September 17, 2024 • 77 mins
What happens when you blend jazz, fusion, bluegrass, rock, and Latin rock into one album? Get ready to experience the magic of Phish's third studio album, "A Picture of Nectar." Join Chris and Tim as they embark on a musical journey, celebrating the eclectic soundscape of this 1992 release. As we explore the band's early roots at Nectar’s Tavern in Burlington, Vermont, we draw fascinating parallels between Phish's unbreakable chemistry and the legendary trio, Rush. With Chris chiming in as a fair-weather fan and Tim bringing his deep Phish knowledge, we dissect the non-hit tracks like "Tweezer Reprise," "Chalk Dust Torture," "Stash," and "Llama," appreciating how the band's dynamics elevate their music.
Ever wondered what it's like to be at a Phish concert? Tim takes us behind the scenes, sharing his personal experiences from multiple Phish festivals and concerts. We discuss the crowd's electrifying energy for favorites like "Cavern," "Tweezer," and "Chalk Dust Torture," and delve into the revolutionary themes of "Llama," even touching on its rare slow rendition. From catching glow sticks to sneaking in cucumbers, our concert anecdotes add a fun, personal touch to the episode. This chapter is a tribute to the vibrant and unconventional world of Phish fandom.
Peek into the quirky and vibrant universe of Phish as we analyze their unique lyrics and musical genius. We tackle everything from the atmospheric, dream-like experiences their music conjures to the dedication of the 'rail riders'—Phish's most passionate fans. Special shoutouts to shorter attendees who struggle in the crowd and a nostalgic nod to iconic venues like Wetlands in New York City. Wrapping up with reflections on Trey Anastasio's brilliant compositions and the rarity of certain live tracks, this episode promises to leave listeners with a newfound appreciation for Phish's unparalleled creativity and musicianship.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I was thinking about it.
I was thinking what an amazingjob I have.
You know, I get paid to urinatein people's ears.
Speaker 4 (00:09):
It's not only people in New York, you know like high
priced hookers and stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
They get paid to do that too.
Speaker 5 (00:14):
They'll have to pay 22 bucks to get their ears
urinated in.
All right, thank you forlistening to Greatest Not Hits.
I'm Chris.
You for listening to greatestnon-hits.
I'm chris and uh playing abunch of different riffs from
the album.
A picture of nectar is myco-host, tim.
So, uh, we want to thank youfor listening.
A picture of nectar is thethird studio album by the band
(00:37):
fish.
Uh, it was released on february18th maybe we're 18 1992 on
electro records.
So, then, this is dedicated tothe proprietor of the, the
tavern nectars in burlington,vermont.
Then that's where fish playedtheir first bar gig, followed by
a series of three-monthnightstands, and so this is
(01:00):
where they you.
This is the place where theylearned how to play.
So, the proprietor's name wasNectar Rorris and he's a part of
the album cover.
If you look at it you kind ofsee it looks like there's skin
like an orange peel, but thenit's in the silhouette of like a
(01:21):
man with a mustache, kind oflike looks like one of the Bears
fans, yeah, kind of likeDitka-ish sort of, without the
shades.
But anyway, that's the albumcover and that's the inspiration
behind what we're going tolisten to today, and it's an
album that kind of is a jazz,fusion, bluegrass rock.
(01:45):
There's even some Latin rock init and it's, yeah, 1992.
They're just, you know.
Other than that, you know, andyou know what we always do,
we're going to listen to all thesongs, we're going to play some
sound clips, we're going tohave some fun and then we're
going to rank the top threenon-hits at the end of it.
So we've got all that comingfor you.
(02:07):
But we can fill the rest of thetime with just chilling out,
relaxing this band.
I can info dump all day long,but you can look up all this
stuff on Wikipedia.
There's also fishnet.
There's a whole fish booklet.
(02:27):
I can't remember the term forit, but Tim has this big, huge
almanac almost of fish stuff andwe'll get to that later on.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I'm going to ask him.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
He and I are coming from two completely different
points of view on this album.
I, of course, am not, you know,like a dedicated fan.
He's into it, he's a part ofthe Phish community, he has a
history, he knows all the songs,he's been to concerts, he's
done all this stuff.
Me, I'm a fair-weatheredlistener.
(03:07):
I listen to them and it's superimpressive.
Even though I'm not hardcore, Ithink everybody can appreciate
the tightness, the musicianship.
When you listen to that clipyou can tell that they're super
good friends and they have agood relationship with one
another and that's a reallyendearing kind of thing to to
(03:29):
see and I admire that.
I was a fan of rush and sadly,you know, neil passed away and
but they have a similar, uh,chemistry on stage, the way they
play, that you can tell theyplay together, in sync with one
another.
I think it's because they knoweach other very well.
They're friends, they're deeplyrooted in the others and
(03:53):
there's like this balance andthis respect that they all have
and that's what I think reallydrives the music.
And it really comes out and wewant this podcast to kind of
take that on, that ethos, so tospeak.
And also I listened to itsparingly this week.
(04:19):
Tim's going to come into thiswith the ear of knowing it all.
I'm coming in with, okay, I'veheard all the songs two or three
times, but I don't.
I'm hoping that listening todayis going to give me, take me to
the next step of really havinga good understanding of the
(04:41):
songs and which ones I like orwhich ones you know put me in a
mood that I may have not been in, or a better mood if I were in
one.
Better mood once a song strikesme better than the other and
I'll just get a betterunderstanding of the of the
(05:02):
tracks.
So, up to this point, there's asong called Tweezer Reprise and
I think it's the very last songof the tracks.
So, up to this point, there's asong called Tweezer Reprise and
I think that was the very lastsong and that was.
That's my number one, I thinkright now with the song Chalk
Does Torture and maybe Stash orLlama, even Seven Son of the
(05:26):
Llama we have a lot of CarlSpackman clips, shout out to all
the Caddyshack fans out therefor when we play Llama, which is
the first song.
All of the songs are going to beopen for me, because from my
point of view, there are no hitsFor Tim like within the Phish
(05:50):
community, though and Tim cancorrect me when he comes on if
he wants to, but I think it's.
I think Chalk Dust, torture andCavern are considered faves
amongst the community, andCavern are considered faves
amongst the community, so thosewould be considered hits, or the
ones that are the mostmainstream of all within the
(06:12):
community.
So he'll exclude those and giveus his top three of the rest.
So, anyway, what else can I say?
I mean, you know the guys.
It's, uh, trey anastasio seemsto have written most of these,
but also collaborated with a fewpeople, so we can keep that in
(06:34):
mind.
And uh, yeah, he's the guy whoplays guitar and lead vocals big
, big part of the band.
He, he was the guy that wasdoing a lot of the talking on
that clip that we heard in thebeginning, and they were also
talking about urinating in theears of listeners.
We got that from a YouTube cliponline, so I think if you type
(06:58):
that into the search, you'll getit.
There's other good quotes inthere, but, without further ado,
our co-host, tim Tim how youdoing, bud?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Doing well.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Good to hear man Give us your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
man Choice, paralysis with the intro.
So many good songs.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, which ones do you like playing the best?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
I think Stash is good finger exercise.
You're really going up and down.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I'm surprised that I remembered that riff right
pretty thoroughly cool so beforewe get into the album, just
tell you don't really have afavorite album.
It's more or less like whatyou're feeling, and so when you
listen?
To this?
When do you go to this?
What mood are you in when yougo to this album?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Heavy hitters.
It's probably a good party fun,optimistic mood I would say
yeah, this is a lot of thegreatest hits.
Yeah, for for live concertgoers would be on this one.
You know, cavern, chalk, dust,torture are mostly um, or at
(08:17):
least cavern is played at theend of sets as closers yeah,
there's some songs that reallyget you energized if they play
tweezer.
Yeah, that's it, they'll alwaysplay.
Usually tweet twee prize.
They call it twee prize.
Okay, tweezer, reprise um yeah,I didn't know that that was I
mentioned earlier that's myfavorite up to now, but I'm not,
(08:39):
you know it could change at theend, but nevertheless yeah
there was the merriweather showwhere they did the Trinity of
Tweezers and played it over andover and broke back into it in
all these songs.
They played it like eight timesthroughout.
That was pretty wild.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
From your experience, like on this album.
Which songs have they playedthe most of Like?
Is it Cavern?
Is that a staple, or is thereis Tweez Prize?
From your experience, like onthis album, which which songs
have they played the most ofLike?
Is it cavern is always a.
Is that a staple, or is thereis tweeze prize?
Cavern Um or one of the others,I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Landlady is wedged into uh one of the jams of uh
another live song.
Okay okay, um, so they actuallyplay landlady in another song,
but it's not labeled as landlady.
Um yeah, but cavern, for for me, I'm gonna exclude.
(09:42):
For me, I'm going to excludeCavern Tweezer and Chalk Dust
Torture out of my top three,because those are what I would
deem hits.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I'm sorry you said what, eliza.
You put in there too.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
No, tweezer, tweezer Reprise Cavern and Chalk Dust
Torture.
Yep, yeah, tweeze reprisecavern and chalk dust torture
got yep, yeah, all right,because I consider tweet, tweet
prize and tweezer the same song,almost because like they rock.
One is just more of a clubversion.
(10:17):
Okay, but uh, yeah right on allright, this is uh.
Yeah, I've been to, I guess,two fish festivals now magnaball
and uh just did mondegreen indelaware and I broke over 50
shows with mondegreen, which wasgreat great staff.
(10:39):
Yeah, I do kind of.
I knew I was close to 50.
I'm not entirely sure how manyyou ready to get into the album.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You got any last thoughts.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Yeah, let's do it.
This is a great album.
All right, one of the best.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
This is a llama.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Big hitter Llama.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Call the fire department.
All right, call the firedepartment, all right.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I want to commend us, though, for having the
restraint not to play the joshuafought the battle of jericho
clip.
Just on this alone, I think itsounds cool.
Sunrise over the turquoisemountains.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Messenger birds in sight.
They came up from the valleyFull sides out of time.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
This is about one of Trey's college songs, Lama taboo
lama, taboo, taboo, triggerblasts, fast rain, chicken loins
, seeds.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I start to run.
It was the loudest thing I'dever heard and I knew my time
had come.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
To end the day it's about a revolution.
You know, bazookas.
Taboo is a wooden brick, astone monument placed above the
coffin of the deceased.
(12:09):
So they're fighting Iculus inthis war.
It's sort of like a thing Treywrote up in college about yeah,
it's pretty wild, blast classdriving the loyalists back.
(12:41):
You know revolution songs.
It's a heavy hitter.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
E-halls often wax one , so I jump ship and I make my
way over to the bed.
It's a jolly llama, hey, llama,hey, llama, hey.
How about a little somethingyou know for the?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
effort, don't throw stuff at Trey when he's playing.
He's very upset.
Yeah, we're not advocating that.
I got something in my eye.
It might be a glow stick.
I don't even know A glow stickboar.
I did catch a glow stick out ofmid't.
Even know A glow stick boar.
I did catch a glow stick out ofmidair at Mondegreen and
(13:29):
everybody thought it was thecoolest thing as I ate my
cucumber.
I was the cucumber guy.
Everybody was the guy who snuckin cucumbers to the show.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Yeah, that's.
He's got that reputation too.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Bingo Sorry, all right.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Love that song.
That's a good start.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Energy, energy right, that's a lot of energy for that
one.
It is yeah, but they have theselittle vignettes in in I could
have done a coffee shop versionof that one, but uh a slow they
do a slow llama sometimes oh, dothey it's very rare, but
they'll do a slow llama.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Oh, I dig that.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
That is hilarious actually they mix it up, yeah, a
lot of that.
Also, john Popper played onthat song when they played in
New Jersey in Stanhope in 95,just to tie it in to, because
Popper's from New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Trey's from New Jersey.
Yeah, princeton yeah, they'reboth from that area.
Yeah, they're in academia thatarea.
Yeah, they're, they're in likeacademia that kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
I don't know if popper likes to pee in the
listeners ears, but you knowyeah some highbrow stuff yeah,
how about those bears?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
man, I'm getting kind of okay.
All right, all right.
The next one is Eliza yes,pieces, a softer one right,
taking the energy back down.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
That's kind of intentional wrote for his then
girlfriend Sue Eliza, now hiswife.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
And now his first daughter is named Eliza so this
is named after his now spouseand daughter at the time.
