Video: Phish – 1999 (Prince Cover)

It’s not often that I get shocked by a Phish video surfacing on YouTube, but I experienced that emotion yesterday when I saw that Phish video guru tdunski had uploaded a clip of the Vermont quartet covering Prince’s 1999 at Madison Square Garden on December 31, 1998. I’ve been lucky enough to see Phish bust out Terrapin and Sabotage as well as return to the stage after a hiatus and a breakup, but for my money there was no crowd reaction as joyous, loud and lengthy as when the group opened NYE ’98 with 1999. Listen to the crowd roar after each and every line…

Phish – 1999

Too bad there’s no footage yet of the killer Mike’s Song that followed, but you can check out the furious version of Runaway Jim that led into the traditional New Year’s Eve song, Auld Lang Syne, and Simple.