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2 | 1989-05-01 | Esther | LISTEN | Trey delivers an account of Esther nearly identical to that of the first "Esther" narration. | TRANSCRIPTION |
3 | 2023-07-11 | Icculus | LISTEN | ||
4 | 2022-09-04 | Icculus | LISTEN | ||
5 | 2021-10-30 | Harpua | LISTEN | TRANSCRIPTION | |
6 | 2021-08-31 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Another truncated 3.0 narration, this one reveals The Famous Mockingbird flying in off the mountain carrying the Helping Friendly Book. | TRANSCRIPTION |
7 | 2019-07-14 | Icculus | LISTEN | ||
8 | 2017-07-30 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Coming during the "Jimmies" night of the Baker's Dozen, this narration carries on the contemporary tradition of short narrations to give a couple of clues about Gamehendge lore, tying once and for all The Squirming Coil to the story and giving the Walrus association to Jimmy (instead of Page). | TRANSCRIPTION |
9 | 2017-07-30 | Harpua | LISTEN | On the "Jimmies" night of the Baker's Dozen, Phish approached Harpua in a completely new way, foregoing the traditional Trey-led narration to enable the entire band to take part in a deep conversation about the nature of the universe, which of course forms the shape of a donut. | TRANSCRIPTION |
10 | 2015-09-06 | Harpua | LISTEN | In this version closing out a run at Dick's and expanding on the tradition of making statements by using the first letter of songs to craft a message for the audience, Jimmy moves from the East Coast to Colorado. He's got everything he needs, including an oxygen tank. He listens to some Clapton ("After Midnight"), but he finds out the hard way that his oxygen tank was actually "NO2." "Keyboard Army" lulls him to into a dream state before awaking to cuddle "Your Pet Cat," Poster Nutbag. A real "Once in a Lifetime" encore and a gift to the audience, directly from the band's heart. "United We Stand" is exactly right . THANK YOU! | TRANSCRIPTION |
11 | 2015-08-09 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | The narration deviates instead from the adventures of Gamehenge to a more pedestrian event that happened to Trey earlier that day as he walked through the empty amphitheater. Namely, it was a bird pooping on his head that inspired this particular bust-out... | TRANSCRIPTION |
12 | 2013-12-31 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | From atop the JEMP truck: "Yes, and thirty years later, he’s still flying around up there, and he hasn’t landed yet. The Famous Mockingbird! There he goes." | |
13 | 2013-12-31 | Icculus | LISTEN | The 30th anniversary version of Icculus, and the last version as of March 2018, is as much a celebration of the band's career as it is a celebration of the Book. Trey says that they continue to play so that people can continue to get the message, and while the Helping Friendly Book is indeed fictional, the message that the band has to spread is clearly worth thirty years and more. | TRANSCRIPTION |
14 | 2013-08-30 | Icculus | LISTEN | Another standard narration for this Icculus, the only version played at Dick's as of March 2018. | TRANSCRIPTION |
15 | 2013-07-21 | Harpua | LISTEN | Among the most divisive of all Phish gags, this Harpua secretly features members of the improv comedy group hailing from Chicago, Second City, as fans of Phish from Philly, and explores how some fans think Phish should do things "the right way." Once these fans unfurl the so called truth of the song, an extended skit which is a cobbled together terrible story, Trey asks who does it the right way before asking Mike to do the narration. Mike's narration follows Poster around the city of Chicago as he looks for a good time, until he unfortunately encounters Harpua at the comedy club where the Second City perform. | TRANSCRIPTION |
16 | 2011-07-03 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Anticipating the "Storage Jam" later that night, Trey tells the story of the time the band parked their old Plymouth Voyager in a storage unit after it broke down "nearby here," and to keep themselves busy the band started to jam, which got weirder and weirder. | TRANSCRIPTION |
17 | 2011-06-19 | Harpua | LISTEN | To celebrate Father’s Day, this rare show opener was light on the story history, but heavy of the family theme. Each of the band members’ fathers came out and alternatingly played ‘Dad’ during the conversation with Jimmy. The final line, “You’re God damned cat died.” is a great conclusion to this silly, but touching, retelling of the tale. | TRANSCRIPTION |
