From: "Rich Fromm - 'Whatever you do, take care of your shoes.'  27-Jul-1992 1447" <fromm@tecrus.enet.dec.com>
Subject: lots of stuff...
Reply-To: fromm@tecrus.enet.dec.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:05:58 GMT

nge1_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Nate Geryk) asks:

|I was wondering what the rule is on posting gifs and other picture
|formats to the phish.net.

there is no set rule (we're an unmoderated group, thankfully), but my advice 
would be not to post it; if you have something to share with others, post a 
brief description of what it is, and then have people respond to you via email 
if they wish to receive it (sorry lee, but while i think that your idea of 
actually posting a signal that trey explained at a show was kind of neat, i 
really think it could and should have been accomplished by mail; btw, would you 
care to ever share the signal with the rest of us who didn't download it with 
mac digital sound software?)

JONATHAN EPSTEIN <JHE4151@a10vax.draper.com> asks:

|I remember that at the NYE 90 show at the World Trade center show, there were
| about four different video cameras around the place (including two on stage.)
| I also remember that in the next mailer that the band was planning on 
| producing a VHS tape of different shows. Does anyone know what ever became
| of this?

from talking to john greene this past weekend (hi john!), the band wasn't too 
happy with what they taped (i don't know if this is based on the video quality, 
the musical quality, or a combination of the two), so i wouldn't get my hopes up

Sarah Lefton <N570098@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu> writes:

|   Loder also said described HORDE bands as "guitar-based neo-hippie jam
|bands." I will have to disagree. Blues Traveler is certainly not guitar
|based, nor are the Spins. While Phish utilizes some intense and central
|guitar themes, I wouldn't call them a guitar band.

no, i wouldn't call them a "guitar band", but i think they definitely are 
"guitar based"; while page, mike, and fish are an integral part of the band (and 
obviously contribute a great deal musically and creatively), trey does play 
lead; and while all of the instruments are utilized extensively by the band, the 
guitar does seem to be the "primary" instrument, so to speak

shell@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Shelly Culbertson) writes:

|Trey specifically asked me to invite people to transmit any questions or
|comments on the subject to him (you can post on the net or email to me),
|and he will respond.

well, i would first like to thank trey for his honesty and openness (and for not 
looking at me like a total geek when i asked him to sign my picture of nectar in 
philly); i don't think i've ever heard of a band that puts such an obvious 
effort into getting feedback from the fans and being concerned about what their 
fans think; i didn't see their stint on mtv, but the few people that i talked to 
that did weren't all too impressed by it; i can definitely appreciate their 
desire to expose a greater range of people to their music; HORDE, and touring 
with santana will help this, although i must say that i'm really jonesing for 
some more headline phish shows; if they want to expose more people their music, 
my two suggestions would be a double-disc of live material and/or a concert 
video; perhaps a video that combined concert footage with neat animation (and 
there's no need to flame me for saying this, and i'm sure the band is sick of 
any and all references to said other band, but perhaps something along the lines 
of the Grateful Dead movie; it just happens to be the only video that i know of 
that's similar to what i'm talking about); and a complete animation of 
Gamehendge would be another really cool thing to do, but I think that would 
accomplish a different goal

- rich

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