Phish may be one of the best-kept secrets of American music. Smart, talented, playful, and resolutely iconoclastic, they have until recently been all but ignored by the media and by commercial radio.

All of this changed in 1996, the year they debuted an album at #7 on the Billboard chart, were profiled in Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and the New York Times, appeared on David Letterman, and found themselves among the top-twenty-grossing U.S. touring acts of the year. Long hailed as the heirs apparent to the Grateful Dead, Phish have cemented their status as the country's pre-eminent improvisational rock group.

Tracing the band from its Vermont beginnings and grassroots success through its alternative-rock breakout, writer Thompson explores Phish's diverse musical influences and shows what it's like to go on the road as a "Phish head". The book is sure to be a hit with fans and fanatics alike.

"They've gone from big fish in a little pond to the whale that swallowed rock's tie-dyed nation". -- Entertainment Weekly

"America's biggest underground jam band". -- Rolling Stone