It's Not Horrible, but I'm Stoned -- Our Little Communist Commune -- For Forty Thousand Dollars, We Could Make a Record and You Can Spend the Money on Hamburgers, Guns, Pot, a Van -- We Had This Vibration Around the Band -- You Had This Great Art School and Clubs Willing to Try Anything to Sell Beer -- It Was Fun, but Kind of Demented -- It Was Almost Like a Vow to Poverty -- Hit the Record Button and Get Out of the Way -- The Bus Broke Down and I Got Off -- This Was Our Hangout. You Could Rip Lines in There! You Could Smoke a Bong! -- Everybody Had Just Done a Marathon and My Guys Were Up There Swilling Jack, Smoking Cigarettes -- We Were an Alternative to the Alternatives -- They're Playing Songs That Were Not of the Time -- We All Had Bands and This Punk Sort of "Fuck You" Attitude -- The Gossip on This Band Was Like Wildfire -- But Do You Really Want to Be a Rock and Roll Hotel? -- We Were All Destroyed -- An Oasis For All These Artists to Come and Have a Family -- If I Can Drink More Tequila Shots Than You, We're Going to Push the Spin Doctors -- The Colonel -- An Emaciated Third-World Exodus, Run By a Few Homeless People and Coyotes -- This Is the Shit. This Is It. This Is What We Need to Do -- Who the Hell Let John Ride a Motorcycle? -- I Walked Out of There, Stepped into a U-Haul, and Drove -- A Late Breakfast and Scotch -- We Became an MTV Band -- I Should Have Had More Class -- This Is the Ultimate Wake and Bake Record -- Well, I Think Our Master Tapes Are Going to Be Thrown Into the Mississippi River -- Things Got Weird Very Quickly -- Oh Shit, This Is My Time! -- We Sure Enjoyed Selling a Ton of Records and Making a Boatload of Money -- We Really Went Off the Rails -- We Were Just These Hippies, Running Around Half Naked or Sometimes Fully Naked -- The DJs Always Knocked Us Out Cold -- Everything Started to Cross Over -- It Was Another Thing to Commune With Real Musicians -- August 9th, 1995 -- No Offense to You, but I'm Going for It -- Acoustic, My Ass! -- A Rite of Passage to Becoming Royalty in Town -- Wildlife on a Safari -- Our Clubhouse in the Jungle -- That Kind of Touring Ages You -- We've Been a Volatile Band Since Day Fucking One -- He Had to Whip Us Like a Rented Mule -- I Wouldn't Say Lawless, But You Could Do What You Wanted Here -- It Took So Much to Have My Shit Together -- We Need a Pie Baked by Someone's Grandma -- Hanging Around Long Enough That I Became Useful, I Guess -- Why Don't We Do It As Far Away As Humanly Possible -- Play That Ill Shit! -- Something Big As Stravinsky but Euphoric As Little Fluffy Clouds -- It Feels Like a Blur to Me -- A Lot of Guys, Their Whole Life Has Been a Mess Because They Can't Stop Playing Music -- Just Do It So We Can Get You Out of Here -- We Were Like the Beverly Hillbillies on This Tour -- They Thought We Were All Black -- Don't Hurt My Town -- Who Are These Guys Who Promote Harder Than Anybody? -- We Didn't Even Know We Were in a Tidal Wave -- Nuggets! Nuggets! Nuggets! -- Out of Self-Defense, Not Out of Any Real Genius Plan -- You're Too Crazy to Be the Headliner -- We Were Nowhere Near There When the Shit Hit the Fan -- Us Against the World -- Stranglefuck -- That's the Moment and That's Where It Lives

"The wild, untold oral history of the unlikely rise of Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, and numerous other bands that helped define the 1990s jam band scene. Sharing in the Groove is the untold oral history behind the unlikely rise of Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, and numerous other bands that helped define the 1990s jam band scene - a scene that paved the way for modern-day cultural institutions such as the Bonnaroo Music Festival, as well as kept the Grateful Dead ethos alive. It was also a scene with its own values and its own unique interactions with fame, record labels, MTV, drugs, and success. As a veteran music journalist, Mike Ayers has been to more than 130 Phish shows, 20 Grateful Dead shows, and countless others by the bands profiled in this book. In the mid-90s, he stumbled upon a job working backstage for Phish as a prep cook in exchange for all-access passes for the night's show, and ended up doing this for years. Later in the decade, he dabbled in the taping scene and recorded numerous shows that are still circulated online today. Filled with anecdotes and stories directly from the musicians, promoters, managers, roadies, producers, label executives, and fans that lived this scene, Sharing in the Groove is a fun, fast-paced oral history that will appeal to music lovers everywhere"--