5/13/99 SUNY/Binghamton Concert Theatre, Binghamton, New York
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 06:21:56 EDT
From: tom reizes [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: 5/13/99 Anderson THeatre, SUNY Binghamton
Anderson Theatre, SUNY Binghamton, Vestal, NY May 13th, 1999
Trey Solo Acoustic and Trey AnastasioElectric Trio
Nice, small venue, like any theatre, but modern and just the front of your
typical orchestra section with no balcony or under balcony. Very mellow
scene, hanging on the grassy hill to the left of the main entrance to the
Anderson Theatre. Quite a few folks looking for tix. I met up with my
benevolent ticket provider with plenty of time to get inside and patched
in
(thanks to all involved).
Lights went down, crowd got loud but not too bad, lots of flashes (lots of
pics that won't come out, followed by the loud clicking winding of
disposable camera's... free advice: Try a decent 35mm with high speed film
and the flash off for good theatre shots and you don't annoy the
musichaninns... Surly is off to bed now ;^)
Trey thanked the crowd for skipping some Suny Binghamton Pub Crawl for
Seniors and went into a beautiful and well recieved
"Farmhouse" 3:00
Miraculously, my two running pardners (Marcus and Kurtis, say happy birth
day to Marcus on the 15th in albany) managed to mellow their way into
tickets and made it in for the 2nd song of the nite (somehow by not
anxiously seeking a ticket, they were rewarded for their non-expectant
patience. Thank you masked man... whoever you are ;^)
"Get Back On the Train" ends 6:20
Next came a schweet "Driver", good reading of this one.
ends 10:10
Tasty "Guyute" (mmm... evil bacon) crowd was psyched for this.
ends 19:40 Trey:"funny song for an acoustic guitar" and suggests the
scenario of sitting out on the front porch and pickin a tune.
Trey again dedicated "Kissed by the Mist" to Julia Butterfly Hill who sits
in the Tree named Luna to protest the destruction of the few remaining
forest with old growth trees in America for $. Beautiful!
ends 28:50
"You'll Know My Name" the *real* country tune, came next
Trey dedicated the *tune* to all the Suny Binghamton students out on the Pub
Crawl and went into a brief explanation of what a *Pub Crawl* is, for the
benefit of teetotalers in the crowd.
ends 31:25
"Mountains in the Mist" Another beautiful new song.
ends ~36:00
"Wading in a Velvet Sea" whooooo! beauty, beauty! 8^)
ends 40:20
"Brian & Robert" Crowd has really settled in, not nearly as loud as I had
heard the crowd has been at previous nights, probably b/c the venue is so
large and yet so small simultaneously.
ends 43:20
Trey has up to now, been changing acoustic guitars every song or so, and
now, steps up to the Grand Piano on stage right for
"Billy Breathes"
Good advice from Mr. Young (doing a Piano song during a solo gig) a clean
performance for the most part (tiny little flub after first chorus). Really
nice to hear Trey's voice through the piano (so much effortless power and
richness of texture) a treat for sure.
ends 50:00
Enter Tom Marshall who promptly sets the record straight about some incident
that occured at the "drunken mayhem" night at the 9:30 Club where I guess it
appeared that Tom had kicked Trey's guitar over.
Mr. Marshall claims the axe fell over by itself in the spirit of the
"drunken mayhem" and denies any contact with the tumbling axe
what-so-ever.
Marshall goes on to dub this night "Calm and Sensible" night (vs."Drunken
Mayhem" night at the 9:30 Club)and gets a couple of booooing from the
crowd.
Chuckles all around :P
Duet on "Sleep" Tom sings high harmony. Sweet.
ends 53:10
Tom M.: "Trey's calling an audible, we haven't practiced this one"
many requests from the crowd but Tom & Trey already know what's next.
Trey mirrors Tom in "Blue and Shiny" humourous with Trey singing "Christmas
comes each time this year" in the final refrains. **crossed eyes and
dotted
T's**
"Waste" Awesome! ends 1:00:30
Trey: "We'll be back... and Thanks for being such a cool audience" Thank
you bro! The feeling was very much mutual!
Set II... What everyone is waiting for.
"Gotta Jiboo" HUGE! lost track of time continuum during this jam but was
relieved when they came back into jiboo and I assured myself I hadn't lost
any major periods of time and music to the abyss.
Sweet "Wind Cries Mary" Jamming is unbeleivable, magic exudes from the
speakers.
Billy Preston's "Will It Go in Circles?" It will and it did. Shit's been
hitting the fan since the trio has hit the stage 40 mins ago.
"Wind-0r-A-Bug" I'm not sure... wicked jamming! deep in the jam Trey's axe
starts hummin' and buzzin' like a swarm of whatever it is.
"Furthur On Up the Road" Short and sweet (least jammed out tune of the
second set)
"Sand" can't remember completely, enjoyed fully, still new and vague, have
to listen again, we're are deep in at this point.
Nice (not the right word for it) light show courtesy Chris Kuroda,
minimalist compared to the full Phish light show, he does huge job of it
with the small rig, good lateral balance of light imagery in the hall.
