This was my favorite jam at Coventry. I had a lot of fun at Coventry, despite the melancholy atmoshphere after the Phish performances. Thank god Trey recovered and we are blessed to have Phish as they are today! And now I get to share Phish with my kids (15 and 13). They love watching Phish Tuesday with us right now, and they will be going to the first show we can get tickets to after the pandemic.

@slandersir7255

2 жыл бұрын

That’s really nice

I was at the Vegas shows right b4 Coventry. It was bad. It was obvious there was a problem. I was also going through the same problem. I'm glad we all made it.

Never could bring myself to watch these until now. I’m young so I became a fan in HS, right around their reunion. I had always heard about these years but wow… so painful to watch. These jams are so dark. I’m so glad Trey recovered, for himself, his family, friends, and Phish.

One of the best jams

I'm sitting here asking myself "why did I decide to finally watch this, I've avoided it for years for so many reasons" and it is very painful indeed....but he was able to bring himself back from a place that most people don't come back from....

@brandonknight6575

3 жыл бұрын

Right there with ya man. I was like 17 when i went to Coventry. One of ny 1st phish experiences and it was so incredibly dark from the time we were stick in the traffic jam till we all left. I believe the 3rd day. But im so glad for this show because look what has become of this madness! ♥️👍

@dshehiHonestTune

Жыл бұрын

Yep. That’s all i got.

Happened across this footage this morning.... man Trey, like a whole different person.. Proof sobriety works wonders.

This jam is a flower that grew out of a pot of dirt. Glad Trey and the band are still active and doing well.

One of the few good (and I mean good) jams from coventry.

"Hey man. How are your allergy symptoms?" "Not good,man. I'm itching more than Trey at Coventry."

The unconditional love and support at 15:03 , everyone needs a friend like Feesh

@tombadil64

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, definitely 😢

This is the darkest video on the internet.

@BW-pr8qr

4 жыл бұрын

Wonder if Kuroda kept it so dark so we couldn't see how f-ed up Trey was

@abaierdrums

4 жыл бұрын

@@BW-pr8qr Oh, no question! It was dark as hell leaving the field and heading back to the campgrounds too, IIRC. Lotta f-ed up fans out there in 2004, and not in a good way.

@BW-pr8qr

4 жыл бұрын

@@abaierdrums Definitely.. I remember those fans.. Phish shows are much more "family friendly" these days.. I was at Coventry too.. Way in the back, so other than the sloppy playing, I never realized how f-ed up Trey really was.

@BW-pr8qr

4 жыл бұрын

btw - my 15 year old is a drummer too! We will subscribe :-)

@abaierdrums

4 жыл бұрын

@@BW-pr8qr Amazing! Rock on!

thank you Andrew Mija...by arresting Trey (resulting in him being sent to Drug Court), you saved him from impending death, if this video is any indication

@Uni413

4 жыл бұрын

James Bowers my favorite musical memory of Coventry is this jam right here.

And from the ashes he arose victorious!! Hooray Trey! Hope for any "hopeless" dope addict. Wow. I feel so lucky to have been seeing them in their renaissance.

@jimmydweeb9096

Жыл бұрын

this is how this jam makes me feel. around the 16 minute mark to the peak feels pretty triumphant

The lyrics and the emotion sync up appropriately here

@slingshotman7186

3 жыл бұрын

I try to pull myself together, but I feel it in my knees, and the room begins to spin. Fuck opiates. Glad for him and all people who are able to get them out of their life.

Am I the only one who thinks this is pretty bad ass? I was there. It was a total train wreck. But I remember this being a high point musically of the weekend. I still think it holds up. Maybe I just like the dark experimental jamming? It really doesn't suck. I recall Trey saying just before they played this that they were gonna "Blow off some fucking steam". They sure did.

@Paul-jp8zz

Жыл бұрын

yah, right after Trey broke down sobbing, then basically said eff it, lets blow off steam. and boy did they!

@Uni413

7 ай бұрын

I remember this like it was yesterday. One of the most emotional jams I’ve ever seen.

That ending is transcendent though. Gorgeously dark.

Man. After Glide and Trey's comments, we just stood there looking at each other and listening. We were in shock.

@Uni413

4 жыл бұрын

Jason Barbour Remember everyone walking out completely silent after Curtain? Literally thousands of people complete silent.

