PHISH-Magnaball Collector Package-w/ LPs Rift-Picture of Nectar-Junta-Fuego

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Includes 4 Phish Vinyl Records M/NM (still in plastic) + Sticker + Button + Magnaball map + Magnaball Daily Newspaper (Sunday)

Rift [9/18] by Phish (Vinyl, Sep-2015, Jemp Records) Artist:Phish Format:Vinyl Release Date:Sep 18, 2015 Record Label:Jemp Records Genre:Alternative, Rock & Pop

Album Features UPC: 825084976122 Artist: Phish Format: Vinyl Release Year: 2015 Record Label: Jemp Records Genre: Alternative, Rock & Pop
Details Distributor: ADA Recording Type: Studio SPAR Code: DDD
Album Notes
Phish: Trey Anastasio (guitars, vocals); Page McConnell (keyboards, vocals); Mike Gordon (bass); Jonathon "Tubbs" Fishman (drums).Additional personnel: Gordon Stone (pedal steel).Recorded at White Crow, Burlington, Vermont and The Castle, Nashville, Tennessee from September to November, 1992.


Junta [Deluxe Pollack Version] by Phish (Vinyl, Apr-2012, Jemp Records) Artist:Phish Format:Vinyl Release Date:Apr 21, 2012 Record Label:Jemp Records Genre:Alternative, Rock & Pop
Album Features UPC: 825084977327 Artist: Phish Format: Vinyl Release Year: 2012 Record Label: Jemp Records Genre: Alternative, Rock & Pop
Details Distributor: n/a Recording Type: Mixed SPAR Code: DDD
Album Notes
Originally recorded in 1988, this album was previously available only at the band's concerts.Phish: Trey Anastacio (vocals, guitar); Jonathan Fishman (vocals, trombone, drums); Page McConnell (vocals, piano); Mike Gordon (vocals, bass).Principally recorded at Euphoria Sound Studios, Revere, Massachusetts in 1988.At the time they recorded their first album, the 1988 double-disc JUNTA, Phish were just an unsigned band from the not-exactly-happening college town of Burlington, Vermont. But by the time Elektra reissued the album, adding 40 minutes' worth of previously unissued live tracks from the band's early days onto disc two, Phish were both the leading lights of the jam band scene and the group most likely to take up the Grateful Dead's torch. What's most surprising about JUNTA is how fully-formed the Phish aesthetic is; despite its somewhat thin sound, the album has the loose, shaggy feel of the group's live sets and the band's trademark sense of oddball humor, as well as their knack for organic, evolving arrangements, on full display throughout songs like "David Bowie" and the 25-minute live showcase "Union Federal." Later albums added just a bit more structure and a hint of pop sheen to the proceedings, but JUNTA proves that Phish arrived on the scene basically fully formed.

