Phish tours
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American rock band Phish, active from 1983 to 2004, was one of the most successful live acts in popular music history, forging a popularity in concert far greater than their album sales, radio airplay, or music video presence would otherwise indicate. Phish tours, at the peak of their popularity in the mid to late 1990s, consistently ranked as one of the highest-grossing concert tours in the world. [1] [2] [3]
One of the major factors of Phish's live success was the fact that every show in the band's history contained a completely different song setlist. Throughout 21 years and thousands of shows, the band never played the same concert setlist twice. Additionally, Phish songs were rarely played the same way twice. This unique approach to live performance influenced Phish fans to attend multiple nights on a particular tour, much like sports fans buying season tickets, since they were guaranteed a completely different concert on a nightly basis. Phish fans recorded the band's concerts (with permission) and circulated the music throughout the country. Therefore, fans could collect large numbers of live recordings free of charge, a practice encouraged by the taper-friendly band. Guitarist Trey Anastasio considered it "free advertising" since it enabled the band's music to be distributed and traded all over the United States and, eventually, the rest of the world.
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[edit] 1980s
[edit] 1983
Phish formed in the fall of 1983 at the University of Vermont with co-founders Trey Anastasio and Jeff Holdsworth on guitars, Jon Fishman on drums, and Mike Gordon on bass.
In 1983, the band played at least two shows under the name Blackwood Convention. At this point, the band only played other artists' material, ranging from tunes by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Wilson Pickett, The Who, the Grateful Dead, and others.
[edit] 1984
Phish took a brief hiatus during the first part of 1984 after Anastasio was suspended from UVM. The band continued with live performances when Anastasio returned to the university in the fall. For many concerts, the band was joined by Marc Daubert on percussion. For years, the band's performance from December 1, 1984, was their earliest live circulated recording. The band debuted many original songs that fall, including "Makisupa Policeman," "Slave to the Traffic Light," "Camel Walk," "Skippy the Wondermouse," and "Fluffhead."
[edit] 1985
In the spring of 1985, the band met keyboardist Page McConnell, a student at Goddard College who jammed with the band for a portion of their May 3, 1985 show on the campus of the University of Vermont. By September 26, he was a member of the band.
The band's shows during this period featured lots and lots of improvisation, much of which revolved around new originals and cover songs from The Grateful Dead. Mike Gordon has often cited the band's November 23 show from Goddard College as a religious experience and the musical highlight of his career.
Trey Anastasio and Jon Fishman traveled to Europe during the summer and wrote a great deal of the band's early material on the trip.
More originals began to make their way into Phish's concert repertoire, including "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters," "Anarchy," "Alumni Blues," "Dear Mrs. Reagan," "Dog Log," "Prep School Hippie" "Dave's Energy Guide," "Possum," and the popular classics "Harry Hood," "Run Like an Antelope," and "Mike's Song."
[edit] 1986
In May of 1986, Jeff Holdsworth quit the band; he was not replaced. Holdsworth's retirement solidified the band's classic four-man lineup of Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Mike Gordon, and Jon Fishman, which remained unchanged for the rest of their career.
In October, Paul Languedoc officially joined the band as sound engineer. He remained with the band for the rest of the career. Later that month, the band played the first of four consecutive annual Halloween shows at Goddard College.
Phish continued to perform a greater number of concerts in 1986, debuting a wealth of new material throughout the year, including "You Enjoy Myself," "AC/DC Bag," "Golgi Apparatus," "Lushington," "Sanity," "David Bowie," "Wilson," "Icculus," "I Am Hydrogen," "Halley's Comet," and many other future Phish classics.
The band also began circulating The White Tape, their very first studio project.
[edit] 1987
In 1987, Phish was winding down their college career and preparing to take their live performances to the next level. A wealth of Phish classics made their first appearance in 1987, including "The Divided Sky," "Fee," "Punch You in the Eye," "The Curtain With," "Harpua," "Flat Fee," "Big Black Furry Creature From Mars," "I Didn't Know," "Letter to Jimmy Page," "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday," "Fuck Your Face," "Suzy Greenberg," "Dinner and a Movie," "The Sloth," as well as many new cover songs. In the spring of 1987, Trey Anastasio submitted Phish's studio experimentThe Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday as his senior thesis at Goddard College. Many of these songs would make more frequent appearances in concert throughout the year.
