NFR-LivePhish CDs: Your top 3 favorites?

[Catfish]

I have listened to many of the LivePhish CDs after Phishy and many Gooners suggested that I try Phish. Now I want to buy 1 or 2 of these LivePhish CDs, please name your top 3.

Thanks.


P.S. Me buying or even thinking about buying a LIVE album by ANYONE is a big deal. I usually detest live albums because I can never truly enjoy the music and lyrics.

[jegerpenge]

Phish sucks! HAHAHAHA.

[Przybylinski]

Catfish - are talking the downloads or the actual live cds. You really have two options to get live stuff.

The Halloween shows are always great, but maybe not as an introduction. The Beatles White album show is a great one 10/31/94 Live Phish 13.

Live Phish 5 7/8/00 Alpine Valley is sweet.

Live Phish 9 8/26/89 Townshend Family Park is a really nice one.

08/03/2003 IT is a great download - get the whole thing.

How's that.

[Catfish]

Catfish - are talking the downloads or the actual live cds. You really have two options to get live stuff.

The Halloween shows are always great, but maybe not as an introduction. The Beatles White album show is a great one 10/31/94 Live Phish 13.

Live Phish 5 7/8/00 Alpine Valley is sweet.

Live Phish 9 8/26/89 Townshend Family Park is a really nice one.

08/03/2003 IT is a great download - get the whole thing.

How's that.

The actual CDs!

Alpine Valley is sweet, huh.....you wouldn't be biased on this would you, David? lol.

[j4hand]

Hello All,

Long time lurker, first time poster.

My suggestions:

11-17-97 Monumental Phish year. Funky, funky, funky. They would be wise to dip into the 1997 archives a little bit more.

5-7-94 Tweezerfest in the second set. Legendary show.

12-29-94 Just really liked this one.

I've been listening to Phish for many years. I cannot remember the last time I popped in a studio album, although I buy them when they are released. This band is (was) at their best live.

I promise my next post will be about The Arsenal.

[Gunner Phan]

Phish sucks! HAHAHAHA.


You suck...and probably don't know what good music is...

"Hi my name is Jegerpenge and my favorite song is (I Will Walk) 5000 Miles"

;)

[Gunner Phan]

Catphish....I would suggest the following:

Volume 7 - 8/14/93....the 2nd set is INCREDIBLE and lots of fav songs scattered throughout....

Volume 11 - I agree..97 was a monumental Year for the boys and this show is great...

of the 2 halloween shows...the 94 White Album is a good choice but I would lean towards 10.31.98 UNLV....Run Like an Antelope
Stash >
Manteca >
Tweezer >
NICU >
Prince Caspian >
Golgi Appartatus
Driver
Free Bird

Filler disc is SICK!!

Any phish is good phish....I hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing your opinion (as opposed to jegerpenge's)

GP

p.s.- j4hand- where in Virginia are you? I grew up in Norfolk/Va Beach and graduated from VA Tech!

[j4hand]

Lynchburg, and I graduated from UVA. Fantastic past season for VA Tech American football, I must say.

To fulfill my promise: Senderos just continues to impress me every match. He makes great decisions, quick reads, and can use his size well. When Wenger first put him in, I gulped. But now I have great confidence in him. Moral to this story: Trust Wenger. He sees these guys on the training ground, I do not. Plus he gets paid to do this.

[j4hand]

BTW, is that Freebird from the 98 the vocal one? That cracks me up. Only Phish would take the time to arrange an a cappella version. It is quite brilliant though. I swear the pull jokes on the audience for their own amusement all the time. One example, having those festivals in Limestone, ME and Big Cypress. It is as if they sat around and said, "I wonder if our fans would follow us to remote corners of the nation?" The answer: yes they would. And for only one band too.

