Shows, setlists, jams and stories from Phish in 1998. Here are 30 of our 68 1998 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.
The six-disc live box Hampton Comes Alive takes its title from a play on which classic live album?
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Frampton Comes Alive!. Hampton Comes Alive riffs on Peter Frampton's famous live record, and it captures two complete November 1998 shows at Virginia's Hampton Coliseum.
The Trey Anastasio/Tom Marshall funk song "Ghost" is the opening track of which album?
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The Story of the Ghost. "Ghost" opens The Story of the Ghost (1998). It was born during the 1997 European tour, the era fans tie to the band's "cow funk."
In March 2009, Phish ended its breakup with three reunion shows at which Virginia arena?
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Hampton Coliseum. The "Mothership" in Hampton was a fitting place for the comeback: the band's beloved 1998 shows there had already been released as the Hampton Comes Alive box set.
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.
At Farm Aid 1998 in Illinois, Phish backed Neil Young on a long jam of which classic?
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"Down by the River". The Crazy Horse classic stretched out into a lengthy jam; Young and Phish teamed up again weeks later for "Helpless" at the Bridge School Benefit.
Under what name did the Trey Anastasio Band make its debut at Higher Ground in April 1998?
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Eight Foot Fluorescent Tubes. The group became "The Trio" in 1999 and then grew into a sextet, octet and dectet. Space Antelope and Red Tide were Trey's high school bands at the Taft School.
Two nights after Halloween 1998, Phish played which album in full at the 'E' Center near Salt Lake City?
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Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. That surprise came right after the Velvet Underground costume in Las Vegas, giving fans two full-album covers in one week.
What was the title of Trey Anastasio's first solo release outside of Phish, issued in 1998?
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One Man's Trash. One Man's Trash came out in October 1998 and collected experimental home recordings Trey made during breaks from Phish. He produced it and designed its cover himself.
Phish.net's 'Tweezer' jam chart calls one 1998 European version 'among the greatest in Phish history.' In which city was it played on July 9, 1998?
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Barcelona. The Barcelona 'Tweezer' includes a 'Things That Make You Go Hmmm' tease, and late in the jam the band drifts toward the 'Wolfman's Brother' chord changes.
Phish.net's 'Bathtub Gin' jam chart calls the July 29, 1998 version 'legendary.' In which city was it played?
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Maryland Heights, MO. This summer 1998 'Gin' moves from a melodic jam into a tense electro-rock groove, and the chart says many fans rank it among Phish's top jams.
On the final night of the Baker's Dozen (August 6, 2017), Phish brought back which Jimi Hendrix song for the first time since July 31, 1998, a 576-show gap?
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Izabella. The band teased the song in both "Simple" and "You Enjoy Myself" on the same night, so it echoed all through the closing show.
Which 1996 Phish album peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200?
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Billy Breathes. Fuego hit No. 7 again in 2014, and it was Phish's highest-charting album since Billy Breathes. The Story of the Ghost came close in 1998 at No. 8.
Which phrase did Trey coin for the groove-heavy, funk-flavored jamming style Phish played in the late 1990s?
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Cow funk. The April 1998 Island Tour is often held up as a peak of that style. In The Phish Book, Trey said what the band was doing was 'more about groove than funk.'