Red Mosquito

AndySlash wrote:i think sigma oasis might be their best studio record. at the very least, it is the album that sounds most like a phish show. obviously having several years of performances of the majority those songs under their belts helps but, still, it took them over thirty years to put out a studio record that really exemplified and represented their overall sound as a band.

Hatfield wrote:

AndySlash wrote:i think sigma oasis might be their best studio record. at the very least, it is the album that sounds most like a phish show. obviously having several years of performances of the majority those songs under their belts helps but, still, it took them over thirty years to put out a studio record that really exemplified and represented their overall sound as a band.

Sigma Oasis is the biggest reward I've taken from this iteration of Liebzz's journey through a band. Joy, Fuego and Big Boat were enjoyable, but not enough to keep in rotation the way I do with Farmhouse, Billy Breaths or Rift. Because of that, I didn't even pick up Sigma Oasis.

I am loving this album! Thank you Liebzz and AndySlash.

liebzz wrote:I have never thought they were terrible, just that you can’t approach them from the same kind of agenda you would with other bands. You’d be rightly disappointed if you went in looking for epic songwriting, or took any of their passages too seriously - I always thought of their vocals as the filler for further exploration. If you need solid lyrics and for the vocals to be the focal point of a song, it’s just not the case with them. Also, if you are more of a rock enthusiast that’s immediately ready for a band to tear shit up, akin to an Allman Brothers or even Marcus King, you’d also be disappointed because they also tend to sort of meander until something catches fire, which is thrilling when it happens, but if you are not in a patient mood can be tortuous to wade through. Frankly, even the Grateful Dead were highly focused in comparison because their explorations worked off the main thesis of the song, and Phish tends to remove any limitation to their explorations.

So then there’s two more points I’d make on this. If you make it to the moment of impact for them (think when Trey finally catches fire on Divided Sky), there’s nothing like them. Same when you catch them in moments where they are more focused. I find when I am in the right headspace, I don’t mind the wandering as much - it takes away a sense of hurry or even having my mind look ahead too much - just to sort of allow that strange sense of hypnosis to take over and exist in the moment. But if I’m even a hair off that vibe, Phish wouldn’t do it for me that day.

super nintendo chalmers wrote:

liebzz wrote:I have never thought they were terrible, just that you can’t approach them from the same kind of agenda you would with other bands. You’d be rightly disappointed if you went in looking for epic songwriting, or took any of their passages too seriously - I always thought of their vocals as the filler for further exploration. If you need solid lyrics and for the vocals to be the focal point of a song, it’s just not the case with them. Also, if you are more of a rock enthusiast that’s immediately ready for a band to tear shit up, akin to an Allman Brothers or even Marcus King, you’d also be disappointed because they also tend to sort of meander until something catches fire, which is thrilling when it happens, but if you are not in a patient mood can be tortuous to wade through. Frankly, even the Grateful Dead were highly focused in comparison because their explorations worked off the main thesis of the song, and Phish tends to remove any limitation to their explorations.

So then there’s two more points I’d make on this. If you make it to the moment of impact for them (think when Trey finally catches fire on Divided Sky), there’s nothing like them. Same when you catch them in moments where they are more focused. I find when I am in the right headspace, I don’t mind the wandering as much - it takes away a sense of hurry or even having my mind look ahead too much - just to sort of allow that strange sense of hypnosis to take over and exist in the moment. But if I’m even a hair off that vibe, Phish wouldn’t do it for me that day.

I think about this often and it's pretty dead on. The best parts of the shows I've been to were when they were getting very Allmans-y. Then it would carreen into some god awful Club Med shit.

I still think they suck, but this post nailed it.

Met Trey once about a a year ago in front of my apt building...couldn't be nicer even posed for a pic.

Hatfield wrote:

AndySlash wrote:i think sigma oasis might be their best studio record. at the very least, it is the album that sounds most like a phish show. obviously having several years of performances of the majority those songs under their belts helps but, still, it took them over thirty years to put out a studio record that really exemplified and represented their overall sound as a band.

Sigma Oasis is the biggest reward I've taken from this iteration of Liebzz's journey through a band. Joy, Fuego and Big Boat were enjoyable, but not enough to keep in rotation the way I do with Farmhouse, Billy Breaths or Rift. Because of that, I didn't even pick up Sigma Oasis.

I am loving this album! Thank you Liebzz and AndySlash.

oasisfan35 wrote:Released another LiveBait so the MP3 is a free download for now.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:A buddy of mine texted me about a show he was at recently and these guys played a 43 minute version of one of their songs. No thank you jam bands.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:A buddy of mine texted me about a show he was at recently and these guys played a 43 minute version of one of their songs. No thank you jam bands.