The Phish Book

Having played more than a thousand shows and recorded nine albums during their fifteen years together, Phish now brings us a different kind of performance--a written one. The first and only authorized book about the band, The Phish Book is an extraordinary verbal and visual chronicle of a year in the life of Phish, featuring extensive interviews with the four band members--Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, and Page McConnell--conducted by writer Richard Gehr, who also serves as guide to the history, mythology, musical context, and unique audience-band relationship in which the Vermont quartet flourishes. While it contains many of the trappings of other lavish rock monuments--including more than two hundred pieces of previously unpublished art and photography from the band's private archive--The Phish Book raises the form to a higher level by means of an innovative roundtable-style discussion format. Richard Gehr and Phish use the events of 1997 as a jumping-off point from which the band members free-associate about themselves, their music, and the dedicated and colorful community that springs up wherever they perform. Beginning with the backstage scene at Boston's Fleet Center on New Year's Eve, 1996, The Phish Book explores the band's earliest days in Burlington, Vermont; their musical influences, which include James Brown, Frank Zappa, and the Grateful Dead; their legendary Halloween shows; the two European and two American tours the group undertook in 1997; the stories behind their 1996 studio album Billy Breathes and the following year's live Slip Stitch and Pass; life onstage and off; the sixty-thousand-fan Maine campout and art project known as the Great Went; and the experimental recording and performing techniques that informed the band's most recent studio album, The Story of the Ghost. More than a journal of the group's evolution over the course of a single year, The Phish Book is a glorious snapshot of a band much bigger than its parts and at the height of its collective power.

Arts & Photography

Phish

Richard Gehr

Music

Villard

Having played more than a thousand shows and recorded ten albums during their fifteen years together, Phish now brings us a different kind of performance--a written one. The first and only authorized book about the band, The Phish Book is an extraordinary verbal and visual chronicle of a year in the life of Phish, featuring extensive interviews with the four band members--Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, and Page McConnell--conducted by writer Richard Gehr, who also serves as guide to the history, mythology, musical context, and unique audience-band relationship in which the Vermont quartet flourishes. While it contains many of the trappings of other lavish rock monuments--including more than two hundred pieces of previously unpublished art and photography from the band's private archive--The Phish Book elevates the form by means of an innovative roundtable-style discussion format. Richard Gehr and Phish use the events of 1997 as a jumping-off point from which the band members free-associate about themselves, their music, and the dedicated and colorful community that springs up wherever they perform. Beginning with the backstage scene at Boston's Fleet Center on New Year's Eve, 1996, The Phish Book explores the band's earliest days in Burlington, Vermont; their musical influences, which include James Brown, Frank Zappa, and the Grateful Dead; their legendary Halloween shows; the two European and two American tours the group undertook in 1997; the stories behind their 1996 studio album, Billy Breathes, and the following year's live Slip Stitch and Pass; life onstage and off; the sixty-thousand-fan Maine campout and art project known as the Great Went; and the experimental recording and performing techniques that informed the band's most recent studio album, The Story of the Ghost. More than a retrospective journal of the group's evolution, The Phish Book is a glorious snapshot of a band much bigger than its parts and at the height of its collective power.

14 songs from their latest release: Birds of a Feather * Brian and Robert * End of Session * Fikus * Frankie Says * Ghost * Guyute * Limb by Limb * Meat * The Moma Dance * Roggae * Shafty * Wading in the Velvet Sea * Water in the Sky.

Phish - The Story of the Ghost

HAL LEONARD CORPORATION

Phish - Farmhouse

Notes and tab for all 12 songs off the 2002 release from this reunited jam band. Includes: All of These Dreams * Anything but Me * 46 Days * Friday * Mexican Cousin * Mock Song * Pebbles and Marbles * Round Room * Seven Below * Thunderhead * Walls of the Cave * Waves.

Phish - Round Room

Ten songs from the album: Axilla (Part II) * Demand * Dog Faced Boy * Down with Disease * If I Could * Julius * Lifeboy * Sample in a Jar * Scent of a Mule * Wolfman's Brother.

Phish - Hoist

Complete scores to all 11 songs from their debut album, originally sold on cassette by the band at those infamous first live performances. Songs include: Contact * David Bowie * Dinner and a Movie * The Divided Sky * Esther * Fee * Fluff's Travels * Fluffhead * Foam * Golgi Apparatus * You Enjoy Myself.

Phish - Junta

Leonard Corporation, Hal

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The Phish Book

The Phish Book

Phish - The Story of the Ghost

Phish - Farmhouse

Phish - Round Room

Phish - Hoist

Phish - Junta

Phish - Junta