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Jay Flemma

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Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« on: January 11, 2013, 06:26:01 AM »
Here's the article:

http://www.back9network.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=28400&ATCLID=205879285

From the piece:

"They said they could stage a runaway golf cart marathon, and they did. Rock behemoths Phish - inimitable, indefatigable and unparalleled - turned fabled Madison Square Garden into a golf course, raced golf carts around the arena, and then played a golf-themed third set to ring in New Year's 2013 to thunderous applause from the most loyal fan base in rock."

And here's the hilarious and slammin' video:

http://www.youtube.com/user/mkdevo

Note: you have to sit through about two minutes of them screwing around during Kung...that's their idea of a joke:):) Trust me, the payoff with the bumpin' Chalk Dust Torture and the golf cart race is worth it:)

And some pics!

Trey and Page



The end of Chalk Dust



The Tweezer (reprise) just after midnight



Drummer Jon Fishman




The Third set list went Party Time (Par Tee Time), Kung>Chalk Dust>Auld Lang Syne>Tweeprise, Sand, Wedge, Fly Like an Eagle, Wilson, Lawn Boy, Driver, Iron Man.


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Jeff Spittel

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2013, 08:09:45 AM »
Good to see the boys in fine form. Some of the most enjoyable (and foggy) nights of my life have been seeing them at MSG.
Fare and be well now, let your life proceed by its own design.

Phil McDade

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2013, 08:35:32 AM »

Jay Flemma

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2013, 08:53:20 AM »
It was indeed glorious!
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Ross Harmon

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2013, 09:57:17 AM »
Thanks for sharing Jay. Very cool, especially everyone hitting at the same time during Tweezer Reprise.

Travis Dewire

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2013, 10:16:01 AM »
Amazing post ! Love to see some phone. Notice second set of sand , wedge , fly like an eagle, Wilson , lawn boy , driver and iron man . Look at all that golf phishiness !!

Jud_T

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2013, 10:26:10 AM »
Looks like they have a reverse pivot in their swings just as in their songwriting... :-\
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Jay Flemma

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2013, 03:34:04 PM »
1st ballot rock n roll hall of famers...anyone wanna take me up on that bet?
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Jay Flemma

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2013, 03:40:59 PM »
Trev, that was actually THIRD set! Yes, Ross, swinging together during Tweeprise was awesome:)

So was the night before with Harry Hood and Slave to the Traffic Light in the same set!
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Phil McDade

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2013, 04:15:08 PM »
1st ballot rock n roll hall of famers...anyone wanna take me up on that bet?

I don't know, Jay. Phish's biggest credit for being in the R-n-R hall of fame rests primarily on......longevity.

They weren't inventive musicians, really. Nor were they big sellers, in terms of records/DVDs/whatever format is being measured these days. They didn't seem to have a big influence on anyone else -- the Dead (who I think may be the most over-rated band in the history of rock music) paved the way for all of the latter-day touring bands like Umphree's McGee. Phish in fact seems largely derivative of the Dead's ouevre and methodology -- crank out listenable music, be cool to your fans (like allowing recording/video-taping of concerts long before hand-held stuff made that accessible to everyone), nurture an audience through years of touring, and generally be well-meaning fellows who seem like a fun group of guys to hang around.

It seems kind of..........light. Forty years from now, will we really be thinking of Phish the way we (today) think of what Springsteen was doing in the early 1970s, or the Beatles 10 years before that? I don't know; I kind of doubt it. Every once in a while, I get out some old Beatles -- pre-Rubber Soul -- and it still amazes me how fresh music that sounds, today, now nearly half-a-century later. Will Phish sound as fresh, or more like dead fish? ;)

Sven Nilsen

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2013, 04:17:01 PM »
Jay:

Like the moth to the flame, so flies the flat-brimmed - faux hippy - tree thugger to Phish.  I've found them to be rather pedantic ever since Trey went off the meds and Mike went through his "troubles."  But then I again, I like my whiskey served in a dirty glass:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DvkPSwwVVQ

As for the Iron Man cover, Panic did it first, and they did it better:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmwrsp_widespread-panic-iron-man-live-from-the-aragon-ballroom-10-31-11_music#.UPB8um9pdsk

Sven
"As much as we have learned about the history of golf architecture in the last ten plus years, I'm convinced we have only scratched the surface."  A GCA Poster

"There's the golf hole; play it any way you please." Donald Ross

Jay Flemma

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2013, 05:08:22 PM »
Oh really Phil?  Like playing the White Album, Quadrophenia, Exile on Main Street, and Dark Side of the Moon (and other albums) on Halloween as a musical costume?  A great gag every single NYE?  Being asked by the RNR HOF to induct Genesis? Spawning a touring band/Jam band movement that's exploded in popularity? Huge mega Festivals from '95 till now?  That's as innovative as ANY band in history.

And Sven, Mike did not go through any "troubles." The press screwed up the story and had to apologize to him. As for Trey, the band is far LESS pedantic since Trey GOT clean...he didn't get "off his meds"...he got off hard drugs. And should be praised for it.  You don't like your liquor in a dirty glass...looks to me like you're swilling out of the bottle. ;D

Do either one of you want to take me up on a bet on whether they get in the first time they are on the ballot?
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Dave Falkner

Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2013, 05:47:53 PM »
If the music was so good they wouldnt need to resort to the gimmicks

M. Shea Sweeney

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2013, 06:22:35 PM »
Dave-

Do you know anything about Phish?

Respectively,

Mike Sweeney

Dave Falkner

Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2013, 06:42:20 PM »
Mike  maybe just a crotchedy old deadhead here but I've heard enough to know  me no like

the lyrics are inane

and i find the jams boring

they are lacking in the one thing the dead had in spades-  soul

Jay Flemma

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2013, 07:12:25 PM »
One more thing - Phish's flying hot dog has hung in the atrium of the RNR HOF for a decade! A decade!!!

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SteveOgulukian

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Re: Phish Scores Eagle With New Year's Eve Golf Gag at MSG
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2013, 07:38:21 PM »
Good to see other phans on GCA!