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Phish, pictured here at Bonaroo in June, delivered a solid performance at Cobo Arena last night.

Riley students from the lower, middle and upper schools pose with a selection of items, including autographed Phish posters that will be featured in the Dec.

Cobo Arena in downtown Detroit has cemented its legacy as the host of more than a half dozen iconic live albums.

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Finalist Laura Kirkpatrick, from "America's Next Top Model", poses on the runway for friends and family as part of the festivities to watch the finale at Lincoln County High School on Tuesday, November 18, 2009 in Stanton, Kentucky.

A '90s bumper sticker summarized the stereotype of Phish fans: 'Jerry's dead, Phish sucks, get a job.' 'Jerry' would be late guitarist Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, the Baby Boomer jam band to which Phish frequently is compared, often with a caricature of Phish fans as drug-addled latter-day hippies who missed the Summer of Love by way too ...

Barely 18, I circled the parking lot of a Phish concert for the first time. Fans with tie-dyes, worn-out jeans, dreadlocks and patchwork dresses exchanged crumpled bills for veggie burritos, top-shelf beers, glass pipes and yes, pot, mushrooms and acid.

The popular jam band hasn't played a New Year's gig since 2003, when it also rang out that year at American Airlines Arena.

Even media types need a holiday sometimes. But what do you do when your loyal readership demands its daily dose of desire or doom, and your destination dictates otherwise? One fail-safe is to write a "top 100". It doesn't matter what it consists of - film soundtracks, lawn dressings, sausages.

Phish kicks off its fall tour at Cobo Hall in Detroit on Wednesday. It will be the group'A A s first gig in Detroit in 10 years.

With Phish's Joy Box poised to make the rounds, we wanted to offer details on the tracks that appear on the Party Time bonus CD.

A recent article in Forbes magazine described a Friday night this past June, when 15,000 fans descended on New York's Jones Beach Amphitheater in a torrential rainstorm to listen to the band Phish at one of the first concerts on their 2009 summer tour.

Jon Fishman mans the drum kit during a benefit show for his mom, the late Mimi "Mama Phish" Fishman, in 2001 at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse.

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A good 24 hours before Phish hit the stage for their Halloween show -- the second of Festival 8's three-night stand at Indio, California's Empire Polo Field -- the rumors were flying fast and furious as fans tried to guess which full album the band might cover.

The jam band Phish came up with a list of 99 classic albums, one of which they surprised an audience by covering in its entirety at a Halloween concert in Indio, California.

Phish fests are fun, and so is Halloween. Combine the two and you get a bucket of awesome.

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Just as Phish doesn't do the same song twice in a festival, Phish has never done a festival twice in the same place.

The rock band Phish reportedly offered fans a performance of the Rolling Stones album "Exile on Main Street" at California's Festival 8. Spin magazine reported online Sunday that Phish continued its Halloween tradition of covering an entire seminal album by devoting the band's Festival 8 performance in Indio, Calif., to the Stones' 1972 album.