18 | 2011-06-17 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Listen, i'm not going to give it away in this part of the country, but I think you all know who this is," Trey points to his shirt featuring local Charlotte musician David Mayfield, "it's the Famous Mockingbird!" | |
19 | 2011-06-17 | Icculus | LISTEN | This 3.0 standard-great "Icculus" posits that Icculus is actually local Charlotte musician David Mayfield. | TRANSCRIPTION |
20 | 2010-07-04 | Harpua | LISTEN | The true alternate history of the U.S.A. is woven into the lyrics of every Phish song. This is what really happened. A man swam across the ocean with his dog on a log, and after living hundreds of years, he is pissed about how everything has been ruined by people building parking lots and Wal-Marts. His relative Jimmy, and his cat Poster Nutbag listen to the only other band that will tell you the truth in their songs. | TRANSCRIPTION |
21 | 2009-08-16 | Harpua | LISTEN | After Trey talks about having lived in Saratoga and knowing a number of people in the crowd, he then tells of Jimmy feeling sad and searching for truth from his spirit guide. Fishman is that guide and his words of wisdom may be one of the oddess song selections the band has ever played. An off key version of Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl. | TRANSCRIPTION |
22 | 2009-08-14 | Icculus | LISTEN | On the first tour after the Reunion, Trey narrates an Icculus story for the crazy kids with their iphones and dvd things about how important it is for them to actually pick up a book. | TRANSCRIPTION |
23 | 2003-07-29 | Harpua | LISTEN | Jimmy, who it turns out looks a lot like Fishman, felt lost in life so he decides to join a rock band in hopes of finding IT, and this version chronicles Jimmy's varied experience with the ladies through Henrietta's performance of "Fooled Around and Fell in Love." | TRANSCRIPTION |
24 | 2000-09-30 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | In this epic, meandering, and slightly uncomfortable version, Trey recalls a dream that involves him having no teeth, the world turning into a raisin, and a snuggle pile involving groping and goo. Dream analysts would have a field day with this narration. | TRANSCRIPTION |
25 | 1999-07-18 | Icculus | LISTEN | The only narration of 1999, follows thanking the audience for participating in the band's record-breaking "Meatstick" dance. Trey tells everyone that he's excited to be in a record book because books are special, especially one special book, which has important things to say about the "E" chord. Version includes an extended outro containing band introductions. | TRANSCRIPTION |
26 | 1998-11-02 | Harpua | LISTEN | Just two days after Phish performed The Velvet Underground's Loaded for their fourth musical costume, they treated a dramatically undersold E Center to a full performance of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, bookended by this "Harpua." The short narration alludes to the '96 Vegas Harpua, using Jimmy's trip through the desert on the way to Las Vegas as a springboard for the action. We break from that timeline when Jimmy can't get a ticket to "a concert" in Las Vegas, at which point he hitches a ride to Salt Lake City and listens to the Pink Floyd record on the way. | TRANSCRIPTION |
27 | 1998-08-07 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | This sweeping and cosmic version starts with Forbin zip-lining into a pond of blue jello, then lucid dreaming himself into a huge banquet where he gets skewered on a cosmic spit, before finally expanding into a spherical ball that floats into space, causing an eclipse. A grand and bizarre Mockingbird that is a fine example of late 90s Trey weirdness. | TRANSCRIPTION |
28 | 1997-12-30 | Harpua | LISTEN | Unique version does not contain any reference to Gamehendge, Poster Nutbag, or even the dog Harpua. Here, Trey recalls a typical Saturday morning in the fourth grade interrputed by messages from the television show "Lost In Space" that lead him to save a pentagram and a vision of his future, including Tom Marshall singing "500 Miles." | TRANSCRIPTION |
29 | 1997-08-16 | Harpua | LISTEN | No Narration. Segued from the Great Went-opening "Makisupa Policeman," this picks up at the end of the song from the unfinished Clifford Ball version the year before. | |
30 | 1997-08-14 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | An abbreviated narration that serves as a setup for the epic Merry Pranksters jam that follows (instead of the standard Mockingbird). | TRANSCRIPTION |
