Live Phish Vol. 15: 10/31/96, The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia [Live]

Phish | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1996
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Live
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B00006LHWL
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,111 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Sanity >

2. Highway To Hell >

3. Down With Disease >

4. You Enjoy Myself

5. Prince Caspian

Disc: 2

1. Reba

2. Colonel Forbin's Ascent >

3. Fly Famous Mockingbird

4. Character Zero

5. Star Spangled Banner

Disc: 3

1. Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) >

2. Crosseyed And Painless

3. The Great Curve

4. Once In A Lifetime >

5. Houses In Motion >

See all 8 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Brother

2. 2001 >

3. Maze

4. Simple >

5. Swept Away >

See all 9 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the Halloween Shows, December 17, 2002

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718 Session (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Phish Vol. 15: 10/31/96, The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia (Audio CD)

I love Phish, but I have to say that the recent releases of the Halloween shows have been hit or miss and that's mostly because of the music.

But check this one out. Disc Three of this four disc set is a cover (in its entirety) of the Talking Heads album "Remain In Light". Here Phish are able to merge their jazzy/bluesgrass jamming sensibilities with the avant-garde/odd timed/afro-beat jams from David Byrne and crew. The results are quite amazing and the covers of "Quadrophenia" (Live Phish 14) and "The White Album" (Live Phish 13) pale in comparison.

If you're a Talking Heads fan, you've got to pick this up. It's got all of the genius behind the songs, and all of the musicality of the TH, but it still has that joyful playfulness of Phish. These versions of "Cross-Eyed and Painless", "Houses In Motion", "Born Under Punches" all stand up to the originals and "Once In A Lifetime" only just misses because of some timing and lyric screw-ups.

And that's just one disc! The rest of the sets are some of the best stuff Phish has put out. I don't think there's a better version of "Reba" or "Maze" in the Live Phish series, "You Enjoy Myself", "Down With Disease" and "Prince Caspian" are all great versions of great songs.

Another note: The sound quality here is first rate and one of the best mixes I've heard in this series. It sounds like the band knew they were going to have a keeper, they pulled out all the stops did an excellent job with recording.

If you haven't bought any of the Live Phish albums, this is an excellent place to start.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My first contact with Phish: blown away!, September 19, 2003

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Manny Hernandez "@askmanny" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
(HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Live Phish Vol. 15: 10/31/96, The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia (Audio CD)

As a longtime fan of prog rock, I almost have no way to apologize for not having payed attention to the band's work before, but the placement among the top 100 guitarrist of all time by Trey Anastasio in a 2003 Rolling Stone article made me think twice about it. Well this live volume (the 15th in the band's live series) gave me plenty to satisfy my musical curiosity.

With samples of some of their best stuff (in particular, I found the 22+ minute long "You Enjoy Myself" mind-blowing and very much reminding of the long Grateful Dead guitar solos by Jerry Garcia) and a whole disc (#3) devoted to covers of classic Talking Head tunes, this quadruple album is a keeper for all people who love listening to works of virtuoso musicians. Anastasio and company sure belong up there!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The One To Buy, May 31, 2003

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kireviewer (Sunnyvale, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live Phish Vol. 15: 10/31/96, The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia (Audio CD)

This is one of Phish's best live albums. This, along with A Live One are the ones to get. Forget about Hampton Comes Alive.

This is from Halloween, 1996. As in all of the Halloween shows, they play a complete album by some other group. They have done The Beatles (White Album), Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and The Who's Quadraphenia. But, all of those have been rather disappointing. They usually don't practice the material much, and they just run through the album. They really don't add anything over what the original artist did.

On this album, they play the Talking Heads' Remain in Light. They play the album with amazing energy. It just drives throughout. It is very remeniscent of how the Talking Heads play in the movie Stop Making Sense, but with even more energy.

The rest of the album is very good. There are 4 CD's and about 4 hours of music. It is similar to what the band was playing in the mid nineties. So, if you have other live CD's from this time period you will get some repeats.

As with all the Phish live series, it comes in special packaging. The cover is a small, jewell box-sized cardboard case. The artwork is done in silver foil. The CD's are held in a 4X4 plastic slip case that folds up to slip into the cardboard cover. Or, slipcase can be opened up. It has three holes punched in the side. You can buy an optional three ring binder to hold each of the concerts, like a photo album.