
Phish is an American rock band formed at the University of Vermont in Burlington in 1983, and for more than four decades the quartet has been organized around a single principle: no two shows are ever the same. Guitarist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, drummer Jon Fishman, and keyboardist Page McConnell fold funk, jazz fusion, progressive rock, bluegrass, psychedelic rock, and barbershop-style vocal harmonies into extended group improvisation. Part of a wave of improvisational rock acts inspired by the The Grateful Dead's live format, Phish ended 1997 among the ten highest-grossing concert acts in the United States.
Phish self-released its debut album Junta on cassette in 1989, the same year a sold-out show at Boston's Paradise Rock Club, a night the band rented outright after the club declined to book them, became their breakthrough on the Northeast circuit. Elektra Records signed the band in 1991, and the 1995 live album A Live One later earned Platinum certification in the United States and remains their best-selling release. Phish began a two-year hiatus in 2000, disbanded in 2004, and returned to the stage in March 2009 with three reunion shows at Hampton Coliseum in Virginia. The reunion era has produced some of the most ambitious runs in live music, including a 13-night Baker's Dozen residency at Madison Square Garden in 2017 that featured 237 different songs with zero repeats, plus a four-show stand at Sphere in Las Vegas in April 2024 that made Phish only the second act, after U2, to perform at the venue. The band has played more than 90 concerts at Madison Square Garden since its 1994 debut at the arena, second only to Billy Joel among musical acts.
A typical Phish show runs two long sets with an intermission, songs bleed into one another through improvisational jams that regularly stretch past ten minutes, and lighting director Chris Kuroda, nicknamed CK5 by fans and often called the band's unofficial fifth member, improvises a light show to match the music. Fans arrive hours before doors to turn the parking lot into its own community, and a designated tapers' section captures performances for free trading among collectors, a practice the band allows. Known as Phishheads, this following was built by word of mouth and the exchange of live recordings, and it fills venues decades into the band's run. For that crowd, a Phish ticket is less a seat at a concert than a pass to something that will never happen the same way twice.
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