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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

This is the same October 2003 pre-Undermind recording session.  Trey attacks the drums in a Keith Moon style fit of energy, which was fortunately also felt by Fishman when the Phish version was recorded.  I love this song for a lot of reasons.  The harmony, the upbeat song Trey crafted, and the lyrics.  Believe it or not, these weren't meant to be political lyrics...but they work so well in the Occupy Wall Street video that maybe I'm wrong?

Crowd Control

This is a song Trey and I wrote in 1997 in Stowe, Vermont -- in the same session we wrote Bug and Farmhouse.  This has been released before on Trey's and my album of demos called "Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove" which came out in 2000 and is available on LivePhish.com.  It never turned into a Phish song unfortunately, but it has the distinction of being the only "Christmas song" we've ever written.  This one was written/recorded in the same "lounge style" of song as Lawn Boy.

Blue and Shiny

This is a song that Anthony Krizan and I wrote with/for the McLovins.  I wrote the words with Jake in mind -- after a conversation we had -- knowing that singing them, he can feel the weird isolation from stage that happens up there...when people expect one thing based on your stage persona...and then are puzzled to find someone different.  This version includes some very tasty guitar by Anthony that never made it into the McLovins "Who Knows?" album version. 

Hesitate MIX

My band Amfibian's take on The Wedge.  This version was released on a 2001 CD created for charity by the Mockingbird Foundation called "Sharing in the Groove"  I was honored to be included among some awesome acts performing Phish covers on this CD including Little Feat, Dave Matthews, Jimmy Buffett, John Scofield, etc...  This was a version of my band that featured Scott Metzger and Chris Harford on guitars.

The Wedge

A tip of the hat to Vegas or Atlantic City?  I don't know.  We wrote this in 2011 when we were writing songs for Trey's album "Traveler".  This one fell by the wayside...and probably should have stayed there...but it has a beat that won't quit and it became the unofficial theme for me and my friends during the Atlantic City shows at Bader Field in June 2012.

HotBox

This was recorded in 1993 sometime.  Trey did it all by himself on a cassette multitrack.  I only supplied him the words on a piece of paper.  This version rocks and clearly displays how Trey's vision for the song was the blueprint for the Hoist version which followed in 1994.  The image of Aquitana is courtesy of my friend H. Spencer Young in NYC. @hspenceryoung
(This song is one of many demos of Phish songs recorded by Trey and myself and released in 2000 as "Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove" which is available at livephish.com)

Crowd Control

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