Recommend a heavily layered jam to cover me up...

relax_ 12/07/12 1:39 pm

...like a fluffy comforter on top of a soft, fleece blanket and a flannel sheet on a subzero night. Layers that bring the heat with a nurturing, calm touch, inviting peaceful rest and rejuvenation in the end.

Or, dozens of straitjackets fitted like a second skin: tense, compressing with each layer, breath extinguishing, sadistic, and torturous with no relief.

A mix of both? Double socks, shoes, and galoshes?

Thank you much

Score: 3

_________________________ 12/07/12 1:42 pm

August 14, 2004

Newport State Airport, Coventry, VT

Set 1: Walls of the Cave > Runaway Jim -> Gotta Jibboo, You Enjoy Myself > Sample in a Jar > Axilla > Poor Heart > Run Like an Antelope^[1], Fire

Set 2: AC/DC Bag -> 46 Days > Halley's Comet -> Ya Mar, David Bowie, Character Zero

Set 3: Twist -> The Wedge, Stash > Free, Guyute, Drowned > Friday

Encore: Harry Hood^[2]

[1] Tom Marshall on vocals.
[2] With Trey banter. At the end of Hood, the band stopped playing allowing the audience to sing the "You can feel good, good, good about Hood" refrain.

Notes: This was the first show of the Coventry festival and was simulcast in movie theaters nationwide. During YEM, the band gave away their trampolines. Throughout the duration of the set, groups of fans held the trampolines above their heads while people took turns jumping above the crowd. Tom Marshall sang the lyrics to Antelope. Before Bowie, Trey told a story of the summer he spent living in a cabin in the Northeast Kingdom where he remembered writing several songs, including Bowie. Trey explained that Bowie was an attempt to see “how far can you push it in the harmonic and rhythmic language and still have people dancing.” During Hood, Trey (speaking in rhythm) noted that because of there were a row of rocks separating the band from the crowd, they were feeling a certain level of disconnect (particularly, when Mike plays a sexy note). To remedy the situation, Trey and Mike ventured down onto the rocks for the duration of the song. At the end of Hood, the band stopped playing allowing the audience to sing the “You can feel good, good, good about Hood” refrain.

Score: 1

johnnyd

12/07/12 2:01 pm

2 days earlier, 8/12/2004
Scents

absolutely haunting.
but rich and thick also

Score: 3

birmy 12/07/12 9:03 pm

@johnnyd said:

2 days earlier, 8/12/2004
Scents

absolutely haunting.
but rich and thick also

So good. Wow

Score: 1

jmponder 12/07/12 9:07 pm

6/9/00 Tweezer

Score: 4

birmy 12/07/12 9:12 pm

Listening to it now thanks

Score: 2

birmy 12/07/12 9:35 pm

@jmponder said:

6/9/00 Tweezer

Score: 3

jmponder 12/07/12 9:55 pm

@birmy said:

@jmponder said:
6/9/00 Tweezer
http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs1/3798910_o.gif

it tends to have that effect on people

Score: 1

Pooty 12/07/12 9:56 pm

Simple jam 11-29-98

Score: 2

forbin1 12/07/12 9:59 pm

6/28/00 Mike's

Score: 2

EducateFright 12/07/12 11:43 pm

Speaking of Simple, how about the Hampton Comes Alive Simple? (11/21/98)

Score: 3

jerryguscia 12/07/12 11:53 pm

07/01/11 Simple
08/02/03 Waves
10/31/98 Wolfman's
06/17/04 Moma segue into Free
06/14/00 Twist

Score: 2

birmy 12/08/12 6:38 am

@jerryguscia IT Waves nice.

Score: 1

birmy 12/08/12 6:51 am

@forbin1 said:

6/28/00 Mike's

Another great one, thanks.

Score: 1

Bikepgh 12/08/12 8:46 am

7/29/03 crosseyed and painless

Score: 1

relax_ 12/09/12 3:50 pm

@_________________________, I must confess, I haven't listened to Coventry since Coventry. Absent were my double socks, shoes and galoshes at the time. I'm pretty sure there are a few shoe trees growing in those fields considering the number that were planted in the mud that weekend.

Score: 1

MiguelSanchez 12/09/12 4:44 pm

Just got done rocking the boaf-> walk away, antelope stretch. Bueno.

