Sunday 03/27/1994 by Lemuria

PAGE ON HOIST

We were definately out to make this one more accessible. Our previous albums had their good and bad sides, but none of us spent much time listening to them. We wanted to make one we might really like to listen to. ... We wanted an album that didn't have as many silly lyrics or as many fantasy-oriented lyrics.

Page, quoted in the 3/27/94 Boston Globe
Sunday 03/27/1994 by Lemuria

PAGE LIKES VERMONT

I just really like it up here. It's out of the way and has a small-town feeling to it. It definitely feels like a community. And where else would we go? I can't imagine us moving to Boston or Los Angeles. We're on the road a lot - eight or nine months last year - so why not spend the rest of our time in a beautiful place like Vermont?

Page, in the 3/27/94 Boston Globe
Tuesday 03/22/1994 by Lemuria

TREY 'SPLAINS

[Unlike] other rock audience members, they tend to come to lots of different shows. We kind of mix it up from night to night. It becomes this sort of long extended thing where people follow the band around, and we're aware of that, and get to know people, and it becomes a real kind of family atmosphere. ... There's a lot of networking that goes on among them. There's the Phish.net [for example]....

Trey Anastasio, Rockline, 3/22/94
Tuesday 03/22/1994 by Lemuria

NETWORKS REQUIRE FRESHNESS

What really makes the whole thing exciting and interesting, we get a lot of this, uh a lot  of networking. We have a mailing list that goes out to about 50,000 people and people write in and call in, and ... for instance, the last tour we did, we knew about 125 people who did the entire tour, that's a three-month tour... and what happens is you get to a point where you have to, where everything has to be fresh. You have to be living in the moment. You can't go out on stage and say the same joke that you said the night before or play the same songs.

Trey Anastasio, Rockline, 3/22/94
Tuesday 03/22/1994 by Lemuria

TREY SAID CARLOS SAID MARVIN SAID LET GO

[Carlos Santana] said, if you think you're making the music, you're wrong. He said that Marvin Gaye told him that, in improvisational music especially, or in any music, it exists and you're basically a vehicle that it passes through and some people are maybe more suited to that than others, but the best thing that you can do is just let it go and not try to control the music.

Trey Anastasio, Rockline, 3/22/94
Tuesday 03/22/1994 by Lemuria

EARLY GATHERINGS

...we might come to town and the people on the Phish.net will communicate through electronic email and the night of the show, they'll all meet down at a local microbrewery or something...

Trey Anastasio, Rockline, 3/22/94
Wednesday 04/22/1992 by Lemuria

HARNESSING LIGHT

I think the ultimate engineering project is to learn how to use light as power.

Jon Fishman, 4/22/92 interview with Shelly Culbertson
Wednesday 04/22/1992 by Lemuria

FISHMAN PRAISES EINSTEIN

Einstein -- he's one of my heroes. ... He brought all sorts of creative ideas to this planet, and he had a lot of mediocre minds working against him --- but if you're going to accomplish that much, you've got to be challenged. I'm sure he was challenged in a lot of ways, but he managed to steer clear of it. No one ever hated him. You'd think in a position like that you could become bitter, you could become a jerk, and you'd have every right to be that way. But even still to be able to stay a nice guy, and end up having a reverberation like that ... that's incredible.

Jon Fishman, 4/22/92 interview with Shelly Culbertson
Wednesday 03/25/1992 by Lemuria

TREY ON JAZZ

Slowly, over time, we started picking up on the jazz thing. It's really an important thing to learn, on a lot of different levels. First of all, it's the American art form. Second, harmonically and musically you learn so much from jazz, even if you're not going to be a straight-ahead jazz player. Any kind of musician can learn from jazz

Trey, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3/25/92
Tuesday 10/15/1991 by Lemuria

PHISH CREDITS TAPING

We are very much in favor of it. I think a lot of the reason... a lot of our success has been directly related to having our show tapes accessible to people all around the country. People have heard our tapes, and then we finally get out to the west coast and people are able to see us for the first time, and we've stipulated that if we do sign that it is going to be in the contract that people will be allowed to keep taping.

Page McConnell, Arcata CA interview, 10/15/91
Tuesday 10/15/1991 by Lemuria

PAGE INTERVIEW W/ SHELLY

By popular request, here is the interview with Page McConnell of Phish, which [Shelly Culbertson] did before their show in Arcata, Ca. on 10/15/91.

Shelly Culbertson: As an introduction, could you tell me what the line-up is in the band, and what everyone plays?

Page McConnell: My name is Page McConnell; I play piano and organ. Trey Anastasio - guitar; Mike Gordon plays bass and Jon Fishman plays drums.

SC: How long has the group been together in that form?

PM: We've been like this for six and a half years, and the band has been around for about eight and a half years...no, actually just six years; I've been in the band for six years, and the band before that had a guitar player --there were four of them, and when I joined the band the guitar player stayed around for a little while and then he moved on, so it's been this line-up for six years.

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