Loop jam at the end of Ya Mar 5/23/00

I was totally absorbed in this video, literally slackjawed, before I realized it was from a show I had listened to and written off as under-jammed, and that it had grown out of Ya Mar, a song I usually skip after a few notes, believing it to always be the same. This is one of the blessings of Phish: the hidden jams you find when you don’t just fast forward to songs you know are going to be jammed out. Secret gardens of music can grow anywhere. A breath can animate a gesture performed a hundred times by rote, bringing it to life in the same way the Creator might if He had something to say to you about love and freedom in the universe and wished to say it in music, not waiting until the message is correctly prepared for and framed and labeled, but trusting that its difference and general radiance and rightness and amniotic familiarity will transcend whatever immediate, contingent circumstances produce it, for this message transcends its bearer in such a radical way that the bearer's ugliness only heightens the feeling of freedom (the freedom is in being torn asunder