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08/17/10 wilson with the toy guitar... that was hilarious. great show!
Score: 8
Trey playing his guitar with a lightsaber at Portsmouth. Hilarious and that Maze smokes.
Score: 6
Huge tailgate at the Mann in '95 with several different groups of people that had one lynchpin between them. Hot as balls, keg of beer in the back of a Chevy blazer, and I think a birthday cake. Crashed on the floor of the college house of someone I didn't even know.Made a spontaneous decision to stay for the Sunday show, caught a ride and a train back to DC to get to my job on Monday morning on basically no sleep. Fantastic times.
Score: 6
Night 2 of alpine 2010:So I'm driving my friends down to alpine for what will be a great show and all of a sudden my friend goes turn down the music my moms calling. So i turn the tunes down and he answers and starts saying that he gave me his ticket to sell on laht. This wasn't true at all. When he hangs up i ask "Whats going on dude?" He then explains to me he was supposed to not go to the show due to a recent problem he had with his girl friend. Needless to say he went and got caught. Good time though. I recall quite a bit of bubble hash being smoked in my car.
Score: 2
my best experience was taking my brother to SBIX....i will never forget the ride and time we got together at that event...when we rolled in, it was freezing...........
og_pincones crawld into the top of the camper and came out 25 lbs lighter..,i had to drain the sweat pan
Score: 3
Dosed in Minneapolis on 10/2/99, looking around at the arena during Loving Cup, and loving the visual of silhouetted people getting the f*** down at the top of every ramp.
Score: 4
Sometimes I wish they would turn off the concourse lights too, but the dancing silhouettes make it totally worth it.
Score: 3
THE BIGGEST MOTHA f***IN BALL EVA
Score: 4
First Tube at SBIX, DO I LOOK AT THE BAND FOR THE LAST TIME FOR 5 MONTHS OR DO I LOOK AT THE FIREWORKS???? AHHHHHH!!!
Score: 8
10/1/99 after the show in Ames, IA we walked back to my friend Neil's trailer house to party/crash. For some reason there were random w00k type individuals whom Neil didn't know at his trailer. One of them kept trying to sell me some glass marble that he thought was really awesome. It was, but I didn't need a marble at the time.
We made grilled cheese sandwiches and we slept on his floor before driving to Minneaplois the next morning for the Target Center show.
Score: 6
Oxford Miss 94. Everyone kept telling us heads " have you been over to see the bud growing on campus"??We were like what? its illegal you cant grow that on a college campus.. So after the show we went and looked and found the triple fenced area of the campus where the dank buds were growing. It was really dark and could barely make out the plants but they were there. there was a guard tower and rotating lights. so every few seconds the lights would shine right on the plants. HAHAHA sick story huh... I was amazed. legal pot growing outside......Cool story bro tell it again
Ok oxford miss 94. Everyone kept telling us heads " have you been over to see the bud growing on campus"??We were like what? its illegal you cant grow that on a college campus.. So after the show we went and looked and found the triple fenced area of the campus where the dank buds were growing. It was really dark and could barely make out the plants but they were there. there was a guard tower and rotating lights. so every few seconds the lights would shine right on the plants. HAHAHA sick story huh... I was amazed. legal pot growing outside
amazing.......
Score: 3
@JayDubya said: One of them kept trying to sell me some glass marble that he thought was really awesome. It was, but I didn't need a marble at the time.^hilarious.
Score: 3
@johnnyd said: Huge tailgate at the Mann in '95 with several different groups of people that had one lynchpin between them. Hot as balls, keg of beer in the back of a Chevy blazer, and I think a birthday cake. Crashed on the floor of the college house of someone I didn't even know.I was there too. I have the strangest memory from that run. I was hanging out fairly early in the day. I'm not sure if it was the first night or the second night. What I do remember was at one point, I looked up after hearing some commotion. What did I see? A pack of horse riding cowboys in full old west, outlaw regalia. Riding through the park right towards us. Most ironically, they were all black dudes! It was such a strange sight. We were all like "dude....is that really happening!!!" Seriously though, it was. These cats must have had a club or something. They rode through Phish land like they owned the place and it was awesome! I'd be super stoked if someone here could chime in, having seen these rough riders too!
