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Debut album “Or Current Resident” out now! bengreenfield.bandcamp.com Or find the link to your streamer of choice at linktr.ee/mrbengreenfield

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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 29/09/2026
There should be a 9/11 style memorial to this in Las Vegas. There should be somber services each year commemorating it. The mayor should attend. Jon Stewart should lobby Congress to pass a bill funding the recovery of the workers who were at ground zero that fateful night.
Snapshots of Kid Rock backstage and on stage with Phish, 9/29/00.
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 05/09/2026
Ya no good pa
Lamine Yamal
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 04/09/2026
Bless this woman
Ms. Rama carved out the rough shape of the pastel, putting every last scrap of dough to use. Asked about the possibility of a machine going the stretching and cutting, Ms. Rama responded quizzically, “What would I do then? What would be my place in this creation?”
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 12/08/2026
This was cool.
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 01/08/2026
This is a great call
A friend texts “THIS should have been the 95 show”
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 30/07/2026
Me when Forbin’s started vs me now:
Text messages. The first: “welp, guess we’re not getting a Harpua.
The second: welp, guess we are
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 22/07/2026
When Elon renamed Twitter, my first question was why he made it this guy’s possession
Daniel Ek
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 21/07/2026
They could do what they did at the show before the Baker’s Dozen, and play a Mike original they never touched again and nobody (maybe not even Mike?) remembers existing
A screenshot from the LivePhish app shows that on 7/19/17, Phish played a song called Marissa.
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 17/07/2026
This is a great idea. F MSG, solidarity with Wired.
An Instagram comment from @lil.zenax reads “Please can we organize a drag night for phish msg”
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 11/07/2026
Jennifer Dances sign
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 06/07/2026
It looks like we need to quickly find a Maine resident who is charismatic, liberal, has been tested in electoral politics before, and has no Nazi tattoos or sexual assault allegations…
Future senator Jonathan Fishman
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 04/07/2026
Kudos for putting gin in the Lawn Boy, but surely you could’ve thought of at least one other ingredient that referenced another song on the album.
A drink menu includes a “lawn boy,” with origin gin, citrus herb simple, ginger beer
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 11/06/2026
In 2020, I composed a classical-ish solo guitar piece, but never actually attempted to play it. I recently dug it up and figured out all the fingerings and so on, and here it is!
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 09/06/2026
An old Yiddish definition of chutzpah is the young man who murders both his parents in cold blood and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 30/05/2026
HUGE news that justifiably made the front page in Glendale CA (a city of over 200,000)
A story on the front page of the Glendale News-Press has the headline “Local UPS Deliveryman Retires” and includes a photo of the man, Alfred Valles
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 19/05/2026
Truly no idea. I set it to DuckDuckGo because I’ve heard of it and it isn’t Bing or Yahoo. It did fail my basic test for search engine quality:
A search for “best tweezer” returns a bunch of useless links about plucking tools
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 19/05/2026
FYI
Change your default search engine on iPhone
You can select an alternative search engine as the default to search for content on the web.
Go to the Settings app  on your iPhone.
Tap Search, then tap Search Engine.
Tap the search engine you want to set as the default, then tap the Back button.
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 10/05/2026
Damn it, I came to this bathroom specifically to get some orber
A sign on a urinal reads “out of orber”
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 09/05/2026
Got to see Ryley Walker last night for the first time since I broke my knee on the way to his show in 2019. He still cooks, and this time I was able to walk back to my car afterward. He mentioned he’s moving to LA, which seems like it’ll be great for him and us.
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 09/05/2026
The next mayor of LA, @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social
Nithya Raman posts a “Happy Cornell ‘77 Day to all who celebrate” message on Instagram. She has a Dead shirt on and is flashing a peace sign.
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 07/05/2026
Found it! Apologies for linking to Spotify, it’s from a long time ago. open.spotify.com/playlist/5oT...
A screenshot of a playlist that includes hits like Army of One by Bon Jovi, Kung (Original Club Mix) by Rene Amesz, and Spock’s Brain by Greg Hillis
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 03/05/2026
I completely get wanting to chill on show days while in Vegas, but there is also stunning natural beauty just barely outside the city. Including Valley of Fire, and Red Rock Canyon, which I hit on Friday:
A vista of the red and white rocks in Red Rock Canyon, NVA view from the edge of Red Rock Canyon, with the Las Vegas skyline in the distanceA rattlesnake on the trail in Red Rock CanyonSandstone in the foreground, mountains in the background in Red Rock Canyon
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 03/05/2026
Dang, one of the local male strip clubs already came out with an ad referencing Fishman’s new nickname. #weareeverywhere
An ad atop a Las Vegas taxi features a bunch of half-naked hunks and reads “THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER”
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 02/05/2026
Phish is okay, but there’s only one band that I could stay out past 2am for and not regret it, and that’s @taperschoice.bsky.social
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 02/05/2026
A downed sign on the side of the road reads “SPECIAL EVENT AHEAD.” In the background is the Las Vegas Sphere
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 29/04/2026
It’s used very clearly to mean “banned” in Casino:
A screenshot of a scene from the Casino script, with “nobody told him he was eighty-sixed from the joint” highlighted
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 25/04/2026
Very flattering compliment from @rjbee.bsky.social, owner of some of the best ears in all the land Listen here: bengreenfield.bandcamp.com/album/or-cur...
On Instagram, RJ Bee has a screen shot from Apple Music of the album “Or Current Resident” by Ben Greenfield with the caption “Long overdue post about @mrbengreenfield’s album being awesome”
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 21/04/2026
A screenshot of a document from the California Secretary of State about the Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, with text highlighted which reads: “Additionally, candidates are no longer allowed
to run as “independents” or “write-ins” at the general election.”
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 19/04/2026
It would be funny if it turned out that it was actually this shitty former congressman Joe Walsh who was at the show, not the Joe Walsh from the Eagles
Shitty former congressman Joe Walsh
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 19/04/2026
Just met this guy and he’s calling a himself at tonight’s Phish show
Me with a possum on my shoulder
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 18/04/2026
A sweet post from Adrian Belew on Frank Zappa
An Instagram post from Adrian Belew includes a picture of a graying Frank Zappa and the following text:

