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Father Phishmas

Two Phish bits this evening.

First, Phish Thoughts unveils a rather sweet-looking audio archive.

Second, the other day, I got into a discussion about Santa Claus with FBdN son #1. I kept it real agnostic. ‘Legend has it…some people say…’ – that kind of thing.

His take: yes, there is indeed a Santa Claus.

So, in that spirit, I’ve scanned my vast Phish holdings and drawn up a wish-list of tunes that I hope will be played on December 5 down in Charlottesville. Let’s see if I get lucky.

Backwards Down the Number Line
Brian and Robert
Down With Disease
Fast Enough For You
Ghost
The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday
Punch You In The Eye
Reba
Rift
Slave To The Traffic Light
Time Turns Elastic
Waste

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Downloading Beardfish, Uploading Neil, Streaming Phish

That was my triple play this evening. While downloading Beardfish’s new one, “Destined Solitaire,” from the iTunes store, I took the opportunity to upload my CD of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” into my iTunes library.

As all that was going on, I cranked up Phish’s “46 Days,” recorded live at Merriweather on 8/15 and conveniently embedded at Mr. Miner’s Phish Thoughts.

So that’s something old, something new, something borrowed, and even, as the picture shows, something blue.

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by Gillies on August 27, 2009 • Permalink

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Tagged Beardfish, iTunes, Listening, Mr. Miner's Phish Thoughts, Neil Young, New Releases, phish, the internet is really amazing

Posted by Gillies on August 27, 2009

http://gilli.es/2009/08/27/downloading-beardfish-uploading-neil-streaming-phish/

Wait a minute, is this…(gulp)…HOLY HATS!

Poking around the intertrons today, I came across this:

http://www.phishows.com/

The Internet is really amazing.

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by Gillies on August 9, 2009 • Permalink

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Tagged Concerts, Listening, phish, phishows.com, the internet is really amazing

Posted by Gillies on August 9, 2009

http://gilli.es/2009/08/09/wait-a-minute-is-this-gulp-holy-hats/

Underwater Moon (2003)

With not a whole lot in the blogging hopper this evening, I’ll turn to the vast FBdN archives for a tune I recorded six years ago: Underwater Moon.

Underwater Moon (8.4.03)

I did this one in Pro Tools LE, which I haven’t used much at all in the last few years. One thing I liked about the software was the reverb effect. I can’t remember the details here, but I think you could set reverb to “infinite” or something. That made for some sonic weirdness, which shows up a bit in the track.

UPDATE: I tweeted this blog post and got the funniest response nearly immediately: “@fretbuzzdotnet That’s no moon. It’s a space station.” A perfect reply, when you listen to this spaced-out track. But then I checked out who sent the response. The Internet is really amazing.

Catasto Elettrico

What an amazing idea. This is a band that only exists on line. There are records, but they’re not for sale. No concerts, no labels, no songs. Just three crazy Italians with a serious jones for music. I LOVE this idea. They jam together, come up with a few things that might be worthwhile and then – *presto* – the next album is released. I’m only just listening to this stuff for the first time now, but it seems pretty cool. They seem to have a bit of a following, and they recommend other bands who are doing the same thing. Makes ya think…

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by mpomy on June 25, 2009 • Permalink

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Tagged Catasto Elettrico, free music, Jamming, Listening, New Releases, stuff that i had no idea existed, the internet is really amazing, web bands

Posted by mpomy on June 25, 2009

http://gilli.es/2009/06/25/catasto-elettrico/