Question 1

Which 2019 documentary, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, follows Trey Anastasio up to Phish's New Year's Eve 2017 show?

Accepted Answer

Between Me and My Mind. Steven Cantor directed the film. It follows Trey's projects outside Phish and ends at the band's 2017 New Year's Eve concert.

Question 2

"Mercury," a song originally recorded for Big Boat but left off it, was finally released on which album?

Accepted Answer

Sigma Oasis. Producer Bob Ezrin vetoed "Mercury" for Big Boat. The band brought it back for Sigma Oasis, which was recorded in a single week at The Barn in November 2019.

Question 3

Which company launched Phish Radio, a channel dedicated to the band, in June 2019?

Accepted Answer

SiriusXM. Phish Radio is a satellite station devoted to the band's music.

Question 4

Thanks to a gag gone 'wrong' at New Year's Eve 2019, where did Trey end up for most of the third set and the encore?

Accepted Answer

Stuck on an elevated platform. The joke later made it into the Sci-Fi Soldier comic book in 2021.

Question 5

Page McConnell founded which side band in 2001 with bassist Oteil Burbridge and drummer Russell Batiste?

Accepted Answer

Vida Blue. Vida Blue was active from 2001 to 2004 and later reunited to record the 2019 album Crossing Lines.

Question 6

Which Phish bandmate played in Trey's side project Ghosts of the Forest, whose self-titled album came out in 2019?

Accepted Answer

Jon Fishman. Ghosts of the Forest formed in 2018. Along with Fishman, the lineup included Jennifer Hartswick, Celisse Henderson, Tony Markellis and Ray Paczkowski.

Question 7

Vida Blue reunited to record its first album since 2003, released in 2019 on ATO Records. What is it called?

Accepted Answer

Crossing Lines. The first single from the comeback record was "Analog Delay."

Question 8

Ghosts of the Forest released a live album in July 2019, named after one of the project's songs. What is it called?

Accepted Answer

Beneath a Sea of Stars. The studio version runs about 23 and a half minutes, making it by far the longest track on the Ghosts of the Forest album.

Question 9

Which university hosted the first academic Phish Studies Conference, in May 2019?

Accepted Answer

Oregon State University. Organized by a philosophy professor, it featured more than 50 presentations, from fan culture to the neuroscience of improvisation.

Question 10

Who directed Between Me and My Mind, the 2019 documentary about Trey Anastasio?

Accepted Answer

Steven Cantor. His credits include the Emmy-winning American Masters film Willie Nelson: Still Is Still Moving.

Question 11

The title of Trey's 2019 documentary Between Me and My Mind comes from the lyrics of which Phish song?

Accepted Answer

Light. The film follows Trey through new personal projects up to a Phish New Year's Eve show at Madison Square Garden.

Question 12

Between Me and My Mind premiered in April 2019 at which New York venue, with a Trey Anastasio Band set after the screening?

Accepted Answer

Beacon Theatre. The 100-minute film was part of that year's Tribeca Film Festival lineup.

Question 13

Phish.net's jam chart describes a 35-minute MSG "Tweezer" as among the most sublime improvisations in Phish history. On which night of the 2019 holiday run was it played?

Accepted Answer

December 30. That symphonic "Tweezer" came back for a second helping later in the set, popping out of "Steam" before sliding into "Ruby Waves."

Question 14

Phish's New Year's Eve 2019 gag began with an a cappella rewrite of which Stephen Sondheim song, retitled for the night's clone theme?

Accepted Answer

Send in the Clowns. When Trey's moving platform got stuck, he played from it until the crew rescued him, then made up a thank-you tune for them called "Rescue Squad."

Question 15

"Ruby Waves" made its Phish debut on June 18, 2019, in which city?

Accepted Answer

Toronto. It debuted as a compact segue out of "Halley's Comet" and quickly turned into a second-set jam vehicle.

Question 16

Phish.net's jam chart says a 38-minute jam from July 14, 2019 at East Troy, Wisconsin, was, at the time of writing, the longest jam of the modern era. Which song was it?

Accepted Answer

Ruby Waves. Less than a month after the song's debut, this version went through moody rock, reggae, power riffing and two ambient passages.

Question 17

At NYE 2025, an overhead milk carton showed a parody 'missing' notice for which Phish song, which the band then played in the encore?

Accepted Answer

Spock's Brain. The carton said the song had been missing since July 2019. It came back that night for the first time in over six years.

Question 18

Phish recorded most of Sigma Oasis live at The Barn in Vermont. Roughly how long did those sessions take?

Accepted Answer

About one week. The band recorded it in November 2019. Page added synth overdubs and Trey added backing vocals and percussion before the final mix.

Question 19

Phish's Halloween 1998 Loaded set opened, like the album, with which Velvet Underground song?

Accepted Answer

Who Loves the Sun. Phish didn't play it again until 2019, at its beach shows in Mexico, where Trey dedicated it to sunburned fans.

Question 20

"Thread" and "Shade" both appear on which Phish album?

Accepted Answer

Sigma Oasis. Sigma Oasis was tracked mostly live in about a week in November 2019, with "Thread" running over 11 minutes.

Question 21

At Phish's intimate December 2019 show at The Met in Philadelphia, which song kept coming back throughout the night, with four separate jams?

Accepted Answer

Tweezer. The band wove the song through both sets, and the night ended fittingly with "Tweezer Reprise" in the encore.

Question 22

In Phish fan lingo, what do you call a free ticket given to a fan who doesn't have one?

Accepted Answer

A miracle. Fans who got in without tickets at The Met in 2019 called the whole night the "Met Miracle."

Question 23

At The Met in Philadelphia in December 2019, Phish brought back which barbershop number for the first time since 2009?

Accepted Answer

Hello My Baby. The a cappella tune returned after a gap of 417 shows, part of a night that also featured four "Tweezer" jams.

Question 24

Ghosts of the Forest played its live debut on April 4, 2019, at the State Theatre in which city?

Accepted Answer

Portland, Maine. The crowd heard the whole album before it was released, since it didn't come out until April 12.

Question 25

The song "Sigma Oasis" was first played live in summer 2018 by which band, more than a year before Phish played it?

Accepted Answer

Trey Anastasio Band. The title track went from TAB stages in 2018 to Phish's debut in December 2019, then opened the 2020 album.

Question 26

Before Phish first played it in June 2019, 'Ruby Waves' was reworked for which Trey Anastasio project that spring?

Accepted Answer

Ghosts of the Forest. The song actually dates to a single 2008 TAB performance at Higher Ground in Burlington. Ghosts of the Forest played it at all nine of its shows before Phish took it on.

Question 27

Which 2019 podcast series covered the history of Phish?

Accepted Answer

Long May They Run. In the same year, the podcast After Midnight went deep on the Big Cypress millennium festival.

Question 28

Matty Beck, a WaterWheel veteran interviewed on Tom Marshall's Under the Scales, went on to manage which band?

Accepted Answer

Greensky Bluegrass. The 2019 episode on WaterWheel also featured Henry Schwab, who worked Phish shows for Greenpeace from 1992 to 1997.

Question 29

In the December 29, 2019 MSG "Harry Hood," how long does phish.net's jam chart say Trey held a single sustained note?

Accepted Answer

115 seconds. The near two-minute held note came after a probing minor-key exploration, before the band returned to the familiar ending.

Question 30

In Bangor, Maine on June 25, 2019, a funky dance-party 'Down with Disease' segued into which song?

Accepted Answer

Play by Play. Play by Play was one of the Kasvot Växt songs Phish had unveiled the previous Halloween.

Phish 2019 Trivia