Actually, Backwards Down The Number Line was the setlist rotation of the Trey Anastasio Band’s fall tour and made its debut in the summer at the Rothbury Festival with Mike Gordon on base. Just sayin’…

“Anastasio played the song at solo gigs, but not with his old band.”

Nonsense. They probably plundered all of their money on drugs and in Mike’s case, high end photography equipment and short-legged tri-pods. The fans they are trying to scare away are the fans that made them gods. If they did not charge 30 for a t-shirt that you would have to be on blotter acid to enjoy, maybe the majority of their fans could come away with a souvenir other then seeing tracers for the rest of their lives. Being a fan I am elated to see them back, but let’s not make them out for more then what they are, I mean after all, the tickets are $50 a pop.

Goo Balls>Goo Balls>Molly? Molly?> Heady beer?>Nugs. Nugs.
E. Man in the mirror*

*Trey on keys

What this article left out from the NY Times was that Trey thinks this weekend’s shows are a “recession relief” for the phans…being that most who are there had to pay a small fortune, does this make sense?

Bobby Burnout,

Are you saying that $50 is too much?

Do you know what other bands, who have been around as long as Phish charge?

In 2009, $50 to see a show like this, is a bargain!

I wish the bands I like, only charged $50 a ticket.

“Backwards Down The Number Line” is awful.

$50 for a band like Phish is quite the bargain…you could go see Umphrey’s or moe. for $25-30. They rock, but I’d rather see Phish for $50 any day! Good to see the boys back in action, which my old roomie called…”Eh” he said, “guarantee they’ll be back in 4-5 years”.

Seriously, who got a ticket for $50? My guess would be that at least more than half of those lucky basters made much much more on those $50 tix by selling them on ebay and/or at the show…and who wouldn’t with the profit that could be made.

I don’t know. 50 bucks is kinda high, especially if yer travelin’. And how many folks really got their tix for that price. I know even if i’d a gotten hold of em for the original price I more than likely would have turned around and sold em for a couple hundred each, at least.

Now that’s recession relief a phish head can get behind

Oh and when did they start using the term “phish nation?”

Mikey Red you are part of the problem

“Until Trey touches you with his guitar solo’s like Mike touched that little boy backstage”
Shame on you Rolling Stone for allwoing that to be published and shame on the anonymoous author. Since Phish retired my life fell apart. I literally based my life on their music and felt we had an unspoken bond and htat they were thinking of me when they wrote some of their songs. We have been through a lot together. At the tie selling all of my posessions and dropping out of Harvard medical school to follwo them seemd wise beyond my years, 10 years later i find myself shut out in a cold parking lot near the venue with solied trousers and not a snow ball’s chance in hell of making it inside. But oyu know what “anonymous”, i would rather stand here with excrement filled undergarments and dirt on my finger nails then spend one moent in your corporate life, NARC!
Gotta Jiboooooo
- F. Head

its not like our four heros are strapped for cash. i mean, mike has enough money to take young boys on boat rides, page enough for hair implants, trey for his meth and heroin and fish – well, he still wears that dog ejaculate crusted dress. maybe we as citizens of phish nation should see that phish is corporate, capitalist monster and doesn’t care about their phans finances or happiness. but as long as one low life loser continues to hope/live for a twist encore…we will all must bend over and take it.

You can tell with a name like bobby burnout his life is a waste of space you shouldn’t be aloud on the lot, let alone a ticket your thinking will cause nothing but problems if u wanna make a profit pimp your mother or sister stay the fuck away from us Face Value all day peace out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mikey take the advice I just gave the burnout We dont want you around

i hope they don’t suck. 1999 last good tour

Good to have the guys back doing what they do best. Thank you phish! I have miss you.

I wish phish wouldn’t do that.

Hey Bobby, what’s with the negative comments? Are you a “Phan” who is pissed off just because Phish decided to break up over four years ago and you saw that as a personal “Fuck you.” Trey had excellent reasons for wanting to call it a day. It had nothing to do with all of us who enjoy the music. If you are so “elated to see them back” like you say you are, why complain about a $50 ticket? Other artists charge more than that, and are not half as good. Be truly grateful that they decided to have a reunion, and for the potential that there might be more to come.

Hey bobby b. big deal if they spend $ on dope. Take a look at past musicians, who had drug problems Charlie parker, Billy Holiday,Miles Davis,(and almost every other jazz great except D Gillespie) Jerry Garcia, Jonny Cash, Eric Clapton,J Joplin, Mr. Hendrix,Kurt Kobaine, John Lennon. Bob Dylan Ray Charles just to name a very few. For many talented musicians and creative folks its just the way things are. It has even been suggested that getting High can inspire and bring out creative thought. Ha Ha HA. Anyway bro your a clown along with that money grubber mikey red.Anyway I am so happy bout the boys touring again. And for all you overcritical fans just try and remember what Robert Hunter penned “Ain’t no time to hate” Peace and see ya this summer!

Gordon didn’t touch any little boy backstage. “Phish bassist Mike Gordon, 38, was arrested Monday, August 11th, on charges of child endangerment after he was found with a nine-year-old girl in a secluded boathouse during a show by the Dead in Jones Beach, New York.

According to a statement released by Major Richard O’Donnell of the New York State Park Police, Gordon was charged with a misdemeanor count of child endangerment and trespassing. “The arrest was the result of a complaint by the mother of a nine-year-old girl,” reads the statement. “The mother became concerned when she could not locate her daughter in the backstage area.”

The uninjured child was reunited with her family shortly after Gordon’s arrest.

Now I know this sounds shady but he never actually did anything. I will give him the benefit of the doubt on this. His says he was taking “art” pictures like Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy has naked children on the cover.

Anyway I just wanted to get the facts straight here

firestone. who made you into a we? get a life. and face value the semen your pop used to inseminate your fat mother to buy tickets for the rest of “us” who got shut out of seeing the best live band in generations.

I’m pretty sure Trey means recession relief going to the local economies who get a REAL stimulus when Phish heads buy up all their gas, smokes, booze, cheese, bread, get the picture? This is bound to help out Phish’s reputation in Obama’s America. Also, he may have been referring to the travelling hippies who may have gotten jobs in the last 5 years and lost them with no hope in sight of new employment. They can at least subsist and maybe make bank on tour.

Fluffhead, you really think going to Med school is selling out to Corporate America or are you talking to Mikey Red? Dude, I felt the same way, that they were writing songs about me, so what? Does that mean I can’t be a productive person and contribute to the world as a brilliant scientist? I bring up b/c I have returned to school for a second degree during hiatus (biology, already have history major). And you better believe I’ll be using my comfortable living to get INTO the shows you poor bums get shut out of. Phish is a CAPITALIST band, deal with it.

People bitch, but Phish reigns supreme.
NUBES MUST DIE, PHISH WILL WIN ALWAYS

Oh My… Most of you have some serious problems. Many other people besides me loved to rage it in the day. They need work from what I have heard but maybe with practice it comes back. They should play a REAL tour, one where people actually have to drive farther than 6 hours from the college mecca of the Northeast. Trey didn’t want to become a nostalgia act, but certainly seems to be doing just that. Playing the easiest to sell out venues, and playing songs incorrectly. They should bring back real tourdates, real tickets by mail with all the annoying details, and stop playing venues in states that have excessive punishment/laws. NO Virginia, NJ, or SC. I want to see them at the Gorge again, wtf is with the summer dates. It sounds like a reunion tour alright.

People who get caught at shows generally deserve to get caught. Saying phish shouldnt go to hampton or NJ again is like saying they should never play coventry again.