First daughter is named Eliza,so this is named after his now
spouse and daughter At the time.
Yeah, now it's like yeah, it'sfor you too.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Exactly there we go.
Songs like this kind of freakpeople out about fish.
They're like what they'remaking, these really elaborate
(16:17):
classy jazz pieces.
Shout out to Eliza and Spencer,love birds.
And Eliza and Danny shout outoh, these are all the Elizas in
your life yes, there we go.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I don't have any.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Eliza shout outs, but yeah, but good for them.
I don't have any Elizashout-outs, but yeah, but yeah,
but good for them.
Good for you too,congratulations.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Barbershop Raga.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
That was Barbershop Raga, but yeah glad you caught
it.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Barbershop Jazz Raga.
Yeah, yeah, okay, that's good.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
All right, the next one.
Okay, Cavern.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
This is a big one.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
No one plays jazz here at the pit stop, okay, okay
.
I got nothing on this song.
I'm not a fan, I don't know whyI'm frustrated?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Because I know there, on this song I'm not a fan.
I don't know why I'm frustrated.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Because I know there's.
This is good, or Saul, oh, orSaul.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh, and I'll bring all my shoes and my glasses with
me.
The last device.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The flesh from Satan's dollars will make the
rubies so cruel.
Reduct the carrots from yourpain, you worthless, swampy,
fool you fool.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Worthless.
Swampy fool, you fool, I'mhappy.
Worthless swampy fool.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
What the fuck is he talking about?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Exploding them through fields and men and
swimming in the mire.
The septic made this gargoyletooth.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Gargoyle tooth Demented me with fire.
Demented me with fire.
I'd change it where the currentchose Wait.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
This one's bad.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
And if a chance of new slime died, I'd stuff it
Mented me with fire, hey listento that.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I'm a shop roger.
Maybe throw a little rouge onyou.
Tuck your sack back, you game.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
No 40-year-old virgin there for you.
Stuff in your sack, all right,shout out to John and Susie.
They're best friends, you know,yeah sure, that's a good one.
(19:23):
Shout out to the Traveling Fishfans.
Here we got slithering slugs, apenile erector.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, what's the story behind that?
We'll get it later.
I'm telling you, baby, that'snot mine.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
That sort of thing is my bag baby.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Oh, shout out to Corota.
You know, Saul went to a coupleshows back in the 90s.
Saul, what did you think aboutthe light show?
Eyes are going crazy.
Yes, that's Saul.
His eyes were going crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Kuroda.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
E-Halls often wax funny.
What the fuck is he talkingabout?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
A cushion Cushion convector.
Yeah, they changed out thepenile erector.
I think that was probably PaigeDidn't like singing about that.
Oh, director.
Serpent deflector, mud ratdetector, ribbon reflector,
cushion convector pictureeffector what the fuck is he
(21:15):
talking about.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yes, that's a cool hero and I'll bring all my shoes
and my glasses with me.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Oh, that's a good way to end that.
Thank you All right.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That was all Tim, all right.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
You got all Tim All right, you got it down the
cavern.
This is Poor Heart.
This is Country from Diddy.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
What do you think, Foghorn?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Don't let him have it , you got to tease him a little.
I'm going to certainly teasehim.
This is some good music here.
This kind of reminds me of DonKnotts' Keystone.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Pops.
It is a little Mayberry.
Yeah it's Mayberry-ish.
This is written by Mike aftersomeone stole his tape recorder.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Oh I didn't know that .
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Okay, hope he finds his four-track tape recorder.
There's a.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Goddard thief out there.
Yeah, shout out to Kevin Falcon.
He's a producer and engineer.
He probably has lots of tape.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
There's an album coming together.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Like tighter.
Yeah, I think it's coming outLike like their musicianship is
better, yeah, first, one that wedid.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Gordon Gordon stone is on pedal steel on this one.
Yeah, gotcha.
Really, the drumming on this isthis whole album is fish, is
the drummer, you know it'salways laying down yeah, some
(23:01):
banjo, kevin herpin, maybeharpin, maybe um maybe not, I'm
not sure.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Mike gordon's played a good bass on this.
Oh, he annually vocals too.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Yeah, mike gordon he's a great vocalist.
I mean he's got sort of anasally.
Uh, he's got the crazy eyes.
Yes, he does shout out to thescarf wearers and tea drinkers.
Okay.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yep, and the bass players out there.
He's playing a hell of a bass,I think.
Oh my god and the Page.
Yeah, I mean Crush it.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
They all.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
They all fit right in there.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes, they do, they all fit right in there.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
It's a great harmony.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
They sound better when they sing together.
You won't steal that thing.
Yeah, you won't steal my poorheart yeah All right, this is
Stash.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I'm telling you, baby , that's not mine.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
So how would you boost me, especially when you
know I smell it?
I'm so how would you boost meEspecially?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
when you know I smell it.
Yeah, getting pulled over Scary, you better just tell them what
you got.
I'm telling you, I smell it,you smell it.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
You smell it at a fish show Marijuana in the car,
which last time you had anythingin the car you got to clap.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
You got to clap three times Marijuana in the car,
which last time you had anythingin the car, you gotta clap.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
You gotta clap three times.
That was like four I think Atthe show you gotta clap, but not
too much, but not too much.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
This is like a fugue or something that Trey was
learning in college that he madethis song.
Yeah, there's a lot of notes.
Yeah this is that tension andrelease sort of like up and down
.
I mean you could probably doSimon Karp's in Florida maybe in
a Baroque.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
It's very Baroque-y, it's fusing.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Sort of thing.
Is my bag baby?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I know you smell it, you know what's in there.
This is crazy.
This sucks, man.
We could have been fine, butnow you got me out here trying
to play me as Boo Boo the Fool.
Come on, man, we're better thanthat, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Sloping companion.
I cast down the ash, yanked outmy tunic and dangled my stash,
zipping through the forest witha curling fleas To grow in them.
Spindles, the mutant, I seizeSort of a.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Yeah, very interesting it starts to get
gross and then comes backtalking about the police trey
counts references as charliechrisman, miles davis, john
coltrane, charles mingus umcharles mingus.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Yeah, they would play this at the wetlands.
Preserve a lot, apparently.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Miles Davis John.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
Yeah, they would play this atthe Wetlands.
Preserve a lot.
Apparently it's the II V7iprogression.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
And you're holding everything for everybody.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
How you sort of go back to home base Okay.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
So they play this song just to keep themselves
grounded and in a way, playingit really reminds them of their
early, where they came from.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Oh, yeah, for sure.
And the offbeat drumming isphenomenal in this Very unusual
drumming patterns.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
That John Fishman is a really great drummer.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And you're holding everything for everybody.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
He's holding the beat , what's up.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I need more cowbell.
So how'd you boost me?
So how'd you Got it for you?
Apple toast bed, heated, firm,like it right Light with the
chuchu Say please don't Controlfor smile.
So how would you the solargarlic?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Boost me, especially when you know I smell it.
I'm telling you I smell it.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
You smell that garlic rot Solar garlic.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Maybe, so Maybe not Maybe baby, maybe baby, maybe
baby, maybe baby Maybe.
So maybe not Maybe, maybe Maybemaybe Maybe maybe Maybe maybe
Maybe.
So maybe not Maybe.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
So maybe not Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe Maybe maybe,
maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe,maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe,
maybe, maybe.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, Maybe maybe
.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Maybe, maybe, maybe.
You better not mention thatagain you.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Solar garlic.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Just life just keeps happening.
Was it, was it for this, mylife, I'd saw.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Life is like hey, guess what?
Speaker 6 (29:31):
And you're like what?
And it's like bam, bam youbetter not mention that again.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
More life.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
It just never stops giving you more life.
That's life.
Hey, you want another scoop, mylove boy.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
You want another scoop?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
And you holding everything for everybody.
Let's shout out to the cops.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
I mean this kind of soloing with the tension of the
piano versus the guitar, thedrum and bass together is I mean
, it's a crowd favorite Really?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Listen to the mic there, run it down.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Yeah, I love it.
It's Calypso sort of drumming.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
It's part love it.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
It's Calypso sort of drumming.
This part of it is cool.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Yeah, there's certain parts of songs on this album
that are like oh yeah, I likethis part of this song.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
I mean, this is goosebumps when you're at a live
show.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Yeah, that's what I've heard.
It's like you've got to go tothe shows.
That's a big part of being intoit.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
It's so much good light show, everybody's just
grooving for this.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Okay, now I get it.
Yeah, I've got to go to theshow, I'll do it.
I'm got to go to the show, I'lldo it.
I'm going to go by the end ofthe season.
I'll find a place.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
All right.
Sure, you know that if is themiddle word in life.
If you can keep your head whenall about you're losing there's
a blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself whenall men doubt you, I mean, I
know, I can't, I'm man, I'm alittle man, he's, he's a great
man oh, oh, nice timing on thatfoot.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
What mantica all right.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Crab in my shoe mouth Crab in my crab.
In my crab in my shoe mouth.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
All right, a little vignette, a little vignette
Beulah papyrus, here Is it.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
Beulah Beulah yeah, like Beulah Beulah yeah.
Beulah papyrus here Is itBeulah Beulah.
Yeah, like Beulah, beulah,beulah.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Beulah.
So this is like A super popularsong and it's.
I want to go back to this.
On fishnet, trey explains thatit's a song about a mother and
he explains that it was Dave'smother.
(32:54):
It's Dave's mother, his name isGwela.
Knock on the door of hisbedroom, come in, poke Dave in
the hallway and spoil all abouthis mother.
Have you heard that storybefore?
Speaker 6 (33:07):
No, I did not know that.
Yeah, I thought this was moreof a Trey Senior Thesis song.
It's just some kind ofadventure that these it's kind
(33:31):
of reggae Barbershop Rocker.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
See, that's all.
She washed me all.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Fish Clan is definitely expanding like some
kind of recursive virus there.
Even nowadays, all the youngkids are there.
It's crazy, crazy.
There's got to be a virus ortwo.
They're vaping, yeah, thevapors.
So it's a larval craze, thevape.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
There's got rhinothropic thunder, yeah
flavors yeah, a fish concert hasits own gut.
Microbiome yeah, flavors yeah,a fish concert has its own gut
microbiome.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
What the fuck is he talking about?
What the fuck?
Speaker 6 (34:40):
This is a sort of chromatic adventure here.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Yeah, like the carnival gone wrong.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Yes, Are you liking this one?
Speaker 5 (35:09):
This is taking you down to.
Yeah, it's taking me back toseven years old.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
The Silken Tunnel?
Yeah, something like that,something like that.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Yeah, just like a bad dream.
This is like the soundtrack ofthat kind of a dream.
It's got a subconscious kind ofvibe to it.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Now Trey moves the sustain and then Paige does the
sort of shining theme, and thenthey both kind of sync up at the
same time.
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Oh man, A here's Johnny clip would sound really
good with this right now.
Yeah, oh man, A here's Johnnyclip would sound really good
with this right now.
That's a missed opportunity.
Ah great, you know I like that.
So maybe I could be a fly Samesong.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
And be deracked as I die Deracked as I die and be a
ritual from within the silkentunnel that they spit.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Yeah, like that spider.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
Purple frown Spoil the mood Shout out to the short
people out there, the short fishfans and the tall ones, you
know.
Yeah, that are blocking thefish, yeah, the short fish, and
the tall ones, you know, yeah,that are blocking the vision of
the short fish.
Shout out to Steve, the tallestfish fan, I know, yeah.
(36:36):
Shout out to Steve and Andy.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
And shout out to the person directly behind them
that's 5 feet tall.
Yeah, he has a face full of hisass.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
They're riding on the redundant rail.
Yeah, the rail riders Shout outto the rail riders.
There's like a guy's group offans called the rail riders.
They were like just thesemiddle-aged, really really aggro
fish fans that would like elbowchicks and like like really
(37:07):
stamp their territory and peoplewould like be like what the
hell is your problem, man?
And they're like I'm not aboutto stop now.
I've been on the rail for youknow how many shows, so they're
like keeping a uh, their ownlittle yeah, they get there
early.
You know they don't tailgate,they go right, go right into the
venue and sit there.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
They never wear diapers.
