{"id":647355,"date":"2026-11-01T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647355\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:12:12","slug":"tapers-choice-dress-as-phish-playing-radiohead-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647355\/","title":{"rendered":"Taper\u2019s Choice Dress as Phish Playing Radiohead For Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taperschoice.bandcamp.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taper\u2019s Choice hosted<\/a> their annual Halloween Taper\u2019s Ball at Chicago\u2019s Garcia\u2019s last night. A fitting Halloween gag for a self-described \u201csubversive jamband\u2019 comprised of musicians who came of age seeing shows on the jam circuit but first gained traction in the expanded indie-rock universe, the group dressed as Phish covering Radiohead during the second of their three sets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The quartet hinted that things to come at the end of set one, when they teased Phish\u2019s \u201cWolfman\u2019s Brother\u201d during their original \u201cVegan in the \u201890s.\u201d Then, for their second set, they dressed as the members of Phish and ran through a jam-forward mix of Radiohead classics, including \u201cEverything in its Right Place,\u201d \u201cKid A,\u201d \u201cThe National Anthem,\u201d \u201cHow to Disappear Completely,\u201d \u201cTreefingers,\u201d \u201cOptimistic,\u201d \u201cIn Limbo,\u201d \u201cIdioteque,\u201d \u201cMorning Bell\u201d and \u201cMotion Picture Soundtrack.\u201d Taper\u2019s Choice then returned to the stage for an improv-heavy third set that weaved in their own \u201cLick the Toad,\u201d \u201cDoner Wrap\u201d and \u201cCalifornia 99.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taper\u2019s Choice will kick off a Northeast run at Boston\u2019s The Sinclair on December 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s a look at last night\u2019s setlist via Taperschoice.net<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 30, 2026, Garcia\u2019s, Chicago, IL,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set 1: Pino Botticelli, Running From the Rain, Kill \u2018em All, Close Encounters, Vegan in the \u201890s[1]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set 2: Everything in its Right Place[2], Kid A[2], The National Anthem[2], How to Disappear Completely[2], Treefingers[2], Optimistic[2], In Limbo[2], Idioteque[2], Morning Bell[2], Motion Picture Soundtrack[2]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set 3: Lick the Toad, Doner Wrap[3], California 99<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [1] Wolfman\u2019s Brother Tease<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [2] Radiohead<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [3] Unwrapped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taper\u2019s Choice hosted their annual Halloween Taper\u2019s Ball at Chicago\u2019s Garcia\u2019s last night. A fitting Halloween gag for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-647355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}