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What all this means is, simply by pointing out to your children that you understand that Phish owes a lot to the Grateful Dead, you can distract them briefly from your otherwise evident decrepitude. There are already institutions that have positioned themselves to benefit from that fact, adapting rock to the family-theme-park phenomenon. The Experience Music Project in Seattle, which opened last year, aims to be a place where parents can explain to their kids that James Brown is the old guy who sounds like Mystikal, and kids can tell their parents that Mystikal is the young...
...Well, it's never really jam style. Philosophically we object to "I can improvise all day, and do that Phish thing and we'll all just play together and it will be cool." When someone has an idea, and some guitar riffs, they'll come in and throw them out, usually with a couple of verses and a chorus, or some sort of progression. From there the group will decide if it's cool, or if it needs some work. I would call it a collaborative process; the arrangement of a song is usually hashed out by consensus...
...came from a pent-up demand for digital music in the late '90s that was going largely unfilled. Before Napster, downloading music was so cumbersome it was mostly relegated to college students with access to fast pipes and techno geeks sufficiently driven to search the Net for the latest Phish bootlegs. The digital-music standard MP3, short for ISO-MPEG Audio Layer-3, was developed by German engineering firm Fraunhofer IIS back in 1987 as a way of compressing CD-quality sound files. The technology made it possible to take songs from a CD and "rip," or convert them into...
...jollies, she plays with two clumps of flaming, kerosene-soaked cotton wadding connected by a chain. As Letterman would say, Kids, don't try this at home. Visually spectacular--and spectacularly dangerous--fire spinning can now be seen not just at the Burning Man festival or in Phish-concert parking lots but also at New York City's touristy South Street Seaport and Los Angeles' Venice Beach. "When those flames are whooshing around me," sighs Ravera, "I feel like I'm in an adrenaline-fueled Eden...
...small tour leading up to a July 4 appearance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver, resuming a seven-year tradition that was interrupted in 1999 by the health problems of frontman John Popper. The band is currently working on its first album since the death of bassist Bobby Sheehan. Phish will tour the country, and the Allman Brothers Band and Steve Miller are also on tap at venues nationwide...