here's an anecdote I wrote in 2007.

Closure.
my last time seeing frank zappa face to face
was just months before his death in December 1993.
I went to the zappa abode for a short visit.
he looked like the picture above,
which was a shock.
frank was obviously ill, his voice a whisper.
instead of the vibrant frank I knew
there was an older man.
only 52 but seeming very weak and tired.
in place of his usual habit of chain-drinking espresso
he was sipping orange juice freshly squeezed by his maid.
frank talked about his latest project.
the conversation drifted off.
I felt a tinge of guilt taking his time.
soon he excused himself to rest for a while.
our interlude was over.

I prefer to remember a different ending.
one night in late 1992 I woke up from a vivid dream.
I looked at the clock. 6 AM.
I couldn't get back to sleep.
in my dream frank and I were laughing and talking,
having a lively conversation about music and things.
it felt good, like a friendship.

since I couldn't sleep I went downstairs
and sat in a chair, replaying the dream.
there was no such thing as e-mail then,
about the fastest delivery was by fax.
so I decided to send a fax to frank.
in my fax I told him about the dream.
then I said I had never properly thanked him
for all he had done for me
and I wanted say "thanks".
I had no idea at that time that frank was ill and dying.

later that afternoon I got a call.
it was frank. what a great surprise!
he said to me, "that was sweet".
that's the word he used: sweet.
not a word you would normally associate
with the acerbic edgy satirist.

we proceeded then to have a wonderful conversation
much like the one in my dream.

and that's the way I remember frank.An Instagram post from Adrian Belew:

here's an anecdote I wrote in 2007.

Closure.
my last time seeing frank zappa face to face
was just months before his death in December 1993.
I went to the zappa abode for a short visit.
he looked like the picture above,
which was a shock.
frank was obviously ill, his voice a whisper.
instead of the vibrant frank I knew
there was an older man.
only 52 but seeming very weak and tired.
in place of his usual habit of chain-drinking espresso
he was sipping orange juice freshly squeezed by his maid.
frank talked about his latest project.
the conversation drifted off.
I felt a tinge of guilt taking his time.
soon he excused himself to rest for a while.
our interlude was over.

I prefer to remember a different ending.
one night in late 1992 I woke up from a vivid dream.
I looked at the clock. 6 AM.
I couldn't get back to sleep.
in my dream frank and I were laughing and talking,
having a lively conversation about music and things.
it felt good, like a friendship.

since I couldn't sleep I went downstairs
and sat in a chair, replaying the dream.
there was no such thing as e-mail then,
about the fastest delivery was by fax.
so I decided to send a fax to frank.
in my fax I told him about the dream.
then I said I had never properly thanked him
for all he had done for me
and I wanted say "thanks".
I had no idea at that time that frank was ill and dying.

later that afternoon I got a call.
it was frank. what a great surprise!
he said to me, "that was sweet".
that's the word he used: sweet.
not a word you would normally associate
with the acerbic edgy satirist.

