Editing Phish (section)

===''Rift'', ''Hoist'', and ''A Live One'': 1993–1995===
Phish began headlining major amphitheaters in the summer of 1993.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mervis |first1=Scott |title=A tale of 2 bands from the H.O.R.D.E.: Phish and the Dave Matthews Band |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2009/06/18/A-tale-of-2-bands-from-the-H-O-R-D-E-Phish-and-the-Dave-Matthews-Band/stories/200906180462 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=19 July 2020  }}</ref> That year, the group released their fourth album, ''[[Rift (album)|Rift]]'', a concept album which featured a cover painted by [[David Welker]] that referenced almost all of the songs on the record.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fast Enough For You? Looking Back on 25 Years of Phish's _Rift_ - Relix Media |url=https://relix.com/blogs/detail/fast_enough_for_you_looking_back_on_25_years_of_phishs_rift/ |website=Relix Media |access-date=23 October 2018 |date=2 February 2018}}</ref> The album was the band's first to appear on the ''[[Billboard 200]]'' album chart, debuting at #51 in February 1993.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Phish Chart History: Billboard 200 |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/phish/chart-history/tlp/ |magazine=Billboard |date=22 January 2015 |access-date=13 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Top 200 Albums {{!}} Billboard 200 chart |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1993-02-20 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=13 October 2018}}</ref>

In March 1994, the band released their fifth studio album ''[[Hoist (album)|Hoist]].'' The album featured an array of guest performers, including country singer [[Alison Krauss]], banjoist [[Béla Fleck]], former [[Sly & The Family Stone]] member [[Rose Stone]], actor and trombonist [[Jonathan Frakes]], and the horn section of R&B group [[Tower of Power]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Hoist Vinyl Announced For Record Store Day |url=https://phish.com/news/hoist-vinyl-announced-for-record-store-day/ |website=Phish.com |date=9 March 2016 |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref> To promote the album, Gordon directed the band's only official music video, for its first single "[[Down with Disease]]".<ref name="gordvid">{{cite web |last1=Rothman |first1=Robin A. |title=Phish flicks to debut at SXSW |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1433168/phish-flicks-to-debut-at-sxsw/ |website=MTV News |access-date=24 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520040522/http://www.mtv.com/news/1433168/phish-flicks-to-debut-at-sxsw/ |archive-date=20 May 2022 |pages=dead |date=3 March 2000}}</ref> "Down with Disease" became a minor hit on rock radio in the United States, and was the band's first song to appear on a ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' music chart when it peaked at #33 on the magazine's [[Mainstream Rock (chart)|Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks]] chart that summer.<ref name="phishmain">{{cite magazine |title=Phish Chart History |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/phish/chart-history/rtt/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=22 September 2018}}</ref> To further promote ''Hoist'', the band released an experimental short-subject documentary called ''[[Tracking (film)|Tracking]]'', also directed by Gordon, which depicted the recording sessions for the album.<ref name="gordvid"/>

Foreshadowing their future tradition of [[Phish festivals|festivals]], Phish coupled camping with their 1994 summer tour finale at [[Sugarbush Resort|Sugarbush North]] in [[Warren, Vermont]], that show eventually being released as ''[[Live Phish Volume 2]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barthel |first1=Mike |title=Flying Through The Canyon: Live Phish 01-05 |url=https://jambands.com/features/2001/10/25/flying-through-the-canyon-live-phish-01-05/ |website=Jambands |access-date=19 July 2020 |date=25 October 2001}}</ref> On [[Halloween]] of that year, the group promised to don a fan-selected "[[Phish tours#Musical costumes|musical costume]]" by playing an entire album from another band. After an extensive mail-based poll, Phish performed [[the Beatles]]' [[The Beatles (album)|White Album]] as the second of their three sets at the [[Cool Insuring Arena|Glens Falls Civic Center]] in upstate New York.<ref name="livecostume">{{cite web |last1=Plotnicki |first1=Gideon|title=Looking Back At Phish's Musical Costumes From Halloweens Past |url=https://liveforlivemusic.com/features/phish-halloween-musical-costumes-2019/ |website=L4LM |access-date=11 December 2019 |date=31 October 2019}}</ref> The "musical costume" concept subsequently became a recurring part of Phish's fall tours, with the band playing a different album whenever they had a concert scheduled for Halloween night.<ref name="livecostume"/>

In October 1994, ''[[Crimes of the Mind]]'', the debut album by Anastasio's friend and collaborator [[The Dude of Life|Steve "The Dude of Life" Pollak]], was released by Elektra Records; The album, which had been recorded in 1991, was billed to "The Dude of Life and Phish" and features all four members of Phish acting as Pollak's backing band.<ref>{{cite web |title=Crimes Of The Mind (The Dude of Life and Phish) |url=http://phish.com/release/crimes-of-the-mind-the-dude-of-life-and-phish/ |website=Phish |access-date=12 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Puterbaugh |first1=Parke |title=Phish: The Biography |date=2009 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=9780306819476 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/phishbiography00pute/page/101 101] |url=https://archive.org/details/phishbiography00pute |url-access=registration |quote=phish junta.  }}</ref>

[[File:At_the_rock_and_roll_hall_of_fame.jpg|thumbnail|Phish's 1994 New Year's Eve hot dog float, hanging in the lobby of the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]]]