Picture of Nectar [Deluxe LP] by Phish (Vinyl, Sep-2014, 4 Discs, Jemp Records) Artist:Phish Format:Vinyl Release Date:Sep 16, 2014 Record Label:Jemp Records Genre:Alternative, Rock & Pop
Album Features UPC: 825084974920 Artist: Phish Format: Vinyl Release Year: 2014 Record Label: Jemp Records Genre: Alternative, Rock & Pop Number Of Discs: 4
Details Contributing Artists: Gordon Stone Distributor: ADA Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a
Album Notes
Phish: Trey Anastasio (guitar, vocals); Page McConnell (piano, organ, harmonica, vocals); Mike Gordon (bass, vocals); Jon Fishman (drums, piano, guitar, vocals).Additional personnel: Gordon Stone (pedal steel).Recorded at White Crow Studios, Burlington, Vermont between June & August, 1991.Named after Nectar Rorris, proprietor of the bar that hosted their earliest gigs in Burlington, Vermont, Phish's third album, A Picture of Nectar, marked their major-label debut. Nearly a decade into their career by the time of its 1992 release, the quartet had spent the better part of the '80s honing their distinct craft, releasing a pair of well-regarded indie albums (1988's Junta and 1990's Lawn Boy), and building the rabid, grassroots fan base that would grow into a major cultural network over the coming decades. Using Elektra's budget, they set up camp in Burlington's White Crow Studios in the summer of 1991 to make what is possibly their strongest and most focused record. With a sound built largely on improvisatory jams, quirky songwriting, and deeply musical chops, the added production value on Nectar actually heightens rather than detracts from the immediacy of their playing. It expands on their mix of styles drawing from psychedelia, jazz, bluegrass, and '70s rock over the course of 16 tracks, which range from the nearly nine-minute-long epic "Tweezer" to the 30-second a cappella "Catapult." While there are plenty of excellent songs built for the stage, like the aforementioned "Tweezer," "Guelah Papyrus," and future live staple "Chalkdust Torture," they also stretch out in the studio with tracks like the lovely, acoustic instrumental "Faht" and the experimental pop of folk-pop of "Glide." For all of its freewheeling variety, A Picture of Nectar manages to be extremely cohesive, firmly establishing Phish's unique brand to a much wider audience than they'd previously enjoyed. While they would continue to grow both on-stage and on record, this album captured a very vital period in their career and ranks as possibly the most essential studio album in their canon. ~ Timothy Monger

Fuego [LP] * by Phish (Vinyl, Jun-2014, Jemp Records) Artist:Phish Format:Vinyl Release Date:Jun 24, 2014 Record Label:Jemp Records Genre:Rock & Pop
Album Features UPC: 825084976221 Artist: Phish Format: Vinyl Release Year: 2014 Record Label: Jemp Records Genre: Rock & Pop
Details Distributor: ADA Recording Type: Studio SPAR Code: DDD
Album Notes
The studio album has always been a slippery prospect for any jam band worth taking seriously. Even the earliest champions of live exploration (Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, etc.) turned in their share of notoriously spotty or confusing studio recordings, much preferring the stage as a place for their craft to really take form. Long-running jam-band institution Phish follow this to a T, releasing scads of live recordings that tend to find superior readings of tunes that come off stuffy or lifeless in their studio versions. Releasing new studio material seems to be a low priority for the band, with 12th studio album Fuego being released five years after 2009's Joy, which itself came after 2004's Undermind. The hallucinatory whimsy and unbridled exuberance Phish exude on-stage has been hard to capture in the confines of the studio, but the excellent and smartly crafted Fuego steps outside of this pattern in a few ways. The logical thing to do when recording a band championed for their excellence in a live setting would be to record them as close to live in the studio as possible, as was the process with the unremarkable Joy. Studio legend Bob Ezrin seems to rethink that approach here, with production that highlights individual elements that make a fantastic whole, rather than the collective energy that so often turns to murky confusion on tape. Instead of an overblown studio creation, Fuego instead finds the band sounding relaxed and connected, but also distinctly articulate in their often complex twists and turns. More than the smart production, Fuego is a standout in Phish's sometimes less-than-impressive studio catalog on the strengths of its ten stellar tracks, inspired tunes that share a loose thread as they bound between virtuosic playing, flirtations with gospel and funk, and the kind of eclectic rock jamming Phish have made their name on. The album opens with its epic titular track, a flashy, caffeinated jam that spins on for almost ten minutes before second track, "The Line," simmers things down with its quirky grooves and a pop-friendly chorus that make the song one of the album's catchiest moments. Fans of the band's goofier side will delight in "Wombat," a dorky funk workout that recalls their early romps with nonsensical lyrical themes and lighthearted genre experimentation. Horns, synthesizers, background singers, and other various sprinklings of production pop up throughout the album, keeping the already sharp tunes sonically interesting on top of solid interplay between the core bandmembers. With sharp production and some of the better compositions Phish have managed in ages, Fuego ranks among their best studio albums, capturing strands of the frenetic, cartoonish, darkly cautionary, and open-hearted expressions that make their concerts such moving experiences, but which often get lost when the tape starts rolling. ~ Fred Thomas

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