As were began planning for what would be come The Phish Companion, one of the stumbling blocks was a title. Personally, I wanted something a little more encyclopedic-sounding than what we ended up with, but here is a list of other 134 other titles considered...

• A Comprehensive Companion to the Music of Phish
• A Family Aphair
• A Highway Encyclopedia: The Travelers of a Nation
• A Lizard's Tale
• A Mockingbook of Phishtory
• A Phamily Affair
• A Phan's Notes

• A Simple Guide for You who Enjoy Myself
• A Simple Guide to the Music of Phish
• A Simple Guide to the Music of Phish
• Amongst The Divided Sky
• An Encyclopedic Companion to the Music of Phish
• An Encyclopedic Phishtory
• Can of Worms
• Can You Still Have Fun
• Come Waste Your Time With Me
• Control for Smilers
• Dig These Phossils
• Diggin Phossils
• Esther's Leather Sack
• Fly Famous Book
• Friendly Help for Phish Fans
• Full Phare
• Gearshifts, Hose, and Foam
• Guysers: The History of Phish as Told by Its Fans
• Helping Friendly Book
• Henrietta's Band
• Hook, Line, and Sinker
• Index Phossils
• Index Phossils: a Guide to the Evolution of Phish
• It's Hard To Hear The Music With Your Mind Closed
• Just the Phacts, Man.
• Let's Go: Gamehendge
• Lizard Chronicles
• Lizards' Stash
• My Band's Got a Mind of Its Own
• Pages from Phishtory
• Phamily Album
• Phan Fare
• Phandonia
• Phandonia's Fossils
• Phandora's Loupe
• Phandora's Lure
• Phandora's Tome
• Phandora's Box
• Phandora's Encyclopedia
• Phandora's Legend
• Phedora
• Pheeling the Groove
• Phinding Finding the Right Groove
• Phish Addiction -- The Phixx
• Phish Bytes
• Phish for Dummies
• Phish from the Net
• Phish Market Stew
• Phish: 1900-1997
• Phishin and Fusion
• Phishin Cyclopedia
• Phishing for Dummies
• Phishozoic Traveller
• Phishtorical Musings
• Phishtory
• Phistorical Phacts and Phigures
• Phor You
• Phossil's Index: a Guide to the Evolution of Phish
• Posters' Nutbag
• Pull Some Dirt Out Of Your Pocket To Eat
• Reach (carrying on the verb focus of titles like Hoist, Rift, BBreathes, Surrender)
• Reprise
• Runaway Jams
• Samples in a Book
• Seeing Through The Lights
• Shared Grooves
• Sharin in the Groove
• Sharing in the Groove
• Ship of Phools
• Spawning Grounds
• Steal This Bphook
• Steal This Hook
• Swimming Through the Wind
• Tackle Box
• The Armchair Aquarian
• The Armchair Aquarium
• THE Book
• The Book of Facts
• The Book of Icculus
• The Book of Phacts
• The Book of Phishtory
• The Book of Phriends
• The Book: A Prescription for Phish Addiction
• The Bphook
• The Bphook of Phacts
• The Bucking Phook
• The Colonel's Fans
• The Encyclopedia Phandonia
• The Encyclopedia Phandora
• The Gamehendge Phonebook
• The Glide Book
• The Glide Encyclopedia
• The Glide Guide
• The Glidin' 'Cyclopedia
• The Mighty Legend
• The Mockingbook
• The Mockingbphook
• The One That Got Away
• The Ones That Got Away
• The Phbook
• The Phinance Box
• The Phirst 100 Years
• The Phish Encyclopedia
• The Phish Gatherum Vol. I
• The Phishin' Cyclopedia
• The Phishing Companion
• The Phishing Compendium
• The Phishtorical Companion.
• The Phook
• The Phunbook: Let Your Phingers do the Walkin
• The Sacred Creed
• The Scuba Tank
• The Underwater Compendium
• The Wandering Whirled Of Phish
• This Book, It Really Sucks Tonight
• This Bphook is Physterical
• Trophy Hook
• Washa Uffitze
• Water your team in a bee hive, I'm-a sent you
• WATSIYEM
• We've Got a Book
• We've Got a Title
• We've Got It Simple
• We've Got the Book
• What's It All About?
• You'll Never Get Out of This Maze
• Zonticuddy

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