Video #2: Phish: Live in Walnut Creek

No, not the Walnut Creek in the Bay Area, but in North Carolina.

This concert had some of the best editing I’ve seen, and my biggest pet peeve with concert videos is the editing. There are so many tragic concert videos I can’t watch because of choppy editing going from one quick cut to another. But like I said, this one was good, and you could really see Trey’s fingers zipping around on the guitar.

Although I don’t listen to jam bands too much, I think Trey Anastasio is a terrific guitar player with a distinctive rock tone and great chops. When I was taking guitar lessons years ago, Alex and I would figure out his licks. I still remember some.

Phish was jamming around so much in this concert that the show had to be put on two DVDs. This was a really good one to watch while working on my laptop. However, I usually prefer songs that are more succinct or at least have more structure. Or maybe I’m just too impatient in this fast paced modern life where my Blackberry is always flashing at me, and I can never stay on top of my incoming emails.

But one song that returns me to serenity is Bouncing Around the Room, which they play here. I just love everything about this short song - the timing between the drums and the bass, the perfect little piano fills, the harmony guitar/piano at the end. Check it out.