31 | 1997-07-02 | Wormtown | LISTEN | Trey warns the audience to be careful in the little green urinals along the street because you just might get sucked down into the canal, where the giant worms await. | TRANSCRIPTION |
32 | 1996-12-29 | Harpua | LISTEN | Foregoing the traditional lead story, Trey instead opts to go for the “meat of the issue,” straight to the fight, which violently turns into a tornado that digs a hole straight to Hell, taking all of Gamehendge down, where the Sound of Hell turns out to be Oasis’s "Champagne Supernova" sung by lyricist Tom Marshall. | TRANSCRIPTION |
33 | 1996-12-06 | Harpua | LISTEN | Possibly the greatest "Harpua" ever performed, this far ranging version features Larry and Les from Primus, among other very special guests, as Jimmy, bored and anxious, decides to go on a trip across the desert to Las Vegas to lay down all his savings on the roulette table, a journey which includes some campfire yodelling with Poster Nutbag and will require him to perform an Elvis song before he can enter. Meanwhile, Harpua has followed their scent and sees Poster near the roulette table. The ensuing fight requires the evacuation of the casino, but Poster is dead? | TRANSCRIPTION |
34 | 1996-10-31 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Col Forbin finds himself on a familiar mountain, crumbling this time to reveal the face of David Byrne himself wearing the big suit, doing the dance he does, causing rocks to fall down around Col Forbin's head. The Famous Mockingbird comes in the distance, but it is a different Famous Mockingbird, the evil Halloween spirit Famous Mockingbird, who pecks out Col Forbin's eyes. The horrible Famous Mockinbird flies away with his eyeballs, leaving his body and the Helping Friendly Book floating in space, because "this is Halloween" | TRANSCRIPTION |
35 | 1996-08-17 | Harpua | LISTEN | The encore of one of the most significant events in the history of Phish, this unfinished Harpua both covers the magical feeling of the weekend and shows appreciation to the fans that made it possible. An acrobatic aerial display accompanies Trey’s narration about Jimmy’s lucid dream and a final noise jam sends the ecstatic crowd out on an appropriately psychedelic note. | TRANSCRIPTION |
36 | 1996-08-07 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Another chapter in the saga of the Red Rocks Great Iguana, we learn that once a thousand years ago a Giant Iguana came up out the spot where the stage is, swallowed all the people there, climbed up the mountain, leaving the big indentation where the audience sits, before flying up into space, where it peeled apart piece by piece, flinging the people toward a tiny green speck, having come full circle. | TRANSCRIPTION |
37 | 1995-12-31 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | When Phish is not on tour, they work in the Gamehendge Time Laboratory manufacturing time for Gamehendge, but since the Helping Friendly Book has been stolen, they no longer have the right recipe for time. | TRANSCRIPTION |
38 | 1995-12-01 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | East meets West meets Gamehendge, and Trey, via the Mystical Land of Chocolate, provides (especially given the time) the "best" ever directions to the fabled Rhombus. | TRANSCRIPTION |
39 | 1995-10-31 | Harpua | LISTEN | On a night of overwhelming riches, Phish treats Chicago to a Harpua during their second Halloween “costume” show. With the ultimate Michael Jackson fake-out, this Harpua also includes Mike offering his unique narrative skills to add a touch of surreality with his account of a dream featuring baby raccoons. | TRANSCRIPTION |
40 | 1995-10-31 | Icculus | LISTEN | To open their second musical costume Halloween, Phish turns to Icculus. This version is noteworthy in that it's the only version to date in which the book is depicted as fallible -- the many Halloween spirits at Rosemont Horizon that night proved too much for the book to handle, and Trey beseeches the audience to read the book in order to curtail the advance of the evil spirits. | TRANSCRIPTION |
41 | 1995-10-05 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Trey takes the audience on a conceptual journey through the matrix and reveals that Gamehendge is the source of the music that glues the universe together. | TRANSCRIPTION |
42 | 1995-06-23 | Harpua | LISTEN | Joined by John Popper, this unfinished Harpua teases the pre-internet audience with the Rhombus being “nearby” as well as a short, but hilarious attempt at ABBA. The Old Man finds himself being dragged by a wish compelled branch through town until he is at the doorstep of Jimmy. | TRANSCRIPTION |
