Worthy of note are his more serious vocal efforts, including lead vocals on Phish's cover of the Talking Heads song " Crosseyed and Painless ," and his vocal duties on the Phish originals, " The Moma Dance ," " Taste ," and " Ghost.

The song " Manteca " is a cover of the song by jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie ; in Phish's short version, the melody line is sung as a goofy nonsense phrase.

Musically, Gordon's influence is the most obvious in Phish's many different renditions of various bluegrass, calypso and even traditional Jewish songs ( Gordon is Jewish ).

On May 27 Kid Rock appeared on " Saturday Night Live " performing " American Bad Ass " and an acoustic version of " Only God Knows Why " that featured Phish's Trey Anastasio.

By late 1990, Phish's concerts were becoming more and more intricate, often making a consistent effort to involve the audience in the performance.

The group recorded a four-track project during Phish's short hiatus in the summer of 1984.

* Phil Lesh and Friends ( commonly referred to as Phil Lesh and Phriends ) in 1999 featured Phish's Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell, Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Donna Jean Godchaux, guitarist Steve Kimock, and drummer John Molo performing three nights of Dead and Phish material at The Warfield in San Francisco.

Anastasio has employed the services of his friend, luthier and audio-technician Paul Languedoc ( Phish's soundman from 1986 – 2004 ) throughout his career.

" Guelah Papyrus ", featured on Phish's major label debut A Picture of Nectar, features a Stires-influenced fugue instrumental section called " The Asse Festival " as a bridge between verses.

One such demo, Trampled By Lambs and Pecked by the Dove, has been commercially released, and many of the songs included on this release were reincarnated into Phish's 1998 album The Story of the Ghost.

In this regard, they are believed to have taken a cue from Phish's Live Phish series and stepped up the formula a notch by releasing every show instead of just select concerts.

The album was produced by Steve Lillywhite, who also produced Phish's 1996 Billy Breathes album.

Page played bass on Phish's one-off cover of Little Feat's Willin ' & the Phish original Rocko William, though it has not been performed since 1997.

The cover of Phish's album A Picture of Nectar.

The circuit has also been the site of two concerts: the 1973 Summer Jam, attended by 600, 000 fans, and Phish's Super Ball IX in 2011.

A similar packaging type was also used for Phish's 1995 live release A Live One, with the CDs inserted into interior slots perpendicular to the spine rather than the ends.

For Phish's March 1, 1997, show at Markthalle in Hamburg, Germany, he switched to a Modulus Quantum 5 bass guitar ( similar to the Quantam 6 played by Phil Lesh ) with two EMG DC pickups.

At one time Anastasio announced plans in Doniac Schvice, Phish's newsletter, to release the material as an interactive CD-ROM. Phish Letters May 1994 However, this never happened and the album can only be found in bootleg or in fan-traded form.

Many of the album's tracks have long been included in Phish's regular song rotation and played during the band's live performances.

It is one of Phish's most frequently performed songs, featured in 306 live performances since its debut on October 30, 1985.

" Harry Hood " was performed at Phish's supposed " farewell " Coventry two-day gig in 2004 on the rocks in the front of the stage.

Footage from Phish's documentary Bittersweet Motel, was filmed here on December 11, 1997.

The band's earliest studio release was a cover of Phish's " Axilla II " for the charity tribute album Sharin in the Groove.

In late 2002, to coincide with Phish's return to the stage, LivePhish Downloads was launched.

Rich with the spirit of local culture, the Cohobblopot Festival blends dance and drama and music with the crowning of the King and Queen of costume bands.

Although commonly misportrayed as buskers, mariachis musicians play extremely technical, structured music or blends such as jarabe.

It blends the Jamaican musical influences of reggae and dancehall and Trinidadian soca with Latin American music ( such as the Puerto Rican bomba and plena ) and American hip hop and rap.

Medieval metal or medieval rock is a subgenre of folk metal that blends hard rock or heavy metal music with medieval folk music.

Moonsorrow blends folk metal with Viking metal by incorporating " Finland's traditional folk music forms into elaborate symphonic arrangements typical of Viking metal outfits such as Bathory and Enslaved.

Salsa remained a major part of Colombian music through the 1990s, producing popular bands like Sonora Carruseles, while the singer Carlos Vives created his own style that blends salsa with vallenato and rock.

Stephen Holden, music critic for The New York Times, said in his article Rock: British Culture Club, that the popular quartet, " Culture Club blends soul, rock, funk, reggae and salsa into a music that programmatically reconciles white, black and Latin styles ", adding that, " Mr. O ' Dowd made the group's best songs – the Motown-flavoured Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and the Latin-inflected dance tune I'll Tumble 4 Ya – shine like jewels ".

In 1991 some performers from Emilia-Romagna founded Modena City Ramblers, which blends the Combat Rock musical style ( The Clash ) with folk, traditional Irish music, political songs ( Contessa ) and partisans ' songs ( Fischia il vento and Bella Ciao ).

Vindrosa's music is traditional Norwegian folk songs with ethnic spices, and Annbjørg Lien blends traditional Norwegian music with jazz and rock.

The website stores a vast archive of webcasts covering offbeat Brazilian music from different regions, styles and time periods, from vintage sambas to modern blends.

Literally, a ' row of warriors ', Padayani is an art form that blends music, dance, theatre, satire, facial masks, and paintings.

Medieval metal or medieval rock is a subgenre of folk metal that blends hard rock or heavy metal music with medieval folk music.

In general, modern Egyptian music blends these indigenous traditions with Turkish, Arabic, and Western elements.

In 1993 trombonist, composer, and arranger William Cepeda created a sub-genre he calls Afro-Rican jazz, which blends jazz with the African elements of Puerto Rican music.

Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul, electronic dance music, and free improvisation.

Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra, a Canadian alternative rock band whose musical style blends elements of surf music, gospel music, rockabilly, garage, and punk released the song entitled " Jimmy Reeves " on their 1992 album " Don't Mind If I Do "

She blends elements of joik with other idioms – jazz, rock, world music.

Panteón Rococó blends several styles of popular music such as rock, punk, salsa, mariachi, reggae, ska, and also mestizo-music into a very energetic, groovy sound.