Oh what a feeling it is for the Phish community to have a Summer Tour to look forward to once again! For most of us who fell in love with Phish back in the day, we went on with our lives when they broke up. We found other great music to listen to, seldom listened to Phish, and mostly finished College, got jobs, and grew up. However, the Phish child in all of us never fully dissipated. It was always there, hoping to be released once again.
Well, it is time to welcome and bless the Phish child in all of us, for we are back in store for what has truly cemented itself as the grandest musical theater on earth. Now there is an entire new generation of younger Phans in High School and College to add to the mix in addition the the endless heads that made up the community before they split 4 years ago.
Getting tickets is now harder than ever, as we all saw with the Hampton fiasco. There is only one person that I know out of hundreds who got tickets in the lottery, and not one person I know who got them on Ticketmaster.
Sadly, many of us are missing Hampton, but the real heat will arrive in the Summatime! We will be graced with a warmed up Phish that is already in the groove and destroying venues left and right throughout the country. There are few greater memories than Phish Summer Tour. The vibe is impossible to be described, only to be connected with and experience. The feeling of freedom out on the lawn in an open air amphitheater with nature all around with 20,000 people who feel like family lifting you up along with the mind bending exploratory music and retina burning light show that encompasses the experience.
The first leg of Summer Tour has been announced, and every hotel is already reserved in every area where there is a Phish show. The ticket lottery ends on January 17th at 12:00 am and who knows what the outcome will be. I hope to attend both Jones Beach shows and both Alpine Valley shows. They are also pretty much 100% headlining two nights of Bonnaroo with two sets each night according to Rolling Stone magazine. This was not listed on their tour dates however because the artist lineup for Bonnaroo has not been announced yet.
Here is the scoop on the First Leg of Summer Tour:
Phish will perform ten concerts this coming June. The shows kick off with a two night stand at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY June 4-5 and wrap up at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI on June 20-21. Stops along the way include a return to the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis on June 16 and the band's first show at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, NC on June 9.
A limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/ . The ticketing request period is currently underway and will end on Saturday, January 17th at 11:59AM EST.
Tickets go on sale to the public beginning Friday, January 30th at 10AM EST. For full show and ticketing information, please visit the Tourdates page.
PHISH SUMMER TOUR 2009
06/04 - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater - Wantagh, NY
06/05 - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater - Wantagh, NY
06/06 - Comcast Center - Mansfield, MA
06/07 - Susquehanna Bank Center - Camden, NJ
06/09 - Asheville Civic Center - Asheville, NC
06/16 - Fox Theatre - St. Louis, MO
06/18 - Post Gazette Pavilion - Burgettstown, PA
06/19 - Verizon Wireless Music Center - Noblesville, IN
06/20 - Alpine Valley - East Troy, WI
06/21 - Alpine Valley - East Troy, WI
So, only 10 shows huh? Of course, this list does not include Bonnaroo, but we were hoping for more. This will do for now though, because I am just thrilled that they are back together and touring at all. I am saying First Leg of their Summer Tour because I am being optimistic. They only announced June dates, and I have heard endless heavy rumors about a 5 night stand at Red Rocks from July 29-August 2 and also a 3 night stand at The Gorge in late July as well. I have complete faith that there will be more dates announced later on after the Hampton shows, but just in case I would really like to hit up both Jones Beach & both Alpine Valley shows on this 10 show June run.
Aside from the 3 Hampton shows, and these 10 June shows, who knows what is in store for Phish? It is known that they have been practicing consistently in a small private space in New York City, and that people have stood outside and listened to them play. The word is that Mike is absolutely killing the bass, dropping bombs everywhere. Go Mikey, thats our boy. I really feel that Phish is back to take themselves seriously. They are not coming back to become a nostalgia act. Trey, Mike, Page, and Fish are planning on ripping our faces off and stomping on them over and over. The New Years Rumors of it being between Madison Square Garden or the American Airlines Arena in Miami excite me immensely. I say that they should play Miami. Their final New Years run was in Miami in 2003, and I think it would be fitting to start back where they left off on New Years for 2010 and return to their legendary New Years venue, The Garden, for 2011.
The rumors about a potential 5 night run for New Years in Miami are enough for me right now to make me tremble with excitement!!!
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