Product Description
Like "Reba," "Fluffhead" is many a fans favorite Phish tune. Also like Reba, the song seems to embody every aspect of early Phish: a catchy intro, bizarre, surreal lyrics (elevated prime did edit her?!), a complex multi-part composition, and a blissfully climactic ending jam.
Before the song finally premiered live in its final draft form i.e. "Fluffhead" and the six-part "Fluff's Travels" suite on 9/27/87, it went through many changes. To start with, it was written in separate parts (parenthesis represent the timings on the Junta studio version of "Fluff's Travels"):
I. Fluff's Travels (0:00-1:09)
II. The Chase (1:09-2:21)
III. Who Do? We Do! (2:21-4:12)
IV. Clod (4:12-7:21)
V. Bundle of Joy (7:21-9:10)
VI. Arrival (w/ outro) (9:10-11:38)
Fluffhead debuted on 12/1/84 at Nectars with guest vocals from The Dude of Life, who penned the song's lyrics. The opening three verses were written by the Dude about his brother, who was dying from cancer at the time and was using fluff balls in place of the hair he had lost from chemo treatments. Coincidentally, shortly after the song was written, the Dude and Trey attended a Grateful Dead show in 1983 where they saw a guy who also had fluff balls on his (bald) head to simulate hair, which is why in the past, the origin of this song was (mistakenly) tied to the guy the Dude and Trey saw at a Dead show., rather than the Dude's brother.
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