Phish - Limb by Limb - IT Festival

[@tahuano]

Fish drumming in this video is best ever. Deserves hall of fame. Deserves an oscar. a grammy. a hug from all of us. Fish is the greatest drummer alive.

[@stephanlarsen8169]

Heck let's. Throw in a couple virgins of nubile nubian descent Jah herb Jah Jerry Jah love Jah rastafari Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜

[@pango-y8j]

Library of Congress 🍄🐟🌁🌁🍄🔥🍄🌍🍄

[@SnowTheJamMan]

Fish's drumming on this track never ceases to amaze me

[@max_mittler]

fish 😂

[@devinpalmer617]

@@max_mittler yep

[@JamesAcret-d1e]

Zappa

[@amelzon1]

Trey originally wrote the drums on a drum machine. Challenged Fishman with the words "You can't play this." here we are.

[@nicklangmusic]

Man, I remember hearing this song for the first time, and going “how is he even playing that drum beat?!?” This video definitely helped to figure it out, but then it made ask “wait, how the heck is he even playing that beat AND singing backing vocals?!?” Jon Fishman is so damned good.

[@edkerry87]

Polyrhythm god

[@matthewriggi2149]

Good God that is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. All 4 members just absolutely crushing it during that entire version. Pure magic!

[@markranfone6393]

music at its highest form

[@trenttalley924]

his full name is Jonathan Phisherman

[@johnbryaniii2589]

Fishman lives in the pocket. The pocket king, a pocket connoisseur. Beaming love beams at everyone.

[@michaeldinardo5502]

was 3rd row, one of the best festivals in my lifetime. the whole weekend was special. This is still one of my favorite limbs of all time, legendary.

[@bubblevest1544]

Michael Dinardo. It was special

[@borisb7238]

Special for me too, it was my first Phish show!

[@lillagahnavich7700]

Thr Ghost is my all time favorite piece of live music they have ever produced...jealous of all of y'all

[@kevinmurtagh4996]

It’s a great regret of my life that I didn’t go. I had just graduated high school a couple months before, and I was fan. I went to Australia that summer, so I don’t even know if I got back before August or not. In hindsight, IT should have been my #1 priority because I’d always wanted to go to a Phish fest, but I dropped the ball. Instead, I had to settle for Coventry as my first Phish festival. 🤦‍♂️ Still grateful for the overall Coventry experience, despite the musical disaster and negative overtones. But goddamn… only a year earlier I could have gone to one the BEST Phish fests ever instead of the worst. Such is life I suppose!

[@TommyBaysMusic]

Sometimes i feel.. ....i am taken far away ......back to those fields in Limestone, with my jaw hanging open as teenage me is blown away by how amazing this weekend was... "Our intent is only for your delight" and it certainly was..... what an amazing time that was! Lifelong memories for sure.

[@ryanphelan6861]

Couldn't say it better myself. At lemonwheel night set break our group of six was seperated 3and 3. Mushrooms so nobody was vocal but so careful not to step on anyone at set break looking down in Sea of 100,000 little blankets we came head on into others looked up our other three friends lmao. Nobody could talk 😂 exchanged happy faces watched last night set together. It's those little things and memories we were 18 too everything is new and an adventure. Music was whole nother conversation great went better than lemonwheel but splitting hairs experiences stay with you forever vividly. Love your story sorry to ramble just relate 100%

[@chrisdeitzel]

That really was an exceptional experience. Everything about it.

[@jsteiner4621]

I wish I would just see a comment on some of these about how phenomenal Mike is. And how he is the glue that keeps all this stuff together sometimes. Fishman couldn't even keep it together!!!!

[@Danaction87]

Almost no one plays bass. Haha. So very few people are hearing what you are hearing. Generally I find Phishman and Trey to really be the ones that makes this band special. But that’s just my opinion. I love Mike and Page as well. Haha.

[@lougehrigsdisease7945]

Fish was clearly having a blast though. Big smiles.

