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That song melts the hearts of jaded vets everywhere.Trey is plucking my hearstrings during the solo.
:: we all start out small ::
amiright?
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I didn't like it at all when I heard it on joy, but I've heard live versions I've enjoyed. What is your favorite/the best live version, OP?
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Placement during the set and flow seem to work in this songs favor. The Dicks and NYE versions lately have fit well I think.
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@JayDubya said: That song melts the hearts of jaded vets everywhere.No doubt
Trey is plucking my hearstrings during the solo.
:: we all start out small ::
amiright?
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How much of that song is autobiographically accurate, would you guess? Some wild claims in the lyrics lol.
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Well, he is a submarine
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@BernardShakey said: How much of that song is autobiographically accurate, would you guess? Some wild claims in the lyrics lol.i bet it's not that far fetched. plus the lyrics are trey post rehab. i'm sure he "once didn't sleep for four days and three night" at some point in his grueling career. some of the lyrics may be far fetched as well. other lyrics in the song are figures of speech. and the end, maybe he does feel better and more free now.
love this song. glad to see it possibly hitting the rotation. i think it had some jam potential they havn't touched on yet. this could be a very progressive tune in 2013.
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@JayDubya said: Placement during the set and flow seem to work in this songs favor. The Dicks and NYE versions lately have fit well I think.i agree. When you play a set as legendary as the sets on 12/30/12 and 9/2/12 playing 20YL is cool with me.
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I love that song. I hope he wouldn't ever run 7 red lights again though.
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Love it.
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@JayDubya said: Placement during the set and flow seem to work in this songs favor. The Dicks and NYE versions lately have fit well I think.very true. i don't think this work would be all that great if it just randomly popped up in the first set, but you throw it on after a mind bending 15-25min jam....that works.
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I fell in love with 20 Years Later on 12/30/12.
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Fond of augusta10 version. Really overlooked 2nd set here. The light is tight.
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Love it feel like it has potential to be a good jam vehicle was hoping for them to extend it on the 30th after that DWD
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@BernardShakey said:
Lots of heady stuff on that Joy album. Ironic title, as so much of it reflects on the process of being dragged kicking and screaming into responsible adulthood...and in a blink that becomes middle age. Where does the time go???
How much of that song is autobiographically accurate, would you guess? Some wild claims in the lyrics lol.It's probably about as autobiographical as it is pan-biographical. We do all sorts of outlandish stuff when we are young, some more so than others. Might be shared shenanigans or unwitnessed solitary sojourns. The experiences transform us, but are we really any different on the other side?
Lots of heady stuff on that Joy album. Ironic title, as so much of it reflects on the process of being dragged kicking and screaming into responsible adulthood...and in a blink that becomes middle age. Where does the time go???
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one of the best songs they've written in a while
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I've liked this song this the first time I heard it. I love the base line in the second half. Mike teases this song at Oak Mt during Rock and Roll, 14:45
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interesting song. by itself, it thoroughly unimpresses me. live, it always seems to find a right place/right time and winds up enhancing the set. the song structure is built to carry a set out of the space/darkness into an almost poppy place, then plunge it back into the darkness with the finishing solo. i'll take it as a late 3rd/early 4th "ballad" anyday.
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End got me: Inside this silence see, all are free all are free
Second time around
Inside this silence see, all are free all are free
Second time around
Inside this silence see, all are free all are free
Second time around
Inside this silence see, all are free all are free
Second time around
Inside this silence see, all are free, all are free, all are free...
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@BernardShakey said: I didn't like it at all when I heard it on joy, but I've heard live versions I've enjoyed. What is your favorite/the best live version, OP?Have you heard the version from 10/19/10?
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dicks made me love the song and 12/30 just made me love it even more
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@careful_w_that_axe_Miller said: End got me:It gets really eerie sounding, doesn't it? It caught me off guard on 12/30, but it fit with the dark set perfectly.
