The Phish Thread

[twosteppin]

Well, somehow, NBC bought USA or has a share of it or something, and since USA has the rights to 'Walker,' Conan can put on a clip whenever he wants to, free of charge. So he has this lever next to his desk that he can pull whenever he wants to show a clip. It's really funny; he often says that they've had this lever the whole time they've been on the air, and they've never been able to use it until now

And words cannot express the hilariousness of 30 second clips of 'Walker, Texas Ranger' taken out of context.

Im watching Conan right now. I hope he shows a walker texas ranger clip. Modest Mouse is preforming

 

[ps139]

GET YOUR EARS ON: THE RETURN OF THE BUNNY; COVENTRY TO BE SIMULCAST ON XM SATELLITE RADIO

The onsite radio stations at Phish festivals have changed from year to year (how could you forget Lemonwheel's "The Badger" or "Thin Air" down in Big Cypress?). but "The Bunny" proved to be such an enduring moniker that it will be standing tall again in Coventry, broadcast on 92.1 FM in the 15 or so miles around Coventry, and 99.3 FM in St. Johnsbury further south. The Bunny will be pumping out an eclectic mix of great music, traffic reports, event updates, interviews with fans and festival crew, a double session of Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro's "From The Archives" programs, late night audio freakouts and of course all of Phish's sets. The Bunny airs 24 hours a day beginning Thursday, August 12 at 9 AM through Monday, August 16 at 2 PM. Don't forget the boombox.

If you're not coming to Coventry, you can still be comforted by the soothing sounds of The Bunny. XM Satellite Radio will be broadcasting not only all of Phish's six sets, but simulcasting 48 hours of The Bunny as well. You can hear the broadcast from anywherein the United States on the XM Live and XM Music Lab channels beginning at 6 AM ET on Saturday, August 14 through 6 AM ET on Monday, August 16. We'll have details next week on a special discounted rate available to Phish fans to get an XM radio. For more information on XM, check out http://xmradio.com
http://www.phish.com/news/index.php?year=2004#story198

 

[ps139]

PHISH GOES TO THE MOVIES: THE SEQUEL 07.22.04

After the extremely well-received theater simulcast of PHISH's June 17 concert from Coney Island, we are pleased to announce that we will be simulcasting Coventry in its entirety at select Regal, Edwards and United Artists movie theatres. The live simulcast will be broadcast in high-definition video and Dolby surround sound on both days of the event.

We are still finalizing details regarding exact theatre locations and ticket onsale information and hope to announce this early next week. Please keep in mind that the theatres will vary from those that showed the Coney Island concert. Tickets to each day's simulcast will be sold as separate events.


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From what I've heard, the theater viewing for Coney Island was amazing. Air conditioning, popcorn, people dancing in the aisles, you name it!

This is the last time Phish will ever play - if you've never seen them live, the next best thing is to go to this theater viewing, it will be

 

[twosteppin]

keeping my fingers crossed on the theater thing. Hopefully a theater will have it near here again, and I am able to go.
Are you going both nights Bill? Man, thats gonna be a memorable, emotional night for the band and their fans.

 

[KristianJ]

Well, somehow, NBC bought USA or has a share of it or something, and since USA has the rights to 'Walker,' Conan can put on a clip whenever he wants to, free of charge. So he has this lever next to his desk that he can pull whenever he wants to show a clip. It's really funny; he often says that they've had this lever the whole time they've been on the air, and they've never been able to use it until now

And words cannot express the hilariousness of 30 second clips of 'Walker, Texas Ranger' taken out of context.

And words cannot explain the hilariousness of many things on that show...

I saw a SNL tonight with Dave and Trey as the musical guests (Andy Roddick hosted if anyone wants to tell me when it was screened in the US). We're always at least a few months on my Pay TV, and I'm guessing it was a song off Some Devil. But I really enjoyed Trey;s guitar playing, and his guitar looked very interesting too. Anyone know what brand he uses? It looked very unique.

 

[ps139]

keeping my fingers crossed on the theater thing. Hopefully a theater will have it near here again, and I am able to go.
Are you going both nights Bill? Man, thats gonna be a memorable, emotional night for the band and their fans.

I have quite a trip lined up for me:
August 12th - see Phish play in Camden, NJ (same place where I just went to see Dave). This venue is about 2 hours south of my town, sans traffic. My friend and I are leaving the show, driving up to my town, picking up 3 friends (we hope to do this around midnight-1am) then driving straight up to Coventry, VT.
August 13th - an entire day of being in the car. It will be miserable!! We hope to arrive at Coventry mid afternoon on this day. If we do that, I predict we will wait in about 12 hours of traffic approaching Coventry.
August 14th - hopefully be inside the venue by noon. Phish goes on around 2pm I think.
August 15th - the last day Phish will ever play
August 16th - drive home, try to make it home for work on Tuesday!!

