 VERMONT (Phish Fans Website) - 70,000 of fans screamed and danced Saturday in a fantasyscape of upside-down trees and silver sculptures for the first in a series of farewell concerts by the jam band Phish in US Vermont State. Applause rippled through the audience as the band launched into its first song, "Walls of the Cave" from the 2002 album "Round Room." Starting off slow, the ballad grew more feverish as lead singer Trey Anastasio broke into a guitar solo, the start of a prolonged jam that worked concertgoers into a steady, pulsing groove. During its two-decade history, Phish has become a latter-day Grateful Dead, a band celebrated as much for its music as for the community of loyalists who follow the group.
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