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"For the most recent batch of the Live Phish series,\nvolumes thirteen through sixteen, the Vermont rockers are releasing\na set of musical masquerades recorded over the course of four\nHalloween performances. The band&amp;apos;s own versions of the Beatles&amp;apos;\n&amp;quot;White Album&amp;quot; (which they covered on Halloween, 1994), the Who&amp;apos;s\nQuadraphenia (1995), the Talking Heads&amp;apos; Remain in\nLight (1996) and the Velvet Underground&amp;apos;s Loaded\n(1998) will be in stores October 29th.\nFrontman Trey Anastasio still feels a bit funny about hearing\nhis versions of albums that were major influences in his life. &amp;quot;The\nwhole idea of releasing them has been a little bit painful for me,&amp;quot;\nhe says. &amp;quot;I really love all those albums, but, to my ear, they are\njust lame versions of great albums. When we first started\nsuggesting this release, I was reluctant at first. As cool as it is\nto do Remain in Light live, you&amp;apos;re talking about this\nseminal record -- it would be like doing Band of Gypsies.\nTurning on the radio and hearing this might give me a little\nstomach ache. I was a huge Talking Heads fan. As you can see with\nmy band, they were a huge influence. I&amp;apos;m basically going in the\nsame direction they were -- with horns.&amp;quot;\n\nA recent meeting with Tina Weymouth and Chris Franz of the Tom\nTom Club -- and formerly the Talking Heads -- calmed some of\nAnastasio&amp;apos;s nerves. &amp;quot;I saw Tina and Chris at the Jammy Awards,&amp;quot; he\nsays, &amp;quot;and they came up and said something about how happy they\nwere that we had done it. I had a huge thing for Tina, and I used\nto go see them all the time when they had this guy who would just\nhold a big light around. He would project the light and make\nshadows, and she would have this short skirt on. For her to say\nthat was great.&amp;quot;\nPart of Anastasio&amp;apos;s goal is to serve as a bridge between\nuninitiated fans and classic rock albums. &amp;quot;If you don&amp;apos;t know about\nRemain in Light or Loaded or whatever,&amp;quot; he says,\n&amp;quot;you should. And for that matter Brian Eno -- everyone should own a\ncopy of [Eno&amp;apos;s] Another Green World.&amp;quot;\nThe biggest risk the band has taken with the &amp;quot;musical costume&amp;quot;\nidea might have been their tackling of the Who&amp;apos;s\nQuadraphenia in 1995. Despite it being a classic record\nfrom a guitarist&amp;apos;s vantage point, the idea to cover it didn&amp;apos;t come\nfrom Anastasio. &amp;quot;I had a relationship with that album, certainly,&amp;quot;\nhe says, &amp;quot;but that was more of a [keyboardist] Page [McConnell]\nthing. I wasn&amp;apos;t that familiar with that album.&amp;quot;\n\nPerhaps the original record that these releases will send fans\ninto stores seeking will be the classic 1970 Velvet Underground\neffort, Loaded. How tough was it to capture the vibe, let\nalone the voice, of Lou Reed? &amp;quot;Well, it will always sound bad to\nme,&amp;quot; Anastasio says of his effort, &amp;quot;but I had a great time doing\nit. I mean you can&amp;apos;t sing &amp;quot;Sweet Jane&amp;quot; and have it not be a little\nlike a joke. Why even try? But when we did those albums they were\nlike mirror images -- it scares me a little having it out\nthere.&amp;quot;\nEach release contains not only the set in which a classic record\nis covered, but also the rest of the gig&amp;apos;s playlist. The &amp;quot;&amp;apos;98&amp;quot; disc\nfeatures not only classic Phish material but also a raging\ntreatment of Dizzy Gillespie&amp;apos;s Manteca.\nPhish, after a two-year hiatus, will reunite this winter for a\ntour that kicks off New Year&amp;apos;s Eve at New York&amp;apos;s Madison Square\nGarden."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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