Classical Composer Reacts to You Enjoy Myself (Phish) | The Daily Doug (Episode 427)
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2022
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In this episode of #thedailydoug, I'm listening to You Enjoy Myself by Phish. This is my second time reacting to a song by Phish, and I find myself very much enjoying their vibe. Today, I'm playing along a bit at the piano while enjoying myself immensely with Phish's music. I hope you enjoy!
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I have heard of Phish before but can't believe I haven't listened to them before.
I need to hear more.
"And there you go, ladies and gentlemen! _Another_ satisfied Phishie phan!"
Yes. Yes you do. Welcome Phan. 🐠
Phantastc! Dig in & Y.ou Enjoy M.yself! Trey said he wrote the song after jamming in Italy playing with Mike Gordon on the street... and when they left their biggest phan there in italy gave them this compliment saying that he would miss them because whenever they played there 'they enjoyed himself' by saying 'You Enjoy Myself!" in broken English! ❄️🤣👌❄️🌎❄️( oops...i always read the comments first so idk Trey explained YEM @ the beginning of this video!) LMFAO! ❣️😜👌❣️
If you like the funk, check out the nassau county shows from april 1998 or anything from fall 1997
The album A Live One is a great place to start! Welcome to the Phamily
“Where are they going now?” The eternal question 😅
It’s simply one of the greatest songs ever written
I love when he asked, "Ok, where are they going now?" NOW he gets Phish...
Imagine return to forever playing this
Agreed... it is an absolute masterpiece
Ok, relax. I love Phish, but Jesus.
@@Yoseman1it really is tho.
The “Vocal Jam” at the end of the track is always improvised by the band. Sometimes it’s spacey, sometimes it’s peaceful, sometimes it’s scary! It’s always an adventure.
And often times, for the audience, it is painful.
I always tell new listeners that it's ok to laugh at the vocal jam. It's silly and weird and very phishy.
I kept waiting for the Pict to show up :-)
But seriously, Several Species was a boat-load of tape manipulation; this was just guys with mics. Wow.
When they aborted the one at Deer Creek this past June, I wasn’t mad about it 😀
Cheesecake!
'A story of a life lived in 4 acts. You become a boy, you become a man, you try to make yourself a god, and then everything turns to shit.' Doug Helvering
That was my fave part. So deep.
Great insight, I never tried to put any meaning to these lyrics but he gave it some good context
I love listening to Trey talk about music... you can hear his love, his passion and enthusiasm even after almost 40 years of playing. It runs in his veins.
You jamming along on the piano is such the essence of Phish. Yes! Love it. Also, love your vibe. Subbed!
This guy needs to start a jam band!
The drummer is amazing, perfect playing with a sense of rhythm and cadence allowing himself to use the intensity of the beats in order to give the dynamics a delicious grace that it's little used by these days in main stream.
As mentioned by other opinions, and even fans who adore them, they have parts that almost brush the scale of primary music students in some parts of their music construction.
But, there it is, even a simple work can and should shine when it is done with soul, which is the case of these excellent musicians.
Relaxed music delivered to a go with the flow... as if they didn't want to assume the grandeur they deserve and don't intend to show they have.
They are a little Wagnerian way in the aspect of keeping us suspended, waiting for a technical musical conclusion that does not always come.
Revolutions... can be triggered by the flapping of a disabled butterfly's wings.
Go see them live! You’re life will be changed forever. They’re amazing in concert.
Love your channel, great stuff!!!
You absolutely WOULD love one of their shows brother....hope to see you at one this summer...love watching you experience and enjoy the band we all love :)
MORE PHISH!!!! WOOOOOOOOO
Best way to describe the experience of being a Phish fan: I've heard this YEM at least a dozen times and I still couldn't help but start dancing when the phunk started up. And look how badly Doug wanted to jam along with them. It's not the best music in the world, but it's for SURE the most fun. Look at the smile on this man's face. If you love music, you will love Phish.
It is SO much fun watching you react to this song! The smile started in your soul and spread to the rest of the universe.