"FFFFIRST TUBEEEE" KICK ASSSSS!!! YESSS!!! "MAGNA FLAMING LAVA VOLCANO
GUITAR... TREY ANASTASIO!!!" (Yeahh Phil!)
The Five Stair Steps, "Oooh Child" sahweeeet! (Trey's "Shining Star" ;^)
Abruptly off guitar, Trey makes way to small durm kit on stage left,(Tony
Markelis leaves the stage,) at first very straight up, 16 beat from trey,
Russ lawton is swingin' it. Then they dig deep, Trey and Russ rip it up old
skewl (Gene Krupa/Buddy Rich style.)
Rich percus-sonic melodies rockin' and clockin', rolling and flowing.
Abrupt switch back to regularly scheduled electric set.
Lot's of songs being called out by the crowd, settles down, last attempt,
some one screams "Teen Spirit" from the back center and so it is. A quick
one verse rendition. Kewl.
Trey signals the bail and they move into "Silicone Fairy" Killer
Fairies!!!
encore:
Johnny Nash's (???) "I Can See Clearly Now" Blue skies!!!
Tony Markelis extends thanks and does some introductions, introduces himself
as "the luckiest man in the world" and both Russ and Trey as his favorite
drummer and musician in the world respectively, something like that.
Conrgratulates graduating seniors, takes informal poll of who's going on to
see more of trio's shows (4 more left!). Misidentifies Saturday's show as
being in Buffalo, NY and is surprised by cheers of people indicating that
they will make the trip for the Denver show.
Trey sends the remaining SUNY Binghamton seniors off to the rest of the Pub
Crawl with Neil Young's "C'Mon Baby, Let's Go Downtown"
Beautifully mellow scene.
A rip snorter of a show indeed, incredible amount of jamming,
2nd set runs 1:49:00 with out encores, 2:03:00 with.
1st set 1:02:00. All timing is approximate.
I'll add timing for the 2nd set when I get to listen to it.
peace, t. reizes
Trey Bien!
From: leslie jensen [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Binghamton show
I just got home from the Binghamton show.Great show.One suggestion for
you phans-When trey is playing a slow,quiet,beautiful acoustic song-SHUT
THE HELL UP !!! -Thanks
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:23:51 -0400
From: Dave Bristol [email protected]
Subject: Binghamton Review!
Hi everybody -back from what had to be (although I didn't see any other
shows this tour so this claim only shows how happy I am!) the best show of
the Trey tour thus far. I was really blown away by the ease and
friendliness of trey (and esp. Tom! after reading his appearance was
lackluster last time) and the warm atmosphere in the room. Nothing makes me
happier than hearnig a SHHH or two during waste. . .and then hearing nothing
but silence. I hope the levels were way low on purpose, because it really
got people to listen! It was what I wish every bigshow crowd would be
like.
. .except that people weren't dancing much past the first ten rows.
This is going to be long . . .stop now if you've got something in
the oven.
So we got to binghamton and got the _last_ spot in the lot outside
of the Anderson center, and we were only about four spots from the cloests
spot possible! Such a good sign. ..saw our friends instantly upon getting
out of the car (not that there was some massive globular lot scene or
anything. . )adn the sun was shining bright!!
we got inside and security (which was non existent outside except to
warn us they would confiscate any bottles or bags) was really crazy but I
suppose understandable, walking around all show up and down the rows with
water bottles to snuff cigs and j's. Part way through set II they gave up,
accepting the inevitable. I didn't notice when they stopped coming as I was
in another world. . .nice cumfy seats, plenty of room for dancing in the
row, but poor sound on the vocals in set II especially, just too low in the
mix. I didn't write a setlist.. . .thus bythe seat of my pants we go.
Opened with Farmhouse, Driver, and both were tasty on acoustic, I
got into the words much more than I have in concert. It's nice to hear
people scream for driver! Nice too that theystop screaming when the words
come! Hopefully they will be as excited when it's played at Volney instead
of sitting and talking loudly like at 12/28 during the acoustic miniset. .
.then some trey compositions, and while they are a little rough as far as
words fitting music - they seem quite composed, not super-natural sounding
-
this might be due to the incredibly young age of the songs, or perhaps the
fact the a whole concert's worth of new music is being played! and trey is
totally exposed lyrically, musically - lots of people's thoughts resting on
every fingerpick. Whic made acoustic Gyute a treat, holy moly!! And very
different on acoustic, more tastefully done instead of more and more
rocknroll power. All the while this first set, sitting aroudn a campfire
was the image that came to me, a bunch of heads chillnig and drinking beers
maybe, just sitting and toasting weiners (or veggie dogs!!) and
marshmallows, listening to trey sing. AFter Gyute, he made the comment "I
kepe thinking of some old guy strumming tunes on his porch . .'now I'll play
you a little ditty.. . "and he strummed the veyr opening to gyute again.
Porch, campfire, you pick it. There was a nother trainsong in there
somewhere, too. I liked it!
