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« on: May 21, 2006, 07:43:33 pm »
Well I just read about half of this book called "Run Like an Antelope - On the Road With Phish" by Sean Gibbon.

holy shit, memories... this book has put me in a bittersweet mood thinking about the good old days. Like your first show and thinking, "This is going to be a worldwide cultural revolution! Look at all these people, earning a living, partying, doing to others as they would like done to themselves in this crazy subcultural community!"

Well, that\'s what I thought. Then I became a major Phish head. I mean I was down with their music since Billy Breathes but I never had the fortune to go see them until post-Hiatus, at which point I got pretty hardcore about the whole scene.

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Anyway, without going into my whole life story of being an acid brained tour kid back in the day-- I just wanted to say I bet a few of you would really enjoy this book. Its really well written and has brought back a flood of memories for me.
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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2006, 08:15:02 pm »
Sounds like a good read, but bringing back a flood of memories is a hard thing to do for some people around here (you know who you are) :P
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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2006, 08:19:08 pm »
I read the book. Not bad. I think the author is a bitch. This might be a spoiler but he admits himself into the hospital after eating a goo-ball or something.

It brings back memories of tour.
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« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2006, 08:19:12 pm »
yeah I cracked my spine a little bit while reading this book and it was like whoa

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... lol yeah Spacey I thought that was pretty lame after the ganj brownie. They got a good deal on those 2 for 6 bux too they shouldn\'t have been complaining
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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2006, 07:00:04 am »
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he admits himself into the hospital after eating a goo-ball or something.

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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2006, 08:12:49 am »
is this the one where the dude misses a show to sleep or something as well?

fuckin tool

oh, and honestly, are any of us really \'former\' phish heads? for most of us its for life :)
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2006, 08:21:11 am »
towards the end the lot scene fell apart. i think i\'m gonna check this book out, thanks for the tip.
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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2006, 08:28:27 am »
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2006, 09:49:47 am »
I\'ve read it once completely and another time just skipping around, makes a great shitter book actually. If anyone would like to borrow it let me know, it just takes up space right now.
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2006, 10:27:13 am »
Not if it\'s been in the shitter with you!!!! :yack: ;)
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2006, 10:41:14 am »
the dude who wrote the book is the biggest tool EVER. i remember it being close to just a journal of him on some tour i think...? I was really mislead I guess. He has an entire chapter of this story of how he freaks out on some ***** brownie and has to go to the hospital because of it. thought the entire book was a huge waste of time. little is said about the music or the band in general. more about just the scene. very frustrating.
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« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2006, 11:56:54 am »
i heard that book is bloody awful.  never bothered reading it.
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« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2006, 04:42:29 pm »
Yeah it doesn\'t talk about the music *that* much, and its pretty lame how he freaks out on the brownie and doesn\'t even eat acid or shrooms or anything interesting (at least as far as I\'ve read... I bet he won\'t).

But I studied sociology in school and my topic of focus was countercultures/sub-cultures in America and I wrote a 50 page essay once about the jam-band subculture.. much of it revolving around my experiences on Phish tour. So if you\'re into the cultural aspects of the whole Tribal Funk Experience as written from a relatively objective viewpoint, you might find it interesting.

If you expect the author to be as cool as any of us though, you\'ll be dissapointed. I do find his writing to be colorful, humorous, and keeps my attention very well which is somewhat of a hard task for any author.
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« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2006, 07:16:17 pm »
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But I studied sociology in school and my topic of focus was countercultures/sub-cultures in America and I wrote a 50 page essay once about the jam-band subculture.. much of it revolving around my experiences on Phish tour. So if you\'re into the cultural aspects of the whole Tribal Funk Experience as written from a relatively objective viewpoint, you might find it interesting.


after reading through everyones posts, your thesis sounds much better. Can you post it?
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« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2006, 10:05:55 pm »
Unfortunately no! I have no records of my college experience, as my hard drive kicked the bucket without backup a few months back. All my papers + photos from the last 7 years may as well have never existed :(

I got an "A" though
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