[@mnnnw]

Story of the Ghost in my opinion is Mike's album. He brings it. Meat, MOMA Dance etc. I always wonder how the hell he manages to just keep going. Every video I see he's just always in the zone plunking away lol.

[@mnnnw]

Also I think most mobile devices just can't deliver strong bass so it gets kind of pushed to the back. I'm listening on an android right now and I have to intentionally listen just for him but the mids and highs are clear. Works great for the rest of the band lol.

[@lillagahnavich7700]

@@mnnnw also when Trey handcuffs him to the bass like in Sand he somehow still makes it unique lmao

[@whatwouldhousedo5136]

This version just slays me every time. Magnificent playing by all four. Phish is so good it's just read Icculus.

[@MarvinMonroe]

This and Taste, always were nice to hear

[@zeppelin01024]

I came here because of Fish but was blown away by the musicianship of all four of them. Trey’s fingers are otherworldly.

[@chrisdeitzel]

Front right side that day. So much room. Everyone making space to dance. Bong being passed around. Man what a day that was.

[@MrJDP1974]

I just love how Trey digs deep and just grabs this one by the nutes at like 9:20 after that little interplay with Page. Damn I really screwed up and missed a lot of good shows during this timeframe. I was old school and got an attitude at them. There are some good nugs in this time period! I learned the hard way. Thought it was them and learned it was me!

[@TheHSIHP]

Yeah, there was some really great stuff in 2003/2004. I did a bunch of shows those years. Dark time for me and the band but some great art came of it. Conversely a lot of it was pretty sloppy too.

[@MrJDP1974]

I guess it was totally hit or miss.

[@TheHSIHP]

MrJDP1974 Yeah, completely. I will say that the highs from then are light years away from the highs from now. Oh well. Still a sick band.

[@gryanderssportsgamingtalk843]

+MrJDP1974 Trey rallying the troops at 9:20. 2003 is not one of those years that will go down as a crisp / tight year in terms of execution, but this is definitely a tight LXL.

[@entropyrules43]

+MrJDP1974 It's okay man, I'm from Maine and ignored them until 2 years ago. Now I regret all the chances I had to see them when I was younger that I just passed up! But it makes me appreciate them all the more...

[@cwmiller2006]

i've never claimed to be a huge fan...i liked bouncing around the room when the ONE radio station in LA that was decent at the time played it...however, being a fan of the dead and a fan of good music in general i gotta say these guys are all such awesome players..trey is no joke on the guitar. this song is new to me, ive watched five or six versions and this one is the best imho...what a great band !

[@_grateful_zen_4515]

So have you gave them more of a listen?? Awesome!!

[@V8trickshot]

cwmiller2006 just gotta give em a chance and then they suck you in

[@jeffreylepak1678]

At around the 4-5 min mark u can see them all playing masterfully not even looking at what there doing. Amazing talent all around

[@cowfunk]

Wish I was there!!!

[@jakeduder]

I miss floofy haired Mike. Solid AF version 👌

[@wtfanon47]

I went to Went, Lemon and IT. It's time we go back there for another festival.

[@gratefulwindssailing]

God I love this band !!!

[@swampduck2609]

This brings me back

[@pango-y8j]

Phish 🍄🐟🐟🐟🍄 Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🌵 yes I keep on keeping on 🍄

[@edubz1906]

I was 18 years old in 2003 just missed the tail end of phish 1.0 as i entered the scene in late 2000 with the dead SCI and Moe and was so pissed I Missed out on Phish so was so so happy to get a chance to see them when they announced their comeback, I hit 8 shows that year plus IT, this Was one of the best weekends in my life and one of 3 way tie of the best festivals I'd attended the other 2 being the 1st Bonnaroo in 2002, and Hornings Hideout in 2004 of SCI, STS9, Keller Williams and Michael Franti with Spearhead, but this weekend was truly special as it was something that I loved and (at the time) thought I'd never get a chance to see, it topped off a summer I thought would never happened

[@evertking1]

Last show of your life... SCI or Phish?

[@edubz1906]

@@evertking1 an easy call, Phish.

