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Phishy Finale: Band Preps for Well-Deserved Break
Friday and Saturday, Phish, the hardest-touring band in the biz, will play its last concerts before taking a two-year hiatus, and expectations among the phaithful are running high.
The shows, at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, are some of the most-anticipated in recent Phish-story. Tickets have been scarce since they became available via mail-order.
Most think Phish, which is known for its adventuresome concerts, is holding a trick card up its sleeve for these shows, especially considering the band's history. During a 1999 show at Shoreline, the quartet was joined by ex-Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh for a 90-minute romp through some standards and old Dead tunes, and in 1998, the band performed an acoustic set at the venue for Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit. While Phish routinely plays a three-hour show, many expect Saturday's finale to be a marathon performance, as the bandmembers--guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio, drummer Jon Fishman, keyboardist Page McConnell and bassist Mike Gordon--prepare for their first extended break from the road since the group's inception in 1983.
Moreover, since Phish has no Halloween concert planned this year, many Phishheads think the band will cover a classic album (a trademark of the group's Halloween shows) as an extra set Saturday night. Previous performances have included the Beatles' White Album, the Who's Quadrophenia, the Talking Heads' Remain in Light, the Velvet Underground's Loaded and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Guesses for this weekend's surprise set range from the Beatles' Abbey Road to Anastasio's college senior thesis project, Gamehendge, performed in its entirety by the band only a few times and still unreleased.
The band has already pulled out some surprises in the week leading up to these shows. In Las Vegas last weekend, Kid Rock joined Phish for versions of AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" and a stab at the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." Additionally, the band has been delving into its back catalog, performing many rarely played tunes for delighted fans.
Anastasio also took the time from the stage in Vegas to assure fans that the upcoming break will by no means be a permanent one. "We are going to take some time off and write some songs and come back for another 17 years," he said .
Many phans are sad to see the band take a break, with some diehards even questioning the band's commitment. (Right. Probably the same shower-deprived pholks who haven't yet figured out what they're going to do with their lives for the next two years.) And fan reviews at the band's Website, Phish.net, have run the gamut.
However, phans who have followed the band for most of its career seem to think the vacation is well-deserved. Says, longtime Phishhead Billy Glassner, who first saw the band at a fraternity party in Vermont in 1985, "It's about time. Good for them. They need the chance to regroup."
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