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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: azaghal1981 on March 06, 2009, 07:22:33 pm
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This is awesomely hilarious. Or hilariously awesome. You decide.
"Phish fans who came out to the Hampton Coliseum Friday for the band?s first show in five years were shocked and a little dismayed to find Shakedown Street
closed.
Shakedown Street is what fans of the group call the row of vendors? tables and booths that are an essential part of the jam-band experience. Although a
federal judge in Norfolk ruled against allowing representatives of the band to seize suspected bootleggers? property, there was a separate, larger crackdown
on the selling of just about everything.
?They won?t let us vend,? said Sarah Rose, a 34-year-old who?d come from Portland with five of her handmade dresses ? one featured a big smiling sun ?
as well as gems and jewelry. ?They won?t let us set up anywhere. I?ve been to like 100 shows and I?ve never had this happen. This is a community. They
told us they were ?expecting the worst.? Expecting the worst of what, peace love and happiness??
With the village of peddlers gone, the parking lots at the Mothership ? sorry, the Hampton Coliseum ? were decidedly ordinary, with people simply drinking
beers from the backs of their SUVs or sitting on coolers. (Except for the people wearing wings, and the guy in the ape suit holding the sign that read
he was ape-you-know-what to get a ticket.)
The lots opened at 2 p.m. for the 7:30 show. The city said undercover cops would be patrolling the lots and they were; two guys got arrested for selling
beer, a misdemeanor that meant no handcuffs, less than an hour after the lots opened.
Adam Katz came from Manhattan with nearly $15,000 in gemstones, hoping to sell $5,000 worth. Friday he was just worried about his merchandise getting confiscated.
?If we?d had a spot I?d have easily done $10,000 in sales.?
Vendors had been pushed to an overflow lot, but even then they had to have permits, and police on bikes were checking for them. Security patrolled the
lots in golf carts; bike cops rolled up on Phil Lesh of Charlottesville, asking for his permit. He didn?t have one for the stones and hemp necklaces he
was selling, but he said he wasn?t going to pack up immediately. The permits, an officer said, were $500 and could have been purchased in advance.
Did Lesh, who?s been to countless Phish shows, know he was going to need a permit to sell shells and such here?
?Come on man,? he said. ?What do you think? I don?t need the hassle man, I?m just trying to make a living, feed my kids. It?s a depression going on.?"
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why not just go for the music, and not try and make a buck hawking their shitty ass patchouli smelling dresses and other bs?
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uh, because it's the patchouli-smelling BS that financially allows them to go to the show?
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should have hawked their wares enroute then, and/or get a real job. it takes all kinds i suppose.
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I'd be lying if I said that last night's setlist doesn't have me at least a little intrigued.
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Vendors had been pushed to an overflow lot, but even then they had to have permits, and police on bikes were checking for them. Security patrolled the
lots in golf carts; bike cops rolled up on Phil Lesh of Charlottesville, asking for his permit. He didn?t have one for the stones and hemp necklaces he
was selling, but he said he wasn?t going to pack up immediately. The permits, an officer said, were $500 and could have been purchased in advance.
Something tells me that not his real name.
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I really, really want it to be, though.
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Adam Katz came from Manhattan
That's either a miracle, a lie, or a bizarre coincidence.
Adam Katz (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEED9113CF931A25755C0A967958260)
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I'd be lying if I said that last night's setlist doesn't have me at least a little intrigued.
I am down in Hampton for all three shows, and if you're a fan of the band at all, the first night is a must listen.
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That first night was pretty much my dream setlist. So nice of them to put the shows up for free since there is no way in hell I could deal with that crowd anymore...
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Listening to the first night now, actually.
"Fluffhead" was surprisingly flawless.
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I am listening right now as well, and while I cannot deal with the extended jams, Chalkdust Torture sounded just as good as it did back in good ol 1995.
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I don't mind the jams as long as they...you know...go somewhere.
That aimless funk that most of their fans eat up is some of the most aggravating shit ever.
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agreed. Didn't like that crap when I went to shows all the time...can deal with it even less so now that I've reformed ;)
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best three day set of any band i have ever seen. almost feel spoiled . . . as if any other phish show from here on out will be, "not as good as hampton."
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best three day set of any band i have ever seen. almost feel spoiled . . . as if any other phish show from here on out will be, "not as good as hampton."
that might be absolutely true.
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There will be better shows but these were a great start. Sucks that I have to wait another 3 months to see them again
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this board never ceases to amaze me.
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this board never ceases to amaze me.
is this some sort of sassy snicker at fact that phish (their shows/music/experience) became the topic of, i'm sure over by now, semi-consumed interest on a board meant to be centered around an alternate life reily's independent individuality (musical/literary consumption/movie/number of band with strange names shows attended)? if so, that's fine . . . it is sort of odd on here. but i can't think of another band right doing three shows in a row at the same venue, pumping out every major song of their history plus four to five covers (george jones/beatles, twice/stones/edgar winter), then offering to those who complained about not being about to get in--there were tons of sad looking people in the lots attempting with the one finger salute--and everybody else, free mp3 downloads online of the entire show from a band that usually makes you pay for anything live. plus each show was fifty dollars a ticket face for a "huge comeback show" in a era where tons of artists attempt $70-100 each or more.
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best three day set of any band i have ever seen.
Aww, you're going to make all those other three-day set bands cry.
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this board never ceases to amaze me.
is this some sort of sassy snicker
not saying anything about Phish as a band at all. Its just amazing that this show can go from listening to the most obscure of indie bands ever to a bunch of Gnarls Barkley, Coldplay, U2, Phish fanatics in zero time flat.
I am constantly marvelling at the amount of time people have to devote to listening to so much music, both live and on record.
I realize that i rarely ever believe it when people say this about any band but , here goes "i dont think i've ever heard a Phish song"
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I'm pretty positive I've never heard a Phish song either.
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Police seize more than $1 million in drugs from Phish fans
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HAMPTON, Va. (AP) ? Some Phish fans are leaving Hampton a little lighter than when they arrived for the band's weekend reunion.
Police said Monday they confiscated about $1.2 million in illegal drugs and more than $68,000 in cash from concertgoers. Authorities also arrested 194 Phish fans during the three-night celebration of the band's return to the stage after a nearly five-year absence.
Most of the arrests were for drug possession, use and distribution, police said.
Tourism officials had estimated 75,000 fans would be coming to the coastal Virginia city. Nearly 200 law enforcement officers worked the weekend event, with the Vermont-based band picking up the tab.
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Holy "Stash" jam!
And the transition back into the song...perfect.
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mug shots (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0311091phish1.html)