tears for Fears – digital
17. Here Comes the Night time – Arcade Fire – Reflektor
18. Naïve Melody – Talking Heads – Speaking in Tongues
19. Roll Em Easy – Little Feat – Dixie Chicken
20. Hairless Heart -> Counting Out Time – Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
21. Happy Colored Marbles – Ween – quebec
22. In the Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
23. Pigs – Pink Floyd – Animals
24. Virtual Insanity – Jamiroquai – Travelling Without Moving
25. All the Critics Love You in New York – Prince – 1999
26. Daft Punk is Playing at My House – LCD Soundsystem – st
27. Contact – Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
28. Five Seconds – Twin Shadow – Confess
29. We Are Explorers – Cut Copy – Free Your Mind
30. I Wanna Be Your Hand – Holy Ghost! – Dynamics
31. A Question Isn’t Answered – Temples – Sun Structures
32. The Mother We Shared – ChVrches – The Bones of What You Believe
33. A Place to Start – White Denim – Corsicana Lemonade
34. Dear Mr. Fantasy – Traffic – Mr. Fantasy
35. 5+4 = Unity – Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

12/31/2013
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 3: Character Zero > Auld Lang Syne > Fuego > Light > Twenty Years Later > Bouncing Around the Room, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Grind, Show of Life

Civic Center, Baltimore, MD (3/26/73) 


Ramble On Rose, Big River, Here Comes Sunshine

He's Gone -> Truckin' -> WRS Prelude -> Wharf Rat

Eyes of the World -> Morning Dew

Encore: One More Saturday Night
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Organic Jam Radio Playlist 1-5-14


Organic Jam
WGAO
January 5, 2014

1.     Stranger to My Happiness – Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings – Give the People What they Want! - 2014
2.     I Feel Alright – Steve Earle – Feel Alright
3.     Corsicana Lemonade – White Denim – Corsicana Lemonade - 2013
4.     Hopper/Fonda – Bravo Johnson – Come Taste the Sun
5.     Super 8 – Jason Isbell – Southeastern – 2013
6.     Telegram Sam – T-REX – The Slider
7.     Ring the Bell – Magnolia Electric Co. – Trials and Errors
8.     Lariat – Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Wig Out at Jagbags – 2014
9.     Mesmerize – Temples – Sun Structures – 2014
10. Fearless – Pink Floyd – Meddle
11. Here Comes the Nighttime – Arcade Fire – Reflektor – 2013
12. Five Seconds – Twin Shadow – Confess – 2013
13. Common People – Pulp – Different Class
14. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa – Vampire Weekend – st
15. Gumboots – Paul Simon – Graceland
16. Aya K’Yawa – Cayucas – Bigfoot – 2013
17. Paradise – Wild Nothing – Nocturne – 2012
18. In Memory Capsule – Cut Copy – Free Your Mind – 2013
19. High Life – Daft Punk – Discovery
20. Spanish Bombs – The Clash – London Calling
21. Kick Your Door Down – the Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the Trash
22. Queen Bitch – David Bowie – Hunky Dory
23. Candi – Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
24. Corona – The Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
25. Dead Flowers – Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
26. I Heard You Looking – Yo La Tengo – Painful
27. Maggot Brain – Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
28. Chameleon – Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters
29. Zion I – Cymande – Renegades of Funk
30. One Big Song – Spiritual Rez – Apocalypse Whenever – 2014
31. When A Fire Starts to Burn – Disclosure – Settle - 2013
32. Theme From Shaft – Isaac Hayes – Shaft
33. Boogie on Reggae Woman – Stevie Wonder – Fulfillingness’ First Finale
34. Crosseyed and Painless – Talking Heads – Remain in Light
35. Seen Your Video – The Replacements – Let It be
36. Let It Loose – Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
37. Oh! Sweet Nothing – The Velvet Underground – Loaded




12/29/2013
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 2: Down with Disease > Carini > Waves[1] > Twist > Golgi Apparatus, David Bowie[1]
Encore: Possum
[1] Mike on power drill.
Teases:

· Rhapsody in Blue tease in Down with Disease


Copps Coliseum
Hamilton, Ontario
3/22/90 

Scarlet Begonias -> Fire on the Mountain, Samson and Delilah, Believe it or Not -> Truckin' -> drums -> space -> The Other One -> Hey Jude->  Dear Mr. Fantasy -> Hey Jude Reprise -> Sugar Magnolia 

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Organic Jam Radio Playlist 12-29-13


