Fallout from the Phil Zone

Infobox Album | Name = Fallout from the Phil Zone
Type = Live album
Artist = The Grateful Dead


Released = June, 1997
Recorded = September 3, 1967 - March 18, 1995
Genre = Classic rock
Length = 2:3:52
Label = Grateful Dead Records
Producer = John Cutler and Phil Lesh
| Last album = "Dick's Picks Volume 7"
(1997)
This album = "Fallout from the Phil Zone"
(1997)
Next album = "Dick's Picks Volume 8"
(1997)

"Fallout from the Phil Zone" is a double compilation album of live recordings by the Grateful Dead handpicked by the band's bassist Phil Lesh. It contains the first Grateful Dead CD releases of "In the Midnight Hour" (clocking in at over 30 minutes) and Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna". The album is named for the so-called "Phil Zone", an area directly in front of the bass amps onstage. A small group of fans would stand there every concert, feeling the vibrations of Lesh's bass.

Track listing

Disc one

#"Dancing in the Streets" (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Joe Hunter, William Stevenson) – 11:44
#"New Speedway Boogie" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 8:08
#"Viola Lee Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 19:46
#"Easy Wind" (R. Hunter) – 8:06
#"Mason's Children" (R. Hunter, Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir) – 6:09
#"Hard to Handle" (Alvertis Isbell, Allen Jones, Otis Redding) – 7:36

Disc two

#"The Music Never Stopped" (John Barlow, Weir) – 8:56
#"Jack-A-Roe" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:55
#"In the Midnight Hour" (Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett) – 31:53
#"Visions of Johanna" (Bob Dylan) – 10:26
#"Box of Rain" (R. Hunter, Lesh) – 5:13

Personnel

*Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, vocals
*Bob Weir - rhythm guitar, vocals
*Phil Lesh - bass guitar, vocals
*Bill Kreutzmann - drums
*Mickey Hart - drums (except disc 1, track 6 and disc 2, track 3)
*Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - harmonica, organ, vocals (disc 1, tracks 1-2, 4 and 6 and disc 2, track 3)
*Tom Constanten - organ (disc 1, tracks 3 and 5)
*Brent Mydland - keyboards, vocals (disc 2, tracks 1 and 5)
*Keith Godchaux - piano (disc 2, track 2)
*Vince Welnick - keyboards (disc 2, track 4)

Production

*Producers - Phil Lesh and John Cutler
*Tape archivist - Dick Latvala
*Engineer - Jeffrey Norman
*Mastering - Joe Gastwirt
*Publisher - Alan Trist
*Liner notes - Phil Lesh
*Cover art - Liquid Blue Design Department, Shawn Kennedy
*Photography - Rob Cohn
*Package design - Amy Finkle

Recording dates

*"In the Midnight Hour" recorded at Dance Hall, Rio Nido on September 3, 1967
*"Viola Lee Blues" recorded at Electric Theater, Chicago on April 26, 1969
*"Mason's Children" recorded at Fillmore East, New York on January 2, 1970
*"Dancing in the Streets" recorded at Fillmore West, San Francisco on April 12, 1970
*"New Speedway Boogie" recorded at Alfred State College (S.U.N.Y.), Alfred, New York on May 1, 1970
*"Easy Wind" recorded at Fillmore East on May 15, 1970
*"Hard to Handle" recorded at Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood on August 6, 1971
*"Jack-A-Roe" recorded at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa on May 17, 1977
*"The Music Never Stopped" recorded at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy on July 17, 1989
*"Box of Rain" recorded at Alpine Valley Music Theatre on July 19, 1989
*"Visions of Johanna" recorded at The Spectrum, Philadelphia on March 18, 1995