I love a band like Phish where everyone listens and reacts to each other with no agenda. The whole of Phish is much greater than the parts and each part is fantastic.
You hit the nail on the head! I hope you’ve made it to a show!
Smooooooooth interpretation.
Tour is starting soon! Go get some tickets! Best band ever! Also, as others have mentioned, you wanna find some type 2 improv where they just jam and listen. They change keys on a dime. One of them plays one new note (like a flat 7 for Mixo) and everyone hears it immediately and they’re off to new territory. It would be great to see you listen for the changes in something like the Tahoe Tweezer or Alpine Ruby Waves just to name a couple notable recent ones.
My favorite band. Such a trip.
Great video man! Just a heads up though, you can’t be the “5th phish” because that title belongs to Chris Kuroda (CK5) their lighting guy. 😉
Used to write a lot of "fugue" type tunes!! Now, they're almost 60 so more Dad rockish. But, listen to early to mid 90's! They were INSANE!! Thanks for this! And basically, the "wash uffize" part is something that happened when Trey and Fish got a ride in Italy. The dude said something like that.
You hit the nail flat on the head…”what a unique group of musicians.” They are indeed unique. And they are most definitely, the definition of musicians, through and through.
Doug, once again, thank you thank you thank you! Fantastic reaction and analysis of one of the quintessential Phish compositions. I love that you're discovering Phish and that you hear the nuances that makes their music so special. Looking forward to more great videos!
"Maybe the dude driving you is not a very good driver" cracks me up
I'd love for you to react a version of Harry Hood, which Trey mentioned in that interview, too. It's another live staple of theirs and is just a really beautiful experience.
How about the Harry Hood from 11/30/19 uploaded by Phish. It’s a nice current version with good camerawork.
It's gotta be a good hood. He needs to feel good about hood because that can be a life changing experience.
@@AndrewJDuddy I think the 11/30/19 Hood is a good one! 👍🏼
Version from "A Live One" still my absolute fave. Perfectly tight composed part, sublime telepathy in the jam.
7/16/94 Sugarbush Hood is STELLAR
The way they are typically vocalized, those initial lyrics are single word expressions of exasperation: "Boy", "Man", "God", "Sheeeeit". At least that's how I interpret them. You had a good thought on their meaning too. Thanks for reviewing this song. Please sir, may I have some more Phish.
That’s how I always interpreted them. Like: Ahhh man, Ahhh god, ahhh shieeett 🫰. I like this interpretation better tho
Congratulations. You are a Phish fan. You figured it out much faster than many, but that’s to be expected from a guy who clearly not only understands, but loves music. Hope to see you at a show someday. Good stuff man!
The vocal section always reminds me of Pink Floyd's "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" Very convenient that you have checked that out also. But YEM is such a great-all-around Phish jam classic.
Totally, some are so similar that it has to be an inspiration. My fave is at the front, think 1990, which is a take on yes’ “leave it”.
During the vocal jam, you asked 'how do they know when to stop?'. The majority of their songs/jams can take on a life of their own and the guys can play off each other very well, I'm sure any phan would agree with that. So, when you ask 'how do they know when to stop?', they know when to stop when the song is over. It's that Simple. Fun fact, in a documentary back in 2019 'Between me and my mind' Trey said that growing up all he wanted to be was a composer.
I love how in depth you get into the song before listening. Keep up the good phish stuff Doug
Really like the new angle with the keyboard, you were always eloquent enough to explain with words, but this is just a new level. I like it!
I thoroughly enjoyed your reaction video. I too am an old fan of this band...it's so interesting to watch people like you discover them for the first time because it takes all of us back to the first time we all heard them. Keep delving, my friend, this band has sooo many layers to unravel, it takes a LONG time to get through it all. (Hint, as others have mentioned they still perform many of the songs that Trey wrote in music school as part of a 'rock opera' type of opus before Phish was even a band.)
I’d love a trip to Gamehendge!
Doug, I stopped in the middle of my workday to smile for thirty minutes straight while watching you enjoying You Enjoy Myself. Thanks for that brother.
