Pink Talking Fish

Pink Talking Fish heads to The Cutting Room for a late Phish after-party built as a hybrid tribute set. The four-piece, with Eric Gould on bass, Richard James or Stephen Learson on keyboards, Zack Burwick on drums and Cal Kehoe on guitar, fuses the catalogs of Pink Floyd, Talking Heads and Phish rather than treating them as separate tribute sets. Expect songs and themes to be threaded together: the listing points to combinations such as Pink Floyd’s “On the Run” inside Phish’s “You Enjoy Myself,” or Phish’s “Sand” placed in the groove of Talking Heads’ “Slippery People.”

Pink Talking Fish is known for finding musical connections across three bands with sharply different approaches: Pink Floyd’s epic emotional sweep, Talking Heads’ funky layered rhythms and Phish’s shifting structures and sense of play. Their arrangements can move through multi-band sequences including “Run Like Hell,” “Making Flippy Floppy” and “Piper,” or “Mike’s Song,” “Have a Cigar,” “Once in a Lifetime” and “Weekapaug Groove.” The project is made by musicians devoted to this material, and its repertoire evolves from show to show, with the act framing each performance as a new route through these familiar songs.