43 | 1994-11-30 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Acknowledging the numerological significance of the band's third visit to Evergreen, Trey introduces the Vibration of Life and encourages us to grab the end of the line of the sound, which transports us into space across the universe to the planet Gamehendge, where we land at a critical time when Col Forbin is climbing the mountain. | TRANSCRIPTION |
44 | 1994-11-25 | Harpua | LISTEN | Initially a Thanksgiving themed Harpua, this Harpua quickly devolves into a light themed revenge story centering on red and green light. Interaction with the audience (i.e. a glow stick war) and Kuroda's operation of lights obviously play a large part of this story, as does the incredible energy at The UIC Pavilion that night. | TRANSCRIPTION |
45 | 1994-11-20 | Icculus | LISTEN | If there's a connection between Icculus and OJ Simpson, rely on Trey to find it. He open the narration by referencing the last time Phish was in the area, which turned out to be the OJ show. Trey says that watching the Bronco reminded him of life, which of course encouraged him to make one of his famous book recommendations. | TRANSCRIPTION |
46 | 1994-11-17 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Trey channels the Vibration of Life and helps those in attendance transform their bodies from corporeal vessels into surfboard souls, vehicles soon employed to catch the perfect consciousness-expanding wave which delivers all safely unto Gamehendge. | TRANSCRIPTION |
47 | 1994-11-04 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Research shows that the sound of the Vibration of Life can be enhanced by certain colors of light. Red is powerful, it can heal the sick, bring joy to the sad. The Vibration of Life accompanied by green light transports you to Gamehendge! | TRANSCRIPTION |
48 | 1994-10-31 | Harpua | LISTEN | On one of the most famous and historic nights in the band’s history, it is fitting that the crowd was treated to Poster and friends. Telling the story of the first Halloween, Trey weaves both The Vibration of Life (Death) and War Pigs by Black Sabbath into this retelling. | TRANSCRIPTION |
49 | 1994-10-27 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Incorporating a "Vibration of Life" this narration introduces a new phase inverter built into Trey's guitar by Paul that, in combination with shifts in the color of light by Chris, sends everyone hurtling into another dimension, which it turns out is Gamehendge, where Col Forbin is climbing the mountain to find the spirit of Icculus. | TRANSCRIPTION |
50 | 1994-10-27 | Icculus | LISTEN | This version of Icculus references the Vibration of Life, a popular gambit during the Fall 94 tour that appeared earlier in the evening during Mockingbird. After Trey draws a connection between the life-changing properties of the Vibration and a certain Book, we are treated to the usual shouty Icculus. | TRANSCRIPTION |
51 | 1994-10-16 | Harpua | LISTEN | This narration, featuring "Flashlight" teases, tells the classic fight story while Jimmy and his cat are out at a Bootsy Collins concert, where Jimmy leaves Poster outside while he goes back "for a little more Bootsy," leaving poor Poster vulnerable to an attack by Harpua, who's out on the town and drawn over by the thumping bass. | TRANSCRIPTION |
52 | 1994-10-14 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Trey coats the room with Fanon Spirit Vibe from his Fanon Spirit Beam (actually a Fanon megaphone), turning the band and those in attendance into spirits separated from the shells of their bodies, capable of transporting themselves from New Orleans to Gamehendge. | TRANSCRIPTION |
53 | 1994-07-16 | Harpua | LISTEN | Returning home to VT after a long tour, Trey begins this Harpua with lots of love for their home state before starting the story in classic fashion, introducing the characters and setting, and follows them until the fateful meeting of Poster Nutbag and Harpua, when suddenly the story is "HIT BY A COMET," referring to Comet Shoemaker-Levitt which struck Jupiter that night, and apparently also kills Poster. | TRANSCRIPTION |
54 | 1994-07-08 | Gamehendge | LISTEN | Llama -> NO2 > The Lizards > Tela > Wilson > AC/DC Bag > Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > The Sloth > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Divided Sky | TRANSCRIPTION |
55 | 1994-06-30 | Harpua | LISTEN | Jimmy takes Poster Nutbag to a bar to drink beer and sing karaoke while Harpua is out on a killing spree, trained by his owner to take revenge on all the people in the town that tormented him so. | TRANSCRIPTION |
