Breaking: Phish Reunites For Sandsio’s Wedding
After a break of over four years, Jam-pioneers Phish reunited this evening in New York City at the wedding of former road manager Brad Sands. The quartet treated the crowd to a three song set that included old standbys Suzy Greenberg, Julius and Waste. As if that wasn’t enough, shortly after Phish left the stage drummer Stewart Copeland of The Police joined the wedding band for Can’t Stand Losing You and The Meters’ Fire on the Bayou. Congratulations go out to Mr. and Mrs. Sands.
[Video by Jeff Kravitz]
This isn’t the first time Phish reunited after a lengthy layoff at a wedding of a former employee. On December 1, 2001, the band members rocked out Wolfman’s Brother > Boogie On Reggae Woman and Loving Cup at the wedding of Dionysian’s Jason Colton shortly before the fourteen month-mark of their first hiatus. They also played at the wedding of Beth and Steve Drebber on August 12, 1989 as described by Kevin Shapiro for the August 1989 edition of This Month in Phish History:
After a steady spring and early summer of touring, Phish’s first performance in August was on the 12th at The Burlington Community Boathouse playing at friends Beth and Steve Drebber’s wedding reception. As a member of a local band, The Joneses, Steve got to know Phish, meeting Beth at a Phish concert in February of the previous year (see This Month in Phish History, February 1988). The Drebbers’ was one of only a few wedding gigs Phish played over the years. They performed a set of jazz standards followed by a more adventurous set of Phish originals and covers for the newlyweds. One of the covers was a wedding request for the band’s only performance of the Allman Brothers’ Blue Sky.
One clip from the wedding has surfaced on YouTube and we’re sure plenty of pictures from this monumental affair will surface in the upcoming days.
Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.
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TREY WAS NOT THERE HE WAS TOO HIGH
this is awesome. hoozah for everyone!
Great news!
they will be practicing by monday
worst suzy ever! they need to practice more. page looked like he hasn’t slept in a while. and notice how trey is wearing long sleeves? hmmmmmm….
See you on tour…
“worst suzy ever! they need to practice more. page looked like he hasn’t slept in a while. and notice how trey is wearing long sleeves? hmmmmmm….”
hahahahahahhahahahahahhahah
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fuck yes…time to party
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So this was the wedding that my friend was talking about a few weeks ago when I posted this:
http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=348
So a good thing happens and all the retard haters have to make stupid comments? Real mature.
Congrats to Brad and his new wife on their wedding day!
It’s great to hear Phish played again and somewhere where these haters (who are just jealous they didn’t get invited) couldn’t get to to ruin it.
Hopefully Phish will return soon and these haters will stay away.
I can’t wait to see the boys play again and to see Trey this tour clean and sober, looking and sounding great!
Couldn’t be happier… Congrats to the Brad and the Mrs. It sounds like a dream come true. See you all soon!
TAB is my b-day in Philly (reunite?) It would be the best B-day ever! It still could be. Thank YOu! This is all Phantastic news!!
To the person who made a comment about Trey wearing long sleeves — it’s a wedding. You wear a dress shirt at the very least, which is going to have long sleeves. Trey was not a shooter junkie; he smoked it like Jerry did. Look at recent photos of him on the Internet. There are no scars in the crook of his arm or on his hands or forearms. Trey went through a lot over the last couple of years, including an intense rehab program that required random drug testing, sometimes occuring more than once per week. He passed everything and was adjudicated by the judge. The guy is now clean and sober (for that matter so is Mike; I talked to him face-to-face in Portland on Aug. 23). Give Trey an f-ing break already.
To ‘The Wagger’:
You need to get off your ass and start swinging the bat and picking up some girls, because all of the ‘suckin’ Trey’s oxycontin-ridden dick’ is really a downer. You’re bringing us all down w/ your, “I would know, I’ve rapped with Trey on 8/23.” Seriously, go fuck a Sunset…
I hope to see some more clips of those hot dance moves. Great news.
All you haters talking shit about trey and the boys can catch a huge FUCK OFF!!! The band is SOBER!! Shit is on like Donkey Kong!! PH09
I have to agree with Kronmaster….F all you haters out there….this is great news and if you are a true fan of the band, you would not bring up anything negative. Bring on Summer ’09!! Keep your fingers crossed!
hellyes!! it’s SO on! longlive the PHiSH – from Vermont!!
“haters”? is this the new ghetto hippie lingo??
It was 3 songs people…for a dear friends wedding. It was not that big of a deal. As if the boys havent ALREADY jammed in Trey’s barn…you guys DO REALIZE this can happen without anyone knowing?
Coventry was NOT the last show. Anyone with a brain knew this after it was over.
Congrats to Sandsio and his new wife. Phish will be back…soon
I was SOOOO FRICKIN EXCITED to see and open this thread/website, and then BAM!!! The haters are in FULL FORCE. FUCK OFF YOU LOSERS. You haters have prolly NEVER even seen Phish, and surely not PRE-HIATUS :P
Like I said, I was SOOO excited to see this website, and you DOWNERS had to talk shit and bring ALL KINDS OF NEGATIVITY towards Trey already. And how can you tell how he really looked in a DIMLY LIT crappy resolution youtube video? Get a LIFE FUCKERS. And I hope you haters stay FAR AWAY from Phish tour in 2009 when they come back :P Because if you all bring negativity and hating back into a phresh Phish scene, you all deserve to have your balls cut off. And you all wonder why the boys called it quits 4 years ago :P Its because of the negativity and hating going on, and you haters that were doing shows just to say you saw “this particular show.” We should ALL be com,mending Trey and ALL of the boys for getting their shit together and wanting to play together again!!!
Let Trey do his thing and let us REAL FANS enjoy what went down without trying to RUIN IT for everyone :P
And to Brad Sands and his wife, CONGRATULATIONS :) I bet that was the PERFECT WEDDINg for Brad and his new wife :) I know it wouldve been a PERFECT WEDDING for ALOT of other people if they were in the same situation :)
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congrats to the Sands. Thanks to Kravitz for the video offering.
looking forward to the “R_ _ _ _ _ N” very soon. BTW, that word has become so overused to me, kind of like Hiatus was a few years ago…that I cannot force myself to type it or even say it anymore.
when they come back and I’m there w/ a shit-eating grin on my face,, then I will the “R” word.
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I love Phish more than any other jam band, but they are NOT pioneers to the Jam scene.
Let us not forget the Grateful Dead.