[10] This decision was made because the band's management could not secure the recording rights from every venue featured on the album at the time of its release.

[11] Five of the songs—"Gumbo", "Slave to the Traffic Light", "Wilson", "Simple" and "Harry Hood"—had never appeared on any of Phish's studio albums, but all of them were and are regularly performed by the band in concert.

Two of the concerts that were excerpted on A Live One were later issued in their entirety by Phish: July 8, 1994 (Featuring the ALO version of "Stash") and November 28, 1994 (Which is the source of the aforementioned "Montana").

[13][14] The track-listing for A Live One was selected by the four members of Phish, each of whom reviewed the concert tapes from their 1994 fall tour and drafted a list of personal favorite performances.

[15] The band posted an official thread on the rec.music.phish Usenet newsgroup, in which the message board's users were encouraged to suggest performances they believed should be included.