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unusual facts about Phish: Live in Brooklyn



Al Green Explores Your Mind

"Take Me To The River" has been covered by several other performers including Talking Heads (on 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food), Ron Fleeger & The Stranger, Al's label mate Syl Johnson, Levon Helm, Annie Lennox, Toni Childs, Max on the Rox, Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Bryan Ferry, Delbert McClinton, Maná, The Commitments, Foghat, Gov't Mule, Phish and Eva Cassidy.

Artemus James

February 1 of 2012, Valley Young began recording their debut studio EP, Year of the Bear, and album, Upright In The Sunlight, with producer Bryce Goggin (Phish, Pavement, Akron/Family, The Lemonheads) at Trout Recording in Brooklyn, NY.

Ayotte Drums

A number of drummers endorse or have endorsed Ayotte drums, including Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, Ryan Vikedal of Nickelback, Jon Fishman of Phish and Jeremy Taggart of Our Lady Peace.

Bathtub gin

The band Phish has a song titled "Bathtub Gin" that was originally released on the album Lawn Boy.

Bivouac Jaun

Bivouac Jaun is a project recorded in the Autumn of 1983 featuring Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, Phish lyricist Tom Marshall, and one-time Phish percussionist Marc Daubert.

Most of these tracks would appear in a remixed fashion on the first Phish album (known as The White Tape), which would circulate in various versions starting in 1986.

Darius Washington, Jr.

The song "The Line" by Phish was written about the missed free throws at the conclusion of the 2005 C-USA Championship game.

Gone Phishin

The album features reworked instrumental versions of songs from three Phish albums: Rift, A Picture of Nectar and The Story of the Ghost.

Harveys Outdoor Arena

Artists including Phish, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Luis Miguel and others have performed in this "open-air stage".

HP Hood

The company and their logo served as somewhat of an inspiration to the popular Phish tune "Harry Hood".

Joseph Linitz

Joseph "Joe" Linitz (born 1965) is an American lyricist whose songs, co-written with Phish bassist Mike Gordon, include the title track from Phish's Round Room and Train Song from Billy Breathes.

Live Phish Downloads: Headphones Jam

The Jam was first presented in November 2006 to the winner of the Phish / Sirius "Live in Brooklyn" Barn Tour Contest.

Live Phish Volume 14

The band, along with a horn section, unveiled a complete performance of The Who's Quadrophenia, led by keyboardist Page McConnell, sandwiched in between two sets of Phish's own music.

Loho Studios

Loho has recorded music for artists such as Ryan Adams, Blues Traveler, Rosanne Cash, The Heroine Sheiks, The Everly Brothers, Art Garfunkel, John Mayer, O.A.R., Lindsay Lohan, Joan Jett, Gina Gershon, Yo La Tengo, Billy Squier, Patti Smith, Phish, Joey Ramone and a host of many more, both mainstream and independent artists.

Look Out Cleveland

Phish opened their show at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH, on June 12th, 2010, with "Look Out Cleveland".

Low vs Diamond

Outside of typical jam band influences such as Dave Matthews and Phish, the group were influenced by a diversity of artists, including David Bowie, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Serge Gainsbourg, and Air.

Mountain Stage

Over the years, the show has featured such international luminaries as Phish, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien and over a hundred West Virginia artists.

Among the luminaries who appeared on Mountain Stage before they were famous or whose first national-exposure in the US on Mountain Stage are Sarah McLachlan, Norah Jones, Crash Test Dummies, Barenaked Ladies, Ben Harper, Paula Cole, Nickel Creek, Cassandra Wilson, Counting Crows, Phish and R.E.M., which is the band that gave Mountain Stage its first national exposure.

Musictoday

Capshaw's business model is that of bands like the Grateful Dead and Phish, who for years ran mail order presales of their concert tickets to their biggest fans.

Outside Out

Outside Out is the first full-length feature film from Phish bassist Mike Gordon.

Parlor Tricks

Parlor Tricks is an album from former Phish percussionist Marc Daubert, who was in Phish from the fall of 1984 to early 1985.

Pete Kovachevich

Kindred Spirit enjoyed the endorsement and played with several NYC jam band scene Illuminati including God Street Wine, The Authority, Spin Doctors, Widespread Panic, Phish, The Worms, The Jono Manson Band, Xanax 25, Milo Z, Comfort, Blues Traveler, Gov't Mule, The Dreyer Bros, The Choosy Mothers, innerSoul.

