I hope Phish keeps playing the way they do so that we have to keep coming up with ridiculous names for their jams to talk about to other Phish fans in our weird secret language.
Watch the video every one of your Phish friends will be talking about…
Phish – 2001 – Thriller Jam – 6/25/2010 Camden NJ – HD [YouTube]
I got an email from the Metermaids the other day with this track attached:
Metermaids – Two Rows of Teeth vs. Thriller [mp3]
It got me thinking that I haven’t been hearing too many bands work some level of Michael Jackson tribute into their sets these days. I guess that’s not crazy surprising to anyone, but I half-expected almost every show I saw after that event would feature some level of Thriller tease, a Beat It jam, or something similar. Am I just not seeing the right bands or is this too cliche to expect from any self-respecting touring musician?
I’m going to look into this one a bit. I know there are plenty of MJ tributes before his untimely passing but I’m curious as to whether or not people feel they can do it justice now that he’s gone. And if you want to catch the Metermaids tackling the MJ tributes, they’re playing at The Studio at Webster Hall in NYC tonight.
Right before my band and I got loaded up for a gig in Berkeley, we got the sad news that Michael Jackson had died at UCLA Medical Center in California after being rushed there following cardiac arrest. We got through the gig without any major mention of the event, and the second I got home I watched about two hours of CNN coverage of the tragedy. Sad day for the music world, but hopefully he can finally get some peace from a tumultuous life lead in the public eye.
Last night I ended up reflecting on how much I loved the Jackson’s 5 music without ever purchasing anything from their back catalog, so to honor the true talent of this legend, I’ll link to one of my favorite Jackson 5 songs. Feel free to drop comments if you’re a fan that has a good Michael Jackson memory from your own life. I don’t have many besides me and my buddies trying to learn the Thriller dance in middle school so that we could bust it out totally spontaneously if we were ever walking in the halls together, but this was also around the time that I had a tremendous obsession with “The Humpty Dance” and taking on a psuedo-Humpty public persona to get laughs out of people whenever I needed to. Life might have been easier back then.
R.I.P. Jacko. You will be missed.
THE JACKSON 5 “THE LOVE YOU SAVE” [YouTube]
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