Yeah, exactly, it's pretty Babybaby.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
A little Magila, a little teaser.
Lots of instrumentals in thisone.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
You've been pretty tight-lipped about your ranking.
I'm going to be interested tosee that.
Are you going to?
Can I ask if there's going tobe a vignette like this on there
?
Um?
Speaker 6 (38:00):
No, okay, yeah, I do like the vignettes, but there's,
there's so much packed intothose longer songs.
Right, exactly, you can'tignore it, you can't.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
And I can see how it's.
For some it might be apointless exercise to rank.
Yeah, sometimes there can be amood, but I think when you're
newer like me and familiarizingyourself with the songs, there
are certain ones that grab you.
(38:41):
Yeah, Like right now.
Sometimes you go out of favorof other songs, but I'm just in
the moment, these are my three.
I'll give my songs, but I'mjust in the moment, these are my
three.
I'll give my top three non-hitsin the moment.
I'm going to keep listening tothis album and see if it changes
over time.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
So we've got a little ragah here, barbershop ragah.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
This is very barbershop ragah Aguila is
barbershop ragah To thosetourers.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
call your mom if you got dinner on the table, okay
mikey, come on.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Our parents are worried.
It's dinner time.
Why don't we go home?
Wow?
Speaker 6 (39:19):
I don't think they've ever played this live, actually
really maybe Really Maybe.
This is a Paige McConnellcontribution.
It debuted in 1990 at theWetlands Wow.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Oh, so they were playing this at the Wetlands.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
It played at 91 only, okay, and they were playing
this at the wetlands.
They played it in 91, only Okay, and they stopped playing.
This song Got it.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Interesting.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
I think I was reading somewhere that there's another
song in here that went out ofthe circulation a long time ago.
They haven't played it sincethe 90s, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
People are always chasing.
No, this occasionally creeps upinto set lists.
Last played in 2014 inMerriweather.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Oh, wow, okay, this is the landlady, oh, okay.
Speaker 7 (40:24):
I'm getting out of here, man, she's nasty.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Gotta watch out for the landlady.
I can give you half.
She's coming for the rent.
Speaker 7 (40:36):
I'm getting out of here.
Man, she's nasty, you pay him.
I thought I was clear in myemail that I needed a couple
(40:57):
weeks Shout to Marsha.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Fixing the plumbing.
It's kind of cool how they'llplay like a heavy rock riff over
this.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Latin kind of.
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Calypso, sort of yeah , it's Latin style Samba-esque,
written by Trey oh.
This is played in Punch you inthe Eye, which is one of their
bigger rock songs.
(41:41):
They play this in Punch you inthe Eye Because it kind of fits
Again again.
This song emerged at thewetlands.
Okay, entering heavy rotationthere.
Speaker 5 (41:55):
93 wetlands is like in like new york.
Yeah, I know it's in manhattan,like lower manhattan.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
I think it was yeah, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Or close by.
But yeah, it's infamous, it'sfamous, infamous.
There's a lot of people.
It's sort of like the Whiskey AGo-Go of New York.
All those bands played there.
Speaker 6 (42:32):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Yeah, they wedge this into another song that they
play live, I mean this is oh,wow yeah.
This is the part where you'vegot to give this kind of a song
some consideration.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
Santana, I think Right.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
Definitely.
Speaker 7 (43:08):
I can give you half, all right.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
You pay now.
You pay now.
Speaker 6 (43:24):
All right, this is Glide.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Not much to say on this one yeah, it's just kind of
it almost silly, almost a timefiller.
Speaker 6 (43:33):
Well, it was written by tom marshall, the lyricist,
and fish.
When they used to, they used tosit outside as teenagers and
say we're glad, glad, glad thatyou're alive to people randomly
and thought that was hilarious,okay, and so this is kind of
where that song came out ofthere's a lot of collaboration,
(43:53):
like anastasia fishman, gordonmcconnell, marshall marshall
yeah, marshall is the beginninglyricist for fish.
They work with him.
They'll take poems that hewrites and rework them.
They'll take, you know,inspiration from their
experiences to make songs.
(44:14):
Marshall is like he's thelyricist yeah he's a producer
slash lyricist type.
He gets in on the process.
He's another one of their bestfriends.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
you know You're right , he's just not a recurring
member of the band.
Anastasio Gordon and McConnellare doing that.
Speaker 7 (44:40):
He was.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
Yeah, I'm sorry go ahead.
Speaker 6 (44:44):
I think they kicked him out in the beginning.
He didn't want to be in theband.
Oh, he didn't want to be in theband.
Yeah.
I don't know he didn't havequite the musical chops.
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (44:55):
Yeah, but he's in a friend group still.
Yeah, for sure they respect himas a friend, as a person he's
involved.
This is a way for him to beinvolved?
Speaker 6 (45:08):
Yeah, they.
Nowadays they don't really.
I don't think he writes forthem.
But Fish write for themselves,are they?
Speaker 5 (45:15):
all still.
Is Marshall still alive?
Is he still in the fold in someway?
Speaker 6 (45:20):
He'll do shows Tom Marshall, and people in Denver
and Colorado and crunchy townslove to see Tom Marshall.
Okay, I got you.
I mean he'd run like anantelope and all those other
songs.
A lot of Yuta songs werewritten by Marshall.
Speaker 5 (45:39):
Right, yeah, I think we talked about that.
And Stash, he wrote that withAnastasia and Guala Papyrus too.
I'll say he had a significanthand in this.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
That's some heavy shit, man.
E-halls often wax one.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Maybe throw a little rouge on ya.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
This is a little bit of a break.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
Yeah, it's a feels better moment.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
A little pull off some of that Glad glad glad that
you're alive, and we're glad,glad, glad that you'll arrive,
and we're glad, glad, glad, glad, glad glad glad glad, glad,
(47:19):
glad, glad, glad.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
And we're glad, glad, glad that you're a glad, you're
a glide.
That's kind of like a churchkind of a choir thing a little
acapella yeah.
Oh man All right tweezer.
Speaker 6 (47:29):
Oh, oh man.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Looks like she's going to turn cold tomorrow.
Oh yeah, Got a front coming in.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Disco Stu got hooked on the white stuff back in the
70s.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
Yeah, this is kind of like work it, work it.
Speaker 6 (47:56):
Work it yeah baby.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool Into
the freezer.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Caesar with a freezer .
What when you get out of thewater?
Speaker 3 (48:12):
you need to dry off right away to avoid catching a
cold.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Disco stoop.
Well, I just got back fromswimming in the pool and the
water was cold.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
You pay up.
Speaker 6 (48:31):
Pay up.
All right, this is what you goto pay for, won't you step into
the freezer?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
This is going to be cold and you're next.
Speaker 6 (48:43):
Teaser with a tweezer .
Get the tweezers out, get those.
Shout out to the unibrows outthere.
Oh man, just tweezing all thetime, or not, if they have the
unibrow.
Speaker 5 (48:58):
They're embracing it.
I have attempted it a time ortwo.
Speaker 6 (49:05):
I got off of that.
You can't go up you got to goout.
You can't go like this you gotto go out.
Speaker 5 (49:11):
We go out is the key, otherwise it just keeps growing
fuller and thicker.
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (49:21):
What the fuck is he talking about?
What the fuck?
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Son of a man, son of a man Flowing robes.
Speaker 6 (49:44):
The grace of Paul Striking.
It's very striking.
It's very striking, striking,it's very striking with the
solos for this.
You know we got just they wantto keep going and I mean they're
(50:06):
not gonna not to bridge this.
You got 40-minute tweezers.
They just go for it.
We still have like tweeze prizecoming up.
Speaker 5 (50:22):
Twee prize, it's always yeah and it's still the
same writing group AnastasiaFishman Gordon.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
This is going gonna be cold.
Looks like she's gonna turncold tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (50:42):
Yeah, there's just like a little a couple more
minutes.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
What if we find something?
Speaker 6 (50:46):
huh, a couple more minutes isn't gonna hurt.
Come on, mikey, we're goingright now.
No, give him a few minutes.
Give him a few more minutesisn't going to hurt, come on,
mikey, we're going right now.
Speaker 7 (50:52):
No, let's go.
Bye brother, give him a fewminutes.
Speaker 6 (50:54):
Give him a few more minutes on this one, Uncle
Ebenezer.
Speaker 5 (50:59):
Let me get on this one.
This is the only song this andTwee's reprise where all four
write and perform yeah, Of thefour members On this album, and
I think it comes out.
Speaker 6 (51:15):
It's a lot of bass slapping.
You hear that?
Yeah, with the bass going, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
Oh, that's good yeah.
Speaker 6 (51:30):
Little key change yeah.
Speaker 5 (51:32):
That's supposed to be a hard as hell to play.
There's a lot of pull-offs forhammer-on pull-off.
And not many bands have thiskind of musicality.
Speaker 6 (51:52):
No's level, not like this, I mean I mean, can that be
overstated?
I think, yeah, it can.
They all have a little bit ofrestraint here and they.
What the listeners need to knowis they do these musical
exercises and jams together,where they sort of try to be
(52:15):
minimal and listen to thebassist and then play like the
bassist if trey is listening tomike, oh and then just feed off
of it.
Feed off of and like sort ofimprovise tune out of your own
instrument, yeah, tune into whatthey're playing, so you're
enjoying it.
Okay with the jam, and this iswhat the jam you know.
Speaker 5 (52:38):
A couple more minutes of jamming, yeah and they're
playing is an expression oftheir, their fervor for what the
other guys are doing.
Speaker 6 (52:50):
Yeah, exactly, they're best friends.
I mean listen to Paige rightnow, yeah, one's playing this
one riff.
Paige is playing a somewhatdifferent riff On a baby grand
(53:15):
here, a baby grand piano.
I mean, not many people do thateither, not many pianists.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
Oh, oh.
Speaker 6 (53:31):
Paige was asked what he likes to listen to in his
free time and he said a lot oftimes he doesn't listen to music
at all Because he's alwaysplaying music.
Right, you have to reset yourmind.
Speaker 5 (53:45):
It's hard to hear this all the time and then play
it and practice it.
You do have to.
We should probably add a littlebit of a breath.
It doesn't get this nuts in thereprise, does it?
(54:09):
No?
That's probably why they have areprise, does it?
No, that's probably why theyhave a reprise.
Speaker 6 (54:14):
To just take this out Chromatically goes up with that
riff.
Yeah, plays the same riff overand over, but chromatically up
and up, right, right, I followyou Until he runs out of space
on the guitar.
Speaker 5 (54:48):
He's just banging on the piano, but he stops.
It's terrible, it's terrible.
Yeah, this is like one of themore challenging parts of the
album for me.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:15):
Yeah, bicycle went crazy.
Speaker 5 (55:19):
This is bringing us back down.
After all that, they probablydo it for their sanity too?
I don't know man, I don't knowwhat sanity is for this band.
I mean, this actually helpsthat they did this at the end.
You know of all that raga thatwe heard before raga.
(55:56):
Yeah, that's randomly neverrandom not randomly, but just
yeah kind of playing off eachother, right?
Ah, it feels better.
Speaker 6 (56:14):
Tension release there .
Yeah, this is the mango song,yep.
Speaker 3 (56:22):
Mango, mango.
Speaker 5 (56:25):
Mango Shout out to Mango from SNL.
Speaker 3 (56:33):
Shout out to Mango from SNL.
Mango, you're incredible.
Speaker 7 (56:39):
Incredible.
We gotta get you in therecording studio.
Slander on wrapped paper ties.
Speaker 5 (56:54):
Lifting up his heavy boots.
Mango could have been a biggerstar than Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 4 (57:00):
Sorry, I guess his star is born.
Grasp the kettle top and shootthe breeze please.
Speaker 3 (57:10):
Ramble while slob scrapers sigh.
Speaker 6 (57:16):
Lots of harmonizing here there is.
They do the runs, but they havedifferent verses.
They're all singing differentverses.
Later on you'll hear Okay.
Speaker 1 (57:29):
Invisible beneath his troubled eyes verses.
Speaker 5 (57:35):
Later on you'll hear Some of their harmonizations.
Don't their harmonies?
Don't do it for me.
Speaker 7 (58:03):
Grape apple pie.
What the?