Phish: New Year's Eve 1995 – Live at Madison Square Garden

The show also includes a substantial number of songs from Phish's mythic Gamehendge cycle, many of them fan favorites that have become somewhat rare in recent years.

New Year's Eve 1995 - Live at Madison Square Garden is a live concert release by the American rock band Phish, released in 2005.

Phish: Walnut Creek

It was performed on July 22, 1997 at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre in Raleigh, North Carolina during a stormy night, the second show of their 1997 U.S. summer tour.

Pork Tornado

Pork Tornado is a band co- founded in 1997 by Phish drummer Jon Fishman and Dan Archer record producer/engineer including Phishs "Lawn Boy" (guitar, vocals), Joe Moore (saxophone, vocals), Aaron Hersey (bass, vocals), and Phil Abair (keyboards, vocals).

The group was an occasional side project for Fishman until Phish's hiatus in 2000.

Prince Caspian

The book was the inspiration for a song of the same name on the Phish album Billy Breathes.

Ramble Dove

Ramble Dove is a Burlington, Vermont-based supergroup comprising key members of that scene, instigated by Brett R. Hughes which includes Phish bassist Mike Gordon.

Rhythm Devils

The 2006 lineup of the Rhythm Devils featured drummers Kreutzmann, Hart, Phish bassist Mike Gordon, and guitarist Steve Kimock, with percussionist Sikiru Adepoju and vocalist Jen Durkin (formerly of Deep Banana Blackout.) The band formed in the summer of 2006 and toured throughout the US shortly thereafter.

Rock Phish

This report that calls them the Rock Phish gang comes from a research firm known as Gartner, supported by RSA.

Savoy Truffle

Phish covered the song as part of their cover of the entire The Beatles on Halloween 1994, which was released as Live Phish Volume 13.

Sea and Sand

The song was memorably treated by keyboardist Page McConnell of the jam band Phish in their 1995 concert album, Phish: New Year's Eve 1995 - Live at Madison Square Garden.

Specimens of Beauty

Directed by famed photographer Danny Clinch, the film shows the techniques used by the band and album producer Tchad Blake, as Phish records what was to be their final album.

The Dude of Life

The Dude of Life has released two studio albums: Crimes of the Mind (recorded in 1991), which featured Phish as his backing band, and the 1999 release Under the Sound Umbrella with a different backing band, featuring appearances by Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman.

The Great Gig in the Sky

Phish also does a live cover on track 6 of disc 3 of Live Phish Vol. 7.

The Lucius Beebe EP

The EP features live versions of three songs from The Horseshoe Curve and two songs from Anastasio's 2004 classical release Seis De Mayo along with special guest appearances by Phish drummer Jon Fishman and jazz keyboardist John Medeski.

The McLovins

The band toured locally in Southern New England playing a mixture of covers and their own original compositions, though it was a video cover of Phish's "You Enjoy Myself" that gained them attention on YouTube.

The Rhythm Devils Concert Experience

The Rhythm Devils Concert Experience is a 2008 two-disc DVD concert and documentary of the Rhythm Devils 2006 tour, featuring members of the Grateful Dead, Phish, The Other Ones, and Deep Banana Blackout.

Todd Phillips

Phillips' documentary film Bittersweet Motel centered on the jam band Phish, it covered the band's summer and fall 1997 tours, plus footage from their 1998 spring tour of Europe.

Tony Markellis

In the late 1990s, Markellis became the first member of the first solo band of Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, forming the rhythm section with drummer Russ Lawton.

Varun Agarwal

After finishing his graduation he briefly worked as a director for Phat Phish Films and at the young age of 21 he directed Bollywood Superstars Preity Zinta and AR Rahman in music videos.

Waiting for Columbus

On 31 October 2010, American rock band Phish covered Waiting for Columbus in its entirety as their "musical costume" for their Halloween show at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

Phish covered the song live, along with the rest of the The Beatles, and released it on Live Phish Volume 13.

Yamaha AN1x

The AN1x has been used by several artists, including Jean Michel Jarre, Psyclon Nine, History Of Guns, Velvet Acid Christ, Nine Inch Nails, Nitin Sawhney, Phish, Igor Khoroshev of YES, Spacehotel, Daniel Ruppar of Down In The Lab, and Jacob Thiele of The Faint.


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