This was one of the songs I heard as I meandered my way back to the very bottom of the south lot at Red Rocks to put my camera away and get a recharge of beers from my rental car trunk. Patrick was taping:
20090730 Phish The Wedge from patrick nelson on Vimeo.
It’s fair to say I owe my entire Phish tour to my friend Patrick Nelson, a good man that just happened to come up with one extra ticket for each night of Phish at Red Rocks and happened to offer it up to me after some of his buddies couldn’t commit. I’m a lucky man sometimes. And Patrick is one hell of a photog who was trying his hand with his new HD camera all weekend, and he ended up getting some really good videos.
While I was down in the photo pit, Patrick was at his seat taping the opener HD style:
20090730 Phish The Divided Sky from patrick nelson on Vimeo.
This is the first of many. Enjoy.
Doh! I completely forgot to publish this last night.
Just like Carrie Brownstein over at Monitor Mix, this week and much of our summer will be filled with the sights, sounds and smells of the band we love way too much: Phish. The Red Rocks pre-parties are getting planned, and I’m working on my ultimate iPod mixes for the long road trip out to Denver. All of this coupled with the excitement over this Halloween “Save the Date” Festival, and it’s pretty fair to say it’s a damn good time to be a Phish fan.
Take, for instance, this fan video of “Bug” from the three-night Hampton run back in March. Sure, it’s a song not everybody loves, but you can’t deny that the power that fans have these days to put together quality content dedicated to the band they all love too much. The USTREAM guy? HD videos everywhere on YouTube? I love it.
I know this is retardedly obvious to say again, but we really are living in some crazy times.
I’m sitting down in my living room enjoying some Phish HD videos on my Mac Mini piping through my HD TV, straight-up balling like I always do, and I couldn’t help but get nostalgic about the fact that about 10 years ago around this time I was probably sitting in a computer lab in Normal, IL and updating my Phish tape list page that was hosted on Angelfire. That got me thinking about the next ten years and what I may be doing ten years from today, and I got especially excited about the possibility that Phish may very well be around and still performing as strongly as they did on their return to rare form this year. The Hampton shows were a new Phish but a very old and lovable Phish. One that took chances on stage. One that smiled constantly. One that played for four hours three days in a row without breaking a sweat.
I think back to what the internet and Phish fandom was like before YouTube, where fans are capturing HD videos of a concert that many around the world only wish they could have seen firsthand. But the internet is seriously allowing me to enjoy more of those concerts than I ever thought possible, so I thought I’d share a few of my own personal highlights of the Phish Hampton internet experience with you today as the return of the always-popular Phish Friday series. Read on for more picks.
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