Glen Phillips

And it's a beautiful thing about living in complex society is that we can have different expertise if it's just being a great clown after work.

And it's a beautiful thing about living in complex society is that we can have different expertise if it's just being a great clown after work.

And it's a beautiful thing about living in complex society is that we can have different expertise if it's just being a great clown after work.

severed the ulnar nerve and the left arm. So that means this is like the heel of the hand through the pinky and one half of my ring finger is still pins and needles all the time. And I don't have, so I can clench my fingers, but I don't have lateral movement or muscles in my pinky and middle finger, ring finger.

severed the ulnar nerve and the left arm. So that means this is like the heel of the hand through the pinky and one half of my ring finger is still pins and needles all the time. And I don't have, so I can clench my fingers, but I don't have lateral movement or muscles in my pinky and middle finger, ring finger.

severed the ulnar nerve and the left arm. So that means this is like the heel of the hand through the pinky and one half of my ring finger is still pins and needles all the time. And I don't have, so I can clench my fingers, but I don't have lateral movement or muscles in my pinky and middle finger, ring finger.

Yeah, I was, the table, I never sit on a glass table, even if it has what looks like a three-inch metal rim on the outside, which I thought was holding the weight of my butt. And yeah, I was sitting there waiting for my friend Sean to get off the phone. I was supposed to go on tour with Jonathan Brook the next day. Hmm.

Yeah, I was, the table, I never sit on a glass table, even if it has what looks like a three-inch metal rim on the outside, which I thought was holding the weight of my butt. And yeah, I was sitting there waiting for my friend Sean to get off the phone. I was supposed to go on tour with Jonathan Brook the next day. Hmm.

Yeah, I was, the table, I never sit on a glass table, even if it has what looks like a three-inch metal rim on the outside, which I thought was holding the weight of my butt. And yeah, I was sitting there waiting for my friend Sean to get off the phone. I was supposed to go on tour with Jonathan Brook the next day. Hmm.

And I fell back and immediately just felt like a zippery electric feeling up my arm and knew I'd sliced a major nerve. And yeah, went to the hospital, had surgery a week or so later to try to repair the nerve. But it's all the way up here. And the doctor was wonderfully kind. unreassuring.

And I fell back and immediately just felt like a zippery electric feeling up my arm and knew I'd sliced a major nerve. And yeah, went to the hospital, had surgery a week or so later to try to repair the nerve. But it's all the way up here. And the doctor was wonderfully kind. unreassuring.

And I fell back and immediately just felt like a zippery electric feeling up my arm and knew I'd sliced a major nerve. And yeah, went to the hospital, had surgery a week or so later to try to repair the nerve. But it's all the way up here. And the doctor was wonderfully kind. unreassuring.

He said if I was significantly younger, he would say it would almost all come back and that if I were older, he would tell me it wouldn't come back at all. And I asked about PT and he said, just play guitar. That's what you do. Just try to play guitar. And I think four months later, I went on tour. My friend Jonathan Kingham, who is playing with us tonight, came on tour with me.

He said if I was significantly younger, he would say it would almost all come back and that if I were older, he would tell me it wouldn't come back at all. And I asked about PT and he said, just play guitar. That's what you do. Just try to play guitar. And I think four months later, I went on tour. My friend Jonathan Kingham, who is playing with us tonight, came on tour with me.

He said if I was significantly younger, he would say it would almost all come back and that if I were older, he would tell me it wouldn't come back at all. And I asked about PT and he said, just play guitar. That's what you do. Just try to play guitar. And I think four months later, I went on tour. My friend Jonathan Kingham, who is playing with us tonight, came on tour with me.

And also Sean Watkins, whose house I was at from Nickel Creek, he came on tour with me at another tour. So I toured only with accompanists for a while. And I think it was nine months before I played my first solo show. And that was... Incredibly difficult. For about five years, I think it was five or so, I kept, this is all 16 years ago or 2008, I think it was.

And also Sean Watkins, whose house I was at from Nickel Creek, he came on tour with me at another tour. So I toured only with accompanists for a while. And I think it was nine months before I played my first solo show. And that was... Incredibly difficult. For about five years, I think it was five or so, I kept, this is all 16 years ago or 2008, I think it was.

And also Sean Watkins, whose house I was at from Nickel Creek, he came on tour with me at another tour. So I toured only with accompanists for a while. And I think it was nine months before I played my first solo show. And that was... Incredibly difficult. For about five years, I think it was five or so, I kept, this is all 16 years ago or 2008, I think it was.

Yeah, I had my pinky constantly away from the neck, stretching away from the neck, because unless I consciously pulled it away, I had no perception, so no sense of where it was in space. So it flopped against the strings. Which is not great for a guitar. Yeah, and so I learned I had to re-capo a bunch of songs for shapes that I could hold.

Yeah, I had my pinky constantly away from the neck, stretching away from the neck, because unless I consciously pulled it away, I had no perception, so no sense of where it was in space. So it flopped against the strings. Which is not great for a guitar. Yeah, and so I learned I had to re-capo a bunch of songs for shapes that I could hold.