Shows for a new enthusiast?
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@SpaffPrise I'm biased of course, but the Philly show had sick jams for both walls and America, and that whole show is fire (honestly they have all been this tour). I've only caught 3 shows now, but I love how after each one I have like 4 new favs I only partially appreciated before! This tour has been crazy, I don't know how the hell they do it 5 nights a week, they really are freaking killing it.
Props to @damian for putting together such a great gathering spot, this place really is top notch!
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@PhillySpaffnerd well thanks man. It'd just be an empty webspace without you guys. So thank you all for coming. Spread the word.
I too am a huge fan of that Philly show. It's straight hot fire from start to end. There are a couple of AUDs in the spaffbase as well as a link to the official release. Definitely worth a listen.
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@PhillySpaffnerd ^ those are great renditions and an all around insane show
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The Ithaca show from this tour is one of favs - the Parody > Its a Bunch > Parody is soo tight and really has a Dead type feel to it
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@BBlank20 that's my jam of the year
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@damian I've listened to it 3 or 4 times the past couple of days and can't get enough. The only thing that stinks is its impeding me from listening to other Spafford jams but I'll get to them eventually
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@BBlank20 That's okay. In computer science there we have 2 types of tree traversals, depth first or breadth first. Either you go deep into one branch of the tree and discover what's there, or you go across all the nodes at the same level.
Point is, there's nothing wrong with looking deeply at one thing. Study it. Love it. Master it. You'll find the rest when you're ready.
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@damian @BBlank20 "from one thing, know ten thousand things." Miyamoto Musashi, Japan's most heralded Samurai. Same guy also said "it is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet." Either way, dude was very proficient at "killing it." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Five_Rings
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"This is the Madhu-Vidyā in quintessence – the contemplation of all things by the contemplation of anything."'
Don't ask why, as I don't know, but my first foray into The Grateful Dead was listening to only Dark Star. I listened to the first 50 or 60 of them before listening to any of their other tracks.
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@RadiantDarkness that couldn't be more you.
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@RadiantDarkness I was that way with Tweezer as I didn't get into Phish until '98 so I had all of the momentous 94-98 versions to explore. What would you guys say is Spafford's "tweezer"
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I’m geeking out a bit over the fact that I have a new band to geek out over. These guys have really grabbed me attention
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seriously, sign up for the 30 day trial for the nugs app. the new recordings are coming fast and furious.
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@BBlank20 not sure that they have a 'Tweezer' yet...but I'm all in and know that they have songs that different people get excited over on that level...just not sure that there is that one 'holly shit' tune that unifies all in attendance and gets everyone all at once like that.
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@BBlank20 I'd have to say that the song that I continuously see people go "Holy Shit" over is All In. But it isn't Tweezer. Tweezer is a massive type 2 jam vehicle. ETS is big too, especially with Alternate Ending thrown in (regardless of whether it's before or after ;P). You might also look towards Weasel for exploration as well.
The truth is that, if you're looking for Phish, go listen to Phish. Spafford definitely spent time doing Phish covers and when they did you could really hear them explore that type 2 space and sound pretty Phishy at times. But I believe they've made a conscious decision to define their own sound, as much as that can be done in the "jam" space. I know you aren't asking them to be Phish, and I also know that one can't help but measure jam bands against the MOAJB.
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@BBlank20 yea not sure which song would qualify as their Tweezer. However, a while back I was thinking that LTLO was in a way their Dark Star. Bear with me. There are so many different jams that song sparks. I particularly love it when they do the two jam versions. But the thing I dig is you never know what's going to happen. It could be a guitar driven rock show or a slick EDM trance jam or a teary eyed euphoric uplifting thing. I'm really just noob though so what do I know.
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Weasel seems like their tweezer to me -
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It has a solid recognizable riff to start, and from my limited experience, is proving to be a significant type II jam vehicle. But one of my favorite things about Spafford is they can channel whatever band they want to fit their moment, but they always keep the sound distinctively theirs. Phish comparisons are inevitable, and not unhealthy, but I for one am falling so hard for Spafford because they blend so much of my favorite music seamlessly. They’re only going to get better too, it’s exciting! -
@SpaffPrise beautifully said
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Great points by all. I certainly wasn't trying to compare them to Phish - just wondering which song you all felt was that huge jam vehicle that everyone gets pumped for because the throw down is about to happen. ETS seemed the onbvious answer for me but LTLO and All In are also very interesting choices.
Oddly enough after inundating myself with Spaff past few weeks of tour I went to listen to Phish today and found myself just going back to the 9-29 Philly show.
