![]() ![]() It's the kind of song that busts you out of those dimensionally bound blues - never really knowing what universal secrets it’s going to unlock (or so it's been said). ![]() The song’s whimsical lyrics, unpredictable changes and soaring end-jam embody everything magical and alluring about the band’s music. ![]() Ask any number of fans from just about anywhere, and they’ll tell you “Reba” simply *is* Phish. “Reba” is more than your average, everyday song about a capitalistic moon-shiner’s questionable relationship with the local meat proprietor, nor is it your hermitic ex-hippie Grandmother’s recipe from the Merry Prankster’s Cookbook for organic non-hypoallergenic bathtub gin - “Reba” is a feeling, a groove… Call it a meditation, call it a state of mind - “Reba” by any other name would undoubtedly smell as sweet. And there’s one song, regardless of how many times it’s played… it always feels like the first time (rest assured this has nothing to do with Lou Gramm or Foreigner)… Give me an “R”… an “E,” and a “B” and an “A”! What’s that spell? (If you’re struggling, spend a few more hours with your kids' Baby Einstein toys and we’ll pick up the lesson tomorrow). Your first memory, first kiss, first sandwich at Langer's, the first time you realized television sucked, and of course, your first Phish show. Yet there’s one thing everyone remembers, no matter how much water flows under that infernal bridge, no matter how good, bad, great or late it was… everyone remembers the first time. Yet as the years roll on and three-to-five days of class evolves into five-to-seven days of work and all the weeks start blending into one long month, even memories start melding into sameness due to the inescapable passage of time ("time" being a Swiss-born conspiracy to make the world dependent on its “more efficient” timepieces, but that's a story for another. ![]() And if we are in fact the sum of our experiences, then without our memories, we wouldn’t add up to all that much. In a lifetime (or lifetimes, for those with round-trip tickets) of consecutive and continuous years, days, hours and minutes, it’s sometimes difficult to keep track of everything we’re doing, let alone everything we did. ![]()
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