Live Phish Volume 9

Infobox Album |
Name = Live Phish Vol. 9
Type = Live Album
Artist = Phish (Live Series)


Released = April 16, 2002
Recorded = August 26, 1989
Length = 3:10:54
Genre = Rock
Label = Elektra
Producer = Phish
Last album = "Live Phish Volume 8"
(2002)
This album = "Live Phish Volume 9"
(2002)
Next album = "Live Phish Volume 10"
(2002)

"Live Phish Vol. 9" was recorded live at the Townshend Family Park in Townshend, Vermont on August 26, 1989.

When the band begin choosing concerts for the Live Phish Series, guitarist Trey Anastasio required at least one release from the 1980s. This three-set concert, performed late on a summer afternoon in August, seems to be the most fitting representation of 1980s Phish since almost all of the band's concert staples from the era are represented.

1989 was the height of Phish's progressive rock phase, as many multi-part epics and large scale compositions are littered throughout, beginning with the show-opening "Fluffhead" suite. At the end of the second set, Anastasio announces that the band is going to "let the sun go down a little" before returning to the stage for the final set, which ends with a blazing version of ZZ Top's "La Grange."

This concert, one of the longest Phish concerts of 1989, is seen by many fans as a defining record of the band's tightly-structured progressive rock period.

Track listing

Disc one

# "Fluffhead" (Anastasio, Pollak) - 15:23
# "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" (Anastasio) - 7:13
# "Fly Famous Mockingbird" (Anastasio) - 7:20
# "Harry Hood" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Long, McConnell) - 10:21
# "Split Open and Melt" (Anastasio) - 7:13
# "The Divided Sky" (Anastasio) - 12:08

Disc two

# "You Enjoy Myself" (Anastasio) - 14:50
# "Possum" (Holdsworth) - 7:18
# "Andy Griffith Theme" (Hagen, Spencer) - 1:53
# "Bold as Love" (Hendrix) - 4:59
# "Ya Mar" (Ferguson) - 6:34
# "Slave to the Traffic Light" (Abrahams, Anastasio, Pollak) - 6:20
# "AC/DC Bag" (Anastasio) - 6:41
# "Donna Lee" (Parker) - 4:29
# "Funky Bitch" (Seals) - 5:09
# "Foam" (Anastasio) - 6:34

Disc three

# "David Bowie" (Anastasio) - 14:45
# "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday" (Anastasio) - 3:31
# "Avenu Malcanu" (Traditional) - 3:32
# "Suzy Greenberg" (Anastasio, Pollak) - 6:20
# "Dinner and a Movie" (Anastsio, Pollak) - 3:57
# "Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Marshall, Pollak) - 13:47
# "Contact" (Gordon) - 6:12
# "The Lizards" (Anastasio) - 9:35
# "La Grange" (Beard, Gibbons, Hill) - 4:50

Personnel

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