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Buddy Miles

Full Name: Buddy Miles

    One of several guest percussionists who accompanied Phish in the Fall of 1996, Buddy Miles is perhaps best known as the drummer with Jimi Hendrix and Band of Gypsys (1969-70) and for his vocal hit “Them Changes” (1970), which Phish covered on 11/30/97. He and Merl Saunders joined Phish on 10/22/96 at Madison Square Garden for an “All Along the Watchtower” encore, with Miles playing on Fishman's kit, Saunders trading keyboards with Page, and Fishman on Trey's mini-drum kit. Some reviews of the show state that Miles also sang “And she's buying a stairway... to heaven” at the end of the song. Miles was the second Hendrix collaborator to sit in with Phish, after Noel Redding. Buddy Miles died of congestive heart failure on February 26, 2008.