Video of the Week: 1998-11-09 Bathtub Gin
Posted 6 months ago by tmwsiy - 12 comments Link: http://phi.sh/b/509d40a5, posted in the Video category
Happy Anniversary to one of the best Bathtub Gins the world has ever seen! Fourteen years ago today, at the UIC Pavillion in Chicago, fans were treated to a nearly 25 minute smoking hot monster! Kicking off the second set, this Bathtub was certainly one of the highlights of an all-around great 1998 show. Clearly, the jams in the Gin merited the distinction of bold status in our jamming charts. I sat roughly where this videographer was so this brings back especially fond memories for me. I particularly like the segment from roughly 7:00min to 8:00min, the lights and sound just seem to work perfectly together. Enjoy!
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Speaking of the Bathtub Gin jamming chart, how in Icculus's name is 7/21/97 omitted?
nichobert, you read my mind!
Anyway, as far a Jam Chart omissions- it is a pretty tedious and exhausting process going through every single version of often played songs. Easy to think that either a worthy version was accidentally omitted or a simple difference of opinion.
In any event, you can click 'Show Introduction' link on the chart to see who compiled it, I'm sure they'd love feedback.
Also from the notes:
If you believe this chart should be appended with a particular version, please post about WHY you feel that way in the Phish.net Forum (addressing it to @Icculus), including the version's time, and what Notes that you'd give it, or simply email this information to charlie @ phish.net.
No doubt..I guess for certain songs like Jim though, there are probably only a dozen or so "Jammed Out" versions, and one that was conceivably the best and most unique jams they played in an entire year seems like it would leap out on a list like that.
IMO, the first tier of the Jim Canon is 6/15/95, 12/31/95, 7/31/97, 11/29/97, 8/11/98, 6/16/00, 7/3/00.
In the case of a lot of songs, the handful of longest versions would seem lazy..but Jim is one of those songs where they seem to only blow it out when they're feeling incredibly confident. 12/29/94 probably deserves a slot on Rung One as well for being the only (one of two maybe?) real Jim-> Foam in a sea of Jim> Foams and Jim,Foams.
Nice to see 6/16/00 got added. I'll throw 12/29/94 Jim-> Foam and the Bethel 2011 Jim with extended plinko "bridge jam" for other extremely worthies.
And yes i know i could e-mail