Live Phish Volume 7

Infobox Album |
Name = Live Phish Vol. 7
Type = Live Album
Artist = Phish (Live Series)


Released = April 16, 2002
Recorded = August 14, 1993
Length = 2:47:48
29:43 (Filler)
Genre = Rock
Label = Elektra
Producer = Phish
Last album = "Live Phish Volume 6"
(2001)
This album = "Live Phish Volume 7"
(2002)
Next album = "Live Phish Volume 8"
(2002)

"Live Phish Vol. 7" was recorded live at the World Music Theater in Tinley Park, Illinois, on August 14, 1993.

Almost immediately, this concert became a sought after collectors item on the Phish bootleg circuit, as it seemed to define an era when Phish began breaking down many of its live performance boundaries. Whereas most shows before 1993 contained a distinct set of songs with specifically placed jams, many concerts in the summer of 1993 saw Phish experimenting with song segues and improvisation within sections of songs that were once tightly structured.

Here, the band floats in and out of "Run Like an Antelope" through most of the second set, switching from on-the-spot instrumental forays to unique and rare cover songs, all within the context of "Run Like an Antelope." Shortly after a massive jam session in "You Enjoy Myself," drummer Jon Fishman provides a bit of comic relief with a performance of Prince's "Purple Rain."

Track listing

Disc one

# "Chalk Dust Torture" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 6:16
# "Guelah Papyrus" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 6:07
# "The Divided Sky" (Anastasio) - 15:01
# "The Horse" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 2:06
# "Silent in the Morning" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 4:51
# "It's Ice" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 9:01
# "Sparkle" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:46
# "Split Open and Melt" (Anastasio) - 12:35
# "Esther" (Anastasio) - 8:42
# "Poor Heart" (Gordon) - 3:02
# "Cavern" (Anastasio, Herman, Marshall) - 4:30

Disc two

# "2001" (Deodato) - 4:20
# "Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Marshall, Pollak) - 12:50
# "Sparks" (Townshend) - 2:39
# "Walk Away" (Walsh) - 3:37
# "Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Marshall, Pollak) - 2:14
# "Have Mercy" (Ferguson, Shaw, Simpson) - 3:05
# "Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Marshall, Pollak) - 2:00
# "Mound" (Gordon) - 5:44
# "The Squirming Coil" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 9:53
# "Daniel Saw the Stone" (Traditional) - 3:20

Disc three

"Tracks 5 - 7 recorded August 11, 1993 at Club Eastbrook in Grand Rapids, Michigan."
# "You Enjoy Myself" (Anastasio) - 20:16
# "Purple Rain" (Prince) - 6:52
# "Golgi Apparatus" (Anastasio, Marshall, Szuter, Woolf) - 5:42
# "La Grange" (Beard, Gibbons, Hill) - 4:58
# "Mike's Song" (Gordon) - 12:19
# "The Great Gig in the Sky" (Torry, Wright) - 5:27
# "Weekapaug Groove" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 11:57

Personnel

*Trey Anastasio - guitars, vocals
*Page McConnell - piano, organ, vocals
*Mike Gordon - bass, vocals
*Jon Fishman - drums, vocals