Live Phish Vol. 8: 7/10/99, E Centre, Camden, New Jersey [Live]

Phish | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 16, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B00006369D
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,151 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Wilson

2. Chalk Dust Torture

3. Roggae

4. Water in the Sky

5. Back at the Chicken Shack

6. Sparkle

7. Bathtub Gin

8. Golgi Apparatus

Disc: 2

1. Tweezer

2. Mountains in the Mist

3. Birds of a Feather

4. When the Circus Comes to Town

5. Fluffhead

6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

7. Tweezer (reprise)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Show -- Great Recording, April 16, 2002

By 

Brooks Williams "So. Awesome." (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Phish Vol. 8: 7/10/99, E Centre, Camden, New Jersey (Audio CD)

LP8 is the only two-disc show of the second batch.

Packaging: More of the same. This release has pictures of each band
member. Trey looks really old.

Sound: This is more of a Matrix recording than LP7. You can hear the crowd
pretty clearly, but not so much that it's annoying. There's no noticible
vocal or instrumental echo (at least as far as I can tell). This show
really sounds great. All the instruments sound clear and are mixed well
(except Page's piano, which seems just a tad too quiet). The vocals are a
little low in the mix, but it's not too bad. It's not noticable in the
slower, quieter songs.

Music: The real highlight of set one is the Chalk Dust Torture > Roggae.
Not that Roggae is the greatest song, but it's a really nice transition.
Chalk Dust gets really interesting around the 9:00 mark. Kind of spacey and
textural -- but with a lot of energy. A very unique jam. It glides easily
into Roggae.
This set also features the slow blusy tune, Back At The Chicken Shack. It
just doesn't do anything for me. It's just a little too long for my tastes
since it doesn't really go anywhere.
The Bathtub Gin is pretty standard. It's a good 16 min, so there's some
good jamming in there. There's a directional change at 11:00 that reminds
me of the 6/14/2000 Fukuoka (Japan) Jam, but it quickly picks up a darker
and more energetic tone. The jam eventually fades out to end the song.
Set two is pretty great. It opens with a phenominal Tweezer. Very slow jam
in the middle. Nice and long. Put the headphones on for this one and turn
it up. One of my favorite Phish jams to date. It eventually segues into
Mountains in the Mist -- which is a song with which I'm not too familiar.
Birds of a Feather basically has the same jam as the Chalkdust, but that's
cool by me. Fluffhead ends the set in typical high-energy fashion.

Good stuff.

5.0 out of 5 stars It's All About the Chalkdust, March 13, 2008

By 

Edward J. Levine - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live Phish Vol. 8: 7/10/99, E Centre, Camden, New Jersey (Audio CD)

None of this new to Phish stuff. I've been listening and seeing Phish since 1990. This Chalkdust Torture is one of the best if not the best I've ever heard. It reall steps up to a transcendental notch at around the 7 minute mark and takes off from there. The rest of the show is very good as well...oh but that Chalkdust...gets me everytime, 5 stars for that tune alone!!!

4.0 out of 5 stars Chalkdust and Tweezer, September 29, 2004

By 

Kyle McGuire (MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Phish Vol. 8: 7/10/99, E Centre, Camden, New Jersey (Audio CD)

Honestly, I haven't heard or seen a better Chalkdust than the one that's on this disc. It's really great. Like someone said in an earlier review, you get almost that 97 space-funk out of a Chalkdust, which is unusual. Don't get me wrong, this version indeed rips, but the space in this is excellent.

In my opinion, this is a highly underrated Tweezer. Of course we have two different people complaining about the Funk of 97 and Machine Gun Trey, but, hell, I'm a fan of both, so bring on the funk! I'm a fan of the overall spaciness of this Tweezer as well. Very interesting.

Overall this show is highly underrated and is definitely worth a listen or two. You won't be disappointed with the Chalkdust, I can guarantee you that.