I heard a rumor that...

April 15,16, 17
Sonic net & Rolling Stone are reporting that Trey and Page may play the April 15-17 Phil & Friends show at The Warfield in San Francisco.
Tickets for this show went on sale last week and to my knowledge have already sold out.
Rumored lineup: Phil Lesh, Steve Kimock, Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, John Mollo
Mail Order Update! Show already sold out!
Rolling Stone Article

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May
• Trey to play a Solo Acoustic/Electric circuit of college theatres from May 3-15 - Confirmed
June
July
Summer Tour - CONFIRMED!
August
September
• No Rumors
October
• Possible Fall Tour
  UIC 5 nights
  Worcester 3 nights
  Hampton 3 nights
  MSG 5 nights for Halloween?
  Or maybe 2 shows at Meadowlands for Halloween
  
• Carvey Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, IA
• West Run a possibility on the Fall tour.
  w/ another 2 night Halloween stand at Vegas.
• Coral Sky Ampitheatre
November
• No Rumors
December
• New Years Possibilities:
  From The L.A. Times
  GONE PHISHING: Choices for New Year's Eve 2000 have just increased in Southern California and decreased, at least for the moment, in New York.
  Phish is laying plans to show up in SoCal for a series of concerts over the weekend that starts Dec. 31. The Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion is a likely site, as it has campgrounds for the Vermont band's fans, many of whom follow the group around the country.

  Phish.Net had reported multiple shows for the band members, but that was simply an April Fools joke.
  Hawaii
  Southern California - Edison Internation Field (Formerly Anaheim Stadium). Apparently Disney (who owns the place) gave them the go ahead. Nice Weather, 45,050 capacity, 1st West Coast New Years...best bet so far
  Mexico
  Florida
  My House (not enough port-o-lets)

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• Tom Marshall and Trey have formed a band called Utalk. They play songs they wrote that Phish doesn't play, as well as several covers. The other band members are friends of theirs from high school in Princeton, New Jersey. Look for them to debut at the Higher Ground in Winooski Vermont sometime around December 1998. The 24-hour jam at a friend's house wasn't Phish, it was Utalk. Covers included Comfortably Numb, some Genesis, lots of Beatles, Janis Joplin stuff and Velvet Underground. There are tapes, but they are digitally signed so that if they are copied, the signature will give away the identity of the person who leaked the tape. Don't plan on listening to this show anytime soon -- although a quote from Trey on the tape is "I wish Phish could sound like this again -- this was the best night of music in my life!"

• Reserved 10 night run at the Radio City Music Hall in 1999

• Phish is going to market there own microbrewed beer. It will come in a SIX pack of cans. (Trey, Mike, Page, Fish, Paul Langedoc and Chris Koroda! It will be called PhishBeer. There will be a picture of each band member on each can. It will be stout. Look for it in beer stores on the east coast within the next six months.

• Phish's next live album may be the 11/17/97 Denver show.
• Phish might release the 4th set from the Lemonwheel as their new album
• As you may know, we have not been welcome at Great Woods in Mansfield, MA, since 1995. Great Woods is currently under new ownership, and this may be what sets a return by Phish in motion for the 1999 summer tour, for possibly 4 nights or more.

• Phish will produce a variety of live albums in the new few years to coincide with the new studio albums - from a Phish Merchandising Publication

• Phish to produce a movie entitled "Phish - The Movie". They recorded Rochester, The Great Went, some of New Years at MSG, and will be recording upcoming shows in Florida and Europe. No word on a release date.

• Phish to play NYC's Central Park on July 4, 2001. The 225 birthday of the United States

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• Don't look for Phish playing the Fleet center anytime soon. Apparently they find the seating and light very distracting and the Fleet people are not very accomodating.

New Martin Guigui film to be filmed at basin harbor club, on Lake Champlain in Vermont will feature Fishman. Possibly called "The Wedding Band". Movie is about Jewish/Catholic wedding. Fishman is the drummer in the band. Band does not know how to play Hava Nagileh, so Fish does ten minute drum solo to be featured in film.

