Phish in 2009

[Jim Cobb]

who..?

[wildcoyote]

There is no doubt they will reunite.  With Trey having been on probation and unable to tour, he has got to be hurting financially.  For that reason (aka "the money"), Phish will tour again.

i doubt trey is hurting financially after a 3 year probation.  Coventry alone grossed over 13 million dollars.  Phish was in the top 20 highest grossing bands i believe every year from 1998 on that they were actively touring.  I would guess Trey\'s current net worth is close to/over 50 million dollars.

Figure they have to shell out for:

The land, equipment, a huge crew (30+/-), lodging and feeding that crew, management, security, distribution, promotion, electricity, waste and water, TAXES etc. etc.  

Each band member prob. waked away with $300-400k after taxes.  Not a bad weekend gig, but not set for life money.  Because album sales were never that strong (Lawn Boy never went platinium, think about that) I doubt these guys ever made more than 1-2 million each in their best years.  They earned a damn nice living, and could have set themselves up for life, but that money can go fast.  Especially when you\'re an addict.

They don\'t get radio play like Led Zep or the Stones so residual album sales aren\'t bringing in the royalties. They were never the merch machine GD was.  They made their money touring, and when funds get low they\'ll be back.

Phish Tour 2010.  Count on it.

[postom]

How Dare You Merge My Thread!

[Jim Cobb]

^^didnt do it, swear to god.

[weekapaug19]

NYE @ MSG 2009???

if they were to come back, they should do it festival style just so more phans can come to the 1st show, it will be a very hard ticket if it is just at a normal venue, and scalpers will make a ton on $$

[kindm's]

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...with-lillywhite

Last month, Trey Anastasio set off a flurry of Phish mania when he told Rolling Stone, “At this point in time I would give my left nut to play [’You Enjoy Myself’] five times in a row every day.” Last week speculation that one of the world’s biggest jam bands — who split in 2004 — would reunite was stoked by rumors that Steve Lillywhite has been tapped to record a new Phish disc (he produced their 1996 album Billy Breathes). So we checked in with Phish bassist Mike Gordon — whose solo disc, The Green Sparrow, hits stores August 5th and features collaborations with Anastasio and Phish keyboardist Page McConnell — to see what’s true. “The band has had a couple of dinners and they’ve just been great,” Gordon tells Rolling Stone. “We’re all just excited about the idea of doing something sometime. I can’t guarantee it, but I’m optimistic.”

As for Lillywhite, Gordon says, “We talked to him, actually. [The rumor] stemmed from reality. We love Steve Lillywhite. He would bring out some great things in us. But we don’t have specific plans to work with him. It was an idea and hopefully it’s something that if we rev things up, it could happen some day. We don’t know if we would tour first or make an album first. We have no idea.” Check back later today for a Q&A with Gordon.

[Klout]

looks like its really gonna happen. that letter from page is crazy. I cant  believe it. its been so long. I hope they write some great new music.

[Jim Cobb]

alright folks, time for a brand new episode of "My Opinion is Right and Yours is Wrong"!

this week\'s topic:

Since a return by Phish seems imminent, do you think Phish should come together in the form of a "Reunion Tour", sticking with the classics that people know and love, OR should they continue forward, creating new material, risking jumping the shark, as so many acts of similar longevity have done before?

[bdfreetuna]

^^
They should play like 75% the stuff we know and love and the rest whatever new tracks they want to debut.

I think if they get back together again, it hopefully won\'t be a nostalgia act, and their new material will be worth listening to.

So yes I think they should bust out a new album for next tour.

They should play 46 Days and Piper less, however.

[Klout]

I want to hear the new stuff trey and tom have been writing.

Their last album was  pretty bunk, but there was some good tracks on the one before that like pebbles and marbles, 7 below, walls of the cave, etc.

