Live Phish 07.15.03 Explained

Live Phish 07.15.03
Type:live
Artist:Phish
Cover:Live Phish 7-15-03 (cover art).jpg
Released:2003
Recorded:July 15, 2003
Length:2:47:58
Label:Phish Dry Goods
Producer:Phish
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Live Phish 07.15.03 is a live album by American rock group Phish, which was recorded live at the USANA Amphitheater in West Valley, Utah, on July 15, 2003.

This show is highlighted by a half-hour performance of the Trey Anastasio solo song "Mr. Completely," marking the first time Phish had performed the song. It would not be played again until 2017. Throughout the rest of the second set, much like their earlier days in the 1990s, the band weaves in and out of a song (this time it's "Big Black Furry Creature From Mars") in the midst of heavy improvisation and extended jams.

Other highlights include an energetic "Walls of the Cave" and the show closer, "Slave to the Traffic Light."

This show was also among a small batch of the 2003 live shows to be released in CD form.

Track listing

Disc one

Set one:

  1. "AC/DC Bag" (Trey Anastasio) – 9:37 >
  2. "Ya Mar" (Cyril Ferguson) – 8:53
  3. "Theme from the Bottom" (Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Page McConnell, Tom Marshall) – 11:36
  4. "Saw It Again" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 7:01
  5. "Poor Heart" (Gordon) – 3:04
  6. "Two Versions of Me" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 8:00
  7. "Secret Smile" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 4:00
  8. "Mike's Song" (Gordon) – 9:26 >
  9. "I Am Hydrogen" (Anastasio, Marc Daubert, Marshall) – 3:03 >
  10. "Weekapaug Groove" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 12:01

Disc two

Set two:

  1. "Mr. Completely" (Anastasio) – 30:47 >
  2. "Low Rider" (Papa Dee Allen, Harold Ray Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott, Jerry Goldstein) – 3:32 >
  3. "Big Black Furry Creature from Mars" (Gordon) – 1:54 >
  4. "Buried Alive" (Anastasio) – 1:14 >
  5. "Big Black Furry Creature from Mars" (Gordon) – 0:54 >
  6. "Ha Ha Ha" (Fishman) – 0:26 >
  7. "Big Black Furry Creature from Mars" (Gordon) – 0:39 >
  8. "Mr. Completely" (Anastasio) – 5:18 >
  9. "Spread It 'Round" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 8:43

Disc three

Set two, continued:

  1. "Walls of the Cave" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 15:46
  2. "Golgi Apparatus" (Anastasio, Marshall, Brian Szuter, Aaron Woolf) – 4:27
  3. "Slave to the Traffic Light" (Anastasio, Dave Abrahams, Steve Pollak) – 11:07

Encore:

  1. "Sleeping Monkey" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 6:30

Personnel