Phish to Tour U.S. in Summer March 25, 2003 - Rolling Stone By Andrew Dansby Having wrapped their winter reunion tour earlier this month, Phish are already looking ahead to summer. The band has lined up a twenty-one-date tour to launch July 7th in Phoenix. The tour will be capped by It, a two-day festival at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine, site of two previous Phish festivals, the Great Went in 1997 and Lemonwheel the next year. Each of the It's two days, August 2nd and 3rd, will feature three Phish sets. After putting the band on ice in October 2000, the members of Phish reunited and returned to the stage in New York City on December 31st. The band also released a new studio album, Round Room, that month, and began a winter tour in January. It tickets will go on sale March 27th at phishtickets.rlc.net and Ticketmaster. A five-day window for tickets to the tour will open through phishtickets.rlc.net on April 18th, followed by a general on-sale date of May 9th. In other Phish news, keyboardist Page McConnell has lined up a five-date mini-tour with his side project, Vida Blue, to begin April 9th in Chicago. Trainwreck, featuring Tenacious D's Kyle Gass, will open all dates. And Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio will release a live album, Plasma, on April 29th. The two-CD set is culled from his summer and fall tours from last year. Copyright © 2003 Rolling Stone