Made a spontaneous decision to stay for the Sunday show, caught a ride and a train back to DC to get to my job on Monday morning on basically no sleep. Fantastic times.
Score: 4
Follow up to my cool story bro.. I guess oxford miss. waas the one of only a few sites in america where the feds were growing POT. we were amazed.......
Score: 2
I wish I saw that!
Score: 3
Farm Aid 1998. We were about 15 rows back, and Phish was deep into a fairly decent Runaway Jim. Out of nowhere walks Neil Young, carrying one of Trey's guitars. I literally almost shit myself with excitement.
Score: 3
12/28/98 MSGThese green worms were just kind of on the front of the stage.
::gets lost in the jam::
"wait a second, did those f***ers just move a few feet?"
::stares at worms for like 5 minutes with nary a flinch::
::goes back to looking at band::
Score: 3
Oh boy. So so so many. This summer my good friend and I brought our good friend to his first show (Wooster N2) I spent the 1st set down on the floor alone. Turned around freaking out when the Roses jam kicked in to see @cupuscakus beaming in pure bliss. We locked eyes for a few seconds then I turned back around to get in to full Roses Jam rage mode.
Second set I went way up high Fish side to meet up and rage that set with my friends. To watch all of my friends reactions was priceless. So much fun. Drove home all night. Slept for an hour the next day and woke up and partied for 12 hours.
Also, bringing my little brother to SPAC this summer for his first shows will forever be at the top of my memories for anything. So many amazing memories that weekend!
Score: 6
Wow @rabblenans when I read the thread title I first thought of a memory from the same 08/17/10 Jones Beach show. It was my good buddy's first show and he was dying to hear Fluffhead. As we were walking to our seats we hear the opening chords from Trey and then the whole band kicked in with the Fluff opener...It was a special experience and a kick ass show.
Score: 2
Trying to get into Phish in 2010. I listened to a random set each night and was struggling to get it at first but kept trying. I heard YEM and fell in love. I never looked back. One of the best moments of my life
Score: 2
Outside Lands '11 during Steam I completely forgot we were outside the fog was so thick. When it finally cleared and I realized I was outside it blew my f***ing mind.Yep, drugs are funny that way.
Score: 1
First time being in the pit this year alpine valley night one. Also Superball people all pounding their glass bottles before they got in through security then jumping in there cars and driving in. Also dude a sb running around in floties and a snorkel asking where the heady swimming hole was. Sorry that was three
Score: 2
Atlanta 99 my friend and I drove down and surprised another friend of ours who was on tour at the time. Within minutes of arriving on lot one of the friends with whom she was traveling found us, just like that. So we all hugged, had a great show and proceeded to return to the lot to party until they kicked us out. Upon returning to our car, our neighbors came over and identified the show we were listening to by date. They recited the entire setlist for that show. They then informed us that there was a random naked dude passed out in their van. They asked if we would go get him out. We laughed our asses off. They were like, no seriously. Would you get him out of there? And we were like, um, no. Eventually a team was assembled to remove said naked dude from the van. When he woke up, he was highly embarrassed and apologized profusely before fleeing into the night wearing a donated pair of shorts. The moral of the story is: lock your car!
Score: 5
@pnutmcsnappy said: Atlanta 99 my friend and I drove down and surprised another friend of ours who was on tour at the time. Within minutes of arriving on lot one of the friends with whom she was traveling found us, just like that. So we all hugged, had a great show and proceeded to return to the lot to party until they kicked us out. Upon returning to our car, our neighbors came over and identified the show we were listening to by date. They recited the entire setlist for that show. They then informed us that there was a random naked dude passed out in their van. They asked if we would go get him out. We laughed our asses off. They were like, no seriously. Would you get him out of there? And we were like, um, no. Eventually a team was assembled to remove said naked dude from the van. When he woke up, he was highly embarrassed and apologized profusely before fleeing into the night wearing a donated pair of shorts. The moral of the story is: lock your car!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Score: 1
at coventry, hanging out at our campsite (more like mudsight amirite?), i was eating skittles. and i started choking on one, really bad. probably the worst i've ever choked on food. and my two buddies just sat there watching me in a terrible coughing fit, barely breathing at times, trying to get them to help out. but they didnt. finally i coughed it up. they kept laughing.
