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Doing it.Plenty of other music out there.
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Need to do the same, its just going to make me sick of them by the time they actually start their tour!!
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@Flufftube said:
jk
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Need to do the same, its just going to make me sick of them by the time they actually start their tour!!BLASPHEMY!
jk
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I'm sorry let me rephrase that......"Need to do the same, its going to spoil all the fun till the tour starts!!"
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I am doing the same. I started the fast today, and will continue until Mon Oct 25th.This will give me three weeks to cleanse my palette, and 5 days to start listening again, to get pumped up for AC.
The first three albums I downloaded for this adventure were
David Bowie - Station to Station
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Abe Vigoda - Skeletons
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I was thinking the same thing, I should listen to every 100 albums they thought would be in the running for haloween just in case. LAst thing i want is for them to bust out a real gem and me to be holding my dick in my hands cause I dont know what it is...
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i have tried and failed at this venture many times in the last few weeks.great idea.
as soon as my ipod decides to charge again it will be alot easier...maybe..
i am going on a phish diet, at least i feel that is a realistic goal for me!
good luck peoples!!
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TOTALLY. This is a favored pre-show regimen for me. It is amazing how differently I will listen to YEM, CDT and other songs I have heard a bunch while I am actually at the shows if I don't listen to any phish in the weeks leading up to the event. I know it sounds blasphemous but it is crazy how much of the syncopation and subtleties your ears get used to (for me anyway).... which is part of what makes phish music so stellar. Maybe throw in some really mundane stuff on a mix tape - featuring the Eagles, Kenny G, and Air Supply. It will be like wearing a blindfold for a few days and then taking it off to feast your eyes on the Grand Canyon.
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@YorkvilleBeerLover said: I was thinking the same thing, I should listen to every 100 albums they thought would be in the running for haloween just in case. LAst thing i want is for them to bust out a real gem and me to be holding my dick in my hands cause I dont know what it is...If that's your plan, I hope our seats are not next to each other
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I can't do it.... Good luck and props to those of you that can!I just don't think I have the mental strength to *not* allow my hand to throw a disc in.
*slams money on the counter..."I'm out!!"*...Seinfeld anyone?
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i have tried and failed at this many times in the last few weeks.best i can hope for is a 'phish diet'...
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Yep, I'm in. Almost made it through day one of 14.
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I weened myselef off by listening to TAB for a few days
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Im so in. Ive also held strong to a policy of never listening to the band your going to see, on the way to the show. To me, its just bad form. But shuffle is what kills me. When I listen to music at home I am shufflin' almost 100% of the time. So a phish track may sneak in there.
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this thread is a fail from the get go i couldnt do this if i tried.
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I'm reading this as I'm listening to one of my favorite shows (and listened to it all last night as well)... I'm trying to get out of the house just for the sake of listening to some other music, but I don't think I can! It's a good idea though. Time to go back to some other fave music (but none of it compares!!!!)
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I was going to do this starting today until Charleston, but I already lost. I didn't even realize it until just a minute ago.
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I did it before the summer for a couple of weeks; listened to a lot of Dead. Which kind of backfired, because it just made for really want to see a Dead show again.
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I know I can't do it so I'm not even going to try, though I wish I could. Phish is my commuting, working, relaxing, cooking, cleaning, etc. music. Best of luck to everyone else though.
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@Phish1 said:
I can't do it.... Good luck and props to those of you that can!Love it that's grate
I just don't think I have the mental strength to *not* allow my hand to throw a disc in.
*slams money on the counter..."I'm out!!"*...Seinfeld anyone?
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So far so good.
