A Live One

For the Loudon Wainwright III album, see A Live One (Loudon Wainwright III album).
A Live One
Live album by Phish
Released June 27, 1995 (US)
Recorded July 8–December 31, 1994
Genre Jam rock, jazz fusion
Length 131:04
Label Elektra
Producer Phish
Phish chronology

Hoist
(1994)
A Live One
(1995)
Stash
(1996)
Singles from A Live One
  1. "Bouncing Around the Room"
    Released: 1995
  2. "Gumbo"
    Released: 1995
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]
The Village Voice C+[3]

A Live One is a live album by the American rock band Phish, released on June 27, 1995, by Elektra Records. The album was the band's first official live release.

Each track on the album was recorded at a different live show in the United States during Phish's 1994 summer and fall tours. Several of the songs have never appeared on studio albums and the track "Montana" is not really a song, but actually a two-minute excerpt from the longform improvisation that followed “Tweezer” during the band's show in Bozeman, Montana.[4] On A Live One, "Montana" serves as a prelude to the epic "You Enjoy Myself", one of the most well-known versions of that song.

Phish received its first RIAA award for the album. The RIAA certified the album gold on November 10, 1995, and platinum on October 9, 1997.[5]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall, except where noted.

Disc one

  1. "Bouncing Around the Room" – 4:08
  2. "Stash" – 12:31
  3. "Gumbo" (Anastasio, Jon Fishman) – 5:14
  4. "Montana" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 2:04
  5. "You Enjoy Myself" (Anastasio) – 20:57
  6. "Chalk Dust Torture" – 6:48
  7. "Slave to the Traffic Light" (Dave Abrahams, Anastasio, Steve Pollak) – 10:46

Disc two

  1. "Wilson" (Anastasio, Marshall, Aaron Woolf) – 5:07
  2. "Tweezer" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 30:55
  3. "Simple" (Gordon) – 4:53
  4. "Harry Hood" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Brian Long, McConnell) – 15:11
  5. "The Squirming Coil" – 12:30

Personnel

Phish

Trey Anastasio – guitars, vocals
Page McConnell – keyboards, vocals
Mike Gordon – bass guitar, vocals
Jon Fishman – drums, vocals

with The Giant Country Horns (on "Gumbo")

Peter Apfelbaum – tenor saxophone
Carl Gerhard – trumpet
Dave Grippo – alto saxophone
James Harvey – trombone
Michael Ray – trumpet

Recording dates

References

  1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011). "A Live One - Phish | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
  2. Moon, Tom (2011). "Phish: A Live One : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". web.archive.org. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
  3. Christgau, Robert (1995). "Turkey Shoot". The Village Voice (November 28) (New York). Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  4. Phish.net Song History: Montana Online. Accessed: August 23, 2011.
  5. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH

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