Organic Jam Radio
WGAO
December 29, 2013

1.     Peace – Anders Osborne – Peace – 2013
2.     Bodega – Max Allen Band – Everyone Thinks You’re Weird – 2013
3.     California Knows How To Party – Brushfire Stankgrass – Microclimates – 2013
4.     Seven and the Spirit – John Ginty ft. Alecia Chakour – Bad news Travels – 2013
5.     Bread – Barrence Whitfield and the Savages – Dig Thy Savage Soul – 2013
6.     Super 8 – Jason Isbell – Southeastern – 2013
7.     Knee Socks – Arctic Monkeys – AM – 2013
8.     The Mother We Share – ChVrches – The Bones of What You Believe – 2013
9.     Days are Gone – Haim – Days are Gone – 2013
10. Get Lucky – Daft Punk – Random Access Memories – 2013
11. When a Fire Starts to Burn – Disclosure – Settle – 2013
12. I Put A Spell on You – Nina Simone (Pretty Lights remix) – Verve Remixed – 2013
13. Okay – Holy Ghost! – Dynamics – 2013
14. Ayawa ‘Kya – Cayucas – Bigfoot – 2013
15. We Exist – Arcade Fire – Reflektor – 2013
16. Sunbather – Deafhaven – Sunbather – 2013
17. She Will – Savages – Silence Yourself  - 2013
18. Only Tomorrow – My Bloody Valentine – mbv – 2013
19. What’s In My Head? – Fuzz – Fuzz – 2013
20. Sleeper – Ty Segall – Sleeper – 2013
21. Denial – I Break Horses – Chiaroscuro – 2013
22. Free Your Mind – Cut Copy – Free Your Mind – 2013
23. Belispeak – Purity Ring – Shrines – 2013
24. Humiliation – The National – Trouble Will Find Me – 2013
25. Hannah Hunt – Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City – 2013
26. No Destruction – Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic – 2013
27. KV Crimes – Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze – 2013
28. Cheer Up/ Blues Ending – White Denim – Corsicana Lemonade - 2013
29. The Terror – Flaming Lips – The Terror – 2013
30. Moonage Daydream – David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
31. Perfect Day – Lou Reed – Transformer
32. White Light/White Heat – The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
33. Mystic Lady – T-REX – The Slider
34. Seen Your Video – The Replacements – Let It Be
35. Janie Jones – The Clash – st
36. No Dancing – Elvis Costello – My Aim is True
37. Fat Old Sun – Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother
38. Powderfinger – Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps


12/28/2013
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 2: Sand -> Piper -> Back on the Train > Tweezer -> Backwards Down the Number Line, Steam > Silent in the Morning, Waiting All Night, Run Like an Antelope
Encore: Suzy Greenberg, Tweezer Reprise



Pauley Pavilion
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
12/30/78 
I Need a Miracle -> Bertha -> Good Lovin', Scarlet Begonias -> Fire on the Mountain, Playin' in the Band > Shakedown Street -> drums > Ollin Arrageed -> St. Stephen > Not Fade Away > Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad > Around and Around
Encore: One More Saturday Night

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Organic Jam Radio Playlist 12-22-13


Organic Jam Radio
WGAO
December 22, 2013

1.     Super 8 – Jason Isbell – Southeastern
2.     California Knows How To Party – Brushfire Stankgrass – Microclimates
3.     47 – Anders Osborne – Peace
4.     Back to the Middle – Deerhunter – Monomania
5.     Visions of Johanna – Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
6.     Limited By Stature – White Denim – Corsicana Lemonade
7.     Forever – HAIM – Days are Gone
8.     Like a Sundae – Black Moth Super Rainbow – Cobra Juicy
9.     The W.A.N.D. – Flaming Lips – At War with the Mystics
10. One for the Road – Arctic Monkeys – AM
11. When the World is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around – the Police – Zenyatta Mondatta
12. Step – Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
13. The obvious Child – Paul Simon – The Rhythm of the Saints
14. Kick Your Door Down – The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the Trash
15. The Beat – Elvis Costello and the Attractions – This Year’s Model
16. Moonage Daydream – David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
17. Why Won’t they Talk To Me – Tame Impala – Lonerism
18. One of These Days – Pink Floyd – Meddle
19. Heart of the Sunrise – Yes – Fragile
20. Yyz – Rush – Moving Pictures
21. In the Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
22. Carpet Crawlers – Genesis – Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
23. The Great Curve – Talking Heads – Remain in Light
24. Root Down – Jimmy Smith – Live! Root Down
25. Take Some…Leave Some – James Brown – The Payback
26. Sailin Shoes>Hey Julia>Sneaking Sally Through the Alley – Robert Palmer - Sneaking Sally Through the Alley
27. Let Me Show You Love – Cut Copy – Free Your Mind
28. Contact – Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
29. Okay – Holy Ghost! – Dynamics
30. Doing it Right – Daft Punk ft. Panda Bear – Random Access Memories
31. Oh! Sweet Nothing – The Velvet Underground – Loaded





12/28/2012
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 2: Tweezer > Maze, Twist > Theme From the Bottom -> Fluffhead > David Bowie
Encore: Bouncing Around the Room, Good Times Bad Times
Teases:
· The Little Drummer Boy tease & quote in Twist
· The Little Drummer Boy tease in Fluffhead


Berkeley Community Theater
Berkeley, CA
(11/3/84) 

Feel Like a Stranger -> Cumberland Blues, Gloria -> Why Don't We Do it in the Road -> drums -> Uncle John's Band -> Dear Mr. Fantasy -> Throwin' Stones -> Turn on Your Love Light 

Brokedown Palace
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