June

• Phish:

  I was just wondering why "We're glad glad glad glad glad glad glad and we're glad glad glad that you're a glide?" How does one become a glide and are glides themselves glad that they're a glide?

  Celia Ross
  Celia:

  It's not "a glide," it's "aglide". We're glad that you're in a plane, coming to visit. --MG
• Guys:

  In "You Enjoy Myself," the words sung after "shit" are "Pass the Uffizzi, drive me to Firenze." Making reference to the Uffizi Art Gallery in Florence Italy, Firenze being Italian for Florence.

  Scott C.
  Scott,:

  You're right, except that it's "Wash a Uffizi, drive me to Firenze." -- MG
• Phish:

  You are right, we don't seem to get it. In the song "You Enjoy Myself," after "shit" you say "water your team, in a bee hive, I'm a sent you." What is the point of this line? What is the joke, or is there one? Please help us understand you music better.

  Bill and Tim
  BT,:

  You've made me feel bad for lying. That "water your" crap was a joke, a very funny joke. I also must apologize for lying in the above three sentences. You know, we don't really say anything. There can be no understanding. It's worthless. Thanx. - MG
• Mike:

  I know you're not saying "Water your team, blah-". A friend told me it was "You Enjoy Myself" in Italian. PLEASE be honest. And one more thing, is "Junta" pronounced "Hunta" or "Gunta"?

  Colin Williams
  Colin,:

  We are not saying "you enjoy myself" in Italian, or water your whatever, or anything particularly noteworthy. Junta is pronounced like "Jasmine", it is the nick-name of Ben Hunter, our old co-manager. -- MG
• Mike:

  "Water your team in a bee hive, I'm a sent you"-? I still don't get it.

  Ando
  Ando:

  Here's a hint. If you take every third letter of "Water your team, in a bee hive, I'm a sent you, "you get "weot maev mey." Now, get it? -- MG
• Mike:

  Did you take Western Civ. With Mr. Newton? Did that class give you the idea for the lyrics in You Enjoy Myself?

  Dan Hewins
  Dan:

  I had Mr. Newton for U.S. history, but no, I didn't write YEM; Trey did. I don't even know the lyrics. I just mumble - MG
• Phish, Inc.:

  What are the lyrics to the second part of "You Enjoy Myself," that is if they are intended to be representative lyrics.

  Wallace
  Wallace:

  Yes, they are intended to be representative lyrics. What they are I don't know, but what they represent I do know: food. - MG
• MG:

  In the new update you give an answer to the question about the words to "you enjoy myself." Is "water your team, in a bee hive, I'm a sent to you" spoken in a different language?

  John Kline
  John:

  Yes, "Water your team-" is in a different language - Danish. -- MG
• Mike:

  After listening and rewinding for hours we've concluded that the words you provided in your response could not possibly be the words actually spoken in the song. Why must you torture us this way?

  Amanda and Jen
  Ladies,:

  Yes, I lied. Oh yeah, I lied. The words are "Watch out, fin, see? Dry - mean - topher - rent, see?" - MG
• Phish:

  I'm sorry to say that I have a bone to pick with you guys. To my shock and dismay this morning, I realized that the song directly following Gordon Lightfoot's "Time in a Bottle," played on the cheesylite FM station I was listening to was "Fast Enough for You." Now that my initial nausea has subsided, and I've had some time to calm down, I must ask you WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?! I always saw you guys as an innovative fount of hope in an otherwise bleak world of sellout music. Please, please tell me that after the song, I did not actually hear the DJ say "that was 'Fast Enough for You' by PHISH, a new band which interestingly enough spells its name with a 'PH'." Please restore my faith and tell me why this is happening.