Speaker 5 (58:04):
fuck is he talking about?
Oh, you're talking about me,huh.
Speaker 1 (58:07):
Just the lyrics, yeah .
Speaker 5 (58:11):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (58:22):
Oh, why, why, why, why, why is he going to be a
genius?
This is about an adoption of ababy.
Something Doesn't have anylimbs or something, but it's
going to be a genius kind ofthing.
I don't really.
Speaker 5 (58:45):
Yeah, it's got to be a fishnet somewhere.
It's.
Speaker 3 (58:49):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (58:57):
His hands and feet are mangled, but they change it
to his hands and feet aremangoes.
Yeah, when they were writing it.
Thus it became the mango song.
I guess.
Speaker 5 (59:13):
Yeah, it's about a boy who loses his extremities
yet goes on to become a greatgenius, a trait hitched upon us
selects sentence in Aaron'sverbal description to him.
His hands and feet are mangled,transformed ever so slightly
into the delightfullydown-sensitive chorus of what
would eventually become the mainsong.
Speaker 6 (59:34):
I love Mike on this.
Speaker 5 (59:36):
Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 6 (59:55):
Let's keep that bass down.
This is a good party sound livesong when they play.
I've maybe heard this a coupletimes live.
Okay, they definitely jam alittle bit, but it's pretty much
played how it is on the albumit's one of those here you'll
(01:00:21):
see the uh.
They're all singing differentthings here oh, okay, it's
coming.
Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
I got you.
That was kind of I heard it alittle bit there even your hands
and feet are mangoes.
Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
You're gonna be a genius anyway.
Your hands and feet are mangoes.
You're gonna be a genius anyway.
Your hands and feet are mangoes.
You're gonna be a genius anyway.
(01:01:02):
Your hands and feet are mangoes, yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:01:09):
Trey has like an affinity with princesses, right
Like in his background.
Your hands and feet are mangoes, your brain is a snake.
No-transcript.
Your brain is a snake, I'mmaking that shit up, could be.
(01:01:40):
I think he was on Sesame Streetonce.
Did he make an appearance thereafter he became famous?
Speaker 6 (01:01:44):
No, his mom was the child's book author and editor
of Sesame Street magazine.
Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Oh yeah, he was born in Fort Worth, moved to
Princeton.
Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
New.
Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
Jersey.
So that's maybe his affinitywith John Popper and the Blues
Travelers because they hooked upin Princeton as well.
That's kind of cool.
They do some clever things.
(01:02:16):
Some of it's annoying.
They could have cut that off alittle bit sooner, that's a
charm, right.
Speaker 6 (01:02:24):
They're going for the hard.
Speaker 5 (01:02:27):
That's all folks ending on that one.
I got you.
I gotta put more time into this.
I know, yeah, this is chalkdust torture.
This is it.
Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
From within.
I like it.
Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
I think I heard them play this song.
Speaker 6 (01:03:14):
Letterman.
Oh yeah, dave definitely hadthem on to play this song.
Trey's got the low voice onthis.
Yeah, oh no, will it a locustlurker Willingly?
Locust Lurker Willingly.
Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Locust Lurker.
Speaker 6 (01:03:50):
Trey's got the low end.
Yeah, paige's got the high endthere.
This one's a simpler song andthen you get to the solo and
it's got that Right Sort ofChromatic thing going on.
Yeah.
Shout out to the sun dancers.
Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
All my vasoconstrictors, they come
slowly.
Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
Yeah, I'll have you read the fish companion, the
fish Bible.
That's it, the fish companion.
Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Then your vasoconstrictors will slowly be
undone there you go the tube,Shout out to the tube lovers out
there.
I'm Bob Lissette Bain, now toeducate somebody's fright.
(01:04:49):
So who can I learn all thefacts that I've learned?
I sat in their chairs and mysynapses burned.
The torture of chalk dustcollects on my tongue.
Thoughts follow my vision anddance in the sun.
All my vassal pictures make upslowly undone Give this way till
I'm old.
Can I live while I'm young?
Can I live while I'm slowlyundone Can't just wait till I'm
(01:05:09):
old.
Can I live while I'm young.
Speaker 7 (01:05:17):
Can I live while I'm young?
Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
Take your brain out of your head, wash it, scrub it,
make it clean.
Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
Vasu constrictors are in your brain, right yeah, so
yeah, this is I'm just gonna sayit out right now who
constrictors are in your brain,right, yeah?
So, yeah, this is.
I'm just going to say it outright now.
This is the best song we'veheard, so far you like this one.
Speaker 6 (01:05:39):
You like those classic rock bangers, don't you?
Speaker 5 (01:05:44):
Yeah, but it's kind of like.
It's kind of James Brown-y too,but it's James Brown with a
heavier rock slam to it.
Speaker 6 (01:05:58):
This is, yeah, flat-out rock and roll.
It's Tina Turner rolling downthe river.
Speaker 5 (01:06:03):
Rolling down a river.
Speaker 6 (01:06:05):
Yeah, this is a frenzy, this is like Eagle is
often waxed when Big hitter,it's a big hitter.
Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Big hitter.
Speaker 6 (01:06:28):
The Dust Stu knows about the Dust Disco Stu got
hooked on the white stuff backin the 70s.
Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
The dust Stu knows about the dust Disco.
Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Stu got hooked on the white stuff back in the 70s.
Speaker 6 (01:06:41):
In the 70s Disco Stu, you're aging yourself right now
.
All right, that's right.
Fish fans that saw the 90s,you're aging yourself In a good
way.
Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
They're like the shamans of the tribe.
I mean, if you can't hook downto stuff in the 70s and you're
still alive right now, God blessyou.
Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
That's all I got to say.
Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
We have a little.
This is palate cleansing in itseffect.
Speaker 6 (01:07:21):
Yes, I couldn't get Tralala Boom DA out of my head,
actually from the last podcast,tralala.
Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
Boom DA.
Speaker 6 (01:07:31):
Tralala, boom, da out of my head, actually from the
last podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Trollhalla Boom DA.
All right, I don't know aboutthis.
Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
Shout out to the nature lovers out there.
Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
Yeah, shout out to the Grand Funk Railroad fans out
there.
I think this is kind of like.
Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
That.
You know that yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:08:12):
What is David?
What's your take on this one?
Cotton flush of flowers andleaves attracts lots of plant
eaters oh, thank you, dave.
Speaker 5 (01:08:29):
Lots of plant eaters.
Speaker 6 (01:08:34):
I have a little light rain here.
Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
How do you pronounce the name of the song Fat Fat?
This is called Make my Love Pop.
And what is all that shit?
Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
it's fucking bullshit just take a moment now and
realize that all that shit isjust bullshit oh.
God, oh, is this the Amazon in20 years?
(01:09:25):
I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
I'm scared.
Alright, Dr Davis telephone.
Please Shout out to QueensrycheOperation Mindcrime.
Speaker 6 (01:09:47):
Shout out to the Ween fans out there.
That's Catapult, okay.
Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
A vignette.
Oh, here's the, the.
Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Grand Funk Railroad.
Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
This is Tweezer Reprise.
This is the last one, right.
Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool.
Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
I like this version better this one's.
Oh yeah, when they close withthis this version better.
Speaker 6 (01:10:32):
Oh yeah, when they close with this.
This is amazing.
This is like, yeah, when Mikegoes up on that.
Speaker 5 (01:10:42):
I mean, no, I think I saw it in Austin City Limits
Showing the music it was.
It was pretty badass.
I was like, oh OK.
Speaker 6 (01:10:53):
Yeah, this is pure just.
But it also has this sort ofDonato sort of like you know
composer opera piece, but rockopera sort of thing to it as
well.
How many shows have they played?
(01:11:27):
How many shows have they playedlive?
Yeah, ever, yeah.
How many shows have they playedlive?
Speaker 5 (01:11:31):
yeah, ever yeah, I don't know uh, the 64 at Winston
(01:11:59):
Square Garden 1,816.
Speaker 6 (01:12:03):
There's way more than that, because they're not.
There's thousands, thousands.
Well, that's according to onesource.
I think fishnet would be thesource, but I don't.
They don't really get into that.
It's like not important.
They have how many songs, whatpercentage of the song played,
(01:12:31):
all that.
I don't know how many times thesong is played wow, all right,
cool.
Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
Well, that's it.
Yeah.
Oh, that was good.
Yeah, I, you know I, that wasthat was needed on my end.
Uh, let's get into the topthree.
Man, what's?
Uh, do you have yours?
Speaker 6 (01:12:52):
um yeah, I mean, obviously this is just shout out
to the ones that are myperceived hits of tweezer, twee,
prize, shock, dust and cavern,because those are sort of the
live heavy hitters.
Speaker 5 (01:13:11):
Yeah, so that's out of your consideration.
Speaker 6 (01:13:13):
I'm going to go.
Number three is going to bePoor Heart.
Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (01:13:25):
I'm going to go.
Poor Heart, you know the taperecorder.
I like to have a littlebluegrass in my fish show.
It makes me feel uh, culturedit's good.
Speaker 5 (01:13:34):
Yeah, it's a great song.
For sure I was gonna.
I was gonna say it's impressivethe way they, yeah, they do
that and I, I can see whereyou're coming from with that,
okay, uh, my number, I think mynumber three is going to be.
My number three is going to beTweezer Reprise.
(01:13:55):
Nice, okay, because, yeah, itmight be in yours if you were
considering those.
Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
It definitely is yeah .
Speaker 5 (01:14:03):
It's a classic and it's a hit, you know, and
there's a reason why it's a hitit's because it's a great jam.
Speaker 6 (01:14:11):
Yeah, everybody should know about that song.
Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:14:13):
You know, exercisers, runners, twee prize.
You're running up the hill,what's up?
Speaker 5 (01:14:18):
Yeah, it's motivating too.
Speaker 6 (01:14:20):
You're going to the next level.
Speaker 5 (01:14:21):
Every so often.
Speaker 6 (01:14:24):
What about your number two, mango Song?
Oh yeah, it really was wellplaced in the album in between
two rock, uh, you know, bangers,sort of a.
Um, it's just a beautifulcomposition of a song.
Um and a great chorus.
(01:14:46):
You know your hands and feetare mangoes, but you're going to
be a genius anyway.
I mean what?
What?
Yeah?
Mango song too, okay course youknow, your hands and feet are
mangoes, but you're gonna be agenius anyway.
I mean, what, what, yeah, mangosong two okay, my number two
was stash.
Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
Oh nice, I, I liked it.
It was just really musical, mymemory.
And then it did some weirdstuff at the end that was like,
oh wow, it just like captivatesyou and and uh does like all
kinds of puts a little spell onyou yeah, it does.
Yeah, I got right in the pocketwith it, so I'm gonna say that
was my number two okay, yeah, Imean, I have to go stash number
(01:15:21):
one yeah, okay I honorablemention to gula papyrus.
Speaker 6 (01:15:26):
I love eliza.
It's great song.
Um, okay, I mean landlady, Ialways just think of Punch you
in the Eye.
So I'm not going to sayLandlady, although it's a great
song.
And I do like the vignette ofFat.
I mean, I always tell peopleabout that because it's just so
weird and clever.
It's like the rainforest, andthen they're in the city all of
(01:15:47):
a sudden, the, and then they'rein the city all of a sudden, um,
but stash is one of theparamount, uh, under appreciated
songs, I think in the fishcommunity, the clapping, uh-huh,
um, the cues, everybody rightsinging, maybe so, maybe not,
(01:16:09):
not, we're all asking about whatdestiny has in store for us.
It's great.
Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
Right on, okay cool.
I also like the communal partof it, all the things that bind
the fish community together, therituals when you see them live,
that kind of thing.
That's cool.
Chalk.
Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Dust.
Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
Torture is going to be my number one.
Nice, the, the rituals, whenyou see them live, that kind of
thing, that's cool.
Uh, chalk dust.
Torture is going to be mynumber one.
Speaker 6 (01:16:33):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (01:16:34):
Yeah, I just I love the music.
It's just a straight ahead jam.
It's.
It's sort of like a bad companykind of a thing, you know, Okay
, but or even like I don't know.
Uh, it's just, it has just agreat groove to it, it does, and
(01:16:57):
I just really enjoyed it.
You know, and the solo kind ofstuff in the middle, All they
were all like jamming all at thesame time.
