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The stage underconstruction in Indio, California.
The only thing better than a Phish festival is a Phish festival over Halloween weekend. Days away from their first Halloween show in over 10 years, Phish has many things up their sleeves to ensure three-days of face melting bliss. 8 sets of music, including an acoustic set on Sunday morning and a "Musical costume," will be the highlight of the weekend.
Continuing in the Halloween tradition, the band will cover an album in its entirety. Past musical costumes include The Beatles, The Who, Velvet Underground and the Talking Heads. Slowly eliminating albums off a list of 99, Phish has been narrowing cover album possibilities, maximizing hype and speculation heading into the Festival. Track the album eliminations here.
What will the album be? Many rumors are flying around the Phish community. A production map was leaked on the internet last week, detailing everything involving placement of Porta Johns to the lighting infrastructure. The map details the locations and names of 8 campgrounds rumored to be the final 8 cover album possibilities for the musical costume. So far, a week later, none of the 8 campground albums have been eliminated.
Which album do you think it will be take? Take the survey.
Rumored final 8 albums:
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Genesis - The Lambs Lie Down On Broadway
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
King Crimson - Larks' Tounges in Aspic
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Prince - Purple Rain
Radiohead - Kid A
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
MGMT, Genesis and King Crimson are unlikely to happen. Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie seem like good possibilities given their history of past cover albums. All the previous cover albums(The Beatles' White Album, The Whos' Quadrophenia, Velvet Undergrounds' Loaded and the Talking Heads' Remain in Light) have all been albums that were highly influential in the bands career. Prince and Radiohead would not be bad choices either. One can only dream.
Another unconfirmed, uncredited rumor from an unreliable source has a tip that the cover album is going to be Exile on Main Street. Also word is that the band has been practicing with female soul vocalist Sharon Jones and her backing horn section from Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.
Additionally, some people are speculating that a 100th album will be added to the list at the last moment and Phish will have successfully led their fans on another obsessive web marketing campaign.
If that isn't enough Festival 8 will feature 50 beers on tap(including Sierra Nevada Foam, named after the Phish song), a Farmers Market featuring fresh fruit and veggies, and one of the best lighting rigs in the business. The leaked production map details two extravagant lighting features; the Burble and Borealius. Not limited to just the stage, Phish lighting director Chris Kuroda is planning on utilizing the entire festival grounds to light the occasion.
The Burble is comprised of hundreds of helium balloons illuminated by LED lights suspended above the crowd. See photos below.
Just a few short days before we can say goodbye to our everyday lives for a few days of amazing music, amazing weather, and good times spent with friends. As you make your way to Indio don't forget to tune into The Bunny(95.9FM) and get the party started on the drive in!
Check back after the festival for my personal account of the weekends festivities.
The Burble
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