 

[ps139]

I saw a SNL tonight with Dave and Trey as the musical guests (Andy Roddick hosted if anyone wants to tell me when it was screened in the US). We're always at least a few months on my Pay TV, and I'm guessing it was a song off Some Devil. But I really enjoyed Trey;s guitar playing, and his guitar looked very interesting too. Anyone know what brand he uses? It looked very unique.

You are right about the guitar Kristian, it is very unique - its a one-of-a-kind. It is hand-made by Paul Languedoc, who I think it also the sound guy for Phish. Trey has had 3 guitars that Paul made for him. The one he uses now is made of koa wood and was made in 1996. Its a beauty. Here is some info I found on Phish.net (a great resource)
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Trey's third, and current Languadoc is a koa hollowbody built during 1996. This guitar is all koa with a maple neck, and the same tapered body shape as the second one. The finish on this one is a darker, redder stain, with a slightly different headstock shape, different (even smaller) inlays, and two chrome-covered humbuckers. The saddles are bronze on this guitar as opposed to the bone of the first two. He used this for the first time in October of 1996, and sporadically for the remainder of the year. In 1997, it completed the transition to his main axe, leaving the two blonde ones as backups. Languadoc states that "The koa guitar is the best of all of them because the wood has the most elegant and solid sound of the three."

According to Guitar World (12/98), "Each has a carved top and bottom (with minimal interior bracing), exquisit fingerboard inlays, and six-in-line headstock, a custom tail-piece, and a hand-carved bridge. (The padauk and maple/spruce guitars are made of bone, but the koa's is bronze to give it a more brilliant sound.) The hand carved, arched top hollowbodies have a shape reminiscent of a scaled down Fender Starcaster. The tops, backs and F-holes have multiple layers of white and black binding. The laminated curly maple necks are set and glued to the body with carved heel-joint, and have 24 fret, bound ebony fingerboards with a 25-1/2" scale. The shaped headstocks (with chrome plated Schallar tuning machines all on one side) have multiple binding and black faces with exceptional mother-of pearl inlay work depicting Trey's dog Marley. Bone was used for the nuts and two piece bridge saddles and bases on the first two guitars, and bronze was used for the saddles of the koa one, for a more brilliant sound. The cello-style tail-pieces are all hand carved ebony. Trey's primary Languedoc (before the koa one) has a top of European curly maple - preferred by cello builders - and the back and sides are padauk with no back bracing. The guitar's wiring harness and controls are painstakingly accessed through the F-holes. The electronics consist of a pair of Schallar Golden 50 humbucking pickups with individual volume controls,,a tone Control, and a 3-way pickup selector."

"Trey has a very complex setup on his guitar. There are many effects that he uses here and there, but there are three main components to his unique sound. "First off, his guitar accounts for most of the ripe sound. Paul Languadoc, Phish's soundboard manager, made the guitar for him. Although many people believe his guitar is a semi-hollow body, it it not. It is a true hollow body. "What makes it unique, however, is the size and thickness of it. There is no doubt that it is very small for a true hollow bodied guitar. Most musicians who use hollow bodies have large guitars. This is because if the body is too small, the sound feeds back when the bridge pickup is used. Trey, however, likes this, and uses it to his advantage. By skillfully muting all strings but the one he is playing, we hear long sustains like in Divided Sky and YEM." "Actually, a larger guitar would be more feedback-prone; the greater surface area would absorb more vibrations from the speakers, which would result in more feedback. All hollow-bodies are very feedback-prone; Ted Nugent used his Gibson Byrdland to get an interesting array of feedback noises."
A bridge: trey uses a 3-position locking tremolo bridge mechanism. notice he'll finger a chord and then flick his right hand and bing! he's in a different key without moving his left hand at all."
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(me again) The strings he uses are gauge .10 - .46 - I have Ernie Ball Regular Slinky "Classic" Pure nickel wrap strings. These sound closest to Trey than any other's I've tried. The pure nickel wrap give it a brighter, warm, richer, more classic rock sound than other strings, which are often wraped with nickel plated steel, or stainless steel, giving guitars a more late 70's or 80's heavy sound, respectively.

 

[ps139]

Trey's guitar:

Trey "in the zone":

 

[KristianJ]

Thanks for the info mate!! Very interesting reading!

 

[ps139]

COVENTRY THEATRE SIMULCAST ON SALE --

As mentioned here last week, PHISH will be simulcasting COVENTRY in its entirety at select Regal, Edwards and United Artists movie theatres. The live simulcast will be broadcast in high-definition video and Dolby surround sound on both days of the event. The show will be broadcast on Saturday August 14 and Sunday August 15 live at 5:30 PM ET, 4:30 PM CT, 3:30 PM MT, and 2:30 PM PT.

