Once again Tom.  This is very cool.  You really have an interesting perspective on this phenomenon.

Whoo! This song is great, & even better with the background info. Love the play it's been getting in this summer's tour. Whoo!

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Come Spring

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

Here is another from a Stowe, VT farmhouse -- this time it was May 1997.  We wrote Dirt, Water in the Sky, Vultures and another six songs that never became Phish songs...but possibly my favorite from this session was:  Twist.  I normally fly to Vermont (from my home state NJ), but this time I drove.  I remember arriving after dark, and Trey was already putting down tracks on the Tascam DA-88 machines.  I arrived in time to have a nice meal, sing a few tracks and then I was just so beat I went to bed.  Trey on the other hand stayed up, and I have just a wonderful vision burned into my head of walking downstairs the next morning, finding Trey with his guitar still strapped-on, and a huge smile, putting final touches on the song Twist which we had started the previous night.  He never went to sleep!  And thank god he didn't, because he came up with that incredible "twist" to the song where the pattern builds and repeats beautifully -- like the song says.  This is really one of the best examples of Trey writing a song TO the lyrics (which he does more than you might know).  It's funny because you can hear the "daytime" part of the song until the 1-minute mark when Trey's night-muse came to him and drew forth that rocking ending.  There's a lot to it...and this early version captures the layers of the song very well.  From Trey's vocal bass line, to the awesome drum part with the double snare hits that don't quite come when expected, to the guitar layers!!!  You can hear our breathless laughing at the very end as we were singing the "WOO!" parts.  I could go on and on, but this was Trey's masterpiece of that session -- the one I listened to over and over for 5 hours on my drive home!  Enjoy.  (My standard disclaimer:  Some of the songs I'm posting, this one included, were released in 2000 on a CD of 25 demos that Trey and I recorded in 1997 called Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove which is available on LivePhish.com.)

Twist

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.

Twist

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