soooo that's another reason why that fest sucked lol
soooo that's another reason why that fest sucked lol
Score: 2
How about one non-Phish?On our way to see Deep Banana Blackout in upstate NY from Burlington VT in 2000 (I think). At the time I was driving one of these:
Ultimate shaggin waggin. Seats 6 comfortably and seat go flat in case of emergency/orgy. Mine was same color and everything.
So the carburetor goes on the way to the show and we wind up on the side of the highway scratching our heads. We didn't know where we were or what had happened to the car. But we were a little worried cause we had some party favors with us. So we pushed the car to the next exit (just two of us btw, and my friend was kind of a smaller dude). Leave it at a gas station who said we could leave it overnight.
Turns out it is a college town so we decide to hoof it to the campus and in the mean time try and find out if we know anyone who goes to school here and if we can get in touch with them. Mind you, this was my cell at the time:
My friend was getting paranoid about the pills we had so his obvious conclusion was that we should just take them. Great idea!
Turns out my friend was able to contact someone who knew someone and they would let us crash in the common room at their dorm for the night. They had no car though so we just kept walking. We walked for almost 2 hours. It was a roller coaster of emotions. So mad we were missing the show to pure happiness just because... drugs... to paranoia of who is this person in the car coming down the road towards us to bummed I am missing the show to pure dread as a cop goes by and I am convinced he is going to turn around and... he doesn't... to pure joy.
Anyway, we get to the dorm and it is all very awkward to meet some chicks we don't even know, out of our minds on droogs. We wind up leaving them and trying to crash on couches in the common room. Some security guy came around every hour to tell us it was cool if we hung out there but we couldn't sleep there so if were sleeping the next time he came we were out. So we just chilled all night. Dozing here and there till the sun came up.
Then we walked the 2 hours back to my broke ass car and called my mom to rescue us. Thanks mom.
Score: 1
Merriweather 09, my second show, im blindly in love, its really hot, I probably drank 2 gallons of water not exaggerating, my buddy is tweaked having bad reaction to e, I had eaten e and a and was pretty f'd u; so my buddy insists on walking around the outskirts of the venue on the road, too long to explain why, we pass these dudes that are hammered, they are pawing each other and real messy, each of them probably went 280 and they looked like offensive tackles. The second time we go past, one of the dudes is on his knees, really disoriented, chick we were with goes up to him and tries to give him water, he starts pulling on her and mumbling, I approach him and clearly see that this is not a good situation, the look in his eye man, I still remember it, evil, something was pulling this dudes stings.
I start talking to him trying to bring him out of it, he's communicating somewhat with me, he's like "help me" I still don't know what he meant, I held out my hand to pull him to his feet, he grabs ahold of me now squatting on his feet, well balanced and basically standing just squatting, he starts pulling me toward him, I broke away from him and he stumbled, chick I'm with runs over to help him not realizing something strange is happening, she's like "let me help you" dude is looking at me, had never stopped eyeing me says "no, you help me" repeatedly, like in a trance, I grab the chick and move her away indicating danger, turn around to look at this dude,
I'm afraid at this point, concerned for the people I'm with and specifically this chick, we are all faced man; I am trying to get between this chick and this large crazy dude he looks up at me then grabs a tree with both hands and smashes his face off the trunk knocking himself out, he rolled like a log down the hill and hit his head again woman comes running over and says, "your friend just knocked himself out" I was like "I don't know him, get a paramedic" and walked away, we saw him taken out on a gurney.
It is top 10 craziest shit I've ever seen, it f***ed the rest of the show up, talked about it all night, was really weird. Ha ha really weird.