@bhaktabilly4669

3 жыл бұрын

@@Uni413 yup... so weird. Can’t fully blame Trey to be honest.. I mean, the fact is that we all put SO MUCH expectation on the band; I was somehow hoping for a Fluffhead encore.. And the fact that the fields we’re so fucked... And that we walked miles in, abandoning our cars on the highway! Sheesh . Weird karma

@Sky-on2cy

Жыл бұрын

@@bhaktabilly4669 I celebrated my 30th birthday on that highway! Guys in front of us kept us fed, we kept them drunk. We got tractored in by a local I met in line getting gas before we were about to head home! "Park your car here and hop in" , what a saint

This is uninspired beauty. It shows what once was beautiful and what will be again… thanks to Trey not dying.

I made the long trek there and yes it was a lot of things, but what it wasn’t was not worth it. A lot has been said about this show. To be there and feel the emotion and connection that transpired that weekend told me all I ever needed to know about Phish. Connection, creativity, and gratitude define this band no matter the circumstance. An unforgettable experience. Greatest band ever, and this SOAM slaps.

Thank God he got clean. I forgot how bad he was, he's on the top of his game now.

thank god trey got arrested

Idc about the reputation of this show. They've played alot of stinkers in their careers and alot of questionable versions of songs. But this SOAM is my favorite version by far. I must have listened to it all the thru with concentration at least a dozen times now lol. Its fr got everything and the underlying darkness is perfectly suitable for a song like this one.💯🤘

@cniedbala87

10 ай бұрын

The way his voice is quivering still, good god! The song is already desperate as it is, then add that in, yeesh. THEN add in his ope-ed out dark guitar madness... I've listened 5 times in the last 2 days (drive for work lots off time lol) and I agree with you man

From the crowd, this was the highlight of Coventry.

the crowds glowsticks helped turned the jam damn epic towards the end...

Starts horrible but that jam is actually very underrated

@Uni413

4 жыл бұрын

Dave Kuhn This jam is my favorite musical memory from Coventry. Hands down.

@darwinblinks

3 жыл бұрын

It's the musical highlight of the one of the 4 worst festivals in rock history (Woodstock 99 Altamont and Fire Festival)

@eyesontheinsides

10 ай бұрын

​@darwinblinks bruh cmon this was rough for their own standards but it wasn't close to the fuckedupedness of the other 3 you mentioned. Doesn't belong in the same sentence at all.

@Marshall_Stacks

4 ай бұрын

@@darwinblinks Bro. You don't know anything.

Everytime i watch this i feel dark inside. but something keeps me coming back. Glad trey is better

Blowing Off Some Fucking Steam 101

I remember this from the theater ..... One of the best things to come outta the oxy-hose oh yeah

I couldn’t imagine going to see your favorite band’s last show and being surrounded by junkies while the front man is tweaking out on stage. So sad. The jam is pretty fantastic with the context being what it was. I’d say this is my third favorite Melt jam after 4/21/93 and 12/31/99.

That junkie itch striking at 1:19. That composed section was painful to watch.

...thank you for posting...

Can't miss version

Can't think of a better melt. A dark song like this actually benefits from Trey’s pain and sloppy playing. Glad he's doing better.❤

6:02 is scary as hell. That's tough to see. Trey could barely stand let alone play his songs.

@jamfanwp7551

9 жыл бұрын

Alex Bieger Hell the whole thing is a mess. He's barely playing guitar, look at the 2 minute section of it. He's just hitting single strings at a time. I hate phish, but I still admire their ability, and this is heartbreaking.

@tw8454

Жыл бұрын

@@jamfanwp7551 “i hate phish” im just here watching a festival jam and feeling sorry for trey. ok scatterbrain

@bluecollar825

Жыл бұрын

​@@tw8454 right I never in my life sat thru a 30min video of a band I hated.

@Marshall_Stacks

4 ай бұрын

@@jamfanwp7551 I hope you have had bad luck since this comment.

Most of my phish shows were between 93-95....every one I saw was killer. Saw em again in 2000....wasn't the same band. Kinda gave up on em at that point. Still enjoyed the early records and some bootlegs tho. I remember when this show happened....was debating going, but didn't for whatever reason. Didn't hear the story about this gig til a few minutes ago....started listening with "Glide", which was a trainwreck. Have never heard Trey play that badly....led me to believe he was wasted out of his mind, but I think he was just emotional (yes, I know he was in the throes of opiate addiction at this point). But he seems to have cleared his fingers for this one. Playing's great. Yeah, it's kinda ramble jamble, but that's what these guys did during this era. Seeing comments about how bad this is is puzzling to me. Playing seems fine.

