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From: jojw@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John J. Wood)
Subject: Re: PEOPLE magazine: PON "Worst of Song"
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 16:35:22 GMT

Jamie Treworgy writes...
>This just in from the newswire (well, the office fax machine
>anyway)...  PEOPLE magazine (that bastion of taste and style) has
>listed Picture of Nectar among it's "Worst of Song" for 1992.
>
>"PHISH A Picture of Nectar: This neo-hippie outfit plays a proficient fusion
>of jazz, rock and funk.  But this album's pervasive jokiness is insufferable-
>a mix of Dungeons & Dragons, bong culture and computer-nerd-speak (Elektra)."
>I think the reviewer is taking things a little too seriously to have
>a good time ;-)

Jamie, consider the source -- PEOPLE magazine, which is nothing more 
than a glorified National Enquirer!  Geez...they're almost as bad
as Tiger Beat...uh, Rolling Stone.;-)

On a yuletide note:  best wishes to all of you for a safe & happy
holiday season.:-)

8 daze 'til Springfield, 9 'til NYE....
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From: berger@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (David Berger)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: My tapelist again
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:53:21 GMT
Reply-To: berger@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
Organization: The Internet


Well, I had some more HD problems, and LOST MY LIST!  Can
someone with a recent copy of my tapelist mail me my list, again.

Thanks, and sorry...
From: Matt Laurence <mlaurenc@world.std.com>
Subject: Buffalo Bill(ed)...
Reply-To: mlaurenc@world.std.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:40:53 GMT


I know at least a few of you were at the Albany show and caught
the weird little tune they did in which the most obvious
repeating phrase was "Buffalo Bill..." or "Buffalo Billed..."
depending on my interpretation of th preceding lyrics. Can ANYONE
tell me (and at least a FEW other folks who have been wondering)
if they played that anywhere else or if that was just one of
those one-shot Phishnomena that occur every now and again?

If this has been discussed and rediscussed already, please
feel free to disregard this post and curse my name - I've
been out of the phlow for a while.

Matt
From: vosshall@Apple.COM (Pete Vosshall)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: 12/29/92 Set list
Date: 1 Jan 93 19:15:22 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

I haven't seen this posted yet, so here goes.

12/29/92 - Palace Theater, New Haven, CT
----------------------------------------
????                                 ???? ->
Runaway Jim                          Tweezer
Guelah Papyrus                       Silent in the Morning
Llama                                My Sweet One
My Friend, My Friend                 Big Ball Jam
Divided Sky                          Fast Enough For You
Wilson (with language)               All Things Reconsidered
Uncle Penn                           Mike's Song ->
Stash                                I am Hydrogen ->
Tela                                 Weekapaug Groove
Oh Kee Pah Ceremony ->               Hold Your Head Up Jam ->
Suzy Greenberg                       Love You (?) (slowest version ever) ->
                                     Hold Your Head Up Jam
                                     Squirming Coil
                                     Tweezer Reprise

                                   Encore:
                                     Carolina (a capella)
                                     Rocky Top

Sorry about the ????'s. I believe these were new tunes. The first song was a
driving blues-funk tune that Mike sang. I don't remember the first tune of the
second set as well. An outstanding show, though. I especially enjoyed the
extended jams in Runaway Jim and Tweezer. Tweezer was sick, in fact. Page's
piano tag at the end of Squirming Coil was especially inspirational. Mike's
Groove was so twisted at times it made my head hurt. Combined with the show at
the Palace the night before, these were the best Phish concerts
I've seen. Is it me, or have they really gotten better since the end of the
summer?

Happy New Year everyone. Looking forward to Phish's return to the left coast.

     Pete
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From: sarah Lefton <H7L@cornella.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: NICU and Trey
Reply-To: H7L@cornella.cit.cornell.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:09:31 GMT

  howdy y'all. On the subject of the infrequency(is that a word?) of
NICU, I might add that I spoke with the charming and effervescent
Trey Anastasio following one Phish concert at one Cornell University
not so long ago, and he said that NICU is one of his favorite tunes.
He loves it, the band loves it, fans love it. He explained that the
tune has undergone intense growth and development and is still
being worked out. He suggested(rather to the disappointment of the crowd)
that the song has just kind of fallen by the wayside for now. He
intends to pull it out again most definitely, but thinks that it needs
time to develop more.
  He pretty much stressed to everyone that the song is a great one,and
definitely viable, but needs to grow. There is other music to be played
right now, I guess.
         .
Happy holidays and all of that to everyone! Congrats to the new netparents
who posted today! Have fun at the shows this week!!! Wish I could go, but alas,
I will be miserably stranded at a Widespread Panic run. boohoo. Woe is me.

;-)
Have a great NYE!!!!!!
Good luck to those of you who admit a liking for the ...grateful dead...and are
wrapped up in mailorder, as i am....

