Welcome to the final edition of our series titled Coventry To Hampton filling you in on the four members of Phish and what they’ve been up to these past five years. Part one featuring bassist Mike Gordon debuted on Monday, Part two featuring keyboardist Page McConnell was posted on Tuesday, Part three featuring Trey Anastasio was posted Wednesday, Part four featuring drummer Jon Fishman was posted yesterday.

Sure, Phish hasn’t played a live concert since Coventry, but there has been a whole bunch of Phish material performed and archival releases over the past four and a half years. In fact, there have been five official CD releases, four DVD releases and even more online audio and video downloads.

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A compilation of SOME of the Phish material played by the members since Coventry.

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The realization that a Phish reunion was imminent came when the band joined together publicly for the first time since Coventry. On May 7, 2008, the four members of Phish reunited onstage at the 7th annual Jammy Awards at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden to accept a lifetime achievement award. The band didn’t perform together at the ceremony, although Trey sat-in with the Fab Faux and Page played as part of a jazz supergroup put together by the event’s organizers. Phish also won the Download of the Year award for their release of The Headphones Jam.

READ ON for more on the events leading up to Phish’s return as well as a full list of all archival audio and video releases since Coventry…

At 3AM on the morning of October 1, Phish.com was updated with a video of an artist painting an image of the Hampton Coliseum that served notice the band was back. To announce their “Summer Tour,” Phish.com featured a video of a number of planes skywriting the words “Phish Summer Tour 2009″ in the skies above Southern California. Both clips were embeddable, leading to the videos becoming viral hits and being posted on a number of websites.

Shortly after announcing their return, Phish tapped Coran Capshaw’s Red Light Management to manage their affairs. Red Light was already managing Trey and Mike’s solo careers, so it didn’t take anyone by surprise when the band announced that Red Light would be representing them.

OK, Phish did play ONE time (The wedding of Brad Sands)

Official Audio:

Colorado 88
At the Roxy (Atlanta 93)
Live at Madison Square Garden New Year’s Eve 1995
Vegas 96 (CD)
Live in Brooklyn CD

Official Video:

The Clifford Ball (7 DVD)
Walnut Creek DVD
Phish – It
Live in Brooklyn

Online Audio:
Headphones Jam
1993-08-13 Murat, Indianapolis, IN
1994-11-14 University of Central Florida Arena
1994-11-30 Evergreen College, Olympia, WA
1995-10-21 Pershing Auditorium, Lincoln, NE
1994-12-01 Salem Armory, Salem, OR
1995-12-01 Hersheypark Arena, Hershey, PA
1996-04-26 “New Orleans Relief” (Filler 11/7/91)
1997-12-29 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
1997-12-30 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
1998-04-02 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
1998-04-03 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
1998-04-04 Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI
1998-04-05 Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI
1998-07-06 Lucerna Theatre, Prague, CZE

Online Video:
1995-10-21 Pershing Auditorium, Lincoln, NE
1995-11-14 University of Central Florida Arena, Orlando, FL
1995-12-01 Hersheypark Arena, Hershey, PA
1995-12-31 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
1996-12-06 Alladain Theatre, Las Vegas, NV
1997-12-29 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
1997-12-30 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

A big thanks to HT taper SGordo for his assistance in compiling all of the recordings you’ve heard this week. While I’m at it, I’d like to thank ScottyB, billarockstar, papaphunk, Lacy, halpua, hedgehog & Byrnesy for their contributions, corrections, etc.

I’ll leave you with this cover that Mike & Trey played twice, it’s a tune called Old Habits Like You Are Hard To Break by Hank Williams Jr.