This Week in the Mercury
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
News Carrie Brownstein = World's Biggest Phish Fan
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Former Sleater-Kinney guitarist, and NPR blogger, Carrie Brownstein has one more claim to fame: Phish fan. Well, sort of. For her Monitor Mix blog, Brownstein has tossed her impeccable indie cred to the curb and embraced the band:
Phish is a band that some people intuitively don't like; it is the liverwurst, the Twilight book series, and the waterbeds of the music industry! And why should it be? This dismissal of Phish by a large portion of us is both unfair and unwarranted. And that's why I'm willing to change.
So after buying a pint of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food ice cream, then purchasing her first Phish CD (I admire her priorities), Brownstein has devoted herself—for an entire week—to the Vermont jam band. In fact, she's even hosting a little event in their honor:
Tomorrow night—Wednesday, July 15th—Portland Phish fans, along with Portland non-Phish fans who want to see if they could ever love Phish, will meet at 8 p.m. at Moon and Sixpence. (2014 NE 42nd Ave. between Tillamook and Sandy)If you are a Phish fan, please bring along some burned CDs of your favorite live shows or a mix CD with your most cherished tracks. I've had countless suggestions as to which YouTube links I should click or which shows I should download, but this meet-up will help both expedite and streamline the process. After all, I only have this one week to fall in love (okay, not really, but for the sake of the blog, yes!)
Excuse me, but I have a few questions about this Phish meet-up: Can I bring my dog? Do you allow soundboard taping? Spare any change? Wait, you sure you aren't a cop?
Eh, forget it. I'll be in the parking lot selling PB&J sandwiches out of my killer art car.
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+They did cover the entire VU's Loaded album during one of their Halloween shows.
+From an article about My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" by Jim Derogatis:
...and Trey Anastasio pushed hard for Phish to cover it during one of that band's special Halloween shows. "'Loveless' is the best album recorded in the '90s," Anastasio said. "History will tell, and 20 years from now that album will be considered a complete classic, while a lot of the albums that are real popular today will have been forgotten."
Even if they never ended up playing the album, just the thought of the opening crack of "Only Shallow" being played at earsplitting volume to a bunch of hippie kids running in all directions makes me smile.
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