Live Phish, Vol. 07

• Artist: Phish
• Rating:
• Release Date: April 16, 2002
• Type: Live, Box set
• Genre: Rock

Review

The seventh volume of Phish's Live Phish series, and the first in the second batch, captures the band at the height of their listening powers. It is highly representative of the kind of music the band was making live between 1992 and 1994: funny, fast, stylistically diverse, conceptual, well rehearsed, and musically hooked up, if not a taste immature. The show was recorded near the end of the band's first tour of major amphitheaters (many of which were half-empty for the bulk of the tour). The energy over the three discs is raw and palpable and is filled with sudden left turns (in tempo, key, and even time signature) that could only come as the result of years of dedicated hard work. Densely composed songs such as the fugue-like "Guelah Papyrus," "It's Ice," and "You Enjoy Myself" move with a nearly breathtaking fluidity. The improvisations -- such as the long second-set sequence that connects the band's own "Run Like an Antelope" with the Who's "Sparks," the James Gang's "Walk Away," and the Mighty Diamonds' "Have Mercy" -- are schizophrenic and hyper, but also absolutely enthralling if one is willing to surrender to their momentum. The liner notes, which contain excerpts from bassist Mike Gordon's journal entry from the night of the show, offer penetrating insight into the way the band thought about themselves, speaking of intraband communication, Zen awareness, and the day-to-day life of a working band on the road. In many ways, it is the band's sense of humor that guided their collective sensibility and allowed them to simultaneously follow interesting musical whims (odd rhythmic forays into reggae, for example, through the second set), as well as defuse the pretensions that many of their prog rock tendencies might otherwise lead to. ~ Jesse Jarnow, All Music Guide

Tracks

CD 1

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Chalk Dust Torture (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall	Phish	(6:16)
Guelah Papyrus (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall	Phish	(6:07)
The Divided Sky	Trey Anastasio	Phish	(15:01)
The Horse	Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall	Phish	(2:06)
Silent in the Morning (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall	Phish	(4:51)
It's Ice (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall	Phish	(9:01)
Sparkle (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall	Phish	(3:46)
Split Open and Melt (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio	Phish	(12:35)
Esther (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio	Phish	(8:42)
Poor Heart (Lyrics)	Mike Gordon	Phish	(3:02)
Cavern (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall	Phish	(4:30)

CD 2

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
2001	Deodato	Phish	(4:20)
Run Like an Antelope (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, The Dude of Life	Phish	(12:50)
Sparks	Pete Townshend	Phish	(2:39)
Walk Away	Joe Walsh	Phish	(3:37)
Tinley Park Jam	Trey Anastasio, Jonathan Fishman, Page McConnell, Mike Gordon	Phish	(4:21)
Run Like an Antelope (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, The Dude of Life	Phish	(2:14)
Have Mercy	Lloyd Ferguson, Fitzroy Simpson, Donald "Tabby" Shaw	Phish	(3:05)
Run Like an Antelope (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, The Dude of Life	Phish	(2:00)
Mound (Lyrics)	Mike Gordon	Phish	(5:44)
The Squirming Coil	Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall	Phish	(9:53)
Daniel Saw the Stone	Traditional	Phish	(3:20)

CD 3

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
You Enjoy Myself (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio	Phish	(20:16)
Purple Rain (Lyrics)	Prince	Phish	(6:52)
Golgi Apparatus (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, Mike Szuter, Tom Marshall	Phish	(5:42)
La Grange	Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill	Phish	(4:58)
Mike's Song (Lyrics)	Mike Gordon	Phish	(12:19)
The Great Gig in the Sky	Roger Waters, Rick Wright	Phish	(5:27)
Weekapaug Groove (Lyrics)	Trey Anastasio, Jonathan Fishman, Page McConnell, Mike Gordon	Phish	(11:57)

Credits

Phish (Main Performer), Trey Anastasio (?), Jonathan Fishman (?), Page McConnell (?), Kevin Shapiro (?), Jim Pollock (Artwork), Jim Pollock (Illustrations), Mike Gordon (?), Paul Languedoc (Engineer), Jason Colton (Management), John Paluska (Management)