Shows, setlists, jams and stories from Phish in 2000. Here are 30 of our 35 2000 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 2000 single "Heavy Things" comes from which Phish studio album?
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Farmhouse. "Heavy Things" was Farmhouse's lead single and the band's only song to reach a mainstream pop radio chart (No. 29 on Billboard's Adult Top 40). It also hit No. 2 on the Adult Alternative chart.
Which song opened Phish's March 6, 2009 reunion show at Hampton Coliseum?
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Fluffhead. Fluffhead had not been played since 2000, so its opening notes at Hampton sent the crowd into a frenzy. All three of the other songs listed were also played that night, just later on.
Phish fans long credited "Ya Mar" to the Mustangs, but who actually wrote and first recorded the calypso tune?
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Cyril Ferguson. The real story came out just before the fall 2000 hiatus. Page's "Leo" nickname comes from the Mustangs' version, where the singers call out to their piano player.
Mike Gordon's 2000 documentary "Outside Out" won an audience award at which festival?
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South by Southwest. Mike Gordon's film Outside Out took the audience award at South by Southwest. He followed it with the documentary Rising Low in 2002.
A soundcheck at Hershey Park Stadium in September 2000, nicknamed 'Chocolate Phish,' was put to what use?
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As the sound bed for the new phish.com home page. That fall tour was the band's last run of shows before its extended break that began in October 2000.
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.
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.'
When Phish opened its summer 2000 tour near Nashville with a parade of bluegrass guests, which country star stepped up to sing lead on the second-set closer?
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Wynonna Judd. Ricky Skaggs, Sam Bush and Del McCoury were among the pickers who joined the band that night at the AmSouth Amphitheatre in Antioch, Tennessee.
In which city did Trey Anastasio announce from the stage, in September 2000, that Phish would be taking a break after that fall's tour?
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Las Vegas, Nevada. Trey broke the news of the coming hiatus at a show in the Las Vegas area on September 30, 2000, a week before the band's last show of 1.0.
With about 85,000 fans, how is Big Cypress often described?
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The largest concert on Earth that Millennium Eve. On the night the world rang in 2000, Phish's swamp party out-drew the Millennium shows of many major stars.
At Great Woods (Mansfield, Massachusetts) on September 12, 2000, a 26-minute 'Down with Disease' drifted through transition space into which Farmhouse song?
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Heavy Things. Farmhouse had come out that May, and 'Heavy Things' was its radio single.
Phish.net calls the July 14, 2000 Columbus 'Mike's Song' a 'yin yang' version. It says no 'Mike's' had a significant second jam again until which year?
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2015. Its first jam is fiery and its second jam is calm and reflective, which is where the 'yin yang' tag comes from.