Phish
The Biography

I saw my first Phish show on May 11, 1989. It happened at a little dive bar called Pauly's Hotel in Albany, NY. I was 18-years-old and still in high school. I remember being at school the next day babbling incessantly about the band I saw the night before. I stumbled from class to class in a daze, u......more

A very well written and researched glimpse into the behind-the-scenes world of Phish. If you are curious as to how four individually awesome musicians were able to find such amazing chemistry together I definitely recommend this one. It is also great in that it chronicles many of their live shows as......more

This book would have been vastly more interesting if it was the first book on the band I'd read and if I hadn't read countless articles about them. I found that it was more of a recounting of things I already knew, which isn't really the author's fault. I do wonder if it was my first foray into the......more

Phish: The Biography was a quick, light read, so very enjoyable in that sense- I did, however, find Puterbaugh to be only a mediocre writer, perhaps even scatter-brained in his narrative. On top of that, a lot was left out, as I later learned, as the author likely wanted to preserve the tight friend......more

Definitely an eye opening and informative book. I'll admit that I knew next to nothing about the band's actual history. I've listened to all the studio albums (and many live ones), seen them live once and read JAMerica; which is all I knew about them before I read this. Written for the laymen and th......more