Bittersweet Motel


Bittersweet Motel 2000 is a documentary about the rock group Phish. The film was directed by Todd Phillips later the director of Old School and The Hangover and covers the bands summer and fall 1997 tours, plus footage from their 1998 spring tour of Europe. The documentary ends with The Great Went, a giant twoday festival held in upstate Maine which attracted 70,000 people.

Most songs that appear in the film were performed live unless noted. Eight cover songs are featured in the film, including the rehearsal and debut of Weens Roses Are Free from their Chocolate and Cheese album. Two other notable debuts captured in the film are an early version of Sleep played solo by Trey on his Languedoc guitar for the cameras which would later appear on their 2000 album Farmhouse and a soundcheck of the band performing what was at the time the new faster arpeggiated version of Water In Sky that would be seen later that year in studio form on their 1998 album The Story of the Ghost.The songlist clearly shows how the narrative of the film is not accurate to when the scenes were shot. The Great Went appears as the climax of the film, while in reality its the first footage that Phillips shot for the movie. ........

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