TABOOT!!!!
sarah lefton
H7L@cornella.cit.cornell.edu
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From: tas@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Tom Sprott)
Subject: Re: PEOPLE magazine: PON "Worst of Song"
Organization: Intermetrics Inc, Cambridge MA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:44:19 GMT

I have to agree with some of what was said in the People review.
The lyrics are a real problem for me (though the music is worth
it), and for others I've introduced to Phish, a total block.  I'm
not sure why they bother writing what seems to me like 80 or 90 
percent nonsense.  If it's an attempt at Dylan-style surrealism,
I think it doesn't work.  (Isn't it funny how much of Bathtub Gin
seems like borrowed Dylan lyrics?  Take the first verse: "Brett
is in the bathtub/ Making soup for the ambassadors/ And I am in
the hallway/ Singing to the troubadours".  Sounds to me like
somebody lifted some ideas from Subterranean Homesick Blues
("Maggie's in the basement, mixin' up the medicine"), Like a
Rolling Stone ("You used to ride on a chrome horse with your
diplomat") and (I admit this might be a stretch) Visions of
Johanna ("Muttering small talk at the wall/ While I'm in the
hall").  (Oh, and the next few verses about "kings outside
the gate" and "Where is the joker" - adapted from Watchtower?)
Just a guess, please don't flame me...)

The difference is that Dylan lyrics often seem enigmatic
in a creative way, Phish lyrics leave me feeling rather burned.

I mean really.  "Control for smilers can't be bought/ The solar 
garlic starts to rot/ Was it for this my life I sought?/ Maybe
so and maybe not" just doesn't mean anything.

That, of course, does not prevent me from listening to Divided
Sky, David Bowie, and all the other songs with great instrumental
sections.  Anybody know if the new album contains more instrumentals
or better lyrics?

Tom Sprott, tas@inmet.inmet.com

"Gone are the days we stopped to decide
 Where we should go, we just ride..."

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: "Anthony J. Went" <twent@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: New Haven, 12/28/92 Review and Setlist
Reply-To: twent@wam.umd.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:37:01 GMT

The Palace Theater, New Haven, CT      December 28, 1992
 
I                               II
Maze                            Poor Heart
Sparkle                         Split Open and Melt
Buried Alive tease ->           Reba
Glide                           The Sloth
It's Ice                        You Enjoy Myself
Bouncing Around the Room        The Lizards
Rift                            Hold Your Head Intro ->
Golgi Apparatus                 Bike ->
Sweet Adeline                   Hold Your Head
Run Like an Antelope            Harry Hood
                                Cavern
 
                                Encores:
                                Memories
                                Fire
 
 
Definitely a smokin' show!  The guys were a little rusty from their time off,
but once the show got rolling, they were out of control!  A few notes: after
Sparkle, they started the vamp for Buried Alive, and Trey proceeded to tell
the audience a bit of his family history -- his family is originally from the
New Haven area and 16 of his relatives, including his 84 year old grandfather,
were in attendance tonite.  He finished and started playing the melody to
Buried Alive, and then they seemed to change their minds and started Glide,
dedicating it to all his family.
 
Set II was hot.  I was especially psyched to hear Sloth, Lizards, and Harry
Hood.  The vocal jam after YEM was REALLY good.
 
I predict that It's Ice and Sparkle will be on the new album as well as Maze
and Rift -- it is interesting to note the little things, such as Trey and
Page taking breaths at the same time when they sing together, and added organ
parts and the like which seem to be new since the spring and sound like
things that would have been added in the studio.
 
It was great to see them again.  Hello to Lee, and see y'all on New Year's
Eve!
 
Happy New Year!
Tony
From: ajs@jloda.cci.com (Alan Sodoma)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: die-hards
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:26:31 GMT
Reply-To: ajs@jloda.cci.com
Organization: The Internet


Hey, I'm still here!

I was just talking to a friend of mine on Saturday.  He and another
guy were talking to Fishman in Pittsburgh and Fish says that there
will be MANY surprises for NYE this year.  I thought NYE last year
was pretty routine, so maybe this year it'll be a little wild!

Al Sodoma
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: ericbe@microsoft.com (Eric Berman)
Subject: Possum! Chords
Date: 03 Jan 93 22:58:55 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

Hi all.  Looks like I missed out on one hell of a New Year's Eve
show.  Oh, well.  Had fun in Vancouver, B.C. anyhow.

I was going through the chords file one day
Someone missed a possum...

I posted the solo a few weeks ago (all right, so it was only 2/3 of
the solo, so shoot me).  Then I noticed that nobody had posted the
chords to Possum.  Sooo....here they are!  Enjoy.

Consider them added to the chords file; look for them at an FTP site
near you sometime in the next week or two.

