The Greatest Non Hits
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The Greatest Non Hits
Phish: A Picture of Nectar
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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.
I was thinking about it. I was thinking what an amazing job I have. You know, I get paid to urinate in people's ears.
Speaker 4It's not only people in New York, you know like high priced hookers and stuff.
Speaker 1They get paid to do that too.
Speaker 5They'll have to pay 22 bucks to get their ears urinated in. All right, thank you for listening to Greatest Not Hits. I'm Chris. You for listening to greatest non-hits. I'm chris and uh playing a bunch of different riffs from the album. A picture of nectar is my co-host, tim. So, uh, we want to thank you for listening. A picture of nectar is the third studio album by the band fish. Uh, it was released on february 18th maybe we're 18 1992 on electro records. So, then, this is dedicated to the proprietor of the, the tavern nectars in burlington, vermont. Then that's where fish played their first bar gig, followed by a series of three-month nightstands, and so this is where they you. This is the place where they learned how to play.
Speaker 5So, the proprietor's name was Nectar Rorris and he's a part of the album cover. If you look at it you kind of see it looks like there's skin like an orange peel, but then it's in the silhouette of like a man with a mustache, kind of like looks like one of the Bears fans, yeah, kind of like Ditka-ish sort of, without the shades. But anyway, that's the album cover and that's the inspiration behind what we're going to listen to today, and it's an album that kind of is a jazz, fusion, bluegrass rock. There's even some Latin rock in it and it's, yeah, 1992. They're just, you know.
Speaker 5Other than that, you know, and you know what we always do, we're going to listen to all the songs, we're going to play some sound clips, we're going to have some fun and then we're going to rank the top three non-hits at the end of it. So we've got all that coming for you. But we can fill the rest of the time 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. I can't remember the term for it, but Tim has this big, huge almanac almost of fish stuff and we'll get to that later on.
Speaker 2I'm going to ask him.
Speaker 5He 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 of the 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-weathered listener. I listen to them and it's super impressive. Even though I'm not hardcore, I think everybody can appreciate the tightness, the musicianship. When you listen to that clip you can tell that they're super good friends and they have a good relationship with one another and that's a really endearing kind of thing to to 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 they play together, in sync with one another. I think it's because they know each other very well. They're friends, they're deeply rooted in the others and there's like this balance and this respect that they all have and that's what I think really drives the music.
Speaker 5And it really comes out and we want this podcast to kind of take that on, that ethos, so to speak. And also I listened to it sparingly this week. Tim's going to come into this with the ear of knowing it all. I'm coming in with, okay, I've heard all the songs two or three times, but I don't. I'm hoping that listening today is going to give me, take me to the next step of really having a good understanding of the songs and which ones I like or which 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 strikes me better than the other and I'll just get a better understanding of the of the tracks.
Speaker 5So, up to this point, there's a song called Tweezer Reprise and I think it's the very last song of the tracks. So, up to this point, there's a song called Tweezer Reprise and I think that was the very last song and that was. That's my number one, I think right now with the song Chalk Does Torture and maybe Stash or Llama, even Seven Son of the Llama we have a lot of Carl Spackman clips, shout out to all the Caddyshack fans out there for when we play Llama, which is the first song.
Speaker 5All of the songs are going to be open for me, because from my point of view, there are no hits For Tim like within the Phish community, though and Tim can correct me when he comes on if he wants to, but I think it's. I think Chalk Dust, torture and Cavern are considered faves amongst the community, and Cavern are considered faves amongst the community, so those would be considered hits, or the ones that are the most mainstream of all within the community. So he'll exclude those and give us his top three of the rest.
Album Analysis
Speaker 5So, anyway, what else can I say? I mean, you know the guys. It's, uh, trey anastasio seems to have written most of these, but also collaborated with a few people, so we can keep that in mind. And uh, yeah, he's the guy who plays guitar and lead vocals big, big part of the band. He, he was the guy that was doing a lot of the talking on that clip that we heard in the beginning, and they were also talking about urinating in the ears of listeners. We got that from a YouTube clip online, so I think if you type that into the search, you'll get it. There's other good quotes in there, but, without further ado, our co-host, tim Tim how you doing, bud?
Speaker 6Doing well.
Speaker 5Good to hear man Give us your thoughts.
Speaker 6man Choice, paralysis with the intro. So many good songs.
Speaker 5Yeah, which ones do you like playing the best?
Speaker 6I think Stash is good finger exercise. You're really going up and down.
Speaker 5I'm surprised that I remembered that riff right pretty thoroughly cool so before we get into the album, just tell you don't really have a favorite album. It's more or less like what you're feeling, and so when you listen? To this? When do you go to this? What mood are you in when you go to this album?
Speaker 6Heavy hitters. It's probably a good party fun, optimistic mood I would say yeah, this is a lot of the greatest hits. Yeah, for for live concert goers would be on this one. You know, cavern, chalk, dust, torture are mostly um, or at least cavern is played at the end of sets as closers yeah, there's some songs that really get you energized if they play tweezer. Yeah, that's it, they'll always play. Usually tweet twee prize. They call it twee prize.
Speaker 6Okay, tweezer, reprise um yeah, I didn't know that that was I mentioned earlier that's my favorite up to now, but I'm not, you know it could change at the end, but nevertheless yeah there was the merriweather show where they did the Trinity of Tweezers and played it over and over and broke back into it in all these songs. They played it like eight times throughout. That was pretty wild.
