From: shell@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Shelly Culbertson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: Mango song (was Re: SET LISTS)
Date: 8 Apr 1992 05:03:34 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Statistics, U. C. Berkeley
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     To continue the Mango discussion, here's what Trey had to say about
     it when we talked last November.  This part of the interview actually
     took place not at Dunkin' Donuts, but in the basement of the Somerville
     Theater before the show.  "He" in the first sentence refers to
     Tom Marshall.

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     He's got this one other thing that he wrote, that I haven't actually
put to music yet, which is my favorite thing that he's done.  It's called Rift.
We did it for a while and I didn't really think that the music did it justice
so we stopped doing it.  I've been trying to put it to music.  Some of them --
Tom and I, we have a good connection, and some of them I'll get in the mail and
just know exactly how they're supposed to go, right off the bat; and it's 
always different than how he was hearing it, like the rhyme scheme would be 
different.  Bouncing Around the Room is a good example; it took five minutes.
I got it in the mail and then ran upstairs and it was done.  I knew exactly how
it should go.  With the rhyme scheme at first he didn't expect it to go the way
I had heard it.  Something about growing up together and having sung songs so
much, I mean that's always what we did, it's really easy to work with him.
Same with Guelah Papyrus, where I felt like I knew right away what the thing
should be.  And that's about my friend Dave, who I wrote Runaway Jim with; it's
about his mom  -- sort of.  [Is that -- "he looks too much like Dave"?]
That's him!  He looks too much like Dave; the whole joke of McGrupp was that
line.  You know Wilson?  Wilson was written by Tom and my friend Aaron --
Aaron Woolfe, who's a real person.  The two of them at this party one night
wrote that.  See, it's all tied in together; he also is becoming a film maker
now.  He's in film school, and he had this idea for a film where it was in
Viet Nam, where this woman had had a child of an American soldier in Viet
Nam, and the soldier's leaving.  This was the first scene of the movie.  
The soldier's leaving, and these Vietnamese women are trying -- "take the baby,
take the baby," trying to throw him the baby, and they throw the baby and this
mine goes off and the baby gets hit -- not killed; but his hands and feet are
mangled; but he grows up to be a genius anyway -- that's what he told me!
And then the next day I started writing, "Your hands and feet are mangoes,"
me and Tom started singing that chorus, and then I went and wrote all those
lyrics about the waiter.  It's always all connected like that.  
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It seems fairly likely that I will be doing interviews with Fish &/or Trey
in about two weeks when the tour gets to California (finally! :-).  If anyone
has any interesting questions in mind, it would be very kind of you to post
or mail them.  Thank you!

take care,
Shelly

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