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Meaningless Excitement

@smoothatonalsound.bsky.social
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Like a cross between a hurricane, and a ship that’s run aground. Phish, Grateful Dead, mountain biking, snowboarding, gardening in Brattleboro, Vermont. Sometimes using my doctorate to talk about Phish.

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Blat boom! Bableppy doo bleppydoo
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Phish Studies Association @phishstudies.org · 07/10/2026
Phish Studies 101 is a week from tonight!! Keep the fall tour vibes going… During our guided listening session, our panel of expert music scholars will analyze this classic jam from late 3.0. Any guesses? It’s a good one… Full info and tickets available at phishstudies.org/phish-studies-101
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My boy. Look what they did to my boy!
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But maybe also: Philadelphia’s own trancefusion pioneers The Disco Biscuits?
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Skrillex
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Place did fill up eventually!
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lamp with Oteil
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bunch of cool covers tonight, including Natural Mystic, Midnight Moonlight, Run for the Roses, Ophelia, Blue Sky, and a heartwrenching, very gentle Standing on the Moon sung by Oteil
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BLaMP or LaMPO?
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When your boss asks if you want to drive 2 hours each way on a school night to see LaMP, you say yes
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ok now it’s full and it’s banging. 1/3 of the place is up and dancing. The rest are INTO IT
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In Saratoga for LaMP and it’s about 1/2 Lamp fans/heads and half people who are just here bc they’re Make a Wish supporters and it’s like mostly empty 5 min before showtime
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pretty much all I consume when I’m in AC
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Chimney Sweepers Local 420 @bobbby.online · 04/10/2026
Anyone want a free floor ticket for tonight?
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Agreed. I love 77 but that kind of stuff in fall 76 (and summer) was special. They were still figuring out how to be that band, by 77 they’d refined it into something slicker
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And if you only have a bit of time, just start at The Wheel.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each of those “->Jam” at the end of everything post-drums is a fully independent, unique outro jam unlike most times you see something like Wheel>Good Lovin>Comes a Time. It’s uncontained, special jamming without losing the groove. If you’ve never heard it, today’s a good day to fix that.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Low key one of my favorite Grateful Dead sets of all time. I’ve thought a lot about this over the years, and when I want to listen to really unconventional two-drummer jamming, I pick this set. I’ve probably listened to it more than any other post-75 show. Happy 50th birthday, 10/3/76 #gratefuldead
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dat mac n cheez, tho
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That’s all Mike, too. Trey starts playing a repeating slightly dissonant note, and then Mike just starts hammering a tritone away and everyone grips it tightly and hangs on for dear life
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Holy wow that Pillow Jets when it gets really dissonant.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gorgeous weather, almost peak foliage. The bobos are around the building at the deli. Literally. This is probably a 60+ minute line.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
youtu.be/lr_vl62JblQ?...
youtu.be
Just normal innocent men
YouTube video by Maz H
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At some point, perhaps people will stop buying tickets that aren’t for them
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A lot of leaves have fallen. Background trees starting to show through
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOISE BAG ON VINYL!!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL #takeallmymoney
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Worked for Goose
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pretty sure everyone who knows what’s going on knew exactly that he was calling out that one person’s behavior in addition to speaking generally
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My favorite 90s jamband
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m so excited for this upcoming PS101!! I hope you’ll join us…always a hoot
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She’s starting to lose the top leaves but the trees behind her are creeping up their color game
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
October 1
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She’s a beaut, Clark
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looking absolutely glorious in full peak. The trees behind it are starting to show off a bit, too
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pouring yesterday so I took a different angle and stayed drier
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really loving the upgraded sound on this MPP 85 show. The Shakedown is obviously a star, one of the if not the best ever. But the entire He’s Gone>Stella Blue is some ass kicking, face melting Grateful Dead. Space has a fantastic Phrygian sound, not as crazy dissonant, which goes perfectly >Other 1
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also for @peckedbythedove.bsky.social
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For you, @terrence.bsky.social #bananabread
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Holy shit this Tales story
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m so excited for this upcoming PS101!! I hope you’ll join us…always a hoot
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh they’re really good!! I caught them at Newport a few years ago
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cinnamon and Jimmies. Rose went those nights and I stayed home w sick dog and finished my dissertation. But rose stayed home for chocolate and I got to go 🍫🍩
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One of the 3 I missed 😭
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Been a minute since I’ve been to the Bear!
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Missed a couple days. Now it’s a rainy Saturday…
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dammit. I’m a City fan. Well this sucks.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Show about the suburbs couldn’t survive without the suburbs. As soon as Agrestic was gone so was the show
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But also, would you have known what was happening??
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Big Oof Size Meme
ALT: Big Oof Size Meme
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely unreal, this mayor!! What an amazing way to share the arts
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