Also, the Uffizi part was classic. I loved watching that and your very quick catch and disection of what it all means and doesn't mean. They used to put out a newsletter, and people would ask what they were saying there, and they always had fun making up silly things to respond. I love watching people get into Phish. It's a beautiful thing....especially when it is a musician who knows what is going on. I always jump with them at the shows, BTW haha Best band ever. I'll follow them until the end. They have played the soundtrack of my life, almost daily, since I was 15 (I'm 35).
As a highly accomplished and classically trained composer in my own right Mr.Helvering, I suggest to you that the key to understanding Phish's unique compositional craftsmanship, is for one to experience the notable psychological intoxicant of the cannabis plant.
Your timing is impeccable! In 12 hours from now I’ll be seeing phish live at merriweather so this was like my pregame
This was great to see someone react to Phish with such enthusiasm. He was totally sold and wanting to go to a show after hearing them play. Please sir go to a show you will have such a blast!!!!
Full body chills….. still after 25 years….
Me too, brother.
I've never enjoyed someone playing over Phish until now. Nice job!❤
SaraTOGA springs. It’s indeed their “hometown” about 150 miles away from their hometown
Go see them live. The past two years have been especially tasty. My first show was in 1997 and I've been going to see them live ever since. It's an experience you will never forget. FYI, CK5 is the fifth member of the band. Keep exploring, Doug. So much great music out there and so little time to enjoy it. Peace to you, brother.
LOVE LOVE LOVE Phish
Great stuff, Doug. I was a big Phish phan during the 90s, from the albums, but in particular the tape trading network. Phish always supported fans taping and sharing shows, providing no money was involved, and I'm sure this was a big factor in their huge success. Of course, the music was and is great: ambitious and fun!
I saw them a couple of times them, at the tiny Shepherds Bush Empire venue in London, the audience being many American students, me and a few other obvious progressive rock fans. They were great, and, as usual played for about 3 hours so I didn't at the time register them referencing a favourite piece. When the tape arrived (the 1997-02-13 show) I realised that, between Punch You in the Eye, and Slave to the Traffic light, they had thrown in an 8 minute jam based on Close to the Edge!
Just came across this. Great stuff! I loved when you started playing along. When you said "I'll let them play it", I think we all wanted to hear you keep going.
You “get it” better than 95% of phish phans! Your analysis of the lyrics is exactly the entire point of the entire band. If you can’t have a good time at a phish show, it’s because you are not fun!
The "Phifth Phish" is Chris Kuroda, the LD. He's basically been there since the beginning and is the best in the biz. I'm a stage hand, and every lighting director knows who he is. You can be the 6th though. They are the most unique. That's why I love them so much, and they definintely are hella entertaining. You never know what will happen. It's a thrill. "Our Intent Is All For Your Delight"
Tom Marshal too, so 7th..l
ever since I first ran across your "Terrapin Station" video when it came out, this is what I've wanted you to cover (I adore this song; however, and this may be somewhat controversial among the Phish community, there has been exactly one vocal jam that I've thought was good-to-great: the "we love Dick's" one from a few months after this show. Almost every other one I could do without). I love seeing new people give these guys a real chance and start to understand what we've all been obsessed over for so long, and it's even better when it's someone coming at it like this.
Really hope you do some more. They've got quite a catalog. I'd be surprised if someone else recommended it, but I think you'd like "The Curtain (With)." It's another of their oldest songs, though it's really only played about once a year or so. And it follows a similar format to "Divided Sky" or this, long instrumental intro, a few lyrics for 20 seconds, and then more instrumental leading to improv. It's one of my favorites, for sure.
Thanks Doug!! Such a treat to watch you enjoying this! I am not the most informed, musically, and it's a lot of fun to listen to you break things down. I work as an Interpretive guide in Yellowstone, and your interpretations of the music on your channel are fantastic!!! Thank you so much!!!
I love these Phish reaction videos...but this one in particular is my favorite one I've seen. This guy is great and the research he did and appreciation is genuine. Also killer version of YEM!