56 | 1994-06-26 | Gamehendge | LISTEN | Kung> Llama > The Lizards > Tela > Wilson > AC/DC Bag > Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > The Sloth > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Divided Sky | TRANSCRIPTION |
57 | 1994-06-22 | Icculus | LISTEN | Narrated with a Basketball finals update (Houston up by five), this version begins with a reference to "Simple" before Trey and Fish get into duel pleading the audience to read the book. | TRANSCRIPTION |
58 | 1994-06-17 | Harpua | LISTEN | On what must have been a very hot day, "Kung" sends everyone to Gamehendge, where the air is so cool and moist, to introduce Harpua and his owner, who have been banished out of town for being evil. They now look down from their hill on the town, where the children sing "Simple." We meet Jimmy, listening to Jimi ("Voodoo Chile"), and his cat Poster Nutbag, who wants to go outside, where unfortunately he crosses paths with Harpua. | TRANSCRIPTION |
59 | 1994-06-16 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | A rare, by this point in the band's history, standard classic narration that establishes "Kung" as a vestige of an older version of the Helping Friendly Book before Wilson edited out the powerful magic inherent in the book. | TRANSCRIPTION |
60 | 1994-05-25 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | To begin the band's three-night stand at The Warfield, Paul uses the soundboard to create the energy necessary to transform the audience into a pool of collective human energy goo and the venue into a giant slingshot as means of transporting those in attendance into the cosmos, and, ultimately, Gamehendge. | TRANSCRIPTION |
61 | 1994-05-03 | Harpua | LISTEN | Just off the New Jersey Turnpike, past the strip of factories and beyond the suburban blocks, there is a teeming mountainous jungle where an old man has taken refuge from the mean suburban society to plot his revenge on the awful people that cast him out by training his dog to become an evil killing machine, to rob a boy of the one thing he loved. Jimmy is the little boy, and his cat Poster is the one thing he loves. In this version, Jimmy can't decide what to listen to so he plays both Cream and Stevie Wonder at the same time, and the band performs "You Are the Sunshine (of My Love)." | TRANSCRIPTION |
62 | 1994-04-24 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | As we are all a group of molecules bouncing off each other, through a lot of empty space, this version imagines all that empty space disappearing until the entire audience becomes one giant puddle of muck that Paul and Chris sweep into a sphere that they launch out of the venue into space toward Gamehendge. | TRANSCRIPTION | |
63 | 1994-04-11 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Through a very powerful mind trick, the audience leaves their very well grounded bodies to take their minds floating up and up and up, oozing through the roof of the building, into space, until they all fall in a hole -- but not a hole that tears ligaments in your ankle like what had happened to Trey the night before, no this is a Pleasure Hole -- which sends them into an alternate space where there is a tiny green speck floating, not a circle, more of a rectangle with angled sides, that flips over to become a sea of green grass. | TRANSCRIPTION |
64 | 1993-12-30 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Once again, the walls and floor of a hockey rink give way as Trey takes the audience surfing on the waves that emanate from the pipes beneath the ice. The crowd must then catch and ride a massive wave, which takes them to the land of Gamehendge. | TRANSCRIPTION |
65 | 1993-08-20 | Harpua | LISTEN | For Phish's first visit to Red Rocks, Trey crafts a Harpua story appropriate for its setting where Harpua and his owner have been cast out from the village of cavedwellers that used to live under the stage. Eventually, Harpua learns how to shapeshift and turns himself into a giant iguana to haunt the village, until one day he encounters Poster Nutbag, who just before he is killed stares at Harpua and turns him into stone, where he remains to this day. | TRANSCRIPTION |
66 | 1993-08-15 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Possibly the most disturbing narration has Trey take the listener through the human body via the intestines and the bloodstream into your very own heart, where the beating gets louder and scarier until it stops. You realize then you are nothing... and everything... and in Gamehendge. | TRANSCRIPTION |