The band also played a large number of shows at Nectar's, a bar in downtown Burlington, Vermont, developing and polishing a unique sound that would become their trademark in years to come.
[edit] 1988
In 1988, Phish began touring outside of the Vermont area, performing concerts in New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and other states throughout the year. In March, the band unveiled the first complete performance of The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday. In September, the band hooked up with manager John Paluska, who booked Phish for a concert at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He would go on to manage the band for their entire career.
Musically, Phish was concentrating on large scale composition throughout most of 1988 (much of which appeared on their classic double album Junta), with multi-part suites and epics acting as centerpieces of the band's live setlists. Many of these extended pieces, including reworked older songs such as "You Enjoy Myself," "The Divided Sky" and "David Bowie," also featured lengthy improvisational excursions.
The band's original repertoire continued to grow, with complex pieces such as "Esther," "Foam," "The Lizards," "Colonel Forbin's Ascent," and "Fly Famous Mockingbird" making their debut along with future favorites "Tela," "Weekapaug Groove," "No Dogs Allowed," and "Contact."
[edit] 1989
By 1989, Phish was on the road full-time since three of the band's four members had graduated college (Mike Gordon would graduate the following year). The year saw Phish aggressively covering the concert circuit in the Northeast United States, especially on college campuses, where the band would find their most dedicated followers. The band's fanbase kept on growing as many fans travelled from state to state and concert to concert, attending multiple nights in a row as Phish continued to change their setlists on a nightly basis.
Phish also unveiled their most ambitious piece to date, the multi-part epic "Reba," as well as other complex and intricately composed songs such as "Split Open and Melt," "Kung," "Bathtub Gin," "The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony," "My Sweet One," "In a Hole," and "The Mango Song." Improvisation seemed to take a backsteat to composition for Phish in 1989, a trend that would continue for the next three years. Throughout the year, the band recorded tracks for their fourth studio project Lawn Boy.
Legendary lighting designer Chris Kuroda officially joined Phish on March 30 of the year and would remain with the band through the rest of their career, going on to pioneer new techniques and set new standards in the concert lighting industry.
[edit] 1990s
[edit] 1990
Phish entered the 1990s as a national touring act, performing coast to coast across the United States on somewhat of an endless year-long tour. The band teamed up with friends Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, and Aquarium Rescue Unit for various concerts in an effort to spread their music to new audiences.
1990 remains one of the most active concert years in the band's history. A large number of original compositions made their debut in 1990, including "Stash," "The Squirming Coil," "Buried Alive," "Bouncing Around the Room," "Magilla," "Destiny Unbound," "Don't Get Me Wrong" (a collaboration with John Popper), "Eliza," "Runaway Jim," "Tweezer," "Cavern," "Horn," "Jaegermeister," "Tube," "The Landlady," "The Asse Festival," "Gumbo," "Llama," and the original arrangement of "Rift."
[edit] 1991
Like the year before, Phish performed throughout 1991 all over the United States, visiting almost every state in the country. The band's dedicated fanbase continued to grow. First, fans of the band launched the Phish.Net, one of the very first Internet websites in popular music. The site connected fans and helped spread the word about upcoming concerts, setlists, and band history. It enabled the band to connect with fans from all over the country, and, more importantly, allowed fans to connect with one another. Second, the band were signed to Elektra Records in 1991. They would remain with the label for the rest of their career. In the midst of their touring schedule, the band found time to record their major label debut, A Picture of Nectar, which was released the following year.
The band also held their first official concert festival - Amy's Farm - held in upstate Maine at the horse farm of longtime fan Amy Skelton. It was a free show and, like all of their future festivals, was an outdoor camp out that closed out the band's summer tour. Phish would go on to host three more summer festivals in Maine.
Original song debuts in 1991 included "Guelah Papyrus," "Chalk Dust Torture," "Setting Sail," "Poor Heart," "Brother," "It's Ice," "Sparkle," "All Things Reconsidered," and "Glide."
[edit] 1992
Phish made their first trip outside of the United States in the summer, joining Santana for an entire tour of Europe and performing a select number of dates with Violent Femmes, including the Roskilde Festival with Fishbone, Megadeth, Pearl Jam, and others. They also headlined a select number of H.O.R.D.E. festival dates in the Northeast United States.
