Your favorite show of 2004!

if you can't dig coventry then i don't know what your looking for.....piper>brunno>dickie scottland...was so, so sick.....the Split Open in Melt>Ghost, not only blew my mind there, but continues to fuck with my head today on CD.....Mike Gordon was throwing down bass lines both nights that dwarf every bass player known.......The first set of the weekend was the greatest first set, by any band.....95 minutes of pure insanity....now i know the weekend was not perfect, but no show is...there were flubs...but who fucking cares.....thats live music.....its another note....another show....they'll be back in 5 years at most.....they will never find the same musical high as they did with Phish, and i know i'll never catch that same musical high with anyone as i did with phish.......they'll be back...and i'll be here waiting......all other shows until then are just appetizers for the main course of PHISH..............................................

 

i hope they don't come back, if they did it would only be as a nostalgia act (i.e. the dead) and that would be sad, they left with grace!

 

Acoustic Planet Tour-the last week of shows

Or YMSB/Keller In Denver for NYE

 

Dude...musically, Phish at Coventry was not good...they fucked up Simple, ect. If you think that was Phish at their best, check out some post hiatus shows and you will quickly change your mind. HOWEVER, with the emotion around the venue, I wouldn't have missed Coventry for anything!

As for good shows in 2004, I didn't get to go but listened to Phish's Alpine Vally show and it's pretty sick, I loved The Dead set at Bonnaroo, oh and Papa Grows Funk and Perpetual Groove show in Ft. Lauderdale...who here loves P Groove? It's hard to just sort these few out because I saw a lot of great shows this year.

 

i know you looking for an arguement here...so you got one....the dead is not a nostalgia act... i've seen them many times, and it rocks just as hard as it ever did with jerry...its not better, its not worse....its different. the dead 2003-2004 new years was one of the best shows i've ever seen. have you even seen the dead? because i feel if you have you wouldn't be saying this.....and i won't even get into phish their greatness speaks for itself...

 

i wish i would have gotten into phish before they broke up.. i didnt get the chance to see them live...

 

yes actually, i saw the dead at bonnaroo in '03, and i was more excited for it than i've been for any concert ever, and the first set rocked, but somewhere during the second set i realized that these guys have been playing the same songs for close to 40 years, that is what i call a nostalgia act! and i think the fact that the dead fired the entire old road crew that used to travel with the grateful dead so that they could re-vamp is shitty as hell. these guys are not the grateful dead, and not even a good cover band of them, if you want to see the grateful dead nowadays, check out dark star orchestra

 

p.s. you're only 18, so i don't think you can make the claim that it rocks just as hard as it did with jerry since you never saw the actual grateful dead, and neither did i, but thats why i'm not going to waste my time on nostalgia acts when i can see great new bands like umphrey's mcgee or the new deal

 

ok, don't tell me, what i haven't seen. granted i was only 8 years old, i saw the grateful dead in Chicago......

 

That's awesome me and harpua, I wish my dad would've taken me to a dead show before Jerry died. He said he was waiting until I was old enough (old enough to see all the rampant drug use without reeling in shock I suppose) and I guess being 10 at the time, he didn't think I was yet, oh well.


I agree that coventry was really not phish at its best from what i've heard on tape, although I'm sure the crowd's energy made it an amazing thing to experience. In retrospect I'm kind of glad I skipped out on it and chose to hit up the very beginning of the tour (the two keyspan shows) instead. There's something about that NEW YAWK energy you just don't get anywhere else.

 

did you go to the skating rink party afterwards? hehe it was fun.

my favorite show was most definitely the dead both times i saw them.

 

I think I enjoyed The Levellers when they played at Glastonbury the best. I don't think they were the 'best' band I saw...but they were the most enjoyable.