--Eric Berman

----------------------------

The chords in this song are played in a sort of bouncy-manner.  The best way
that I've found to play the E chord in this song is to play it in the open
position like this:

E|------|--
B|------|--
G|---2--|--
D|---4--|--
A|---3--|--
E|------|--
   1st    2nd fret

(2nd finger = your middle finger, 1st = your index finger, etc.)
The idea is that you use lift off and hammer on your 2nd finger to rock 
between Em, E and Esus4 in a riff like this (switching to tab notation)

     Em   Esus4  E
       H         H         H
E|---0----0----0---0--0--0------------------------|
B|---0----0----0---0--0--0------------------------|
G|---0-1--2----0-1-2--2--0-1----------------------|
D|---2----2----2---2--2--2------------------------|
A|---2----2----2---2--2--2------------------------|
E|-0-----------------------------------------------|
     \----+    \--------------+

The Em is played for about 8th-note duration; the overall chord is an E and
the G (open G string) of the Em and the sus4 are nothing more than passing 
tones.

Trey does some other stuff here, mostly noodling around on these chords,
that I'm not going to write out, but listen to any recording and he'll do
something different yet interesting; I'll just show the underlying chords
below.

E riff
I come from atop the mountain baby
Where the people come to pray
A
I come from atop the mountain baby
                         E
Where the people come to pray
B
Ain't no truth in action
G          A         E
Less you believe any way

(Same chords)
I was riding down the road one day
Someone hit a possum
I was riding down the road one day
Someone hit a possum
The road was his end
His end was the road
So they say

Chorus:
     E (hold 4 bars) E (riff)
Whoa possum...       possum
     A (hold 4 bars) E (riff)
Whoa possum...       possum
     B
Whoa possum
G    A          E
Your end is the road

(Solo goes here)

(Same chords as earler verse
I was riding down the road one day
Someone hit a possum
I was riding down the road one day
Someone hit a possum
The road was his end
His end was the road
So they say

chorus:

     E (hold 8 bars) E (riff)
Whoa possum...       possum
     A (hold 8 bars) E (riff)
Whoa possum...       possum
     B      G    A          E
Whoa possum your end is the road
     B      G    A          E
Whoa possum your end is the road
From: ljs@cs.brown.edu (Lee J. Silverman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: File Maintainers
Date: 30 Dec 1992 21:09:31 GMT
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: angell.cs.brown.edu
Keywords: archives

	As I've become busier and busier, and other people have volunteered to do
the tasks I've been trying to do for Phish-Archives, the job of maintaining all
the Phish-Archives files has become somewhat distributed amoung a bunch of
people.  Below you'll find a list (taken from the newly updated FAQ) of what
files are available and who maintains them.  If you're interested in taking over
the management of any of these files, please let me know and we'll talk about it.

--------
There are 9 Phish.net Philes:
The Netter's List:A list of all the people on the Phish net.
The FAQ list: The file you're reading right now.
The Lyrics DataBase:A collection of all the lyrics posted to the net.
The Stories Collection:All the interesting phish-related or net-related
    stories that have been posted to the net.  Highlights include
    The Ness Story, and tales from shows like Townsend.
The Interviews file: Transcripts of interviews with the band.
    Plus two reviews of PON from the Boston Phoenix.
The Helping Phriendly Book:A collection of setlists and song titles.
The Chords File:A collection of posts to the net containing
    Chords for a few songs.
The Tour Dates file: Contains current *verified* tour dates and
    phone numbers for venues.
The Nettiquette File: Contains some basic pointers about how people
    should conduct themselves on the net.  Very useful for those
    new to email, networks etc.
 
If you have anything to add to any of these files, you can send:
lyrics, netter's list info, stories, interviews, suggestions for
the FAQ file, and tour information to Pandion@Brown.edu (Lee Silverman)
Chords to ericbe@microsoft.com  (Eric Berman)
Setlists and copies of newspaper clippings to
             shell@gandalf.berkeley.edu (Shelly Culbertson)
Nettiquette comments to samuels@waldron.stanford.edu (Steve Samuels)

Hope that helps everyone somewhat.
-- 
Lee Silverman
Pandion@Brown.Edu
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From: Rich Fromm 21-Dec-1992 1524 <fromm@rock.enet.dec.com>
Subject: NYE HOTEL; has anyone else definitely decided?
Reply-To: fromm@rock.enet.dec.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:26:04 GMT

so far, of the eight rooms i reserved, only 4 people (and that includes me) have 
indicated that they sent in a deposit; after all of this talk, isn't anybody 
still up for it?

please send me mail if you're still on the yes list (and haven't yet contacted 
me)

the "yes"'s who have contacted me are:

me
Sanjeevan Naguleswaran
Jeff Maggard
Jon Schuman 

the following people i have down as "yes", but they have yet to contact me:

Andy Burns
Molly Rinaldi
Rob Johnson

and then i still have the following people down as "maybe"

Noah Cole
Sean (?)
Robert Barber
Shelly Culbertson
Harry Peltz
dre

what's happenin'?  is this still going on?

