@CanadianPhan said: [quote]
My other thought is the way tours are constructed and I imagine they move from city to city in a somewhat random order and take days off and play a 3-4 show rotation is they probably don't want hangers on and tour bugs following. Look how out of control The Dead got at the end. Just my $.02 but I suspect Phish does not want the scene to degenerate into a gypsy fest of drunks and hang on's. Please feel free to flame me but, like many of the posters here, I have a job and a life and cannot follow the band for months on end. I strongly believe Phish wants it that way, playing to devoted Phans in certain strong markets and having a small core of people that follow all the way but do not turn it into a circus.

Great point, Jay. Hadn't thought of that but you're right. Three cheers for giving the band credit for foresight and planning. I buy it.