<p>On November 7, 1996 <a href=”http://www.phish.com”><strong>Phish</strong></a> played their only show to-date at Rupp Arena in downtown Lexington, KY – best known as the home of University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball.&nbsp; Opened in 1976 with a capacity of 23,500 and named for former UK Coach Adolph Rupp, the venue was dubbed “the largest sporting arena in the country.”&nbsp; Phish rolled into Cats country just three shows after their Halloween Remain in Light show and midway into a 35-date national tour.&nbsp; The band’s sixth studio album, Billy Breathes, was released <span class=”aBn” data-term=”goog_854740862″ tabindex=”0″><span class=”aQJ”>October 16th</span></span>.&nbsp; Fall tour started that same day and was heating up on the heels of multiple guest drums and percussion appearances by The Fringe/Surrender to the Air’s Bob Gullotti and Santana’s Karl Perazzo.&nbsp; The band built upon that energy with driving beats, heavy keys and Trey’s percussion setup to propel the music into a new groove-driven amalgam, foreshadowing what was eventually called cow funk.&nbsp; A Live One had been out for more than a year, but multitrack tapes were still spinning to capture the magic at Rupp Arena – where more than 10,000 UK students and Phishheads got far beyond their $20 worth of vast jams, deep exploration and rarities.</p>
<p>Rupp Arena set I highlights included a Chalk Dust Torture opener, the only Weigh of fall tour and a hot Stash.&nbsp; Waste and the tour’s first Guyute came next, followed by a Free &gt; Tela combination that featured the Billy Breathes hit single paired with fall’s only Tela.&nbsp; An incendiary Character Zero closed the set.&nbsp; The Rupp’s set II kicked off with a Suzy Greenberg opener that set up the experimental, top-shelf (longest-ever at the time) Bathtub Gin.&nbsp; The Rupp Gin was a masterpiece that showcased a multiverse of creativity capped with a warped OUTro that melted right into Hold Your Head Up.&nbsp; After Bathtub Gin &gt; HYHU, Fish emerged from behind his kit with his Electrolux vacuum for the only Bike of fall tour.&nbsp; A monumental You Enjoy Myself ended set II and alluded to the Frankenstein encore which put the exclamation point on one of the great sets of fall ‘96.</p>
<p>11/7/96 was recorded by Paul Languedoc to digital multitrack and mixed and mastered by Jon Altschiller.&nbsp; The show is available 3/7/16 via: the LivePhish+ App and as MP3, FLAC, and full-resolution FLAC-HD downloads at <a href=”http://LivePhish.com”><strong>LivePhish.com</strong></a>.</p>