SOUNDTRACK: PHISH-Live Bait, Vol 1 (2010).
This first Live Bait release contained songs from Phish’s 2010 tour. It was a good way to see how the band sounded these days and, as the title suggests, it was a good way to bait the fans into buying full shows. The sampler covers shows from NJ, NY, GA and MA and it runs about 80 minutes.
Although it features primarily older tracks (a great version of “Tweezer” and a lengthy “Slave to the Traffic Light”) it also includes my first exposure to a live version of one of their new songs: “Backwards Down the Number Line.” It also contains “Show of Life” a song that’s really a Trey Anastasio solo song–although frankly it doesn’t sound any different from a Phish song here.
The band sounds great–the hiatus did them wonders and it’s an auspicious beginning to a whole bunch of free music.
[READ: September 25, 2011] 3 Book Reviews
When I first discovered that Zadie was going to be writing the New Books column at Harper’s I deliberated about whether or not to write about each one here. I mean, first off, it’s book reviews, how much can you say about someone else’s book reviews? But second off, would I be writing about her reviews forever? I mean, it’s a monthly column, it would be exhausting.
Well, it was exhausting–for her anyhow. At the end of the column she admits that she can’t keep up the schedule (and frankly, reading that many books a month would be exhausting for me, but she’s also trying to write a novel, teach classes and “bring up a kid.”) So this is her last one. She had a pretty decent run from March-October 2011.
And she ends unexpectedly (for me anyhow) by talking about science fiction! (more…)
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