Eric Gruneisen

Trey Anastasio with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra last night at Boettcher Concert Hall. More Trey Anastasio with the CSO photos.

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TREY ANASTASIO @ BOETTCHER CONCERT HALL | 2.28.12

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The soft, beautiful and, at times, elegant side of Phish's musical catalogue shone last night as frontman and songwriter Trey Anastasio took the stage at the Boettcher Concert Hall backed by the 65-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Outside, fans dressed in suits, ties and flat-brimmed baseball caps mingled with friends over cocktails and joints until the ushers rang their bells signaling the fifteen-minute warning. Slowly the crowd climbed the various staircases to their seats in the beautiful auditorium.

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Update (9/29/11): A few commenters on this week's cover story, "Phish Story," alerted us to another video of the incident that has surfaced. This one, which was posted on YouTube today, evidently, is shot from yet another angle, and the footage appears to be from sometime between the subsequent eleven-second clip mentioned below and the part of the altercation captured in the original video.

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Wondering what becomes of all the bootleg merchandise that is seized? The clothing items sometimes find their way into the hands of less fortunate individuals through various charity organizations. Such was the case in 2005, when Cousins Entertainment, through its attorneys at the time, the Denver-based law firm, Schwartz & Goldberg, who filed an order in Colorado District court requesting permission to donate seized goods to victims of Hurricane Katrina, an order that was subsequently granted. Click through to see the official court documents.

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This week's cover story, "Phish Story," outlines how bands, specifically Colorado favorites Phish, battle the parking lot bootleggers who make money -- some it defend as a way to keep following the band on tour, while others says it's profit-driven -- off the band's likeness, name and image.

Below are examples presented in federal court on behalf of Phish, Inc., by its lawyer as cause for granting an injunction against the sale of bootlegged merchandise outside Phish tour stops.

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Dave Anver, the pony-tailed man in this video from Phish's show at Dick's on Friday, September 2, is the subject of this week's Westword cover story, "Phish Story."

Anver says his job is "serving federal injunctions against people for selling counterfeit merchandise," but his methods came into question after the video surfaced, outraging music fans. Below are the federal injunctions that allow Anver and others to do that job, filed by Phish in New York and Virginia. While Phish can credit some of its early popularity to the trading of bootlegged live shows, its lawyer clamps down hard on the parking-lot flea markets of stickers, T-shirts and fan art.

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Still from YouTube clip uploaded by digiprez77

Update (9/28/11): The follow-up story to this original item has now been posted. While you're certainly free to express your opinion in the comments section below or, better yet, on the story itself, important reminder: please keep the discussion civil. We've deleted several comments that we felt crossed the line.

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It's @treyanastasio of @phish

Phish played three shows over this past Labor Day Weekend in Denver (Commerce City, actually) at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. Read all about each Phish concert in Denver here. Being the tech-savvy -- if shaggy haired and a little rough around the edges -- fans they are, Phish-heads took to Twitter over the weekend, whether they were in Colorado or watching on livephish.com. We've read all the tweets, done all the ranking, and now present you with these ten tweets from the weekend for your Tuesday, not-quite-ready-to-be-at-work perusal.

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PHISH at DICK'S SPORTING GOODS PARK | NIGHT THREE, 9/4/11

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Brandon Marshall

Mike Gordon of Phish at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City last night during the first show of a three-night run. See tons more pics in the full Phish at Dick's, 9/2/11 slide show.

Sunday night's show at Dick's seemed like a continuation of the relaxed, anything-goes mood from Saturday night more than a balls-out party to end the summer. In a way, this was fitting for a band that has been working for the past three years since re-forming to find that comfortable consistency on stage. Still, it just didn't feel like the last night of the tour.More »

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PHISH at DICK'S SPORTING GOODS PARK | NIGHT TWO, 9/3/11

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Brandon Marshall

Trey Anastasio of Phish at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City on Friday night. See tons more pics in the full Phish at Dick's, 9/2/11 slide show, and if you missed it, read review of night one.

On the second night of its three-night run, Phish continued at least part of its "S"-theme from the night before by being supremely solid. We headed in around 7:15 p.m., and the venue was already noticeably fuller than it was the night before, with floor space already filling up along both sides of the venue where it had been so spacious the night before. We milled around a bit, found a few more old friends and then settled in for the long haul.

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PHISH at DICK'S SPORTING GOODS PARK | NIGHT ONE, 9/2/11

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Brandon Marshall

Trey Anastasio of Phish at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City last night during the first show of a three-night run. See tons more pics in the full Phish at Dick's, 9/2/11 slide show.

Like an episode of Sesame Street for big kids, last night's Phish show was brought to us by the letter "S." A few songs into its set, a theme began to emerge. To wit, every song the band played began with the letter "S." When everyone first picked up on the fact that Phish might be playing a themed set, there was some speculation that the band might be spelling out something over the course of its six sets, while others murmurred that it might have something to do with a surprise cameo by Carlos Santana - in town this weekend for a pair of performances at Red Rocks.

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