They were all like doing solosalmost at the same time at one
point.
So yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:17:05):
I was into the music.
So that's my.
If anybody gets out toBurlington, go to Nectar's.
Speaker 5 (01:17:09):
That's the club yeah you've been there before, right,
I saw a.
Speaker 6 (01:17:13):
Disco Biscuits cover band there and danced my ass off
Awesome.
It's a really cool musicalvenue, really big and spacious.
Speaker 5 (01:17:20):
Yeah, maybe that'll be a reason to go up to Vermont.
I've always wanted to go toVermont.
I've never been, yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:17:24):
Burlington's great.
Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
You got the lake there.
You got lake there you gotpeaceful maybe it falls, you
know good time to go.
They're probably definitely upand definitely all the leafers
like, like myself coming in.
Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
Yeah, it's good stuff .
All right on okay cool.
Speaker 5 (01:17:39):
All right, man, all right, good talk, all right,
later bye.
I was thinking about it.
I was thinking what an amazingjob I have.
You know, I get paid to urinatein people's ears.
Speaker 4 (00:09):
It's not only people in New York, you know like high
priced hookers and stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
They get paid to do that too.
Speaker 5 (00:14):
They'll have to pay 22 bucks to get their ears
urinated in.
All right, thank you forlistening to Greatest Not Hits.
I'm Chris.
You for listening to greatestnon-hits.
I'm chris and uh playing abunch of different riffs from
the album.
A picture of nectar is myco-host, tim.
So, uh, we want to thank youfor listening.
A picture of nectar is thethird studio album by the band
(00:37):
fish.
Uh, it was released on february18th maybe we're 18 1992 on
electro records.
So, then, this is dedicated tothe proprietor of the, the
tavern nectars in burlington,vermont.
Then that's where fish playedtheir first bar gig, followed by
a series of three-monthnightstands, and so this is
(01:00):
where they you.
This is the place where theylearned how to play.
So, the proprietor's name wasNectar Rorris and he's a part of
the album cover.
If you look at it you kind ofsee it looks like there's skin
like an orange peel, but thenit's in the silhouette of like a
(01:21):
man with a mustache, kind oflike looks like one of the Bears
fans, yeah, kind of likeDitka-ish sort of, without the
shades.
But anyway, that's the albumcover and that's the inspiration
behind what we're going tolisten to today, and it's an
album that kind of is a jazz,fusion, bluegrass rock.
(01:45):
There's even some Latin rock init and it's, yeah, 1992.
They're just, you know.
Other than that, you know, andyou know what we always do,
we're going to listen to all thesongs, we're going to play some
sound clips, we're going tohave some fun and then we're
going to rank the top threenon-hits at the end of it.
So we've got all that comingfor you.
(02:07):
But we can fill the rest of thetime with just chilling out,
relaxing this band.
I can info dump all day long,but you can look up all this
stuff on Wikipedia.
There's also fishnet.
There's a whole fish booklet.
(02:27):
I can't remember the term forit, but Tim has this big, huge
almanac almost of fish stuff andwe'll get to that later on.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I'm going to ask him.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
He and I are coming from two completely different
points of view on this album.
I, of course, am not, you know,like a dedicated fan.
He's into it, he's a part ofthe Phish community, he has a
history, he knows all the songs,he's been to concerts, he's
done all this stuff.
Me, I'm a fair-weatheredlistener.
(03:07):
I listen to them and it's superimpressive.
Even though I'm not hardcore, Ithink everybody can appreciate
the tightness, the musicianship.
When you listen to that clipyou can tell that they're super
good friends and they have agood relationship with one
another and that's a reallyendearing kind of thing to to
(03:29):
see and I admire that.
I was a fan of rush and sadly,you know, neil passed away and
but they have a similar, uh,chemistry on stage, the way they
play, that you can tell theyplay together, in sync with one
another.
I think it's because they knoweach other very well.
They're friends, they're deeplyrooted in the others and
(03:53):
there's like this balance andthis respect that they all have
and that's what I think reallydrives the music.
And it really comes out and wewant this podcast to kind of
take that on, that ethos, so tospeak.
And also I listened to itsparingly this week.
(04:19):
Tim's going to come into thiswith the ear of knowing it all.
I'm coming in with, okay, I'veheard all the songs two or three
times, but I don't.
I'm hoping that listening todayis going to give me, take me to
the next step of really havinga good understanding of the
(04:41):
songs and which ones I like orwhich ones you know put me in a
mood that I may have not been in, or a better mood if I were in
one.
Better mood once a song strikesme better than the other and
I'll just get a betterunderstanding of the of the
(05:02):
tracks.
So, up to this point, there's asong called Tweezer Reprise and
I think it's the very last songof the tracks.
So, up to this point, there's asong called Tweezer Reprise and
I think that was the very lastsong and that was.
That's my number one, I thinkright now with the song Chalk
Does Torture and maybe Stash orLlama, even Seven Son of the
(05:26):
Llama we have a lot of CarlSpackman clips, shout out to all
the Caddyshack fans out therefor when we play Llama, which is
the first song.
All of the songs are going to beopen for me, because from my
point of view, there are no hitsFor Tim like within the Phish
(05:50):
community, though and Tim cancorrect me when he comes on if
he wants to, but I think it's.
I think Chalk Dust, torture andCavern are considered faves
amongst the community, andCavern are considered faves
amongst the community, so thosewould be considered hits, or the
ones that are the mostmainstream of all within the
(06:12):
community.
So he'll exclude those and giveus his top three of the rest.
So, anyway, what else can I say?
I mean, you know the guys.
It's, uh, trey anastasio seemsto have written most of these,
but also collaborated with a fewpeople, so we can keep that in
(06:34):
mind.
And uh, yeah, he's the guy whoplays guitar and lead vocals big
, big part of the band.
He, he was the guy that wasdoing a lot of the talking on
that clip that we heard in thebeginning, and they were also
talking about urinating in theears of listeners.
We got that from a YouTube cliponline, so I think if you type
(06:58):
that into the search, you'll getit.
There's other good quotes inthere, but, without further ado,
our co-host, tim Tim how youdoing, bud?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Doing well.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Good to hear man Give us your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
man Choice, paralysis with the intro.
So many good songs.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, which ones do you like playing the best?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
I think Stash is good finger exercise.
You're really going up and down.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I'm surprised that I remembered that riff right
pretty thoroughly cool so beforewe get into the album, just
tell you don't really have afavorite album.
It's more or less like whatyou're feeling, and so when you
listen?
To this?
When do you go to this?
What mood are you in when yougo to this album?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Heavy hitters.
It's probably a good party fun,optimistic mood I would say
yeah, this is a lot of thegreatest hits.
Yeah, for for live concertgoers would be on this one.
You know, cavern, chalk, dust,torture are mostly um, or at
(08:17):
least cavern is played at theend of sets as closers yeah,
there's some songs that reallyget you energized if they play
tweezer.
Yeah, that's it, they'll alwaysplay.
Usually tweet twee prize.
They call it twee prize.
Okay, tweezer, reprise um yeah,I didn't know that that was I
mentioned earlier that's myfavorite up to now, but I'm not,
(08:39):
you know it could change at theend, but nevertheless yeah
there was the merriweather showwhere they did the Trinity of
Tweezers and played it over andover and broke back into it in
all these songs.
They played it like eight timesthroughout.
That was pretty wild.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
From your experience, like on this album.
Which songs have they playedthe most of Like?
Is it Cavern?
Is that a staple, or is thereis Tweez Prize?
From your experience, like onthis album, which which songs
have they played the most ofLike?
Is it cavern is always a.
Is that a staple, or is thereis tweeze prize?
Cavern Um or one of the others,I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Landlady is wedged into uh one of the jams of uh
another live song.
Okay okay, um, so they actuallyplay landlady in another song,
but it's not labeled as landlady.
Um yeah, but cavern, for for me, I'm gonna exclude.
(09:42):
For me, I'm going to excludeCavern Tweezer and Chalk Dust
Torture out of my top three,because those are what I would
deem hits.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I'm sorry you said what, eliza.
You put in there too.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
No, tweezer, tweezer Reprise Cavern and Chalk Dust
Torture.
Yep, yeah, tweeze reprisecavern and chalk dust torture
got yep, yeah, all right,because I consider tweet, tweet
prize and tweezer the same song,almost because like they rock.
One is just more of a clubversion.
(10:17):
Okay, but uh, yeah right on allright, this is uh.
Yeah, I've been to, I guess,two fish festivals now magnaball
and uh just did mondegreen indelaware and I broke over 50
shows with mondegreen, which wasgreat great staff.
(10:39):
Yeah, I do kind of.
I knew I was close to 50.
I'm not entirely sure how manyyou ready to get into the album.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You got any last thoughts.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Yeah, let's do it.
This is a great album.
All right, one of the best.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
This is a llama.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Big hitter Llama.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Call the fire department.
All right, call the firedepartment, all right.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I want to commend us, though, for having the
restraint not to play the joshuafought the battle of jericho
clip.
Just on this alone, I think itsounds cool.
Sunrise over the turquoisemountains.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Messenger birds in sight.
They came up from the valleyFull sides out of time.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
This is about one of Trey's college songs, Lama taboo
lama, taboo, taboo, triggerblasts, fast rain, chicken loins
, seeds.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I start to run.
It was the loudest thing I'dever heard and I knew my time
had come.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
To end the day it's about a revolution.
You know, bazookas.
Taboo is a wooden brick, astone monument placed above the
coffin of the deceased.
(12:09):
So they're fighting Iculus inthis war.
It's sort of like a thing Treywrote up in college about yeah,
it's pretty wild, blast classdriving the loyalists back.
(12:41):
You know revolution songs.
It's a heavy hitter.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
E-halls often wax one , so I jump ship and I make my
way over to the bed.
It's a jolly llama, hey, llama,hey, llama, hey.
How about a little somethingyou know for the?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
effort, don't throw stuff at Trey when he's playing.
He's very upset.
Yeah, we're not advocating that.
I got something in my eye.
It might be a glow stick.
I don't even know A glow stickboar.
I did catch a glow stick out ofmid't.
Even know A glow stick boar.
I did catch a glow stick out ofmidair at Mondegreen and
(13:29):
everybody thought it was thecoolest thing as I ate my
cucumber.
I was the cucumber guy.
Everybody was the guy who snuckin cucumbers to the show.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Yeah, that's.
He's got that reputation too.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Bingo Sorry, all right.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Love that song.
That's a good start.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Energy, energy right, that's a lot of energy for that
one.
It is yeah, but they have theselittle vignettes in in I could
have done a coffee shop versionof that one, but uh a slow they
do a slow llama sometimes oh, dothey it's very rare, but
they'll do a slow llama.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Oh, I dig that.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
That is hilarious actually they mix it up, yeah, a
lot of that.
Also, john Popper played onthat song when they played in
New Jersey in Stanhope in 95,just to tie it in to, because
Popper's from New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Trey's from New Jersey.
Yeah, princeton yeah, they'reboth from that area.
Yeah, they're in academia thatarea.
Yeah, they're, they're in likeacademia that kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
I don't know if popper likes to pee in the
listeners ears, but you knowyeah some highbrow stuff yeah,
how about those bears?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
man, I'm getting kind of okay.
All right, all right.
The next one is Eliza yes,pieces, a softer one right,
taking the energy back down.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
That's kind of intentional wrote for his then
girlfriend Sue Eliza, now hiswife.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
And now his first daughter is named Eliza so this
is named after his now spouseand daughter at the time.
First daughter is named Eliza,so this is named after his now
spouse and daughter At the time.
Yeah, now it's like yeah, it'sfor you too.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Exactly there we go.
Songs like this kind of freakpeople out about fish.
They're like what they'remaking, these really elaborate
(16:17):
classy jazz pieces.
Shout out to Eliza and Spencer,love birds.
And Eliza and Danny shout outoh, these are all the Elizas in
your life yes, there we go.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I don't have any.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Eliza shout outs, but yeah, but good for them.
I don't have any Elizashout-outs, but yeah, but yeah,
but good for them.
Good for you too,congratulations.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Barbershop Raga.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
That was Barbershop Raga, but yeah glad you caught
it.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Barbershop Jazz Raga.
Yeah, yeah, okay, that's good.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
All right, the next one.