Speaker 5From your experience, like on this album. Which songs have they played the most of Like? Is it Cavern? Is that a staple, or is there is Tweez Prize? From your experience, like on this album, which which songs have they played the most of Like? Is it cavern is always a. Is that a staple, or is there is tweeze prize? Cavern Um or one of the others, I don't know.
Speaker 6Landlady is wedged into uh one of the jams of uh another live song. Okay okay, um, so they actually play landlady in another song, but it's not labeled as landlady. Um yeah, but cavern, for for me, I'm gonna exclude. For me, I'm going to exclude Cavern Tweezer and Chalk Dust Torture out of my top three, because those are what I would deem hits.
Speaker 5I'm sorry you said what, eliza. You put in there too.
Speaker 6No, tweezer, tweezer Reprise Cavern and Chalk Dust Torture. Yep, yeah, tweeze reprise cavern 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 club version. Okay, but uh, yeah right on all right, this is uh. Yeah, I've been to, I guess, two fish festivals now magnaball and uh just did mondegreen in delaware and I broke over 50 shows with mondegreen, which was great great staff.
Speaker 6Yeah, I do kind of. I knew I was close to 50. I'm not entirely sure how many you ready to get into the album.
Speaker 5You got any last thoughts.
Speaker 6Yeah, let's do it. This is a great album. All right, one of the best.
Speaker 5This is a llama.
Speaker 1Big hitter Llama.
Speaker 6Call the fire department. All right, call the fire department, all right.
Speaker 5I want to commend us, though, for having the restraint not to play the joshua fought the battle of jericho clip. Just on this alone, I think it sounds cool. Sunrise over the turquoise mountains.
Speaker 1Messenger birds in sight. They came up from the valley Full sides out of time.
Speaker 6This is about one of Trey's college songs, Lama taboo lama, taboo, taboo, trigger blasts, fast rain, chicken loins, seeds.
Speaker 1I start to run. It was the loudest thing I'd ever heard and I knew my time had come.
Speaker 6To end the day it's about a revolution. You know, bazookas. Taboo is a wooden brick, a stone monument placed above the coffin of the deceased. So they're fighting Iculus in this war. It's sort of like a thing Trey wrote up in college about yeah, it's pretty wild, blast class driving the loyalists back. You know revolution songs. It's a heavy hitter.
Speaker 2E-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 something you know for the?
Speaker 6effort, 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 stick boar. I did catch a glow stick out of mid't. Even know A glow stick boar. I did catch a glow stick out of midair at Mondegreen and everybody thought it was the coolest thing as I ate my cucumber. I was the cucumber guy. Everybody was the guy who snuck in cucumbers to the show.
Speaker 5Yeah, that's. He's got that reputation too.
Speaker 1Bingo Sorry, all right.
Speaker 5Love that song. That's a good start.
Speaker 6Energy, energy right, that's a lot of energy for that one. It is yeah, but they have these little vignettes in in I could have done a coffee shop version of that one, but uh a slow they do a slow llama sometimes oh, do they it's very rare, but they'll do a slow llama.
Speaker 5Oh, I dig that.
Speaker 6That is hilarious actually they mix it up, yeah, a lot of that. Also, john Popper played on that song when they played in New Jersey in Stanhope in 95, just to tie it in to, because Popper's from New Jersey.
Speaker 5Trey's from New Jersey. Yeah, princeton yeah, they're both from that area. Yeah, they're in academia that area. Yeah, they're, they're in like academia that kind of thing.
Speaker 6I don't know if popper likes to pee in the listeners ears, but you know yeah some highbrow stuff yeah, how about those bears?
Speaker 5man, 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 6That's kind of intentional wrote for his then girlfriend Sue Eliza, now his wife.
Speaker 5And now his first daughter is named Eliza so this is named after his now spouse and 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's for you too.
Unraveling "A Picture of Nectar" Album
Speaker 6Exactly there we go. Songs like this kind of freak people out about fish. They're like what they're making, these really elaborate classy jazz pieces. Shout out to Eliza and Spencer, love birds. And Eliza and Danny shout out oh, these are all the Elizas in your life yes, there we go.
Speaker 3I don't have any.
Speaker 5Eliza shout outs, but yeah, but good for them. I don't have any Eliza shout-outs, but yeah, but yeah, but good for them. Good for you too, congratulations.
Speaker 2Barbershop Raga.
Speaker 5That was Barbershop Raga, but yeah glad you caught it.
Speaker 6Barbershop Jazz Raga. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's good.
Speaker 5All right, the next one. Okay, Cavern.
Speaker 6This is a big one.
Speaker 1No 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 why I'm frustrated?
Speaker 5Because I know there, on this song I'm not a fan. I don't know why I'm frustrated.
Speaker 1Because I know there's. This is good, or Saul, oh, or Saul.
Speaker 2Oh, and I'll bring all my shoes and my glasses with me. The last device.
Speaker 1The flesh from Satan's dollars will make the rubies so cruel. Reduct the carrots from your pain, you worthless, swampy, fool you fool.
Speaker 6Worthless. Swampy fool, you fool, I'm happy. Worthless swampy fool.
Speaker 7What the fuck is he talking about?
Speaker 1Exploding them through fields and men and swimming in the mire. The septic made this gargoyle tooth.
Speaker 6Gargoyle tooth Demented me with fire. Demented me with fire. I'd change it where the current chose Wait.