The band's ever-growing fanbase enabled them to headline theaters and small arenas throughout the United States in 1992. New originals debuted in 1992 included "Maze," "My Friend, My Friend," "Mound," NICU," "Sleeping Monkey," the new arrangement of "Rift," "The Horse," "Silent in the Morning," "Weigh," "Axilla," "Fast Enough for You," "Big Ball Jam," "Faht," "Catapult," "Buffalo Bill," and "Lengthwise."
[edit] 1993
In 1993, the band began headlining major amphitheaters and arenas in the summer and fall. In February, the band released their second concept album, Rift, and began playing the aforementioned larger venues all over the United States. The band also visited a large number of college campuses as well throughout 1993.
Original song debuts in 1993 included "Sample in a Jar," "Lifeboy," "The Wedge," and "Leprechaun." The band retreated to California at the end of the year to record their new studio album Hoist.
[edit] 1994
The band was now a major live touring act, accomplishing such milestones as selling out both Madison Square Garden and Boston Garden, making their national television debut on The Late Show with David Letterman, earning radio play and an MTV music video with the song "Down With Disease" from their album Hoist, and beginning their Halloween "musical costume" tradition (where the band would perform an entire album by a different band).
Additionally, the band's audience was growing by huge numbers, making Phish second only to the Grateful Dead with respect to the live concert cultural phenomenon that surrounded both bands. The group also resurrected many lost classics from their 11 year career, as well as debuting new songs such as "Scent of a Mule," "If I Could," "Wolfman's Brother," "Julius," "Demand," "Dog-Faced Boy," "Guyute," "Axilla (Part 2)," "Simple," "N02" (first featured in the studio on the very first Phish album in 1986), and the anthemic "Down with Disease".
After performing two of their albums in concert at a show in Charleston, West Virginia on June 26 (The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday and Hoist), the band jokingly bragged backstage that they could play any album at any time. Taking the idea to the next level, the band promised to play a complete album by another band on Halloween night, taking fan votes on their website. The winning album was the legendary White Album from The Beatles. Several bands would borrow this tradition in years to come, most notably Dream Theater, whose drummer, Mike Portnoy, is an admitted Phish fan.
Several of the year's highlights were compiled to form A Live One, the band's first live album, which would be released the following year.
[edit] 1995
For the first time since 1987, the band took an extensive vacation for the first four and a half months of the year, finally returning in May for the only politically based concert of their entire career - a Voters for Choice benefit concert conceived by Gloria Steinem. The band received mixed reviews for participating in the concert, and never participated in partisan events again.
The band headlined amphitheaters in the summer of 1995 as their first official live album - A Live One - became the first Phish album to receive gold record status. The album, released on June 28 and featuring a number of highlights from the band's 1994 tours, became the group's most successful album to date. The band was now the premier live touring band in the United States, and the group's fall tour featured several sold-out concerts in large arenas.
That fall, Phish challenged its audience to two games of chess. Each show on the tour featured a pair of moves. The band took its turn either at the beginning of or during the first set. The audience was invited to gather at the Greenpeace table during the setbreak to determine its move. Two games were played on the tour. The audience conceded the first game on November 15 in Florida, and the band conceded the second game at its New Year's Eve concert at Madison Square Garden. These were the only two games that were played, which left the final score tied at 1-1. "What Does Chess Have to Do with Phish? at Phish.net.
In their tradition of playing a well-known album by another band for Halloween, Phish contracted a full horn section for their performance of The Who's Quadrophenia in 1995. On New Year's Eve, the band performed what is considered one of their greatest concerts ever - a three-set marathon live from Madison Square Garden. The show was later released in its entirety in 2005 to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The show was also named one of the greatest concerts of the 1990s by Rolling Stone magazine.
Original song debuts included "Spock's Brain," "Theme From the Bottom," "Ha Ha Ha," "Taste," "Free," "Strange Design," "Glide II," "The Real Taste of Licorice," "Prince Caspian," and "Cars Trucks Buses."
[edit] 1996
While taking the first half of 1996 off to begin recording a new studio album, Phish made two one-off live appearances in the spring. The first saw the band headline the 1996 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April. The second was a surprise club appearance under the name "Third Ball" at a small club in Woodstock, New York, just miles from Bearsville Studios where Phish was finishing their new album.
