Full title: Live Phish 13: 10/31/94 Glens Falls Civic Center, Glens Falls, New York.
Phish: Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Page McConnell.
Recorded live at Glens Falls Civic Center, Glens Falls, New York on October 31, 1994.
Like so many bands entering the 21st century who found that their in-concert appeal warranted a series of live releases to please the fans and beat the bootleggers (String Cheese Incident and Pearl Jam come to mind, but Zappa and the Dead got there first), Vermont's favorite (please don't call them a) jam band Phish entered the fray with a vengeance. Their live albums are multi-disc affairs with snazzy packaging and hours of sonic fun built in. Volumes 13-16 capture different years of the band's famed Halloween concerts where, traditionally, they'll throw in an extra set where they cover, sequentially and in its entirety, one of their favorite albums by another artist.
On LIVE PHISH VOL. 13, the lucky recipient of Halloween attention is the Beatles' famed WHITE ALBUM, yep, the whole damn thing in all it's two-LP glory. If you think Phish is all about noodly, post-Dead jam-band music, you really need to hear them noisily deconstruct the rabid rock of "Helter Skelter" and amp up the Ringo feature "Don't Pass Me By" into a crazed bluegrass tune so frenetic it's practically ska. Of course, there's plenty of original Phish material on hand too, in case you're some kind of freak who doesn't like the Beatles.