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Phish Going Belly Up
Phish will soon be bouncing 'round the country on its phinal tour.
The jam band dropped a bombshell on their loyal fans Tuesday, when frontman Trey Anastasio posted a letter on the band's official Website (www.phish.com) announcing plans to split up at the close of its summer tour.
The band's final studio album, Undermind, will be released June 15, and it will perform together for the last time at its two-day summer festival in Coventry, Vermont on Aug. 14 and 15. The tour kicks off June 17 in New York.
"Last Friday night, I got together with Mike, Page and Fish to talk openly about the strong feelings I've been having that Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note," Anastasio wrote on the site.
"We don't want to become caricatures of ourselves, or worse yet, a nostalgia act. By the end of the meeting, we realized that after almost 21 years together we were faced with the opportunity to graciously step away in unison, as a group, united in our friendship and our feelings of gratitude."
Anastasio made it clear that devastated fans shouldn't cling to shreds of hope that the band is simply going on hiatus, as it did from 2000 to 2002.
"For the sake of clarity, I should say that this is not like the hiatus, which was our last attempt to revitalize ourselves," he wrote. "We're done."
Phish fans flooded message boards to discuss the breakup.
"I mean, sure, they're not what they once were, but done?" wrote a poster by the name of Ladyphish. "I don't know if my mind can comprehend life without the possibility of Phish."
The band was formed in 1983 in a dorm lounge at the University of Vermont. Over the years, it drew wide acclaim for their lengthy, improvisational jam sessions at its live shows, drawing a near cult following.
When the band took its two-year hiatus, fans fretted that all was not well between the band members.
Anastasio had previously expressed his concern that the cost of the band's concert productions had eclipsed the music, and told Rolling Stone in an interview that he had no interest in following in the footsteps of the Grateful Dead--a band wedded to touring to cover the cost of its overhead and support its staff of crew members.
Each member of the band spent the time off working on solo projects intended to revive their creative strengths and their dedication to Phish.
To the relief of Phishheads, the quartet rebounded onto the scene with a concert in New York on New Year's Eve 2002 and the release of its seventh studio album, Round Room, in the winter of 2003.
Now, just a year and a half later, the members are calling it quits for good with a wrap-up festival in their home state of Vermont, where it all began.
"It's been an amazing and incredible journey," Anastasio wrote. "We thank you for all the love and support you've shown us."
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