{"product_id":"the-phish-book","title":"The Phish Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving played more than a thousand shows and recorded nine albums during their fifteen years together  Phish now brings us a different kind of performance--a written one. The first and only authorized book about the band  The Phish Book is an extraordinary verbal and visual chronicle of a year in the life of Phish  featuring extensive interviews with the four band members--Trey Anastasio  Jon Fishman  Mike Gordon  and Page McConnell--conducted by writer Richard Gehr  who also serves as guide to the history  mythology  musical context  and unique audience-band relationship in which the Vermont quartet flourishes.  While it contains many of the trappings of other lavish rock monuments--including more than two hundred pieces of previously unpublished art and photography from the bands private archive--The Phish Book raises the form to a higher level by means of an innovative roundtable-style discussion format. Richard Gehr and Phish use the events of 1997 as a jumping-off point from which the band members free-associate about themselves  their music  and the dedicated and colorful community that springs up wherever they perform.  Beginning with the backstage scene at Bostons Fleet Center on New Years Eve  1996  The Phish Book explores the bands earliest days in Burlington  Vermont; their musical influences  which include James Brown  Frank Zappa  and the Grateful Dead; their legendary Halloween shows; the two European and two American tours the group undertook in 1997; the stories behind their 1996 studio album Billy Breathes and the following years live Slip Stitch and Pass; life onstage and off; the sixty-thousand-fan Maine campout and art project known as the Great Went; and the experimental recording and performing techniques that informed the bands most recent studio album  The Story of the Ghost.  More than a journal of the groups evolution over the course of a single year  The Phish Book is a glorious snapshot of a band much bigger than its parts and at the height of its collective power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966244253749,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375502033","price":226.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375502033.jpg?v=1770558388","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-phish-book","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}