After Coventry, I didn't listen to PHiSH for close to three years. On purpose. Coventry made me loathe some of the amazing memories I had and I had plenty as many of you might know I had taped over 100 PHiSH shows in the 90s. I came home from Park City to the family farm outside of Knoxville to chill for a month after the snow melted, and saw they announced the show, and made a very conscious decision to not go. I knew a ton of people were coming into town that I knew from tour, many called because they knew via socials (we didn't call it that then, but you know what I mean) that I was in Knoxville, not Utah, and wanted to hang before/after, etc. I wasn't gonna go. Foot down. Then my old buddy Boyd called me. You know him, the ultra heady concert buddy that you have seen 50+ shows with: "I have your ticket. I am not taking no. It's Wednesday, you ain't got no job, so I am gonna take you to the PHiSH show" was the coercive AF kinda rap that he laid on me. OK, maybe not the Friday movie quote, but I caved and said "I will go."

BOOM Runaway Jim had me singing from Trey's first "I had a dog..." and slammed me in the groove again. How could I deny the jam I used to love in places like Colorado, Florida, and Belgium? I wasn't thinking go on a whole tours yet, but hey, I remember that feeling. A couple of songs in and they played Foam, my favorite song. Happy place. New arrangement of Undermine was cool then three set enders back to back. Mike's Groove>Coil>Zero. OK. Hey PHiSH, I remember you.

Set two was great even throwing in an OG A Capella version of Hello My Baby (always reminds me of the Talking Frog on old Warner Brothers cartoons, but I digress). Waves>ASIHTOS was just awesome as I had only heard both of them on tapes. Bowie brought that old feeling back. At the end of the second set they heaped on three back to back what I would have called as set closers a decade prior, Julius>Cavern>Harry, which all could have easily closed the show, and the come down into Harry from Cavern was just epic PHiSH and the cherry on top of the night. Frankenstein with Page on his new Keytar was fun cover of a classic rock song I loved as a younger man and is always a fun tune to hear. Great night at Thompson-Bowling. I never did go back on tour, and my show counter significantly slowed down, I am still into the scene and this was the show that brought me personally "Back on the Train" to make a cheesey quote.

Peace and love,
Phred