Live Phish Volume 15
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Live Phish Vol. 15 was recorded live at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

, on Halloween
Halloween
Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...

 night, 1996.

This show marks the third in a series of Halloween shows in which Phish
Phish
Phish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band...

 dressed up in a "musical costume" by performing an album from another artist in its entirety. The band, along with a horn section
Horn section
In music, a horn section can refer to several groups of musicians. It can refer to the musicians in a symphony orchestra who play the horn . In a British-style brass band it refers to the tenor horn players. In popular music, it can also refer to a small group of wind instrumentalists who augment a...

 and Santana
Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...

 percussionist Karl Perazzo, unveiled a complete performance of the Talking Heads
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...

's Remain in Light
Remain in Light
Remain in Light is the fourth studio album by American New Wave band Talking Heads, released on 8 October 1980 on Sire Records. It was recorded at locations in the Bahamas and the United States between July and August 1980 and was produced by the quartet's long-time collaborator...

sandwiched in between two sets of Phish's own music.

The performance is noted by the band as their favorite Halloween show. The band has subsequently included "Crosseyed and Painless" in their live show song rotation.

Track listing

Disc one
  1. "Sanity" (Anastasio
    Trey Anastasio
    Trey Anastasio is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish...

    , Fishman
    Jon Fishman
    Jon Fishman is an American drummer best known for his work with the band Phish. He is credited with co-writing 19 Phish originals, 8 of them as a solo credit....

    , Gordon
    Mike Gordon
    Mike Gordon is a bass guitar player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion...

    , McConnell
    Page McConnell
    Page Samuel McConnell is an American multi-instrumentalist most noted for his work as a songwriter and keyboardist with the American rock band Phish....

    , Pollak
    The Dude of Life
    Steve Pollak, best known by his stage name The Dude of Life, is a musician and lyricist, who has co-written numerous Phish songs, including "Suzy Greenberg", "Fluffhead", "Slave to the Traffic Light", "Run like an Antelope", "Sanity", "Crimes of the Mind", "Dinner and a Movie", and most recently,...

    ) – 5:48
  2. "Highway to Hell
    Highway to Hell (song)
    "Highway to Hell" is the opening track of AC/DC's 1979 album Highway to Hell and the twelfth track on AC/DC Live. It was initially released as a single in 1979....

    " (Scott
    Bon Scott
    Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott was a Scottish-born Australian rock musician, best known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980...

    , Young
    Angus Young
    Angus McKinnon Young is a Scottish-born Australian musician, and the lead guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of the rock and roll band AC/DC. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with other members of AC/DC in 2003 and is known for his energetic performances,...

    , Young
    Malcolm Young
    Malcolm Young is a Scottish-born Australian guitarist, best known as a founding member, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. Young was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, along with the other members of AC/DC...

    ) – 3:39
  3. "Down with Disease
    Down With Disease
    "Down with Disease" is a song by the band Phish that appeared on their 1994 album Hoist. The song was written by Phish lead singer Trey Anastasio and the band's frequent songwriter, Tom Marshall; its lyrics were based on a bout with infectious mononucleosis suffered by Marshall."Down with Disease"...

    " (Anastasio, Marshall
    Tom Marshall (singer)
    Tom Marshall is a lyricist, keyboardist and singer/songwriter best known for his association with Trey Anastasio and the rock band Phish...

    ) – 11:06 ->
  4. "You Enjoy Myself
    You Enjoy Myself
    You Enjoy Myself, commonly abbreviated to "YEM" is a Phish song written by Trey Anastasio. It is the band's most frequently played song, having been featured —as of August 2011— at about 36% of their 1,496 shows. The song is also one of the oldest in Phish's catalog, having been first performed...

    " (Anastasio) – 22:54 ->
  5. "Prince Caspian
    Prince Caspian
    Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia is a novel for children by C. S. Lewis, written in late 1949 and first published in 1951. It is the second-published book in the Chronicles of Narnia series, although in the overall chronological sequence it comes fourth.-Plot summary:While standing on a...

    " (Anastasio, Marshall) – 7:07


Disc two
  1. "Reba" (Anastasio) – 15:40
  2. "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" (Anastasio) – 5:29 ->
  3. "Fly Famous Mockingbird" (Anastasio) – 10:07
  4. "Character Zero" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 7:34
  5. "The Star-Spangled Banner
    The Star-Spangled Banner
    "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships...

    " (Key
    Francis Scott Key
    Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".-Life:...

    , Smith
    John Stafford Smith
    John Stafford Smith was a British composer, church organist, and early musicologist. He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by Johann Sebastian Bach....

    ) – 1:33


Disc three – Remain in Light
  1. "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
    Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
    "Born Under Punches " is the opening track to the acclaimed Talking Heads album Remain in Light. The track has a prominent bassline and sets the funk tone of the album...

    " (Byrne
    David Byrne (musician)
    David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...

    , Eno
    Brian Eno
    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

    , Frantz
    Chris Frantz
    Chris Frantz is an American musician and record producer. He was the drummer for both Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club.-Career:...