[@isaacburdiss]

I was -2 in 2003

[@BP-or2iu]

My first show was Coventry so I really mossed the boat. But have been lucky enough to see 3.0 several times. I’m just about to finish law school and I’m gonna be doing Riviera Maya and MSG now that I won’t be a broke ass anymore.

[@lougehrigsdisease7945]

I love this band. this fish "flub" at the end is so perfect. what a tremendous performance.

[@joshsartain4020]

epic! seriously impossible to make better music than this!!!

[@ryanphelan6861]

In there genre I'm with you. Especially as foursome who have always been together. Jazz ensembles changed specifically to get right players for idea of composer, like miles, had in mind. This style though they own it cause they created it, inspired by modern jazz quartet in 83' still are, but Zappa, dead, Pink Floyd, classical like Stravinsky again Zappa parralell. Agree though this is theirs especially big Cypress and prior. Went, lemonwheel, island tour, Worcester Wipeout, so unique undescribable friend always said aliens would be impressed lmao.

[@mattmyers207]

Well this is the Phish from Vermont absolutely shredding the fuck out of the second largest city in Maine.

[@jjmah7]

0:04 A GIRL!!!!! A GIRL!!!!!

[@MarvinMonroe]

Lots of girls there. It's just that most dont want the hassle of getting that close to the stage. AND the guys who do get that close are usually autistic and therefore didn't attend the show with any girls

[@ajk5733]

Yeah..this is

[@rorydiamond2389]

boy o boy do i love this!!

[@chocolatemilkymoney]

i love the faces so intense !

[@camking8817]

I like Fishman’s cop sunglasses

[@ph0zz]

Loving the glitch in the drum machine matrix at 4:20 :)

[@sweetpeajunglebean]

there's one at 9:12 too

[@TheGrowFromYourHeartPodcast]

This is the best.

[@truthtoponder8731]

i remember this like it was yesterday

[@patrickpilkington6241]

Nothing I touch and nothing I see. Good version. Saw it live. Still as clear and as keen. Possess a pulse that’s fit to be seen.

[@FluffityAntelope]

what a great example of interplay between all four members of the band bouncing ideas off each other

[@robertsmithjr.5839]

Sick shades 🕶

[@gazicj]

holy effin christ, people. this was but 20 years ago. feels like a long time ago, that just happened like recently. If you were a part of this at the time...chances are, you felt extraordinary. At worst, you had super fun (at least until the solar garlic starts to rot). What glorious happenstance, to have been there, when. omg. that's what I've heard, anyways.

[@bajohnson000]

I love that Fish totally messes it up at the end. Live music. :)

[@tw8454]

camera work here is unreal

[@augustearth]

Classic Phish.

[@samadhist]

I don’t know why people don’t point at this as a good year.

[@BW-pr8qr]

I know.. Generally the "2.0" era doesn't get enough love and praise because of how it ended. But there are plenty of gems in 2003/2004 for sure. IT festival obviously being one of them. This Limb by Limb, Ghost, and Chalkdust were my IT highlights, but it was all terrific.

[@billybeat5215]

@@BW-pr8qr I highly suggest you go back and listen to the Julius. Was there. It’s amazing. Probably my favorite version ever.

[@Dosetrey]

jon fishman is a god from another planet

[@isaacburdiss]

10:59

[@sabyrk]

Is there a recording of this whole show with this same audio source? This mix is killer.

[@lougehrigsdisease7945]

whoa. 3:55.

[@shoe59]

how many times am I allowed to thumbsup?

[@zooganut]

5:37

[@tw8454]

fish is the fucking man but can we talk about mike for second. ive never seen someone pick bass like that

[@jacobshneiderman906]

mike at 9:50

[@wilpertz]

It’s too bad when this video was posted aspect ratio wasn’t a thing

[@pango-y8j]

My, someone sure gets grumpy after they masturbate 🍄🐟🍄

[@saragayfield9454]

one of my favorite phish moments.reba.lizards.

[@JohnRobertDobbs]

I hate it when Sir Flubs Alot misses the first note of a composed section.