we proceeded then to have a wonderful conversation
much like the one in my dream.
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 17/04/2026
Which one of you was this
An image shows the Las Vegas Sphere with someone near the top, and the caption, “Someone was seen climbing the Las Vegas Sphere”
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 10/04/2026
An image of the album cover of “…I Care Because You Do” by Aphex Twin
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 04/04/2026
Anyway, if you’re in or near one of these places, literally run to see Taper’s Choice. Sprint for as much of the trip as you can.
A poster showing Eggy and Taper’s Choice tour dates, including
4/4 San Francisco
4/5 Stateline NV
4/8 Eugene OR
4/9 Bend
4/10 Portland
4/11 Seattle
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 04/04/2026
@taperschoice.bsky.social 2.0 launched the same day as Artemis, but reached the cosmos much more quickly. The new guitarist CJ is a force of nature (and an incredibly quick study).
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 30/03/2026
dang someone made a sticker based on my avatar, but with different words. v flattered.
A sticker features a burger logo with an orange bun, but with “EMPTY GRAVE” in red letters between the buns instead of the iconic “JENNIFER DANCES”
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 28/03/2026
Grateful to have found myself in Philly on a #NoKings day
A protestor holds a sign reading “THE ONLY GOOD ICE IS WOODER ICE” with a picture of water ice
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 20/03/2026
A poster reveals the new Dune title/subtitle:
DUNE WITH DISEASE
Up Before The Dawn
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 18/03/2026
Agree with the basic premise, but Steyer should stay in as well—1) he’s tied with Porter, and 2) even if you split the single-digit-getters’ votes evenly between Swalwell/Porter/Steyer, you knock at least one Republican out of the top 2. We’re safe with 3 Dems in the race, but not with many more.
Polling average showing that Hilton, Bianco and Swalwell are all in the 13-15 range, Porter and Steyer are at 10-11, and other candidates are under 5%.
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 16/03/2026
“When we play an arena, we cover up all the ads  as much as we can -- the corporate sponsorship thing has nothing to do with music. We've had offers, but forget it. I know when we tour  we're going to have to play SFX buildings, because they can control everything. But our goal is to take more and more in-house by promoting our own shows and releasing our records through our own mail-order business, and move in exactly the opposite direction that everyone is moving.”
-Trey Anastasio, Providence Journal, 6/1/99
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 14/03/2026
I love it when I can get the first clue to get things started
A crossword puzzle clue, for 1-across, reads “Behave like an ass.” The poster has entered “FART.”
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 13/03/2026
My debut album “Or Current Resident” is out NOW! Listen via the streaming services at linktr.ee/mrbengreenfi... or at bengreenfield.bandcamp.com/album/or-cur... All of the thanks to the brilliant folks who contributed, and to you for listening!
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 31/01/2026
This has to be the biggest spread in history.
Melania has a 7% rating on the Tomatometer (critic reviews) and a 99% on the Popcornmeter (audience reviews).
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 29/01/2026
Just went to message him on IG and this was my prior DM to him (cc @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com)
In which I Heart Noise and I discussed trying to get Joel to join Bsky back in Nov 2024
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 25/01/2026
A screenshot of @ghosttwist’s post above, with the Bluesky butterfly inserted in the top right
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 20/01/2026
For anyone who saw Phish in Mexico in 2020, can you confirm whether or not there was a spontaneous outbreak of mass projectile vomiting when Trey started singing “And the ocean is loooove” in the middle of a truly gorgeous jam out of Waves?
A screenshot of the LivePhish app at the precise moment when Trey ruined a beautiful jam out of Waves on 2/22/20
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 18/01/2026
You’re probably aware of this, but: (Would love to hear more details about the show, Hanson’s thoughts etc)
A photo of Bob Weir and the boys from Hanson, who a caption indicates sat in with Weir at the Wetlands (in 1999)
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 11/01/2026
There’s currently a mini-rainbow over LA despite it being sunny outside. I’m getting flashbacks to the first Fare Thee Well show in 2015. RIP Bobby.
The sun begins to set in LA, as another portion of the sky shows a small section of a rainbow. Only a few wisps of clouds dot the sky.
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 30/12/2025
This was also the speculation at my first MSG shows 27 years ago, because of the mail order ticket stubs. Maybe it’ll be true this time…
The Phish 12/31/98 mail order ticket features a subway train with graffiti on the side that says
Phish
Madison Square Garden
12-31-98
New Year’s Eve
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 26/12/2025
Great minds think similarly @mitch9cumstein.bsky.social @dijcrap.bsky.social
Screenshots of Mitch and Seth’s guesses: Stephen Miller and Mike Johnson
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