Speaker 1This one's bad.
Speaker 2And if a chance of new slime died, I'd stuff it Mented me with fire, hey listen to that.
Speaker 3I'm a shop roger. Maybe throw a little rouge on you. Tuck your sack back, you game.
Speaker 6No 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. Shout out to the Traveling Fish fans. Here we got slithering slugs, a penile erector.
Speaker 1Yeah, what's the story behind that? We'll get it later. I'm telling you, baby, that's not mine.
Speaker 7That sort of thing is my bag baby.
Speaker 6Oh, shout out to Corota. You know, Saul went to a couple shows back in the 90s. Saul, what did you think about the light show? Eyes are going crazy. Yes, that's Saul. His eyes were going crazy.
Speaker 2Kuroda.
Speaker 7E-Halls often wax funny. What the fuck is he talking about?
Speaker 6A cushion Cushion convector. Yeah, they changed out the penile erector. I think that was probably Paige Didn't like singing about that. Oh, director. Serpent deflector, mud rat detector, ribbon reflector, cushion convector picture effector what the fuck is he talking about.
Speaker 5That's awesome.
Speaker 2Yes, that's a cool hero and I'll bring all my shoes and my glasses with me.
Speaker 5Oh, that's a good way to end that. Thank you All right.
Speaker 2That was all Tim, all right.
Speaker 5You got all Tim All right, you got it down the cavern. This is Poor Heart. This is Country from Diddy.
Speaker 6What do you think, Foghorn?
Speaker 5Don't let him have it, you got to tease him a little. I'm going to certainly tease him. This is some good music here. This kind of reminds me of Don Knotts' Keystone.
Speaker 6Pops. It is a little Mayberry. Yeah it's Mayberry-ish. This is written by Mike after someone stole his tape recorder.
Speaker 1Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 6Okay, hope he finds his four-track tape recorder. There's a.
Speaker 5Goddard thief out there. Yeah, shout out to Kevin Falcon. He's a producer and engineer. He probably has lots of tape.
Speaker 1There's an album coming together.
Speaker 5Like tighter. Yeah, I think it's coming out Like like their musicianship is better, yeah, first, one that we did.
Speaker 6Gordon Gordon stone is on pedal steel on this one. Yeah, gotcha. Really, the drumming on this is this whole album is fish, is the drummer, you know it's always laying down yeah, some banjo, kevin herpin, maybe harpin, maybe um maybe not, I'm not sure.
Speaker 5Mike gordon's played a good bass on this. Oh, he annually vocals too.
Speaker 6Yeah, mike gordon he's a great vocalist. I mean he's got sort of a nasally. Uh, he's got the crazy eyes. Yes, he does shout out to the scarf wearers and tea drinkers. Okay.
Speaker 5Yep, 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 1They all.
Speaker 6They all fit right in there.
Speaker 1Yes, they do, they all fit right in there.
Speaker 6It's a great harmony.
Speaker 1They sound better when they sing together. You won't steal that thing. Yeah, you won't steal my poor heart yeah All right, this is Stash.
Speaker 3I'm telling you, baby, that's not mine.
Speaker 4So how would you boost me, especially when you know I smell it? I'm so how would you boost me Especially?
Speaker 6when 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 4You smell it at a fish show Marijuana in the car, which last time you had anything in the car you got to clap.
Speaker 3You got to clap three times Marijuana in the car, which last time you had anything in the car, you gotta clap.
Speaker 6You gotta clap three times. That was like four I think At the show you gotta clap, but not too much, but not too much.
Speaker 5This is like a fugue or something that Trey was learning in college that he made this song. Yeah, there's a lot of notes. Yeah this is that tension and release sort of like up and down. I mean you could probably do Simon Karp's in Florida maybe in a Baroque.
Speaker 6It's very Baroque-y, it's fusing.
Speaker 7Sort of thing. Is my bag baby?
Speaker 4I know you smell it, you know what's in there. This is crazy. This sucks, man. We could have been fine, but now you got me out here trying to play me as Boo Boo the Fool. Come on, man, we're better than that, all right.
Speaker 1Sloping companion. I cast down the ash, yanked out my tunic and dangled my stash, zipping through the forest with a curling fleas To grow in them. Spindles, the mutant, I seize Sort of a.
Speaker 5Yeah, very interesting it starts to get gross and then comes back talking about the police trey counts references as charlie chrisman, miles davis, john coltrane, charles mingus um charles mingus.
Speaker 6Yeah, they would play this at the wetlands. Preserve a lot, apparently.
Speaker 5Miles Davis John.
Speaker 6Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus. Yeah, they would play this at the Wetlands. Preserve a lot. Apparently it's the II V7i progression.
Speaker 4And you're holding everything for everybody.
Speaker 6How you sort of go back to home base Okay.
Speaker 5So they play this song just to keep themselves grounded and in a way, playing it really reminds them of their early, where they came from.
Speaker 6Oh, yeah, for sure. And the offbeat drumming is phenomenal in this Very unusual drumming patterns.
Speaker 5That John Fishman is a really great drummer.
Speaker 4And you're holding everything for everybody.
Speaker 6He's holding the beat, what's up.
Speaker 1I 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 Control for smile. So how would you the solar garlic?
Speaker 4Boost me, especially when you know I smell it. I'm telling you I smell it.
Speaker 6You smell that garlic rot Solar garlic.