  Anonymously confused/upset
  C/U::

  When we recorded "Fast Enough" I was in the mixing room and literally cried because of the singing and the pedalsteel playing. I couldn't believe we had actually put emotion into a song in that way. It was beautiful. I'm sorry if you didn't like it, or heard it as a "sell out." If that's what the mainstream audience likes, then I guess I'm in the mainstream. Thanx for your concern. -- MG
• Phish:

  How many angels can dance on the head of a pin without jostling each other. Which came first, the chicken or the egg. What did Phish say in the line after shit. It may go down as the classic paradox of our generation. Once when my friends and I were listening to Y.E.M., I said "they're each singing something different, that's why nobody agrees about the words. They sing three or four similar sounding lines at the same time, and then alternate."

  me
  me:

  Hey there,
  
  Just because you write a cute response you think we'll print it. - MG
• Phish:

  What the hell (of a good cheese) are the lyrics to "You Enjoy Myself?"

  Maria Diran
  Maria,:

  The words are "much of a good cheese, try me a friend's cheese." - MG
• Phish:

  The lyrics to "You Enjoy Myself," I just can't figure them out! It sounds like, "Wash your feed and drive me to feransa." What is it?

  Edward Porter
  Hi Ed,:

  The "wash your feet" part is right. It came from the fact that Trey, Fish and others lived in a car for three weeks in Europe. They didn't bathe. - MG
• guys:

  How come Mike answers all the letters? What happens if I want a reply from Trey, Fishman or Page? Is Mike going to answer for them?

  Jordan Kovats
  Jordan,:

  Answering the letters takes a lot of time. To be willing to allocate so much of what might be practicing or sightseeing time to answering letters, one really has to enjoy it, and I do. The other guys enjoy it too, but it takes them a little longer to get their mail. So, I promise I will continue to give the other three letters that concern them, but allow extra time for a response. Whether it's me or them, it's usually two to four months before a response is mailed. Thanx. - MG
• Trey:

  Two questions: #1. On the new album, "Rift", I noticed that tracks 3, 6, 9 and 12 (and maybe 15) and somehow related to each other or each member of the band? Or is this only my imagination? #2. In relation - 7minutes into "It's Ice" you begin playing a "Rift" that lasts exactly 25 seconds and sounds exactly similar to the "Rift" you begin playing at 4 minutes into "The Squirming Coil". This "Rift" also lasts 25 seconds. Is there some meaning to any of this?

  Bones
  Bones,:

  Yes. - Trey
• Dear Mike:

  I wonder what kind of music those boys from Phish listen to.

  Ellen Meyi
  E.,:

  We listen to "MC 900ft Jesus", the "Fairfield Four" and "Ivo Papasov's Bulgarian Wedding Band". - MG
• Phish:

  In Y.E.M., right before you say "Wash your feet-sies, drive me to Forenzi-" are those four other words "Bouy" - "Pan" - "Cod" - "Ship"?

  Scott Reese
  Scott,:

  Being cute won't get you into the newsletter. - MG
• Phish:

  When Phish re-released Lawn Boy did you not put Fee on it? It was on the original copy of Lawn Boy. Why the cut? I did notice that it is on the Junta album though.

  Brooks Smothers
  Smothers,:

  Fee was originally on Junta, we decided to also put it on Lawn Boy in the first pressing, but then we cut it. - MG
• Mike:

  My question is about your pants being rolled up. I understand that the roxy flooded out last year and I was wondering if it had a traumatic psychological effect on you to cause you to continually fear wet pants cuffs.

  Mike Ferris Columbus, Ohio
  MF,:

  I've found that rolling high on the leggings can reduce the heat on one's calves, and it also helps to suspend one's pants higher. Let's face it, pants are heavy things. - MG
• Phish:

  Where could I find Uncle Ebenezer, the man you refer to in "Tweezer"?

  Best wishes, Erik Startzel
  Dear Erik,:

  Ebenezer is in Woolcroft. - Mike
• Phish people:

  In the song "Catapult" in the very beginning when it goes "Dr. Davis telephone please, Dr. Davis telephone please" was that from a film on DNA and RNA? Because I think I saw it.

  Andy Williams
  Dear Andy,:

  Good ear. That is a generic hospital noise from a sound effects album. We later heard it on a soap opera. - Mike