This remnant will be replaced soon. The FAQ is back, with a new design! What is Faht and why is it called that? First played by Henrietta on guitar Bailey Hall, Cornell University, 11/22/92. From Mark : Windham Hell is the original name of Faht (fishman song in which he plays acoustic guitar as a tape of nature-type sounds play in the background.) ... the reason for the name windham hell is obvious (those nature sound tapes sold by windham). From Tim Miller 1/9/94: Windham Hall is the big New Age label. It sells really annoying, overly tasteful and hence tasteless music with "nature sounds" and the like in the background. From: Stephen Gladfelter: Here's the scoop: In the lower right corner of one of the fall '91 Phish Updates appears "Fish's Forum," a small little story with some interesting phonetics. Anyway,the word "faht" appears as a misprint of the word "fast." [May have been faht instead of raht, as in a Scarlet O Hara accented "right".] One Jonathan Fishman was very pissed off at this blunder as it completely changed the story's meaning (or lack thereof) Prior to the realease of Picture of Nectar, the band called Windham Hill Records to get permission from the president to use the title. The prez's basic response was, "you guys are great! I love your music! If you use the name, I'll sue your asses off." So much for that. So, the band, without telling Fishman, who was off vacationing in some random tropical paradise at the time, decided to change the name to Faht. They were hoping that the album would be out before he returned, so when they gave him his copy, they could say, "oh shit! look, they mispelled Windham Hell, Fish!" Ha ha! So there you are. That's the poop (according to Mike, at least, who told me this after the [which??] Philly show) From "mbroth: Many people have the misconception that Windham Hill releases music that our parents dig. In many instances that is true but ... check out Micheal Hedges - opened for CSN over their 1992 summer tour. [Lemuria note: the dude's nuts! Three-or-more part harmonies on one electric guitar/harp and crazy vocals.] Psychograss also might prove that misconception otherwise. Check it out if your into the mandolin, slide guitar, steel/nylon string guitars, violin, bongo and banjo kind of thing. "At any given time, you can be sitting in your environment, any environment that you're in, there's probably at least a couple of sounds which are producing patterns which are doing something against each other, and you can find out the relation to the other patterns -- there's always that going on."" -- Jon Fishman, 4/22/92 interview with Shelly Culbertson" This page last updated January 24, 2007. All contents © 1992-2007 Ellis Godard. All rights reserved.