Speaker 1Maybe, so Maybe not Maybe baby, maybe baby, maybe baby, maybe baby Maybe. So maybe not Maybe, maybe Maybe maybe Maybe maybe Maybe maybe Maybe. So maybe not Maybe.
Speaker 3So maybe not Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe Maybe maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe.
Speaker 1Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, Maybe maybe.
Speaker 2Maybe, maybe, maybe. You better not mention that again you.
Speaker 1Solar garlic.
Speaker 6Just life just keeps happening. Was it, was it for this, my life, I'd saw.
Speaker 3Life is like hey, guess what?
Speaker 6And you're like what? And it's like bam, bam you better not mention that again.
Speaker 1More life.
Speaker 6It just never stops giving you more life. That's life. Hey, you want another scoop, my love boy.
Speaker 5You want another scoop?
Speaker 4And you holding everything for everybody. Let's shout out to the cops.
Speaker 6I mean this kind of soloing with the tension of the piano versus the guitar, the drum and bass together is I mean, it's a crowd favorite Really?
Speaker 3Listen to the mic there, run it down.
Speaker 6Yeah, I love it. It's Calypso sort of drumming.
Speaker 3It's part love it.
Speaker 6It's Calypso sort of drumming. This part of it is cool.
Speaker 5Yeah, there's certain parts of songs on this album that are like oh yeah, I like this part of this song.
Speaker 6I mean, this is goosebumps when you're at a live show.
Speaker 5Yeah, that's what I've heard. It's like you've got to go to the shows. That's a big part of being into it.
Speaker 6It's so much good light show, everybody's just grooving for this.
Speaker 5Okay, now I get it. Yeah, I've got to go to the show, I'll do it. I'm got to go to the show, I'll do it. I'm going to go by the end of the season. I'll find a place.
Speaker 1All right. Sure, you know that if is the middle word in life. If you can keep your head when all about you're losing there's a blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, I mean, I know, I can't, I'm man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man oh, oh, nice timing on that foot.
Speaker 5What mantica all right.
Speaker 3Crab in my shoe mouth Crab in my crab. In my crab in my shoe mouth.
Speaker 5All right, a little vignette, a little vignette Beulah papyrus, here Is it.
Speaker 6Beulah Beulah yeah, like Beulah Beulah yeah. Beulah papyrus here Is it Beulah Beulah. Yeah, like Beulah, beulah, beulah.
Speaker 5Beulah. So this is like A super popular song and it's. I want to go back to this. On fishnet, trey explains that it's a song about a mother and he explains that it was Dave's mother. It's Dave's mother, his name is Gwela. Knock on the door of his bedroom, come in, poke Dave in the hallway and spoil all about his mother. Have you heard that story before?
Speaker 6No, I did not know that. Yeah, I thought this was more of a Trey Senior Thesis song. It's just some kind of adventure that these it's kind of reggae Barbershop Rocker.
Diving Into Fish's Song Meanings
Speaker 1See, that's all. She washed me all.
Speaker 6Fish Clan is definitely expanding like some kind of recursive virus there. Even nowadays, all the young kids are there. It's crazy, crazy. There's got to be a virus or two. They're vaping, yeah, the vapors. So it's a larval craze, the vape.
Speaker 5There's got rhinothropic thunder, yeah flavors yeah, a fish concert has its own gut. Microbiome yeah, flavors yeah, a fish concert has its own gut microbiome.
Speaker 7What the fuck is he talking about? What the fuck?
Speaker 6This is a sort of chromatic adventure here.
Speaker 5Yeah, like the carnival gone wrong.
Speaker 6Yes, Are you liking this one?
Speaker 5This is taking you down to. Yeah, it's taking me back to seven years old.
Speaker 6The Silken Tunnel? Yeah, something like that, something like that.
Speaker 5Yeah, just like a bad dream. This is like the soundtrack of that kind of a dream. It's got a subconscious kind of vibe to it.
Speaker 6Now Trey moves the sustain and then Paige does the sort of shining theme, and then they both kind of sync up at the same time. Yeah.
Speaker 5Oh man, A here's Johnny clip would sound really good with this right now. Yeah, oh man, A here's Johnny clip 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 Same song.
Speaker 1And be deracked as I die Deracked as I die and be a ritual from within the silken tunnel that they spit.
Speaker 5Yeah, like that spider.
Speaker 6Purple frown Spoil the mood Shout out to the short people out there, the short fish fans and the tall ones, you know. Yeah, that are blocking the fish, 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 tallest fish fan, I know, yeah. Shout out to Steve and Andy.
Speaker 5And shout out to the person directly behind them that's 5 feet tall. Yeah, he has a face full of his ass.
Speaker 6They're riding on the redundant rail. Yeah, the rail riders Shout out to the rail riders. There's like a guy's group of fans called the rail riders. They were like just these middle-aged, really really aggro fish fans that would like elbow chicks and like like really stamp their territory and people would like be like what the hell is your problem, man? And they're like I'm not about to stop now. I've been on the rail for you know how many shows, so they're like keeping a uh, their own little yeah, they get there early.
Speaker 6You know they don't tailgate, they go right, go right into the venue and sit there.
Speaker 5They never wear diapers. Yeah, exactly, it's pretty Baby baby.
Speaker 6A little Magila, a little teaser. Lots of instrumentals in this one.
