"Ghost."
It's a wisp of a song, yet one of the band's most versatile canvases. It can become a melting reactor core, a V8 ghetto glide, a starship awakening in the cradle of a distant nebula, or a lurking menace. And 'tis the season: If Winter Phish is "Tweezer," Spring Phish is "Reba," and Summer Phish is "Bathtub Gin," then Fall Phish is surely "Ghost."
To mark and celebrate the onset of autumn, we want to hear about your favorite "Ghost." And this Ranker comes with a bit of a twist: we are letting our users start with a blank canvas. We haven't named a single contender . . . not that we could name just one if we tried. [Edit: Well, we had to name one to create the poll. What better to start with than the studio version?]
Please add your selection using this format: Ghost YYYY-MM-DD. Thanks!
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Still my personal favorite, despite the awesomeness of many other versions.
Good pick though! That's a great version!
you can add these dates into the ranker yourself
I also added pictures related to the places they were played (because I have no life). Prague's famous Astronomical Clock...the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen's harbor...etc.
Denver got the now somewhat infamous CO state flag. Hope it isn't blocking anyone's view...haha!
Thanks!
@17:29 The surface of the sun!
1997/7/23 my first Ghost and one of the best ever
You can find me on the bench.
The argument ends here!!!
2003-12-29, Miami
2009-11-28 Albany
As per the Ghost song history on Phish.net:
In The Phish Book Trey referred to the 11/17/97 Denver “Ghost” as his favorite part of his favorite show from the fall tour, a show the band listened to many times, in a way influencing themselves.
This maybe the most slept on piece of Phish music out there..
Never gets any love.
It's the first really great Ghost, completely blew away the previous six performances, and I think it trumped the 7/3 version for sure. It had all the right pieces to make history: downright funkness, ridiculous worm banter summoning the evil forces that would hang around for the following night, then shifting gears at the drop of a dime and leading into a few dreamy psychedelic movements, and finally a heavy closing section with Mike leading us home with a killer groove as Page and Fish pound away on their instruments of doom. Nobody got out of there alive, especially after that insidious Wormtown jam later in the run. This was arguably the jam (and show) of that tour, although I'm sure most would take the Stash from 7/2 mostly because that was monumental for that song as well, but I would still take this Ghost over it. Oh, and that was the show opener. Bananas. It was the first version that really answered their questions about where they could take that song.
And the answer was > > > into ALTERNATE FCKING DIMENSIONS.
but I think Denver 11/17/97 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-21/ is the most representative of all things Ghost.
I think you can make a case for any one of these Ghosts
Lakewood 7/23/97 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-12/ Disco Destruction
Worcester 11/28/97 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-23/ FUNK CITY Start/Stop
Rochester 12/11/97 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-26/ Funk> Furious Peak
Christiana 07/02/98 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-31/ Has everything
Desert Sky 07/21/98 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-35/ BEAST
Grand Rapids 11/11/98 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-43/ Funk/Face Melter
Molson 7/20/99 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-50/ Mike Led Monster
Portland Meadows 09/12/99 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-54/ DIRTY GHOST
Big Cat 6/15/00 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-62/ Big Rolling Peaks
Harford 07/01/00 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-63/ ASS KICKER
Albany 09/08/00 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-65/ Crowd Melts
Worcester 02/26/03 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-69/ 2.0 Dance Party
Albany 11/28/09 http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-88/ 3.0 Ghost to beat
Prague ( http://lawnmemo.com/the-daily-ghost-32/) certainly has a furious peak, but so do many others that do other things as well. Love reading everyone's input on this!!
Fuck me, this thing needs to be added
1. 11/17/97
2. 7/6/98
3. 8/3/03
4. 5/22/00
5. 7/23/97
http://www.phishtracks.com/shows/1998-07-02/ghost
Anyway, I love all these Ghosts, but one of my favorite is not anywhere on here, but definitely deserves mention.
11-15-98 Murfreesboro, TN
Also, in case you've never seen this before, this definitely justifies 7-6-98's placement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWi1dGT9UY&feature=youtu.be
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Last year's Ghost on 9/2 at Dick's was pretty darn good.