67 | 1993-08-07 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | One of the great Mockingbird narrations, from right beside the theme park at Darien Lake, takes listeners on the Rollercoaster of the Mind up into space, "through a barrier" toward a tiny green speck, the land of Gamehendge. | TRANSCRIPTION |
68 | 1993-07-29 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | A series of mental and physical gymnastics casts those in attendance down a river and over the Bottomless Waterfall which leads, of course, to Gamehendge. | TRANSCRIPTION |
69 | 1993-07-25 | Harpua | LISTEN | A story about how Harpua uses his mind to force clouds alongside the cliffs he and his one-legged owner call home to provide a kind of pillowy cloud hammock that swings Harpua down into the middle of town, where he explores the suburban area until he encounters Poster Nutbag, out for a walk after tiring of too much affection from Jimmy. | TRANSCRIPTION |
70 | 1993-05-07 | Harpua | LISTEN | In this version, we learn that mean old man was actually Ravishing Rick Rude who, legend has it, was a 30 feet tall lumberjack and had a giant mean dog, Harpua, who held a grudge against all the people moving into the North Country ruining their idyllic lumberjack lifestyle, so he ventures down in the suburbs seeking revenge. | TRANSCRIPTION |
71 | 1993-05-03 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Thanks to Paul's high tech wizadry, Phish turns the crowd in New Brunswick upside down, held only by the weight of their body through their feet, before setting out through space, beyond all the stars, until eventually landing on an amorphous blob with a green atmosphere, which is of course Gamehendge. Unfortunately, no one will remember the voyage because of a powerful gas, activated by the "Vibration of Life," that Paul pours into the venue which will change the memory to seem like only a story. | TRANSCRIPTION |
72 | 1993-04-25 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | The audience becomes various tiles rearranged by Trey with his pedal board in a giant Tetris game, and are lifted into space and transported to Gamehendge by rocketing Soviet architecture. | TRANSCRIPTION |
73 | 1993-04-21 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Gremlins sound down the brick exterior of the venue until it becomes a silver ball in one of those wood labyrinth games. The crowd falls through a hole to Gamehenge and Icculus tells Forbin he will help him by getting the Famous Mockingbird. | TRANSCRIPTION |
74 | 1993-04-14 | Harpua | LISTEN | Narration begins in Trey's bed while he wonders where all the dreams go. He sees them in dream bubbles, first to form small dream piles at the side of the bed before being collected and taken to a great Dream Mountain. Here, there is a grassy knoll in which Harpua and his evil master, together a compilation of all the dreams ever, live. Going on a walk looking for fresh meat to the suburban place nearby, where most of the dreams originate, Harpua meets Poster Nutbag. | TRANSCRIPTION |
75 | 1993-04-13 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Terry, the band's driver, hooks his rig to the back of the venue, and hauls the building west up the Rocky Mountains, loading it atop the world's biggest ski jump ever. A very funny version, the recording, however, is incomplete. Any tapers got a patch? | TRANSCRIPTION |
76 | 1993-04-05 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | The whole earth dries up until it is just a big cloud of dust floating through space. The dust turns into TV screen static that depicts a guy hang-gliding. The guy unlatches himself from the hang-glider, and, as he falls to Earth, he starts to see a mountain and a guy climbing up the mountain… | TRANSCRIPTION |
77 | 1993-03-31 | Harpua | LISTEN | Trey reminisces about the first time he saw the old man and his mangy dog. Then he pays a visit to his friend, Jimmy, who is watching Beverly Hills Cop... again. After listening to some Stones, Jimmy reveals the disturbing depth of his feelings for his cat before letting Poster out for a walk where the cat meets its fate. | TRANSCRIPTION |
78 | 1993-03-25 | Fly Famous Mockingbird > Icculus > Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Unorthodox narration beginning with Trey offering a magical glass of wine to Mike. The magical glass of wine causes Mike to play the ancient bass riff, which makes the blood of the audience members fizzle, turning them into soda and the venue into a soda can, which a young kid finds on the sidewalk and kicks all the way home. The carbonation from the soda causes the audience to float up in a cloud that takes them Gamehendge, where they recite the ritualistic entry chant, "Kung." This narration also includes an "Icculus" to continue the narration of Forbin's trip up the mountain. | TRANSCRIPTION |
