For passing time on the long flights to and from Puerto Vallarta, nothing was better than live Phish. The live versions of their songs are generally between 10 and 20 minutes long.

While I was listening to these, I decided to put together a dream Phish concert playlist. Just a couple of notes first. One, I still think the very best continuous-play live CD is A Live One, disc one. (Disc two is dragged down by an excessively wandering version of "Tweezer.")

Second, this is not an exhaustive list of my favorite live versions of their songs. These selections meet my own iPod playlist requirement, however, of having no excess chatter or material at either end of a track. It moves seamlessly (I think) from music to applause back to music.

1) Harry Hood, A Live One
2) Ya Mar, Live Phish 12
3) Taste, Slip, Stitch and Pass
4) Brian and Robert, Live Phish 17
5) My Soul, Live Phish 05
6) The Mango Song, Hampton Comes Alive
7) Sweet Jane, Live Phish 16
8) If I Could, Live Phish 20
9) Stash, A Live One
10) Slave to the Traffic Light, A Live One