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Print mentions: Leaving aside the obvious (Spin and Guitar Player, and even USA Today and People, how about these...

• Congressional Record: Senator Leahy (D-VT) entered comment into the 12/1/94 Congressional Record, congratulating them for their success and saying that they "have a live performance that is hard to forget." (Thanks, Drew!)
• Quigmans: In the 8/25/97 in The Quigmans, "there is a guy getting hit on the head with a pool stick, and he has a Phish shirt on", according to Brian Cox. [Note: There have been four other sightings in comics, but I've lost track of them - anyone have any info?]
• GQ had an eight-page article (Jan. 1997) titled "Phishstock Nation".
• Seventeen: In a summer 1997 issue of Seventeen Magazine, one of the "Ten Guys to Avoid" (with a description and photographed model for each) was wearing a Phish shirt.
• The Onion made light of Phish audiences in a joke piece
• TV Guide's (5/98) review of the finale episode of Seinfeld said the characters' "accounts sparked more flashbacks than a Phish concert." Thanks to "Bubonic" <scrooge@cybercomm.net> 5/28/98
• New York Times Magazine on 11/29/98 had a story about director Gus Van Sant and his remake of Hitchcock's Psycho. Van Sant explained that he was not ripping off the original, but rather paying tribute to it: "We're not rapping over 'Psycho.' We're not using it just as a little riff. We're doing it more like the band Phish does when they recreate the White Album at a concert." (Jesse Appelman <oso101@ix.netcom.com> 11/29/98)
• Sports Illustrated mentioned Phish, and showed a picture of Trey with his daughters, and a quote about his love of soccer, in an issue focusing on the Women's soccer team. There was also a brief description of the band.
• Law Review: Dan Purcell reported (5/30/97) "sitting in my Bar Review class today, second day, Contracts, somewhat amusing lecturer talking about mutual assent, offer and acceptance, the single most basic contractual concept there is, really, when I look down and in the pre-printed Bar Review material, we have this:

  3.) On October 8, C receives an invitation from Phish to join the band.
  He mails a rejection on October 9, but changes his mind and mails a
  letter of acceptance on October 10.  His rejection letter is received
  on October 11.  Is there a contract?

  The answer, of course, is No, for reasons I could explain but I doubt would be of any interest to any of you, except maybe those of you out there who already know...."
  Dan Epstein reported (12/1/97) that "the guy teaching the course is my dad (David Epstein). Since I began trading Phish tapes heavily (4 years ago), he's been using Phish in his speeches. Anyone who takes the BAR/BRI Bar review course will have my dad (either in person, or on video), and can look forward to a few Phish examples."
• Kaplan SAT Prep: Hardy Childers noted (12/5/97) that, "In the 1998 version of the Kaplan SAT & PSAT book which helps you prepare for the SAT it has a mention of Phish. On page 127 there is a little box that reads 'Five Things More Difficult Than SAT Math.' The list reads:
  1. open-heart surgery
  2. dunking on Michael Jordan
  3. getting Phish tickets
  4. beating curfew w/o getting caught
  5. reading Moby Dick w/o falling asleep
  

Radio background:

• The first 30 seconds or so of "Sparkle" was used between news segments on NPR's morning show during the 97/98 winter. (Adam R. Kurth <adam@kurth.com> 11/28/00)
• Phish is sometimes used as a filler music background between programs on the Japanese BS (basic satellite) channel 7 (which is broadcast digitally in 32Kh mode). Hai Ba#900<barzilay@fk.urban.ne.jp> 9/22/98
• Spencer Hughes, a talk show host in Sacramento on KFBK, has used "Landlady" as bumper music. Dex L. <Dex@Cyberguys.com> 7/28/98
• Howard Stern has used "Down with Disease" as background music. And on 9/16/98, in an interview with Lou Ferigno ("The Incredible Hulk"), one of the questions was "What is the Million Child March" (referring to an event in Harlem) and Lou answered "Phish". Tristan <tristancNOSPAM@hotmail.com>
• The Damon Perry show, a nationally syndicated sports talk radio show (1510 AM in Boston) featured the first 45 seconds of "David Bowie" after a commercial break, twice. Rob <woody1180@aol.com> 10/22/98

Sports Background:

• Troy Cryder reported (7/22/98) that "Phish has a couple of songs on a few Surf Videos(yes Its true, LLama and Wedge, I think. #900
• Brian Farquan reported (8/6/98) that YEM is played during the opening sequence of a surfing video entitled Jacked by Tony Roberts and distributed by O'Neill.
• Kastlerage posted (3/22/98) that Chalkdust Torture is used as background on Continuium, a skiing and snowboarding video that also features Rage and The Urge.

Other sightings: #900

• Being sampled, #1: At the end of a Blues Traveler original tune (track #7, called "Christmas") on the third A Very Special Christmas Album (an effort for charity), John Popper sings a melody to the tune of Trey's guitar melody in "Divided Sky". The tune got at least some radio play during 12/97. Liner notes include that the song "contains elements from 'Divided Sky' written by Ernest Anastasio. (Thanks to Ryan C. Smith, Brian M. Gordon, and Craig Garneau.)
• In Space: On 8/18/97, "Contact" was the morning music at mission control for the Mars mission:

  	MARS PATHFINDER MISSION STATUS
  	>15 August 1997, 5:00 pm PDT
  	>
  	>Today on Mars: the Rover Sojourner continues her trek in the Rock Garden.
  	>The Earth rose on Mars today, Sol 41, at 12:15 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time
  	>and the Sun followed, rising at 3:15 a.m. Sojourner and the lander were
  	>woken to the song "Contact" by the group Phish and proceeded to perform
  	>their continuing operations.  Standard temperature and pressure
  	>measurements were taken by the lander as well as more images toward the
  	>completion of the "Super Panorama", and super-resolution images of other
  	>features in Ares Vallis.

• The fall 1997 Crutchfield catalog used Phish as the display in the first programmable cassette deck shown.
• Yahoo keeps a list of Phish chat rooms online.
• While MTV hasn't mentioned Phish much, and hasn't played their video often, but www.mtv.com has covered them a handful of times, including an 8/10/98 review titled "Phish Takes Atlanta by Storm".
• Phish is on the soundtrack for the upcoming (late '99) movie Around the Fire.

Phan Sightings:

Several ads, movies, and videos have been reported as including someone (usually in the background) wearing a Phish shirt. For example, Tyler Penn repor#90010/98) that"In the movie Blues Brothers 2000, in the scene when the re-united Blues Brothers band play their first gig at the monster truck rally, watch when John Goodman asks the crowd to come closer to the stage, then you will see a shot of the police then #900shot of the crowd, when it comes to the shot of the crowd, you will see [at 51:15 into the movie] a guy stand up who has a purple Phish shirt on."

#900

"We're increasing our visibility right now, or it's increasing itself a little bit. Things are just surfacing in the public perception a bit for us, and it's been nice. It's not out of control or anything. We're still not pop starsour career, it's still gradual." -- Mike Gordon, jamtv.com interview, 10/30/98

Not that Ubiquitous:

Yangety pointed out (11/18/97) that:
- They don't have videos that run on MTV or VH-1
- They are rarely played on the radio
- When they ARE on the radio, it is either the single from a new album, or some songs to get people ready for a Phish show in that local area.
- There are very few stories about them in music mags (aside from Relix) on a regular basis.....

Thanks also to Chuck Sitkoff 8/11/98.