A LIVE ONE

To those who say that the true genius of Phish lies in their live concerts, this is documentation to prove that hypothesis. As good as many of these songs may be as studio recordings, it's in the live performances that the band takes them as far as they can possibly go. Foe example, Stash on "A Picture Of Nectar" is a wonderful song, but stretched out another five minutes, with the band jamming away in eerie synchonization, it becomes a masterpiece. The same can be said even more about Tweezer, a slightly longer but somewhat inconsequential song on the same album which here travels far into space and becomes a thirty minute epic by the time it finds it's way back home.

It's just too bad that it was around this time that the Phishheads, Deadheads, and whateverelseheads made it just about impossible to get to a Phish concert. I'm glad I was able to see them play many times before they got to that point.

By the way, my copy is an advance release CD from Elektra, coming out over a month before the release date. At this point, the album was titles "Phish Live". But it's the same album.