re: '09 Disco Biscuits > '97 Phish

-Just to put down some stats:

Heady's Phish 1997 Highlights (Bold indicates the best of the best)

2.17.97 Down with Disease -> Carini -> Taste -> Down with Disease

2.21.97 DWD, Crosseyed and Painless, You Enjoy Myself, Run Like An Antelope->Wilson

2.23.97 David Bowie, Maze, Mike's Song

2.26.97 Scent of a Mule->Magilla->Scent of a Mule, Tube, You Enjoy Myself

3.1.97 Cities, Wolfman's Brother->Jesus Just Left Chicago, Mike's Song->Weekapaug Groove

6.14.97 Cavern

6.19.97 Stash->Ghost->Saw It Again, Prince Caspian

6.20.97 Taste

6.25.97 Down with Disease -> Piper -> Down with Disease -> Meatstick -> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Makisupa Policeman

7.1.97 Ghost, Bathtub Gin->Cities->Jam

7.2.97 Mike's Song>Simple->Maze , Stash->Llama->Wormtown Jam

7.9.97 YEM->Ghost

7.10.97 Bathtub Gin->Llama , 2001>Julius->Magilla, Ya Mar->Ghost->Take Me to the River->Jam, Funky Bitch

7.21.97 Ghost, Bathtub Gin, Wolfman's Brother->Magilla>David Bowie

7.22.97 DWD->Mike's Song>Simple->I Am Hydrogen>Weekapaug Groove

7.23.97 Ghost , You Enjoy Myself

7.25.97 Chalk Dust Torture->Taste->Ya Mar->Ghost

7.26.97 Timber>Bowie, Hood->Blister in the Sun->Hood

7.29.97 Gumbo

7.30.97 Bowie->Cities->Bowie

7.31.97 Ghost>Ya Mar, You Enjoy Myself

8.10.97 Bathtub Gin, Cities, Split Open and Melt

8.11.97 Makisupa Policeman->Maze , Timber>Piper

8.13.97 Runaway Jim, Ghost->Izabella

8.14.97 Harry Hood->Funk Jam>Col Forbin's Ascent>Funk jam->Camel Walk

8.16.97 Wolfman's Brother->Simple , Slave to the Traffic Light

8.17.97 Tweezer, DWD, Bathtub Gin->Uncle Pen, 2001, Harry Hood

11.16.97 Timber->Simple->Wilson>Harry Hood>Izabella

11.17.97 Tweezer, Reba, Ghost, Johnny B Goode, YEM

11.19.97 2001>Wolfman's Brother>Makisupa Policeman

11.21.97 Emotional Rescue, Ghost>AC/DC Bag->Slave to the Traffic Light

11.22.97 Mike's Song->I am Hydrogen>Weekapaug Groove, Harry Hood, Halley's Comet>Tweezer>Black Eyed Katy>Piper>Run Like An Antelope

11.23.97 Bathtub Gin->Down With Disease->Low Rider->DWD

11.26.97 Character Zer0->2001->Cities->Ya Mar

11.28.97 The Curtain->You Enjoy Myself->I Didn't Know, Ghost

11.29.97 Runaway Jim

11.30.97 Funky Bitch, Wolfman's Brother, Stash->Free->Piper

12.02.97 Mike's Song->Simple->Dog Faced Boy->Ya Mar->Weekapaug Groove

12.03.97 David Bowie->Possum->Funk Jam

12.06.97 Run Like An Antelope, Tweezer->Izabella->Twist->Piper

12.07.97 AC/DC Bag->Psycho Killer->Jesus Just Left Chicago , It's Ice->Swept Away->Steep>It's Ice>Theme From the Bottom, Tube, Tube Jam Reprise->Slave to the Traffic Light , Timber>Wolfman's Brother->Boogie on Reggae Woman, Reba

12.9.97 Simple->Timber

12.11.97 DWD->Maze, Drowned->Roses Are Free, Ghost->DWD reprise

12.12.97 Funky Bitch>2001>Camel Walk , Saw It Again->Piper

12.13.97 Ya Mar, Ghost>Mike's Song->Llama

12.29.97 Crossroads, Run Like An Antelope, DWD->David Bowie>Possum,Tube,YEM

12.30.97 Sneakin Sally Through the Alley->Taste, AC/DC Bag>McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Harpua>Izabella>Harry Hood, Carini->Black Eyed Katy->Sneakin Sally reprise

12.31.97 2001>Auld Lang Syne>Tweezer>Maze

-This list does help your argument in the fact that tDB does have a lot more improvisation per show than Phish. We can not objectively say which is the better band at jamming, but IMO it remains that 97 Phish>>>09 Bisco

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lol97fish

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Haven't you said that you like 94 and 95 better anyway? How do those stack up against 09?

Dat Crickets jam

I know what I'll be doing tonight... I've only listened to them here and there over the past 2 years, but I'm definitely going to check out more '09 stuff.

what's your favorite year?

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what's your favorite year?

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1997 overall, but I'd break them up into sections after that.

Nov-Dec 1995 is fricking awesome.

June 1994.

Japan 2000

Dec 1999.

Summer 1998

August and NYE run '93.

Summer 2003

Fall 2013.

June 2004

Fall 2000

Etc...

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4.3.98 is the best phish show IMO.

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Definitely a top 10, along with

8.17.97
12.31.99
12.31.95
6.14.00
12.6.97
11.17.97
7.25.99
6.18.94
12.30.97

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ay which is the better band at jamming, but IMO it remains that 97 Phish>>>09 Bisco

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That's because all you know is phish

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That's because all you know is phish

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Obviously I know a bit more about the Phish from Vermont but it isn't like tDB are some foreign concept to me.

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Bisco Kid Takeover on the Music Board has begun...Come to the dark side!

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convert or die!!! ISIS begins

the blackboard would be so proud