We are so excited for Fall Tour 2009 that we can barely contain ourselves, Detroit Rock City, jiminy crickets!. We have tickets, I'm talking mail order tickets, the good ones, with the beautiful artwork and all. Problem is we are from San Francisco and Airline tickets aren't cheap and running a blog isn't free either. But we won't let a few old green backs get in our way...marching off we go to the land of Kiss, and Eminiem, a town that built the celebrated muscle cars of the 70's, and the much malauded Hummers of the 2000's. Off to Cobo Arena, on the water's front closer to Canada than Phish's home stomping grounds in Vermont, The Cobo, weathered and historic, soon to be demolished into concrete powder so that a newer and better parking lot can be built?

Oh, well, Detroit needs jobs and there's a few right there. To the fans, Detroit needs your money so spend it well, keep it local, go to the local bong shop not Walmart to buy your "water-pipes".

Here is some background info as I can't contain myself, if they pick up where they left off: at the top of their game and with a much needed, "Weekapaugh Groove". I will split open and melt!

A top-grossing act: Phish has been one of the top-grossing touring acts over the past two decades, playing more than 600 concerts since 1989, according to trade publication Pollstar. Phish draws fans to multiple shows by making each concert a different experience with ever-changing set lists.

Festivals: Since 1996, Phish has hosted eight festivals for crowds that averaged 70,000 fans. At the eve of the millennium, the band played a midnight-to-sunrise set to 85,000 fans on an American Indian reservation in southern Florida. The festivals offer on-site camping and have caused traffic jams 30 miles long.

The band played to 40,000 fans in Indio, Calif., at the end of October, and just announced a four-night, year-ending set from Dec. 28-31 at American Airlines Arena in Miami.

The break-up: Phish broke up in the summer of 2004, saying its music was getting stale. At the farewell concert, 100,000 fans flocked to Coventry, Vt., but many were turned away by the National Guard because of a monster traffic jam. Fans abandoned their cars along the road, some walking as far as 30 miles to the festival.