Score: 2
@rabblenans said: 08/17/10 wilson with the toy guitar... that was hilarious. great show!that WAS A GREAT SHOW!!!
my second ever.
My favorite memory was the wooohoooo trend at AC 2012 that started during Twist. Won't forget it.
Score: 0
Probably heading up to limestone..stuck in traffic on whatever route that is off of 95..and all the townsfolk waving..bringing refreshments up to people..the welcome signs../rockstar'd
Score: 2
The bunny-people walking around Loring AFB.Definitely at IT, I'm not sure if they were there in 97 and 98 too.
Score: 2
Summer 99 was my first (abbreviated) multi-show run. Merriweather> Star Lake. However, a car accident ended my trip after PNC. That's not the memory, though. Well, it could be one of them... traffic after the show, stop and go, minor fender bender punctured the radiator... f me in the a. Anyway, the week leading up to the fender bender was fun. We slept at two rest areas, awoken by the police one night. One of the rest areas turned into a makeshift campground which was a fun thing to see.
I remember we got to Camden really early. 10am or something like that. And it was fun. We rested in the car, walked around. It was cool to see Shakedown develop, see the vendors and tour folk coming in. It felt like I was part of the family moving across the country (even for my mini-tour).
Score: 1
Alpine '98 some dude is screaming at the top of his lungs inside a porta potty. He was spun out of his mind and was "trapped" in there. At first I thought it was just a joke but the more I listened the more I could hear genuine fear in his screams.Someone finally talked him down and through the process of unlocking and opening the door.
Score: 1
@chris_22 said: Oh boy. So so so many. This summer my good friend and I brought our good friend to his first show (Wooster N2) I spent the 1st set down on the floor alone. Turned around freaking out when the Roses jam kicked in to see @cupuscakus beaming in pure bliss. We locked eyes for a few seconds then I turned back around to get in to full Roses Jam rage mode.Oh my goodness... that was amazing! And seeing @conradjohansen bobbing along like 2 rows behind you, not realizing how close you too were to each other.
Score: 2
@cupuscakus said: @chris_22 said:I totally forgot about that!Oh boy. So so so many. This summer my good friend and I brought our good friend to his first show (Wooster N2) I spent the 1st set down on the floor alone. Turned around freaking out when the Roses jam kicked in to see @cupuscakus beaming in pure bliss. We locked eyes for a few seconds then I turned back around to get in to full Roses Jam rage mode.Oh my goodness... that was amazing! And seeing @conradjohansen bobbing along like 2 rows behind you, not realizing how close you too were to each other.
Score: 1
I remember Trey stumbling/tripping off the trampoline Albany 00, i think. 99 or 00. (he didn't faceplant, but it was not graceful)this is kind of a synchronicity/small world type thing... my wife's one and only phish show was last NYE. We're friends with katmama (my wife helped kat with her etsy site and design work stuff). So, we see this big guy walking in the venue in a Fish dress. My wife says, I think Kat makes those things. So, it was a worlds colliding thing for me... my non-phan wife, my first MSG NYE, local connection (katmama), and .net's infamous frizz.
Score: 4
Walking past all these crunchy hippies playing slot machines outside the theatre at The Alladin Casino. Some of them were using the coin cups for begging and later outside to water their dogs haha
Score: 1
I was camped two miles away from the stage at the Great Went. For a mile of the walk, the vendors had Sammy Smith and falafels and packed burritos and all kinds of great food. Then it became grilled cheeses, then it was shots for a dollar. By the time we got to where we turned off to the car, there was a guy sitting on a case of Milwaukee's Best yelling "Free Beast! Freeeee Beast!"No takers.
Score: 5
One of my favorites was from MSG last year: for a good 3-4 minutes into Quinn my brother and i look at each other like WTF song is this hahaha then we hear aaannnddd Quinn the Eskimo.... hahaha good times!also loved the " CACTUS CACTUS" from Trey during that Boogie on Jam so headdyyy
Score: 1
@rabblenans said: 08/17/10 wilson with the toy guitar... that was hilarious. great show!I also love this because it taught us all that Trey can shred a toy guitar harder than a lot of guys can shred on a real guitar.
