The Clifford Ball (DVD)

The Clifford Ball is a Grammy nominated seven-DVD box set released on March 3, 2009 by the rock band Phish. It was performed on August 16 and August 17, 1996 at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in Plattsburgh, NY, chronicling the first of ten Phish festivals.

The Clifford Ball
Directed by	Martin Pitts
Starring	Phish
Music by	Phish
Distributed by	JEMP
Release date	March 3, 2009 (2009-03-03)
Running time	600 minutes

Additional footage in this set includes documentaries, the soundcheck from August 15, and footage of the early morning performance of "The Flatbed Jam".

Track listing

Disc one (August 16, 1996 - Set one)

1. "Chalk Dust Torture" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 7:05
2. "Bathtub Gin" (Anastasio, Goodman) - 10:30
3. "Ya Mar" (Ferguson) - 8:51
4. "AC/DC Bag" (Anastasio) - 9:11
5. "Esther" (Anastasio) - 9:07
6. "The Divided Sky" (Anastasio) - 16:35
7. "Halley's Comet" (Wright) - 7:01
8. "David Bowie" (Anastasio) - 14:52

Disc two (August 16th, 1996 - Set two)

1. "Split Open and Melt" (Anastasio) - 13:46
2. "Sparkle" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:48
3. "Free" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 8:48
4. "The Squirming Coil" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 10:30
5. "Waste" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 4:59
6. "Talk" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:41
7. "Train Song" (Gordon, Linitz) - 3:14
8. "Strange Design" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:47
9. "Hello My Baby" (Emerson, Howard, Singer) - 1:48
10. "Mike's Song" (Gordon) - 16:00
11. "Simple" (Gordon) - 6:03
12. "Contact" (Gordon) - 6:09
13. "Weekapaug Groove" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 10:02

Disc three (August 16, 1996 - Set three)

1. "Makisupa Policeman" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 8:17
2. "2001" (Deodato) - 6:13
3. "Down with Disease" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 15:34
4. "NICU" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 5:17
5. "Life on Mars?" (Bowie) - 3:23
6. "Harry Hood" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Long, McConnell) - 19:58
7. "Amazing Grace" (Traditional) - 2:34

Disc four (August 17, 1996 - Set one)

1. "The Old Home Place" (Jayne, Webb) - 3:37
2. "Punch You in the Eye" (Anastasio) - 8:11
3. "Reba" (Anastasio) - 16:19
4. "Cars Trucks Buses" (McConnell) - 3:41
5. "The Lizards" (Anastasio) - 10:35
6. "Sample in a Jar" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 4:59
7. "Taste" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) - 7:02
8. "Fee" (Anastasio) - 5:52
9. "Maze" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 12:50
10. "Suzy Greenberg" (Pollak) - 7:06

Disc five (August 17, 1996 - Set two)

1. "The Curtain" (Anastasio, Daubert) - 7:39
2. "Runaway Jim" (Abrahams, Anastasio) - 12:26
3. "It's Ice" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 9:03
4. "Brother" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 6:19
5. "Fluffhead" (Anastasio, Pollak) - 14:42
6. "Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Pollak) - 10:09
7. "Golgi Apparatus" (Anastasio, Marshall, Szuter, Woolf) - 4:44
8. "Slave to the Traffic Light" (Abrahams, Anastasio, Pollak) - 13:03

Disc six (August 17, 1996 - Set three)

1. "Wilson" - (Anastasio, Marshall, Woolf) - 6:14
2. "Frankenstein" (Winter) - 4:49
3. "Scent of a Mule" (Gordon) - 15:22
4. "Tweezer" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 11:56
5. "A Day in the Life" (Lennon, McCartney) - 5:35
6. "Possum" (Holdsworth) - 13:23
7. "Tweezer Reprise" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 4:46
8. "Harpua" (Anastasio, Fishman) - 8:53

Disc seven

1. "The Clifford Ball: A Beacon of Light"
2. "The Flatbed Jam" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 39:22
3. "Soundcheck" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 52:56
4. "An Interview with Jim Pollock"
5. "Chris Kuroda Split-Screen"
6. "Phish: On Jamming"
7. "Phish: The LG"

Personnel

Phish

Trey Anastasio - guitars, lead vocals, acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace", narration on "Harpua"

Page McConnell - keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Strange Design", "Life on Mars?", "It's Ice" and "A Day in the Life", acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace"

Mike Gordon - bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Ya Mar", "Train Song", "Mike's Song", "Contact", "The Old Home Place" and "Scent of a Mule", acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace"

Jon Fishman - drums, backing vocals, acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace"

Special guests

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's - vocals on "Brother"

Video Director

Martin Pitts