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'The Clifford Ball' is a seven-DVD box set released on March 3, 2009 by the rock band Phish. It was performed on August 16 and August 17, 1996 at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in Plattsburgh, NY, chronicling the first of ten Phish festivals. The collection received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package in 2009.
Additional footage in this set includes documentaries, the soundcheck from August 15, and footage of the early morning performance of "The Flatbed Jam".
Phish issued the entirety of 'The Clifford Ball' on a 12 LP box set on March 4, 2022. The Flatbad Jam was also made available on a separate LP. The same day as the box set's release, the official audio recordings of the festival were also made available for digital purchase and streaming on the band's LivePhish website.
The event is named for 'the' Clifford Ball, famed aviator who held fabulous balls for other aviators such as Amelia Earheart. The band purportedly learned of Ball from a plaque in a Pittsburgh-area airport, memorializing Ball with the epitath "a beacon of light in the world of flight". Trey used that phrase to introduce Page at 3/26/92 (during the Harpua encore), and at 3/24/92 he calls Fishman "Clifford O'Sullivan ... a beacon of light in the world of flight!" Over four years later, the phrase became the theme of the event named the Clifford Ball.
Track listing
Disc one (August 16, 1996 - Set one)
# "Chalk Dust Torture" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 7:05# "Bathtub Gin" (Anastasio, Goodman) - 10:30
# "Ya Mar" (Ferguson) - 8:51
# "AC/DC Bag" (Anastasio) - 9:11
# "Esther" (Anastasio) - 9:07
# "The Divided Sky" (Anastasio) - 16:35
# "Halley's Comet" (Wright) - 7:01
# "David Bowie" (Anastasio) - 14:52
Disc two (August 16th, 1996 - Set two)
# "Split Open and Melt" (Anastasio) - 13:46# "Sparkle" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:48
# "Free" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 8:48
# "The Squirming Coil" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 10:30
# "Waste" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 4:59
# "Talk" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:41
# "Train Song" (Gordon, Linitz) - 3:14
# "Strange Design" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:47
# "Hello My Baby" (Emerson, Howard, Singer) - 1:48
# "Mike's Song" (Gordon) - 16:00
# "Simple" (Gordon) - 6:03
# "Contact" (Gordon) - 6:09
# "Weekapaug Groove" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 10:02
Disc three (August 16, 1996 - Set three)
# "Makisupa Policeman" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 8:17# "2001" (Deodato) - 6:13
# "Down with Disease" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 15:34
# "NICU" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 5:17
# "Life on Mars?" (Bowie) - 3:23
# "Harry Hood" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Long, McConnell) - 19:58
# "Amazing Grace" (Traditional) - 2:34
Disc four (August 17, 1996 - Set one)
# "The Old Home Place" (Jayne, Webb) - 3:37# "Punch You in the Eye" (Anastasio) - 8:11
# "Reba" (Anastasio) - 16:19
# "Cars Trucks Buses" (McConnell) - 3:41
# "The Lizards" (Anastasio) - 10:35
# "Sample in a Jar" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 4:59
# "Taste" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) - 7:02
# "Fee" (Anastasio) - 5:52
# "Maze" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 12:50
# "Suzy Greenberg" (Pollak) - 7:06
Disc five (August 17, 1996 - Set two)
# "The Curtain" (Anastasio, Daubert) - 7:39# "Runaway Jim" (Abrahams, Anastasio) - 12:26
# "It's Ice" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 9:03
# "Brother" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 6:19
# "Fluffhead" (Anastasio, Pollak) - 14:42
# "Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Pollak) - 10:09
# "Golgi Apparatus" (Anastasio, Marshall, Szuter, Woolf) - 4:44
# "Slave to the Traffic Light" (Abrahams, Anastasio, Pollak) - 13:03
Disc six (August 17, 1996 - Set three)
# "Wilson" - (Anastasio, Marshall, Woolf) - 6:14# "Frankenstein" (Winter) - 4:49
# "Scent of a Mule" (Gordon) - 15:22
# "Tweezer" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 11:56
# "A Day in the Life" (Lennon, McCartney) - 5:35
# "Possum" (Holdsworth) - 13:23
# "Tweezer Reprise" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 4:46
# "Harpua" (Anastasio, Fishman) - 8:53
Disc seven
# "The Clifford Ball: A Beacon of Light"# "The Flatbed Jam" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 39:22
# "Soundcheck" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 52:56
# "An Interview with Jim Pollock"
# "Chris Kuroda Split-Screen"
# "Phish: On Jamming"
# "Phish: The LG"
Personnel
'Phish'
:Trey Anastasio - guitars, lead vocals, acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace", narration on "Harpua"
:Page McConnell - keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Strange Design", "Life on Mars?", "It's Ice" and "A Day in the Life", acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace"
:Mike Gordon - bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Ya Mar", "Train Song", "Mike's Song", "Contact", "The Old Home Place" and "Scent of a Mule", acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace"
:Jon Fishman - drums, backing vocals, acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace"
'Special guests'
:Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's - vocals on "Brother"
'Video Director'
:Martin Pitts
References
Category:Phish video albums
Category:2009 compilation albums
Category:2009 live albums
Category:Live video albums
Category:Phish live albums
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