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the party-preaching I Get Wet didn't capture the zeitgeist of rock at the turn of the century

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Phish's A Live One the rolling stones and chainsaws—and even recorded aTwenty years after its release, Phish's double CD collection A Live One has something rare and precious going for it: it still doesn't sound like anyone else. Oversized, perverse, requiring an unusual amount of listener background knowledge? Yes to all. Yet the collective improvisations it captures, unprecedentedly coherent yet freewheeling and open ended, are unique in rock 'n' roll. This book considers the music and moment of Phish's ecstatically