![]() ![]() If not outright homicidal, the storyteller suggests, Guyute is at the very least malevolent. ![]() In the first, the narrator chronicles an unpleasant encounter with the tune’s namesake, an ugly pig, in buoyant 6/8 time. “Guyute” itself unfolds over four distinct movements. Maybe that’s because its symphonic structure and high-wire time and key changes hearken back to 1980’s-era epics like “ Fluffhead.” At first, many speculated that Trey and Tom might have penned it years earlier, only to shelve it until it was fully baked and ready for consumption. Given the year it first appeared, many aficionados consider “Guyute” somewhat of an anachronism. Almost as soon as the finished suite reared its porcine head at a Phish show, it became a fan favorite. ![]() Somewhere along the line, however, they fractured, and portions of what would become “Guyute” made their first appearance at a Bad Hat show on 9/11/94 in Northampton, MA. Trey composed "Guyute" alongside “ My Friend, My Friend” while in Ireland, originally intending them as a single composition. ![]()
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