Phish R.I.P.

Just read this myself. I understand their logic, but it's a shame that they're calling it quits.

 

This is almost as wonderful of a day as when the fat man died.

Almost.

Unfortunately, however, this Grateful Dead can still reunite someday.



Let's hope that the boys venture near a shower once in a while now that they have this newfound time off.

 

Who the ******** are Phish?

 

Oh... darn, I'm so heartbroken.

 

I wonder if the price of firearms will go up now that there's no way of knowing where that filthy band of homeless will turn up next without a Phish tour schedule.

 

Those pseudo-hippies with oxymoronic' office jobs can be rest assured of PHISH's absence because there's always the equally crappy String Cheese Incident they can listen to.

 

Hopefully we will get some more Oysterhead out of this, or at least alot more of Trey's Band.

 

I could do the obligatory slam on Phish here, but suffice it for me to say that I just don't get the whole "jam band" thing.

 

I've never liked the them, actually, and I don't see what's so attractive about their original songs - which is what I look for in a band in the first place (ie Norah Jones, Donna Kral, hate them) but otoh...

They have a HUGE following of people who like their music and are very obviously great musicians and count their fans among some of the biggest stars of music. So they quit because they're afraid that they've run their course? To me that's a chicknsht solution...the first example that comes to mind is Bob Dylan. In an interview with him that I read quite a while back he was asked what he'd be doing when he was 70. He said: "Playing music, going on tour. It's all I can do. It's all I know how to do."

Point is, find a way to make it work. That's what playing music and creating is all about. The challenge of reinventing, recreating and coming up with something new so you don't do all the things they say they're breaking up for.

 

I'm with you there. Maybe if I found some really, really good reefer....

 

Good. Now maybe all those dirty, patchuli smelling, livin' in the past 45 year olds will take a moment and reflect on thier personal high-gene. Honestly did Phish ever write a song called "take a bath you foul smelling fvck"?

 

(happy dance)

 

No, they have a reatively small following of people who probably genuinely like their music, and an enormous following of sheep who think its cool to like Phish. Much like the Dead did.

 

They will all still be playing music. It just won't be Phish.

It will be:

Trey Anastasio Band
Vida Blue
Oysterhead
Jazz Mandolin Project

and I am sure there will be additions to this list

I bet phish does continue to play the occasional show after a while or have a festival. They just won't tour any longer.

 

Norah Jones does write some of her material.

As for the reinventing, the band members have been doing that for years with their other ventures. Maybe you should actually know about something or someone before you criticize it/them.

 

Why? Just because you don't like the band doesn't mean that it is wonderful that they broke up. Was there existence a pain the ass for you somehow?

Phish is nothing like the dead and your comment shows just how ignorant you are on the subject.

BTW, the Grateful Dead has reunited sans Jerry and are planning a summer tour.

If you don't know jack about a subject, should you be discussin it? I think not.

Try not to confuse the band with the creeps that follow them, dumbass.

 

Norah got CO-writing credit for only THREE of the FOURTEEN songs on her debut album. That number shoots up to a whopping 6/13 for her latest...Glorified cover artist if you ask me. Whenever I need to puke after a long night, I just pop in some Norah.

Avril Lavigne got writing credits on her songs as well, so that should tell you a little something about writing credits. She gets more credit for writing songs on her album than she does for actually playing the guitar.

I notice your clever use of the PAST tense...Phish are now quitters.

 

I said she writes SOME of her material and you are incorrect. She wrote two of the songs on her debut Come Away With Me, Nightingale.

She wrote one song on her latestWhat Am I To You.

As for her being a cover artist the songs are written specifically for her. It's not as if she is actually covering a tune that had been previously recorded.

You used writing credits to make a point about Jones. Then you followed it up with a statement that seems to reject the validity of them. If you feel that they are not legitimate, how can cite those very same credits when making a point?

I think their breakup is mostly about Trey wanting out. Why should they stay together if they are not happy? That would be stupid.

You wrote:

I can guarantee you that all of the members of Phish will be doing the same thing as Dylan. Just because they are not together doesn't mean that each one of them won't be playing music or going on tour.

They all have other projects besides Phish, So your point is moot.

 

Do you enjoy jazz or blues?

 

It was mainly a Trey Anastasio decision more than it appears to be a Phish decision. Trey's been incredibly busy with other stuff, and there's no Phish without Trey Anastasio, so it's a done deal. While that band is stopping making music, I know they won't all stop. Trey has Oysterhead, the Trey Anastasio Band, the orchestral/classical stuff he's been doing, the African stuff he's getting into and he's been performing with Dave Matthews. That doesn't sound like calling it quits to me. The other members all have other bands/projects as well. They've been doing stuff with Leo Kottke, the Spam All-Stars, Jazz Mandolin Project, there's been a film or two made, etc. They're all plenty busy, just not with each other.

Amazing how someone doing what they want to do is a "chicknshit solution." If I had the tens of millions (if not hundreds of millions) those guys have, I'd be doing whatever I wanted to be doing too, and that's what they're doing. We all know product by bands that are doing it for the money is sooooooooooooo good.

 

That may actually be one of the lamest things I've ever read on BigSoccer...and that's saying quite a lot.

It always amazes me how a band that isn't on MTV or the radio can generate such hatred. It isn't like they're hard to avoid. I can even see hating their fans. Heck, I'm a huge fan of the band, and I can barely stand going to their concerts because of the people there. I think hating Phish is just as much of a "cool thing to do" for some groups as liking them "is a cool thing to do" for others. Hating them is like hating classical music or soccer in this country. I don't understand how somebody can hate something so much that is so easy to never have to come in contact with.

 

My best guess is that this is mostly about no longer wanting to live up to fans' ideas what Phish is all about. And, since they are all insanely popular anyway, they can now go off and do some other newer more interesting projects with the guarantee that somebody will buy tickets to see it.

I've never thought they were that bad, but it's no coincidence that the side projects are better and more daring than Phish has been lately.