Live In Brooklyn [Digipak]

Performer: Phish
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Phish: Trey Anastasio (vocals, guitar); Page McConnell (guitar); Mike Gordon (bass guitar); Jonathan Fishman (drums). Audio Mixer: Thom Cadley. Recording information: 06/17/2004. Photographers: Libby McLinn; Danny Clinch. Although this concert, presented here on three CDs, marked the beginning of Phish's 2004 tour, it effectively signified the end of the group. Recorded mere days after the beloved Vermont-based jam band released both their final studio album, UNDERMIND, and the news that it was breaking up, this June '04 performance at Coney Island's Keyspan Park finds the ensemble drawing minimally from the aforementioned album (a formidable, feedback-drenched version of "A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing" and a light, lilting take on "Nothing") in favor of career-spanning classics (the frenetic, funky "Weekapaug Groove," the highly melodic encore "The Divided Sky"). As with any Phish show, each member of the ensemble, particularly guitarist Trey Anastasio, stretches out with impressive solos, but the quartet intersperses these extended instrumental workouts with relatively concise numbers, giving the 21-song set a nice ebb and flow. While the concert is clearly a bittersweet occasion for Phish and its legion of fans, the mood is often celebratory, making for a wonderful prelude to the band's final performance later that summer in Coventry, Vermont. (Note: LIVE IN BROOKLYN is also available on two DVDs.)

Entertainment Weekly (p.79) - "[T]he first date of Phish's final tour found them sounding tight and energized on familiar songs, with funky clavinet and guitar..." -- Grade: B

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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