Live Phish, Vol. 15

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

Notes: Phish: Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Page McConnell. Additional personnel: Dave Grippo (saxophone); Gary "El Buho" Gazaway (trombone); Karl Perazzo (percussion). Recorded live at The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia on October 31, 1996. Personnel: Dave Grippo (saxophone); Gary Buho Gazaway (trombone); Karl Perazzo (percussion). Audio Mixer: Paul Languedoc. Recording information: The Omni, Atlanta, GA (10/31/1996). 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. 15, the lucky recipient of Halloween attention is the Talking Heads' funk-flecked new wave classic REMAIN IN LIGHT. The modal, highly textured nature of the songs on that landmark album give Phish a chance to both exercise their considerable improvisational skills and create some highly visceral sonic atmosphere. And the funky nature of T. Heads tunes such as "Crosseyed and Painless" and "The Great Curve" gives these white boys a chance to get down a bit. Even if you don't go for the Heads, there are still plenty of original Phish tunes on hand to please the hardcore fan.

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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