From The Editor: When The Lights Go Down

While most Phish fans are extremely thankful that the band will return on Friday, the five months since the quartet announced their return haven’t been all sunshine and lollipops. More hotel operators continue to move fans’ reservations, fans openly scalp tickets to other fans and a mysterious team of scammers seem to be rigging all of the ticket auctions on eBay.

There’s been lots of crazy shit going on for this batch of shows that I don’t remember happening at other times in the band’s history. Scalpers, shady hotel operators, fans selling hotel reservations to other fans, fans thinking it’s okay to sell tickets over face to each other is not exactly a good sign for the health of our community. Hopefully the madness dies down over time. I can’t wait till the lights go down and we can put “how we got here” behind us and focus on the music. Even former hater Weinish is getting excited.