On December 30, 1994, the band made their first appearance on national network television when they performed "[[Chalk Dust Torture]]" on ''[[Late Night with David Letterman]]''.<ref name="letterman">{{cite web |title=Letterman Music Files {{!}} Phish Through The Years |url=https://www.jambase.com/article/letterman-music-files-phish-through-the-years |website=JamBase |access-date=20 September 2018 |date=20 May 2015}}</ref> The band would go on to appear on the program seven more times before [[David Letterman]]'s retirement as host in 2015.<ref name="letterman"/> For their 1994 New Years Run, Phish played the Civic Centers in [[Philadelphia]] and [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] as well as sold-out shows at [[Madison Square Garden]] and [[Boston Garden]], which marked their debut performances at both venues.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boivin |first1=Ben |title=Unwrapping the Old Testament of Phish: New Year's Eve 1995, Live from Madison Square Garden - NYS Music |url=https://nysmusic.com/2020/06/15/unwrapping-the-old-testament-of-phish-new-years-eve-1995-live-from-madison-square-garden/ |website=NYSMusic |date=15 June 2020 |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sat, 1994-12-31 Boston Garden |url=https://phish.com/tours/dates/sat-1994-12-31-boston-garden |website=Phish.com |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref> For the December 31 show at the Boston Garden, the band rode around the arena in a float shaped like a hot dog. The stunt was reprised at their 1999 New Year's Eve concert before the hot dog was donated to the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Phish Revives Hot Dog Stunt on New Year's Eve - Jambands |url=https://jambands.com/news/2011/01/01/phish-revives-hot-dog-stunt-on-new-year-s-eve/ |website=Jambands |access-date=1 October 2018 |date=1 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Phish float donated to Rock Hall |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/620287/phish-float-donated-to-rock-hall/ |website=MTV News |access-date=24 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524004628/http://www.mtv.com/news/620287/phish-float-donated-to-rock-hall/ |archive-date=24 May 2022 |date=7 January 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref> At the end of 1994, Phish appeared on ''[[Pollstar]]'''s list of the highest grossing concert tours in the United States for the first time, as the 32nd highest grossing act, with $10.3 million in ticket sales.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harrington |first1=Richard |title=The Road Warriors |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/01/04/the-road-warriors/20eda2b3-653b-4653-9397-c3cc5bdebe4a/ |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=4 January 1995}}</ref>

Following the death of Grateful Dead guitarist [[Jerry Garcia]] in the summer of 1995 and the appearance of "Down with Disease" on ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]'', the band experienced a surge in the growth of their fan base and an increased awareness in popular culture.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ehrbar |first1=Joe |title=What's A Deadhead To Do? Many Are Turning To Phish {{!}} The Spokesman-Review |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/oct/06/whats-a-deadhead-to-do-many-are-turning-to-phish/ |website=The Spokesman |date=6 October 1995 |access-date=18 April 2020}}</ref><ref name="fricke"/> In their tradition of playing a well-known album by another band for Halloween, Phish contracted a full [[horn section]] for [[Phish tours#1995|their performance]] of [[The Who]]'s ''[[Quadrophenia]]'' in 1995.<ref>{{cite web |last1=McKeough |first1=Kevin |title=Phish does the Who |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-11-01-9511010282-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=18 April 2020 |date=1 November 1995}}</ref>

Phish's first live album, ''[[A Live One]]'', was released during the summer of 1995 and featured selections from various concerts from their 1994 winter tour. The album charted at number 18 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart, and was reported to have sold around 50,000 copies in its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sutherland |first1=Scott |title=POP MUSIC; A 12-Year Climb to the Heights |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/30/arts/pop-music-a-12year-climb-to-the-heights.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=30 July 1995}}</ref> ''A Live One'' became Phish's first [[RIAA]]-certified gold album in November 1995.<ref name="RIAA Certifications">{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gp/database/search_results.asp | title= List of Phish albums certified as gold or platinum|publisher=Riaa.com | access-date= 2007-06-14 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070608063940/http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/search_results.asp <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-06-08}}</ref> In 1997, ''A Live One'' became the band's first Platinum album, certified for sales of 1 million copies in the United States, and remains their best selling album to date.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=A.P. |title=Putting Music To Words: Author Walter Holland Talks Phish's 'A Live One' |url=https://www.jambase.com/article/walter-holland-a-live-one-phish |website=JamBase |access-date=30 September 2018 |date=8 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gold & Platinum - RIAA: Phish |url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=phish#search_section |website=RIAA |access-date=30 September 2018}}</ref>

Phish ended 1995 with their first New Year's Eve concert at Madison Square Garden.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Greene |first1=Andy |title=Flashback: Phish Play a Funky 'Punch You in the Eye' at 1995 New Year's Show |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/phish-new-years-eve-punch-you-in-the-eye-1995-1276670/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=1 September 2023 |date=28 December 2021}}</ref> The concert was released in its entirety on the live album ''[[Phish: New Year's Eve 1995 – Live at Madison Square Garden]]'' in 2005.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Phish Commits New Year's 1995 To Disc |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/phish-commits-new-years-1995-to-disc-60999/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=1 September 2023 |date=20 October 2005}}</ref>