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JON FISHMAN LINKS: Phish Forum & Message Board - Grateful Dead & Phish forum is part of the Hip Forums. And all other psychedelic jam bands.
Phish.com - Official news from the band's website.
Phish To Host Benefit For VT Flood Victims - Phish will play a benefit show for Vermont flood victims on September 14 the jam band said on its website.
Jon Fishman Leads "The Cowbell Record Breaking Band" - Phish drummer Jon Fishman broke the Guinness World Record for the largest cowbell ensemble late Saturday afternoon. As confirmed by the Burlington Free Press more than 1600 fans joined Fishman and his self-proclaimed �The Cowbell Record Breaking Band� for the record-breaking performance on Burlington VT�s Church Street.

Jon Fishman to play in Portland Maine - jon Fishman plays drums for two sets with the Jazz Mandolin Project. 02/19/09.
Jon Fishman Quotes - Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.
Jon Fishman on The Simpsons - He voiced himself in the season 13 episode "Weekend at Burnsie's".

JON FISHMAN FACTOID:

Jon Fishman also plays drums for the band Pork Tornado, and has performed with the Jazz Mandolin Project. Recently he has been a member of two large musical collectives, The Everyone Orchestra and The Village. He is also a member of the Burlington, VT comedy troup Touchpants with Colby Dix and Chris Friday and is their regular drummer. In 2007, he performed a series of shows with the Yonder Mountain String Band, including a large portion of their set at the Rothbury Music Festival which happened the summer of 2008.

The band Phish was named after Jon Fishman. Besides drumming, he also sings vocals and sometimes lead-vocals (usually on cover songs, most of them humorous - the best examples are Prince's "Purple Rain", Neil Diamond's "Cracklin' Rosie", and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd's "Bike").