WIZN made an announcement that Phish needed some overdub help for "My Friend". I arrived with about 30 to forty people. If there were more than that, maybe they were turned away since the total number in the main room at White Crow was not excessively large, certainly not 100. Barry Beckett and the engineers manned the control room while Trey explained the song's vocal concept. The song was played through the main room monitors and all of us Phishheads stood in a tight but orderly semicircle around the mic(s). We did several "dry" runs, during which Trey rearranged us to get more females more prominent in the microphones (there were many more guys than gals present). Mike and Page, off to the side, offered such wonderful suggestions as "put a lot of EMOTION into it. Just think - this is your FRIEND and he's got this KNIFE. Really express that emotion into the microphone..." We did several recording runs with Trey conducting us. He finally seemed satisfied with a take and that was that. Thank you very much, you may ask a few questions ("How'd you aquire Beckett?" "We asked him." Wow. Talk about informative.) and then there is the door, thanks again, goodbye, don't call us, we'll call you, buy the album, goodbye. Click. And that was that. It was a fun little adventure, plus I get to brag I recorded with Phish. POST-SCRIPT: I was again at White Crow a month later, when Best Kissers In The World were recording their Columbia Records debut. They wanted a group of us Burlington alterna-musicians (Chin Ho, Hover, etc) to help sing the refrain to "Bitch! Can't sing!" Well, it quickly and ironically degenerated into "Phish! Can't sing!" Total irony. And it was quite funny.