![]() Later that evening, the band passed their artwork through the audience. ![]() The band also created their own piece of art during a jam on the final night. ![]() The resultant pieces of fan artwork were attached to one another to create a tower that was eventually several stories high. Throughout the weekend, the members of the audience each painted their own individual piece of art. The world's largest fire truck hosed down thousands of fans as they arrived Saturday morning, and on Sunday morning, approximately 1,100 people posed nude as part of a fifty-state tour by photographer Spencer Tunick. The event was named after a quote from the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The Great Went was the sequel to The Clifford Ball, taking place on August 16 and 17, 1997, close to the Canadian border at the Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine. Phish released a seven-DVD box set on March 3, 2009, chronicling the band's seven sets and including bonus documentary footage. MTV aired a documentary of the experience, using footage from Phish's production company, Dionysian Productions. Despite the size of the concert, it received very little coverage from the mainstream media. The audience was four times the size of surrounding Clinton County, making Plattsburgh the ninth most-populous city in New York that weekend, and adding $20 million into the local economy. ħ0,000 people attended, making the event Phish's largest concert up to that point and the largest rock concert in the United States in that year. Phish performed seven sets of music over the two nights, including a late night set on a flatbed truck that rolled through the parking lot in the wee hours of the morning. The "Clifford Ball Orchestra" performed an afternoon set of pieces by Debussy, Ravel, and Stravinsky. Phish, the only band at the event, was joined at the event by a classical violin quartet, a blues quartet, a choral quintet, and guitar soloists. Three gigantic video screens and four sound towers were erected to amplify the band. The event combined overhead flights by bombers, fighters, gliders, and various other aerial vehicles with carnival rides, jugglers, and men on stilts. The Clifford Ball was a proposed name for the 1990s traveling festival that ultimately was named H.O.R.D.E. The event was named after Clifford Ball, a man who held events for aviators such as Amelia Earhart. The event took place on August 16 and 17, 1996, on the site of a former Air Force base in Plattsburgh, New York, about one hour west from Phish's home base of Burlington, Vermont. The Clifford Ball was the first of nine weekend-long festivals hosted by Phish throughout their career.
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