…you don’t like music that’s ‘self-indulgent’.
…you voted against Bush twice.
…you went to the Siren Festival knowing you’d hate it.
…you went to a McCarren Park Pool Party and couldn’t believe all the stone-faced hipsters around you weren’t funky enough to dance to the opening band before the other opening band.
…you protesteth too much that thou are not a hipster.
…you like more than 3 bands with the word ‘wolf’ in their name.
…your shirt doesn’t say Old Navy across the front.
Well, it looks from this story (and all the other recent talk) that Phish will be getting back together in the very near future. Trey, Mike, and Jon all played together at this past weekend’s Rothbury festival in Michigan and here’s the meat of the report from Billboard (if you don’t wanna read it all)…
“Mike and I being two people who don’t shy away from trying new things, Anastasio introduced a pair of fresh tunes — “Backwards Down the Number Line” and “Alaska” — and further teased prospects of a reunion by saying, “If we could just find a drummer and a keyboard player somewhere…” But, he added, “you gotta start with the songs, and you guys can be our test audience.”
The new material went down a storm, but the biggest ovation came when Anastasio and Gordon finished the set with Phish’s “Chalkdust Torture.”…
…The real treat closed Gordon’s set, however, when Phish drummer Jon Fishman joined the ensemble for the Beatles’ “She Said, She Said,” sending the field into a state of dancing delirium.
So, as a hippie hipster human, I am excited to see that there are new songs and that it’s pretty much a done deal that I’ll being seeing Phish live in 2009.
Do you care? And are you a hippie, hipster, hater, or human? I’ve been trying to figure out the differences between hippie and hipster recently, since everyone seems to hate both.