Okay, Cavern.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
This is a big one.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
No one plays jazz here at the pit stop, okay, okay
.
I got nothing on this song.
I'm not a fan, I don't know whyI'm frustrated?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Because I know there, on this song I'm not a fan.
I don't know why I'm frustrated.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Because I know there's.
This is good, or Saul, oh, orSaul.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh, and I'll bring all my shoes and my glasses with
me.
The last device.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The flesh from Satan's dollars will make the
rubies so cruel.
Reduct the carrots from yourpain, you worthless, swampy,
fool you fool.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Worthless.
Swampy fool, you fool, I'mhappy.
Worthless swampy fool.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
What the fuck is he talking about?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Exploding them through fields and men and
swimming in the mire.
The septic made this gargoyletooth.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Gargoyle tooth Demented me with fire.
Demented me with fire.
I'd change it where the currentchose Wait.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
This one's bad.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
And if a chance of new slime died, I'd stuff it
Mented me with fire, hey listento that.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I'm a shop roger.
Maybe throw a little rouge onyou.
Tuck your sack back, you game.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
No 40-year-old virgin there for you.
Stuff in your sack, all right,shout out to John and Susie.
They're best friends, you know,yeah sure, that's a good one.
(19:23):
Shout out to the Traveling Fishfans.
Here we got slithering slugs, apenile erector.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, what's the story behind that?
We'll get it later.
I'm telling you, baby, that'snot mine.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
That sort of thing is my bag baby.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Oh, shout out to Corota.
You know, Saul went to a coupleshows back in the 90s.
Saul, what did you think aboutthe light show?
Eyes are going crazy.
Yes, that's Saul.
His eyes were going crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Kuroda.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
E-Halls often wax funny.
What the fuck is he talkingabout?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
A cushion Cushion convector.
Yeah, they changed out thepenile erector.
I think that was probably PaigeDidn't like singing about that.
Oh, director.
Serpent deflector, mud ratdetector, ribbon reflector,
cushion convector pictureeffector what the fuck is he
(21:15):
talking about.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yes, that's a cool hero and I'll bring all my shoes
and my glasses with me.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Oh, that's a good way to end that.
Thank you All right.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That was all Tim, all right.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
You got all Tim All right, you got it down the
cavern.
This is Poor Heart.
This is Country from Diddy.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
What do you think, Foghorn?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Don't let him have it , you got to tease him a little.
I'm going to certainly teasehim.
This is some good music here.
This kind of reminds me of DonKnotts' Keystone.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Pops.
It is a little Mayberry.
Yeah it's Mayberry-ish.
This is written by Mike aftersomeone stole his tape recorder.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Oh I didn't know that .
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Okay, hope he finds his four-track tape recorder.
There's a.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Goddard thief out there.
Yeah, shout out to Kevin Falcon.
He's a producer and engineer.
He probably has lots of tape.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
There's an album coming together.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Like tighter.
Yeah, I think it's coming outLike like their musicianship is
better, yeah, first, one that wedid.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Gordon Gordon stone is on pedal steel on this one.
Yeah, gotcha.
Really, the drumming on this isthis whole album is fish, is
the drummer, you know it'salways laying down yeah, some
(23:01):
banjo, kevin herpin, maybeharpin, maybe um maybe not, I'm
not sure.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Mike gordon's played a good bass on this.
Oh, he annually vocals too.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Yeah, mike gordon he's a great vocalist.
I mean he's got sort of anasally.
Uh, he's got the crazy eyes.
Yes, he does shout out to thescarf wearers and tea drinkers.
Okay.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yep, and the bass players out there.
He's playing a hell of a bass,I think.
Oh my god and the Page.
Yeah, I mean Crush it.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
They all.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
They all fit right in there.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes, they do, they all fit right in there.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
It's a great harmony.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
They sound better when they sing together.
You won't steal that thing.
Yeah, you won't steal my poorheart yeah All right, this is
Stash.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I'm telling you, baby , that's not mine.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
So how would you boost me, especially when you
know I smell it?
I'm so how would you boost meEspecially?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
when you know I smell it.
Yeah, getting pulled over Scary, you better just tell them what
you got.
I'm telling you, I smell it,you smell it.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
You smell it at a fish show Marijuana in the car,
which last time you had anythingin the car you got to clap.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
You got to clap three times Marijuana in the car,
which last time you had anythingin the car, you gotta clap.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
You gotta clap three times.
That was like four I think Atthe show you gotta clap, but not
too much, but not too much.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
This is like a fugue or something that Trey was
learning in college that he madethis song.
Yeah, there's a lot of notes.
Yeah this is that tension andrelease sort of like up and down
.
I mean you could probably doSimon Karp's in Florida maybe in
a Baroque.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
It's very Baroque-y, it's fusing.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Sort of thing.
Is my bag baby?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I know you smell it, you know what's in there.
This is crazy.
This sucks, man.
We could have been fine, butnow you got me out here trying
to play me as Boo Boo the Fool.
Come on, man, we're better thanthat, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Sloping companion.
I cast down the ash, yanked outmy tunic and dangled my stash,
zipping through the forest witha curling fleas To grow in them.
Spindles, the mutant, I seizeSort of a.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Yeah, very interesting it starts to get
gross and then comes backtalking about the police trey
counts references as charliechrisman, miles davis, john
coltrane, charles mingus umcharles mingus.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Yeah, they would play this at the wetlands.
Preserve a lot, apparently.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Miles Davis John.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
Yeah, they would play this atthe Wetlands.
Preserve a lot.
Apparently it's the II V7iprogression.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
And you're holding everything for everybody.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
How you sort of go back to home base Okay.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
So they play this song just to keep themselves
grounded and in a way, playingit really reminds them of their
early, where they came from.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Oh, yeah, for sure.
And the offbeat drumming isphenomenal in this Very unusual
drumming patterns.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
That John Fishman is a really great drummer.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And you're holding everything for everybody.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
He's holding the beat , what's up.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I need more cowbell.
So how'd you boost me?
So how'd you Got it for you?
Apple toast bed, heated, firm,like it right Light with the
chuchu Say please don't Controlfor smile.
So how would you the solargarlic?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Boost me, especially when you know I smell it.
I'm telling you I smell it.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
You smell that garlic rot Solar garlic.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Maybe, so Maybe not Maybe baby, maybe baby, maybe
baby, maybe baby Maybe.
So maybe not Maybe, maybe Maybemaybe Maybe maybe Maybe maybe
Maybe.
So maybe not Maybe.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
So maybe not Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe Maybe maybe,
maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe,maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe,
maybe, maybe.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, Maybe maybe
.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Maybe, maybe, maybe.
You better not mention thatagain you.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Solar garlic.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Just life just keeps happening.
Was it, was it for this, mylife, I'd saw.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Life is like hey, guess what?
Speaker 6 (29:31):
And you're like what?
And it's like bam, bam youbetter not mention that again.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
More life.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
It just never stops giving you more life.
That's life.
Hey, you want another scoop, mylove boy.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
You want another scoop?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
And you holding everything for everybody.
Let's shout out to the cops.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
I mean this kind of soloing with the tension of the
piano versus the guitar, thedrum and bass together is I mean
, it's a crowd favorite Really?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Listen to the mic there, run it down.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Yeah, I love it.
It's Calypso sort of drumming.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
It's part love it.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
It's Calypso sort of drumming.
This part of it is cool.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Yeah, there's certain parts of songs on this album
that are like oh yeah, I likethis part of this song.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
I mean, this is goosebumps when you're at a live
show.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Yeah, that's what I've heard.
It's like you've got to go tothe shows.
That's a big part of being intoit.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
It's so much good light show, everybody's just
grooving for this.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Okay, now I get it.
Yeah, I've got to go to theshow, I'll do it.
I'm got to go to the show, I'lldo it.
I'm going to go by the end ofthe season.
I'll find a place.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
All right.
Sure, you know that if is themiddle word in life.
If you can keep your head whenall about you're losing there's
a blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself whenall men doubt you, I mean, I
know, I can't, I'm man, I'm alittle man, he's, he's a great
man oh, oh, nice timing on thatfoot.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
What mantica all right.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Crab in my shoe mouth Crab in my crab.
In my crab in my shoe mouth.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
All right, a little vignette, a little vignette
Beulah papyrus, here Is it.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
Beulah Beulah yeah, like Beulah Beulah yeah.
Beulah papyrus here Is itBeulah Beulah.
Yeah, like Beulah, beulah,beulah.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Beulah.
So this is like A super popularsong and it's.
I want to go back to this.
On fishnet, trey explains thatit's a song about a mother and
he explains that it was Dave'smother.
(32:54):
It's Dave's mother, his name isGwela.
Knock on the door of hisbedroom, come in, poke Dave in
the hallway and spoil all abouthis mother.
Have you heard that storybefore?
Speaker 6 (33:07):
No, I did not know that.
Yeah, I thought this was moreof a Trey Senior Thesis song.
It's just some kind ofadventure that these it's kind
(33:31):
of reggae Barbershop Rocker.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
See, that's all.
She washed me all.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Fish Clan is definitely expanding like some
kind of recursive virus there.
Even nowadays, all the youngkids are there.
It's crazy, crazy.
There's got to be a virus ortwo.
They're vaping, yeah, thevapors.
So it's a larval craze, thevape.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
There's got rhinothropic thunder, yeah
flavors yeah, a fish concert hasits own gut.
Microbiome yeah, flavors yeah,a fish concert has its own gut
microbiome.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
What the fuck is he talking about?
What the fuck?
Speaker 6 (34:40):
This is a sort of chromatic adventure here.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Yeah, like the carnival gone wrong.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Yes, Are you liking this one?
Speaker 5 (35:09):
This is taking you down to.
Yeah, it's taking me back toseven years old.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
The Silken Tunnel?
Yeah, something like that,something like that.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Yeah, just like a bad dream.
This is like the soundtrack ofthat kind of a dream.
It's got a subconscious kind ofvibe to it.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Now Trey moves the sustain and then Paige does the
sort of shining theme, and thenthey both kind of sync up at the
same time.
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Oh man, A here's Johnny clip would sound really
good with this right now.
Yeah, oh man, A here's Johnnyclip would sound really good
with this right now.
That's a missed opportunity.
Ah great, you know I like that.
So maybe I could be a fly Samesong.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
And be deracked as I die Deracked as I die and be a
ritual from within the silkentunnel that they spit.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Yeah, like that spider.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
Purple frown Spoil the mood Shout out to the short
people out there, the short fishfans and the tall ones, you
know.
Yeah, that are blocking thefish, yeah, the short fish, and
the tall ones, you know, yeah,that are blocking the vision of
the short fish.
Shout out to Steve, the tallestfish fan, I know, yeah.
(36:36):
Shout out to Steve and Andy.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
And shout out to the person directly behind them
that's 5 feet tall.
Yeah, he has a face full of hisass.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
They're riding on the redundant rail.
Yeah, the rail riders Shout outto the rail riders.
There's like a guy's group offans called the rail riders.
They were like just thesemiddle-aged, really really aggro
fish fans that would like elbowchicks and like like really
(37:07):
stamp their territory and peoplewould like be like what the
hell is your problem, man?
And they're like I'm not aboutto stop now.
I've been on the rail for youknow how many shows, so they're
like keeping a uh, their ownlittle yeah, they get there
early.
You know they don't tailgate,they go right, go right into the
venue and sit there.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
They never wear diapers.
Yeah, exactly, it's pretty Babybaby.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
A little Magila, a little teaser.
Lots of instrumentals in thisone.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
You've been pretty tight-lipped about your ranking.
I'm going to be interested tosee that.
Are you going to?
Can I ask if there's going tobe a vignette like this on there
?
Um?
Speaker 6 (38:00):
No, okay, yeah, I do like the vignettes, but there's,
there's so much packed intothose longer songs.
Right, exactly, you can'tignore it, you can't.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
And I can see how it's.
For some it might be apointless exercise to rank.
Yeah, sometimes there can be amood, but I think when you're
newer like me and familiarizingyourself with the songs, there
are certain ones that grab you.
(38:41):
Yeah, Like right now.
Sometimes you go out of favorof other songs, but I'm just in
the moment, these are my three.
I'll give my songs, but I'mjust in the moment, these are my
three.
