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Pre-1990

GhostlikeSwayze Permalink
GhostlikeSwayze I love the stage banter during this show..."What you wanna hear Fluffhead?!!! No don't worry we'll play Fluffhead later!"
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Slothberries Permalink
Slothberries The caption under the youtube video says that there were two people in the audience. can that be correct?
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Kurtzboy Permalink
Kurtzboy @Slothberries said:
The caption under the youtube video says that there were two people in the audience. can that be correct?
I'd love to see a show where there were only two people in the audience.
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strikly_commerical Permalink
Mid-late 1980s - people used to see Phish because there was a keg there. When the pizza and beere were gone, so was the audience. No glow sticks, nobody paying over face, no cellphones. Man, those were great shows
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westbrook Permalink
westbrook @Kurtzboy said:
@Slothberries said:
The caption under the youtube video says that there were two people in the audience. can that be correct?
I'd love to see a show where there were only two people in the audience.
I'm pretty sure that is correct. This Tela was on From the Archives and I remember either the band or Shapiro saying there were only 2 people in the audience. Nice, old style Tela.
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wrinkledraisin Permalink
my first show in 91 at the bar at northwestern university had maybe 100 people. that's being generous. my group of friends didn't come for a keg, but we did come because our buddy was bartender and we got nickel pitchers. no one in that room had ever heard of phish. that's for sure.
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Slothberries Permalink
Slothberries @wrinkledraisin said:
my first show in 91 at the bar at northwestern university had maybe 100 people. that's being generous. my group of friends didn't come for a keg, but we did come because our buddy was bartender and we got nickel pitchers. no one in that room had ever heard of phish. that's for sure.
Thats so cool. must have been great to see them before anyone had heard of them.

do you remember anything about the show? did you even enjoy it?
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strikly_commerical Permalink
They were a bar band, and also played prep school and college parties. Dozens in the audience. They covered GD tunes, and the only things that circulated were bad live audience tapes, bootleg White Tape and bootleg Junta copies. But they were ways running around the northeast, so you knew their name.

Then came the 90s. The GD were still amazing to see until about 1991, so Phish just chugged along as "that band." When they started touring nationwide around 1991, everybody had heard of them and wanted to see them. The rest is phishstory
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DrJimmy Permalink
DrJimmy Toured Dead in '87. Zappa in '88. Saw Phish in '89. It was all Phish from there.
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