Greece Hotels Travel - Live Phish Vol. 17: 7/15/98, Portland Meadows, Portland, Oregon
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List Price: $26.98
greece-hotels-travel.com Price: $48.00
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075596286824
Format: Live
Label: Elektra / Wea
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Number Of Discs: 3
Publisher: Elektra / Wea
Release Date: 2003-05-20
Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Editorial Reviews:
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Phish's acclaimed multi-CD Live Phish series continues to be a remarkable success. Volume 17 on 3 CDs is from 7/15/98 Portland Meadows, Portland Oregon, with additional music from 7/29/98 Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, Missouri. 24 tracks. Packaged in a beautiful digipak w/heavy duty slipcase. Elektra. 2003.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Funktastic
Comment: This album is definitely heavy on the funk. Highlights include: Birds of a Feather, Roggae, Moma Dance, Limb by Limb, and of course, Tweezer (with a little California Love thrown in!) A delicious Bathtub Gin on disc 3 is long enough for you to go to the bathroom, grab a snack and still have plenty of groove time.
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Summary: Good Show, but overpriced
Comment: The good. This show is the chill Phish that you would typically hear in the 97-99 era shows. Kinda funky, some good layering of loops, and songs that work well together.
The bad. Since the show is not in stock many places, vendors with copies have more than doubled the price. The disc is not out of print, so just be patient. Also, any audience recordings of the show can be downloaded for FREE. The show is worth it's retail price, but this 40$+ business is absurd. Def. not that good.
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Summary: Underrated
Comment: This show has a loose feel from the beginning. The songs seem to flow in and out of eachother, and they often give that phish-like feel of making you forget what song their playing. The jams are more than your typical creative extensions of studio songs. I have not listened to very many phish shows that I can say all four were each on the very top of their game, but that can definately be said of this show. To say that this show is sloppy is to say that true phish is sloppy.
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Summary: Very well-played show
Comment: Highly recommended show for any Phish fan. I know it sounds pretentious, but I have to agree that this is not a show for beginners. This is the type of show that hardcore Phish fans salivate over. Well-played songs, great heavy and dense jams that go way beyond what Phish was doing early on. I hate when certain Phans think that only 94-97 is worth hearing. I highly disagree. I think this show perfectly defines what 1998 Phish was. The Limb X Limb here is spectacular and highly underrated. Trey's guitar work on this outing is nothing short of awe-inspiring. The whole Disc 2 is awesome. This CD-set is worth it for that and the bonus "Bathtub Gin" on Disc 3, which is funkalicious to the max.
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Summary: Heavy on SOTG songs, and it works great
Comment: "Live 17" (3 CDs, 198 min.) was recorded at a show in Portland, OR in July, 1998, a mere months before Phish would release "The Story of the Ghost", and showcases many of that album's songs (7, half of the album). It shows the faith that Phish has in its phans, playing that many then-unknown new songs to the audience.
Set 1's highlights include a very heavy and funky "Moma Dance", much better than the studio version on "SOTG" (it reminds me of Level 42), a great "Guyute" (check out the long instrumental outro), and the medley "Horn>Portland Jam>Chalk Dust Torture". The Portland Jam is a Pink Floyd-era Meddle-type, truly mesmorizing instrumental. After "Roggae" comes to an abrupt end, Trey complains he didn't get to do his 'cool guitar solo', so the band starts up again impromptu, giving him the solo he craved 'after such a long song', just great.
Set 2 is equally good, with a huge medley of "Limb by Limb>Simple (with great bass work by Mike)>Tweezer>California Love>Tweezer>Free", the band is really at the top of its game. After that, yet another new song ("Meat") before wrapping things up with a great "Harry Hood". Slapped at the end of this collection is a terrific funky 24 min. workout of "Bathtub Gin" from a St. Louis show a few weeks later. In all, this is a terrific addition to the great "Live" series.
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