October 2010
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ARTICLE: "Phish owns jacked-up fans and diehards"
Here’s my review of Phish’s first night in Amherst this weekend, from today’s Berkshire Eagle. (Please note: I do not write the headlines!)
“Phish’s current alchemy of well-practiced stagecraft and a few dollops of in-the-moment openness adds up to a show that is a unique composition. This one had bombastic rock gestures that filled every corner of the place, alongside...
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ARTICLE: "Coming full circle with Phish"
Phish is playing UMASS Amherst’s Mullins Center twice this weekend, and the Berkshire Eagle wanted an advance feature. I wasn’t offered an interview with a band member, so I wrote a bit of an essay on the band and where I seem them today. (I’ll share some more thoughts about the angle I took, and why, later on.) It was published in today’s paper. A review of Saturday...
ARTICLE: "'Orchestrion' entertains; raises host of...
Here’s my review of Pat Metheny’s one-man, multi-machine show at Great Barrington’s Mahaiwe Theatre on Sunday night; it’s published in today’s Berkshire Eagle.
“It would be easy to say the elements of the orchestrion itself were a pleasure to watch, many of them stacked up in a junkyard jumble at the rear of the stage in a piece of mad hatter sculpture that...
