This week’s Phish song is Halloween themed, because Halloween is the spookiest and therefore best holiday! Phish sometimes plays a show on Halloween and in the spirt of the holiday, “wears” a musical costume. That is, they will cover an entire album. Beginning in 1994, they have since played 10 Halloween shows! Here is the complete run-down of the years and the albums they covered:
1994: The White Album by The Beatles1995: Quadrophenia by The Who
1996: Remain In Light by The Talking Heads
1998: Loaded by The Velvet UndergroundNOTE – In 1998 it was rumored that they would cover “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd for Halloween. While they instead covered Loaded, they would go on to cover Dark Side of the Moon two nights later on Nov. 2, 1998.
2009: Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones
2010: Waiting For Columbus by Little Feat
2013: Wingsuit by Phish (“Wingsuit” was a collection of new songs by Phish that had yet to be played. Instead of covering a classic rock album, Phish performed a cover of their future selves. Many of these songs ended up on the 2014 Phish album “Fuego”)
2014: The Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of The Haunted House by Walt Disney Records (This album contains short, spooky stories and sound effects to which Phish added their own music, using the sound effects as samples and/or inspiration)
2016: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie
2018: í Rokk by Kasvot Växt (Kasvot Växt is a Scandinavian prog rock band from the 1980s, or so we were told. Turns out the band and album were completely made up. Phish made up the band, band members, albums, and a whole back story. Instead, the band performed original Phish music written and played in the style of an 80s prog-rock band)
I think the entire sets for most of the Halloween shows are on youtube. I didn’t want sent out a bunch of 90 minute youtube videos, so here is one song from most of the Halloween shows (couldn’t always find a quality video).
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1994): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3alrPKnKZ14
Born Under Punches (1996): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf1FGFKD0UQ
Spanish Moon (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lHtcAGuc40
Wombat (2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-lmVFLeTbM
Martian Monster (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOMSOAOwQYc
Rock N Roll Suicide (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsUhnigqVUw
The Final Hurrah (2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DIbUa2RClM
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