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* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The four founding members met and formed the band at the University of Vermont.

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* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The four founding members met and formed the band at the University of Vermont. Anastasio and Fishman later transferred to Goddard College where [=McConnell=] was already studying when he met them.
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* ''Evolve'' (2024)
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Everyone Went to School Together: As in UVM (at least, the founding members).

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* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The four founding members met and formed the band at the University of Vermont.
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Waves is not the longest song on Round Room, its actually Pebbles and Marbles


* LongestSongGoesLast: Believe it or not, Phish's studio albums are mostly a subversion to this, despite the band having many songs that are over 10 minutes long. The band typically likes to put long songs like "Reba", "David Bowie" and "Time Turns Elastic" in the middle of their album tracklists. The only albums that end with their longest song are ''Farmhouse'' (and "First Tube" is only six minutes long), ''Round Room'' (The 11-minute long "Waves") and ''Big Boat'' (which ends with the 13-minute "Petrichor", one of their longest-ever studio recordings).

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* LongestSongGoesLast: Believe it or not, Phish's studio albums are mostly a subversion to this, despite the band having many songs that are over 10 minutes long. The band typically likes to put long songs like "Reba", "David Bowie" and "Time Turns Elastic" in the middle of their album tracklists. The only albums that end with their longest song are ''Farmhouse'' (and "First Tube" is only six minutes long), ''Round Room'' (The 11-minute long "Waves") long) and ''Big Boat'' (which ends with the 13-minute "Petrichor", one of their longest-ever studio recordings).
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** ** In concert, Phish may perform a song they hadn't played in years, which fans refer to as a "bust-out." The most famous of these was at 2/28/03, when they played "Destiny Unbound", a Mike Gordon-penned song that became something of a legend among fans because the band hadn't played it since November 1991. The song has appeared sporadically since the 2009 reunion, usually being performed about once a year. Another famous bust-out came on 12/29/2018, when the band played "Glide II", which had only been played once before, in 1995.

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** ** In concert, Phish may perform a song they hadn't played in years, which fans refer to as a "bust-out." The most famous of these was at 2/28/03, when they played "Destiny Unbound", a Mike Gordon-penned song that became something of a legend among fans because the band hadn't played it since November 1991. The song has appeared sporadically since the 2009 reunion, usually being performed about once a year. Another famous bust-out came on 12/29/2018, when the band played "Glide II", which had only been played once before, in 1995.

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* TheBusCameBack: Jeff Holdsworth, a co-founder of the band who left it in 1986, returned to play with the group for their 20th anniversary show in 2003.

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Jeff Holdsworth, a co-founder of the band who left it in 1986, returned to play with the group for their 20th anniversary show in 2003.2003.
** ** In concert, Phish may perform a song they hadn't played in years, which fans refer to as a "bust-out." The most famous of these was at 2/28/03, when they played "Destiny Unbound", a Mike Gordon-penned song that became something of a legend among fans because the band hadn't played it since November 1991. The song has appeared sporadically since the 2009 reunion, usually being performed about once a year. Another famous bust-out came on 12/29/2018, when the band played "Glide II", which had only been played once before, in 1995.
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** Sometimes, the band may perform a song they hadn't played in years, which fans refer to as a "bust-out." The most famous of these was at 2/28/03, when they played "Destiny Unbound", a Mike Gordon-penned song that became something of a legend among fans because the band hadn't played it since November 1991. The song has appeared sporadically since the 2009 reunion, usually being performed about once a year. Another famous bust-out came on 12/29/2018, when the band played "Glide II", which had only been played once before, in 1995.
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* CoverVersion: The band has dozens of cover songs in their repertoire, the most frequently played being Music/TalkingHeads' "Cities", Music/{{Ween}}'s "Roses Are Free", The Mustangs' "Ya Mar", Music/LedZeppelin's "Good Times, Bad Times", Music/ZZTop's "Jesus Just Left Chicago", The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein", Bill Monroe's "Uncle Pen", Son Seals' "Funky Bitch", Norman Blake's "Ginseng Sullivan", Music/TheRollingStones' "Loving Cup", Music/FrankZappa's "Peaches en Regalia", Music/TheBeatles' "A Day in the Life", Music/StevieWonder's "Boogie On Reggae Woman" and Music/TVOnTheRadio's "Golden Age". The band is also well known for their space-funk version of "[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Also Sprach Zarathustra]]", based on Brazilian musician Eumir Deodato's 1973 jazz-funk version of the song.

