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Choosing Our Own Religion: A Diary of Big Cypress & The Long Gig, Twenty Years Later [B.Getz on L4LM]

December 30, 2019January 6, 2020 B.Getz 2000, big cypress, john paluska, jon fishman, mike gordon, millennium, nye, page mcconnell, phish, phish new year's, the long gig, the phish from vermont, the set, trey anastasio, y2k

December 31st, 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of Phish‘s storied midnight–sunrise set at Big Cypress at the turn of the century on 12/31/99.

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Not to be outdone but it takes balls to go head to head w Stevie on release day. @EarthWindAndFire did JUST that —-I know I sound like grandpa and all but #SongsInTheKeyOfLife vs #Spirit was the 76 version of #Graduation vs #Curtis in 2006 for Ye/50. This holds a special place with me for this will have been the penultimate lp in the production swan song of the great #CharlesStepney (basically? The #Jdilla of his day, lush off kilter arrangements & had a spectrum of colors in his synesthesiaesa-esque pallet of string arranging——) having produced #ThatsTheWayOfTheWorld & #Gratitude he helped EWF find its SOUND (I’m not mad at #JoeWissert’s work on the first 3 EWF Columbia offerings but man——Stepney was OTHER WORLDLY)—-he passed away in the tail end of the record & this would effect the organization greatly (Maurice White leaned HEAvy On Charles to help make decisions——and now the decisions were up to Maurice. #AllNAll (77) is EWF’s magnum opus but I’m certain not having a wingman to bounce ideas off of was a hard mountain to climb (most EWF fans speculate that perhaps the yachtage sound of David Foster for 79’s I Am woulda not been a factor had CS lived. & 80’s “Faces” woulda been way more focused.Woulda/Coulda/Shoulda.This day is right up there w Nov 9 93 for hip hop. Two acts at the apex & peak of their power giving us nourishment. ... See MoreSee Less

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