That summer, the band once again toured Europe with Santana for the first time in four years. By August, the band was finally back in the US for a brief summer tour that saw most of the shows sold out well in advance. The band also began performing multiple nights at certain venues, such as Indiana's Deer Creek Music Center (where Phish's August 13 show was released as Live Phish 13) and Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheater. Phish's audience had grown so much that the enromous influx of Phish fans to the town of Morrison, Colorado, resulted in Phish being permantely banned from the storied Red Rocks Amphitheater.
Phish was so popular that the band drew 70,000 to a decommissioned air force base in remote Plattsburgh, New York for a two-day Phish festival called The Clifford Ball. It was the largest rock concert of the year. Phish played seven sets over two days, one of which featured a jam atop a flatbed truck cruising through the campground in the middle of the night. The second day featured a symphony orchestra performing classical music in the mid-afternoon. MTV made a documentary of the experience.
In October, the band released their long-awaited, commercially successful studio album Billy Breathes. That fall, the band headlined major arenas and covered Remain in Light by the Talking Heads at their 1996 Halloween show at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia. The performance of the groove-based, somewhat simple album was cited by band members as a major influence on the group's stylistic change in 1997 and beyond.
Original song debuts included "Waste," "Character Zero," "Train Song," "Talk," "Swept Away," "Steep," and "Midnight on the Highway."
[edit] 1997
1997 marked the band's most prolific songwriting period, as no less than 20 new originals were debuted in concert throughout the year.
The band headlined a winter tour of Europe in February and March. Excerpts from the 03/01/1997 show at Markthaille in Hamburg were later released as the live album Slip Stitch and Pass. The band returned to the United States for a month-long summer tour of sold out amphitheaters, culminating in another huge festival - The Great Went - held in remote Limestone, Maine in the upper northeastern corner of the US. 70,000 fans attended the festival, which once again included seven sets of music from Phish over two days (one of which was a late night "disco set" with all four members on keyboards).
During the summer tour, film director Todd Phillips began filming a documentary of the band titled Bittersweet Motel that would finally hit theaters in 2000.
Original song debuts in 1997 included "Walfredo," "Rock-a-William," "Dogs Stole Things," "Carini," "Twist," "Limb by Limb," "Piper," "Vultures," "Ghost," "Oblivious Fool," "Water in the Sky," "Wading in the Velvet Sea," "I Don't Care," "Saw it Again," "Bye Bye Foot," "Dirt," "At the Barbecue," "The Meatstick," "Black-Eyed Katy," and "Farmhouse."
[edit] 1998
Whenever Phish was off the road in 1997, the group worked on a new studio project that continued into the early months of 1998. The band took a few days off in April to play The Island Tour. The show consisted of two shows on Long Island, New York, and two shows in Providence, Rhode Island. All four shows were released as live albums.
Phish briefly toured Europe in July before returning to the United States for another month-long summer tour. On August 1, Phish began debuting a brand new cover song at each show, starting with "Ramble On" by Led Zeppelin at a show in Wisconsin. Covers by Frank Sinatra (August 2), Smashing Pumpkins (August 3), Van Halen (August 6), and Beastie Boys (August 8) followed as the band stopped in Virginia Beach on August 9, the third anniversary of the death of Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia. Phish had been relentlessly compared to the Dead throughout their career and often cited as the apparent heir to the Dead's throne, resulting in Phish making a strong effort to distance themselves from the Dead. The band had not performed a Grateful Dead song in concert since April 1, 1986 - twelve years earlier - when they were a five-man college band that had yet to play outside of Vermont. For the encore in Virginia Beach, Phish performed the Dead's multi-part suite "Terrapin Station". Former members of the Grateful Dead extended a "thank you" to Phish in their quarterly newsletter. A few months later, Dead bassist Phil Lesh reached out to Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell to join him, former Dead vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux and others to perform three nights of Dead and Phish music in April 1999. Members of Phish and the Dead now have a strong relationship, with bands like Rhythm Devils and SerialPod containing members of both bands.
The band finished their summer tour with another huge festival in Maine called The Lemonwheel. 70,000 people attended and the band played seven sets over two nights, including an instrumental set of ambient music surrounded by candles made by fans throughout the weekend.