- rich

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: rstern@col.hp.com (Richard Stern)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: Lawn Boy - yet another remix
Date: 29 Dec 1992 15:20:31 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpcslb1.col.hp.com

Pete Pokrandt <poker@meteor.wisc.edu> writes:
> From what I remember, the only two versions of the album that were around
> were the original tape version (Normal speed Lawn Boy + Fee), or the
> original CD version (Slowed down Lawn Boy, and omitted Fee).

I have the "original" CD version, which I bought at the 10/31/90 show.
It's on Absolute-A-Go-Go records (I think that's the correct name?). It
has a normal speed Lawn Boy and includes Fee.  I think the original
cassettes were the same as the CD.

As I understand it, when Elektra re-released "the album", they slowed down
Lawn Boy and omitted Fee from the CD, but included Fee on the cassette.

Is your CD on Elektra or Absolute-A-Go-Go ??

Richard Stern
rstern@col.hp.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Rich Fromm 25-Dec-1992 0204 <fromm@rock.enet.dec.com>
Subject: {B*)>
Reply-To: fromm@rock.enet.dec.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 07:05:50 GMT

merry phishmas

-r

p.s. FLUFFHEAD!
From: sobelman@cco.caltech.edu (Steven M. Sobelman )
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: PEOPLE magazine: PON "Worst of Song"
Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:36:12 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

jamie@access.digex.com (James Treworgy) writes:

>This just in from the newswire (well, the office fax machine
>anyway)...  PEOPLE magazine (that bastion of taste and style) has
>listed Picture of Nectar among it's "Worst of Song" for 1992.

>"PHISH A Picture of Nectar: This neo-hippie outfit plays a proficient fusion
>of jazz, rock and funk.  But this album's pervasive jokiness is insufferable-
>a mix of Dungeons & Dragons, bong culture and computer-nerd-speak (Elektra)."

Hey!  I'm a computer nerd and I haven't used the terms "Golgi Apparatus" or
"vasoconstrictor" in years!   These people need to get their terms straight.


Steve

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: beowulf@wam.umd.edu (ames)
Subject: new year's mockingbird
Organization: minimum wage! (heee-yaaaah! *whipcrack*)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:49:24 GMT

apparently, the dude in the bird suit was brad.
one wonders how they convinced him to do it.

hello! to all the net people i met out there... 
particularly to matt "chocofiend" laurence, who
was kind enough to put up with me. or rather,
put me up. whatever. :-) anyone else - i was the
one in the 2nd row, center with the phish.net banner.

take it easy, all, happy new year.

(sleepsleepsleep)

amie

-- 
		I don't love you anymore since you ate my dog.
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From: nate@anasazi.com (Nate Holtz)
Subject: FluffHead!
Organization: Anasazi, Inc.  Phoenix, Arizona USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:29:40 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.phish
Keywords: Fluff...Head!  + trees?

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I'm here, working...Worked Xmas Eve and Xmas Day (Bleech!)  At least I've got
New Year's Eve off :-)  Of course, I won't be seeing Phish :-(  But, I will
be seeing Major Lingo in beautiful Clarkdale, Az :-)  Of course, I have to be
back here at 4:00pm New Year's Day :-(  

With all these grovels for tapes from the recent tour, I'm surprised nobody has
mentioned a tree.  Since my only connection to the band's live music is through
the tapes that I have received from you people, I would be happy to admin a 
tree of one (or two) of the recent shows (either earlier this Dec, or from the
NYE run).  If you have tapes, and would be willing to spin a copy (or two or 
three), drop me a line and I'll run a tree.

Oh, well.  Back to lurker mode...
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From: shell@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Shelly Culbertson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: Buffalo Bill(ed)...
Date: 27 Dec 1992 07:22:37 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Statistics, U. C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec26.064053.2562@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> mlaurenc@world.std.com writes:
>
>I know at least a few of you were at the Albany show and caught
>the weird little tune they did in which the most obvious
>repeating phrase was "Buffalo Bill..." or "Buffalo Billed..."

Matt, this was actually at Stony Brook, right?  I'm pretty sure I remember
being there (with you and Amy and Rob) when they played it -- unless they
did it both there and at Albany (I wasn't there)?  But from your post, it
sounded like you only saw it once (as did I) --

Shelly
From: dalton@mtl.mit.edu (Timothy J. Dalton)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: NYE Broadcast
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:21:22 GMT
Reply-To: dalton@mtl.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet


WBCN has been sayin' they're still doing it on 1/1 at 12 noon.
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