Speaker 5You've been pretty tight-lipped about your ranking. I'm going to be interested to see that. Are you going to? Can I ask if there's going to be a vignette like this on there? Um?
Speaker 6No, okay, yeah, I do like the vignettes, but there's, there's so much packed into those longer songs. Right, exactly, you can't ignore it, you can't.
Speaker 3I mean.
Speaker 5And I can see how it's. For some it might be a pointless exercise to rank. Yeah, sometimes there can be a mood, but I think when you're newer like me and familiarizing yourself with the songs, there are certain ones that grab you. Yeah, Like right now. Sometimes you go out of favor of other songs, but I'm just in the moment, these are my three. I'll give my songs, but I'm just in the moment, these are my three. I'll give my top three non-hits in the moment. I'm going to keep listening to this album and see if it changes over time.
Speaker 6So we've got a little ragah here, barbershop ragah.
Speaker 5This is very barbershop ragah Aguila is barbershop ragah To those tourers.
Speaker 6call your mom if you got dinner on the table, okay mikey, come on.
Speaker 3Our parents are worried. It's dinner time. Why don't we go home? Wow?
Speaker 6I don't think they've ever played this live, actually really maybe Really Maybe. This is a Paige McConnell contribution. It debuted in 1990 at the Wetlands Wow.
Speaker 5Oh, so they were playing this at the Wetlands.
Speaker 6It 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 5Interesting.
Speaker 6Okay.
Speaker 5I think I was reading somewhere that there's another song in here that went out of the circulation a long time ago. They haven't played it since the 90s, oh yeah.
Speaker 6People are always chasing. No, this occasionally creeps up into set lists. Last played in 2014 in Merriweather.
Speaker 5Oh, wow, okay, this is the landlady, oh, okay.
Speaker 7I'm getting out of here, man, she's nasty.
Speaker 5Gotta watch out for the landlady. I can give you half. She's coming for the rent.
Speaker 7I'm getting out of here. Man, she's nasty, you pay him. I thought I was clear in my email that I needed a couple weeks Shout to Marsha.
Speaker 5Fixing the plumbing. It's kind of cool how they'll play like a heavy rock riff over this.
Speaker 3Latin kind of.
Speaker 6Calypso, sort of yeah, it's Latin style Samba-esque, written by Trey oh. This is played in Punch you in the Eye, which is one of their bigger rock songs. They play this in Punch you in the Eye Because it kind of fits Again again. This song emerged at the wetlands. Okay, entering heavy rotation there.
Speaker 593 wetlands is like in like new york. Yeah, I know it's in manhattan, like lower manhattan.
Speaker 6I think it was yeah, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 5Or close by. But yeah, it's infamous, it's famous, infamous. There's a lot of people. It's sort of like the Whiskey A Go-Go of New York. All those bands played there.
Speaker 6It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3Yeah, they wedge this into another song that they play live, I mean this is oh, wow yeah. This is the part where you've got to give this kind of a song some consideration.
Speaker 5Santana, I think Right.
Speaker 6Definitely.
Speaker 7I can give you half, all right.
Speaker 5You pay now. You pay now.
Speaker 6All right, this is Glide.
Speaker 5Not much to say on this one yeah, it's just kind of it almost silly, almost a time filler.
Speaker 6Well, it was written by tom marshall, the lyricist, and fish. When they used to, they used to sit outside as teenagers and say we're glad, glad, glad that you're alive to people randomly and thought that was hilarious, okay, and so this is kind of where that song came out of there's a lot of collaboration, like anastasia fishman, gordon mcconnell, marshall marshall yeah, marshall is the beginning lyricist for fish.
Speaker 6They work with him. They'll take poems that he writes and rework them. They'll take, you know, inspiration from their experiences to make songs. Marshall is like he's the lyricist yeah he's a producer slash lyricist type. He gets in on the process. He's another one of their best friends.
Speaker 5you know You're right, he's just not a recurring member of the band. Anastasio Gordon and McConnell are doing that.
Speaker 7He was.
Speaker 5Yeah, I'm sorry go ahead.
Speaker 6I think they kicked him out in the beginning. He didn't want to be in the band. Oh, he didn't want to be in the band. Yeah. I don't know he didn't have quite the musical chops. I don't think.
Speaker 5Yeah, but he's in a friend group still. Yeah, for sure they respect him as a friend, as a person he's involved. This is a way for him to be involved?
Speaker 6Yeah, they. Nowadays they don't really. I don't think he writes for them. But Fish write for themselves, are they?
Speaker 5all still. Is Marshall still alive? Is he still in the fold in some way?
Speaker 6He'll do shows Tom Marshall, and people in Denver and Colorado and crunchy towns love to see Tom Marshall. Okay, I got you. I mean he'd run like an antelope and all those other songs. A lot of Yuta songs were written by Marshall.
Speaker 5Right, yeah, I think we talked about that. And Stash, he wrote that with Anastasia and Guala Papyrus too. I'll say he had a significant hand in this.
Speaker 2That's some heavy shit, man. E-halls often wax one.
Speaker 3Maybe throw a little rouge on ya.
Speaker 6This is a little bit of a break.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's a feels better moment.
Speaker 1A 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, glad, glad, glad.
Speaker 5And we're glad, glad, glad that you're a glad, you're a glide. That's kind of like a church kind of a choir thing a little acapella yeah. Oh man All right tweezer.
Speaker 6Oh, oh man.
