Many consider the Riverport Gin to be Phish's most impressive jam. Bathtub Gin Riverport Amphitheater, Maryland Heights, Missouri Rather, the joy is in that subjective journey of learning your favorites. Of course, as with all jam music, there is no actual best version of any one song. As I learn new jams or grow in my appreciation for those that have already made this list, they toggle their way up for down the list. The jams towards the top of this list are so coveted by my ears that I purposely spend more time listening to the jams at the bottom of this list. This list, which updates and changes often, places my most beloved Phish jams at the top.
This is a long list, but the most important thing to understand about this list is how it is organized. These ink spatters are my attempt to visualize the color combinations of these jams. I am a color-grapheme synesthete, and while that is not a form of synesthesia directly correlated to music or sound, I subconsciously associate colors with jam sequences, and will often remember a jam by its color. The leader still sounds like Jerry Garcia at times, but he now betrays a new debt to George Harrison’s melodic motifs, and the possibilities of those phrases are expanded in revealing ways by the three singers and eight string players.Am adding paint spatters to go along with different Phish jams. The push-and-pull of our feelings about dead friends and warm memories are most powerfully felt in the improvisations of the core quartet. Anastasio seems to be talking to the wall during the show, but he’s actually responding to a screen that posts the internet comments from the live stream.Īs always with Anastasio’s music, the lyrics don’t contain the meaning of the song so much as they point to the message in the instrumental music. Behind the risers supporting Fishman and the three singers, we see not a backdrop but the chandeliers and curving balconies over the now-empty seats. Instead, film director Trey Kerr makes the unusual decision to turn the band around so it faces the back wall of the Beacon. Holmes’ three vertical panels of abstract visuals are gone. And the two gospel-soul female singers (Celisse Henderson and Jennifer Hartswick) are joined by a third: Jo Lampert. But the chamber-music quartet, the Rescue Squad Strings, has doubled in size to play on eight of the 21 songs. The core quartet of Anastasio, a fully recovered Paczkowski, Phish drummer Jon Fishman and Trey Anastasio Band bassist Tony Markellis is the same. There are some differences from the 2019 excursion.
Such a beautiful world and such a brief time.” On the 23-minute finale, “Beneath a Sea of Stars,” he concludes that the living and the dead are “all here together and the weather’s fine.” “This place is too quiet without you,” he adds on “Halfway Home.” Finally, on “Brief Time,” he asks himself, “What was I so worried about?. “We’re gone in a heartbeat, fleeting, it’s gone,” he admits on “Drift While You’re Sleeping.”Īnastasio feels as if he’s “About to Run” from his feelings but realizes the ghosts follow him everywhere he goes. The title song of the project’s eponymous album, “Ghosts of the Forest,” is told from the perspective of an elk who accepts his looming death - and the subsequent songs find Anastasio struggling to find a similar acceptance. He wrote a suite of nine songs that seemed to tell a story, beginning with Cottrell hunting elk in the Rocky Mountains, as he so often did. Suddenly death and the threat of death were all around, and Anastasio wanted to respond differently than his standard operating procedure. Soon after, Ray Paczkowski, the original keyboardist in the Trey Anastasio Band, came down with a brain tumor. It began in early 2018, when Anastasio’s best friend Chris Cottrell died of adrenal cancer. But his Ghosts of the Forest project is unlike any other. He’s best known as the lead singer and guitarist for Phish, of course, but he has also worked with Broadway shows, symphony orchestras, avant-garde jazz musicians and roots-rockers.
PHISH BENEATH A SEA OF STARS PROFESSIONAL
Trey Anastasio has done a lot of different projects over his 38 years as a professional musician.
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