Kissed by Mist is beautiufl musically, and the sentiment is
crushing, but lyrically it didn't do it for me. Good poetry, but poor as
song lyrics - I read this posted before. Wierd syllables are held out at
strange times, other words crammed in to fit. Almost as though words and
lyrics are separately written. I've started listening to alot of dead,
and it doesn't make me love "yanked on my tunic and dangled my stash" any less,
it sure make me appreciate beautiful lyrics all the more!!
-by the way, if you've read this far - I don't actually feel like I
got THE BEST Trey show of the your. . . I mean, I do feel that way, but I
miagine most everyone leaving every show will feel like that because they
are all going to be special, all unique, all magical!! So personal to be
close to him like that. I felt so GOOD the whole time! And after too, I
was really fired up.
He played Billy breathes on piano, and it was really pleasant. .
watching him perform I was amazed at how hard he was trying, he was taking
all the effort he usually puts into whaling rock guitar and putting it
through a little acoustic, or into his piano skills. . I really felt like I
was wathcing someone trying SO HARD to move me I had no choice but to be
deeply moved. . thank you, trey. your power overwhelms me.
Anyway, Tom Marshall came out to sing sleep, then a song
who's name I forget but was delightful, about two dudes chillin. Then
Waste, and I was thinking about trey and tom as kids, wasting time, and
the song had tremendous power. First set highlight for me, along with the
Driver. Which gave me new perspectives on the songs, of course. Tom seemed
to have a great time, even though a little nervous. His singing was fine!
Very tasty, I enjoyed him thoroughly. I'm definitely missing about a half
dozen first set songs, I imagine - Oh! I missed Velvet sea, which was
exellent on acoustic.
Set break was looooong but had some good talkin's with poeple beside
me, and wondered what was next.
A total change of pace! Gotta jiboo got me jibooing all over the
place, a nice long jam with great new sounds, wonderful exciting jamming,
but nthing heavy, just celebratory! jubilant is another word to describe my
fenzied dancing during this one. Second tune was a classic rock cover, I
don't remember the name and I'm sure there are some dorks out there right
now saying "what, he doesn't remember that tune?" flame me if you can't
resist the urge. If you can, see you at the next show!!
anyway, I was loving life by this point. Tony and Russ are hot and
consistent, so they can lay a tremendous (if sometimes static)background on
which trey can paint any color he likes. Gotta Jiboo, Round in Circles,
Wing or a Bug, and Massive Funk/feedback anthem (what's this tune's name? I
couldn't hear any lyrics) all have totally diferent sounds and feels. Round
in Circles is loud light-show mayhem! I was a little turned off by its raw
power initially, but I got into it after about a few minutes and it made me
boogie HARD for not liking the verse part. Then there was Wing or a Bug,
major slow deep trippy space funk, like makisupa on some hard core
hallucinogen. Neat trey sounds, and he went to the keyboard (moog, I think)
for some extra wierd sounds and loops.
OH! At the end f the gotta jiboo jam trey was chording the same
thing over and over, dancing between two foot pedals to make it groove!!
Jsut dancing back and forth, I never liked his pedals better. Then WHAM! a
stop time and 16 bars of trey . . WHAM! back into the groove!
AFter this came some huge fat funk by Tony and Russ. Disgusting
groove I could've listened to for a long time, cross Gov't Mule and MMW and
this is what you have. Over this driving rhythm trey began playing
feedback, low at first, then building until it SCREAMED and then he started
to wail. . .25 minute song? who knows how long, it jsut kept building and
building and I couldn't stop myself. . had a moment. . .then ooh child!!
yeah perfect placement! so happy, the a drum duel, Silicon fairy closer,
maybe one other tune in there. Yes, one other tune. . .some dude yelled
"teen spirit" and trey started chording immediately, played a verse, but
Tony didn't know the bass part so they cut it short.
Encore was I can see clearly now and Goin Downtown - the second to
celebrate Pub crawl, the SUNY-B senior fest ala Bar Golf.
Anyone still reading? Any of you giong to see trey? you're gonna
love IT!! all in all this was one of the most diverse nights of music of my
life, no particular dancing style got worn out tonight or anything. . .and
of course, one of the most enjoyable live things I've seen. I can totally
put this show with the top live performanecs I've seen, spcial in a whole
new way. I wouldn't have given up my seat for anything! And I know it's
only going to improve (how, I don't know) my love of phish shows this
summer. goin' to see fishman and JMP this weekend at Geneva!! WOOHOO!
hookaville in two weeks!! later, dave
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:55:56 EDT
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Binghamton Show
Well I have to say I was extremely impressed by the show. It was great the
small club scene and the crowd ,,, just great.Farmhouse was amazing and Billy
Breathes on piano and then Tom Marshall came out for a few songs. The
electric set was just as pleasing....Gotta Jiboo....NICE!!! It was well
jammed out andlater on everyone one was yelling out requests when some guy in
the back yells TEEN SPIRIT and the immmediately begin it. Trey ended laughing
and the crowd roaring. The encore with I Can See Clearly and Come On Baby
Let's Go Downtown. I loved it an all out excellent show.
Peace.
Kyle
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