Electric Apricot Page #3

at the Sweetwater indeed,

but unfortunately

I'm a little bit

off center right now

just because-

well, my cell phone

got turned off today.

Hey, what's up?

My name is Jonah

and I'm a taper.

Hi, I'm Tom Lystrus

and I'm a taper.

I think it should be a good-

a good crowd tonight.

You might want

to set that a bit higher.

My favorite thing

about Electric Apricot

clearly is just the

support of the community.

I mean, we come

to tape the shows,

they give us plenty of time

to set up ahead of time.

We've been here,

like, since 3:
00.

We're done, we're ready,

we're set, you know?

We're ready to... We're ready

to capture the magic, really.

Now we've just got

five hours to fine-tune it

before they get here.

Gordo, he really wanted to go...

go in a more electric...

He wanted to go

- He's a big Jerry fan, you know, Jerry Garcia.

Which is completely opposite

of what I wanted to do

because I wanted to go into

more of a British Morrissey trip.

And if a ten-ton truck

kills the both of us

All of a sudden,

Steve Trouzdale,

as we once knew him,

he sees this Phish show-

You have to ask him,

because it's a classic story.

So we went to the casinos

and we were partying hard

and we hooked up with these two

girls who turned out to be guys.

It was just, you know-

It was in-

One of them dosed me.

Dosed him with some LSD

or something

and he ends up

at this Phish show

and he just becomes

mesmerized

with the bass player

Mike Gordon.

And all of a sudden,

there's this eruption of color.

And I found out what it was.

Because at first

I thought it was like,

you know,

what's going on here?

Is this some alien battle

or something?

They have, like,

glowstick wars,

where people are throwing all

these glowsticks back and forth,

And then one just tags me

in the side of the head

and I instantly thought

of Aiwass, which...

Aiwass is the entity,

is the spirit that channeled

the right of Thelema

to Aleister Crowley.

The next day at rehearsal

I said to the guys,

you know, I'm Aiwass.

Call me Aiwass.

I am a bass player.

I was like, man,

that's a gift from heaven.

Here we are, he wants

to play bass now,

so now we've got a bass

and this big drum set,

and then I'm going

to plug this thing in

and there we go, trio,

Jimmy Hendrix land.

They tried to give us

a little grief because it's a-

because of the lightning bolt,

but it's actually

an 11-point lightning bolt

and it's a little narrower

and it's at a different angle

and the Grateful Dead has

a 13-point lightning bolt.

Ours is quite a bit

different, but...

This is...

This is the premier

mic right now

for this kind of taping.

It's the most expansive

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