Phish Tickets - Phish Helps Make Bonnaroo a Success
July 23rd, 2009. Published under Music. No Comments.
The 2009 installation of Manchester, Tennessee’s Bonnaroo Music Festival was one of the event’s biggest successes, largely thanks to Sunday night’s (June 14) headliner, the legendary jam band Phish. President of A.C. Entertainment’s (co-producers of Bonnaroo with Superfly Presents) Ashley Capps gushed to Billboard online, “To me this year’s the best Bonnaroo ever,” although Capps did admit, “I say that every year and I mean it every year.”
Among the 125 acts on the 2009 Bonnaroo bill were Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Wilco, Elvis Costello, Snoop Dogg, the Decemberists, Band Of Horses, Nine Inch Nails, Animal Collective, Booker T and the DBTs, Gov’t Mule, Merle Haggard, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Mars Volta, Andrew Bird, Citizen Cope, the Beastie Boys, Cage the Elephant and Jimmy Buffett, a last-minute addition to the lineup, among countless others. Those who missed Bonnaroo this year can still see Phish on their current reunion tour by checking online for Phish tickets and have next year’s Bonnaroo to look forward to. Capps revealed that organizers are already brainstorming about who will perform in 2010 and 2011.
“Still here, huh?” joked Phish frontman Trey Anastasio when the band took the stage to deliver its second headlining show of the four-day festival on Sunday night. Phish opened with “AC/DC Bag,” which blended right into “N.I.C.U.” on Sunday. Phish also preformed “Gotta Jibbo,” “Punch You in the Eye,” “Sparkle,” “Bathtub Gin,” “Character Zero,” “Run Like An Antelope” and other fan-favorites and brought special guest Bruce Springsteen onstage just before the end of the band’s first set Sunday.
The Boss, who headlined the previous night with his E Street Band, received a warm welcome, with Anastasio calling him “my boyhood hero.” Springsteen took over for Anastasio on three tracks, leading Phish through “Mustang Sally,” “Bobby Jean” and “Glory Days.” Phish stuck to its signature jams band songs for its second set, the final show of Bonnaroo, playing “46 Days,” “Limb by Limb” and the new track “Backwards Down the Number Line.” The band covered the Velvet Underground’s “Rock and Roll” and also played another new song, “Light,” closing the festival with “First Tube” amidst a crowd wielding glow sticks.
Phish kicked off its summer reunion tour with a show at Boston’s Fenway Park on May 31, the band’s first time on the road since 2004. The announcer joked, “Absolutely no smoking. And stay in your seats” before Phish emerged from the home team’s dugout at the show, donning Red Sox jerseys while delivering an a capella version of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Trey Anastasio & Co. then reappeared and opened the show with “Sample in a Jar” before playing hits like “Chalkdust Torture,” “Bouncing Around the Room” and “Character Zero.”
Phish is set to unveil its as-yet-untitled new album, which features Steve Lillywhite (who helmed Phish’s 1996 album Billy Breathes) on production, on July 28, and the band has already been sampling some new tracks like “Time Turns Elastic” live. Get your Phish tickets as you wait for the band’s follow-up to 2004’s Undermind to arrive!
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