thanks for all the great comments and feedback lately. this little snapshot of the community has a good feel that helps the mind wander and the pen flow smoothly. it also inspires stirring up the mix with newer tracks and some reposted classics like this one. fast enough for you from 11/19/92 is the second song i posted here in late fall of 2005. it pre-dated the blog so now it gets a well-deserved entry. another reposted track from burlington, dave`s energy guide from page`s first gig 9/26/85, was removed to make room for this pearl, which is now downloadable as well as streaming.

the opening show of fall tour, 11/19/92 st. michael`s college in colchester, vt, was a meaningful show for me although i didn`t get to attend. after seeing a bunch of shows that spring and summer (the run up the ca coast will always be among my most treasured phish memories), i had to wait to wait until december to catch the midwest and holiday shows. soon after the tour started in vermont, the dat`s started to flow in and we gathered around the stereo to study the new songs and shows. phish.net (rec.music.phish) was becoming more popular as people streamed online and that, along with more people seeing more consecutive shows, helped more phishheads connect. re: that word - believe it or not, some online fans around this time decided they preferred to be called "glides". call-it-what-you-will, the band was playing at an extremely high level as they criss-crossed the continent leaving expanded and sometimes exploded heads in their wake. the spring and fall tours featured material from a picture of nectar and from rift - the second new record for the elektra label which was due to be released in early 1993. around this time some of us tapers and traders decided to organize a little in order to more consistently document the shows. tapers from each region would connect through friends online and by phone to swap stories, freak out about what we`d caught/missed and trade sections of tour. someone would catch six shows in the northeast, someone else five in the south, 2 in canada and so on. we shared gear, rides and hotels, taping every show we saw and setting up some interesting early cloning setups wherever we landed afterward. we would trade our respective sections of tour on dat as quickly as possible, spinning countless cassette copies for friends. some of the more online-savvy people started expanding tape trees and b & p offers to the next level, with increasingly broader and more efficient ways to get more music to more eager ears faster.

the scene was truly all in the family in those days and we were evangelical in our attempts to turn on anyone who would listen. if some unsuspecting listener didn`t agree this was the most talented, insightful and moving band of the day, they were obviously wrong and our prescription was more phish. by this fall tour, a critical mass was adopting dat technology intent on capturing and spreading every sweet note in the highest possible quality. this was also the band`s first tour using dat recorders for every gig. the cool, new minkin backdrops were featured, having been been debuted at the new aud show in worcester the previous new year`s eve. the taping section and mail order ticketing didn`t exist yet. both began the following year.

there was a palpable excitement surrounding phish at this time and their popularity grew steadily. horde tour had gone down that summer to solid success, especially musically and particularly for phish. the band`s summer trek to europe with violent femmes and their late-summer opening stint with santana were also under their belt now, leaving them freshly focused on the ways of the hose. spirits around the scene were at least as high as the musical peaks. on a radio interview earlier that day, the band members joked with wizn dj mike luoma about hiding tickets to the sold-out show in burlington`s city hall park. the tour kicked off in grand style as the band wove teases from those were the days (from all in the family) throughout the show and unveiled new material from rift as well as inspiring renditions of antelope, mike`s groove, tweezer > creature > tweezer reprise and perhaps the thickest, funniest lengthwise ever. fast enough for you is one of the new songs from rift debuted that night with gordon stone guesting on haunting pedal steel, which he also added to the studio version. for added inspiration, a photo of the rift studio reels has been added to the photos section.

tapes of this show circulate from a few good sources, so check out the whole show when you have a chance. gordon also joins on llama and just about everything played this night (and much of this fall tour) is worth a listen.

before i sign off i want to briefly acknowledge the 12th anniversary of the three-night beacon theater run. that's definitely the subject for another blog or three, but it is hard to believe it was that long ago. if time were only part of the equation...

happy passover, happy easter. Enjoy!

--ks

p.s. check out this video of chalk dust torture from 12/31/95 madison square garden here and if you dont already own the new year`s eve 1995 cd set and downloads, you can pick them up at drygoods.phish.com or livephish.com. while chalk is up here, you can add it to your profile.



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Fast Enough For You 11/19/92 w/ Gordon Stone (Posted 04/14/06 11:19a EST)