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This song was written by Trey and myself, and eventually released by Phish on Undermind.  But long before that, I released it featuring singing by a great band called The Saras.  Check it out -- it also features a COMPLETE set of lyrics (AHEM Trey!...somehow a verse was overlooked by Phish!)

Nothing

From my band's Amfibian album with the same name, here's Skip the Goodbyes featuring Trey on guitar!

Skip the Goodbyes

Mike and Trey in the studio create an awesome version of a song that Trey and I wrote a long time ago...this came out on an unofficial leaked project called "Flotsam Five" -- this wasn't a Phish release or anything, and no one knows anything about it -- but it had a compilation of interesting songs.

Backwards Food For Backwards Folks

The ORIGINAL "I am Hydrogen". Me on keys, Marc Daubert on acoustic and Trey on his Ibanez...and a Fender amp I think.Recorded on a stereo recording Walkman (cassette). In this configuration we called the band Bivouac.I think in 1984


I Am Hydrogen

This song, "Silent in the Morning" was eventually released on Rift, and split into two songs: Horse and Silent in the Morning, for some reason I never was made aware of.Anyway -- this is the very first version, and it was recorded in late 1991 in my house in Princeton NJ on a Fostex 4-Track cassette machine in my "studio" -- a room that would be eventually occupied by my (then nonexistent) daughter.  Trey's on acoustic.  Singing along with Trey and myself are Marc Daubert, and our late good friend Amanda Lake.


Silent in the Morning

Scott Herman and Tebo inflict severe Q&amp;A upon Tom. Scott, for those unaware, has 18 or more Phish songwriting credits to his name. Also: the REAL *Helping Friendly Book* is revealed.

033:Scott Herman

For our Season-ending episode I am joined by the founder of Jambase.com -- Andy Gadiel ushered Phish and fans into the internet age with one of the very first band websites on the World Wide Web.

035:Andy Gadiel

I get asked about the meaning of this one a lot.  This was written in October 1997...the same session as Farmhouse (see below).  In fact, I believe we plowed right into this one after the success of Farmhouse...a very quickly put-together song, but still with a good amount of soul and happiness.  With our confidence up, we quickly got BOGged down...this one took forever.  It started with that little piano riff, and got pretty thick pretty fast.  We were experimenting with a lot of different techniques...like singing every-other syllable in alternate speakers.  In other words for the line "there've been times that I wonder and times that I don't" -- we only sang "There've...times...I...der...times...I..." on the left track and then the alternating syllables: "...been...that...won...and...that...don't" on the right track.  it came out strangely...and eventually we sang the whole thing correctly on top of it, but you can hear it in this recording if you listen carefully.  This recording broke one of our unspoken rules:  record carefully and QUICKLY...to maximize our productivity.  Our previous two Vermont Farmhouse sessions had yielded about 5 or 6 songs per day.  We were deeply into the morning of the second day and our tally was only 1.5 songs.  Eventually we took advice from the lyrics and realized that it doesn't matter and finished Bug after a few hours of sleep the next day.  Despite being the "slow" song...it's one of our favorites because it answered a lot of important questions for us as writers.  It does leave an important one unanswered however.  So what does it mean?  {this track, like several others that appear on my SoundCloud, is part of a compilation of 25 original recordings that Trey and I released in 2000 called "Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove" which is now available on LivePhish.com.)

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