[Gunner Phan]

BTW, is that Freebird from the 98 the vocal one? That cracks me up. Only Phish would take the time to arrange an a cappella version. It is quite brilliant though. I swear the pull jokes on the audience for their own amusement all the time. One example, having those festivals in Limestone, ME and Big Cypress. It is as if they sat around and said, "I wonder if our fans would follow us to remote corners of the nation?" The answer: yes they would. And for only one band too.


From the LBC? nice...any chance you know Leigh Webb? what year did you graduate from UVa?


AS for their amusement...that is exactly what they were thinking when they started the festivals with the Clifford Ball in 96.

Yes that is a acapella freebird...I was fortunate to catch one at MSG in 98...trey's vocal solo is SICK! lol!

[Neo¹]

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[asfoolasiam]

The Halloween shows are always great, but maybe not as an introduction. The Beatles White album show is a great one 10/31/94 Live Phish 13.Was at this one. (Can't believe it's over 10 years ago!) The parking lot was insane. It was pouring -- and I mean pouring -- down rain. Lots of people huddling for shelter in the nearby Burger King. But the lot was still a blast, with this being the first Halloween show in some years. Lots of costumes. I was dressed as "Hydrogen"; I had attached a large ball to a hula-hoop and was hula-ing my "electron" around me. :) But security wouldn't let me take the hoop into the stadium and so I was "ionized."

What's easy to forget in retrospect is that we really didn't know they were going to play a complete album. Sure, the Doniac Schvice (that was the name of the Phish newsletter at the time) had let us vote on what would be the band's "musical costume." (I was pulling for Hendrix's Axis: Bold as Love.) But from the way the announcement was phrased, we thought that they might play some songs from an album, or else do something with actual costumes or a stage design. In retrospect it seems obvious that they would play the whole album, but at the time it was just this incredible wave of energy that went through the crowd at the simultaneous realization that not only were they playing "The White Album," but they were playing the Whole Damn Thing. Friggin' awesome. :)

My first "Simple" too: it was actually a brand-new song back then. Amazing how time flies.

[phishy]

Phish sucks! HAHAHAHA.


ahem.........

[Gunner Phan]

ahem.........


"Kick his Ass, Sea Bass!!"

lol.... ;)

[Catfish]

How about "Junta" by Phish?

I'm listening to it right now while I am teaching my 3yo daughter to cook. She loves fish and music, so I thought what a perfect group for her...lol.

[HighburyGoon]

First of all you have to get Hampton Comes Alive. Then as far as the Live Phish series goes, I'd suggest:

1, 5, 7, 9, 10!!!!, and 18.

As for the Halloween shows, they're all great for different reasons.

However, of the shows I went to that I have on disc, my absolute favorite is 12/11/99.

12-11-99 First Union Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

1: Harry Hood, Mike's Song -> Simple > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, When the Circus Comes, Scent of a Mule, Cavern (1:13)

2: Boogie On Reggae Woman > Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley# -> Ghost -> Also Sprach Zarathustra > Down with Disease (0:59)

E: Possum* (0:13)

#Began with "AC/DC Bag" tease. *With "All Fall Down" language signal.

[Gunner Phan]

First of all you have to get Hampton Comes Alive. .

Excellent choice my good man....I grew up a whopping 10 miles from Hampton...not sure why I didn't think about this one...

I was at both nights and I must say they were great! Mike's Groove....Bathtubby....Quinn....GP (the papyrus)...man I am going to bust that out right now!!

GP

p.s.- Get Jiggy wit it...1,2,3,4!!!!!!

[HighburyGoon]

Excellent choice my good man....I grew up a whopping 10 miles from Hampton...not sure why I didn't think about this one...

I was at both nights and I must say they were great! Mike's Groove....Bathtubby....Quinn....GP (the papyrus)...man I am going to bust that out right now!!

GP

p.s.- Get Jiggy wit it...1,2,3,4!!!!!!


"Na, na, na, na, na, nah!"

I was at boths shows too. Spent the nights in a hotel on the Navy base, and lost my "Bobby Fans Are People Too" sticker when it blew out the car window!