Gamehendge
Gamehendge is the fictional setting for a number of songs by the rock band Phish. Most of the songs can be traced back to "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday" (or TMWSIY), the senior project of guitarist and primary vocalist Trey Anastasio, written while he attended Goddard College in 1987. The recording of TMWSIY has been heavily circulated among fans and is considered by some to be an unreleased Phish album. Outside of the songs from "TMWSIY", there are numerous other songs set in the fictional universe of Gamehendge. Story. The Gamehendge saga, as told on "The Man Who  Stepped Into Yesterday" album, tells the story of Colonel Forbin, a retired colonel from Long Island, New York, who enters the land of Gamehendge and rescues a document called the "Helping Friendly Book" from an evil dictator named Wilson. Songs from Gamehendge. Songs from "The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday" Live performances. The songs from Gamehendge have been played many times throughout the career of Phish, sometimes with Anastasio narrating parts of the story to the audience. The earliest known performance of a Gamehendge song was "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters" on April 6, 1985, in Burlington, Vermont. On the  following four occasions in the band's history, Phish performed a complete set of Gamehendge songs, complete with narration: On 1991-10-13, Phish played an almost complete Narration, leaving off "The Lizards". The July 8, 1994 concert is the only complete Gamehendge performance to have been issued by the band as an official live release. It was first featured as part of their "Dinner and a Movie" webcast series in July 2020, and was made available on their LivePhish website the next month. The July 1994 concert had been recorded by Boston public television station WGBH. Each song list  has been slightly different from one another. The 1994 shows were recorded in 24-track digital for, it is assumed, a CD-ROM project that was mentioned in a 1994 Doniac Schvice. The project has long since been shelved. Another common sequence at shows from 1988 to 1995, and less frequently after, was to play Colonel Forbin's Ascent segueing into Fly Famous Mockingbird, often with an Anastasio monologue sandwiched in between. When songs from the project are performed live, accompanying narration often details the transportation of the audience to Gamehendge. Some fans speak of "going to Gamehendge" with reference  to attending a Phish concert. Some songs and narratives explain how to get to Gamehendge, as evident in live versions of "Kung," "Harpua," "N0," and "It's Ice."