Throughout the last decade and a half, jam band Phish have dedicated one of their October 31st sets to covering a classic album by another artist. The band calls it wearing a "musical costume," a little "trick or treat" gift to fans that sure beats handing out thousands of mini-Snickers bars to concertgoers, and previous Halloween outfits include full renditions of the Beatles' "White Album," Talking Heads' "Remain in Light," the Who's "Quadrophenia" and a handful more LPs that are requisites of any good iTunes library. This year at Atlantic City, New Jersey's Boardwalk Hall, however, Phish donned a musical costume that caught most fans off-guard, covering country-fried blues-rockers Little Feat's 1978 live album "Waiting for Columbus" -- or that double-LP with the tomato-headed lady on the cover that's in your dad's dusty record collection but you didn't actually steal for your own shelf.

Last year on Halloween, Phish performed the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main St.," which obviously