What is a Phil bomb? Can you give me some examples?
Posted Oct 25, 2016, 11:55 PM UTC
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A Phil bomb is a force of nature. They are best experienced in person. He still lays a few down a night so go see him while you have a chance.
Edit: spelling
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Check out the Morning Dew from 10-18-74, it's the version from the Grateful Dead Movie.
A Phil Bomb is generally when he hits a chord
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beep. ima bot. below are links to the show(s) mentioned in your comment. beep.
10/18/1974 - Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA |
Set 1:: Around and Around, Sugaree, Mexicali Blues, Peggy-O, Beat It On Down the Line, Brown-Eyed Women, Cumberland Blues, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite | Set 2:: Seastones, Jam, Dark Star, Morning Dew | Set 3: The Promised Land, Bertha, Greatest Story Ever Told, Ship of Fools, Not Fade Away, Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad, One More Saturday Night | Encore: U.S. Blues
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https://archive.org/details/gd1976-08-04.upg-aud.tobin.127248.flac16
This recording is amazing for hearing Phil. Listen to help slip frank first, row jimmy, sugaree. If you have a smart phone get a bass booster and play the recording on a speaker with a subwoofer, or a nice pair of headphones.
I didn't know what a Phil bomb was. Then one day I got a subwoofer and flac recordings... And it hit me that when Phil's bass was in optimum performance it was not just heard, it was felt. At a show its undeniable, but on a sound rig with out much bass and a bad recording you might not get the full effect.
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Mike from phish also does this. You have to be there in person to feel it. It's the bass vibrating and you can feel it through your whole body.
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Listen to the Other One from 6/30/85 - if memory serves (not a given), there are a couple in there. Or, the end of Truckin' 6/28/85. Edit: that's 6/27/85 Truckin' (SPAC), not Hershey Park...
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6/30/1985 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD |
6/28/1985 - Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA |
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Morning Dew 6/18/1983 is what you need.
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6/18/1983 - Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY |
Set 1: Bertha, Jack Straw, Bird Song, Mexicali Blues, Big River, Althea, Hell in a Bucket, Deal | Set 2: Scarlet Begonias, Fire on the Mountain, Playing in the Band, Drums, The Wheel, Playing in the Band, Morning Dew, Throwing Stones, Not Fade Away, Touch of Grey | Encore: Don't Ease Me In, One More Saturday Night
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This whole show is what you need. Everything is amazing with bird song and scar fire being the best, imo the scar fire is the most psychedelic of the early 80's (although I rank 3.31.84 as best of 80s period)
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When you are in the gymnasium they called the Oakland Auditorium standing on the aging wooden floor, then all ofa sudden Phil lets into the Other One and the whole fucking place shakes !!!!
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One that immediately comes to mind besides the countless intros to The Other One is this gem from Oxford, Maine '88...listen to the Jack Straw:
https://archive.org/details/gd88-07-02.sbd-matrix.dan.21211.sbeok.shnf
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As said already usually they are a chord, specifically a chord with some serious force, often much greater than what he had been doing, they happen in a bunch of 80's Jack straws, some really rocking berthas, The ending of the second bridge in Let it grow can have themat least in the 70s. Listen to the morning dew from 6/18/74, it opens with one as the very first note
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beep. ima bot. below are links to the show(s) mentioned in your comment. beep.
6/18/1974 - Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY |
Set 1:: The Promised Land, It Must Have Been the Roses, Black-Throated Wind, Ramble On Rose, Beat It On Down the Line, Loser, Mexicali Blues, Eyes of the World, China Doll, Around and Around | Set 2:: Loose Lucy, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite, The Other One, It's a Sin, Stella Blue, Big River, Tennessee Jed, Sugar Magnolia | Encore: Morning Dew
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Phil bomb is when he forces your head under and the covers and holds you there passing gas the entire time. Examples are like dust in the wind, they are gone, nothing a bad memory.
This made me laugh way more than it should have