In October, Phish headlined the Farm Aid festival, jamming onstage with Neil Young, Sarah McLachlan, Paul Shaffer, and others. Two days before the band's 1998 fall tour, The Story of the Ghost was released. Heavily laced with funk overtones, the album was culled from hours and hours of improvisation that took place throughout 1997 and 1998. On Halloween night in Las Vegas, the group performed Loaded by the Velvet Underground as their annual musical costume. Two days later, the band surprised fans by performing an unnanounced rendition of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at at show in West Valley City, Utah. Phish closed out the year with a four-night stand at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Original song debuts in 1998 included "Birds of a Feather," "Frankie Says," "Roggae," "Meat," "Fikus," "Brian and Robert," "Bittersweet Motel," "The Moma Dance," "Never," "Sleep," "Driver," and "Grind."
[edit] 1999
Phish took the first half of 1999 off from touring and recording. Trey Anastasio embarked on his first ever solo tour in the spring, and Page McConnell compiled tracks from Phish's 1997 and 1998 recoding sessions to produce The Siket Disc, an instrumental album that was released online in June (the disc would be available in stores the following year).
The band finally hit the road in the summer, embarking on another annual summer tour of the United States. Phish performed their first of two Fourth of July celebrations with a two-night stand in Atlanta. The first night featured the unveiling of "The Meatstick Dance," which would be performed by band and audience throughout the year. Instead of throwing another huge summer festival to close out the tour, the band decided to focus all festival activities to the Millennium New Year's Eve celebration. However, at the eleventh hour, Camp Oswego took place at an airport in upstate New York. 65,000 people attended and Phish played five sets of music over two days. A number of other groups such as Ozomatli, the Del McCoury Band, and Son Seals performed on a side stage throughout the weekend. The festival took place during the same weekend that Woodstock 1999 was being held just miles away, with the violence and rioting at Woodstock being reported all over the news but without mention of the incident-free peacefulness of Camp Oswego (even though the success of the Phish event was mentioned on television by New York governor George Pataki).
During the summer and fall, the band adopted a number of songs performed by Trey Anastasio just months earlier on his solo tour. Most of these songs contained repetitive bass lines and techno & electronica themed improvisational excursions (with Anastasio and McConnell using a series of electronic effects), a sound that Phish would hone throughout 1999 and 2000.
On December 30 and December 31, Phish held the largest Millennium New Year's Eve concert in the entire world, eclipsing attendance numbers at other concerts from performers such as Barbra Streisand, KISS, Elton John, Billy Joel, Sting, and others. It was the largest Phish concert ever and also the longest, and was voted the greatest Phish show of all time by readers of The Pharmer's Almanac. 85,000 people made the trek to the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in the Florida Everglades. Once again, the band turned the concert area into a makeshift city with food, clothing, a post office, an arcade, carnival games, and areas incorporating the various wildlife of the Everglades. Phish played three sets the first night, and began New Year's Eve with a two hour set at 7 PM before returning at midnight to play a marathon seamless seven and a half hour second set that ended at sunrise.
Original song debuts in 1999 included "My Left Toe," "Mountains in the Mist," "What's the Use?", "Bug," "The Happy Whip and Dung Song," "Mozambique," "The Inlaw Josie Wales," "First Tube," "Gotta Jibboo," "Sand," "Quadrophonic Toppling," "Heavy Things," and "Jennifer Dances."
[edit] 2000s
[edit] 2000
In the spring of 2000, the band finished up recording the new studio album Farmhouse, which featured mostly songs that had been performed onstage as far back as 1997. Anastasio was responsible for most of the album's writing and direction. In mid-May, Phish performed their first concerts at New York's Radio City Music Hall followed by an appearance on VH1's Hard Rock Live.
In June, the band visited Japan for the first time in their career, performing a number of headlining and festival shows. By the end of the month, Phish was back in the United States for another month-long summer tour, kicking off with a star-studded opening night in Nashville featuring appearances by Wynonna Judd, Ricky Skaggs, and the Del McCoury Band. In mid-July, Phish performed on the long-running series Austin City Limits. For the first time since 1995, the band did not hold an annual end-of-summer festival. Additionally, for the second year in a row, Phish did not perform their annual Halloween music costume.
