From: jamie@access.digex.com (James Treworgy)
Subject: Re: Signals, Stonybrook!!
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:07:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.170658.9232@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> ELEE@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>Okay.  Here are all the signals that I know o....there may be some that have
>been added, but here goes...Signals will usually be preceded by a high trill
>on Trey's guitar...
(etc.)

>6)is there a sixth?  we'll see...

There are lots, at one show I saw Trey said something like "there are probably
20 or 30 of them but these are our favorites".  One that I know that I hear
on some really old tapes is two series of three quick ascending trills
(like bwee bwee bwee ... bwee bwee bwee), then the whole band, on the next
beat, goes, DUM dum dum, DUM dum dum (kind of hard to explain a musical
occurence in words, but I've heard it a lot).

Now, on to STONYBROOK!!!!  The set, benissimo.

I: Landlady, Jim, Foam, Glide, Poor Heart, It's Ice, (shit this is from
memory and it's failing me... )... Maze, Forbin->narrative->Mockingbird,
Possum.

II: Carolina, Curtain, Mike's Groove!!!, Uncle Pen, Guelah Papyrus,
Coil, Honey Love, Llama!!! (with
bouncing balls, one for each band member..., very interesting idea,
the band reacted to what their ball was doing in the audience. Unfortunately
I think nobody had a clue).

E: Buffalo Bill? (new), BFFCFM

That set II was probably in the wrong order, and I think missing one song.
ah well someone else'll get it right.

An excellent show!!! Mike's was amazing!! Now onto the negative points.

The arena sucks. On all counts.  

1: The sound is pretty poor. Not as bad a syracuse but very muddy.

2: It is a minature version of the Capital Center.  The security was
all students but they were ASSHOLES!! There must have been one security
guy for every ten people.  No smoking anywhere in the building.  I got
yelled at for SITTING DOWN on the floor during the set break out in the
foyer.   About twenty people had a mini-mosh pit going during BFFCFM
and they security guards descended on them like vultures and basically
hassled them for having a good time.  And the only area where you could
go without a ticket, that is, the bleachers, is pretty hard to dance in.
We were on the floor for the first set but you couldn't see a thing
from the back section so we moved to the bleachers. Almost fell three
or four times :-) Finally, to crown it all, my friend Jon, who somehow managed
to get a plastic water bottle into the building, was trying to fill it up
in the bathroom and the sentry team that was posted there (to prevent
people from smoking... everyone was smoking in the bathroom during first
set but they figured it out and decided to squash that last bit of
dissention by putting guards in there)... told him he could not fill it
up.  I have no idea why.  Maybe they needed to sell more Cokes.  Who knows.

I have no idea why they felt they needed fascist security
for a Phish show, and I am going to give the band the benefit of the doubt
and assume that it was beyond their control, but I will really think
twice about going that far to see Phish in a place with not-so-hot sound
and total jerks running the place.

But enough of that.  I had a good time anyway.  It was pretty cool because
a guy who was meeting us at the Stonybrook station missed his train, and
the next one didn't get in until 8:15.  We had no idea what had happened
when he didn't arrive on the 6:30 train, and so all of us but Lee went inside,
and Lee waited for the next train. He didn't find him at the station on
the next train, and so went back to the arena to get rid of the extra ticket
and go inside.  Anyway he was just about to sell it when our friend showed
up at the door!!! He HAD been on the 8:15 train but somehow they missed
each other at the platform and he went right to the arena (walked through
the woods, dumb luck that he actually found it).  The only missed
half of Landlady :-)

Oh yeah, on the way home, two friends who I was travelling with met
Trey's mom and sister!!!! Of all places, they were using the ladies
room at a rest area in Delaware and Trey's mom saw her Phish shirt,
and said, wher did you get that?  So she told her what the deal was
and that's who they turned out to be!!! She is in fact living in
Ireland now (no idea what they were doing in Delaware).  They were not
at the show, and couldn't believe that we had driven all the way up
from DC to see the show! She was really psyched about how successful
the band has become.  I never talked to them but my friends said they
were really nice :-)

Anyway, I can't think of a better omen for the Portchester shows next
week!!!! See you there,

Jamie
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James A. Treworgy
jamie@access.digex.com
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