@tombadil64

10 ай бұрын

My personal 2nd favorite melt. 2004 had some nasty funk stuff. 99 and 2000 had some great stuff too. They definitely were playing a different kind of music at that point though.

@davewestner

10 ай бұрын

@@tombadil64 curious to know what your favorite was? I don't know enough of their shows to have a favorite myself, although 7/24/93 is a standout.

@tombadil64

10 ай бұрын

@@davewestner Big Cypress melt for sure. The sand > quadrophonic toppling from that show is my all time. Both are must listens imo.

@davewestner

10 ай бұрын

@@tombadil64 thanks man, checking it out now.....pretty wild. Interesting how that tune evolved over the years.

@Gumbo72203

2 ай бұрын

You need to go right to big cypress right now dude. Best Phish show of all time. 7 hours straight!!!!!

Near tragical ending, right in front of your very eyes.

really really hard to watch was there i fell into the mud and never looked back till this month frfr

In some really weird way this reminds me of led zeppelin no quarter Dallas Texas 1974 I think was the year . Or maybe just a flash back

We haven’t had a melt like this since

Don’t worry Trey’s just doing his Phan impersonation here.

This is a dark fucking video of Phish, they have some dark songs but live, if you ever wanted to go to a musically dark show this would have been it. my god.

dang, I think they needed a break. 20 years is a long time to perform/tour without as much as even a year off.

@NJPhish04x

8 жыл бұрын

+Aeimos took 2 yrs off after 00

@Aeimos

8 жыл бұрын

Jake Koch Maybe they spent that time getting too involved in drugs?

@Aeimos

8 жыл бұрын

Ryan McKinley He is a musician and it's in his genes. I don't think he'd of been happy sitting on the beach all day.

@ryancanavan3348

7 жыл бұрын

From what ive read, they all had a sitdown and Trey told them that if the band didnt stop touring that he was basically going to die. Which i honestly believe he would have. Im so glad he got sober, and they are touring again.

@tatechristopher8134

2 жыл бұрын

Working class people do it for 40+ years w/o a year off. 50,60,70+ hrs/week. For a hella lot less $. The band toured, yes but with everyone getting days, weeks & months off down time to relax and recharge.

Do yourself a favor and just skip to 4:22, trust me.

This is such a sad thing to watch. Trey was a mess. Glad he got through it.

This hurts so bad to watch, thank god he's sober.

The one good jam

@juansepulveda3160

4 жыл бұрын

Let's pretend that AC/DC bag didn't happen then

This looks like it was filmed at a movie theater

Every time I rematch this I get ptsd. Between how rocked trey is, and the mud who ate 2 pairs of great flip flops 😭

Where is all this footage from? they never released a coventry DVD did they?

@atamagashock

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Coventry was played in theaters for those that couldn’t get to go. I left my Jeep on the highway and hiked in, so I made it there, but they wanted every fan to be able to see what was supposed to be the last phish show ever( thankfully it wasn’t, cause it was a funeral stuck in the mud of Vermont)

Holy shit this video is dark. So glad Trey got sober.

how about that jam!!!!!!!

15:00 i wish we could know what he was saying to fish. it looks like he said something like he wanted to rock out by the way fish seems to give him the look to go out there and get it @ 15:10, and also by the way the jam goes after that point

...4/4+4/4+4/4+9/8=SOAM...in a perfect world, at least...

TREY is PELT BACK!!!!

19:55 get it son

Audio and video are off 4:00 in.... got goofed somewhere, it was fine at the beginning.

For one last time...they were Phish

God Coventry was such a disaster, and this started off horribly, but understandably at the time, but they got their later on. I have good memories and awful from this fest. Ditching my Jeep on the highway, hiking over 10 miles with whatever we could carry. Thank god we are where we are today, cause this was a fucking funeral

this is actually a really good version

I got out of being a hardcore head in 2000, so i missed this part of history. Cant believe the trey/drug rumors werent more prevalent after seeing this holy fuck what a mess. This jam is still dope though

Ironic title considering that this was an omen for what was to come...

Now I know what non-phish phans hear when I show them phish

Black is the absence of light.

This is phenomenal! I started listening to Phish deep into 3.0 and always shied away from listening to Coventry stuff since it's kind of sad and a lot of what I've heard is Trey messing up songs, but this is ridiculously good.