79 | 1993-03-22 | Gamehendge | LISTEN | The Lizards > Tela > Wilson > AC/DC Bag > Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > The Sloth > McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters | TRANSCRIPTION |
80 | 1993-03-18 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | This lengthy Mockingbird narration starts with Trey explaining that this was a special Holographic concert that the spectators don’t remember agreeing to. The holographic concert hall is in a cube frame and ends up at the bottom of the ocean (after a brush with a shark) which leads to a Gamehendge portal. Full of nifty visuals and imagery, this is vintage Mockingbird narration. | TRANSCRIPTION |
81 | 1993-03-08 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | A strange red growth on Fishman's arm is the first sign that Fishman has begun growing taller and thinner until he becomes elastic and begins floating away. Fortunately, a fan grabs his ankle and all the spectators grab each other's ankles as they all begin floating away towards Gamehendge. | TRANSCRIPTION | |
82 | 1993-02-25 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | For the band's first show in Miami, Trey takes the audience on an extensive, detailed narration that sends the crowd floating in the building upside-down out over the city and beach to land the right way up again in the middle of the ocean, where the building's floor becomes a surfboard to ride the biggest wave in the history of the world, which everyone rides to a magical green island. | TRANSCRIPTION |
83 | 1993-02-19 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | We travel back in time to 3/28/92 when Phish's previous Atlanta show was canceled due to a flood. But, this time we turn the water to steam by moving our feet. We rise with the steam into the storm and land in Gamehenge and observe Forbin's ascend and Icculus speak. | TRANSCRIPTION |
84 | 1993-02-12 | Harpua | LISTEN | Each feeling a little deja vu, Harpua and Poster set out on their predictable journies-- Harpua from his home on the scraggly hill, Poster from his house because Jimmy is watching the Superbowl halftime show with MJ -- toward a most unpredictable ending | TRANSCRIPTION |
85 | 1993-02-07 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | The audience takes root to become plants, pea pods, growing in a farmer's field, to be harvested and processed into pea stew, packaged in jars, sold at the grocery store, and eventually eaten by a little baby, who digests the pea stew and poops it magically into Gamehendge. | TRANSCRIPTION |
86 | 1993-02-05 | Punch You in the Eye | LISTEN | Narration comes right after Trey teaches The Landlady Dance, aka Punch You in the Eye Storm Dance, to the Roseland Ballroom in the first PYITE in over 3 years. He essentially recites the lyrics from the end of the song, | TRANSCRIPTION |
87 | 1992-12-31 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | New Year's Eve version finds us in "the last set of 1992", the Arena lifted off its foundation by the tractor beam of a ship and floating over scenic Boston. Hanging onto a pole, we descend into the ocean, turning into rock fossils for thousands of years until a glacier brings us to the surface, onto land that is now Gamehenge. | TRANSCRIPTION |
88 | 1992-12-31 | Harpua | LISTEN | This NYE extravaganza, breaking from many traditions of Harpua narrations (Reba makes an appearance!) includes a town wide ceremony, outside sound additions, and most importantly, KUNG sandwiched into the story. A harbinger of the grand and sweeping tales to come, this version is a must-listen for fans of Jimmy. | TRANSCRIPTION |
89 | 1992-12-08 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Despite the warm confines of the Barrymore Theater, the creeping cold eventually freezes the venue into a solid block of ice, which is crushed by a giant robot and swept by a vast broom, and carried on the wind, whose source is none other than Fishman's vac, all full of saliva. Eventually, everyone congeals again, goes to Gamehendge, and Trey literally sings the story as a lullaby. | TRANSCRIPTION |
90 | 1992-12-04 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Epic narration follows the audience after it is liquefied into a gooey clump of water dripping through the floorboards into the basement, and eventually into the Mighty Mississippi, which takes them to the Gulf of Mexico, deeper and deeper, past a volcano, passed by a submarine, before flowing through a cave into Gamehendge, where the journey continues. | TRANSCRIPTION |