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oy...no way...i couldn't imagine :-)
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i NEVER hear phish on the radio. NEVER. even when people tell me they heard a tune. I NEVER HEAR PHISH ON THE RADIO.(last time was probably heavy things..that was like 99.)
then i make a phishnet bet and announce my fast(its been at least 10 days) and im laying back in my car yesterday, half-snoozing between jobs, and a local station (92.9/96.9) plays down with disease. what a mindf***. there is nothing i can say or do apparently to make it stop. to be perfectly honest, i wasn't even conscious of having listened to phish until i saw another this fasting post just now. amazing. then it dawned on me that it had really happened. wonder what else i glide by in a day.. but, really.. hows about that for a tricky little universe. slipped it right by me. it was a drive-by fruiting!! a phish radio ninja attack!
so ivy light, i owe you a beer too. with the exeption of the above-mentioned guerilla airwave sneakattack, i have stayed the path straight, though i cant help feeling like i want to make up for the studio DwD(one of their flatest recordings ever imo)for something live, crisp, sparkly and delicious. i have to go eat chocolate now and take a puff or two. this is getting ridiculous.
then i make a phishnet bet and announce my fast(its been at least 10 days) and im laying back in my car yesterday, half-snoozing between jobs, and a local station (92.9/96.9) plays down with disease. what a mindf***. there is nothing i can say or do apparently to make it stop. to be perfectly honest, i wasn't even conscious of having listened to phish until i saw another this fasting post just now. amazing. then it dawned on me that it had really happened. wonder what else i glide by in a day.. but, really.. hows about that for a tricky little universe. slipped it right by me. it was a drive-by fruiting!! a phish radio ninja attack!
so ivy light, i owe you a beer too. with the exeption of the above-mentioned guerilla airwave sneakattack, i have stayed the path straight, though i cant help feeling like i want to make up for the studio DwD(one of their flatest recordings ever imo)for something live, crisp, sparkly and delicious. i have to go eat chocolate now and take a puff or two. this is getting ridiculous.
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@boymangod said: i NEVER hear phish on the radio. NEVER. even when people tell me they heard a tune. I NEVER HEAR PHISH ON THE RADIO.(last time was probably heavy things..that was like 99.) then i make a phishnet bet and announce my fast(its been at least 10 days) and im laying back in my car yesterday, half-snoozing between jobs, and a local station (92.9/96.9) plays down with disease. what a mindf***. there is nothing i can say or do apparently to make it stop. to be perfectly honest, i wasn't even conscious of having listened to phish until i saw another this fasting post just now. amazing. then it dawned on me that it had really happened. wonder what else i glide by in a day.. but, really.. hows about that for a tricky little universe. slipped it right by me. it was a drive-by fruiting!! a phish radio ninja attack! so ivy light, i owe you a beer too. with the exeption of the above-mentioned guerilla airwave sneakattack, i have stayed the path straight, though i cant help feeling like i want to make up for the studio DwD(one of their flatest recordings ever imo)for something live, crisp, sparkly and delicious. i have to go eat chocolate now and take a puff or two. this is getting ridiculous.Sounds like the universe conspired against you (maybe with part of you?) on this one! Hearing Phish on the radio is one in a million but imagine my surprise when, this past summer, I heard NICU in an elevator. It was almost scandalous it was so shocking! This was just after going to my first show. I thought I was hallucinating. I had to stay in the elevator until everyone else got off to convince myself that it wasn't someone's ringtone or something.
Bummer that it had to be Down with Disease. I'm with you in thinking that the studio version is lukewarm. Congratulations for going as long as you did, though. In my 20/20 hindsight, I can see that it was probably foolish of me to think I'd be able to go longer than a week. I'll still probably go a little while right before the 10/31 show. I'm going to try to not make it my roadtrip music on the way to AC.
Good luck to everyone here attempting a fast! Keep your eyes on the prize. It's WAY harder than it sounds
And just to whet your appetite even further, a question: What will you break your fast with? Or if you're breaking it at a show, what would you like to have your fast broken with?
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Warning to any fasters that recorded and plan to watch Ken Burns' Tenth Inning baseball episode that showed on PBS this past week. Already covered in this thread:http://forum.phish.net/?thread=1285809935
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I think if you accidentally hear Phish, it's not the same as breaking down and listening to "just one little song". lol. I'm talking about radio/tv/computer/elevator/bar... not "accidentally" hearing it on your iPod shuffle. ....Imagine if you were on a food fast, and some yahoo threw a banana cream pie at your face and some of it accidentally got in your mouth -- that would be weird and unlikely, but also definitely not your decision. Same thing. So I'm about to burn one last mixed Phish CD for a friend that's going to her first show with me in Chucktown... wish me luck! I'm just gonna have to turn the volume off and not test the CD.
