Cinci. Either Prince: Purple Rain or Clash: London Calling (with horns on the songs that need them).

They've covered pop, blues, british, new wave & psychedelic rock bands...how about a funky dance party?

James Brown - Love Power Peace
Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life, Innervisions

anyone care to list the bands they have done over the years? All I know is Stones and Little Feat.

The Beatles
Little Feat
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
Talking Heads
The Who
Velvet Underground

(to answer @joyjoy above)

Thanks @morsemoose! Classic rock baby!! I would vote for a GD album .

Lets escape the fans comfort zone here.
Black Sabbath. Paranoid.
Trey is a metal head.

I think it'd be funny if they did nirvana in utero. I'm sure many people would be upset, but itd probably be pretty good

@morsemoose said:

Odessey and Oracle

I'm assuming that you mean The Zombies, right? If so, that's one of the more interesting suggestions yet.

I agree, any Hendrix album is long over due. Hell, Zeppelin as well. I still think Gamehendge would be quite fitting and about the only gig they could play it at. I don't see them busting it out at a typical show nowadays. Hell, I think it'd be awesome if they did a full Phish costume surrounded by two sets full of various covers.

@theesloth said:

@Pibbs said:

Anybody think in the years to come, if there ever is a Halloween show again, that they'll have the phans choose again. And if so, what would your choices be? Zappa? Zeppelin? The Band?

When did the fans get to choose?

Up until Loaded, I believe.

Hmmm...

I would love for a Genesis album to be on the list but seeing as how they almost did that, I'm not sure they'd ever consider it again. But who cares?!?! I'm putting them on my list anyways (with a few others):

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
Selling England By the Pound - Genesis
Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes
Close to the Edge - Yes
2112 - Rush
Hemispheres - Rush

I'm such a dork.

^so my phone edited out a few words, sorry.

And nirvana would be kind of sweet @gamehendge

Fans voted the White Album and Quadrophenia, Remain in light was chosen by phish, mainly trey's idea, loaded I dont know whose idea it originally was, but phish decided on it. Exile on Main Street was done in a countdown for Festival 8, in which 8 albums were left by the start of the festival and on halloween that was picked. Obviously they picked it long before. and Little Feat was all their choice, i've heard that Mike was quoted in saying, if they weren't going to do Little Feat, they weren't going to do halloween at all.

Disraeli Gears by Cream

Zappa
Genesis
Yes
King Crimson

@ivy_light said:

Hmmm...

I would love for a Genesis album to be on the list but seeing as how they almost did that, I'm not sure they'd ever consider it again. But who cares?!?! I'm putting them on my list anyways (with a few others):

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
Selling England By the Pound - Genesis
Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes
Close to the Edge - Yes
2112 - Rush
Hemispheres - Rush

I'm such a dork.

I would poop myself if any of these are ever done!

Page would have his work cut out for him on Genesis, because Tony Banks is a monster!!! (Fish would also have to work his ass off, cause Phil Collins was no slouch either)

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Michael Jackson - Thriller

Toss up for me, totally different vibes, but each would be so sick!

@mgh2001 said:

So the general consensus is no GD costumes ever? While I agree that it wouldn't be the most original thing they could do, I honestly would enjoy the shit out of it. The boys can obviously handle their work from a musical point of view and from what i've heard Trey sing I think he (and the rest of the band) could do the vocals justice. I understand why people would think it's lame, and I doubt the old dead heads would take kindly to it whist tearing the performances apart for every reason they could think of. I have no problem admitting I would f***ing love every second of it, just once.

I agree. I would f***ing love it. If they did Anthem, Workinman's, Europe 72', Blues for Allah, From Mars, Terrapin, ect. would all be sick.

@forbin05 said:

@ivy_light said:

Hmmm...

I would love for a Genesis album to be on the list but seeing as how they almost did that, I'm not sure they'd ever consider it again. But who cares?!?! I'm putting them on my list anyways (with a few others):

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
Selling England By the Pound - Genesis
Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes
Close to the Edge - Yes
2112 - Rush
Hemispheres - Rush

I'm such a dork.

I would poop myself if any of these are ever done!

Page would have his work cut out for him on Genesis, because Tony Banks is a monster!!! (Fish would also have to work his ass off, cause Phil Collins was no slouch either)

So true. I think they'd almost have to court the original vocalists for Genesis and Rush like they apparently did with Peter Gabriel since both Gabriel and Geddy Lee have such distinctive voices. They could probably handle the Yes vocals since Jon Anderson's and Benoit David's voice aren't really all that unique IMO.

It would be awesome to see any one of these. Any of those albums, with the possible exception of those by Rush, would require additional musicians: flutes, oboes, maybe strings. I think it would be absolutely awesome if Trey and Mike could play some of those dueling acoustic guitar arrangements in some of those songs. I could talk about Genesis for ever!

I think Kuroda would have a fun time with Genesis and Yes particularly. Especially Genesis. They're shows were HUGE productions!

Sigh...I'm dreaming of Page ripping through the intro to Firth of Fifth!

As far as more recent stuff goes, I think Purple Rain would be awesome. I tend to wonder if they've primarily picked personally influential albums to do versus groundbreaking albums that they might not necessarily say were directly involved in the formulation of their own sound. I dunno.

@Pibbs said:

@mgh2001 said:

So the general consensus is no GD costumes ever? While I agree that it wouldn't be the most original thing they could do, I honestly would enjoy the shit out of it. The boys can obviously handle their work from a musical point of view and from what i've heard Trey sing I think he (and the rest of the band) could do the vocals justice. I understand why people would think it's lame, and I doubt the old dead heads would take kindly to it whist tearing the performances apart for every reason they could think of. I have no problem admitting I would f***ing love every second of it, just once.

I agree. I would f***ing love it. If they did Anthem, Workinman's, Europe 72', Blues for Allah, From Mars, Terrapin, ect. would all be sick.

See it would be awesome to have a GD halloween, but covering an album of theirs would be lame and possibly too long (europe 72). I think a mock set or kinda what dark star does would be the best outcome for a dead costume. Maybe a whole show of dead with a Phish costume? probably the most unrealistic. Phish is definitely tired of the the comparison, but honestly I don't know why. Maybe the band thinks nodding more to the dead will give the critics proof that "all they do is play music like the dead". They could totally do a lot of the songs more justice than Bobby talking through them, merely going through the motions just to pay the bills.

Sabbath would be cool, but I think it would get old by the 4th song. The Ideal is an album that a lot of "old heads", using the terms loosely there, can remember jamming to, and one that a lot of younger people have never really heard in its entirety. So I guess sabbath would fit, but there is a time and a place for headbanging, and an entire set of phish is not that place.

Deodato's Prelude or Deodato 2 would be my pick. They would only really need more percussion. Horns/ flutes would be nice but it can be done without them (2001). That's the beauty of Phish.

^ John Popper

yea so its a live album....so what

I second the MBV 'Loveless' pick and would also love to hear
Steely Dan's 'Pretzel Logic'
Yo La Tengo's 'I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass'
Warren Zevon's 'Excitable Boy'

My picks would be

1. One Size Fits All by Frank Zappa and The mothers

2. Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin

3. Stage Fright by The Band

4. One Nation Under a Groove by Funkadelic!

5. Foxtrot by Genesis