The Story of the Ghost
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Story of the Ghost | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Studio album by Phish | |||||
Released | October 27, 1998 (US) | ||||
Recorded | March 1997 - June 1998 | ||||
Genre | Rock | ||||
Length | 49:51 | ||||
Label | Elektra Records | ||||
Producer | Andy Wallace | ||||
Professional reviews | |||||
Phish chronology | |||||
|
The Story of the Ghost is the ninth studio album by the jam band Phish. The Story of the Ghost has been labeled as Phish's "funky" album. It was released by Elektra Records on October 27, 1998.
Much of the album was created from large-scale improvisation. Phish took the best moments of those jams and wrote songs around them. Many of the songs from this album formed the majority of their 1997 "funk" sound - the title track in particular - with Mike Gordon taking a much more pronounced role. The same sessions also produced The Siket Disc. One of the funkier tracks, "The Moma Dance", features a very similar riff to The Meters classic funk staple "Cissy Strut".
[edit] Track listing
- "Ghost" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:51
- "Birds of a Feather" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) - 4:15
- "Meat" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) - 2:39
- "Guyute" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 8:26
- "Fikus" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) - 2:20
- "Shafty" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) - 2:21
- "Limb by Limb" (Anastasio, Herman, Marshall) - 3:32
- "Frankie Says" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) - 3:06
- "Brian and Robert" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:03
- "Water in the Sky" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 2:28
- "Roggae" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) - 2:59
- "Wading in the Velvet Sea" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 4:29
- "The Moma Dance" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) - 4:28
- "End of Session" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) - 1:54
[edit] Personnel
- Trey Anastasio - guitars, vocals
- Page McConnell - keyboards, vocals
- Mike Gordon - bass, vocals
- Jon Fishman - drums, vocals