July 25, 1999

Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN

Set 1: Meat, My Friend, My Friend^[1] -> My Left Toe -> Whipping Post > Makisupa Policeman^[2] > Happy Birthday to You^[3], Makisupa Policeman, Saw It Again, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Cavern

Set 2: Birds of a Feather^[4] -> Walk Away > Run Like an Antelope^[5] > Suzy Greenberg^[6] > Hold Your Head Up > Purple Rain^[7] > Hold Your Head Up, You Enjoy Myself^[8]

Encore: Loving Cup

[1] No "Myfe" lyric.
[2] Key words were "gooballs, brownies, stink, kind nugs... keef!"
[3] Instrumental from Trey and then "rasta style" sung (with a We're gonna get you so wasted tonight after the show" lyric), Mike took a bass solo, Fishman also sung a verse in a mock Jamaican accent (with a "you roll up a big spleef and you don't pass it with no one" lyric). Kuroda then took a one-minute light solo.
[4] Unfinished; contained a My Left Toe tease.
[5] Stash tease.
[6] I Wish teases and a syncopated jam based around Page.
[7] Fishman forgot the words and subsequently thanked the crowd for supporting his vacuum cleaner habit.
[8] Boogie On Reggae Woman jam.

Notes: My Friend's ending did not contain the "Myfe" lyric. Whipping Post was played for the first time since August 10, 1996 (208 shows) and featured Trey on vocals for the first time since September 21, 1990 (846 shows). The Makisupa key words were "gooballs, brownies, stink, kind nugs... keef!" Happy Birthday was performed for the first time since September 30, 1991 (715 shows) and was first played by Trey instrumentally over Makisupa before he announced Chris Kuroda's birthday and asked the crowd to join in as he sang the song "rasta style" (with a "We're gonna get you so wasted tonight after the show" lyric). Mike subsequently took a bass solo and Fishman sung a verse solo in a mock Jamaican accent (with a "You roll up a big spliff and you don't pass it to no one!" lyric). Chris took a silent light board solo (see also April 18, 1990) at Trey's request before Makisupa resumed. The second set featured multiple teases and jams, including the unfinished Birds (My Left Toe tease), Antelope (Stash tease), Suzy (I Wish teases and a syncopated jam based around Page) and YEM (Boogie On Reggae Woman jam). In Purple Rain, played for the first time since August 6, 1996 (209 shows), Fishman forgot the words and subsequently thanked the crowd for supporting his vacuum cleaner habit.

Score: 1

relax_ 12/09/12 5:35 pm

Thanks a lot folks -- these recs are seriously scratching my itch!

@Bikepgh said:

7/29/03 crosseyed and painless

So serene and mesmerizing -- based on my OP, this falls into column A very nicely.

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@johnnyd said:

8/12/2004 Scents

@Pooty said:

Simple jam 11-29-98

These two are so dense! Incredibly heavy and subjugating.

Score: 1

joe_b 12/09/12 9:15 pm

Get lost in the 10/31/95 YEM, or 4/3/98 Roses, or 10/31/98 Wolfman's or some 94 Tweezer (5/7 or 11/2)
all excellent suggestions

Score: 0

Abrahm 12/09/12 9:25 pm

Score: 3

relax_ 12/11/12 12:59 am

^haha, I can never get tired of this. The showdown and the Jesus Camp kids are the best!

@joe_b, thanks. I recall that YEM being pretty creepy and demonic! I'll have to revisit it.

@forbin1 said:

6/28/00 Mike's

Sinister groove!

@jmponder said:

6/9/00 Tweezer

Nice! I swear they turned on a white noise machine half way through (cymbals I presume). I love how each part lingers and bleeds into the next.

Score: 0

TwiceBitten 12/11/12 12:43 pm

Ambient Set at Lemonwheel fits the bill if you are still looking for more, as does 46 Days from IT

Score: 0

fanman900 12/11/12 12:52 pm

@jmponder said:

6/9/00 Tweezer

Thats my birthday and a wicked jam, nice recommendation!

Score: 0

Potato_Sacks 12/11/12 12:59 pm

Wormtown Stash Jam.

July 02, 1997

Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Set 1: Mike's Song > Simple -> Maze, Strange Design, Ginseng Sullivan, Vultures, Water in the Sky > Weekapaug Groove

Set 2: Stash -> Llama -> Wormtown Jam^[1] -> Wading in the Velvet Sea

Encore: Free

Encore 2: David Bowie

[1] Narration sung to the tune of Swingtown. Trey warned fans about the "killer worms" that inhabit the canals of Amsterdam.

Notes: The Wormtown Jam continued the stage banter of the night before. Portions of the narration were sung to the tune of Steve Miller’s Swingtown, as Trey warned the fans in attendance about the “killer worms” that inhabit the canals of Amsterdam.

Score: 1

relax_ 12/11/12 2:49 pm

@TwiceBitten said:

...if you are still looking for more

Heck yeah -- thanks for the recs folks!

Score: 0

relax_ 12/21/12 12:58 pm

Baby, it's cold outside...

Score: 0

DriedupGoliath 12/21/12 1:03 pm

7/21/99 Simple> My Left Toe

Score: 2