From: shell@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Shelly Culbertson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: A Memo to Phish.Netters
Date: 12 Nov 1992 04:10:10 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Statistics, U. C. Berkeley
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Hi y'all!

Well, I got home from work a little while ago, put some broccoli on
the stove to steam, cranked up my new Junta CD :-), and Trey called.
They all just got home from mixing the new album (Rift?) in Nashville,
and he wanted to respond to some of the net.postings of which I have
sent him copies.  (I don't copy him on everything, the volume is prohibitive,
just the good stuff ;-)...of course, that's subjective!).  

The main clarification he offered concerns Dave's Energyguide (remember the
Energyguide / Discipline debate?).  The full title of the tune is actually:
Dave's Energyguide, a Memo to Robert Fripp.  (Ha!  That's hilarious!).
This piece was written when Trey and Dave ("he looks too much like Dave"
-- yes, him; the one who helped write Runaway Jim) went to a summer guitar
camp in Kent (?), Connecticutt.  One of the camp assignments was to write
a piece for a performance -- Dave's Energyguide, a Memo to Robert Fripp
was theirs.  It was intentionally modelled on Discipline, but obviously
the notes are not the same.  Back when Phish had two guitarists (1986 and
earlier), they played it fairly regularly, and it took the same form each
time; whereas now, if it comes up, it's more of an improvised, looser jam. 
(He says the source of the controversy is tapers labelling their tapes
incompletely and leaving off the "a Memo to Robert Fripp" notation to
the title ;-).

He mentioned that the singles from the new album will be a couple of new
songs, Fast Enough For You and The Wedge.  He also said that he wrote a
new rock tune called "Axcilla" (sp.?), and that you should listen for these
on the fall tour because they'll be playing them.

Trey would like to know if any netters have experience with a program for
notating music (like a word processor, except musical notation) called
Mosaic.  The software was written by Dave (yes, he looks too much like
Dave!).  Trey knows that people have been interested in obtaining his
compositions in a written form, and this is one way he could provide them. 
The actual data entry needs to be done, for which he doesn't have time
personally; but whoever would be interested in doing it would need to 
understand music very well so as to be able to make written transcriptions
by listening to tapes (sounds challenging to me!), as well as already
having access to and experience with the Mosaic program (he doesn't know
whether it's an IBM or Macintosh program).

He also specifically mentioned that he'd like to do another interview for
the net soon; I've been making notes of questions as they've occurred to
me since the spring, but if there's anything on your mind that you'd like
to know more about, please send it along and I'll see if he feels like
talking about it.  Thanks!

Finally, he's very interested in everyone's thoughts on Junta....

see you east-coasters soon! :-)
Shelly


ps.  I asked why the Junta CD gives 5/3/88 as the date of the Nectar's filler
when all the tapes of it that I located for them were labelled 7/25/88 - he
had no idea; but he thought that the 7/25/88 date sounded like the correct
one since he remembered that that particular show at Nectar's took place just
before they left on their first Colorado trip, which started at the end of
July, 1988.

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