rock press’s lack of interest
ups and downs
Melendy, Bruce
Mercer County Community College
Merchandising
MGMT
“Mike’s Song”
“Minkin”
Minkin, Marjorie (Gordon’s mother)
“Mr. Completely”
Mockingbird Foundation
“The Moma Dance”
Monroe, Bill
Moon, Tom
Morrison, Brad
Mosier, Jeff
Mott the Hoople
“Mound”
MTV
Music background and training
Anastasio
bluegrass and barbershop quartets
covers
Fishman
Gordon
McConnell
Mustangs
“My Mind’s Got a Mind of Its Own”
“My Old Home Place”
“My Sweet One”
Naming the band
Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Native American ceremony
Nectar’s (venue)
“New Piece” (sculpture)
New Year’s Eve concerts
New York Philharmonic
“NICU”
Ninja Custodian
“NO2”
“No Dogs Allowed”
O’Brien, Brendan
Office staff and crew
“Oh, What a Night”
Oh Kee Pa ceremony
One Man’s Trash
(album)
Oracular Spectacular
(album)
Oswego
Outside Out
(film)
Oysterhead
“P-Funk Medley”
Page, Jimmy
Palmer, Robert
Paluska, John
Anastasio on
bloated office staff
Colton and
Coventry concert
disbanding the group
dwindling ticket sales
first Phish experience
Gamehendge
performance
Great Went
hiring of
office staff and crew
on Anastasio and Gordon
on Anastasio’s drug bust
on Phish work ethic and musicianship
Paradise Theater
promoting Phish
Round Room
album
Paradise Theater, Boston, Massachusetts
Pareles, Jon
“Pebbles and marbles”
Perazzo, Karl
“Peter and Rog”
Phillips, Todd
The Phish Book
(Gehr)
The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and Their Music
(Godard, ed.)
“Phish Food” ice cream
Phishheads and Deadheads, an academic view of
The Phishing Manual: A Compendium to the Music of Phish
(Budnick)
Phish.Net
Pickett, Wilson
A Picture of Nectar
(album)
Pink Floyd
Placco, Dominic
Plasma
(album)
Plattsburgh, New York
Plattsburgh Community Orchestra
Pollak, Steve
Pollock, Jim
Pollstar
magazine
Popper, John
Pork Tornado
“Possum”
Posthiatus sessions
Primus
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton Day School
Princeton University
Promoters
“Proud Mary”
“Pulled Up”
Quadrophenia
(album)
Radio
Ray, Michael
“Reba”
Red Rocks concerts
Reed, Lou
Religion
Relix
fanzine
Remain in Light
(album)
Remington, Russ
Reunion
Revenue
“Rhombus narration”
the Rhombus (sculpture)
Ribot, Marc
“Rift”
Rift
(album)
“Right Off”
Rising Low
(documentary film)
Risk-taking
“Roadhouse Blues”
“Rock and Roll”
Rock Rumble
Rodents
Rogers, Tim
Rolling Stone
magazine
Rolling Stones
Rootkits
Rorris, Nectar
Rose, Charlie
Rothbury Festival
Rough Trade America
Round Room
(album)
Rowles, Beth Montuori
Rowles, David
Ruhlmann, William
“Run-Around”
“Run Like an Antelope”
“Runaway Jim”
“Running Low on Fuel—No Joke”
Russ, Matt
Salt Lake City, Utah
“Sand”
Sands, Brad
“Sanity”
Santana, Carlos
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, New York
Satire
Scaggs, Austin
“Scarlet Begonia”
Schall, Pete
Scheiner, Elliot
Secret language
Seis de Mayo
(album)
Set lists
“Seven Below”
Seven Below Arts Initiative
“Shaggy Dog”
Shakespeare, William
Shapiro, Kevin
“She Said She Said”
“Shine”
Shine
(album)
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California
Siket, John
The Siket Disc
(album)
The Simpsons
(television program)
Skelton, Amy
“Skippy the Wondermouse”
“Skronk”
“Slave to the Traffic Light”
Slip Stitch and Pass
(album)
Slomoff, Jared
“The Sloth”
“Smoke on the Water”
“Sneaking Sally through the Alley”
Sober tour
“A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing”
Sony Corporation
“Space Truckin’”
Spam All-Stars
“Sparkle”
Specimens of Beauty
(documentary film)
Spengler, Oswald
Spin Doctors
Spin
magazine
“Split Open and Melt”
“Spock’s Brain”
Springfest ’
Springsteen, Bruce
Sprow, John
“The Squirming Coil”
“Stash”
Statesir, Sue
Stecher, Chris
Steinem, Gloria
Stern, Richard
Stickney, Warren
Stires, Ernie
Story of the Ghost
(album)
Straight-line arrangement
“Strange Design”
Stravinsky, Igor
Sunk City
Surrender to the Air
(album)
“Suzy Greenberg”
“Sweet Jane”
Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut
Talking Heads
“Tape of Life”
Taping and trading music
“Taste”
Tatum, Art
“Tela”
10-Volt Parade
Tengiris, Pam
“Terrapin Station”
The Helping Phriendly Book
(Stern and Friedman)
“Theme from the Bottom”
This Is Spinal Tap
(film)
Thomas, John
Thompson, Dave
Thorgerson, Storm
Thriller
(album)
“Thunderhead”
“Timber (Jerry)”
“Time Turns Elastic”
Tiny Lights
“Touch of Grey”
Tower Jam
Tracking
(documentary film)
Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove
(album)
Trampolines
Trey Anastasio
(album)
Trustafarians
“Turn! Turn! Turn!”
“Tweezer”
“Tweezer Reprise”
Tweezerfest
U2
“Uncle Pen”
Under a Blood-Red Sky
(video)
Undermind
(album)
“Union Federal”
University of Vermont
“Up, Up and Away”
Vacuum cleaner
Velvet Underground
Vida Blue
Voters for Choice concert
Wallace, Andy
“Walls of the Cave”
“Wanna Be Startin’ Something”
“Waste”
“Water in the Sky”
WaterWheel Foundation
“Waves”
Website
“Weekapaug Groove”
Ween
“Weigh”
Weir, Bob
Werlin, Dave
Wetlands Preserve, New York, New York
“When the Circus Comes to Town”
“Whipping Post”
White, Josh
White Album
The White Tape
(album)
The Who
“Wilson”
Wirt, John
“Wolfman’s Brother”
“Won’t Get Fooled Again”
Woodstock Festival (1969)
Woody, Allen
Wookies
Woolf, Aaron
World Trade Center
“Ya Mar”
Y2K phenomenon
“You Enjoy Myself”
Young, Neil
Zappa, Frank
ZZ Top
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Puterbaugh, Parke.
Phish : the biography / Parke Puterbaugh.—1st Da Capo Press ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-0-306-81947-6
1. Phish (Musical group) 2. Rock musicians—United States—Biography. I. Title.
ML421.P565P87 2009
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First Da Capo Press edition 2009
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