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Phish: The White Tape

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Label: Phish Dry Goods
Released: 1986
Time:
 54:30
Category: Alternative Rock
Producer(s): Trey Anastasio
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.phish.com
Appears with: Trey Anastasio
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Alumni Blues (Anastasio) - 4:11
[2] And So to Bed (Anastasio) - 4:43
[3] You Enjoy Myself (Anastasio) - 0:55
[4] AC/DC Bag (Anastasio) - 4:09
[5] Fuck Your Face (Gordon) - 2:15
[6] The Divided Sky (Anastasio) - 1:16
[7] Slave to the Traffic Light (Abrahams/Anastasio/Pollak) - 4:35
[8] Aftermath (Anastasio/Holloway) - 2:54
[9] Ingest (Anastasio) - 1:37
[10] NO2 (Gordon) - 7:37
[11] Fluff's Travels (Anastasio) - 1:22
[12] Dog Gone Dog (Anastasio) - 4:03
[13] He Ent to the Bog (Gordon/McBride) - 3:56
[14] Run Like an Antelope (Anastasio/Marshall/Pollak) - 6:41
[15] Minkin (Gordon) - 2:59
[16] Letter to Jimmy Page (Anastasio) - 1:16

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Trey Anastasio - Artwork, Bass, Cover Art, Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals
Mike Gordon - Bass, Bongos, Generator, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Telephone Samples, Vocals
Page McConnell - Fender Rhodes, Vocals
Jon Fishman - Drums, Vocals

Lillian Cherry - Vocals
Dave Abrahams - Vocals
Richard D'Amato - Vocals
Marc Daubert - Vocals
David Gordon - Vocals
Tom Marshall - Vocals
Marge Minkin - Vocals

Dan McBride - Guitar
Becca Buxbaum - Flute, Vocals
Pete Cottone - Drums
Roger Halloway - Finger Picking

Cynthia Brown - Packaging
Jason Colton - Packaging
Bob Ludwig - Mastering
John Paluska - Management
Jim Pollock - Illustrations
Beth Montuori Rowles - Production Assistant
Kevin Shapiro - Production Assistant

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Edited by guitarist Trey Anastasio in the late '80s, this compilation of early demos and four-track experiments was sold by the band at early performances. After going out of print, the collection (known as The White Tape) informally circulated among fans for years before being officially released by the band in 1998. The band itself only appears on five of the disc's 16 tracks ("Alumni Blues," "You Enjoy Myself," "AC/DC Bag," "Dog Gone Dog," and "Letter to Jimmy Page"). The rest of the album is comprised of songs recorded by Anastasio and his high school friends (including future Phish collaborator and Amfibian founder Tom Marshall and the Dude of Life, with whom Phish would record 1991's Crimes of the Mind) as well as several tongue-impaled-in-cheek cuts created by bassist Mike Gordon. The music is decidedly amateurish, but contains a certain charm that comes only with recordings made in dorm rooms and suburban basements. Pieces such as "Fluff's Travels" and the vocal-only arrangement of the future Phish standard "You Enjoy Myself" hint at the complexity the band would soon embrace and invest the album with a historical interest.

Jesse Jarnow - All Music Guide



Phish (also known as The White Tape) is a self-produced album released by the American rock band Phish on cassette in 1986. Often cited as the first Phish "album", The White Tape was originally a collection of original material that the band used as a demo/sample tape for venues, and was sometimes labelled "Phish" or simply "Demo". The album was widely circulated among Phish fans for more than a decade before being officially released in 1998.

The album was created from four-track recordings over a period of three years and includes a number of outside musicians performing on various songs. Only "Alumni Blues", "AC/DC Bag", "Slave To The Traffic Light" and "Dog Gone Dog" (a.k.a. "Dog Log") have the four band members together. The remaining tracks were recorded separately by various members and blended together to create the finished album.

The White Tape includes an early version of the Phish epic "You Enjoy Myself", performed a cappella with the band members singing the opening guitar lines. The album also contains avant-garde experimental pieces, instrumental passages, electronic noises and studio trickery. Some songs were further developed and figure heavily in the band's live performances, while a few have rarely been heard since.

All instruments and vocals on "Fuck Your Face", "NO2", "He Ent to the Bog" and "Minkin" are performed solely by bass guitarist Mike Gordon. All instruments and vocals on "Run Like an Antelope" and "And So to Bed" are recorded solely by Trey Anastasio.

"The Divided Sky", "Ingest" and "Fluff's Travels" are performed by Anastasio, Phish lyricist Tom Marshall, and their friend Marc Daubert on percussion. "Aftermath" has Anastasio and Roger Holloway on guitar. "Slave to the Traffic Light" has Tom Marshall on keyboards and Pete Cottone on drums.

In addition to being released on CD, this album was made available on June 7, 2006, as a download in FLAC and MP3 formats at LivePhish.com.

A limited edition white vinyl version was released at Superball IX, Phish's 2011 summer festival with the remainder offered up for sale as part of Record Store Day's "Black Friday" promotion on November 25, 2011.

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