The most poignant SOAM ever.

painful

4:20 little life back into trey or just an interesting point

I’m putting Kleenex with Aloe in my will for anyone who was here or watched or living this

God the beginning is terrible but the Jam is worth tv the wait

Damn Trey is fucked up!

High

Was anyone else besides try dancing w my brownstone?

@deborahculver7844

7 жыл бұрын

Nard Wiel I don't think so

@Degges99

4 жыл бұрын

No

Carini had an itchy face

Hard to watch still

cant tell if he is crying or on drugs, either way its tear jerking

@drumsNstuff79

5 жыл бұрын

Sadly it was both. So heartbreaking! Makes their sobriety and re-formation so much sweeter!

Right about 12:00 oughta do 'er.

I split open and melted ( mud death rock med NDE ) Ty Virginia ❤ Last I remember was him handing me my water bottle And an open vial of breathe freshener Ofcourse you had no idea what was happening til I pieced It back to a puzzle 🧩

holy shit...I have stayed away from this for a reason..the jam doesnt even make up for the close up of trey at the 1 minute mark..to go from that to what he did this last tour is nothing short of amazing..funny I used to think the drugs made these guys better..although upon deeper reflection the drugs didnt help me much either...

@tylerwilkey13

3 жыл бұрын

as a 16 year old who's been listening to these guys since I was 3 I go to shows 100% sober and stay 100% sober. I believe that you can enjoy the music without the drugs. SO MANY people zoinked off their asses at the shows I've been to, and I never liked that. You'd think the fans would grow with the band, but evidently not.

Although he clearly tried, Trey simply could not handle his drugs like Jerry.

@whelanbdubs

5 жыл бұрын

Wrong. Jerry didn't handle shit and died a total mess. Trey went to the edge and came back.

@novakaya

5 жыл бұрын

I know what your saying. I was referring to being high and performing. Coventry is an example of Trey losing his professional abilities because he was so blasted. He wasn’t handling his drugs that night. Once he started getting into hard drugs in the late 90s Trey was pretty much incapacitated and I functional in his professional and personal life within 5-6 years Jerry was able to consume massive quantities of everything and still show up strong musically for most of his 30 year career. Just a certain knack he had. Those boys grew the Grateful Dead from a tradition of performing live while taking heavy drugs. I’m not glorifying any of it though and I couldn’t be happier about Treys recovery. I love that guy and it’s a beautiful thing

@novakaya

5 жыл бұрын

And I def wouldn’t say Jerry couldn’t handle shit. On any given night of brilliant performances from the mid 60s to the mid 90s he was on enough substances to flatten most humans into a weeping quivering fetal ball of worthlessness.

@spencerjohnson7197

5 жыл бұрын

Listen to the Wharf Rat from Giants Stadium 95, then tell me if you still think Jerry can handle his dope.

@Bluelightcheaphotel

5 жыл бұрын

Chops Raintoieri unfortunately in a way JG was a “slave” to the heroin, cocaine for many years. I think he was in too deep, that brain chemistry was pretty wired for continued use. And I don’t think that he had the support. Trey “seems” to have had a better support network, legal obligations that helped. Drug court is rigorous, a fine program with accountability and understanding

What's wrong with Trey?

@JerkMorrison

7 жыл бұрын

A lot of emotion and a LOT of oxycontin.

@davideaton5371

6 жыл бұрын

whats the glide>trey sob story video that happened right before they went into this song.

@Hendrixphishinfloyd

4 жыл бұрын

Broken pinky toe..

phish at their worst and 3.0 cant even come close to this epicness

@skinnyblisks127

5 жыл бұрын

MAX you’re buggin

@fluffhead7105

5 жыл бұрын

Idk that Ruby waves Alpine was a slapper

@waveydave6957

4 жыл бұрын

MAX Give The Charlotte show a listen from this year. Have Mercy opener, Jim second set opener. Straight Tweezerfest with 3 and a Reprise

@Degges99

4 жыл бұрын

Have you even listened to the bakers dozen, MAX?

@alexcarey687

3 жыл бұрын

Noob and Chomper dumb comment

wow.....I always heard this was a bad show but I had no idea. It's like a bad bar band imitation of phish. I always heard trey as a great guitar player now matter what but this is just awful. I lost interest in Phish around 2000, having first seen them in 92. Is the culmination of why? it's a good thing he got sober.

@skooledbysatan

4 ай бұрын

Did you stop listening at the 4 minute mark?

@Marshall_Stacks

4 ай бұрын

Oh, Christopher. You are a phony.

Other then Trey talking. Jams are great! Still like Troy