Speaker 3Looks like she's going to turn cold tomorrow. Oh yeah, Got a front coming in.
Speaker 1Disco Stu got hooked on the white stuff back in the 70s.
Speaker 5Yeah, this is kind of like work it, work it.
Speaker 6Work it yeah baby.
Speaker 1Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool Into the freezer.
Speaker 4Caesar with a freezer. What when you get out of the water?
Speaker 3you need to dry off right away to avoid catching a cold.
Speaker 1Disco stoop. Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool and the water was cold.
Speaker 3You pay up.
Speaker 6Pay up. All right, this is what you go to pay for, won't you step into the freezer?
Speaker 2This is going to be cold and you're next.
Speaker 6Teaser with a tweezer. Get the tweezers out, get those. Shout out to the unibrows out there. Oh man, just tweezing all the time, or not, if they have the unibrow.
Speaker 5They're embracing it. I have attempted it a time or two.
Speaker 6I got off of that. You can't go up you got to go out. You can't go like this you got to go out.
Speaker 5We go out is the key, otherwise it just keeps growing fuller and thicker. Yeah.
Speaker 7What the fuck is he talking about? What the fuck?
Speaker 2Son of a man, son of a man Flowing robes.
Speaker 6The 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 want to keep going and I mean they're not gonna not to bridge this. You got 40-minute tweezers. They just go for it. We still have like tweeze prize coming up.
Speaker 5Twee prize, it's always yeah and it's still the same writing group Anastasia Fishman Gordon.
Speaker 3This is going gonna be cold. Looks like she's gonna turn cold tomorrow.
Speaker 6Yeah, there's just like a little a couple more minutes.
Speaker 2What if we find something?
Speaker 6huh, a couple more minutes isn't gonna hurt. Come on, mikey, we're going right now. No, give him a few minutes. Give him a few more minutes isn't going to hurt, come on, mikey, we're going right now.
Speaker 7No, let's go. Bye brother, give him a few minutes.
Speaker 6Give him a few more minutes on this one, Uncle Ebenezer.
Speaker 5Let me get on this one. This is the only song this and Twee's reprise where all four write and perform yeah, Of the four members On this album, and I think it comes out.
Speaker 6It's a lot of bass slapping. You hear that? Yeah, with the bass going, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Oh, that's good yeah.
Speaker 6Little key change yeah.
Speaker 5That's supposed to be a hard as hell to play. There's a lot of pull-offs for hammer-on pull-off. And not many bands have this kind of musicality.
Speaker 6No's level, not like this, I mean I mean, can that be overstated?
Speaker 6I think, yeah, it can. They all have a little bit of restraint here and they. What the listeners need to know is they do these musical exercises and jams together, where they sort of try to be minimal and listen to the bassist and then play like the bassist if trey is listening to mike, oh and then just feed off of it. Feed off of and like sort of improvise tune out of your own instrument, yeah, tune into what they're playing, so you're enjoying it. Okay with the jam, and this is what the jam you know.
Speaker 5A couple more minutes of jamming, yeah and they're playing is an expression of their, their fervor for what the other guys are doing.
Speaker 6Yeah, exactly, they're best friends. I mean listen to Paige right now, yeah, one's playing this one riff. Paige is playing a somewhat different riff On a baby grand here, a baby grand piano. I mean, not many people do that either, not many pianists.
Speaker 2Oh, oh.
Speaker 6Paige was asked what he likes to listen to in his free time and he said a lot of times he doesn't listen to music at all Because he's always playing music. Right, you have to reset your mind.
Speaker 5It's hard to hear this all the time and then play it and practice it. You do have to. We should probably add a little bit of a breath. It doesn't get this nuts in the reprise, does it? No? That's probably why they have a reprise, does it? No, that's probably why they have a reprise.
Speaker 6To just take this out Chromatically goes up with that riff. Yeah, plays the same riff over and over, but chromatically up and up, right, right, I follow you Until he runs out of space on the guitar.
Speaker 5He's just banging on the piano, but he stops. It's terrible, it's terrible. Yeah, this is like one of the more challenging parts of the album for me. Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, bicycle went crazy.
Speaker 5This is bringing us back down. After all that, they probably do it for their sanity too? I don't know man, I don't know what sanity is for this band. I mean, this actually helps that they did this at the end. You know of all that raga that we heard before raga. Yeah, that's randomly never random not randomly, but just yeah kind of playing off each other, right? Ah, it feels better.
Speaker 6Tension release there. Yeah, this is the mango song, yep.
Speaker 3Mango, mango.
Speaker 5Mango Shout out to Mango from SNL.
Speaker 3Shout out to Mango from SNL. Mango, you're incredible.
Analyzing Fish's Musical Genius
Speaker 7Incredible. We gotta get you in the recording studio. Slander on wrapped paper ties.
Speaker 5Lifting up his heavy boots. Mango could have been a bigger star than Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 4Sorry, I guess his star is born. Grasp the kettle top and shoot the breeze please.
Speaker 3Ramble while slob scrapers sigh.
Speaker 6Lots of harmonizing here there is. They do the runs, but they have different verses. They're all singing different verses. Later on you'll hear Okay.
Speaker 1Invisible beneath his troubled eyes verses.
Speaker 5Later on you'll hear Some of their harmonizations. Don't their harmonies? Don't do it for me.
Speaker 7Grape apple pie. What the?
Speaker 5fuck is he talking about? Oh, you're talking about me, huh.
