August 14, 2002

11:34 AM

Phish ends Hiatus.The band will play four shows beginning with a New Year's show at MSG. Dirty neo-hippies everywhere rejoice.
posted by uftheory (26 comments total)

Hey, maybe I'll get back into Phish now. Since Phish is a band that is best live, when they weren't playing shows they lost alot of their appeal.
posted by rift2001 at 11:41 AM on August 14, 2002

HELL YES. And I'm quite clean, thank you.
posted by muckster at 11:42 AM on August 14, 2002

As long as it gives their fans a place to go that isn't near me...
posted by websavvy at 11:45 AM on August 14, 2002

muckster, Can I interest you in a veggie burrito?
posted by uftheory at 11:45 AM on August 14, 2002

'tis a good thing. Trey's solo album was pretty amazing but it will be good to see what a little time away from each other will do to the band's crative process.
posted by bondcliff at 11:48 AM on August 14, 2002

Dirty neo-hippies everywhere rejoice.

*suddenly feels incredibly ancient ...or is that ironic? . ...or something?*
posted by y2karl at 11:49 AM on August 14, 2002

Again.
posted by y2karl at 11:50 AM on August 14, 2002

Ha, ha, uftheory, the masterful jests that are made possible by your cunning grasp of cultural stereotypes!

And your quite right. Only stinking wookie tour rats rolling on molly could possibly enjoy the mastubatory meandering "jams," aimless cow funk, and warmed-over art rock aspirations of Phish. Better delete the threat right away, and all references as to where and when to buy tickets. Trey is Wilson. Phish sucks.
posted by muckster at 12:05 PM on August 14, 2002

Sure... long, meandering hippie jams are corny, but give me Phish over anything playing on Pop radio any day.
posted by Xkot at 12:07 PM on August 14, 2002

I'm not much of a jam band fan, but Phish are astounding. I find them much more influenced by Zappa than the Dead, which is a very good thing. Phish also played in one of the best lineups of any show I've ever seen, at UMass Amherst in Spring '92:

Beastie Boys
Phish
Fishbone
fIREHOSE
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
posted by Ty Webb at 12:09 PM on August 14, 2002

I had a friend that walked around the parking lot in front of a show in KC one time and would walk up to the people who were going around saying "tickets" or "doses" or "bread" or "veggie burritos" and he would say really loud "soap, deoderant, shampoo". I thought it was damn funny.
posted by Ufez Jones at 12:11 PM on August 14, 2002

I was there too, Ty Webb :) . It was the only time I've seen any of them live, and it was definitely a great show.
posted by Songdog at 12:17 PM on August 14, 2002

Ty, Songdog, they were looking for you, yesterday.
posted by Marquis at 12:20 PM on August 14, 2002

Anybody who says Phish sounds like the Dead have never heard either band play.

The only this similar is the smell of the concerts and perhaps the length of some of the songs.
posted by bondcliff at 12:28 PM on August 14, 2002

Only stinking wookie tour rats rolling on molly...

Umm, could you clarify that statement?
posted by monkeymike at 1:10 PM on August 14, 2002

I am neither dirty nor a hippy, but I am very glad Phish has decided to tour again..

for those who have never seen a show, if you can get past the lot rats(yes its hard), the shows are amazing... never have I been to a concert where every single song sends chills down my spine...

trey, mike, jon and page are possibly the best foursome ever assembled...
posted by PugAchev at 1:46 PM on August 14, 2002

Man, Widespread's Mike Houser dies, Phish ends hiatus... This is a big week for jambands.
posted by mblandi at 1:48 PM on August 14, 2002

stinking wookie tour rats

now THAT'S a great band name.
posted by gnz2001 at 2:09 PM on August 14, 2002

I saw them live and became a fan. And I still use soap. Go figure.
posted by jragon at 2:15 PM on August 14, 2002

Clean, non-hippie here (who hates the Dead), glad that Phish is touring again.
posted by GriffX at 2:15 PM on August 14, 2002

if you can get past the lot rats(yes its hard)

It's not that hard. It usually only takes three or four loud "Go fuck yourself!"s before people stop bothering--or for that matter talking to--you.

I love Phish, but the fans do tend to make me want to file my teeth into cruel shapes.
posted by Skot at 2:17 PM on August 14, 2002

i, too, am on the clean side and am a fan of their music. the crunchies and wookies, though i can definitely do without, are actually fun to look/laugh at a show. it's rare that you see all that crunch in one place. crunch crunch.

i'm glad that they are coming back as i was expecting them to take a longer period of time off, but in recent interviews with trey he seemed like he was chomping at the bit to get back.

their is a lot to be said for a band that pretty much created an entire scene (jambands) on the heels of their popularity.
posted by oliver_crunk at 2:46 PM on August 14, 2002

trey, mike, jon and page are possibly the best foursome ever assembled...

They're a great live band, but the Beatles are the greatest foursome ever assembled, not to mention the greatest band ever. No "possibly" about it.
posted by uftheory at 2:49 PM on August 14, 2002

even Ringo? ; )
posted by stifford at 3:28 PM on August 14, 2002

Oh yeah? Well...

I love the Phish crowd because they really listen. I just hate that at the last few shows I went to, whole groups of people were talking and singing loudly along with the band. That's the sign of really not caring about the music -- destroying it with your wretched sing-along voice. Although, to refute the implication of a trend, I remember one in 96 where some jackass in the audience did harmonica practice the whole show, but at least that was weird.
posted by mblandi at 3:29 PM on August 14, 2002

This is one libertarian with a a conservative bent who followed Phish and Widespread Panic one summer who is glad they're back on the road.

...I am kinda stinky though.
posted by Mick at 9:36 PM on August 14, 2002