http://www.phish.com/festival8/halloween/

here’s a list of them:

http://jamtopia.com/blog/phish-festival-8-cover-album-teaser/

phish practiced the heck out of exile and it showed – the whole album was super tight and the comment about loving cup is spot on – even better than the stones ever did.

people love to hate phish, it’s pretty easy to do because they’re so odd (vacuum cleaner playing, secret language, hippie followers, unique music, etc.) but if you dismiss them without at least giving them a chance, you truly are missing out. if you like funk, check out 12/7/97. if you like zappa, check out 12/6/96. if you don’t like real long jams but want to hear solid phish, check out the early stuff, like 4/16/92. if you do like full blown pyschadelica, check out their IT festival’
s tower jam (videos all over youtube) from the early morning of 8/2/03. phish fans are generous folk and would be happy to share their music with you, especially if you’re coming with an open mind. do yourself a favor and find a fan who can introduce you!

They also divided the campgrounds into sections named after the 8 finalists, which was a neat and interesting twist, adding to the anticipation. They really pulled out all the stops, going way out of their way (literally) to make the festival as amazing as possible.

Like Trey said at Big Cypress after
the ABC live ‘Heavy Things’ segment and the show continued not on TV: ‘it’s just us now.”

I missed the point? I? As someone who was a high schooler in Burlington, Vermont attending countless Phish shows at Nectars and elsewhere through the late ’80′s/early ’90′s I think I saw too much of the point. My sensibilities are hardly “hair-trigger”. I was making an observation that Phish – and their ardent fans who choose monikers based on Phish songs – have a hard time dressing up in Halloween costumes that are not readily supplied by the Western Corpocratic Myth. Isn’t it cooler to show up at a Halloween party and see a costume you only vaguely recognize/remember (say, someone in a Zaphod Beeblebrox costume).

I know for a fact that Trey loves Fela Kuti (who was tangentially embraced by the Western Corpocratic Myth himself): what if Phish came out on Saturday night and played “Coffin For The Head of State”? How cool would that have been?

The point is when I look at the albums Phish chose for their list of possible costumes (and very much in keeping with all the costumes they have donned over the years) I just see the same old, same old. And I’m reminded of how the Western Corpcratic Myth goes about defining the concept of “classic”. There is so much more “classic” out there and if Phish were really artists they would turn their phan base on to that. It’s not art. It’s a band that came out of retirement because their 401Ks tanked over the last year.

Sorry. You enjoy myself.

Thanks for the great links above, everybody! Damn, what a great set! And Trey actually enunciates the lyrics on Exile, unlike Mick’s affected gutter snarl: I can actually hear most of the words to “Rip This Joint,” wow!

Happiness.

I was making an observation that Phish – and their ardent fans who choose monikers based on Phish songs – have a hard time dressing up in Halloween costumes that are not readily supplied by the Western Corpocratic Myth.

Hunh? I think your telepathy is misaligned, dude. How one is to infer this from your original post, or even what the fuck you are trying to say now, is as clear as Dirt. You’re a little hung up on this idea of a “Western Corpocratic Myth” aren’t you? -Whatever that is. Criticizing what you think people may have worn as Halloween costumes because they’re just not hip / geeky enough for you? Man, no wonder you weren’t invited to the party. What a buzz-kill you turned out to be.

The point is when I look at the albums Phish chose for their list of possible costumes (and very much in keeping with all the costumes they have donned over the years) I just see the same old, same old.

Hooray for you! Any such list is obviously going to be highly subjective, and there are a lot of other known influences they could have cited, but again, this was a list of albums they might like to cover, not some complete index of all music that has informed them over all time. But since you seem to have a hotline into Trey’s brain, why don’t you give him your suggestions directly instead of complaining about the free Phish Food ice cream here. Mmkay?

It’s a band that came out of retirement because their 401Ks tanked over the last year.

Wow, nice attempt to troll. Do you really think they’re doing this because they need the money? These guys are each millionaires many many times over. Do you honestly believe that this is the quickest way for them to make some scratch at this point? It is a shame that you were lucky enough to spend formative years with Phish and are still completely missing the point. I can see where that would make you really bitter and want to try to tear down anybody else’s good time. Too late this time.

