{"id":69728,"date":"2026-08-01T18:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/see-phish-bust-out-xtcs-melt-the-guns-for-first-time-since-1987\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T18:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:10:33","slug":"see-phish-bust-out-xtcs-melt-the-guns-for-first-time-since-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/see-phish-bust-out-xtcs-melt-the-guns-for-first-time-since-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"See Phish Bust Out XTC&#8217;s &#8216;Melt the Guns&#8217; for First Time Since 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Days after nostalgic MSG run, jam band provides Fenway Park with the biggest &#8220;bust out&#8221; in Phistory<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFresh off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/phish-madison-square-garden-90s-nineties-journey-1235601100\/\">a Madison Square Garden run<\/a> that saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/phish\/\" id=\"auto-tag_phish\" data-tag=\"phish\">Phish<\/a> performed a handful of songs live for the first time since the mid-Nineties, the jam band unleashed the biggest \u201cbust out\u201d in their long history Friday in Boston, playing their cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/xtc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_xtc\" data-tag=\"xtc\">XTC<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMelt the Guns\u201d live for the first time since 1987.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMidway through the band\u2019s second set at Fenway Park, Trey Anastasio plucked out the opening notes of XTC\u2019s <em>English Settlement<\/em> anti-gun classic, which Phish transformed into a 15-minute jam odyssey:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Phish - Melt the Guns 7-31-2026 Fenway Park, Boston\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ofc0HRLTfPk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/phish.net\/charts\/bustouts\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Phish.net<\/a>, the \u201cMelt the Guns\u201d performance was the band\u2019s first since April 29, 1987, a span of 2,051 shows. The record for the band\u2019s biggest \u201cbust out\u201d \u2014 or time span between a song\u2019s performance \u2014 was set in early July when Phish whipped out Foreigner\u2019s \u201cCold as Ice\u201d for the first time since May 1992, a span of 1,468 shows. Prior to the that, the longtime record holder was the band\u2019s own \u201cFuck Your Face,\u201d which was unplayed for 1,426 gigs since 1987 until it reappeared in 2010.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOver 40 years since the band\u2019s formation, Phish has spent this summer digging deep into their repertoire, which was on display when the group dedicated its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/phish-madison-square-garden-90s-nineties-journey-1235601100\/\">five Madison Square Garden shows last week \u2014 their 92nd to 96th concerts at that venue \u2014 to the years 1992 to 1996<\/a>. The MSG run featured 1,000+ show bust-outs like \u201cBig Ball Jam\u201d and their cover of Elvis Presley\u2019s \u201cSuspicious Minds,\u201d plus long-unplayed tracks like AC\/DC\u2019s \u201cHighway to Hell,\u201d Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain,\u201d and Chuck Berry\u2019s \u201cJohnny B. Goode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPhish\u2019s summer tour continues Saturday night at Fenway again before the band heads off to Denver\u2019s Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods Park for a tour-ending Labor Day weekend trio of shows.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/phish-bust-out-xtc-melt-the-guns-first-time-since-1987-1235602147\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after nostalgic MSG run, jam band provides Fenway Park with the biggest &#8220;bust out&#8221; in Phistory Fresh off a Madison Square Garden run&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":69729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}