Harry Hood (song)
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"Harry Hood" is a song commonly performed live by the American jam band band, Phish, while the band was active, although it never appeared on any of the band's studio albums. It is one of Phish's most beloved songs, featuring 258 performances since its live debut on October 30, 1985.
[edit] Background
"Harry Hood" refers to the Hood Dairy Co., a New England dairy company based in Boston. While the band was living with Brian Long in Burlington, Vermont next to a Hood milk plant, "Harry Hood" was the company mascot of the Hood Milk Co., and this character was featured in a 1970s television commercial in which people open their refrigerator to find Harry Hood standing inside. The lyric "Where do you go when the lights go out?" most likely refers to this advertisement, and to the automatic light in a refrigerator. A "Mr. Minor" is also mentioned in the song, a reference to a previous tenant of the house. Letters containing the message, "Thank you, Mr. Minor" continued to show up at the house during the band's stay there.
This song is also widely acclaimed for the spontaneous emergence of "glowstick wars," a Phish-created audience and band interaction in which multicolored glowsticks are tossed in dazzling, arching parabolas from all points in the crowd, during their 1997 "Great Went" performance featured in the film Bittersweet Motel.
