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Phish - Phish (The White Tape) Audio CD

A fair review of the Phish "Phish (The White Tape)" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Phish reviews here, or go back to the Phish tabs.

Phish Band: Phish
Title: Phish (The White Tape)
Rating:
Release Date: 2003-11-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Alumni Blues 2: And So to Bed 3: You Enjoy Myself 4: AC/DC Bag 5: Fuck Your Face 6: Divided Sky 7: Slave to the Traffic Light 8: Aftermath 9: Ingest 10: NO2 11: Fluff's Travels 12: Dog Gone Dog 13: He Ent to the Bog 14: Run Like an Antelope 15: Minkin 16: Letter to Jimmy Page

Very interesting
Mike Gordon is responsible for most of the weird stuff here. If you're not a hardcore phan, you'll still get a few laughs out of this, from the sheer absurdity of songs like "NO2", "Minkin", and "**** Your Face" (not sure if I'm allowed to say the name of that song here).

This album is sort of painful to listen to, not because the music is bad, but because whoever mastered the album left a terrible high pitched edge in most of the songs, which gets to be a bit of an icepick in the ear after a while.

Just so you know, there is a lot of very weird stuff on here. "He Ent to the Bog" is an experimental song with telephone jokes about hamburgers being recited in the background.

"Letter To Jimmy Page" actually reminds me somewhat of Jimmy Pages early guitar playing style, interestingly enough.

"Minkin" is a hilarious advertisment for Marjorie Minkin paintings, done by Mike Gordon. Later, I discovered that Marjorie Minkin is a real person! She's a contemporary artist who's friends with Mike Gordon. It's definitely a laugh.



I wish PHiSH would work on releasing the original "Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday". That would be amazing. It's a great work of literature in itself.


Phish's minnows
This mid-80s collection is a worthwhile purchase for anyone who wants to delve deeper into Phish's origins. Although Junta is Phish's first official "album" (and an excellent one at that), it doesn't really represent the band's true musical roots and development.

Most of the White Tape is made up of solo compositions by Trey and Mike, many of which were never performed live. Trey has some lovely acoustic instrumentals (And So To Bed, Aftermath) while Mike contributes some truly bizarre novelty pieces (F*** Your Face, He Ent To The Bog, Minkin. ) But what really makes this collection interesting is the stripped-down versions of classic early Phish tunes -- Slave To The Traffic Light, now a hard-rocking, 10-minute stage epic, is given a sprightly, reggae-flavored treatment here, while Run Like an Antelope is performed in a slightly bluegrass fashion.

Only three of the songs -- Alumni Blues, AC/DC Bag and Dog Log -- feature the Phish line-up we've come to know and love, so the album may take some getting used to. Also, with the exception of those three songs, everything here was recorded on a four-track machine, so the sound quality isn't the best. Still, it should be a worthwhile purchase for anyone wanting to know what Phish was up to during their fledgling days at Goddard College.


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