a conversation last night about this show prompted me to put the tapes on for a re-listenin'/re-livin', and then i remember that i'd been meaning to type something up about it.. wish i could go through the minute by minute play by play as it was in my brain that night, cuz that, my friends, was fucking cool. i had a kickass time at the show, it exceeded any and all expectations i had going in.
grab.. mike and the italians... ambiguously trey duo... trey and mike with the duo... whatever you wanna call 'em... they played at the hummingbird center in toronto, and it was my first time in there... and i totally lucked out with the seats i ended up in.. long story short: scottie's extra. but the best part was someone took our seats, so we ended up taking in the show from the second set of steps, like 4 steps up, on the first balcony, dead center. it was just awesome. the sound couldnt have been better if i had it cranked to 11 in my living room. and the perspective was just incredible.. you could see enough crowd to get their energy, and make the connection of interaction with the band... the lights took on a whole new dimension, and to see different parts of the playing and make the correlation with the sounds hitting my ears, that was pretty cool, too.. for example all the footwork, the timing... i mean, you always know thats how it works, but when you're on the floor you dont see it the same way... it was just a neat way to watch the music. and the music itself, like i said, was great.
GRAB - 7/18/06
Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, Marco Benevento and Joe Russo
Hummingbird Centre, Toronto, Ontario Canada
1. Sand
2. Drifting
3. Trouble
4. Sleep Again
5. Something For Rockets
6. Goodbye Head >
7. Plasma
8. Waste*
9. You've Got Me Floating*
10. On The Road Again*
11. Mexican Cousin*
12. Suskind Hotel
13. Who Are You
Encore:
14. These Eyes
15. Dragonfly
16. Tuesday
* acoustic Trey and Mike only
the sand opener just about knocked everyone on their ass, and drifting was a pretty sweet comedown.... it was great to hear mike so big in the mix from where we were, and he thumped away all night. joey russo, i thought, was incredible at just reading the crowd and giving 'em that little pick me up whenever they needed a little kick. the trey/marco interaction was interesting, too - you could see how marco would push trey early on, but i really thought as the show went on the tables kinda turned and trey really took over.. trey seemed to really want toronto, he played to the crowd and was very well received - and rightly so. the acoustic section with gordo on the banjo was probably my favourite part of the night - included a waste sing-a-long, a willie tune, a hendrix tune, and a fun phish tune. after they strapped the electics back on and got the band out they warmed up with one before launching like a cannonball into Who Are You - i remember the room just about exploding. end of the set, and i think everyone felt a little beat up. the encore was a request from the party they had the night before, and you know, as cool as it was and as sweet as it was to say what a great hometown the band had and whatnot, memo to trey - that hometown is winnipeg. they sorta pulled it off, but it was mostly fun anyways and the end of these eyes was pretty funny with marco pushing trey higher and higher up the scale - you could see them laughing on the stage trying to get through it, a good fun way to start the encore, that mostly was a let-down after that. didnt matter, though - they hammered us most of the night, and it was nice to see trey and mike having so much fun up there with the duo rockin' it out. good times.
high-fives to the hummingbird center staff for being pretty cool, and to that place in general - what a beautiful venue, with incredible sound!
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