"Recorded Live, August 16 & 17, 1996 at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, New York."
Phish, one of the most successful touring bands of all time, are legendary for their spectacular and vastly populated weekend festivals. In 2009, they return to the road with members Trey Anastasio (guitar), Jon Fishman (drums), Mike Gordon (bass) and Page McConnell (keyboards) for the first time in four years. In celebration, Rhino's 7-DVD boxed set The Clifford Ball presents their entire performance at the landmark 1996 concert event that was the first of seven two-day festivals they staged.The seven disc box from Rhino/JEMP contains over nine hours of footage filmed and recorded live on August 16 and 17, 1996. It presents all three music sets and encores the band played on each night, plus bonus extras including: a sound check from August 15; the band's late-night "Flatbed Jam," performed on the back of a truck; an interview with longtime Phish artist Jim Pollock; interviews with band members and other rarities. The Clifford Ball is a regionless DVD set including options for stereo and 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound Audio, remixed and mastered from the band's multi-track tapes. Day One: August 16, 1996 Disc 1 - Set One:
1. Chalk Dust Torture
2. Bathtub Gin
3. Ya Mar
4. AC/DC Bag
5. Esther
6. The Divided Sky
7. Halley's Comet
8. David Bowie Disc 2 - Set Two:
1. Spilt Open and Melt
2. Sparkle
3. Free
4. The Squirming Coil
5. Waste
6. Talk
7. Train Song
8. Strange Design
9. Hello My Baby
10. Mike's Song
11. Simple
12. Contact
13. Weekapaug Groove Disc 3 - Set Three:
1. Makisupa Policeman
2. 2001
3. Down with Disease
4. Nicu
5. Life on Mars
6. Harry Hood Encore:
7. Amazing Grace Day Two: August 17, 1996 Disc 4 - Set One:
1. Old Home Place
2. Punch You in the Eye
3. Reba
4. Cars Trucks Buses
5. The Lizards
6. Sample in a Jar
7. Taste
8. Fee
9. Maze
10. Suzy Greenberg Disc 5 - Set Two:
1. The Curtain
2. Runaway Jim
3. It's Ice
4. Brother
5. Fluffhead
6. Run Like an Antelope
7. Golgi Apparatus
8. Slave to the Traffic Light Disc 6 - Set Three:
1. Wilson
2. Frankenstein
3. Scent of a Mule
4. Tweezer
5. A Day in the Life
6. Possum
7. Tweezer Reprise Encore:
8. Harpua Bonus Disc 7:
1. The Clifford Ball: A Beacon of Light
2. The Flatbed Jam
3. Soundcheck (8/15/1996)
4. An Interview with Jim Pollock
5. Chris Kuroda Split-Screen
6. Phish: On Jamming
7. Phish: The LG
Editor's Note
It was a music festival with just one amazing act. In 1996, Phish set up a stage in rural Plattsburgh, New York, and played for two days, offering three full sets to over 70,000 fans. The weekend-long show, dubbed The Clifford Ball, was the first in what would become a powerful musical tradition--drawing jam-band fans from across the globe, Phish followed-up the massive concert with six legendary festival-style performances. This incredibly comprehensive box set includes the sights and sounds from the Plattsburgh stage, including nine hours of improvisational jams, as well as behind-the-scenes footage of the band.
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