I'll give my top three non-hitsin the moment.
I'm going to keep listening tothis album and see if it changes
over time.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
So we've got a little ragah here, barbershop ragah.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
This is very barbershop ragah Aguila is
barbershop ragah To thosetourers.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
call your mom if you got dinner on the table, okay
mikey, come on.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Our parents are worried.
It's dinner time.
Why don't we go home?
Wow?
Speaker 6 (39:19):
I don't think they've ever played this live, actually
really maybe Really Maybe.
This is a Paige McConnellcontribution.
It debuted in 1990 at theWetlands Wow.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Oh, so they were playing this at the Wetlands.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
It played at 91 only, okay, and they were playing
this at the wetlands.
They played it in 91, only Okay, and they stopped playing.
This song Got it.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Interesting.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
I think I was reading somewhere that there's another
song in here that went out ofthe circulation a long time ago.
They haven't played it sincethe 90s, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
People are always chasing.
No, this occasionally creeps upinto set lists.
Last played in 2014 inMerriweather.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Oh, wow, okay, this is the landlady, oh, okay.
Speaker 7 (40:24):
I'm getting out of here, man, she's nasty.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Gotta watch out for the landlady.
I can give you half.
She's coming for the rent.
Speaker 7 (40:36):
I'm getting out of here.
Man, she's nasty, you pay him.
I thought I was clear in myemail that I needed a couple
(40:57):
weeks Shout to Marsha.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Fixing the plumbing.
It's kind of cool how they'llplay like a heavy rock riff over
this.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Latin kind of.
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Calypso, sort of yeah , it's Latin style Samba-esque,
written by Trey oh.
This is played in Punch you inthe Eye, which is one of their
bigger rock songs.
(41:41):
They play this in Punch you inthe Eye Because it kind of fits
Again again.
This song emerged at thewetlands.
Okay, entering heavy rotationthere.
Speaker 5 (41:55):
93 wetlands is like in like new york.
Yeah, I know it's in manhattan,like lower manhattan.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
I think it was yeah, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Or close by.
But yeah, it's infamous, it'sfamous, infamous.
There's a lot of people.
It's sort of like the Whiskey AGo-Go of New York.
All those bands played there.
Speaker 6 (42:32):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Yeah, they wedge this into another song that they
play live, I mean this is oh,wow yeah.
This is the part where you'vegot to give this kind of a song
some consideration.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
Santana, I think Right.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
Definitely.
Speaker 7 (43:08):
I can give you half, all right.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
You pay now.
You pay now.
Speaker 6 (43:24):
All right, this is Glide.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Not much to say on this one yeah, it's just kind of
it almost silly, almost a timefiller.
Speaker 6 (43:33):
Well, it was written by tom marshall, the lyricist,
and fish.
When they used to, they used tosit outside as teenagers and
say we're glad, glad, glad thatyou're alive to people randomly
and thought that was hilarious,okay, and so this is kind of
where that song came out ofthere's a lot of collaboration,
(43:53):
like anastasia fishman, gordonmcconnell, marshall marshall
yeah, marshall is the beginninglyricist for fish.
They work with him.
They'll take poems that hewrites and rework them.
They'll take, you know,inspiration from their
experiences to make songs.
(44:14):
Marshall is like he's thelyricist yeah he's a producer
slash lyricist type.
He gets in on the process.
He's another one of their bestfriends.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
you know You're right , he's just not a recurring
member of the band.
Anastasio Gordon and McConnellare doing that.
Speaker 7 (44:40):
He was.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
Yeah, I'm sorry go ahead.
Speaker 6 (44:44):
I think they kicked him out in the beginning.
He didn't want to be in theband.
Oh, he didn't want to be in theband.
Yeah.
I don't know he didn't havequite the musical chops.
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (44:55):
Yeah, but he's in a friend group still.
Yeah, for sure they respect himas a friend, as a person he's
involved.
This is a way for him to beinvolved?
Speaker 6 (45:08):
Yeah, they.
Nowadays they don't really.
I don't think he writes forthem.
But Fish write for themselves,are they?
Speaker 5 (45:15):
all still.
Is Marshall still alive?
Is he still in the fold in someway?
Speaker 6 (45:20):
He'll do shows Tom Marshall, and people in Denver
and Colorado and crunchy townslove to see Tom Marshall.
Okay, I got you.
I mean he'd run like anantelope and all those other
songs.
A lot of Yuta songs werewritten by Marshall.
Speaker 5 (45:39):
Right, yeah, I think we talked about that.
And Stash, he wrote that withAnastasia and Guala Papyrus too.
I'll say he had a significanthand in this.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
That's some heavy shit, man.
E-halls often wax one.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Maybe throw a little rouge on ya.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
This is a little bit of a break.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
Yeah, it's a feels better moment.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
A little pull off some of that Glad glad glad that
you're alive, and we're glad,glad, glad that you'll arrive,
and we're glad, glad, glad, glad, glad glad glad glad, glad,
(47:19):
glad, glad, glad.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
And we're glad, glad, glad that you're a glad, you're
a glide.
That's kind of like a churchkind of a choir thing a little
acapella yeah.
Oh man All right tweezer.
Speaker 6 (47:29):
Oh, oh man.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Looks like she's going to turn cold tomorrow.
Oh yeah, Got a front coming in.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Disco Stu got hooked on the white stuff back in the
70s.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
Yeah, this is kind of like work it, work it.
Speaker 6 (47:56):
Work it yeah baby.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool Into
the freezer.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Caesar with a freezer .
What when you get out of thewater?
Speaker 3 (48:12):
you need to dry off right away to avoid catching a
cold.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Disco stoop.
Well, I just got back fromswimming in the pool and the
water was cold.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
You pay up.
Speaker 6 (48:31):
Pay up.
All right, this is what you goto pay for, won't you step into
the freezer?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
This is going to be cold and you're next.
Speaker 6 (48:43):
Teaser with a tweezer .
Get the tweezers out, get those.
Shout out to the unibrows outthere.
Oh man, just tweezing all thetime, or not, if they have the
unibrow.
Speaker 5 (48:58):
They're embracing it.
I have attempted it a time ortwo.
Speaker 6 (49:05):
I got off of that.
You can't go up you got to goout.
You can't go like this you gotto go out.
Speaker 5 (49:11):
We go out is the key, otherwise it just keeps growing
fuller and thicker.
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (49:21):
What the fuck is he talking about?
What the fuck?
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Son of a man, son of a man Flowing robes.
Speaker 6 (49:44):
The grace of Paul Striking.
It's very striking.
It's very striking, striking,it's very striking with the
solos for this.
You know we got just they wantto keep going and I mean they're
(50:06):
not gonna not to bridge this.
You got 40-minute tweezers.
They just go for it.
We still have like tweeze prizecoming up.
Speaker 5 (50:22):
Twee prize, it's always yeah and it's still the
same writing group AnastasiaFishman Gordon.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
This is going gonna be cold.
Looks like she's gonna turncold tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (50:42):
Yeah, there's just like a little a couple more
minutes.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
What if we find something?
Speaker 6 (50:46):
huh, a couple more minutes isn't gonna hurt.
Come on, mikey, we're goingright now.
No, give him a few minutes.
Give him a few more minutesisn't going to hurt, come on,
mikey, we're going right now.
Speaker 7 (50:52):
No, let's go.
Bye brother, give him a fewminutes.
Speaker 6 (50:54):
Give him a few more minutes on this one, Uncle
Ebenezer.
Speaker 5 (50:59):
Let me get on this one.
This is the only song this andTwee's reprise where all four
write and perform yeah, Of thefour members On this album, and
I think it comes out.
Speaker 6 (51:15):
It's a lot of bass slapping.
You hear that?
Yeah, with the bass going, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
Oh, that's good yeah.
Speaker 6 (51:30):
Little key change yeah.
Speaker 5 (51:32):
That's supposed to be a hard as hell to play.
There's a lot of pull-offs forhammer-on pull-off.
And not many bands have thiskind of musicality.
Speaker 6 (51:52):
No's level, not like this, I mean I mean, can that be
overstated?
I think, yeah, it can.
They all have a little bit ofrestraint here and they.
What the listeners need to knowis they do these musical
exercises and jams together,where they sort of try to be
(52:15):
minimal and listen to thebassist and then play like the
bassist if trey is listening tomike, oh and then just feed off
of it.
Feed off of and like sort ofimprovise tune out of your own
instrument, yeah, tune into whatthey're playing, so you're
enjoying it.
Okay with the jam, and this iswhat the jam you know.
Speaker 5 (52:38):
A couple more minutes of jamming, yeah and they're
playing is an expression oftheir, their fervor for what the
other guys are doing.
Speaker 6 (52:50):
Yeah, exactly, they're best friends.
I mean listen to Paige rightnow, yeah, one's playing this
one riff.
Paige is playing a somewhatdifferent riff On a baby grand
(53:15):
here, a baby grand piano.
I mean, not many people do thateither, not many pianists.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
Oh, oh.
Speaker 6 (53:31):
Paige was asked what he likes to listen to in his
free time and he said a lot oftimes he doesn't listen to music
at all Because he's alwaysplaying music.
Right, you have to reset yourmind.
Speaker 5 (53:45):
It's hard to hear this all the time and then play
it and practice it.
You do have to.
We should probably add a littlebit of a breath.
It doesn't get this nuts in thereprise, does it?
(54:09):
No?
That's probably why they have areprise, does it?
No, that's probably why theyhave a reprise.
Speaker 6 (54:14):
To just take this out Chromatically goes up with that
riff.
Yeah, plays the same riff overand over, but chromatically up
and up, right, right, I followyou Until he runs out of space
on the guitar.
Speaker 5 (54:48):
He's just banging on the piano, but he stops.
It's terrible, it's terrible.
Yeah, this is like one of themore challenging parts of the
album for me.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:15):
Yeah, bicycle went crazy.
Speaker 5 (55:19):
This is bringing us back down.
After all that, they probablydo it for their sanity too?
I don't know man, I don't knowwhat sanity is for this band.
I mean, this actually helpsthat they did this at the end.
You know of all that raga thatwe heard before raga.
(55:56):
Yeah, that's randomly neverrandom not randomly, but just
yeah kind of playing off eachother, right?
Ah, it feels better.
Speaker 6 (56:14):
Tension release there .
Yeah, this is the mango song,yep.
Speaker 3 (56:22):
Mango, mango.
Speaker 5 (56:25):
Mango Shout out to Mango from SNL.
Speaker 3 (56:33):
Shout out to Mango from SNL.
Mango, you're incredible.
Speaker 7 (56:39):
Incredible.
We gotta get you in therecording studio.
Slander on wrapped paper ties.
Speaker 5 (56:54):
Lifting up his heavy boots.
Mango could have been a biggerstar than Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 4 (57:00):
Sorry, I guess his star is born.
Grasp the kettle top and shootthe breeze please.
Speaker 3 (57:10):
Ramble while slob scrapers sigh.
Speaker 6 (57:16):
Lots of harmonizing here there is.
They do the runs, but they havedifferent verses.
They're all singing differentverses.
Later on you'll hear Okay.
Speaker 1 (57:29):
Invisible beneath his troubled eyes verses.
Speaker 5 (57:35):
Later on you'll hear Some of their harmonizations.
Don't their harmonies?
Don't do it for me.
Speaker 7 (58:03):
Grape apple pie.
What the?
Speaker 5 (58:04):
fuck is he talking about?
Oh, you're talking about me,huh.
Speaker 1 (58:07):
Just the lyrics, yeah .
Speaker 5 (58:11):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (58:22):
Oh, why, why, why, why, why is he going to be a
genius?
This is about an adoption of ababy.
Something Doesn't have anylimbs or something, but it's
going to be a genius kind ofthing.
I don't really.
Speaker 5 (58:45):
Yeah, it's got to be a fishnet somewhere.
It's.
Speaker 3 (58:49):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (58:57):
His hands and feet are mangled, but they change it
to his hands and feet aremangoes.
Yeah, when they were writing it.
Thus it became the mango song.
I guess.
Speaker 5 (59:13):
Yeah, it's about a boy who loses his extremities
yet goes on to become a greatgenius, a trait hitched upon us
selects sentence in Aaron'sverbal description to him.