A full list of participating theatres follows below. Tickets are $20.00 and will go on sale tomorrow, Thursday, July 29 at 3:00 PM ET at http://regalcm.com as well as individual box offices. A service charge may apply when buying online, but there is no service charge when purchased at the box office. Taping and use of cameras and videocameras will be strictly prohibited. Keep in mind that not all theatres will be offering the simulcast on both days. Theatres are a smoke free area. Please be courteous and understand that smoking will not be permitted in the theatres at any time.

PARTICIPATING THEATRES -- SATURDAY, AUGUST 14
Birmingham, AL - REGAL TRUSSVILLE 16
Scottsdale, AZ - UA SCOTTSDALE PAVILIONS 11
Dublin, CA - REGAL HACIENDA CROSSINGS 20
Emeryville, CA - UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10
Sacramento, CA - REGAL NATOMAS MARKETPLACE 16
San Diego, CA - EDWARDS MIRA MESA STADIUM 18
Denver, CO - UA DENVER PAVILIONS 15
Royal Palm Beach, FL - REGAL PALM BEACH STADIUM 18
Tampa, FL - REGAL CITRUS PARK 20
Chamblee, GA - REGAL HOLLYWOOD 24 @ NORTH I-85
Lincolnshire, IL - REGAL LINCOLNSHIRE 20
Marlborough, MA - REGAL SOLOMON POND MALL STADIUM 15
Columbia, MD - UA SNOWDEN SQUARE STADIUM 14
Walled Lake, MI - UA COMMERCE STADIUM 14
Minneapolis, MN - REGAL BROOKLYN CENTER 20
Hazelwood, MO - REGAL ST. LOUIS MILLS STADIUM 18
Charlotte, NC - REGAL STONECREST AT PIPER GLEN 22
North Brunswick, NJ - REGAL COMMERCE CENTER 18
Las Vegas, NV - VILLAGE SQUARE STADIUM 18
Albany, NY - REGAL CROSSGATES 18
New Rochelle, NY - REGAL NEW ROC CITY 18
Williamsville, NY -REGAL TRANSIT CENTER 18
Cleveland Heights, OH - REGAL SEVERANCE TOWN CENTER 14
Columbus, OH - REGAL GEORGESVILLE SQUARE 16
Oklahoma City, OK - REGAL CROSSROADS MALL 16
Harrisburg, PA - REGAL HARRISBURG STADIUM 14
King of Prussia, PA - UA KING OF PRUSSIA STADIUM 16
Philadelphia, PA - UA RIVERVIEW PLAZA STADIUM 17
Greenville, SC - REGAL HOLLYWOOD STADIUM 20
Knoxville, TN - REGAL WEST TOWN MALL 9
Nashville, TN - REGAL OPRY MILLS 20
Dallas, TX - UA GALAXY STADIUM 10
Houston, TX - EDWARDS HOUSTON MARQUEE 23
San Antonio - REGAL CIELO VISTA 18
Arlington, VA - REGAL BALLSTON COMMON 12
Norfolk, VA - REGAL MACARTHUR CENTER 18

