SOUNDTRACK: PHISH-“Your Pet Cat” (MGM Grand Garden Arena, Friday 10, 31, 2014).
In honor of Halloween, these Ghost Box stories will be attached to a recent Phish Halloween show [with quoted material from various reviews].
Known for dawning musical costumes to celebrate [Halloween], Phish broke with tradition last year to offer a set of original music. The Phish Bill read that Phish’s musical costume would be a 1964 Disney album of sound effects – Chilling, Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House. But it wasn’t a cover set. Phish played original music set amongst an incredibly psychedelic, theatrical graveyard stage accentuated by zombie dancers and a ghoulish MC. At the start of the set, the stage was cleared before a graveyard came to the foreground. Smoke filled the air, zombie dancers appeared, and music filled the venue. A haunted house was brought to the front of the stage, which eventually exploded, and all four-band members appeared, dressed in white like zombies.
“Your Pet Cat” was a funk workout with a “Tube”-like beat from Fish and staccato synth stabs from McConnell as the sounds of cats shrieking poured out over the PA.
The announcer says, “From the time of the ancient Egyptians until today, many people have been cat fanciers.”
With a screeching cat sound and a repeating keyboard motif Trey plays five chords in rapid succession with a little air to breathe. There’s a funky bass from Mike and some grooving from Page.
The song came to a climax when Trey played some wild solos and adding some cat-like noises of his own to the mix.
[READ: October 16, 2017] “Pumpkin Head”
Just in time for Halloween, from the people who brought me The Short Story Advent Calendar comes The Ghost Box.
This is a nifty little box (with a magnetic opening) that contains 11 stories for Halloween. It is lovingly described thusly:
A collection of chilly, spooky, hair-raising-y stories to get you in that Hallowe’en spirit, edited and introduced by comedian and horror aficionado Patton Oswalt.
There is no explicit “order” to these books; however, on the inside cover, one “window” of the 11 boxes is “folded.” I am taking that as a suggested order.
I really enjoyed this story although there were so many elements that just seemed so wrong (in 1982!). (more…)
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