[Jim Cobb]

as someone who\'s been in recovery for a while, my experience was that it took some serious time for me to rediscover the way i relate to my instrument clean and sober, and i\'ve heard the same from a lot of musicians i know in recovery.  i hope trey gives himself some serious time to reform his relationship with a guitar before he attempts writing new material, let alone recording and performing it.  it took me a few years to really reconnect to the guitar but once i did, the music i was making was MUCH tighter, emotional, and meaningful than it was before i cleaned up.  i hope the same will be the case with trey, but it definitely takes time.  and he had a much longer drugging career than i did...  the deeper you walk into the woods, the longer it takes to walk back out...

[kindm's]

as someone who\'s been in recovery for a while, my experience was that it took some serious time for me to rediscover the way i relate to my instrument clean and sober, and i\'ve heard the same from a lot of musicians i know in recovery.  i hope trey gives himself some serious time to reform his relationship with a guitar before he attempts writing new material, let alone recording and performing it.  it took me a few years to really reconnect to the guitar but once i did, the music i was making was MUCH tighter, emotional, and meaningful than it was before i cleaned up.  i hope the same will be the case with trey, but it definitely takes time.  and he had a much longer drugging career than i did...  the deeper you walk into the woods, the longer it takes to walk back out...

That is a very interesting perspective.

[jking]

frankly, if i\'d\'ve gone to/tried to go to coventry, this info would piss me off! after dealing with the complete clusterfuck that coventry was for the simple reason that it was the LAST time you could see them, just to have them show back up a couple years later??.... yeah, PISSED!!!

and having not, but having gone out of my way to get to the return from hiatus shows, if they come back at the same pitiful level they did that time, then i\'d have to ask \'why did they bother??" it\'d be like coke deciding to go out of business, only to show up a couple years later only selling new coke....

all that said, if they come back, rehearsed and refreshed, then of course i\'ll be right back in the fold....

[Vassillios]

A LETTER FROM JIMMY PAGE 06.26.08

Fixed.

(Alumni Blues>A letter from Jimmy Page>Alumni Blues = first song the reunited Phish plays)

[wildcoyote]

.info has obtained the original draft of Page\'s letter before revision from his publicist.

Dear Phamily,  (you guys eat that Ph shit up right?)

Trey \'s been talking in Rolling Stone and I\'m sick and fucking tired of people treating him like \'our leader\'.  Dude was rocking depends on stage for the \'04 tour for crying out loud and doesn\'t know his ass from his elbow anymore.  

For me, the last four years have been great. I\'ve been sleeping until noon regularly and I discovered a whole world of internet pornography that was really only in it\'s infancy during our hiatus.  Just for the hell of it I\'ve fucked around with writing and recording an album, and I\'ll be damned, some of you even bought it. (if you did- could you burn me a copy?  I\'ve been meaning to pick it up, but just never got around to it. Every time I go to the record store there\'s always something else that looks so much more interesting)  

Recently we all concurred that we really miss the fucking money.  We\'ve tried to cash in on our own, but club and theater tours just don\'t support the extravagent lifestyles to which we\'ve become so accostmed.  Mike\'s been rubbing it in that he sold more records than me. (dick) But come on.  I mean Tootie from the Facts of Life had that black woman show for a while, but she was still Tootie, you know?  Trey and I argued for an hour over which one of us would have been Blair until he pointed out that Fish is unquestionably the fat chick and we all laughed. We all agreed that for enough dough we\'d get on a tour bus that resembled the plane from that movie Snakes on a Plane.  But if Trey even tries to bring Samuel L. Jackson on tour in a weak fucking Stars Wars/ Trey is a jedi connection I\'ll puke on my Dockers.

I want to say just a few more things. The prospect of Phish reuniting is something you should consider very seriously, and think about   lot.  Due to hoping on tour and all that went with it  many of you never finished college and are currently working at Starbucks and living with your parents.  In that case you may want to starting saving; cause I\'ve got news for you- we\'re not getting back together to sell tickets at affordable prices.  The price on these suckers is going to enough to make Sting blush.  So for the next year or so it\'s domestic beer or nothing- got it hippie?

Until then,
[-]Paige[/-]
Page
even I fuck that up sometimes