I'd like to know if OP ever got around to seeing a show yet :) phish is fantastic and to answer your question yes the vocal jam is improvised every time, and yes it's all nonsensical fun, that is the essence of Phish!
This made me smile. Phish fan since ‘95. New subscriber of your as of 12-1-23.
I'm glad you took our recommendations to spin YEM! It's my favorite. It has everything, and the vocal jam really is a great way to showcase the spirit of listening to each other and improvising. An homage to jamming...after some jamming! I honestly love the studio version probably the most. I don't know why, but there is just something about the sound of it. The live versions get rowdy, and the recent one in Indiana was incredible, but I will always have a lot of love for Junta and especially that track. Honorable mention for the snare instead of cowbell pop in the studio version, right before the one of the major arpeggio grooves (11mins into this video). I just always loved that, somehow even more than the cowbell, of which Fishman always uses tastefully.
I cracked up when you said this is getting weird! You can go do a rabbit hole on this song alone with its jams and a cappella improvs.
And Yes! We need more Phish in this world right now!
Great reaction video! Thank you!
We seem to have very similar musical tastes, Doug. The only part that you are missing is that, when seeing them live, like many other jam bands, there is a community feeling, a sharing of great bursts of joy shared over many people. The feeling of them live can not truly be experienced alone. For example, when they play a song that you've heard dozens of times, they play some phrase exceptionally well, you turn and smile at your neighbor at the concert, he smiles back, you 100% understand or grok one another. This feeling of oneness and togetherness, is what keep people coming back for more jam bands. And, their ability to fail musically puts a feeling of humanity into their music. Very tribal. Musical Shamanism.
The LSD usually helps too
@@jsb2277b lol ❄️🤣👌❄️🌎❄️
Perfectly put. (Phan since 1991)
Doug,
What a pleasure watching you hear my favorite band Phish. I look forward to checking some of your other episodes.
A couple things that might help you:
Many (most?) Phish fans go see many shows on a tour. They know all these songs perfectly. When the band stops playing, the fans know what's coming next and are excited about it. I've seen them wait several minutes in the middle of Divided Sky.
Trey says he likes listening to the ebbs and crescendos of the cheers.
Phish fans love the live shows, but the versions on the records are sometimes the cleanest, most well-written, often providing an understanding of structure that makes the jammed version interpretable. Maybe best to know the studio version to fully get the live.
Yes! I needed this dance party today!
Doug, on your own time check out the YEM performed at Red Rocks on 6/11/94. No video but the audio will more than make up for it
My favorite YEM no doubt
@@thetruth34o9 Def mine too! ❄️🌎❄️🤣👌☂️
Oh yeah!!! I was there can still attest to that to this day!!
Fan here.
Enjoyed your video, Doug! I’m am glad you enjoyed yourself.
I think you'll appreciate Phish's song "Tela". It's not the most popular song, but it was written as a part of a musical and Trey has said it was one of his most challenging compositions.
OMG this was my first show! My brother brought me to this show without me ever hearing them before and I'm very glad he did. Due to some shenanigans we walked in a bit late just as they were starting Wilson and hearing everyone chanting WILSON!
YEM! I’m from Saratoga Springs and was at this show. Thank you for your interpretations, it’s always interesting to hear what non Phans get from this song. And SPAC is the best place in the world to see them.
Lol, nah MSG > SPAC ✌️
This is so lifting. Watching him poke around and jam along was awesome. Unreal! Phish fan of course, but first time coming across Doug. Great stuff.
I was at their show last night, at the same venue that I first saw them 27 years ago (Great Woods, Mansfield MA). Going back tonight, up to Bangor ME tomorrow. 3 nights on the beach on the Atlantic City Boardwalk in early August. There are many reasons why we keep going back. Music, inside jokes, connections, community, shared experience... Pure joy. Get out and see them!
Thanks for the Vid bud !! That was FUN !!
another heard line for that one is "What's you fee, say, drive me to Firenze?"