Speaker 1Just the lyrics, yeah.
Speaker 5I like it.
Speaker 6Oh, why, why, why, why, why is he going to be a genius? This is about an adoption of a baby. Something Doesn't have any limbs or something, but it's going to be a genius kind of thing. I don't really.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's got to be a fishnet somewhere. It's.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6His hands and feet are mangled, but they change it to his hands and feet are mangoes. Yeah, when they were writing it. Thus it became the mango song. I guess.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's about a boy who loses his extremities yet goes on to become a great genius, a trait hitched upon us selects sentence in Aaron's verbal description to him. His hands and feet are mangled, transformed ever so slightly into the delightfully down-sensitive chorus of what would eventually become the main song.
Speaker 6I love Mike on this.
Speaker 5Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 6Let's keep that bass down. This is a good party sound live song when they play. I've maybe heard this a couple times live. Okay, they definitely jam a little bit, but it's pretty much played how it is on the album it's one of those here you'll see the uh. They're all singing different things here oh, okay, it's coming.
Speaker 5I got you. That was kind of I heard it a little bit there even your hands and feet are mangoes.
Speaker 1You'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. Your hands and feet are mangoes, yeah.
Speaker 5Trey 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'm making that shit up, could be. I think he was on Sesame Street once. Did he make an appearance there after he became famous?
Speaker 6No, his mom was the child's book author and editor of Sesame Street magazine.
Speaker 5Oh yeah, he was born in Fort Worth, moved to Princeton.
Speaker 2New.
Speaker 5Jersey. So that's maybe his affinity with John Popper and the Blues Travelers because they hooked up in Princeton as well. That's kind of cool. They do some clever things. Some of it's annoying. They could have cut that off a little bit sooner, that's a charm, right.
Speaker 6They're going for the hard.
Speaker 5That's all folks ending on that one. I got you. I gotta put more time into this. I know, yeah, this is chalk dust torture. This is it.
Speaker 3From within. I like it.
Speaker 5I think I heard them play this song.
Speaker 6Letterman. Oh yeah, dave definitely had them on to play this song. Trey's got the low voice on this. Yeah, oh no, will it a locust lurker Willingly? Locust Lurker Willingly.
Speaker 1Locust Lurker.
Speaker 6Trey's got the low end. Yeah, paige's got the high end there. This one's a simpler song and then you get to the solo and it's got that Right Sort of Chromatic thing going on. Yeah. Shout out to the sun dancers.
Speaker 5All my vasoconstrictors, they come slowly.
Speaker 6Yeah, I'll have you read the fish companion, the fish Bible. That's it, the fish companion.
Speaker 1Then 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 to educate somebody's fright. So who can I learn all the facts that I've learned? I sat in their chairs and my synapses burned. The torture of chalk dust collects on my tongue. Thoughts follow my vision and dance in the sun. All my vassal pictures make up slowly undone Give this way till I'm old. Can I live while I'm young? Can I live while I'm slowly undone Can't just wait till I'm old. Can I live while I'm young.
Speaker 7Can I live while I'm young?
Speaker 3Take your brain out of your head, wash it, scrub it, make it clean.
Speaker 5Vasu constrictors are in your brain, right yeah, so yeah, this is I'm just gonna say it out right now who constrictors are in your brain, right, yeah? So, yeah, this is. I'm just going to say it out right now. This is the best song we've heard, so far you like this one.
Speaker 6You like those classic rock bangers, don't you?
Speaker 5Yeah, 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 6This is, yeah, flat-out rock and roll. It's Tina Turner rolling down the river.
Speaker 5Rolling down a river.
Speaker 6Yeah, this is a frenzy, this is like Eagle is often waxed when Big hitter, it's a big hitter.
Speaker 3Big hitter.
Speaker 6The Dust Stu knows about the Dust Disco Stu got hooked on the white stuff back in the 70s.
Speaker 1The dust Stu knows about the dust Disco.
Speaker 3Stu got hooked on the white stuff back in the 70s.
Speaker 6In 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 5They're like the shamans of the tribe. I mean, if you can't hook down to stuff in the 70s and you're still alive right now, God bless you.
Speaker 3That's all I got to say.
Speaker 5We have a little. This is palate cleansing in its effect.
Speaker 6Yes, I couldn't get Tralala Boom DA out of my head, actually from the last podcast, tralala.
Speaker 3Boom DA.
Speaker 6Tralala, boom, da out of my head, actually from the last podcast.
Speaker 3Trollhalla Boom DA. All right, I don't know about this.
Speaker 6Shout out to the nature lovers out there.
Speaker 5Yeah, shout out to the Grand Funk Railroad fans out there. I think this is kind of like.
Speaker 3That. You know that yeah.
Speaker 6What is David? What's your take on this one? Cotton flush of flowers and leaves attracts lots of plant eaters oh, thank you, dave.
Speaker 5Lots of plant eaters.
Speaker 6I have a little light rain here.
Speaker 5How do you pronounce the name of the song Fat Fat? This is called Make my Love Pop. And what is all that shit?
Speaker 6it's fucking bullshit just take a moment now and realize that all that shit is just bullshit oh. God, oh, is this the Amazon in 20 years? I'm scared.
Speaker 5I'm scared. Alright, Dr Davis telephone. Please Shout out to Queensryche Operation Mindcrime.
Speaker 6Shout out to the Ween fans out there. That's Catapult, okay.
