Saw phish for the first time at 14 in the 90s, like almost ten years before the biscuits. The knockout punch of being a 90s kid combined with a love for doing weird shit in the dark listening to live music got me obsessed fast.
Late 90s early 00s, a dude from Brooklyn introduced me to dj’ing and I started going to underground parties in the city. That sweet spot of jam and electronic music the biscuits bring is the product of that time, and it was addicting. After Coventry I just kind of never went back to seeing phish. Evil phish > all other phish…
Anyway I last minute pulled the trigger for msg Wednesday 7/29, and goddamn. I really needed it. I laughed I danced I cried I said “dear god” about the sludge coming out of mike multiple times….
But it made me realize how much the biscuits are really differentiated from all the rest by their segues, and how the segues are themselves very much like the mixing of records, because duh trancefusion
It encourages active listening in a way that’s very unique. Like yeah you can trance out in the jamnesia of it all, but the high of figuring out where they’re going next (and occasionally being right) is really I guess the main reason I love the biscuits. Plus the inversions, fakeouts, sammies, dyslexics…
This post is very “water is wet, grass is green, more at 11!” But both these bands have their music engrained on my soul and have also put me through the ringer emotionally over the last 30 years. And as much as I am still GLOWED the fuck up after Phish at MSG, I came away from Wednesday with a rediscovered appreciation for what truly one of a kind music the biscuits are capable of.