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Well that didn't last long.Listened to the whole Brooklyn show while dozing in and out of sleep.
I thought Phish might help the immense back pain I have been feeling. No such luck.
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Sorry to hear about your back. As a guy who has five vertebra fused and a lifetime supply of Percosets, don't let the pain get the best of you. I'm fortunate that 99% of the time, ibuprofen now totally kills my pain, but a couple of times a year I have to resort to stronger measures. The one thing I learned when I was on opiates for about a year and a half is never let the pain get overwhelming. It just gets tougher to beat down.
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Wow, man. I was trying this for a few days, got on to check the forums, and caved just because looking at the names and references to phish made me want to listen. This environment isn't very good for phish phasting.
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It's been 4 days.This is brutal.
I've had CDT, KDF, Tweezer, Vultures, Fluffhead, David Bowie, Gotta Jiboo and a myriad of other Phish jams stuck in my head. For days.
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I talked a big game but it didn't last here either.
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I have listened to AC/DC, Bad Brains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, That 1 Guy, Buckethead and a few others so far. All the way through.I may run out of music.
I think Primus may hold me over. Sunday come faster!
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I've managed to keep at it. Though I realized if i fast until the AC shows, I won't hear any of the fall tour as it happens. So I'm fasting until Sat morn, when I will download ACL, pop it into my iPod, and head to my local TM location for MSG tix.
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way too hard...
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This is amazingly difficult. I slipped up the first day and second day, but I haven't listened since 10/02. It's so brutal because I just got one of my friends into Phish and she won't stop texting me with, "xxxxxxx is an amazing song!" and such every 30 minutes. But it can be done if you stick to it! I only have a week or so left until Charleston.
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I've been listening to nothing but phish for like 7 years now and I'm still not sick of them, and I still have a lot of my library to work through 
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I mean no disrespect by this comment.That is awful. Nothing but Phish. Really? I'd kill myself in the head if I never listened to other music.
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@CleverRuse said: This is amazingly difficult. I slipped up the first day and second day, but I haven't listened since 10/02. It's so brutal because I just got one of my friends into Phish and she won't stop texting me with, "xxxxxxx is an amazing song!" and such every 30 minutes. But it can be done if you stick to it! I only have a week or so left until Charleston.I could have written this comment myself! Slipped up once on day 2. In my case, I'm taking the friend to Charleston with me. I think the day of the concert, I'm gonna start listening again, because I'll hear it in the lot once I get there anyway. Maybe I'll wake up early, heh.
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I'm still master of my domain. Doesn't hurt that wifeyd rather enjoys monopolizing the sound in our house and there is no phish on her ipod and very little in her itunes.How long are you guys doing this for? My first shows are UMass 10/23.
Wait does it count if i've noodled some out on my guitar?
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i always try to do that i never last that long
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Still going.
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Considering I'm not going to any shows this tour I decided screw the Phast. I've been depressed the last couple weeks, ever since a severe lack of funds forced me to accept there won't be any shows for me this year, and listening to Phish has been vital to keeping my mood above bleak. The other day I loaded up my ipod with the Island Tour and all the Live Phish releases recorded between 96 and 2000 and its been keeping me going ever since. I'll have to settle for Couch Tour. But there's always next year...
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I am doing the exact opposite of Phish fasting. I started my summer tour recap. Started @ Bridgeville and workin my way to Jones Beach. Under suggestion from one of you .netters, i want to follow the progression of 2010 Phish in anticipation for my final shows of the year(AC). I'll keep yinz posted
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I blew it. I'm listening to the new TypeII podcast and of course it's music laden.
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Im doing a one week fast starting next thursday
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Ha no chance I can do this, hell I'll probably listen to Clifford Ball on my 8 hour trip to SC
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