Jam-rock pioneer Phish is back, but not as you might expect. Four
years after the band called it quits and after months of reunion
rumors, Vermont’s finest finally shared the stage this weekend at
former road manager Brad Sands’ wedding in New York. The quartet
played a brief three-song set of “Suzy Greenberg,” “Julius” and
“Waste.” Somewhere, someone is selling grilled cheese at a wedding.
In other jam band reunion news, the four surviving members of The
Grateful Dead will play their first show since 2004 under the Dead
moniker at Penn State on Oct. 13. The show is to support Barack Obama
– Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart previously played a “Deadheads
for Obama” show in San Francisco in February. Guitarist Warren Haynes
will join the band, as will the Allman Brothers Band, in which Haynes
also plays.
Today’s biggest non-reunion news comes in the form of Jimmy Page and
Led Zeppelin. At the Toronto International Film Festival, a reporter
asked Page point-blank if Zeppelin was recording and reuniting. “We’re
not actually recording,” Page said, adding, “if you’re going to do a
reunion, you need four members.” Seems singer Robert Plant is still
the holdout.
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