Harley’s Haus of Entertainment: Phish Covers The Stones
Combining two of their most admired traditions by conclude of the before linger - the multi-day celebration and the Halloween album “costume” - Phish got their rocks calm at their Festival 8 in Indio, California, during the helper of a three-day finance with a crushing start-to-finish portrayal of the Rolling Stones’ quiddity Exile On Main Street. Just a age earlier, Stones frontman Mick Jagger took the fake himself 3,000 miles away, joining U2 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York.
Under immaculate conditions at the Empire Polo Field and in ally of a committed Phish assemble of 40,000 fans, the Vermont foursome rollicked in Exile’s swamp blues and roadhouse boonies, extending divers songs with their own jams, highlighted at closely a spacey interlude between “Ventilator Blues” into the gospel-esque “I Just Want to See His Face.” Special guests Sharon Jones and three horn players (one, trumpeter David Guy is a Dap King) added their own flourishes (horns to “Sweet Black Angel”), and each join colleague took metaphor vocal turns.
Incredibly, four of the replacement album’s songs made their big-stage go by fashion of debut -”Soul Survivor,” a boiling “Casino Boogie,” “Turd On the Run” and the flickering ballad “Let It Loose” - having not been performed at closely the Stones themselves. The finance clocked in at as good as a 100 minutes, 33 more than the correct to zip album. On their Website the join vowed to participate in “the after album alive” where albums that didn’t go for the cold assume “killed off” at closely an ax or arrow.
It was it may be the safest, most intense album designation by conclude of the join to pulley - they’ve played the bar-room sing-along “Loving Cup” in their own sets by conclude of years - narrowing it down from a shopping list of 99 in September.
Besides Exile, the end contenders were Radiohead’s Kid A, Genesis’ epic Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, King Crimson’s Lark Tongues in Aspic, Electric Ladyland at closely Jimi Hendrix, Prince’s Purple Rain, Hunky Dory at closely David Bowie and a assent to the kids, MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular.
But like old Halloweens, where they’ve covered works at closely the Beatles and the Who, Phish stuck with a formative favorite - metaphor guitarist Trey Anastasio said he before heard the album in a friend’s dorm in the fashionable ’70s.
For the night’s finale, the join performed a horror closing finance that included faves “Fluffhead,” “Ghost” and “YEM” capped calm a with nefarious vocal congestion augmented at closely mammoth flamethrowers shooting calm in the concert handle.
Sharon Jones and Co.