New Grape Apple Pie 2-LP 140g pressing of A Picture Of Nectar, the band's third full-length studio album. The album was mastered by Bob Ludwig and released by Elektra February 18, 1992 on CD and cassette. The album went on to be certified Gold. In 2014, Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering cut the lacquers from the original stereo master reels for the vinyl edition.
A Picture Of Nectar was recorded in 1991 at White Crow Studios in Burlington, Vermont on 24-track 2" tape and mixed to 1/2" stereo reels. This was the band's major label debut and the start of a long relationship with Elektra. It was also their tribute to Nectar Rorris, owner of Nectar's in Burlington, where Phish played many multiple night stands in the 1980's that in their words "taught us how to play."
The material displayed the growing extent and diversity of Phish's talents honed throughout eight years of rehearsals and hundreds of live shows. Twenty two years later, nearly every song on A Picture Of Nectar is still in live rotation today.