Cult group Phish announce split
 

I know some folks take Phish pretty darn seriously..sorry for you folks.

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Cult group Phish announce split

Popular American "jam band" Phish have announced they will split up at the end of their upcoming summer tour.

"We love Phish and the Phish audience too much to allow it to drag on beyond the point of vibrancy," wrote vocalist Trey Anastasio on the group's website.

The quartet formed in 1983 and were famed for their marathon performances and long, experimental jam sessions.

Seen by many as a younger version of The Grateful Dead, the band has a loyal cadre of fans known as "Phish-heads".

Anastasio said he and his fellow band members - drummer Jon Fishman, bassist Mike Gordon and keyboard player Page McConnell - felt that "Phish had run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note".

'Amazing journey'

"We realised that we were faced with the opportunity to graciously step away in unison, united in our friendship and our feelings of gratitude," he wrote.

"It's been an amazing and incredible journey."

The band release their last album, Undermind, on 15 June and begin their farewell tour two days later in New York.

Phish were extremely popular on US college campuses, not least because they encouraged their fans to "bootleg" or tape their concerts.

The band temporarily separated in 2000 to concentrate on solo projects before reforming in 2002.

Their cult status was confirmed that same year when they made a guest appearance on hit cartoon show The Simpsons.

The band revelled in their offbeat status and eagerness to experiment. Fishman regularly played a vacuum cleaner on stage, and they were often accompanied by goggle-wearing singer Steve Pollak, dubbed the Dude of Life.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertai...ic/3749183.stm

fuckin' hippies

:1orglaugh the ice cream is good though

i'm a chubby hubby kinda guy. :Graucho

I saw that yesterday. :(

It does kinda suck. I never saw Phish, but I'm going to them in their solo projects at http://www.bonnaroo.com next month. Then I have tickets for 2 nights to see them the week after that, on their last tour.

Should be fun.

i went to a phish concert back in like 93?? 94?

i had to stay continually high to drown out the smell of thousands of dirty unbathed hippy-wannabees.

oh and the music sounds like one big long nursery rhyme album for toddlers.

Where will all the hippies go?

:(

Yeah...ain't it great? :1orglaugh


To each their own. Personally, I love clean hippies.

:( I know. I help harness them when I get free time:

http://www.uglybuthonest.com

oxymoron

uramoron...I'm a clean hippie about half the year. I get dirty about 1 week a year. The rest of the time, I'm a businessman.

for fuck sakes does this suck. no jerry, no phish.

all of my burnt out friends are in anguish, now who will they have to hero worship???

damn they've been together as long as I have been alive!

sad day...even though I never heard a signle song by them haha...im genuinely upset though...

Hmmm.. I've never seen them in concert but I've heard it is similar to going to a Grateful Dead concert so I wanna check em out. If they are half as much fun as when I went to the Dead it will be a good time. Had a damn good time watching the Dead at Soldeir Field in Chiacgo in 1992!! :rasta

they are a great band i was fortunate enough to see them two days in a row live.

Saw them in Vancouver. Great show but was distracted by all the strange looking unkempt people that were dancing in the aisles. I like their music and how they started out (Vermont...).