Sometime in 1990, after what was probably a late night, or perhaps for no reason at all, Jon Fishman decided to call Phish manager John Paluska and leave an extremely detailed four-message voicemail recording of the classic “Frankenstein.” The recording, running at a solid four and a half minutes, features the song in length, as sung by Fishman.
The voicemail ends with an excited business pitch, that being a potential venue to book the four-piece in Crested Butte, Colorado. The band ended up playing El Dorado Cafe three times that year. Listen to the historically hilarious recording: