How Dare You Merge My Thread!
^^didnt do it, swear to god.
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 $$
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...with-lillywhiteLast 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.
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.
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?
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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.
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.
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...
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.
frankly, if i\'d\'ve gone to/tried to go to coventry, this info would
**** 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....
A LETTER FROM JIMMY PAGE 06.26.08
Fixed.
(Alumni Blues>A letter from Jimmy Page>Alumni Blues = first song the reunited Phish plays)