PARTICIPATING THEATRES -- SUNDAY, AUGUST 15
Birmingham, AL - REGAL TRUSSVILLE 16
Scottsdale, AZ - UA SCOTTSDALE PAVILIONS 11
Alhambra, CA - EDWARDS RENAISSANCE STADIUM 14
Dublin, CA - REGAL HACIENDA CROSSINGS 20
Emeryville, CA - UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10
Irvine, CA - EDWARDS IRVINE SPECTRUM 21
Sacramento, CA - REGAL NATOMAS MARKETPLACE 16
San Diego, CA - EDWARDS MIRA MESA STADIUM 18
Denver, CO - UA DENVER PAVILIONS 15
Englewood, CO - UA GREENWOOD PLAZA 12
Branford, CT - REGAL BRANFORD STADIUM 12
Miami, FL - UA MOVIES @ THE FALLS 12
Royal Palm Beach, FL - REGAL PALM BEACH STADIUM 18
Tampa, FL - REGAL CITRUS PARK 20
Atlanta, GA - REGAL PERIMETER POINTE 10
Chamblee, GA - REGAL HOLLYWOOD 24 @ NORTH I-85
Lincolnshire, IL - REGAL LINCOLNSHIRE 20
Indianapolis, IN - UA CIRCLE CENTER 9
Marlborough, MA - REGAL SOLOMON POND MALL STADIUM 15
Columbia, MD - UA SNOWDEN SQUARE STADIUM 14
Portage, MI - UA CROSSROADS 10
Walled Lake, MI - UA COMMERCE STADIUM 14
Minneapolis, MN - REGAL BROOKLYN CENTER 20
Hazelwood, MO - REGAL ST. LOUIS MILLS STADIUM 18
Charlotte, NC - REGAL STONECREST AT PIPER GLEN 22
Garner, NC - UA GARNER TOWNE SQUARE
North Brunswick, NJ - REGAL COMMERCE CENTER 18
Albuquerque, NM - UA COTTONWOOD MALL STADIUM 10
Las Vegas, NV - VILLAGE SQUARE STADIUM 18
Albany, NY - REGAL CROSSGATES 18
New Rochelle, NY - REGAL NEW ROC CITY 18
New York, NY - UNION SQUARE STADIUM 14
Westbury, NY - UA WESTBURY STADIUM 12
Williamsville, NY -REGAL TRANSIT CENTER 18
Cleveland Heights, OH - REGAL SEVERANCE TOWN CENTER 14
Columbus, OH - REGAL GEORGESVILLE SQUARE 16
Oklahoma City, OK - REGAL CROSSROADS MALL 16
Portland, OR - REGAL LLOYD CENTER STADIUM 10 CINEMA
Harrisburg, PA - REGAL HARRISBURG STADIUM 14
King of Prussia, PA - UA KING OF PRUSSIA STADIUM 16
Philadelphia, PA - UA RIVERVIEW PLAZA STADIUM 17
Greenville, SC - REGAL HOLLYWOOD STADIUM 20
Knoxville, TN - REGAL WEST TOWN MALL 9
Nashville, TN - REGAL OPRY MILLS 20
Dallas, TX - UA GALAXY STADIUM 10
Ft. Worth, TX - UA FOSSIL CREEK STADIUM 11
Houston, TX - EDWARDS HOUSTON MARQUEE 23
San Antonio - REGAL CIELO VISTA 18
Arlington, VA - REGAL BALLSTON COMMON 12
Norfolk, VA - REGAL MACARTHUR CENTER 18
Auburn, WA - REGAL AUBURN 17 THEATRES

 

[twosteppin]

I have quite a trip lined up for me:
August 12th - see Phish play in Camden, NJ (same place where I just went to see Dave). This venue is about 2 hours south of my town, sans traffic. My friend and I are leaving the show, driving up to my town, picking up 3 friends (we hope to do this around midnight-1am) then driving straight up to Coventry, VT.
August 13th - an entire day of being in the car. It will be miserable!! We hope to arrive at Coventry mid afternoon on this day. If we do that, I predict we will wait in about 12 hours of traffic approaching Coventry.
August 14th - hopefully be inside the venue by noon. Phish goes on around 2pm I think.
August 15th - the last day Phish will ever play
August 16th - drive home, try to make it home for work on Tuesday!!

wow.. I'll be sure to stay in contact with the patron saint of traffic jams for ya those days Have fun!

 

[Arwen Undomiel]

A full list of participating theatres follows below.

Sometimes I really hate living in this backwards city of mine. Harrisburg? King of Prussia? Where the *bleep* is Pittsburgh?

And I don't have XM Satellite radio. Guess I'll have to wait for the ultra-condensed DVD!

 

[Arwen Undomiel]

Hey Bill, I took your Phish quiz. I know I scored 4 out of 7 but in my defense I was interrupted during the Trey question and ended up timing out - that would certainly be the question everyone knows the answer to!

 

[KristianJ]

Hey Bill, I took your Phish quiz. I know I scored 4 out of 7 but in my defense I was interrupted during the Trey question and ended up timing out - that would certainly be the question everyone knows the answer to!

There's a Phish quiz? Oh boy...I hope I could score at least 1 out of 7 in it

 

[KristianJ]

*after taking the Phish quiz* Yay!!! I only failed by one question!!

 

[twosteppin]

lol. Where is this quiz that you guys are taking?

 

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check here Amy http://www.christianforums.com/quiz.php?quizid=143
When all you get done I'll make up an "intermediate" quiz hehehe.....better start studying!
Nice job Nadroj - 6 right, only one wrong!!!

(which one tripped you up??)

 

[KristianJ]

check here Amy http://www.christianforums.com/quiz.php?quizid=143
When all you get done I'll make up an "intermediate" quiz hehehe.....better start studying!
Nice job Nadroj - 6 right, only one wrong!!!

(which one tripped you up??)

Intermediate would kill me...

 

[twosteppin]

check here Amy ....

thanks for the link. that was fun to take.

 

[nadroj1985]

check here Amy http://www.christianforums.com/quiz.php?quizid=143
When all you get done I'll make up an "intermediate" quiz hehehe.....better start studying!
Nice job Nadroj - 6 right, only one wrong!!!

(which one tripped you up??)

I think it was the one about where they were formed. I knew it was in Vermont, but I got the town name wrong. I was pleased with 6 of 7, considering I'm not even that big a fan. Intermediate will probably chew me up and spit me out