Phish Stories (from the band)

OK so you cant really search what the band said at certain concerts for harpua’s or new year extravaganza’s or anything the way you can for lyrics…so give a date, and the song its in, and transcribe one of your favorite phish stories for all of your friends.

This here is the story version of run like an antelope from 1988-07-30 @ Fly Me To The Moon Saloon, Telluride, CO. It’s basically trey telling teh audience what happened to fishman one of the other nights i think, but im not sure. Anyway, trey tells this over the runrunrunrunrunrunrunrunrunrunrunrunrun:

"Leave the town and walk towards the montain in the distance. Assume that you’ll be back by ten o’clock. Walk farther into the distance, naively thinking that you can climb the mountain. Climb the mountain before you. Pay no heed when your two friends each eat a hit of acid. Walk over the mountain and decide that you’ll cut back the long way by the cabin. Climb down towards the beautiful valley below with the pretty flowers growing everywhere. Oh no! Realize that there’s a 2,000 ft cliff infront of you! Start to shit in your pants as you realize the sun’s going down! Decide it’s time that you too should eat a hit of acid. Turn around and realize that you have to climb all the way back up the mountain. Start climbing up the mountain. But wait! It’s too dark! You might fall! Realize that the three other men in the van are making absolute fools of themselves, playing a jazz odyssey. Finally make it to the top of the mountain, and realize that you’ve got to be back to the bar in ten minutes, and realize that there’s only one thing left that you can do:

you’ve got to run like an antelope out of control."

so transcribe your favorite phish story for all your fellow OKP’ers to see, whether the crazy halloween 95 raccooon harpua, or the explanation of the secret language, and then discuss!

I took this one out of the Col Forbins thread:

The combination of this tune with Fly Famous Mockingbird may be my favorite thing Phish has ever done. Even the monsters like YEM, Fluff, Antelope… This may be my favorite.

Great song>Story>My favorite “instrumental” (I think of the vocals as just another instrument making noise at times)

Maybe a good place for Trey stories. Just listened to this one from 2/7/93:
Hearts beat as one
Beats to the ground
We start to become pea pods
Farmer picks us
On a conveyor belt
Huge arm crushing us
PEA STEW!
Into tube
Trapped in a jar of PEA STEW!
Loaded on truck
Truck is speeding (music speeds up)
Truck STOPS (music stops)
We are now on a grocery store shelf
Old lady catches our eye and reaches for us
She drops us into her shopping cart
She pays, we are in the car
We are in her spoon
A huge baby is in front of us
We go in the babys mouth
But we stuck on the lip
We sink down the babys throat
Getting hotter
Intestines
Hotter
Light
Going towards the light
Pushed out onto diaper
Slide down diaper
Diaper gone
We are floating
We realize we are above… Gamehendge
Parachutes
Mountains (FFM Page begins)
Col Forbin climbing up mountain
Trying to find Icculus
FM flying out of sky
Lands on Icculus’ shoulder
Time to steal the book
Happiness forever!

I dig the NYE 95 Banter during Mockingbird; that always makes me smile.
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