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A cassette tape of Lawn Boy, which I wore out driving my first car.I had listened to plenty with friends, but that cassette was my first Phish. Still have the tape though it doesn't work. I'm not a hoarder, it lives with the other few tapes I still have in my car
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The hippie working at the local 7/11 gave me some tapes containing:10/31/95 Set 1: Icculus, Divided Sky, Wilson > Ya Mar, Sparkle > Free, Guyute, Run Like an Antelope, Harpua[1]
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11/15/96 Set 2: Makisupa Policeman -> Maze, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Split Open and Melt, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own > Mike's Song, Sleeping Monkey > Mean Mr. Mustard[1] > Weekapaug Groove[2]
Encore: Funky Bitch[2]
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A Live One
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I stuck a penny on the back of a BMG magazine add and ordered up Rift, Hoist and A live one.
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BMG...classic!
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@me_no_are_no_nice_guy said: The hippie working at the local 7/11 gave me some tapes containing:So was the first phish song you heard icculus? If so, that is awesome.
10/31/95 Set 1: Icculus, Divided Sky, Wilson > Ya Mar, Sparkle > Free, Guyute, Run Like an Antelope, Harpua[1]
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11/15/96 Set 2: Makisupa Policeman -> Maze, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Split Open and Melt, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own > Mike's Song, Sleeping Monkey > Mean Mr. Mustard[1] > Weekapaug Groove[2]
Encore: Funky Bitch[2]
My first intro to phish was A Live One also.
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fee on my brothers mix tape, which had the samples and spin doctors too, lol!
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The first few I ever recieved, which were all one time, were Junta, Round Room, Vegas '96, and Coloroado '88. I took special interest to Round Room and Vegas '96 at the time. Pebbles and Marbles was the first song I ever heard.
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pyite
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@NstarsPike said: I stuck a penny on the back of a BMG magazine add and ordered up Rift, Hoist and A live one.Wow..BMG...blast from the past...I remember ordering "Open up and say ahhh" and "Slippery when wet"
/old'd
First phish tape was bomb factory..a friend of mine gave it to me when I was in college..
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A cassette of the first set plus the beginning of set II was given to me in early spring of 97 by a classmate at community college.
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Napster download of studio YEM.
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Hood from A Live One was my first experience. Was riding home with a buddy from high school who had it playing in the car. Funny thing is that we had a Geometry teacher who was Mr. Minor. Something just clicked and the rest is history.
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Kind of a murky mix of LivePhish Vol. 12, Slip Stitch & Pass, and A Picture of Nectar...Honestly, I had always loved the logo and the 'concept' of Phish (jams). A co-worker told me to dig in. I thought, as the band made their way toward Coventry, that it would all just be for fun. No clue I that may catch some shows in the future. (That co-worker did tell me, though, that they'd be back.)
Divided Sky, Mike's Song and Cavern (from the three albums above) hooked me.
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Vegas 96 CD. A reward for good grades from my parents.
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My dad thought it was cool that a band from VT was getting so big and he also watched Letterman every damned night. So when they got on Letterman my dad made sure we watched it! Thanks.
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Free from Billy Breathes. Not the first time I heard, but the first time i listened
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fee got me hooked.damn you trey and that god damn megaphone
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It was a random live version of stash that got me I was listening to a GD radio station and Stash came on, from there it started.
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1st time I listened to Phish was last new years eve. buddy hooked me up with a ticket cuz he couldnt make it and I had nothing better to do so I went to just to party. Went a bit too hard so I dont remember much but man what I remember was a good time.
But shit the first time I listened to Phish when I was more sober it was set 1 from the gamehoist show...blew my mind lol
But shit the first time I listened to Phish when I was more sober it was set 1 from the gamehoist show...blew my mind lol
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my brother popped in the Lawn Boy CD when i was 13 years old, we went on a nice long drive, he told me he wanted me to learn the lyrics to reba...it's all history from there on out...
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Got dragged to this by a friend:Saturday, 02/16/1991
The Marquee, New York, NY
Set 1: The Sloth, My Sweet One > Divided Sky, Cavern, Take the 'A' Train, The Landlady > Bouncing Around the Room, Llama[1], The Mango Song > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
Set 2: Chalk Dust Torture, Reba, Buried Alive > Runaway Jim, Guelah Papyrus, Fluffhead, Rocky Top, Let's Go[2] > Love You > Let's Go, Golgi Apparatus
Encore: Lawn Boy, Fire
Encore 2: Possum[3] -> Rocky Mountain Way Jam -> Possum
[1] New York references and New York New York quote at start.
[2] Started as HYHU.
[3] Random Note signal and Funk #49 teases.
Bought Lawn Boy and wore the hell out of it afterwards
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Bootleg of Niagara falls 1995.
