Live Nation unveiled their new ticketing service on Friday (Jan. 30) with the sale of tickets for Phish's reunion tour, and failed on their first major tryout. Phishheads flocked to the Live Nation page to secure tickets to the band's highly anticipated reunion tour and the increased traffic caused the site to freeze, resulting in users losing tickets while in the process of purchasing—and many an angry Phish phans! A spokesman for Live Nation told http://RollingStone.com, “At the moment of the onsale, there were one million people trying to buy tickets, and that overwhelmed the system for a minute. We sold all the tickets to all the shows. At the end of the day, it was successful.” Fans of the legendary jam band are singing a different tune of the Live Nation ordeal on various message boards. Fans are still able to sell the coveted tickets so check out http://www.stubhub.com/phish-tickets for Phish tickets and other sold out concert tickets in your area.



Phish picked up where the Grateful Dead left off in terms of touring in the early ‘90s and has become a veritable institution among college campuses across the country. According to Billboard Boxscore, since 1989 Phish has generated $175,541,923 in concert grosses from 5,842,789 tickets sold to 475 shows. Phish is known for launching a neo-hippie jam band movement promoted by their perpetual touring as opposed to traditional album sales, but the band abruptly broke up in 2000 and stunned fans. After making a brief comeback in the early 2000s, Phish went on an official hiatus again in 2004 and news of an official comeback has been wafting around ever since. As evidenced by the Live Nation Web snafu, Phish tickets are in high demand as the rumored reunion is now official.

Guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio, drummer Jon Fishman and original guitarist Jeff Holdsworth met while they were all students at the University of Vermont and answered a band flyer posted by bassist Mike Gordon. Calling themselves Phish, the guys began playing shows on-campus and added percussionist Marc Daubert to the lineup as well as an occasional vocalist called the Dude of Life and keyboardist Page McConnell. Holdsworth exited the band around the time they began selling their cassette-only release Junta at shows and eventually began performing outside of New England. In 1990 Lawn Boy was released and the band secured a record contract with Elektra. A Picture of Nectar followed in 1994 and then Rift and Hoist followed in 1994. Although still remaining a formidable live act, Phish continued to release albums into the late ‘90s, such as the live double-disc A Live One in 1995 and 1996's studio effort Billy Breathes. Phish announced their plans to take a hiatus on the heels of releasing their critically acclaimed Farmhouse in 2000. Despite Phish's break from the road, albums from the jam band continued to be released with sporadic public appearances, such as a 2002 cameo on The Simpsons. Catch Phish on a stage near you with tickets from http://StubHub.com.