Towards the end of their fall tour at a webcast show that would be released on DVD as Live in Vegas, Trey Anastasio announced that the band was taking an indefinite break of undetermined length following the tour's end. Therefore, for the first time since 1988, there would be no Phish New Year's Eve concert. On October 6 & 7, the band played a two-night stand at the Shoreline Amphitheater just outside of San Francisco, which would be the band's final concerts before their indefinite hiatus. The band went their separate ways following the shows.
Phish debuted no new material in 2000, with the exception of "Guy Forget" (a song played in soundcheck since 1993).
[edit] 2003
For two years, the members of Phish concentrated on outside projects and other musical endeavors. Trey Anastasio worked with the Vermont Youth Orchestra and formed the supergroup Oysterhead, but spent most of 2001 and 2002 working on his solo career. Mike Gordon made two films and an album with guitar legend Leo Kottke. Jon Fishman toured with both the Jazz Mandolin Project and Pork Tornado. Page McConnell formed the electronic trio Vida Blue.
In late 2002, Phish reunited in the Vermont mountains and recorded a brand new studio album, Round Room, the first Phish album since Lawn Boy in 1990 to feature a number of extended jams. The band soon announced that their hiatus was over and that they would be returning to the road in 2003, starting with a New Year's Eve concert on December 31, 2002, at Madison Square Garden. The New Year's run was a three night stand at the Hampton Coliseum in early January.
After appearing on the front cover of Rolling Stone Magazine, the band launched their first winter tour of the US since 1993. The brief tour was only two weeks long. The band launched a US summer tour in July that culminated in another festival in upstate Maine. 65,000 people attended the It festival which featured seven sets of Phish music over two nights, including a set performed live from the very top of an air traffic control tower. A DVD film and PBS special was made to document the festival.
Phish played only sporadically after the summer tour, including a brief four night run in late November/early December to celebrate their 20th anniversary. The third night of the celebration featured an appearance from founding Phish guitarist Jeff Holdsworth, who had not played onstage with Phish in over 17 years. The group closed out the year with a four night New Year's Eve run in Miami, featuring a surprise appearance from Parliament/Funkadelic.
[edit] 2004
After a three-night stand in Las Vegas in mid-April, Trey Anastasio announced on the band's website that Phish was officially breaking up for good following a brief summer tour. However, the band continued to debut new material throughout the year, opening their farewell tour with a new song titled "A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing" from their final album Undermind, which was released shortly after the breakup announcement. The tour's opening night was also broadcast in movie theaters across the country and eventually released on DVD and CD as Phish: Live in Brooklyn. The band also debuted another original in Brooklyn titled "Nothing," and the band's final original debut, "Access Me," was unveiled on June 26 at a show in Wisconsin.
After a brief run of shows in June (06/18 included an appearance from Jay-Z), the band took most of the summer off before returing for a final week of concerts in August. Their final show was also the last Phish summer festival — Coventry — named for the town in Vermont that hosted the event. 100,000 people were expected to attend, and it was simulcast to thousands more in movie theaters across America.
After a week of rain that prompted rumors of a sinking stage, Mike Gordon announced on the local radio station that attendees should turn around, no more cars were being allowed in. As only about 20,000 people had been admitted, many concert-goers abandoned their vehicles on highway roadsides, shoulders and medians and hiked to the site, some as far as thirty miles. With the number of people that walked in, the crowd grew to an estimated 65,000 in attendance. Phish played six sets over two nights to officially close out their touring career.
Phish has not performed since and has no plans for the future, though the members do not rule out a reunion. In a February 7, 2007 interview with Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone Magazine, Trey Anastasio said that if he were to find himself onstage with his three former bandmates, “I would be the happiest person in the world.”[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
The first Phish concert setlist archive was "The Helping Phriendly Book," a section of the fan-based Phish.net website unveiled on the Internet in 1991. Two books, The Pharmer's Almanac and The Phish Companion, contained detailed collections of Phish setlists, the first appearing in six volumes between 1995 and 2000 and the latter prepared to release a third volume in 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/02/08/trey-speaks-drugs-rehab-and-phish-reunion-rumors/ Trey speaks drugs, rehab and Phish reuinion rumors] Rolling Stone, 8 February 2007.
