Posted on 10/01/2008 8:07:57 AM PDT by jmc813
After splitting in 2004, Phish is regrouping next March for a three-night run at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Va. The March 6-8 shows will be the famed jam band's first since its blowout farewell gigs in Coventry, Vt., more than four years ago.
According to the band's Web site, there will be additional touring activity from guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, keyboardist Page McConnell and drummer Jon Fishman throughout 2009.
A small supply of tickets will be available directly through the band's ticketing system, with the request period ending Oct. 8. Tickets go on sale to the general public Oct. 18.
Although its music rarely intersected with the mainstream, Phish is one of the top touring acts of the past three decades. Since 1989, the act racked up a total of $175,541,923 in concert grosses, with 5,842,798 tickets sold to 475 shows reported to Billboard Boxscore.
Hampton Coliseum was a sentimental choice for the reunion shows, as it has previously played host to notable Phish moments. The band's November 1998 run there was later released as the boxed set "Hampton Comes Alive," and Phish headed to the venue for three shows following its Dec. 31, 2002, hiatus-breaking gig at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Speculation about Phish reuniting reached critical mass this summer, with band members admitting they'd begun discussing working together again, even going so far as to engage onetime producer Steve Lillywhite.
Three of the four members collaborated on stage at the Rothbury festival in Michigan over 4th of July weekend, and the full band reunited for a short set earlier this month during the wedding of former road manager Brad Sands.
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And pot dealers all over Tidewater rejoice. :)
}:-)4
Maybe an F/A-18 returning to Oceana with live ordnance will drop on the Hampton Civic Center, ridding the country of tens of thousands of left wing radical Obama worshippers! Oh rats, that was a dream I had last week.
Just joking folks.......
Great live band - incredible wall of sound.
Actually, there is a big sobriety movement that follows Phish.
They call themselves the Phellowship, and they say the serentity prayer at every show.
I tried so hard to get into their music, thinking that they were the heirs apparent of the Grateful Dead ...
not even close. Trey is much more polished than Jerry was on guitar, but, in this humble commentator’s opinion, seriously lacking in soul.
Let’s hope Trey can stay out of the pill bottles this run...and that this comeback lasts more than a year and a half!
I’m still digging Coventry mud out of my camping gear to this day...
Smelly hippie-wanna-be alert!
Maybe I should invest in some Hacky Sack stock.
How do they avoid getting a contact high from the ambient pot smoke?
Darn, when I heard this I thought it meant Fish was reuniting with Marillion.
Is Jerry gonna be there?
Is the first 'h' silent?
In a related development, Paculi oil futures are up 20% today..........
one of our best friends recently sustained a full C5 spinal injury. when i saw him at the rehab center a month or so ago he mentioned that if phish ever got back together, we wanted to get well enough to go see them.
i just emailed this article to him in the hopes that it will further inspire him on his long road to recovery.
Went to one Phish show in Plattsburgh, NY and the one outstanding memory is the port-a-potties with the crap piled so high it formed a mound higher than the toilet seats.
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