2-20-91 Kahootz, Richmond, VA

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:12:11 -0800 From: Charles Dirksen [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: 2/20/91 Kahootz YEM Hi folks. If you haven't yet, please head on over to the Mockingbird Page and vote for the obvious logo choice -- the unforgettable logo that mocks logos. Voting is an easy way to contribute. Just a few clicks and about a minute of your time. Support The Bphook.. visit the page and vote at http://www.phish.net/mockingbird/logo.html ! 2/20/91 Kahootz, Richmond, VA Thanks again to Mark L. for the burn. If anyone has a complete copy of this show, please be in touch. Mark's battery died during the second set. I don't think any copies of this show circulate in full. YEM opens well, outside of a minor (and unusual) flub from Page. "Nirvana" at 1:49 (let me take a second to apologize for calling this section "Nirvana" -- I still really enjoy it, to this day, despite the silly and stupid name I've given it). Mike's solo section around 2:45 is mellow and quaint. The pre-charge segment is tight, as usual. Charge at 5:03 and "BOY" at 5:22 after a good scream. BMGS/WUDMTF segment is vibrant. Tramps segment at 7:36 with signals from Mike for the trampolines moves. Good stuff from Page, but nothing unusually flashy. Trey opens the jam segment at 9:16 by riffing in the lower octaves in a surprisingly catchy way for an early 1990's version. Trey noodles around with a fervor in the next few minutes. He's really working it around 11:15, when Fish and Mike lock into a off-tempo jam for a few measures. Great climactic jam at 11:48! Bass and drums at 12:08. Mike tools around, but not for very long. At 12:46 the closing WUDMTF vocals begin, with modest activity from Mike and Fish. Vocal jam at 13:06. Some pretty amusing vocalizations. I can't make out any words. Although at around 15:50 or so, they launch into a theme that sounds familiar, but which, again, I can't ID. Total time 16:54. C+ rating. two cents, charlie p.s. Visit http://www.phish.net/reviews/ for more reviews, many of which are vastly more worthwhile than this one. And thanks for the response on the Alpine Tweezer review! If reviewing shitty versions (or shittly reviewing arguably shitty versions) will spark discussion, maybe folks should do it more often... 8^}
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