Twenty years after its release; Phishs double-CD collection A Live One has something rare and precious going for it: it still doesnt sound like anybody else. Oversized; perverse; requiring an unusual amount of listener background knowledge? Yes to all. Yet the collective improvisations it captures; unprecedentedly coherent yet freewheeling and open-ended; are unique in rock n roll.This book considers the music and moment of Phishs ecstatically inventive 1995 live document; a mix of weirdo acid-psych; ambient moonscapes; vaudevillian Americana; and riotous arena-rock energy; all filtered through bandleader Trey Anastasios screwball compositional sensibility and the bands idiosyncratic approach to spontaneous group creativity. It places Phish and their fandom in historical and cultural context; and picks apart the mechanics of their extended group jams. And it examines the mystery of how a quartet of nice boys from Burlington; VT could have been; all at once; one of Americas biggest touring acts and one of its best-kept secrets.
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