    , Harrison
    Jerry Harrison
    Jerry Harrison is an American songwriter, musician and producer...

    , Weymouth
    Tina Weymouth
    Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouth is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the New Wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club .-Profile:Weymouth is of French heritage on her mother's side. Weymouth was a cheerleader in high school...

    ) – 6:40
  2. "Crosseyed and Painless" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 9:59
  3. "The Great Curve" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 9:07 ->
  4. "Once in a Lifetime
    Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads song)
    "Once in a Lifetime" is a song by New Wave band Talking Heads, released as the first single from their fourth studio album Remain in Light. The song was written by David Byrne, Brian Eno, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, and Tina Weymouth, and produced by Eno...

    " (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 5:08
  5. "Houses in Motion" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 8:57
  6. "Seen and Not Seen" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:30 ->
  7. "Listening Wind" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 8:08 ->
  8. "The Overload" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 10:56


Disc four
  1. "Brother" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 5:56 ->
  2. "2001
    Also sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)
    Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical treatise of the same name. The composer conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt...

    " (Deodato
    Eumir Deodato
    Eumir Deodato is a Brazilian pianist, composer, record producer and arranger, primarily based in the jazz realm but who historically has been known for eclectic melding of big band and combo jazz with varied elements of rock/pop, R&B/funk, Brazilian/Latin, and symphonic or orchestral music.Mainly,...

    ) – 6:51 ->
  3. "Maze" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 12:38 ->
  4. "Simple" (Gordon) – 15:03 ->
  5. "Swept Away" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 1:09 ->
  6. "Steep" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) – 1:56 ->
  7. "Jesus Just Left Chicago" (Beard
    Frank Beard (musician)
    Frank Lee Beard is the drummer in the rock band ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top.Beard was born in...

    , Gibbons
    Billy Gibbons
    William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959...

    , Hill
    Dusty Hill
    Joseph Michael "Dusty" Hill is the bassist and vocalist with the American rock group ZZ Top.-History:Hill was in Dallas, Texas and grew up in the Lakewood neighborhood of East Dallas...

    ) – 7:49 ->
  8. "Suzy Greenberg" (Anastasio, Pollak) – 8:00
  9. "Frankenstein
    Frankenstein (song)
    "Frankenstein" is a rock instrumental by The Edgar Winter Group from their album They Only Come Out at Night.In live performances of the song, Edgar Winter further pioneered the advancement of the synthesizer as a lead instrument by becoming the first person ever to strap a keyboard instrument...

    " (Winter
    Edgar Winter
    Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician. He is famous for being a multi-instrumentalist. He is a highly skilled keyboardist, saxophonist and percussionist. He often plays an instrument while singing. He was most successful in the 1970s with his band, The Edgar Winter Group, notably with their...

    ) – 5:23

Personnel

Phish
  • Trey Anastasio
    Trey Anastasio
    Trey Anastasio is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish...

     – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    s, vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Jon Fishman
    Jon Fishman
    Jon Fishman is an American drummer best known for his work with the band Phish. He is credited with co-writing 19 Phish originals, 8 of them as a solo credit....

     – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , vocals
  • Mike Gordon
    Mike Gordon
    Mike Gordon is a bass guitar player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion...

     – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , vocals
  • Page McConnell
    Page McConnell
    Page Samuel McConnell is an American multi-instrumentalist most noted for his work as a songwriter and keyboardist with the American rock band Phish....

     – piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , organ
    Organ (music)
    The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

    , vocals


Remain in light set
  • Gary Gazaway – trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

     (also played on "Jesus Just Left Chicago," "Suzy Greenberg," and "Frankenstein")
  • Dave Grippo – saxophone (also played on "Jesus Just Left Chicago," "Suzy Greenberg," and "Frankenstein")
  • Karl Perazzo – percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

     (also played throuhgout third set)

Setlist from Phish.net

  • Phish.net hosts a detailed setlist archive maintained by fans and supported by the Mockingbird Foundation
    Mockingbird Foundation
    The Mockingbird Foundation is a charitable organization founded by fans of the jam band Phish in 1996 to support music education for children. Unconventional in structure, it exists almost entirely online, allowing a higher percentage of income to be distributed directly to deserving organizations...

    .


Set 1
  1. "Sanity"
  2. "Highway to Hell"
  3. "Down with Disease"
  4. "You Enjoy Myself"
  5. "Prince Caspian"
  6. "Reba"
  7. "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" -> "Fly Famous Mockingbird"
  8. "Character Zero"
  9. "The Star Spangled Banner"


Set 2
  1. "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" -> "Crosseyed and Painless" -> "The Great Curve"
  2. "Once in a Lifetime" -> "Houses in Motion" -> "Seen and Not Seen" -> "Listening Wind" -> "The Overload"


Set 3
  1. "Brother"
  2. "2001" -> "Maze"
  3. "Simple" -> "Swept Away" -> "Steep"
  4. "Jesus Just Left Chicago"
  5. "Suzy Greenberg"


Set 4
  1. "Frankenstein"
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