Shows, setlists, jams and stories from Phish in 1999. Here are 30 of our 47 1999 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.
Trey once joked that the dance for which song would outdo the Macarena?
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Meatstick. In 1999, Guinness World Records representatives filmed the crowd at Camp Oswego trying to set a record with the dance. The attempt came up short.
In the 1990s, Fishman sang lead, complete with vacuum solos, on which Allman Brothers Band classic?
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Whipping Post. Phish first played the song back in 1984, when early guitarist Jeff Holdsworth sang it. Trey sang it in the late 1980s and took the mic back when it returned in 1999.
The rehearsal and debut of which band's song "Roses Are Free" are captured in the documentary Bittersweet Motel?
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Ween. Phish debuted the Ween tune out of a "Drowned" jam in Rochester on December 11, 1997. Ween reportedly shelved the song for almost two years afterward before taking it back in 1999.
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.
The fan site Phantasy Tour began in 1999 as what kind of game?
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A setlist-prediction game. Paul Glace launched Phantasy Phish alongside the fall 1999 tour; players earned points for correctly guessing songs, much like fantasy sports.
At Camp Oswego in July 1999, an attempt to set a Guinness record for a mass dance came during which song?
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Meatstick. Guinness representatives were on hand at Camp Oswego on July 18, 1999 as fans tried to set a mass-dance record to "Meatstick." The record attempt fell short, but the dance lives on.
At Big Cypress, 'Sand' segued into the Phish debut of which song?
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Quadrophonic Toppling. Phish.net's 'Sand' chart calls the Big Cypress version a masterpiece of the band's 1999-2000 style, sliding from a hypnotic minimal section into the debut.
In 1999, Trey played a run of Warfield shows in San Francisco mixing Dead and Phish songs with which Grateful Dead member's band?
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Phil Lesh. Trey and Page joined Phil Lesh and Friends for three nights at the Warfield in April 1999, one of the first well-known team-ups of Phish and Grateful Dead members.
In Phish's Halloween 2009 performance of Exile on Main St., every song was a Phish debut except "Loving Cup" and which other track, last played in 1999?
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Sweet Virginia. "Sweet Virginia" returned after 175 shows with Fishman on vocals, while the rest of Exile was brand new to Phish fans.
At Holmdel, New Jersey, in 1999, Trey teased that Bruce Springsteen might join the band. Who came out instead as 'the Boss'?
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Lyricist Tom Marshall. At the second Holmdel show (July 16, 1999), Trey's Springsteen tease paid off with 'another local hero,' New Jersey native Tom 'the Boss' Marshall, making his entrance instead.
On July 3, 1999 in Atlanta, after 'Little Drummer Boy' closed the second set, Fishman came back alone for the encore and sang it again while wearing what?
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A snare drum. The set had closed with an unusual Contact > Little Drummer Boy. The next night, July 4, Fish showed off a Stars and Stripes outfit during his vacuum solo in 'I Didn't Know.'