Trey takes the second semester off and records "BivouacJaun" in his basement; many cuts of this 4-track project mixed with mike's 4-track tapes and a few 4-track-in-the-bedroom tracks by the band end up on Phish's first studio project known as "The White Phish Tape". The band plays a party in October and their first official gig as Phish is played in the basement of Slade Hall at UVM in October 1984 (many later gigs were also played there); their friend Anne Labruciano mixes 6 tracks of stereo sound, playing sound effects through 6 hidden speakers along with the music. Phish's first bar gig is upstairs at Nectar's in December. The Dude of Life appears; also Daubs (Marc Daubert) is the band's full time percussion player -- he co-wrote "The Curtain" (which used to have more words) with Trey.