On October 31, 1994, Phish played a sold-out, three-set Halloween marathon at the Glens Falls Civic Center that gave birth to one of the most celebrated traditions in live music. Fans had voted on which classic album the band should wear as a “musical costume,” and the winner was the Beatles’ White Album, performed front to back as the second set, with all but one of the songs Phish played making their Phish debut that night. The set built to gleeful chaos: a birthday cake presented onstage to Brad Sands during “Birthday,” then Jon Fishman soloing on a vacuum cleaner and, by the end of “Revolution 9,” running around the stage naked while the band blew bubbles. Thirty-two years on, the Halloween musical costume remains Phish’s signature ritual, and it began in a 7,806-capacity hockey arena on the edge of the Adirondacks.
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