YEM review - 9/9/99 GM Place, Vancouver, British Columbia

Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:11:54 -0700
From: Charles Dirksen cdirksen@earthlink.net
To: rmp@archive.phish.net
Subject: 9/9/99 Vancouver Enjoys Itself (and more)
 
9/9/99 GM Place, Vancouver, British Columbia
 
Thanks to Mr. Dan Hantman for the discs! Opening of YEM isn't as
tight as it could be (Trey's a little shaky.. but just a little).
Snoopy segment at 4:17, after a typically harmonious, spacey
pre-Snoopy section.  Mike's solo section at 5:01 is melodic and
pleasant. Pre-charge section is strong.  Brad brings the trampolines
out, it sounds like, in light of the crowd's reaction.  Charge at
7:22 and
 
"Boy" at 7:39 after a wussy, unusually high-pitched scream.
BMGS/WUDMTF segment is the usual funky fare, with some nice riffs
and fills inbetween "verses."  Trampolines jam at 9:49.  Page is on
the keyboards as usual.  I'd love to hear a moog solo in here
sometime. Maybe he thinks the moog sound is too overbearing, I
dunno.  Mike signals for the tramps moves, and riffs about well.
Fish picks up the beat a little bit.  Trey repeats some chords
around 11:30, funkily, adding another layer to this jam.  Mike is
very melodic on the bottom end.  Fish complements the groove well
with some good fills.  Trey continues repeating the same chords as
he had started playing over a minute earlier (13 mins), as Mike
tools around along the bottom melodically.
 
At 13:11 the jam stops DEAD and Mike solos for two measures.  The jam
kicks back in at 13:28 where it left off (see also the 9/29 Memphis
Mike's Song, to some extent).  It stops dead again at 14:04 or so.
But Trey starts ripping it up when the full band returns at 14:24.  A
few measures later Fish stops playing but no one else does, which is,
uhh, awkward.  But they get things going again.  Ok, not really.  Trey
lets loose a digital delay loop at 16 minutes, but continues noodling
around repetitively in the upper octaves of his 'doc.  Jam isn't doing
much at all at this point (16:35).  No climax...
 
At 16:43 Trey starts starts up the closing WUDTMF lyrics.  Vocal jam
doesn't do anything out of the Ordinary Weirdness you've come to
expect, and is actually quite mellow (lots of harmonizing on various
sounds, and a good crescendo, but that's it).  Total time 20:50.  B-
 
two cents
charlie
 


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