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In addition to his prime monicker, Henrietta, Phish drummer Jon Fishman has also been called (onstage, by others in the band) John the Fishman (1984); Moses Brown, Moses Heaps, and Moses Dewitt (5/15/88); Moses Yastrzemski (2/7/89); J. Edgar Hoover (12/7/89); Vinnie Barbarito (2/23/90); Phil Collins (2/25/90); Tubbs (Rift liner notes); Zero man (initially 9/13/90); Johnnie B. Fishman (by Trey, right after Take the A Train 10-20-89, referencing the Johnny B Fishman Jazz Ensemble, a side project); Moses Brown, Moses Heaps, Moses Dewitt (3/15/91 ; and he wears a "Moses Brown" t-shirt on the cover of the "Free" single, as he does in other Billy Breathes promo photos) [The original Moses Brown was the original financier of textile mills in New England (turn of the century 1800) at the beginning of the American Industrial Revolution.]; Hankrietta, the shortest man in rock and roll (3/19/91); Sultan of Swat (7/21/91); the fourth member of the Giant Country Horns and Phish's multi-instrumentalis (both 7/21/91?); Hankrietta...the shortest man in show business (10/13/91); Showboat Gertrude (10/19/91); Hankrietta (11/13/91); the hardest man in show business, after a photo from the front center of a show as he tossed the front of his dress into the air; Yo Yo Ma of Vacuum Cleaners (4/17/92); Tommy Dorsey (4/19/92); the Piper (5/1/92); Sans Bag the Piper (5/2/92); Tubbs the Beast Boy (11/19/92); Eye Ball man (after the white dress); Tubbs, the little hairy beast-man (2/20/93, introducing himself); Little Little John, Friar Tubbs (3/5/93); John, Friar Tubbs, and Henrietta Fieldberg (3/9/93); Henrietta Tubman (4/5/93); Chuck Norris (8/8/93); Greasy Fizeek (Physique?) (beginning 12/31/93 and in Hoist liner notes); Luke Skywalker (Providence, fall 94 before his vacuum solo); Sneezeblood Eyeball (originated in St. Louis and showed up at the 6/13/95 Riverport show, according to Todd Ellebrachy, ); Forrest Gump (11/24/95 Pittsburgh during "Bike"); Morton Charleton Heston (10/25/96 and 11/2/96_; Barn Boy (in the liner notes to Billy Breathes; the orchestral Greasy Troll (7-10-97 France); the "inhuman computer drumbeat" during the song intros in the 7-21-97 "Bathtub Gin"; Bob Weaver throughout the U.S. summer 1998 tour (including during Antelope on 8-16-98); and "Sammy Hagar the Horrible The Horn Section" by Trey on 11/13/98, because of the horned Viking helmet he's worn for most of the fall 1998 tour. Also (but missing dates; your help needed): Tubman; Missing Link; Central Scrutinizer; Showboat Gertrude (esp. with the trombone); the man with the high hat (regarding Trey's conveyance of one of Fishman's hobbies); Marco Esquandolas (11-13-94); second best trombone player in Vermont and parts of New Hampshire; and Captain Caveman (and Trey is Shaggy). And as drummer for the Jazz Mandolin Project's Tour de Flux incarnation, he was named The Abominable Shitstutski (1/27/98); Edgar Finnegan from Kinneymanport, Maine (1/29/98); All the way from Bombay Curry, Mr. Stanley Hindustan (2/7/98); Igor Spewshitzki (2/8/98); Aardvark von Doozer (by Jamies Masefield at the 2/13/99 JMP show); Vajona (7/17/99 and other summer 99 shows); from Syracuse New York, Ralph Boringsteen (7/6/00); and others. Information on any others, and dates on any of these, would be _most_ appreciated.

See also, Henrietta's dress and lead songs.n Dokus (12/11/98); Ellis Conley, Sean@gzero, (6-

Special thanks also to Graham "Pagan".29-99), Alex Pearson (9/2/99), and Chris Corr (12-11-99).

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