Phish-Chalkdust Torture-Letterman

Chalkdust Torture on Letterman on 12-30-94.

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Music

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• Phish
• Letterman
• Chalk
• Dust
• Torture

[tequilaeric]

One of my favorite songs... BTW "A Live One" was not a one show recording... its from a years worth of touring. Still love listening to it though

[BobBarkerIsOld]

@tequilaeric I never knew that, thank you.

[msrysignals]

fishman's probably trippin balls behind that drum kit

[thISxTHplacE]

I want his gold pants. Bad.

[jamsesh1]

one of my favorite phish performances

[zmroth]

Hammer pants Trey! PLINKO TIME!

[benj637]

SO abridged! also, very glad that paul is layin down some organ...

[RbryLeo20]

Does ANYONE know where to get those shiny gold pants treys wearing? Those are exquisite.

[0oPhisho0]

@LebPuppy definitely check out more stuff by them this is not even a solid showing of what theyre capable of.. this is a very eushed chalkdust considering the time theyre give on this television program look at some more lrecordings of their live stuff

[navenow]

@sethillation That said, there is room for technique in the explanation. Just because he isn't "picking" every note, doesn't mean that each time he moves up the fretboard there is no new "attack." He is essentially attacking the fretboard with his left hand by virtue of those bends and vibrato. If you play guitar chances are you've done this yourself. Turn up the volume, and just jam a finger on a fret and start bending back, forth. You shouldn't need to pick the note to get some sustain.

[navenow]

@sethillation I think you answered it yourself. As you may already know, hollowbody guitars in general are more vulnerable to feedback than the average guitar. The Languedocs (guitar that trey plays) are even more vulnerable to feedback than the average hollowbody. The upshot of that is incredible sustain, particularly when combined with a tube screamer.

[sethillation]

Does anyone know how trey does that glissando trick, that constant chromatic increase that he uses to build to the climaxes? I noticed on the Vegas 2000 dvd that it looked like he was doing it by extremely fast tremolo picking, to the point where it just sounded like one constant note, but here it seems that he is not picking during it at all and maybe his guitar is just so feedback prone and/or responsive that it simply resonates dominance lol... Anyone???

[correip]

This was the night before one of the best shows of all time. I will never go to a ninties phish concert ;_;

[ledzepp95]

@deBebbler hahaha basically agreed.