Live Phish Volume 18

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Live Phish Vol. 18
Live Phish Volume 18 (album cover art).jpg
Live album by
Phish
ReleasedMay 20, 2003
RecordedMay 7, 1994
Genre Rock
Length2:36:04
30:54 (Filler)
Label Elektra
Producer Phish
Live Phish Series chronology
Live Phish Volume 17
(2003)
Live Phish Volume 18
(2003)
Live Phish Volume 19
(2003)

Live Phish Vol. 18 is an album by Phish. It was recorded live at the Bomb Factory in Dallas, Texas on May 7, 1994.

Contents

The show is sometimes referred to as "Tweezerfest" because of a seamless second set that features elements of the song "Tweezer" in almost every song. Throughout the hour-long "Tweezer" experience, the band moves in and out of improvisational jams and riffs from random cover songs like Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" to The Breeders's "Cannonball". One of the show's jams occurs after Jon Fishman croons Prince's "Purple Rain".

Bonus tracks include a segment from a concert at University of Missouri on November 22, 1994.

Track listing

Disc one

Set one:
  1. "Llama" (Anastasio) - 5:01
  2. "Horn" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 4:30
  3. "Divided Sky" (Anastasio) - 14:55
  4. "Mound" (Gordon) - 5:53
  5. "Fast Enough for You" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 6:32
  6. "Scent of a Mule" (Gordon) - 7:01
  7. "Split Open and Melt" (Anastasio) - 13:59
  8. "If I Could" (Anastasio) - 5:50
  9. "Suzy Greenberg" (Anastasio, Pollak) - 6:19

Disc two

Set two:
  1. "Loving Cup" (Jagger, Richards) - 6:32
  2. "Sparkle" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 4:30
  3. "Tweezer" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 25:59
  4. "Sparks" (Townshend) - 2:41
  5. "Makisupa Policeman" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 2:27
  6. "Tweezer" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 7:29
  7. "Walk Away" (Walsh) - 4:04
  8. "Tweezer" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 7:25
  9. "Cannonball" (Deal) - 2:06
  10. "Purple Rain" (Prince) - 6:30
  11. "Dallas Jam" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 5:20
  12. "Tweezer Reprise" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 4:30

Disc three

Encore:
  1. "Amazing Grace" (Traditional) - 2:03
  2. "Sample in a Jar" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 5:23
Filler (November 22, 1994, Jesse Auditorium, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri):
  1. "Funky Bitch" (Seals) - 6:41
  2. "Columbia Jam" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 22:07
  3. "Jerusalem, Jerusalem (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav)" (Newell, Shemer) - 2:07

Personnel

Setlist from the 'Helping Phriendly Book'

SET 1: Llama, Horn -> The Divided Sky, Mound, Fast Enough for You, Scent of a Mule, Split Open and Melt, If I Could, Suzy Greenberg

SET 2: Loving Cup, Sparkle, Tweezer -> Sparks -> Makisupa Policeman -> Sweet Emotion -> Walk Away -> Cannonball# -> Purple Rain -> Hold Your Head Up (HYHU)** -> Tweezer Reprise

ENCORE: Amazing Grace, Sample in a Jar

#The Breeders cover. **With extended jam.

(see also Charlie Dirksen's enthusiastic review of the second set from The HPB at phish.net.)

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