Phish - Billy Breathes (w/ guest Dan Drago)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Podcaster and musician Dan Drago (www.25oclockpod.com and themunrowesrock.bandcamp.com) joins Bill and Brian to discuss Phish's Billy Breathes (1996, Elektra). Dan talks about a buddy introducing him to Phish amidst all the grunge and punk he was listening to in the 90s. Then Bill, Brian, and Dan discuss the time Brian met Tom Marshall, carpe diem vs stop and smell the roses, not comparing Phish with the Grateful Dead by comparing them with the Grateful Dead, the strengths and weaknesses of Phish live vs. album recordings, Trey Anastasio's great guitar tone, Steve Lillywhite's impressive production, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track! Make sure to support this week's sponsor, !

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.8	1996's Billy Breathes by Fish.
0:12.7	I ought to see the manball key. I hope to see the man ball cake.
0:22.1	I'll see the man monkey.
0:24.5	I'll see the man monkey.
0:28.5	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:34.4	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we cap it all off
0:39.2	with a track-by-track review in which we talk about the things we love and think about when
0:45.0	listening to the album. And we're not doing it alone. No, we're not. Who's coming in today, Brian?
0:51.6	A podcaster, musician, and really, really good chef, Dan Drago.
0:59.2	It's really good to have Dan back.
1:00.9	You may remember him from the Harry Nilsson-Schmielsen.
1:06.6	Drago-Schmego episode.
1:10.5	Drago-Schmeago. that's a good nickname for him.
1:12.9	I love Dan.
1:14.5	I could listen to Dan talk to me about, like I could listen to Dan read me the phone book.
1:20.2	It's a good thing he's got a podcast that.
1:22.0	I know, and I really like his podcast.
1:24.4	25 o'clock.
1:25.8	Yeah.
1:26.1	Oh, and it's essentially, you know, a similar format to the Mark Maren podcast, except with, you know,
1:34.4	local folks from the kind of the New Jersey and the greater Philadelphia area.
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