Glen Phillips

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.

There's still some basic shapes, like barcoring, like an A chord. I can't... do it properly still. I can't play heavy guitars because I get more paralyzed. On cold days, I get more paralyzed and it feels like it's inflated with ice water. I'm always working around it, but I'd been asking the universe. I was like, I wanted to play more with other people, and I wanted a challenge.

There's still some basic shapes, like barcoring, like an A chord. I can't... do it properly still. I can't play heavy guitars because I get more paralyzed. On cold days, I get more paralyzed and it feels like it's inflated with ice water. I'm always working around it, but I'd been asking the universe. I was like, I wanted to play more with other people, and I wanted a challenge.

There's still some basic shapes, like barcoring, like an A chord. I can't... do it properly still. I can't play heavy guitars because I get more paralyzed. On cold days, I get more paralyzed and it feels like it's inflated with ice water. I'm always working around it, but I'd been asking the universe. I was like, I wanted to play more with other people, and I wanted a challenge.

I was feeling bored with myself, and I'd been working. I'd just started really working at guitar. Instead of being good enough, I was playing more solo at the time, and so I was wanting to up my game. And so it was completely back to square one.

I was feeling bored with myself, and I'd been working. I'd just started really working at guitar. Instead of being good enough, I was playing more solo at the time, and so I was wanting to up my game. And so it was completely back to square one.

I was feeling bored with myself, and I'd been working. I'd just started really working at guitar. Instead of being good enough, I was playing more solo at the time, and so I was wanting to up my game. And so it was completely back to square one.

So ulnar as well.

So ulnar as well.

So ulnar as well.

I mean, part of it was because at that time Toad wasn't touring a lot and we weren't doing very well at that time. So part of it was I have three kids and my expenses for that tour, I'd already paid for my... hotel rooms and that quarter's income was gone immediately. So there was like very straightforward immediate financial consequence. And I knew it would be a long road.

I mean, part of it was because at that time Toad wasn't touring a lot and we weren't doing very well at that time. So part of it was I have three kids and my expenses for that tour, I'd already paid for my... hotel rooms and that quarter's income was gone immediately. So there was like very straightforward immediate financial consequence. And I knew it would be a long road.

I mean, part of it was because at that time Toad wasn't touring a lot and we weren't doing very well at that time. So part of it was I have three kids and my expenses for that tour, I'd already paid for my... hotel rooms and that quarter's income was gone immediately. So there was like very straightforward immediate financial consequence. And I knew it would be a long road.

I thought of myself more as a songwriter and singer than a guitarist, but I knew that would change. If I couldn't play guitar anymore, it would really change how I had to tour and how I had to work. But I do better Once again, the way my brain works is in a vacuum of worry, I go absolute doomsday. And when faced with an actual challenge, I tend to be a lot better. I don't know why that is.

I thought of myself more as a songwriter and singer than a guitarist, but I knew that would change. If I couldn't play guitar anymore, it would really change how I had to tour and how I had to work. But I do better Once again, the way my brain works is in a vacuum of worry, I go absolute doomsday. And when faced with an actual challenge, I tend to be a lot better. I don't know why that is.

I thought of myself more as a songwriter and singer than a guitarist, but I knew that would change. If I couldn't play guitar anymore, it would really change how I had to tour and how I had to work. But I do better Once again, the way my brain works is in a vacuum of worry, I go absolute doomsday. And when faced with an actual challenge, I tend to be a lot better. I don't know why that is.

Like when real shit happens, I know how to show up. My thing is I lose it in a vacuum. When I have time to worry, I go crazy. And so there were very immediate concerns just in terms of getting surgery and then knew that I enjoy opiates enough that if I'd ever had a refill on, they gave me a bottle of Percocet immediately after the surgery.

Like when real shit happens, I know how to show up. My thing is I lose it in a vacuum. When I have time to worry, I go crazy. And so there were very immediate concerns just in terms of getting surgery and then knew that I enjoy opiates enough that if I'd ever had a refill on, they gave me a bottle of Percocet immediately after the surgery.

Like when real shit happens, I know how to show up. My thing is I lose it in a vacuum. When I have time to worry, I go crazy. And so there were very immediate concerns just in terms of getting surgery and then knew that I enjoy opiates enough that if I'd ever had a refill on, they gave me a bottle of Percocet immediately after the surgery.

And so I had somewhere between 18 months to two years of excruciating nerve pain. And I didn't take any meds. And so for me, that was a period of... Yeah, so that was a period of just... Throughout a day, my first wife, her joke was like, why couldn't it ever be handgasms? If you're getting random nerve messages, it's never, I'm being tickled with feathers. I mean, it's never... It was never nice.