January

• Dear Fishman:

  Plastic tips, or Wooden tips?

  Naryan Padmanabha
  Naryan:

  Resevoir Tip.
  
  -Fish
• Dear Phish:

  If you could give someone ONE version of one song to represent Phish, what would it be?

  Curiously seeking, Bob MGrath
  Bob:

  Enya
  
  -Fish
• Phish:

  Who is Mulcahy and why is he the man? Further, why do you ought to see him?

  Shecky Greene
  Shecky::

  Mike Here. I don't know who he is; never really thought to wonder, but now I'll try to help anyway. Let's see...melech in Hebrew "means" king, clearly the etymology here. So I ought to see the King. Well, I guess I must be trying to see that majestic royal guy. Taking a gander at the old throned one...I might perhaps steal a peak at the crowned one.
• Dear Phish:

  I just bought "Billy Breathes," but I am stuck in a hotel for the week, with no CD player. As such. I'm spending my time studying the liner notes. I can't help to notice the remarkable similarity between the cover photograph of Mike, and the wall painting on the back cover. I have to ask: Which came first - the photo or the painting?

  Regards, Doug Shaw
  Doug::

  My face came first, with painting last by David Welker. We were going to be on-couch, but Marley outperformed us, expressionwise, and a man's broken finger (woodchuck/wartime accident) scorned to help Marley. By the way, you can "create" a CD player by extracting the power supply and several op amps from the hotel TV, mixing them with lasers and the motor unit from an old working CD player.
  
  -- Mike
• Dear Mike:

  When you are going off on that bass, do you ever say to your self, "Man, I'm going off?"

  Just wondering, Brian Treacy
  Brian::

  Yes. One time on our last tour, I said to myself, "Man, I'm going off," and god knows I was; I was way off. I was so off I was on, and I thought, "Right on." Actually, could you rephrase the question?
  
  -- Mike