Live Phish, Vol. 14

Performer: Phish
Engineer: Paul Languedoc
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Phish: Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Page McConnett. Additional personnel: Dave Grippo (saxophone); Joey Sommerville (trumpet); Don Glasgow (flugelhorn, trombone); Alan Parshley (trombone). Recorded live at Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, Illinois on October 31, 1995. Personnel: Dave Grippo (saxophone); Joe Sommerville (trumpet); Don Glasgo (French horn, trombone). Audio Mixer: Paul Languedoc. Recording information: Rosemont Horizon, Rosemont Illinois (10/31/1995). Illustrator: Jim Pollock. Photographers: David Vann; Nubar Alexanian; Sofi Dillof. Unknown Contributor Roles: Mike Gordon ; Jonathan Fishman; Page McConnell; Trey Anastasio. Like so many bands entering the 21st century who found that their in-concert appeal warranted a series of live releases to please the fans and beat the bootleggers (String Cheese Incident and Pearl Jam come to mind, but Zappa and the Dead got there first), Vermont's favorite (please don't call them a) jam band Phish entered the fray with a vengeance. Their live albums are multi-disc affairs with snazzy packaging and hours of sonic fun built in. Volumes 13-16 capture different years of the band's famed Halloween concerts where, traditionally, they'll throw in an extra set where they cover, sequentially and in its entirety, one of their favorite albums by another artist. On LIVE PHISH VOL. 14, the lucky recipient of Halloween attention is the Who's epochal album QUADROPHENIA in all its double-LP glory. While previous Halloween shows have found the band deconstructing the work of such '60s icons as the Beatles, Trey and the guys' versions of "5:15" and "The Real Me" are surprisingly straightforward and reverential, complete with a horn section to flesh out the arrangements. And if the vocals aren't quite up to Roger Daltrey's mighty bellow on the panoramic "Love, Reign O'er Me," there's plenty of original Phish material on the other discs to offset it.

Of all the jam bands to emerge in the late-1980s and early-'90s, Phish were widely regarded as the inheritors to the Grateful Dead's throne. While the group's jazzy, mercurial sound was more progressive and light-hearted than the Dead's, Phish's massive, adoring following modeled themselves after the vagabond Dead Heads, calling themselves "Phish Heads." After letting off steam through various side projects (Oysterhead, Vida Blue) and sabbaticals, Phish finally called it quits in 2004.

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