Simple 8/12/98

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Roses Are Free 6-8-12

Yep, it's the Roses

@Mike_Thong said:

Roses Are Free 6-8-12

nailed it

God F'in damnnit! I knew I knew it! SOOOO close!

Worcester Jam 6-8-12 j/k...

I knew I heard this live but was going through my '98 and '99 shows with Simple.

Awh man. I actually knew this one!

Dam have this on my MP3 and just listened to a few days ago,,,Way 2 go THONG

first time I definitely knew the answer.

I went to the show on 6/7 and not 8/8 - probably why I didn't get this one.

^ Bravo all.

Loving the spreadsheet of past MJM's!

You guys rock.

I went to the show on 6/7 and not 6/8 - probably why I didn't get this one.

saw that Roses was picked...probably right. Could be 8.6.2010 simple too. Probably not though.

-thanks gang-
I hopin' for sweet redemption here after botching the Specimens of Beauty MMJ

Damn it, I was there and actually knew this one!

What about 7/13/99 Roses. But the more u know but is funny.

@Choda said:

What about 7/13/99 Roses.

They vamp off of the closing chord for a minute or so and then slow to an end. It's the closest any of the other thirty-seven versions get to an extended jam, but I didn't think it was qualified to fit into the same group as the other three.

hahaha, that's a good write up accompanying the answer. i remember the first time i saw this song at polaris in '00. a guy next to was bitching because "it was the shortest version ever." i had to remind/inform him that there were only 2 long versions. good times.

Props to the snarky answer

That's one of a few dozen phish crosses that Fleezus has tasked me with carrying

Even Tube has eclipsed 8 minutes under 20% of the time.. 3 of those being right at 8 or 7:56

And I'm going to go out on a limb and proclaim a 6 minute 2013 Tube slaps around the mildly jammy late 90s/0xy versions, Dayton and Salt Lake and Hershey among others are clearly on another planet of course.

Gumbo 23 of 88 jammed. Halleys 23 of 102. Cities over 10 minutes 8 of 72 times.. But
12/28/11 and 8/6/10, easily the two best versions outside of the Went and Deer Creek 97
Are an average of 10:30 which is an insanely potent reminder of the power of 3.0s improv.

I made a list of songs that had gone yard more often than Roses and it was interesting. If I had an adderall prescription and didnt have a daughter I'd probably write 10,000 words about why people always point out Roses wasnt jammed but never point out that Number Line or Fee or KDF or Chalkdust or Suzy or Ya Mar or BOTT or Mango or a double handful of others weren't.

Gumbo, Halleys, Tube, Roses and AC/DC Bag are like the pistons of a veteran frustration generation engine. I feel like 3-4 of those came in clumps at points in 3.0 and it was always funny.

I'm of the mind that I'd rather hear all new and different songs get jammed out and leave these in the past, of course I'd rather hear them jammed than nothing jammed.. But there's a solid 30 songs that aren't thought of as jam songs which feel more pregnant with possibility these days.