If I'd been home, this would've been my home town venue. I saw my first festival there, Rock gegen Atom in 1986, but I was far away for this show. What's notable about the Loreley isn't a waterfall or that it was built by the Nazis (many things in Germany were), but that it's sitting high atop a massive rock towering over a bend in the Rhine. According to legend, the Loreley was a siren who combed her hair and sang so beautifully, she enchanted passing sailors who ran their ships aground and drowned. The view from up there is super picturesque with castles and all sorts of European shit in every direction. Maybe Phish will come back one day and drown a few sailors themselves.
If I'd been home, this would've been my home town venue. I saw my first festival there, Rock gegen Atom in 1986, but I was far away for this show. What's notable about the Loreley isn't a waterfall or that it was built by the Nazis (many things in Germany were), but that it's sitting high atop a massive rock towering over a bend in the Rhine. According to legend, the Loreley was a siren who combed her hair and sang so beautifully, she enchanted passing sailors who ran their ships aground and drowned. The view from up there is super picturesque with castles and all sorts of European shit in every direction. Maybe Phish will come back one day and drown a few sailors themselves.
Rob, great stuff as always. is that last line a reference to Spinal Tap?