Inside this silence see, all are free all are free
Second time around
Inside this silence see, all are free all are free
Second time around
Inside this silence see, all are free all are free
Second time around
Inside this silence see, all are free all are free
Second time around
Inside this silence see, all are free, all are free, all are free...
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great stuff
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I caught the debut of this at JB in '09..wasn't really feeling it then...it's starting to grow on me..slowly though...
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My big question is, Why doesn't Trey solo towards the end of this song anymore?Listen to the one from Dicks and you can hear the band is waiting for trey to start improving and he never really does he just kind of pretends he doesn't have a solo...
Even on the 12/30/12 version he only does the trippy soloing thing for like 1 measure then closes the song.
Why isn't he doing the super trippy backwards sounding soloing like he does in the video below from 4:46-5:54?
hmmmm...
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Was spinning this just this morning. Love this jam, bethel 10 is a good version!
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I agree that Augusta '10 is the winner for best live version to date, but 8/16/09 SPAC is no slouch. I also have a soft spot for 8/7/10 Greek III, between another killer Light and a decent Hood. (Summer '10 is underrated!)Twenty Years Later definitely has potential for some Type II jamming glory. Makes me wonder if Trey is avoiding using his "backwards guitar" effect, since it can be hit-or-miss.
Interesting that the song was dropped after 5/29/11 Bethel. Any theories?
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i think of 20YL as trey calling that absolutely fantastic tune Come As Melody out of retirement, in disguise, just to wring some well-deserved tears out of older phish fans.Steam, No Quarter, and a couple of trey's solo tunes explore the same sonic space, but 20YL is the heartdestroyer of the group.
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Twenty Years Later is a good example of how it can be difficult to judge a show from a recording. I generally like this song but can't say when I'm driving my car in traffic or walking to the grocery store and it comes on I'm guaranteed to be excited. At the show...universally...it is beautiful and everything good about 3.0 Phish. Solidly written, generally well executed and performed with emotion.
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my first phish show i was tripping so hard after the first set i was trying to convince my friends we had heard enough music, and it was time to leave. during a 30 min BDNTL opener of the second set. we sat on the spac grass and aventually walked back over and i thought ok a couple more songs. we just caught the seague from BDTNL-> 20YL and 20YL calmed me down and got me back into the show.
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I'll take this opportunity to plug one of my fav shows and 2nd sets in particular for me. Nothing is such a happy up and up song and then 20 years later is kinda dark,fun back to back songs, plucks my heartstrings in a dark way, though wouldnt claim to be a vet.
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That final jam is so dark. I love it. I would love to see them extend that part for a couple extra minutes.
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I got into the studio version last year sometime and I almost melted when I realized they were playing it on 12-30. It was perfectly placed on 12-30
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@Herbdacious said: my first phish show i was tripping so hard after the first set i was trying to convince my friends we had heard enough music, and it was time to leave. during a 30 min BDNTL opener of the second set. we sat on the spac grass and aventually walked back over and i thought ok a couple more songs. we just caught the seague from BDTNL-> 20YL and 20YL calmed me down and got me back into the show.It's a very grounding song. That's what I love about it. I agree with others here that it could go to a very intense TII place.
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I was privileged enough to see it in 2010 and then this past november i got to listen to it when i turned 20. It was a strange feeling listening to it and being 20...cuz i do feel i'm still upside down.
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I been lucky 4x and 11/24/09 got overlooked. It's my favorite I've seen.
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20 Years ago I was drawing dicks and turds all over the neighborhood with sidewalk chalk.
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Nobody has mentioned my favorite which is the 6/4/11 show. The BDTNL> 20 years is golden!
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@JayDubya said: Placement during the set and flow seem to work in this songs favor. The Dicks and NYE versions lately have fit well I think.I agree. Fits for a perfect come down song after a hot jam. Then the final breakdown gets heavy again realllll quick.
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Twenty years ago I was in DC for Clinton's first inauguration. It was a high school trip, and I believe I also tried to impress a female student by playing the Spin Doctors for her on her walkman. 20-year-fail.
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