From cdirksen@earthlink.net Sat Sep 12 23:35:40 1998
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:41:28 GMT
From: cdirksen@earthlink.net
To: dan@netspace.org
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: 2/26/97 You Enjoy Myself

This is in honor of the wisdom of yulenjoyme@aol.com...

2/26/97  Longhorn, Stuttgart, Deutschland

Very intense ending to "Ha Ha Ha" before the YEM, btw.. this jam could
be re-worked into its own song if they felt like it.

YEM somewhat > segues out of this weird Ha Ha Ha ending.  What the
hell keyboard was Page using on this tour btw?  YEM is *very*
fast in the opening segment. So fast that it sounds queer.  Very
mellow, spacey pre-Nirvana segment.  Mike repeats a
basic ascending melody over and over again.. Makes for an even more
charming than usual pre-Nirvana section imo. Nirvana at 3:40...
beautiful as usual.  Page is on a piano.. or a piano effect on a
keyboard. Mike's solo section occurs around 4:22, and he's fairly
upbeat.. but tools around aimlessly.  Pre-charge section is strong..
crowd goes crazy (tramps brought out, I assume). The Notes are ok.

"Boy" at 6:58 after a great scream!  BMGS/WUDMTF segment is the usual
funky time, which is a relief (the opening was awfullly quick). Fish
makes quite a few vocal noises throughout this section, and there's
good stuff from Page on the clavinet!  Tramps jam at 9:05.  Page
begins tooling around on the hammond right away.  Signals for the
moves from Mike... nothing all that exciting in here.

Jam segment basically begins at about 11:14.  Groove gets
progressively quieter, and Trey delicately & softly solos, teasing
"Spooky" a little bit around 11:49. Very quiet jam in the beginning,
much like many 1996 YEM jam segments (starts out quiet, then builds to
a thunderous climax).  Can't say it does anything for me, though. At
12:47 Trey begins repeating a theme he's played in YEM before (he
quickly drops it), which might be a tease of something.  Some weird
effects appear shortly after the 13 min point.  I only heard this
strange effect on this particular European tour... and then only in
the final week or so of shows.

At 14 minutes, the jam begins to build.. but it's still rather quiet
(audience clapping helps pick it up, perhaps).  Around 14:30 Trey
comes damn close to teasing "Who Knows" and then, shortly thereafter,
"Oye Como Va" of course. At 14:55 Trey starts repeating "that theme"
again, that I know I've heard him play in other versions of YEM
before, which is almost a tease (an upbeat one) of the "Who Knows"
melody line.  He drops it soon, though, and the jam takes on a more
standard YEM feel, and begins to command attention.  Finally.  At
16:05 Trey is finally in the upper octaves of his 'doc, but isn't
doing anything enormously impressive given what he is capable of.  The
jam finally starts climaxing around 17 minutes, and there's a very
solid, powerful closing jam!!! =^]  Definitely pushes this version
above the "B" average great point.

Bass and drums at 18:27.  Mike funks out right from the start.. Sounds
like Trey starts playing the percussion kit a bit.. perhaps the final
appearance of the percussion kit in YEM... Good soloing from Mike, and
accompaniment from Fish.. but nothing exceptional.

At 20:11 the closing WUDMTF segment comes in, and the vocal jam begins
by 20:28. Good, harmonious vocal jam... segues into Kung at 24:40.
(Trey starts up Kung) Trey clearly says "BALT!!!" during Kung.  I
still do not know what the hell BALT is, but I certainly hope that it
has nothing at all to do with the staging of a runaway golf cart
marathon.

Voraciously Alternate,
charlie

p.s.  Easy B+ for the 2/26/97 YEM..