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Rise Of The Phishheads

Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1996

ON A STARRY SUMMER NIGHT at Bearsville Studios, New York, the four members of Phish are bracing themselves for the inevitable Grateful Dead question. You see, folks have dubbed Phish "the new Grateful Dead". Some have even been tasteless enough to suggest that Jerry Garcia's death was the best thing that ever happened to them.

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