Shows, setlists, jams and stories from Phish in 1995. Here are 30 of our 47 1995 questions. Tap an answer to play right here, or jump into a 10-question set. Every answer links to the source it was checked against.
Where did the title of Phish's 1995 live album A Live One come from?
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A question fans kept asking the band. Fans constantly asked when Phish would put out "a live one," so the band obliged. It became their first RIAA-certified album and eventually went platinum.
Since 2010, Phish has spent nearly every New Year's Eve at which arena?
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Madison Square Garden. The exceptions were 2014, when the band rang in the new year in Miami, and the pandemic years. Phish had also played MSG on New Year's Eve in 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2002.
Phish's set-closing cover "A Day in the Life" comes from which Beatles album?
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Phish debuted the song at Red Rocks in 1995. It vanished during the 2.0 era and came back at the Hampton reunion on March 7, 2009.
During the 1995 fall tour chess game against the audience, which band member made Phish's moves on the giant board?
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Page. Page climbed a ladder beside a big chess board on the backdrop to move the band's pieces, starting at Shoreline Amphitheatre on September 30, 1995.
In Fort Worth in October 1995, Phish played its first-ever cover of a David Bowie song. Which one?
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Life on Mars?. The band already had an original song called 'David Bowie,' but this was its first actual Bowie cover. The fall tour had kicked off in California on September 27.
The roughly 50-minute, set-swallowing 'Tweezer' of June 14, 1995 is nicknamed after the venue's location. What is that nickname?
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The Mud Island Tweezer. Played in Memphis, the Mud Island 'Tweezer' ate up most of the second set, and phish.net lists it as the longest 'Tweezer' on its jam chart.
Fans call the 45-minute 'Tweezer' from June 22, 1995 in Canandaigua, New York the 'FLeezer.' What does the 'FL' stand for?
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Finger Lakes. Canandaigua sits in New York's Finger Lakes region. That night the jam ran about 45 minutes, included a 'My Generation' jam, and had Fish on vacuum.
Which song, an Al Green original made famous by Talking Heads, debuted inside 'David Bowie' on November 21, 1995 in Winston-Salem?
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Take Me to the River. The 'Bowie' went into the debut 'Take Me to the River' and came back out again, and phish.net's jam chart praises the thunderous exploration that came after.
What happened during the 'Rotation Jam' inside 'Mike's Song' at Hampton on November 25, 1995?
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The band swapped instruments. In a Rotation Jam the band members switch instruments mid-jam, and phish.net calls this Hampton version fall '95 at its finest.
Before Phish revealed its Halloween 1995 album, it faked out the crowd with teases of which pop star's music?
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Michael Jackson. During the first set's 'Harpua,' Trey teased 'Beat It,' which led fans to believe the band would play Thriller. More Michael Jackson fake-outs played over the P.A. before the second set.
What opened the third set at Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve 1995?
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The Phish Time Factory. The band, dressed as scientists, played synths as lights flashed and Van de Graaff generators sparked, and Fish was lifted as Father Time and reborn as Baby New Year.
At Columbus on July 15, 2000, a big rocking 'Down with Disease' flowed neatly into a cover of which Beatles song?
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Phish had also played the George Harrison song at Mud Island in 1995, but this one came straight out of a 26-minute 'Disease.'