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A Maxell XL2 of 3/22/93 Sacramento, CA Set Two. Complete Gamehenge with narration. I was 12. Mind > Blown.
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Although I couldn't tell you my first Phish cassette.... I remember getting my first live CD....It was called Toads Place after their show at Toads Place on 3/1/1990 and the disc was an "Import"....I found a copy online..... Toads Place CD 
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First show and exposure was 7/11/1992.Not sure what tape was really my first one, as my brother and some friends had a bunch. But I credit 3.13.1992, because that was the first one where I really got it.
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First heard Junta back in H.S. in '93. Didn't really dig it at all. At the time I was all into the Seattle scene and didn't "get" things like Contact or Dinner and a Movie. I did get really into Lawn Boy Fall '94.First tape.....hmmmm, I can't really remember. When I started to really get into things (again, Fall '94) I had several friends who had amassed decent collections by that point so I wasn't really reliant on any single one.
The first tape I can recall listening to over and over was Clifford Ball, Day 1, Set III. Before that I was just listening to every tape I could get my hands on and not really sticking with any one show.
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In my brothers car...He played me Bag and proceeded to tell me a long tale...needless to say I was hooked!
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Rift CD and the second set of 3/1/90 on tape.
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Went to n3 of DC in '03 to get high (I was 16) and found wayyyyyyy more than some chocolates. I was wholly unaware that any music or scene like that existed and I was absolutely blown away. Certainly hadn't tripped with so many people around so at times I was a bit paranoid and anxious, confused by it all.
By the Antelope jam, as Kuroda was blazing white lights on and off, for a massive strobe effect that seemed to fill the sky I realized that I had never come close to having such a strong experience. My life was changed forever, and everything seemed to make much more sense. All the adolescent stress and bullshit seemed to melt away that night to expose something much more real. I decided during that jam that I needed to pick up a guitar, that I wanted to do what they did--I wanted to return the gift they had given me. I've been playing music ever since. That four guys could alter the course of my life forever without even knowing that I exist. Wow. Thanks Phish!
By the Antelope jam, as Kuroda was blazing white lights on and off, for a massive strobe effect that seemed to fill the sky I realized that I had never come close to having such a strong experience. My life was changed forever, and everything seemed to make much more sense. All the adolescent stress and bullshit seemed to melt away that night to expose something much more real. I decided during that jam that I needed to pick up a guitar, that I wanted to do what they did--I wanted to return the gift they had given me. I've been playing music ever since. That four guys could alter the course of my life forever without even knowing that I exist. Wow. Thanks Phish!
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Heard and liked Bouncin', Free, Ghost, Wolfman, and DWD in the 1990s but never pursued further interest in the band.
Then a friend in 2004 told me I should go see them before they broke up so he burned me Undermind and we went to go see this:
Needless to say I was HOOKED!
Then a friend in 2004 told me I should go see them before they broke up so he burned me Undermind and we went to go see this:
Needless to say I was HOOKED!
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A Live One. Introduced by a friend who played Gumbo first, I said play more, he played YEM.....hooked for life.
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I was on a school field trip to Boston in 8th grade. A girl I liked bought Lawn Boy for her brothers birthday. When I asked what it was she told me "It's Phish, you won't like it" So I went and bought Lawn Boy. I liked it, but sure as hell didn't "get it". Then a year or so later I'm sitting in Chilis with my mom and grandmother, Bouncin comes on. I know it's Phish so I ask the server who puts the music on. I find out that A Live One has just come out. I head over to the Record Express next door and pick it up. I didn't have older siblings or cousins to turn me onto them. The few friends that were into them were in at the same level as me. I had to figure alot of it out on my own. I had no clue what the hell was going on at my first show in 96.
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Garden state art center june 2000....free tickets..had no idea what i was getting into
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Junta. Loved it. My brother tried to steal it and take it to college. Remember when you wrote your intials on your CDs before college? Well, I went to visit him in the Fall of 92 and found my initials crossed out. I ganked that shit back. First show was 7/12/92 (one day after @johnnyd)
And WHOA on the BMG memories. I just had a great laugh.
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Mid to early 2000s a friend burned a cd "mix tape" of Phish. I remember it had Guyute and Divided Sky, I wonder if I can dig it up. He also played phish in his car before making me that cd.
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In 1998 I first listened to A Live One with my buds. It blew my mind. I distinctly remember listening to Coil for the first time on the bank of a river in a nature preserve as the sun came up. Awesome.
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listening to david bowie on a casette in my friends vw in 1996 at penn state berks. first show was 12/9/97 they opened with mikes.
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farmhouse. had it for a few months never listened to it. then a friend and i watched bittersweet motel and i was hooked.
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My brother made me listen to his first show (8/14/09) on a long car ride once. I liked it but wasn't blown away but then became obsessed with the Catapult > Icculus. Then I found Antelope and I haven't been the same since.
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