Doug you win the trophy for the best ever interpretation of any phish lyrics ever. 20:55 serious
I have been seeing Phish since 1990, and watching you get turned on to them for the first time brings me back to when I first found them. Great video Doug!
Do more Phish songs. Amazing video. I sent this video to several of my Phish phriends.
I really enjoyed you jamming along with the band. Would love to see more of that!
Divided Sky has so many hills and valleys that I’ll continue to travel on these forever.
July 1998 just outside Nashville at my first Phish show and a storm set in during 2nd set. The rain and myself were coming down and lightning was flashing outside the amphitheater and I was ready to leave... And YEM started and with the lights thru the rain I had my aha moment. One of the coolest experiences of my life, love them dearly.
Are you in TN? The Phish tours every summer and they always have some dates in the south, probably the easiest way for you to catch a show. You would love the live experience and the unpredictability of the music, especially the improvisation. Cheers!
reviewing Phish, wearing a snoopy shirt...a man after my own heart. 2 of my favorite things
When they played YEM in Los Angeles in October 2021, it was the first live show I'd seen since Covid shut everything down. I brought my 15 year old nephew to his first live concert ever. YEM was the 2nd song up, and when they hit the first "Boy!", the whole arena had goosebumps, everyone shouting it together. It was so palpable. Here was Phish bringing us all together again. I can't even describe that feeling, but you can hear the show on Relisten. It's definitely there in the recording, and the jam is even crazier. They get really comfortable in the darkness, then Mike hits the Taurus pedals with a "Mike Bomb" that bass note went right through my chest, and it turns the whole thing around into a frenzy. 10-24-2021 at the Los Angeles Forum.
Thank you for the talking about the tonal centers and chord voicings !! 😊I love your videos and analysis
Thing about phish (for we suddenly displaced deadheads) was that they provided an adequate place for us ta live, work, & dance our asses off, while we waitied (patiently) for the boys from the dead to get their stuff together & put our home back on the road after our tragic loss of Jerry
I had fun there from 95 to 97 'til further picked up, leaving phish shows essentially a ghost town in comaprison to the couple previous years
Its exactly what was intended, aand it worked just fine, appreciated...though sone things could've happened a bit more gracefully
This dude would have an absolute blast at a show
Reba next Doug. You’ll love it!
Agreed. Reba is pretty much their most classical like composed section i would think.
It’s exactly 10 years, there are 2 leap years in there. 🙂
About a month ago, I left a comment on your Divided Sky video suggesting you listen to YEM. I am just now finding your YEM video that you did two months before I even left that comment. This video was very enjoyable! You earned a sub! Thanks! I would suggest Stash for your next Phish tune.
One of the most comfortable and listenable long-form songs of modern times. I first heard this song 30 years ago. When I first heard the happy sound after the introduction has made me smile for all these years. Very talented musicians, true masters and reigning Kings of the Jam Band.
Hi Doug - I thoroughly enjoyed watching and hearing you play. I hope to see that more often. I was never drawn to Phish. Not that I dislike them. In fact, this song is pretty cool. I was just drawn to other bands. Thanks for the great analysis as always.
I LOVE your videos. Love the way you break it down. This layman has been listening to them for almost 30 years now, and they still sound fresh today as they did when I was 15.
"David Bowie" LIVE is my fav song played (live) by Phish!!!
Hey Doug! You mentioned in the last video that you were close to Princeton. Come see Phish in Atlantic City 8/5-7.
Enjoyed this one. Thanks for showcasing our favorite little band.
Really enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.
Is there life after Slave to the Traffic Light?
