A Live One

A Live One
Live album by Phish
Released	June 27, 1995 (US)
Recorded	July 8–December 31, 1994
Genre	Jam rock, jazz fusion
Length	131:04
Label	Elektra
Producer	Phish
Phish chronology
Hoist (1994) A Live One (1995) Stash (1996)
Singles from A Live One
"Bouncing Around the Room" Released: 1995 "Gumbo" Released: 1995

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]
The Village Voice	C+[3]

A Live One is a live album by the American rock band Phish, released on June 27, 1995, by Elektra Records. The album was the band's first official live release.

Each track on the album was recorded at a different live show in the United States during Phish's 1994 summer and fall tours. Several of the songs have never appeared on studio albums and the track "Montana" is not really a song, but actually a two-minute excerpt from the longform improvisation that followed “Tweezer” during the band's show in Bozeman, Montana.^[4] On A Live One, "Montana" serves as a prelude to the epic "You Enjoy Myself", one of the most well-known versions of that song.

Phish received its first RIAA award for the album. The RIAA certified the album gold on November 10, 1995, and platinum on October 9, 1997.^[5]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Trey Anastasio, Tom Marshall, except where noted.

Disc one

1. "Bouncing Around the Room" – 4:08
2. "Stash" – 12:31
3. "Gumbo" (Anastasio, Jon Fishman) – 5:14
4. "Montana" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 2:04
5. "You Enjoy Myself" (Anastasio) – 20:57
6. "Chalk Dust Torture" – 6:48
7. "Slave to the Traffic Light" (Dave Abrahams, Anastasio, Steve Pollak) – 10:46

Disc two

1. "Wilson" (Anastasio, Marshall, Aaron Woolf) – 5:07
2. "Tweezer" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 30:55
3. "Simple" (Gordon) – 4:53
4. "Harry Hood" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Brian Long, McConnell) – 15:11
5. "The Squirming Coil" – 12:30

Personnel

Phish

Trey Anastasio – guitars, vocals

Page McConnell – keyboards, vocals

Mike Gordon – bass guitar, vocals

Jon Fishman – drums, vocals

with The Giant Country Horns (on "Gumbo")

Peter Apfelbaum – tenor saxophone

Carl Gerhard – trumpet

Dave Grippo – alto saxophone

James Harvey – trombone

Michael Ray – trumpet

Recording dates

• "Stash," July 8, 1994, Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts, Mansfield, MA
• "The Squirming Coil," October 9, 1994, A. J. Palumbo Center, Pittsburgh, PA
• "Harry Hood" October 23, 1994, Band Shell, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
• "Tweezer," November 2, 1994, Bangor Auditorium, Bangor, ME
• "Chalk Dust Torture," November 16, 1994, Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• "Slave to the Traffic Light," November 26, 1994, Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
• "Montana," November 28, 1994, Field House, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
• "Gumbo," December 2, 1994, Recreation Hall, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
• "You Enjoy Myself," December 7, 1994, Spreckels Theater Building, San Diego, CA
• "Simple," December 10, 1994, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
• "Wilson," December 30, 1994, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
• "Bouncing Around the Room," December 31, 1994, Boston Garden, Boston, MA

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011). "A Live One - Phish | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
2. Moon, Tom (2011). "Phish: A Live One : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on June 8, 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
3. Christgau, Robert (1995). "Turkey Shoot". The Village Voice (November 28). New York. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
4. Phish.net Song History: Montana Online. Accessed: August 23, 2011.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2012-11-08.

External links

• Phish's official website
• The Phish.net: A Live One - fan site album page