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Originally Posted by atari 2600
Whatever. Sonic Youth slays them like nobody's business. So do The Jesus Lizard, the actual Takling Heads & many others are better as well live. I like their taste in music & their live shows were fun, but I saw Phish more times that most people & I saw them for $3 when they jumped on mini-trampolines all the time. By the time I stopped seeing them when they came through Athens (which they did so much you would have thought they were a local band) they were charging $6.
I have fond memories of over at a dealer's place who lived adjacent to Widepread Panic's practice space & we would make fun of them & listen to Mudhoney.
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They never really "slayed" in my opinion until 1994 when they made the transition to Arenas. Before then they were just a damn good bar band. Hands down the best band I've seen live, and I've seen SY live quite a few times. SY has never even remotely gotten to the level live that Phish has.
Of course, it might be because I've seen Phish play ambient noise at 3 in the morning from the top of an unused Air Traffic Control tower while contortionists and acrobats were spinning around it....and I've seen phish play from midnight until sunrise straight.
And, they never stopped jumping on trampolines. At their last show, they gave away their current set of tramps away to the crowd.