Score: 0
@Fenris said: @johnnyd said:Can't say I saw that but I do remember staying on the Jersey Shore with girls we met at the Dead show at Highgate a few weeks before. Good times.Huge tailgate at the Mann in '95 with several different groups of people that had one lynchpin between them. Hot as balls, keg of beer in the back of a Chevy blazer, and I think a birthday cake. Crashed on the floor of the college house of someone I didn't even know.I was there too. I have the strangest memory from that run. I was hanging out fairly early in the day. I'm not sure if it was the first night or the second night. What I do remember was at one point, I looked up after hearing some commotion. What did I see? A pack of horse riding cowboys in full old west, outlaw regalia. Riding through the park right towards us. Most ironically, they were all black dudes! It was such a strange sight. We were all like "dude....is that really happening!!!" Seriously though, it was. These cats must have had a club or something. They rode through Phish land like they owned the place and it was awesome! I'd be super stoked if someone here could chime in, having seen these rough riders too!
Made a spontaneous decision to stay for the Sunday show, caught a ride and a train back to DC to get to my job on Monday morning on basically no sleep. Fantastic times.
Score: 1
On our way from Glens Falls to Albany, a quick 55 mile voyage down 87. We stop into a Blimpe and Hess, fuel up and grab something quick to eat. I'm 18 at the time, i buy a case of beer with a fake Id and like a drunk begin to drink in the parking lot of the Hess, my friends (3 of them) all get in the car, my friend Joe is still outside the car, my friend driving runs over his foot. He's yelling in pain and my friend says "hurry up you idiot we are going to miss the first song", he hobbles into the car and on the way we go.
Score: 2
This guy talking to a cop at Festival 8
Could not stop cracking up.
Score: 10
^^^^ Is that Trey?
Score: 2
reaching for a glowstick in front of me on 12/29/11, -- below the seat in front of me. I reach down and grab it... pull it back up, and scrape the SH*t out of my hand.
Didn't feel a thing, kept dancing the rest of the night
Leaving the show, blood all over my shirt, looked like I got into a serious fight (and won since all the blood was on my fist and shirt only). I have a scar on my hand ill never forget that.
Score: 3
@deBebbler said: I was camped two miles away from the stage at the Great Went. For a mile of the walk, the vendors had Sammy Smith and falafels and packed burritos and all kinds of great food. Then it became grilled cheeses, then it was shots for a dollar. By the time we got to where we turned off to the car, there was a guy sitting on a case of Milwaukee's Best yelling "Free Beast! Freeeee Beast!"Ha ha ha that is beautiful.
No takers.
Score: 0
I've got three:AmhestN1-- some dude was walking around Shakedown shouting "Who's got my Chihuahua?" I asked him if that was a new drug, and he simply said "No, I seriously lost my dog"
(We saw him Night two with his cute, shaking mexican dog)
BethelN2 -- Some guy was shouting into a traffic cone -- "Get your vageen bedazzled. I've got aquamarine, terramarine. Get your vageen bedazzled" Loved that guy.
SPACN2 -- some guy singing was BELTING out some Disney Princess song. He sang it with such heart and soul, we all waited until he finished and gave him a big ovation.
Score: 3
@cupuscakus said: That guy was awesome! Remember the kid RAGING the guitar Dicks lot? I wish we were in a state of mind to record him. He was seriously talented.
SPACN2 -- some guy singing was BELTING out some Disney Princess song. He sang it with such heart and soul, we all waited until he finished and gave him a big ovation.
Score: 0
I'm kinda glad I don't have a memory for this:
Score: 2
Oh, and my last and favorite memory of this summer was being called a "Charade Parade" by Mr. @Frizz at Dicks.
Score: 1
Non Phish, a small group of people met in the parking lot of the Cornell U Trey Show and we were all drinking wine and then went to the hotel campus bar (on campus) bought eachother pints of Saranac Adirondack Amber and were all at the bar singing phish songs for about an hour before the show. Was a great time, met some really awesome people on this cold November evening in Ithaca.
Score: 0
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