I've been listening to Phish off and on on the SiriusXM Phish channel on my work commute drive time and have always liked their instrumental jams. But man I've got to tell you when I first heard Slave to the Traffic Light recently I fell for them hook, line and sinker! This song has one of the most beautiful, slow build-up and release guitar solos that I have EVER heard. In the past few weeks since I got hooked I must have listened to at least 30 different live performances of this song and can not get past it. It stops me dead in my tracks every time. I'm enjoying this You Enjoy Myself performance but I still have some work to do to get past SttTL. Any recommendations where I can go next in their catalog considering my love for "Slave." Just thought I'd share imho the top 3 performances of Slave I've come across so far:
Going from a slow gliding tempo to a fast almost shredding tempo:
Slow, majestic pace with glorious extended solo with beautiful, almost psychedelic sustained and bended notes, even the grunts are endearing: 07/28/2021 - Rogers, Arkansas
04:09 till the end is absolutely breathtaking -
ua-cam.com/video/HVGx69cKT7A/v-deo.html
Medium Pace, glorious guitar sustains & feedback:10/20/13 - Hampton, VA
ua-cam.com/video/655oXngMOYI/v-deo.html
Fast pace, awesome finale: 8/1/2015 - Magnaball , Watkins Glen, NY
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And of course any other recomended SttTL performances would be most welcome!
Improv my homie 🤯🤯🤯
Totally dig your vibe Doug. Obviously well studied and classicly trained but with out any snobbery and just a total openness to music as a form of unbounded individual or communal expression. As Zappa famously said, “A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians" and "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." Happy to subscribe and like all your content. Would that I had had a music teacher like you.
Doug, your passion for music, and expressing the positive it does in our world by bringing people together, is both refreshing & inspiring. Glad You Enjoyed Yourself with this one, and you definitely “get it”. Thanks for all the content. Hopefully you’ll see them live sometime soon.🎸🎹🌵⭕️
I loved your first Phish review and this was FUN. THANKS. I saw my first show 95 and have been a fan ever since
Yes! Awesome video. Please do Reba from 10/31/94! And for more of an improvisational exploration, check out Ghost from 11/17/97. You'd have a blast at a Phish show! Tour is about to happen!
Seen every Phish show at SPAC and this YEM is fantastic.
Hi Doug, new to you. Love reaction videos and love Phish. This video came up on my feed and I'm so glad I watched, thank you! It's so fun to watch someone delight, like I do, in their irreverence and whimsical fanfare , but don't be fooled - these boys can get, as a good friend of mine used to say, "Hot and Greasy"! They jam like no one else. Please please PLEASE at some point take yourself to see them. Nothing is like a live show. I've been a fan now for over 30 years. Back in college, a friend called me to his room, got me very high and put on "Reba"... mind blown, I never looked back. I had studied voice for 12 years and was chronically involved with music somehow, either singing or listening but Phish for me was like a new world. The fusion of rock and jazz and funk and lord knows what else with them, and quirk and long drawn out sections that are more like a story than a song, taking you up and down like a carnival ride. Larger than life. I saw my first show in "93. I saw my last show around 2013 and that makes me sad. I can't wait until I can get on that ride again. I hope that you get on that ride sometime yourself. You wan't be disappointed :)
Yes!! I saw them do this in Atlantic city last year, they killed it and are still doing the trampoline. I always skip the vocal jams whenever I listen to a YEM but it was hilarious in person.
You mentioned you want to catch them live... They're playing 2 nights at the Mann Center in Philly later this month and then on the beach in Atlantic City for 3 nights in early August. Hopefully we'll see you there!
Yeah them Philly shows have been sold out for awhile. East Troy here we come…
Ill be at AC, CANT WAIT.
Yessss come to AC!!!
“Ha……….fun!”
That’s pretty much it, right there.
I've heard a few explanations of the YEM lyrics. One that they got into an Italian Taxi and Fish (Jon Fishman, the drummer) had smelly feet. the Taxi driver said "Washa you feet. I drive you to firenze." Another that the Taxi driver said "Watcha Uffizi
Drive you to Firenze" mistaking "Watcha" for "See". They frequently make fun of the way their own words sound, spelling "The moment ends" as "Moma dance", or "and I see you" as N.I.C.U. They are having fun with it.
The acapella part is always free improvised, i had a tape from 94 where they endet up in screeming chickensandwich. I lost the tape and never found this version again.
i’d love to see more videos of you reacting to phish performances, this was very wholesome & exactly what phish is all about!
I love that you play along dude! Once again you’re the coolest!