So long and thanks for all the Phish!

On halloween night, just before the band took stage to cover the stones’ album, all lights went dark and the montage posted on BB played on big screens as huge towers of fire burned behind everyone.

Exile on Main St was Phish’s Musical Costume for Halloween. THEY COVERED THE ENTIRE ALBUM, almost 100 minutes. I believe the original album was only 70.

It was a 4 day festival over Halloween weekend. Many bits of Phish history were made…

-first acoustic set ever during sunday day after halloween
-first haloween costume set in about 10 years
-first west coast festival
-sierra nevada made a beer just for the festival called FOAM (sold out the first day), which was ok becuase of the 50 other reasonably priced beers they had.
-first time many songs were ever played
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here are some links to some visuals of the show:
Phish Covering Loving Cup on Haloween: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XsZWMFntjw

Mean Halloween Fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcDQHj86pQM&feature=channel

Sick floating balloon light show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa0_5DtFV3M

more fire art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNeVM3Q5sb4&feature=related

robot fire wars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoAZzKKM2M

Fire ceiling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO2vC4dpjWs

Creepy Vocal Jam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-ozplr9uoI

heres a neat interview with Tom Marshall [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Marshall_(singer)], who is the lyrisist of more phish songs than all the songs trey, fishman, mike, and the other dude wrote combined:

http://www.jambands.com/features/2009/11/03/ode-to-joy-the-tom-marshall-interview/

and another good writeup on 8: http://www.jambands.com/news/2009/11/01/shine-a-light-phish-at-festival-8-from-the-express

Miami for new years anyone?!? =)))))))))))))))))))

wooo!

I kinda dug it.

Deviceofmind: You seem to have missed the point. They were not attempting to construct some sort of music etymology; simply a video introduction to the set that was eventually chosen from the countdown (which also included many artists not shown.) Nothing was selected for this piece to appease your hair-trigger sensibilities or your idea of ethnic diversity.

Diamondbach: Though I expected nothing less than jam-band derision from BB commentors, which seems to be the easy target du jour, you would do well to be more informed before you fling your poo. Though many Halloweens have passed since the band began doing this, they have only covered a handful of albums in this way. They are (not necessarily in order): 1) The Beatles’ “White Album” 2) Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon 3) The Who’s Quadrophoenia 4) Talking Heads’ Remain In Light 5) The Velvet Underground’s Loaded, and now 6) Exile… Which made a fine continuation of the tradition. (They even added a horn section and soulful backup singers to round out the set nicely.) The version of “Loving Cup” alone is probably the best realization of this tune ever performed by anyone anywhere.

Name one other band who could pull off even one of these epic covers nearly as well, if at all, in addition to 7 other sets of their own music in a three-day event…

And I don’t know what your problem is with the Stones, but Exile is probably their greatest album and is widely regarded as one of the greatest rock & roll albums of all time. Way to go insulting 3 bands in one swipe; a vast swath of music in one go; simply because they do not suit your tastes. Golly they all should have consulted you in your apathy before daring to put on such a performance to the thrill of thousands.

This isn’t the Pussy Cat Dolls, my friend.

And to kill two birds with one stone, the first being said myth, the second being their needs to pad their 401ks, if EITHER of these were true, don’t you think they would have gotten Budweiser, AT&T, or any of the other corporate monsters that can’t you can’t escape at any other festival experience these days…

I was at F8, I’m not even a huge “Phan,” but I’ve never been to such a massive event without see a logo ANYWHERE in sight… the beer tents were all locally crafted microbrews… ALL OF THEM… there was a local organic farmers market, for Christ’s sake!! They broacast the show not via ATT’s Blue Room, rather, via their own radio station and online portal.

How you can make those accusations is simply absurdity.

My too scents.

jb

@jb your right, that was one thing i couldnt put my finger on until now, no logos ANYWHERE. wow. amazing how subtle it is when the forced placements arent there.