Artist: Phish
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock
Pop: Pop-Rock
Alternative
Discography:
Undermind
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Round Room
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Live Phish 11 - 11.17.97 - CD3
Year: 2002
Tracks: 4
Live Phish 11 - 11.17.97 - CD2
Year: 2002
Tracks: 6
Live Phish 11 - 11.17.97 - CD1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 5
Farmhouse
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
The Story Of The Ghost
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Rift
Year: 1993
Tracks: 15
A Picture Of Nectar
Year: 1992
Tracks: 16
Lawn Boy
Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
Live In Tweeter Center (cd3)
Year:
Tracks: 2
Live In Tweeter Center (cd2)
Year:
Tracks: 12
Live In Tweeter Center (cd1)
Year:
Tracks: 8
During the early '90s, Phish emerged as successor to the Grateful Dead's throne. Although their music is somewhat like to the Dead's -- it's an eclectic, free morpheme rock-and-roll & hustle panoptic folk, malarky, country, bluegrass, and pop -- the grouping adheres more to jazz-derived improvisation than tribe tradition, and they bear a looser, goofier mental attitude. After all, their drummer regularly plays a vacuum cleaner during their concerts. Phish's primary call as the inheritors to the Dead's bequest is their approach to their musical life history. The band didn't concentrate on albums; they dedicated themselves to live improvisation. Within a few days of their 1988 debut, Phish had become an instauration in certain sections of America, particularly college campuses. And their in concert popularity didn't necessarily translate to vast record sales; their biggest-selling albums normally halted at gold status. Still, Phish were the de facto leadership of the neo-hippie block stria movement, until decision making to go on reprieve in 2000.
Guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio, drummer Jon Fishman, and guitarist Jeff Holdsworth formed the band in late 1983 patch attention the University of Vermont. After meeting and jam in their dormitory, the trio posted flyers crossways campus, recruiting a bassist. Mike Gordon answered the ad and he was soon added to the original lineup. The group began practicing regularly and presently assembled a demo tape measure. In the fall of 1984, Phish began acting off-campus concerts. At this degree in their career, the stria was augmented by percussionist Marc Daubert and, occasionally, a singer called the Dude of Life. Soon, the group was acting concerts on nearby campuses, including Goddard College's Springfest in 1985. Page McConnell organized the Springfest at Goddard and he became a fan of the band. Later in the year, McConnell convinced the group to add him as a keyboardist. Shortly after McConnell coupled Phish, Holdsworth left the group. In the fall of 1986, Anastasio and Fishman transferred to Goddard College.
Early in 1988, Phish recorded Military junta, which they sold at their shows as a cassette-only handout. In 1989, the group played their first circuit outside of New England, travel through the Southeast. Phish also recorded their second album, Lawn Boy, in 1989, although the album wasn't released until the fall of 1990; the record was released on the independent label Absolute A-Go-Go, a subsidiary company of Rough Trade. Throughout early 1991, Phish toured America; during the summer, they recorded their tierce album, as well as a set of roger Huntington Sessions with their old booster, the Dude of Life.
Late in August, Rough Trade collapsed, pickings Absolute A-Go-Go with it. Phish was left without a record contract, but they were presently sign-language by Elektra, which released A Picture of Nectar in February of 1992. After the album's spill, the group embarked on an extensive national term of enlistment. In the summer of 1992, Phish played a handful of shows on the first H.O.R.D.E. tour. Also that summer, Elektra reissued Lawn Boy and Military junta. Break, the band's fourth album and the showtime they recorded with a manufacturer, appeared in February of 1993. During Phish's 1993 spell, the grouping sold tickets that were specifically designed for fans tape the concert, a major gesture of goodwill. Wind, the band's fifth album, was released in 1994; one of its songs, "Low with Disease," became the band's first-class honours degree video and standard some airplay on MTV. Hoist sold better than the group's previous albums, which was an indication of how big the group's fan basis had gotten. In the fall of 1994, Crimes of the Mind, the record album Phish recorded with the Dude of Life in 1991, was released on Elektra Records.
In the summertime of 1995, the band released the bivalent live album A Live One, which attempted to definitively capture the Phish concert experience. In early 1996, Trey Anastasio released a free form idle words incline project called Surrender to the Air. In the fall of 1996, Phish released their sixth album, Billystick Breathes, which was produced by Steve Lillywhite and garnered the group's topper reviews thus far. Slip, Stitch & Pass, their second live LP, followed in 1997, and the undermentioned year, the radical resurfaced with the studio effort Account of the Ghost. The six-disc Lionel Hampton Comes Alive, capturing 4 good live sets all over the course of two nights, appeared in late 1999 and went amber, a testament to their rabid following.
Phish's popularity only grew during the last half of the '90s, and their never-ending touring had helped make water them indisputably one of the top concert draws in the nation. In the spring of 2000, Phish delivered the pastoral studio effort Farmhouse, which was hailed as one of their finest and tightest to date; they likewise landed some mainstream photo thanks to the individual "Heavy Things." However, spent by touring and separation from their families, Phish decided to take up an extended break, announcing a irregular separation in October 2000. A month afterward, Elektra reissued The Siket Disc, which was antecedently available only through mail order; it featured improvisational tracks from the band's 1997 Tarradiddle of the Ghost roger Sessions.
Each member branched extinct into different direction with by and large successful results during this period of time. Anastasio released a serial of demos ahead draw up with Primus bassist Les Claypool and former Police drummer Stewart Copeland for their eccentric Oysterhead project. Despite all the touring he assign into these projects, he also released an eponymous solo album during the outpouring of 2002. Jonathan Fishman worked with his side throw Pork Tornado and the touring jazz jazz band Jazz Mandolin Project. Page McConnell released the first-class honours degree few recordings from his former band, Vida Blue, as well as contributed keyboards to Tenacious D's low gear record. Mike Gordon did some work with friend and other employer Col. Bruce Hampton and splashed in photographic film exploit both in presence of and behind the camera. And both Gordon and McConnell worked on Gov't Mule's The Deep End, Vol. 1.
As for the isthmus, Phish was more a piece of American acculturation than ever so when they made an appearance on The Simpsons before releasing a massive set of live albums and a DVD in the spring of 2002. By the end of the year, the group bowing to pressing and came back with the annunciation that they would begin to play live again starting at the end of December. They played shows through the following year and a half, then distinct to officially call it quits in the summer of 2004 after the button of Undermind and the following support duty tour. This didn't bastardly, however, that more albums couldn't be released, and the next year their 1995 New Year's Eve concert at Madison Square Gardens came out, followed in 2006 by Live in Brooklyn, which was recorded on June 17, 2004 on Coney Island.
