OT - Phish covered Exile on Main St. on Halloween

[secretjourneyranch]

Oh no!!!
They are going to pay homage to the greatest LP in the history of Rock n Roll.

I love the Stones more than life itself, but they couldn't even pull this off without Mick Taylor.

Phish should've stuck to something easier.

I can't listen...

[TheEqualizer]

Oh no!!!
They are going to pay homage to the greatest LP in the history of Rock n Roll.

Uh, they already did that when they had their Halloween show in Chicago and played Quadrophenia.

Seriously though, I will certainly be listening to their take on Exile. Ya gotta just keep an open mind

[secretjourneyranch]

Did they do Quad?
I didn't know that

Boy they do not shy away from the tough stuff.

Whats next?
2112 maybe?

[TheEqualizer]

Did they do Quad?

1995. The show is commercially available. It is really good. I spoke to John Entwistle once, and he said he had a copy of that show that he liked to listen in his tour bus when doing his solo shows.

[smax]

lordy, what a choice... been lovin' that album recently having only (shame) got it recently, also listening to goats head soup... great stuff....

none of the albums that made it though are that easy.... how faithfully do they do the albums? not at all or slightly or quite? what is the Quad one like, eq? >goes to look for it<

[TheEqualizer]

lordy, what a choice... been lovin' that album recently having only (shame) got it recently, also listening to goats head soup... great stuff....

none of the albums that made it though are that easy.... how faithfully do they do the albums? not at all or slightly or quite? what is the Quad one like, eq? >goes to look for it<

The White Album and Quadrophenia were attempts to faithfully replicate the albums. Remain in Light and Loaded were . . . less faithful. For example, Rock and Roll had quite an extended jam.

[TheEqualizer]

FYI

The last time they did a musical costume for Halloween, the very next night, they played another one (Loaded in Vegas on Halloween and then Dark Side of the Moon in Salt Lake City). Here's hoping that they play GITM tomorrow. Though if they do cover another album, I'm thinking its MGMT.

[TheEqualizer]

Here's a recording of all three sets from Halloween:

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=529446

Phish
Empire Polo Club
Indio, California
10/31/2009

Source: Schoeps CCM4V'S(din)>Lunatec V2>Benchmark AD2K>
Sound Devices 722 (24/48)
Location: FOB/DFC/KFC/ZFC/AARP 50' From Stage, 6' High
DSP: Sound Devices 722>Sound Forge 9.0>CD Wave>flac(16)

Disc I 1st Set

01 Samole In A Jar
02 Divided Sky
03 Lawn Boy
04 Kill Devil Falls
05 Bathtub Gin


Disc II 1st Set Con't

01 Squirming Coil
02 Runaway Jim >
03 Possum
04 Run Like An Antelope

Disc III 2nd Set

01 PA Music
02 *Rocks Off >
03 *Rip This Joint
04 *Shake Your Hips
05 Casino Boogie
06 *#Tumblin' Dice
07 *#Sweet Virginia
08 Torn And Frayed
09 *@Sweet Black Angel
10 *#Lovin' Cup

Disc IV 2nd Set Con't

01 *#Happy
02 *#Turd On The Run
03 *#Ventilator Blues >
04 #I Just Want To See His Face
05 #Let It Loose
06 All Down The Line
07 *#Stop Breakin' Down
08 *#Shine A Light
09 *#Soul Survivor

Disc V 3rd Set

01 Backwards Down The Number Line >
02 Fluff Head >
03 Ghost >
04 When The Circus Comes To Town
05 You Enjoy Myself
Encore:
06 Suzy Greenberg

* With David Guy, Tony JArvis, and David Smith on Horns
# With Sharon Jones and Saundra Williams On Vocals
@ Trey On Acoustic Guitar

[TheEqualizer]

From Rolling Stone

QUOTE

Phish Cover the Rolling Stones’ “Exile on Main Street” at Festival 8

11/1/09, 4:29 am EST

Combining two of their most beloved traditions for the first time — the multi-day festival and the Halloween album “costume” — Phish got their rocks off at their Festival 8 in Indio, California, during the second of a three-day set with a crushing start-to-finish version of the Rolling Stones‘ classic Exile On Main Street. Just a day earlier, Stones frontman Mick Jagger took the stage himself 3,000 miles away, joining U2 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York.

Under pristine conditions at the Empire Polo Field and in front of a devoted Phish crowd of 40,000 fans, the Vermont foursome rollicked in Exile’s swamp blues and roadhouse country, extending several songs with their own jams, highlighted by a spacey interlude between “Ventilator Blues” into the gospel-esque “I Just Want to See His Face.” Special guests Sharon Jones and three horn players (one, trumpeter David Guy is a Dap King) added their own flourishes (horns to “Sweet Black Angel”), and each band member took lead vocal turns. Incredibly, four of the double album’s songs made their big-stage live debut —”Soul Survivor,” a scorching “Casino Boogie,” “Turd On the Run” and the flickering ballad “Let It Loose” — having never been performed by the Stones themselves. The set clocked in at nearly a 100 minutes, 33 more than the actual album.

It was perhaps the safest, most durable album choice for the band to tackle — they’ve played the bar-room sing-along “Loving Cup” in their own sets for years — narrowing it down from a list of 99 in September. On their Website the band vowed to play “the last album alive” where albums that didn’t make the cut “killed off” by an ax or arrow.

Besides Exile, the final contenders were Radiohead’s Kid A, Genesis’ epic Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, King Crimson’s Lark Tongues in Aspic, Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix, Prince’s Purple Rain, Hunky Dory by David Bowie and a nod to the kids, MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular.

But like previous Halloweens, where they’ve covered works by the Beatles and the Who, Phish stuck with a formative favorite — lead guitarist Trey Anastasio said he first heard the album in a friend’s dorm in the late ’70s.

For the night’s finale, the band performed a monster closing set that included faves “Fluffhead,” “Ghost” and “YEM” capped off a with sinister vocal jam augmented by giant flamethrowers shooting off in the concert field. Sharon Jones and Co. returned for some more vocal fireworks on a blistering encore of “Suzy Greenberg.” A hot night in the desert all around.

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[smax]

[quote="TheEqualizer"]

For the night’s finale, the band performed a monster closing set that included faves “Fluffhead,” “Ghost” and “YEM” capped off a with sinister vocal jam augmented by giant flamethrowers shooting off in the concert field.

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heh heh, cool... i assume "shooting off" refers to flame throwing and not something else!

thanks for the info Eq.