I’m assuming you’re still in Vermont? That’s why. I couldn’t believe it when Trey sold his house in Vermont and moved to fucking Long Island of all goddamn places in the whole country. LONG ISLAND FOR FUCKS SAKE! You go from having a huge property with views of Mount Mansfield and Camels Hump to having a… nice house in some piece a shit fuckin place in one giant, 100-mile-long suburb called Long Island. Aaarrggh. He said it was because he was “getting stir-crazy up there” in Vermont, but that’s what happens to a man when you come into the country, for fucks sake. You get stir crazy. You get cabin fever. It produces phenomenal music, quite often. Much of Phish’s older music is steeped in the Vermont winter, seething with every bit of heat it can muster but cold at its core and not sorry for it. It’s the sensibility that can only come from living in a place that is special, despite the fact that Vermont is not very remote.
It’s a special place that produces special music, and now they’ve all abandoned it except for Mike. And maybe Page but definitely Mike is still in VT. And you can fucking tell, big time. I love almost everything Phish is doing right now (almost, I said), but they really need to all go up to Mike’s house in January and get right down to business. I bet you’d have one hell of a record then.
/angry soapbox rant


