Live Phish Volume 9


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. Live Phish Vol. 9 marked the first time that "Colonel Forbin's Ascent", "Fly Famous Mockingbird", "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters", and "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday" had appeared on a commercially available Phish release.
This 1989 show saw Phish enmeshed in a 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
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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

  1. "Fluffhead" - 15:23
  2. "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" - 7:13
  3. "Fly Famous Mockingbird" - 7:20
  4. "Harry [Hood (song)|Harry Hood]" - 10:21
  5. "Split Open and Melt" - 7:13
  6. "The Divided Sky" - 12:08

    Disc two

  7. "You Enjoy Myself" - 14:50
  8. "Possum" - 7:18
  10. "The [Andy Griffith Show Theme|Andy Griffith Theme]" - 1:53
  11. "Bold as [Love (song)|Bold as Love]" - 4:59
  12. "Ya Mar" - 6:34
  13. "Slave to the Traffic Light" - 6:20
  14. "AC/DC Bag" - 6:41
  15. "Donna Lee" - 4:29
  16. "Funky Bitch" - 5:09
  17. "Foam" - 6:34

    Disc three

  18. "David Bowie" - 14:45
  20. "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday" - 3:31
  21. "Avenu Malcanu" - 3:32
  22. "Suzy Greenberg" - 6:20
  23. "Dinner and a Movie" - 3:57
  24. "Run Like an Antelope" - 13:47
  26. "Contact" - 6:12
  27. "The Lizards" - 9:35
  28. "La Grange" - 4:50
Filler from 9/12/89:
  1. "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters" - 9:29

    Personnel