5/16: Movie wraps up next week, after a three week shoot in the Burlington area, and Fishman DID in fact shoot a scene in which he plays a song on the drums with a friend of the band leader, Hebber Stebber (played by Burlington musician Chad Hollister), and he wears a pink dress.
Other musicians in the movie include Martin Guigui band as the "Hebber Stebber Orchestra", including members of Spastic and the Dude of Life's touring band. Barry Goudreau, late of Boston second guitarist fame, plays guitar in the band, and Debbie Gibson is the female lead! Dom DeLuise is also in the cast.

10/16:You can confirm the film with Col. Bruce and Mike-I thought it was called the Unstructional Video though-I was at Archer studios with Fish on 5/8/97- Mike and Bruce came in and were talking about the days shoot-and how they had gone to a discount store and bought 7 matching $5. flannel shirts-(the Col. was wearing two of them)-it was for a scene in the Movie where Mike is apparently shot and they needed all the flannels for retakes (Blood pellets were used)

Production is underway for PHISH: The Movie, directed by Todd Phillips, a twenty -seven-year-old film directory who recently won a Best Documentary prize at the Sundance Film Festivcal for Frat House, a look at life in a college fraternity.

Phillips describes the Phish film, which contains concert and behind-the-scenes footage as "Messy and Raw...It isn't an MTV rockumentary." The band initially hi red Phillips to film its two-day Great Went concert last summer, but Phillips de cided to keep filming. Phish's Trey's Anastasio says, "Todd's been shooting off and on for the past year. I haven't seen any footage, but he swears it's good." The film will likely be released theatrically next spring.

7/20/98
the film is complete, and additional footage of Lemonwheel may be included. The film was sold to HBO of all places, and now they are in control of everything..unless someone else buys the film for a higher price. Currently, there is some sort of Court settlement going on, and apparently Phillips is REALLY pissed off at HBO. Anyways, plans for a release date are now up in the air, as it depends on who wants to buy and release it.

• A documentry called Condo or Condor Painting about Allen Ginsberg and William H. Burroughs will feature music from The Residents, Morphine and Phish!!!!! Look on The Residents homepage for more details.
• Jon Fishman and Pam Tengiris were married on Sunday, September 28th in Las Vegas
• Mike Gordon was married on June 20th - Mazel Tov!
• Apparently Phish recently performed a (record setting) 24 hour jam at a friends home in Vermont. No tapes will be circulated for now. Fishman was quoted as saying, "We reached a level of musical Zen that we have never achieved before!".
  Phish's Asst. Production Manager can confirm this event occured.
• On 12/2/97 in Philly Phish was presented with Gold albums from Electra, for 'Slip Stitch & Pass'. It was a pretty big deal and extended family members were present, including Trey's father & grandfather. Which could explain some YaMar lyrics.
  -Johnny D. (a.k.a. Shaggy)
• At the MSG shows, the curfew is 11:30 PM with a 5 minute grace period.
  When they had gone over this time on 12/30, they realized that they had already incurred an $11,000 extra charge for the next hour, hence the reason they played until 12:20 or so.
• They relearned Sneaking Sally before the show that night, and Page learned New York New York between sets on 12/31.
• During the 30th setbreak, they heard a bunch of people missed the opener, which is why they decided to play Sneaking Sally again during the encore
• The show started at 8:15 (tickets said 8) so those that missed the opening had themselves to blame. BUT, a member of the crew went out during the show and got the original Sneaking Sally recording for the band to listen to between sets, so that may have been the reason they went back into it. Or it just sounded good coming out of Black Eyed Katy.
• Mike & Fish joined the Flecktones - 2/14 at the Flynn - (this was rumored, and happened)

Rumors are gladly accepted by e-mailing me at: andy@gadiel.com

I've been getting a bunch of questions lately about the validity of the above rumors and where they came from. All rumors and found through personal e-mail sent to me which I determine if they are in any way possible, or my random searchings through rec.music.phish.
Take these rumors for what they are, RUMORS. DO NOT make travel arrangements based on them. I am in no way responsible if these rumors do not pan out. I am merely attempting to provide an outlet in which tour seeking fans can obtain a glimmer of home in our otherwise exciting lives.
Phish is good, this we know.

-Andrew Gadiel

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