I've had the following loaded in my browser the past four or five days because I wanted to share it. I recommend clicking through to see it in HD at youtube, but you can check it here, too. A little background: Before the show, the Talking Heads song "Psycho Killer" played over the PA as background music, but a bunch of phans started exuberantly singing along to it. Phish had covered "PK" just once in their career on 12.07.97, but that's a well-known/classic show, so lots of people know it via Phish. In the second set of the show, not coincidentally, Phish jammed from one of their funk numbers ("Ghost") into the chugging rhythm of "PK." Crowd goes wild, predictably. Nice cover, followed by a little riff-jam, and then things devolve into a weird looped effect pseudo drum beat, which is where the following video picks up. It basically sounds like popcorn or something, a Kraftwerk-Eno kinda thing. And who knows what happened to cause it, but Trey apparently really loved the weird ambient tune. So he starts dancing to it. And then he invites the drummer to dance to it. And then he goes into the upper echelons of Phish weirdness, the spoken word piece "Catapult." And THEN he goes on a rant about technology and "kids these days" as he launches into the song "Icculus," which is basically a joke song that goes on for quite a while in an effort to set up a terrible pun. Anyhoo, this is the goofy side of Phish in pure form; it doesn't rear its head quite as often these days*, but when it does, GOOD TIMES. Enjoy.
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Well, to be fair, they did cover Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" a few nights later... so it's not THAT rare.(Note - the first video is just the dance contest-Catapult-Icculus run at the end; the next three videos show the entire segment from a different angle).
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