, attached to 2023-08-05

Review by lofus99

lofus99 This is actually a Manteca Fest in conjunction with a Tweezer Fest. Surprised nobody noticed.

I am a big jazz fan and a large part of what I love about Phish is the improv. Like the jazz guys do. It takes higher level musicianship.

So I have always loved Manteca jams. BUT my disappointment is huge with phans and phish.net because Manteca is not the silly little "crab in my shoe mouth lyric" (that Phish seems to have made up as part of their Manteca tributes). It is a hugely important jazz standard. It is instrumental. There are 2 distinct parts to the song and Trey keeps coming back to it over and over in this Manteca Fest of a show! Top drawer stuff if you pay attention. Here listen to Dizzy play the actual song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNmqyNYj04 /> The first pattern before the big horn lines (call it the Manteca theme), Trey played all night. That's why the Caspian Jam is so good. It's actually a Manteca jam that influenced Caspian. Just after 6 minute mark he clearly starts it. Everyone knew that tonight would be the Tweezer Night. That was obvious, since they had not played it yet at MSG. So maybe they or Trey decided to also make it a Manteca night....just to spice it up. Anyway, setlist should actually go: Caspian>Manteca Jam>NICU.
Since nobody explained the "play it slowly for us Leo" I will. NICU is WWWAAAAAYYYYYY too fast. It's so fast Trey can barely sing it and he certainly cannot play his guitar parts....hence the play it slowly line....what a joker. You can hear at the ending that he actually forces a slow down so he can play the ending parts!
2nd set is all about the Tweezer> Guy Forget>Manteca jam. The whole thing is a good 30 minutes! Epic stuff!! again you can clearly hear the Manteca licks somewhere around 8 minutes after the Guy part starts (I was listening to an audience tape so timings different). Absolutely another Manteca infused jam for a while b4 they take off again into jam space and back to Tweezer later. I agree with the other reviewer and there was no point in cutting off Scents to drop a few Tweezer licks, but it was the theme for this night. Finally Fish decides to throw his Manteca hat into the ring by singing Crab in my shoe Mouth....BUT that is not Manteca. They are not really even quoting Manteca at this point. What a joke that those made up lyrics have become a Manteca quote....especially when they actually quote Manteca for real earlier in the show and it gets no mention. Need to clean that up people. But WOW!! what a show! What a run!! The only dud of the 7 was the 1st Saturday. Night 2. Unforgivable butchering of Rosie. But easily made up for with the Opening Friday 2nd set psychedelic Masterpiece!!! Yay Phish!


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