Question 1

Since 2010, Phish has spent nearly every New Year's Eve at which arena?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 2

Which Phish member wrote and sings "Halfway to the Moon" on Fuego?

Accepted Answer

Page McConnell. Page's song made its live debut in 2010, four years before Fuego came out.

Question 3

Phish earned its first Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination for which induction class?

Accepted Answer

Class of 2025. The 2025 nomination came 15 years after Phish played the 2010 Hall of Fame ceremony, where Trey inducted Genesis.

Question 4

Phish played four-night New Year's runs in 2003, 2009 and 2014 in which city?

Accepted Answer

Miami. All three runs were at the same Miami arena. Apart from 2014, almost every New Year's run since 2010 has been at Madison Square Garden.

Question 5

For Halloween 2010 in Atlantic City, Phish covered which classic live album by Little Feat?

Accepted Answer

Waiting for Columbus. They brought a five-piece horn section plus percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo to capture that live-album feel.

Question 6

Which trumpeter and singer joined Trey's horn section in 2000 and later sang in Ghosts of the Forest?

Accepted Answer

Jennifer Hartswick. Hartswick has been a TAB mainstay for most of its history, rejoining the band in 2010 after time away.

Question 7

At SPAC on June 20, 2010, TAB bassist Tony Markellis joined Phish to play bass on which song he co-wrote?

Accepted Answer

Gotta Jibboo. With Markellis laying down the bass line, Mike switched over to a second guitar for the song.

Question 8

When Phish headlined the Austin City Limits Music Festival in October 2010, it was the band's first show in Texas since which year?

Accepted Answer

2000. Phish played one two-hour headlining set at Zilker Park on a Friday bill that also included The Strokes, Spoon and Vampire Weekend.

Question 9

When Trey inducted Genesis into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, Phish performed "No Reply at All" and which other Genesis song?

Accepted Answer

Watcher of the Skies. Phish paid tribute to both eras of Genesis, pairing the prog epic opener of Foxtrot with the Phil Collins-era horn-fueled single.

Question 10

In fall 2010, Tom Marshall co-wrote the song "Cohesive" with which young Connecticut jam band?

Accepted Answer

The McLovins. Tom lent his pen to a younger generation of jammers, writing "Cohesive" with The McLovins.

Question 11

In June 2010, Trey joined Conan O'Brien's band during the Legally Prohibited tour and played which Marshall/Anastasio song?

Accepted Answer

Alaska. Trey showed up at the Upper Darby, Pennsylvania stop wearing a Philadelphia Flyers jersey.

Question 12

At the 2010 "Zeppelin fest" show in Atlantic City on October 30, "Chalk Dust Torture" segued into which Led Zeppelin song before returning?

Accepted Answer

Whole Lotta Love. The jam chart lists the two halves of that "Chalk Dust" separately, with the Zeppelin classic sandwiched in between. That was the night before the Waiting for Columbus Halloween show.

Question 13

In Hartford, Connecticut on June 17, 2010, a clavinet-driven 'Down with Disease' seemed headed back to its theme but segued into which song instead?

Accepted Answer

Sand. Page's clavinet led the funk groove in this 17-minute jam before it slid into another groove song.

Question 14

According to phish.net's jam chart, during the shadowy 'Carini' at Telluride on August 10, 2010, Page teased which Pink Floyd epic?

Accepted Answer

Echoes. Fish got in on the Floyd act too, nodding to 'One of These Days' in the same jam before it led into 'Free.'

Question 15

In Broomfield, Colorado on October 12, 2010, an upbeat, spacey 'Carini' segued into which song?

Accepted Answer

David Bowie. This 'Carini' followed what the jam chart calls the 3.0 pattern: standard opening, a break into a distinct upbeat jam, then space.

Question 16

At Phish's New Year's Eve 2010 show, dancers in traditional dress from many cultures sang translated versions of the chorus of which Phish song?

Accepted Answer

Meatstick. The 2010 gag was a Broadway-style, around-the-world celebration with the chorus sung in many languages.