Speaker 5A vignette. Oh, here's the, the.
Speaker 3Grand Funk Railroad.
Speaker 5This is Tweezer Reprise. This is the last one, right.
Speaker 2Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool.
Speaker 5I like this version better this one's. Oh yeah, when they close with this this version better.
Speaker 6Oh yeah, when they close with this. This is amazing. This is like, yeah, when Mike goes up on that.
Speaker 5I 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 6Yeah, this is pure just. But it also has this sort of Donato sort of like you know composer opera piece, but rock opera sort of thing to it as well. How many shows have they played? How many shows have they played live? Yeah, ever, yeah. How many shows have they played live?
Speaker 5yeah, ever yeah, I don't know uh, the 64 at Winston Square Garden 1,816.
Speaker 6There's way more than that, because they're not. There's thousands, thousands. Well, that's according to one source. I think fishnet would be the source, but I don't. They don't really get into that. It's like not important. They have how many songs, what percentage of the song played, all that. I don't know how many times the song is played wow, all right, cool.
Speaker 5Well, that's it. Yeah. Oh, that was good. Yeah, I, you know I, that was that was needed on my end. Uh, let's get into the top three. Man, what's? Uh, do you have yours?
Speaker 6um yeah, I mean, obviously this is just shout out to the ones that are my perceived hits of tweezer, twee, prize, shock, dust and cavern, because those are sort of the live heavy hitters.
Speaker 5Yeah, so that's out of your consideration.
Speaker 6I'm going to go. Number three is going to be Poor Heart.
Speaker 5Okay.
Speaker 6I'm going to go. Poor Heart, you know the tape recorder. I like to have a little bluegrass in my fish show. It makes me feel uh, cultured it's good.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's a great song. For sure I was gonna. I was gonna say it's impressive the way they, yeah, they do that and I, I can see where you're coming from with that, okay, uh, my number, I think my number three is going to be. My number three is going to be Tweezer Reprise. Nice, okay, because, yeah, it might be in yours if you were considering those.
Speaker 3It definitely is yeah.
Speaker 5It's a classic and it's a hit, you know, and there's a reason why it's a hit it's because it's a great jam.
Speaker 6Yeah, everybody should know about that song.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 6You know, exercisers, runners, twee prize. You're running up the hill, what's up?
Speaker 5Yeah, it's motivating too.
Speaker 6You're going to the next level.
Speaker 5Every so often.
Speaker 6What about your number two, mango Song? Oh yeah, it really was well placed in the album in between two rock, uh, you know, bangers, sort of a. Um, it's just a beautiful composition of a song. Um and a great chorus. You know your hands and feet are mangoes, but you're going to be a genius anyway. I mean what? What? Yeah? Mango song too, okay course you know, your hands and feet are mangoes, but you're gonna be a genius anyway. I mean, what, what, yeah, mango song two okay, my number two was stash.
Speaker 5Oh nice, I, I liked it. It was just really musical, my memory. And then it did some weird stuff at the end that was like, oh wow, it just like captivates you and and uh does like all kinds of puts a little spell on you yeah, it does. Yeah, I got right in the pocket with it, so I'm gonna say that was my number two okay, yeah, I mean, I have to go stash number one yeah, okay I honorable mention to gula papyrus.
Speaker 6I love eliza. It's great song. Um, okay, I mean landlady, I always just think of Punch you in the Eye. So I'm not going to say Landlady, although it's a great song. And I do like the vignette of Fat. I mean, I always tell people about that because it's just so weird and clever. It's like the rainforest, and then they're in the city all of a sudden, the, and then they're in the city all of a sudden, um, but stash is one of the paramount, uh, under appreciated songs, I think in the fish community, the clapping, uh-huh, um, the cues, everybody right singing, maybe so, maybe not, not, we're all asking about what destiny has in store for us. It's great.
Speaker 5Right on, okay cool. I also like the communal part of it, all the things that bind the fish community together, the rituals when you see them live, that kind of thing. That's cool. Chalk.
Speaker 3Dust.
Speaker 5Torture is going to be my number one. Nice, the, the rituals, when you see them live, that kind of thing, that's cool. Uh, chalk dust. Torture is going to be my number one.
Speaker 6Nice.
Speaker 5Yeah, I just I love the music. It's just a straight ahead jam. It's. It's sort of like a bad company kind of a thing, you know, Okay, but or even like I don't know. Uh, it's just, it has just a great groove to it, it does, and I just really enjoyed it. You know, and the solo kind of stuff in the middle, All they were all like jamming all at the same time. They were all like doing solos almost at the same time at one point. So yeah.
Nectar's Club in Burlington, Vermont
Speaker 6I was into the music. So that's my. If anybody gets out to Burlington, go to Nectar's.
Speaker 5That's the club yeah you've been there before, right, I saw a.
Speaker 6Disco Biscuits cover band there and danced my ass off Awesome. It's a really cool musical venue, really big and spacious.
Speaker 5Yeah, maybe that'll be a reason to go up to Vermont. I've always wanted to go to Vermont. I've never been, yeah.
Speaker 6Burlington's great.
Speaker 5You got the lake there. You got lake there you got peaceful maybe it falls, you know good time to go. They're probably definitely up and definitely all the leafers like, like myself coming in.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's good stuff. All right on okay cool.
Speaker 5All right, man, all right, good talk, all right, later bye.