His hands and feet are mangled,transformed ever so slightly
into the delightfullydown-sensitive chorus of what
would eventually become the mainsong.
Speaker 6 (59:34):
I love Mike on this.
Speaker 5 (59:36):
Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 6 (59:55):
Let's keep that bass down.
This is a good party sound livesong when they play.
I've maybe heard this a coupletimes live.
Okay, they definitely jam alittle bit, but it's pretty much
played how it is on the albumit's one of those here you'll
(01:00:21):
see the uh.
They're all singing differentthings here oh, okay, it's
coming.
Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
I got you.
That was kind of I heard it alittle bit there even your hands
and feet are mangoes.
Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
You're gonna be a genius anyway.
Your hands and feet are mangoes.
You're gonna be a genius anyway.
Your hands and feet are mangoes.
You're gonna be a genius anyway.
(01:01:02):
Your hands and feet are mangoes, yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:01:09):
Trey has like an affinity with princesses, right
Like in his background.
Your hands and feet are mangoes, your brain is a snake.
No-transcript.
Your brain is a snake, I'mmaking that shit up, could be.
(01:01:40):
I think he was on Sesame Streetonce.
Did he make an appearance thereafter he became famous?
Speaker 6 (01:01:44):
No, his mom was the child's book author and editor
of Sesame Street magazine.
Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Oh yeah, he was born in Fort Worth, moved to
Princeton.
Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
New.
Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
Jersey.
So that's maybe his affinitywith John Popper and the Blues
Travelers because they hooked upin Princeton as well.
That's kind of cool.
They do some clever things.
(01:02:16):
Some of it's annoying.
They could have cut that off alittle bit sooner, that's a
charm, right.
Speaker 6 (01:02:24):
They're going for the hard.
Speaker 5 (01:02:27):
That's all folks ending on that one.
I got you.
I gotta put more time into this.
I know, yeah, this is chalkdust torture.
This is it.
Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
From within.
I like it.
Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
I think I heard them play this song.
Speaker 6 (01:03:14):
Letterman.
Oh yeah, dave definitely hadthem on to play this song.
Trey's got the low voice onthis.
Yeah, oh no, will it a locustlurker Willingly?
Locust Lurker Willingly.
Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Locust Lurker.
Speaker 6 (01:03:50):
Trey's got the low end.
Yeah, paige's got the high endthere.
This one's a simpler song andthen you get to the solo and
it's got that Right Sort ofChromatic thing going on.
Yeah.
Shout out to the sun dancers.
Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
All my vasoconstrictors, they come
slowly.
Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
Yeah, I'll have you read the fish companion, the
fish Bible.
That's it, the fish companion.
Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Then your vasoconstrictors will slowly be
undone there you go the tube,Shout out to the tube lovers out
there.
I'm Bob Lissette Bain, now toeducate somebody's fright.
(01:04:49):
So who can I learn all thefacts that I've learned?
I sat in their chairs and mysynapses burned.
The torture of chalk dustcollects on my tongue.
Thoughts follow my vision anddance in the sun.
All my vassal pictures make upslowly undone Give this way till
I'm old.
Can I live while I'm young?
Can I live while I'm slowlyundone Can't just wait till I'm
(01:05:09):
old.
Can I live while I'm young.
Speaker 7 (01:05:17):
Can I live while I'm young?
Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
Take your brain out of your head, wash it, scrub it,
make it clean.
Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
Vasu constrictors are in your brain, right yeah, so
yeah, this is I'm just gonna sayit out right now who
constrictors are in your brain,right, yeah?
So, yeah, this is.
I'm just going to say it outright now.
This is the best song we'veheard, so far you like this one.
Speaker 6 (01:05:39):
You like those classic rock bangers, don't you?
Speaker 5 (01:05:44):
Yeah, but it's kind of like.
It's kind of James Brown-y too,but it's James Brown with a
heavier rock slam to it.
Speaker 6 (01:05:58):
This is, yeah, flat-out rock and roll.
It's Tina Turner rolling downthe river.
Speaker 5 (01:06:03):
Rolling down a river.
Speaker 6 (01:06:05):
Yeah, this is a frenzy, this is like Eagle is
often waxed when Big hitter,it's a big hitter.
Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Big hitter.
Speaker 6 (01:06:28):
The Dust Stu knows about the Dust Disco Stu got
hooked on the white stuff backin the 70s.
Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
The dust Stu knows about the dust Disco.
Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Stu got hooked on the white stuff back in the 70s.
Speaker 6 (01:06:41):
In the 70s Disco Stu, you're aging yourself right now
.
All right, that's right.
Fish fans that saw the 90s,you're aging yourself In a good
way.
Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
They're like the shamans of the tribe.
I mean, if you can't hook downto stuff in the 70s and you're
still alive right now, God blessyou.
Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
That's all I got to say.
Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
We have a little.
This is palate cleansing in itseffect.
Speaker 6 (01:07:21):
Yes, I couldn't get Tralala Boom DA out of my head,
actually from the last podcast,tralala.
Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
Boom DA.
Speaker 6 (01:07:31):
Tralala, boom, da out of my head, actually from the
last podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Trollhalla Boom DA.
All right, I don't know aboutthis.
Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
Shout out to the nature lovers out there.
Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
Yeah, shout out to the Grand Funk Railroad fans out
there.
I think this is kind of like.
Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
That.
You know that yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:08:12):
What is David?
What's your take on this one?
Cotton flush of flowers andleaves attracts lots of plant
eaters oh, thank you, dave.
Speaker 5 (01:08:29):
Lots of plant eaters.
Speaker 6 (01:08:34):
I have a little light rain here.
Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
How do you pronounce the name of the song Fat Fat?
This is called Make my Love Pop.
And what is all that shit?
Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
it's fucking bullshit just take a moment now and
realize that all that shit isjust bullshit oh.
God, oh, is this the Amazon in20 years?
(01:09:25):
I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
I'm scared.
Alright, Dr Davis telephone.
Please Shout out to QueensrycheOperation Mindcrime.
Speaker 6 (01:09:47):
Shout out to the Ween fans out there.
That's Catapult, okay.
Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
A vignette.
Oh, here's the, the.
Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Grand Funk Railroad.
Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
This is Tweezer Reprise.
This is the last one, right.
Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool.
Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
I like this version better this one's.
Oh yeah, when they close withthis this version better.
Speaker 6 (01:10:32):
Oh yeah, when they close with this.
This is amazing.
This is like, yeah, when Mikegoes up on that.
Speaker 5 (01:10:42):
I mean, no, I think I saw it in Austin City Limits
Showing the music it was.
It was pretty badass.
I was like, oh OK.
Speaker 6 (01:10:53):
Yeah, this is pure just.
But it also has this sort ofDonato sort of like you know
composer opera piece, but rockopera sort of thing to it as
well.
How many shows have they played?
(01:11:27):
How many shows have they playedlive?
Yeah, ever, yeah.
How many shows have they playedlive?
Speaker 5 (01:11:31):
yeah, ever yeah, I don't know uh, the 64 at Winston
(01:11:59):
Square Garden 1,816.
Speaker 6 (01:12:03):
There's way more than that, because they're not.
There's thousands, thousands.
Well, that's according to onesource.
I think fishnet would be thesource, but I don't.
They don't really get into that.
It's like not important.
They have how many songs, whatpercentage of the song played,
(01:12:31):
all that.
I don't know how many times thesong is played wow, all right,
cool.
Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
Well, that's it.
Yeah.
Oh, that was good.
Yeah, I, you know I, that wasthat was needed on my end.
Uh, let's get into the topthree.
Man, what's?
Uh, do you have yours?
Speaker 6 (01:12:52):
um yeah, I mean, obviously this is just shout out
to the ones that are myperceived hits of tweezer, twee,
prize, shock, dust and cavern,because those are sort of the
live heavy hitters.
Speaker 5 (01:13:11):
Yeah, so that's out of your consideration.
Speaker 6 (01:13:13):
I'm going to go.
Number three is going to bePoor Heart.
Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (01:13:25):
I'm going to go.
Poor Heart, you know the taperecorder.
I like to have a littlebluegrass in my fish show.
It makes me feel uh, culturedit's good.
Speaker 5 (01:13:34):
Yeah, it's a great song.
For sure I was gonna.
I was gonna say it's impressivethe way they, yeah, they do
that and I, I can see whereyou're coming from with that,
okay, uh, my number, I think mynumber three is going to be.
My number three is going to beTweezer Reprise.
(01:13:55):
Nice, okay, because, yeah, itmight be in yours if you were
considering those.
Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
It definitely is yeah .
Speaker 5 (01:14:03):
It's a classic and it's a hit, you know, and
there's a reason why it's a hitit's because it's a great jam.
Speaker 6 (01:14:11):
Yeah, everybody should know about that song.
Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:14:13):
You know, exercisers, runners, twee prize.
You're running up the hill,what's up?
Speaker 5 (01:14:18):
Yeah, it's motivating too.
Speaker 6 (01:14:20):
You're going to the next level.
Speaker 5 (01:14:21):
Every so often.
Speaker 6 (01:14:24):
What about your number two, mango Song?
Oh yeah, it really was wellplaced in the album in between
two rock, uh, you know, bangers,sort of a.
Um, it's just a beautifulcomposition of a song.
Um and a great chorus.
(01:14:46):
You know your hands and feetare mangoes, but you're going to
be a genius anyway.
I mean what?
What?
Yeah?
Mango song too, okay course youknow, your hands and feet are
mangoes, but you're gonna be agenius anyway.
I mean, what, what, yeah, mangosong two okay, my number two
was stash.
Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
Oh nice, I, I liked it.
It was just really musical, mymemory.
And then it did some weirdstuff at the end that was like,
oh wow, it just like captivatesyou and and uh does like all
kinds of puts a little spell onyou yeah, it does.
Yeah, I got right in the pocketwith it, so I'm gonna say that
was my number two okay, yeah, Imean, I have to go stash number
(01:15:21):
one yeah, okay I honorablemention to gula papyrus.
Speaker 6 (01:15:26):
I love eliza.
It's great song.
Um, okay, I mean landlady, Ialways just think of Punch you
in the Eye.
So I'm not going to sayLandlady, although it's a great
song.
And I do like the vignette ofFat.
I mean, I always tell peopleabout that because it's just so
weird and clever.
It's like the rainforest, andthen they're in the city all of
(01:15:47):
a sudden, the, and then they'rein the city all of a sudden, um,
but stash is one of theparamount, uh, under appreciated
songs, I think in the fishcommunity, the clapping, uh-huh,
um, the cues, everybody rightsinging, maybe so, maybe not,
(01:16:09):
not, we're all asking about whatdestiny has in store for us.
It's great.
Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
Right on, okay cool.
I also like the communal partof it, all the things that bind
the fish community together, therituals when you see them live,
that kind of thing.
That's cool.
Chalk.
Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Dust.
Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
Torture is going to be my number one.
Nice, the, the rituals, whenyou see them live, that kind of
thing, that's cool.
Uh, chalk dust.
Torture is going to be mynumber one.
Speaker 6 (01:16:33):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (01:16:34):
Yeah, I just I love the music.
It's just a straight ahead jam.
It's.
It's sort of like a bad companykind of a thing, you know, Okay
, but or even like I don't know.
Uh, it's just, it has just agreat groove to it, it does, and
(01:16:57):
I just really enjoyed it.
You know, and the solo kind ofstuff in the middle, All they
were all like jamming all at thesame time.
They were all like doing solosalmost at the same time at one
point.
So yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:17:05):
I was into the music.
So that's my.
If anybody gets out toBurlington, go to Nectar's.
Speaker 5 (01:17:09):
That's the club yeah you've been there before, right,
I saw a.
Speaker 6 (01:17:13):
Disco Biscuits cover band there and danced my ass off
Awesome.
It's a really cool musicalvenue, really big and spacious.
Speaker 5 (01:17:20):
Yeah, maybe that'll be a reason to go up to Vermont.
I've always wanted to go toVermont.
I've never been, yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:17:24):
Burlington's great.
Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
You got the lake there.
You got lake there you gotpeaceful maybe it falls, you
know good time to go.
They're probably definitely upand definitely all the leafers
like, like myself coming in.
Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
Yeah, it's good stuff .
All right on okay cool.
Speaker 5 (01:17:39):
All right, man, all right, good talk, all right,
later bye.
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