91 | 1992-11-28 | Harpua | LISTEN | An old man and his dog live in a crevice of Fish’s brain in a circular little dome house with a little hot tub extension. Harpua walks through midtown Port Chester looking for some action while Jimmy sits in his room listening to the Spin Doctors on the classic rock station. | TRANSCRIPTION |
92 | 1992-11-27 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Trey describes audience members splitting into two entities, one being little soul people that climb the stage and enter Gamehenge through Fishman's brain. Trey then chants a description of Col. Forbin's Ascent and the arrival of the Famous Mockingbird. | TRANSCRIPTION |
93 | 1992-11-21 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | After folding down the walls of the venue, everyone takes a rampway higher and higher into space, the vast void of space, until the rampway becomes a tube then a small pipe, and you're holding to it easily because there's no gravity until you're sucked into a black hole where time slows and your body stretches until you poke through the other side, which is Gamehendge, where there is a mountain that becomes the face of Icculus, speaking to Col Forbin. | TRANSCRIPTION |
94 | 1992-05-17 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | This longer-than-usual-in-'92 narration from a show at an ice skating rink aptly begins with ice creeping over the cement under the feet of everyone there, before the plane of ice lifts up and away into infinity where it begins to tilt at an ever higher angle until you slip off the rink, falling and falling until you enter the atmosphere of a planet that had looked like a speck, which is Gamehendge, where there is a huge mountain... | TRANSCRIPTION |
95 | 1992-05-09 | Harpua | LISTEN | A typical "Harpua" narration about a typical mean old man and his abused old dog, a typical young American boy watching a typical American rock song on MTV ("Teen Spirit") while petting his typical little cat, Whitey, and the typical deadly fight that ensues when the mean dog and helpless cat cross paths | TRANSCRIPTION |
96 | 1992-05-06 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | After sending the crowd sinking down through Earth until it becomes up, Trey tells the classic story of Forbin climbing the mountain that becomes Icculus, with a stop in a revolutionary encampment deep in Gamehendge forest. | TRANSCRIPTION |
97 | 1992-05-02 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | Another two-part narration with "Icculus" stuck in the middle, this version follows the sends us through space to the trembling mountain, following a quick reference to the L.A. riots in the beginning. The "Icculus" includes a reference to the Aquarium Rescue Unit being a "feeble Bluegrass band" before they read the Helping Friendly Book. | TRANSCRIPTION |
98 | 1992-04-24 | Fly Famous Mockingbird > Icculus > Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | With a Wizard of Oz intro, Colonel Forbin is swept away to Gamehenge and climbs the mountain. With an Icculus narration in the middle of this featuring lots of screaming and some dry heaving from Fish, it's a great and early Gamehenge treat. | TRANSCRIPTION |
99 | 1992-04-22 | Harpua | LISTEN | In this special Earth Day edition, Trey narrates a version of the "Harpua" story starring Johnny Fishman as the old man who plays drums in a band, who somehow both has a cat named Poster Nutbag and is the owner of the big evil dog, Harpua which he's left just outside the gig. Trey sets up a story to perhaps give out Fish's hotel room number for a huge party later that night, but Fish blurts out a hotel room number that is actually Trey's, so Trey tries to spin the story to deflect from it being his room, and wraps up the story when Poster seeks to leave the party but encounters Harpua outside. | TRANSCRIPTION |
100 | 1992-04-21 | Fly Famous Mockingbird | LISTEN | In one of the great psychedelic Mockingbird narrations, the lights go dark and suddenly you are floating across the ocean on a great houseboat that turns upside down because "gravity has no meaning anymore," floating toward Gamehendge to see the evil... the evil... King Wilson from an enormous hang-glider that provides you with the perfect view of the mountain below, Col Forbin, and the tiny Famous Mockingbird. This version is a must-hear, featuring powerful instrumental accompaniment as well. | TRANSCRIPTION |