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* CoverVersion: The band has dozens of cover songs in their repertoire, the most frequently played being Music/TalkingHeads' "Cities", Music/{{Ween}}'s "Roses Are Free", The Mustangs' "Ya Mar", Music/LedZeppelin's "Good Times, Bad Times", Music/ZZTop's "Jesus Just Left Chicago", The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein", Bill Monroe's "Uncle Pen", Son Seals' "Funky Bitch", Norman Blake's "Ginseng Sullivan", Music/TheRollingStones' Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "Loving Cup", Music/FrankZappa's "Peaches en Regalia", Music/TheBeatles' "A Day in the Life", Music/StevieWonder's "Boogie On Reggae Woman" and Music/TVOnTheRadio's "Golden Age". The band is also well known for their space-funk version of "[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Also Sprach Zarathustra]]", based on Brazilian musician Eumir Deodato's 1973 jazz-funk version of the song.
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** This is sometimes averted; Many Phish fans believe that a jam's quality is not necessarily tied to its length. This is especially true of songs like "Maze" and "Foam"; [[https://phish.net/jamcharts/song/maze highest regarded]] [[https://phish.net/jamcharts/song/foam versions of both]] tend to clock in around 15 minutes in length.

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** This is sometimes averted; Many Phish fans believe that a jam's quality is not necessarily tied to its length. This is especially true of songs like "Maze" and "Foam"; [[https://phish.net/jamcharts/song/maze highest Highly regarded]] [[https://phish.net/jamcharts/song/foam versions of both]] tend to clock in around 15 minutes in length.
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* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Phish is commonly referred to as a jam band, but that's more of a style of performing and a specific scene of bands than a genre. PsychedelicRock is probably the single genre that describes them best, but they're also influenced by jazz fusion, funk, progressive rock, bluegrass, reggae, folk, alternative rock, post-punk, barbershop and a whole host of other genres.
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** This is sometimes averted; Many Phish fans believe that a jam's quality is not necessarily tied to its length. This is especially true of songs like "Maze" and "Foam"; [[https://phish.net/jamcharts/song/maze highest regarded]] [[https://phish.net/jamcharts/song/foam versions of both]] tend to clock in around 15 minutes in length.
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* UnpluggedVersion: The band performed acoustically a few times over the years in different variations:
** The first was a bluegrass setup the band began to deploy in concert in 1993 with Trey on acoustic guitar, Mike on banjo, Page on upright bass, and Fish on washboard. They often performed traditional bluegrass numbers like "Nellie Kane" and "I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome". Often these performances were also unamplified like their a capella numbers sometimes were, meaning fans at the show had to remain perfectly silent to hear the band. This often didn't go to plan, with woos and shushing often drowning out the band on tape.
** The second came in 1995 with "Acoustic Army", an improvised number which featured all four members on acoustic guitar.
** The third were the acoustic mini-sets of 1996, best remembered for its appearance during the Clifford Ball where they played a few ballads from the ''Billy Breathes'' era like "Waste" and "Strange Design".
** The band also performed two fully acoustic concert for Music/NeilYoung's Bridge Street School benefit in 1998, and did an entire acoustic set for Festival 8 in 2009.
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** For Halloween 2022, Phish invented ''another'' fake band, this time Sci-Fi Soldier, a funk rock band from the far future of the year 4680, introduced through a comic book and whose story is tied into both Kasvot Växt and the Phish's long-running Gamehendge mythology.

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** For Halloween 2022, Phish invented ''another'' fake band, this time Sci-Fi Soldier, a funk rock band from the far future of the year 4680, introduced through a comic book and whose story is tied into both Kasvot Växt and the Phish's long-running Gamehendge mythology.

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* FakeBand: For Halloween 2018, Phish invented an obscure 1980s ProgressiveRock band called Kasvot Växt, whose only album ''í rokk'' they "covered" in its entirety for the second-set of their concert that night. In reality, it was album's worth of new Phish songs done in the style of 1980s prog and {{Krautrock}}. Phish even came up with a fake backstory for the band - which was supposedly formed in Scandanavia by a group of research scientists, and whose album was lost to time until it was rediscovered by record collectors - and enlisted Allmusic and radio station WFMU to post fictional reviews and interviews with the supposed members for their fans to discover when they Googled the band. Several the Kasvot Växt songs have subsequently entered Phish's regular setlist rotation.

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For Halloween 2018, Phish invented an obscure 1980s ProgressiveRock band called Kasvot Växt, whose only album ''í rokk'' they "covered" in its entirety for the second-set of their concert that night. In reality, it was album's worth of new Phish songs done in the style of 1980s prog and {{Krautrock}}. Phish even came up with a fake backstory for the band - which was supposedly formed in Scandanavia by a group of research scientists, and whose album was lost to time until it was rediscovered by record collectors - and enlisted Allmusic and radio station WFMU to post fictional reviews and interviews with the supposed members for their fans to discover when they Googled the band. Several the Kasvot Växt songs have subsequently entered Phish's regular setlist rotation.rotation.
** For Halloween 2022, Phish invented ''another'' fake band, this time Sci-Fi Soldier, a funk rock band from the far future of the year 4680, introduced through a comic book and whose story is tied into both Kasvot Växt and the Phish's long-running Gamehendge mythology.
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* ''The Clifford Ball'' (2022)
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