''Live Phish Vol. 10'' was recorded live at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in

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on June 22, 1994. Some Phish hobbyists advance that the concert ranks among the five best the band has ever played, although the weight of reliable authority holds otherwise. It features the band on their 1994 summer tour. The group plays an experimental version of "

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," interpolating an early version of the Mike Gordon staple "Simple" and a jam based on the bass line and melody of

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's "

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," as well as a version of the rarely-played "Icculus." Bonus tracks include two songs from the Murat Theater in

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on June 24, 1994. Before the second set begins with " 2001",

Trey Anastasio Ernest Joseph "Trey" Anastasio III (born September 30, 1964) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish o ...

informs the audience of the current score of Game 7 of the 1994 NBA Finals ("First quarter, Houston by 5"). The game is also mentioned during the Icculus narration ("Even if you're playing in the NBA finals, and you're winning by 5 points, ..you'd damn well better read the

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!"), and once more at the very end of the show ("After the third quarter: the Knicks 60, Houston 63!"). Apparently, this was in reference to a particularly tall (6'10"), and stoic fan in a Rockets jersey in the guitarist’s sightline who had been jotting notes down throughout the show.

Track listing

Disc one

:''Set one:'' #"Llama" (

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) - 4:33 #"Guelah Papyrus" (Anastasio,

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) - 5:44 #"Rift" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 6:04 #"

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" (Anastasio, Fishman) - 4:31 #"Maze" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 10:22 #"If I Could" (Anastasio) - 5:38 #"Scent of a Mule" (

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) - 6:58 #"Stash" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 10:58 #"Golgi Apparatus" (Anastasio, Marshall, Szuter, Woolf) - 4:46

Disc two

:''Set two:'' #" 2001" (

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, arr. Deodato) - 4:45 #"

" (Gordon) - 6:20 #"Simple" (Gordon) - 3:00 #"Catapult" (Gordon) - 2:09 #"Simple" (Gordon) - 3:53 #"Icculus" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:41 #"Simple" (Gordon) - 1:52 #"Mike's Song" (Gordon) - 1:01 #"I Am Hydrogen" (Anastasio, Daubert, Marshall) - 3:08 #"Weekapaug Groove" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 3:35 #"The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday" (Anastasio) - 2:35 #" Avenu Malkenu" (Traditional) - 3:08 #"The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday" (Anastasio) - 2:48 #"Fluffhead" (Anastasio,

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) - 14:36 #"My Sweet One" (Fishman) - 3:59

Disc three

:''Set two, continued:'' #"Big Ball Jam" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 2:35 #"Jesus Just Left Chicago" (

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, Gibbons,

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) - 10:20 #"

Sample in a Jar "Sample in a Jar" is a song by the American band Phish. On the surface, the lyrics seem to deal with a relationship argument while intoxicated. In The Phish Book, Trey mentioned that the song is “basically about sitting in a car with the se ...

" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 6:03 :''Encore:'' #

"Carolina" (Traditional) - 1:40 #"

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" (Anastasio, Herman, Marshall) - 4:47 :''Filler (June 24, 1994, Murat Theater,

):'' #

"Demand" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 2:29 #"Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Marshall, Pollak) - 19:57

Personnel

- guitars, lead vocals, co-lead vocals on "Rift", acapella vocals on "Carolina" *

Page McConnell Page Samuel McConnell (born May 17, 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American multi-instrumentalist most noted for his work as the keyboardist and a songwriter for the band Phish. In addition to having been a member of Phish since 1985, ...

- piano, organ, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Rift", lead vocals on "Jesus Just Left Chicago" acapella vocals on "Carolina" *

Mike Gordon Michael Eliot Gordon (born June 3, 1965) is an American bass guitarist and vocalist most recognized as a founding member of the band Phish. In addition to bass, Gordon is an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano and guitar. He ...

- bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Scent of a Mule", "Mike's Song" and "Catapult", acapella vocals on "Carolina" *

Jon Fishman Jon Fishman (born February 19, 1965) is an American drummer known for his work with the band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983, and which was, in part, named after him. He is credited with co-writing nineteen Phish songs, eight with a solo cr ...

- drums, backing vocals, acapella vocals on "Carolina"

References

{{Authority control 10 2002 live albums Elektra Records live albums