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The music of the American rock band Phish is "oriented around group improvisation and superextended grooves"〔From the 2004 The New Rolling Stone Album Guide http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/phish/biography〕 that draw on a range of rock-oriented influences, including psychedelic rock, funk, reggae, hard rock and various "acoustic" genres, such as folk and bluegrass. Some Phish songs use different vocal approaches, such as a cappella (unaccompanied) sections of barbershop quartet-style vocal harmonies. Some of their original compositions (such as "Theme from the Bottom") tend towards a psychedelic rock and bluegrass fusion, with more rock, jazz and funk elements than the Grateful Dead and other earlier jam bands like Pink Floyd. Their more ambitious, epic compositions (such as "You Enjoy Myself" and "Guyute") are often said to resemble classical music in a rock setting, much like the music of one of their heroes, Frank Zappa. ==Songwriting== Bassist Mike Gordon wrote a number of compositions for the Phish catalog, beginning perhaps with "Minkin" from ''The White Tape''. His compositions are marked by humorous lyric content and a straightforward musical style. The title track of ''Round Room'' is a Gordon-penned piece with a more rhythmically and harmonically complex style. Lead vocalist Trey Anastasio's boyhood friend and schoolmate Tom Marshall was the primary lyricist for Phish. Marshall, a biologist, has written lyrics ranging from arbitrarily assembled nonsequitur ("Stash") to the expressive ("Lifeboy"). The lyrical style was a distinctive part of Phish's music. Often Anastasio would pull lyrics for compositions from large notebooks of prose and poetry kept by Marshall, although the two have also directly collaborated on a number of songs. Anastasio is the next most prolific contributor of Phish lyrics, notably in the ''Gamehendge'' cycle. Both lyricists focused heavily on wordplay and musical language, with content taking a subordinate role to the sounds of the words and phrases. On many album credits, multiple members or all the members of Phish are listed as composers. This has been the cause of some confusion. While not exclusively true, it is generally the case that Anastasio was the composer of most of these numbers, with other band members thereafter making contributions to the music to varying degrees of significance. These changes were sometimes subtle and sometimes major, and ranged from more or less immediate revisions to alterations that were years in the making. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Music of Phish」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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