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Drew but The Meters
@drewphish
Mike's Song Consultant
Sep 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Last night in between sets Fishman talked about the drumbeat to Party Time for 10+ minutes. No really.

Turns out it is a 21-bar pattern that cycles with one hand going through a clockwise sequence while the other hand going through a counterclockwise sequence. 1/

#phish This is drum talk that is above my pay grade but one hand is doing Swiss triplets and the other is doing windmills.

It takes about 7 minutes to get through the entire cycle and it is so complex that he's never done it without messing up.

It was fascinating to hear. 2/
Sep 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Okay trying to play it cool but

@mikelowetpt AND I JUST PLAYED FAT MAN IN THE BATHTUB WITH JON FISHMAN AHhAHHHHHhHHHHH And in the second set he joined us for Gumbo and Shakedown Street -> Also Sprach Zarathustra
Sep 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In a garage rocking out with some of my oldest and dearest friends (who are all musical badasses) and I couldn't possibly be any happier after the week I've had.

We're playing a wedding gig together in DC for another friend and it is going to be epic.

Feeling grateful. ♥️♥️♥️
Aug 8, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
A note on the slow tempos:

Tempos are slower but probably not by nearly as much as you might think.

I listened to last night's Stash which felt slooooooow. And it was. Around 170 bpm.

But I checked out some other random 3.0 Stash's + they are only at about 180 bpm. #phish 1/X That makes last night's Stash barely over 5% slower than other recent versions.

Why it sounded significantly slower is actually the flow, or lack there of, of the composed section. Believe it or not it's *much harder* to play stuff like this at a slower tempo. 2/X
Aug 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Okay I saw @cdirksen tweet heaping praise on last night's Stash and made a mental note to check it out. But he just texted and won't leave me alone until I listen to it so I'm listening now.

This is mesmerizingly beautiful so far. #phish I've tweeted this 100x but I truly don't understand how both the bass and drums can play this many notes simultaneously and it not only isn't too busy but the groove is actually elegant. This is impossible. But they're doing it. WTF #phish
Aug 7, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Totally slept on the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the '96 Red Rocks run because I was too busy seeing #phish shows which is amazing.

Here is a photo of about a third of my crew from that run. 4 of the 5 of us in this picture were just together in Nashville. #phish And my old setlists are too funny not to share again.

Night 1 Setlist Book Highlights:

TREY HAS HAIR
SOAMule above average (not a high bar)

Jan 2, 2020 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
I'm going in for the first time since the gig. Seems like "Everywhere" is the right seeing here.

And loud AF #phish I had to pause this 9:00 in for a phone call I had to answer and it killed me but I'm back!
Dec 23, 2018 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
I was asked by my friend @RJBee_2, who is a self-proclaimed classical music noob, for some suggestions.

This thread is a few of my favorites that I would recommend to get started.

But note there's a million directions you can go with all of this. Bach's Goldberg Variations is IMO the greatest solo work ever written for any instrument. This is my favorite pianist of all time Glenn Gould's famous recording from 1955.