Bonnaroo 365 to Feature PHISH's The Clifford Ball Release !

     MUSIC NEWS - Bonnaroo festival organizers have announced the 2nd installment of BONNAROO 365, which will feature streamed footage from Phish's The Clifford Ball DVD box set starting on May 11, 2009.  Bonnaroo 365 is a program by which fans can enjoy the festival experience year round.  The program debuted with the The Raconteurs complete live performance from Bonnaroo 2008.  This second round will have classic footage of the second set of night two from the now legendary "fabled fan favorite" performance by PHISH and will be streamed for free on Bonnaroo's website.  The Clifford Ball event holds a great deal of significance for Bonnaroo as it, along with the band's subsequent festivals, were essential sources of inspiration for Bonnaroo's creation. 


In addition to the streamed video, four quintessential live Phish songs will be available as audio downloads as part of Bonnaroo 365, one will be available to everyone, while the other three can be downloaded by Bonnaroo Community members only (though membership sign-up is free).  The songs that will be available are:   

Bathtub Gin (8/17/97 - The Great Went, Limestone, ME)

Gumbo > Sanity (8/15/98 - Lemonwheel, Limestone, ME)

Piper (7/18/99 - Oswego Country Airport, Volney, NY)

Sand > Quadrophenic Toppling (12/31/99 - Big Cypress Seminole Reservation, FL)



Phish's new 7-DVD The Clifford Ball DVD box set (buy above) documents the landmark concert event that drew more than 70,000 fans to upstate New York in August 1996. The Clifford Ball was the first of seven, two-day spectacles the band staged, including The Great Went a year later, followed by Lemonwheel in 1998. The Clifford Ball was held in Plattsburgh, New York, at a decommissioned air force base, where Phish played two marathon concerts and delivered a one-of-a-kind experience for fans.

The dvd box set, being released by Rhino Entertainment, features nine hours of concert music  and event footage (with six complete sets of music recorded Live August 16 & 17, 1996 and bonus features including Phish's extended soundcheck, its late-night flatbed truck jam and a 30-minute featurette with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and more. This regionless DVD set includes options for both stereo and 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound Audio (remixed and mastered from the band's multi-track tapes). 4:3 aspect ratio.

This year, Bonnaroo 2009 will take place June 11 - 14, 2009 on the same beautiful, 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles southeast of Nashville.   An audio track from Phish's The Clifford Ball can now be streamed Bonnaroo.com.

The Clifford Ball - Day Two (8/17/1996) - Set Two

The Curtain
Runaway Jim
It's Ice
Brother
Fluffhead
Run Like An Antelope
Golgi Apparatus
Slave To The Traffic Light

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