Question 17

Fans named the eerie, pitch-bending sound Trey makes with his whammy pedal after the call of which animal?

Accepted Answer

A whale. Trey leaned on the whammy pedal heavily in summer 2010, and fans soon started calling the tone "the Whale."

Question 18

On Halloween 2010, Phish followed "Ghost" with a fittingly titled cover, "Spooky." Which group had the 1968 hit version?

Accepted Answer

Classics IV. Trey has often teased "Spooky" inside other songs, but that Halloween 2010 version was a full performance.

Question 19

For its Halloween 2010 Little Feat set, Phish was backed by the horn section of which Brooklyn Afrobeat band?

Accepted Answer

Antibalas. Antibalas's horns and percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo filled out tunes like "Spanish Moon," which Trey sang.

Question 20

Which Little Feat song has Phish played only once, during its Halloween 2010 performance of Waiting for Columbus?

Accepted Answer

Dixie Chicken. Trey sang lead on the title track of Little Feat's 1973 album, backed by horns and Giovanni Hidalgo on percussion.

Question 21

"Spanish Moon," a highlight of Phish's Halloween 2010 set, first appeared on which Little Feat studio album?

Accepted Answer

Feats Don't Fail Me Now. Lowell George wrote it, and Little Feat recorded it in early 1974. Phish has kept playing it in the years since that Halloween.

Question 22

Who sang lead on "Fat Man in the Bathtub," the first song of Phish's Little Feat costume on Halloween 2010?

Accepted Answer

Page McConnell. Trey copied Lowell George's slide guitar tone by cranking the treble on his amp instead of using a slide.

Question 23

The night before Halloween 2010 in Atlantic City, Phish fueled rumors about its costume by playing a song and several snippets by which band?

Accepted Answer

Led Zeppelin. Phish jammed "Chalk Dust Torture" into "Whole Lotta Love" and closed with "Good Times Bad Times," but the costume turned out to be Little Feat.

Question 24

In August 2010, Phish played two nights at Town Park in which Colorado mountain town, where on its 1988 Colorado trip it had played bars to tiny crowds?

Accepted Answer

Telluride. In 1988 the band spent about a week in town playing spots like the Fly Me to the Moon Saloon for a handful of people. In 2010 about 10,000 fans packed the town's ball fields.

Question 25

Phish's October 20, 2010 show in Utica, New York, later released on DVD, is nicknamed after which song that the band teased all night?

Accepted Answer

Guyute. Fans call it "Guyutica." The 2011 DVD was shot in high definition and came out after the band's Alpine Valley 2010 set.

Question 26

Which percussionist joined Phish for nearly all of its Halloween 2010 performance of Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus?

Accepted Answer

Giovanni Hidalgo. A five-piece horn section also joined for eight songs, and both returned for the encore, 'Julius.'

Question 27

During 'Willin'' in Phish's Halloween 2010 Little Feat set, the band swapped instruments. Who sang lead?

Accepted Answer

Fishman. Page moved to bass, Mike to piano and Trey to drums, and Fish quipped that it was 'supposed to be Bill Payne on the keyboard.'

Question 28

Flyers in the Phishbills at Halloween 2010 told fans to answer the announcer's spelled-out 'F-E-A-T' with what?

Accepted Answer

P-H-I-S-H. Higher Ground founder Kevin Statesir introduced the band as 'Little Feat' before the costume set.

Question 29

Phish.net's jam chart says Mike and Trey steered the 17-minute 'Rock and Roll' in Columbia, Maryland on June 26, 2010 toward a jam on which Led Zeppelin song?

Accepted Answer

Moby Dick. After the Zeppelin detour settled down, the jam moved into 'Free.'

Question 30

At Telluride on August 9, 2010, phish.net says Mike improvised his bassline instead of playing the usual fixed groove in a version that helped revive interest in which song?

Accepted Answer

Sand. Trey's raw tone and Mike's envelope-filter bass gave the jam extra texture before a short outro into 'Backwards Down the Number Line.'

Phish 2010 Trivia