I did a quick search and found tons of threads about phish. hopefully phans can keep most of the chat in one central location.
Anyways.
Who's heard of Gamehendge or The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday? It's one of Phish's first albums, a collection of songs based around one central lyrical theme. It's the story of "Colonel Forbin", and fictinal charater Trey came up with.
From wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamehendge
"
Gamehendge is the fictional setting for a number of songs by the rock band
Phish. Most of the songs can be traced back to
The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday (or
TMWSIY), the senior thesis of guitarist and primary vocalist
Trey Anastasio, written while he attended
Goddard College in 1987. Anastasio developed the main story into
Phish's second studio album that same year. It is the only
Phish complete album that has never officially been released, although it has been heavily circulated among fans since 1987."
"The Gamehendge saga, as told on
The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday album, tells the story of Colonel Forbin, a retired colonel from
Long Island,
New York, who enters the land of Gamehendge and rescues a document called the
Helping Friendly Book from an evil dictator named Wilson."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man...into_Yesterday
"
The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday was the senior study of
Trey Anastasio, guitarist and primary vocalist of the rock band
Phish, written while he attended
Goddard College in 1987.
[1][2] The story was an essay piece and is composed primarily of a collection of songs performed by Phish that tell the tale of the fictional land of
Gamehendge. The story is told in nine parts with narration in between. It can be compared to
The Chronicles of Narnia,
The Doors'
The Celebration of the Lizard or
Rush's
2112 suite. Phish circulated a studio recording of the suite in 1987 and 1988, which quickly became a collector's item.
[3] Colonel Forbin is the protagonist of the story. Other characters include Tela, aka "jewel of Wilson's foul domain" and the "evil" Wilson. Several of the narrative sections are accompanied by background music from the Phish songs "Esther" and "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters." The album's final song, "Possum," is the only song in the Gamehendge cycle not penned by Anastasio (it was written by original Phish guitarist
Jeff Holdsworth)."