KW- I'd probably seen them about five time before actually meeting them, and that was in small little ski town bars. DB- What bands were you into at that point? Is there one region for instance that you think listens more closely?
I'm used to going out and winging it, so it's hard for me to remember what I played the last time I was around. I also wanted to use three snares at the same time, which we do and it's pretty cool. Phish when the circus comes to town chords youtube. I guess I would see Michael Stipe as an early influence. But now I'll have someone find the list of what I played when I was there and I'll have the list that afternoon so I'll try to play something completely different. Obviously you're still gigging quite a bit but have you made a conscious decision to ease up a bit now that you have built up that base of support? "Gallivanting" is a song I wanted to do because the chords are a-b-c-d-e-f-g and each word in each chord starts with the first letter of the chord. KW- That's a tough one but I'll tell you, at least from my perspective, I think the west coast audiences are more perceptive, listening carefully and more focussed on the music.
KW- I guess from 87-95, I was in that big Grateful Dead phase. KW- I believe in the power of radio and the thing I'm after the most is to sell tickets to shows. Driving from one side of Florida to the other there's an actual stretch of highway called alligator alley. DB- I would imagine that many of our readers have some familiarity with the story of how you invited the members of String Cheese to a show and by the end of the night they were all performing with you. There are others when I'm trying to make people think and there are others that tell a story with a beginning, middle and end. KW- I honestly think it never will happen but if I did I would get a kick out of it. When the Circus Comes" Chords?, Phish Discussion Topic on Phantasy Tour. All rights reserved. The local spots around where I live I might hit twice a year but Florida, California, Seattle that's definitely like once a year. KW- There I'm just describing the experience of looking out at the audience and making up stories about what I see. Plus I had these big ideas for it in the studio. I saw them twice in Telluride. The way I'm hearing it she's using the circus to tell people about her life on the road.
There's a big realty company that owns, so that your web site is Are you bitter about that? KW- I've never put much thought into it in terms of following someone else's songwriting footsteps. In 95 I jumped into the String Cheese phase. DB- Okay, final geeky internet question [Laughs]. I was enjoying the high energy of the clubs. Phish when the circus comes to town chords song. KW- In part just the response it has at shows. There might be nothing off the record that would remind you of REM but he was definitely an early influence in terms of using weird words for lyrics. DB- Back to your own touring, I'd like to hear your thoughts on one question that I return to, and one that interests me quite a bit. Back then the types of venues I was playing were small restaurants and small bars where you'd wait until 9:00 when people finished eating and then they'd take a few tables out of the corner. KW- No I just wanted a pretty nice fast jazz grass type song that would be easy to show someone and that one used the changes really easily. But I'm curious, had you been checking them out quite a bit before that first time you encouraged them to see you? DB- Do you still take requests? I would get some crappy minimum wage job and work it hard for a month and then spend it all on like ten, eleven shows.
Maybe it has to do with smoking which there is much more of in the south that turns it into more of a social interaction thing. I started seeing Phish around 92 at the last of their club phase and that was really exciting but once they moved into the coliseums it kind of lost it for me. I was also hungrier then, hungrier to perform, to please, so I played more familiar songs. But I do what I can. DB- So you don't have any fears about that being a burden, or do you just figure you'll worry about that when the time comes? DB- I can see "Gallivanting" in those terms. I got attached to his writing style back in high school, the way he uses words for musical purposes and not necessarily for meaning. Other times lyrics will pop out of nowhere or else I'll be having a conversation with someone and something will come up that I can use. People weren't really coming to the show to hear me, it would be a popular drinking spot. Phish when the circus comes to town chords tabs. For instance, "Alligator Alley, " the word came first on that. How would you compare audiences across the country?
It's really easy to do that in guitar playing. KW- I try to accommodate, although if I played somewhere the night before close to where that show is I might not get to a particular song. So while driving back and forth on that highway I came up with this crazy scenario of swimming in those canals. I would imagine that their songcraft impacted yours. That began a relationship that continues to this day.