when phish shows are available they end up on the spreadsheet. it has every phish recording. keep this link and you wont have to ask for them ever again!!!!
- https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AjeIQ6qQvexzcDhXS2twUC1US3BPMVZuUWdjZmY2RVE&gid=25
also, you guys are on the internet!! use a search engine once in a while. its a lot quicker than coming here to ask for something and waiting for someone else to google it for you.
Nice callout Fitzy. You\'re right...although it\'s kind of endearing when people with a common interest look to each other for info rather than everyone fending for themselves with no personal interaction.
Well that was by far the best time Ive ever had.
Overall, an amazing experience. Phish still throws a great party, and thank god for that. We are so lucky that we\'re at this point with Phish. The fact that they are still playing, playing well, playing all their best songs, and still doing festies is a minor miracle. I had an awesome time at SBIX and I am eternally grateful to this band for continuing to do things the way that they do. How many bands can you be a fan of and get this kind of experience with your band? So few.
Ive never seen so many ignorant, wooky-ass deadheads trying to ruin everyones time. Ill just leave it that
I thought the exact same thing. Certainly there\'s always been an element of this around Phish; they ARE a drug band after all
But I agree that there seemed to be way more douchey lowlife drug addicts around than usual. The part that I struggle with is that I haven\'t done a Phish fest since Big Cypress. I\'m not sure if maybe my memories are naturally skewing towards remembering the positive of old shows, or maybe my 30-year-old self experiences the scene differently than my 19-year-old self did at Cypress. But I think my memories are pretty well in tact and I am sticking to my opinion that this particular fest definitely had more douche-baggery than the old fests did. I believe that this represents a change not so much in Phish\'s scene, but a larger societal change in which people tend to regard others as obstructions and adversaries rather than as potential assets and delighting in each other.
Here are some examples of what I mean:
-At Big Cypress and Oswego (and the Berkfests, GOTV\'s etc. of the time), I would always bring my saxophone and walk around at night finding jam sessions. People always brought instruments and played music at fests, and the jam sessions were very communal and made up of different people who brought different instruments. At Cypress I got into 2 or 3 jam sessions every night and I didn\'t have to look long at all. I could always expect to find people playing music with strangers at fests. At SBIX this never happened and never would. Now everyone sticks to their own space with their own friends and generally regards their neighbors as nuisances or worse...which is exactly what I would expect. Drum circles are another example of this societal change. All jamband fests used to be drum circle crazy; random people just taking delight in each other. At SBIX, not one drum circle. Not even close. I\'m not sure that the concept of a drum circle even exists anymore. A drum circle involves interacting with the strangers around you for the satisfaction of the interaction itself, and I don\'t think people are wired that way anymore. I could see communal music happening at something like Break-fest where half the people already know each other. But at your average fest where everyone is surrounded by lots of strangers? No way.
- Another example of this was simply in my interactions with the people camped around me. I initiated friendly introductions but the responses and overall interactions all ended up as halfhearted, token gestures that even bordered on adversarial. At previous fests these interactions tended to turn into long conversations and positive relationships for the rest of the fest. But that\'s just not what people want these days. Although my mannerisms were nice, I actually was being kind of rude simply by virtue of ignoring the social standard that you should just leave people alone without even saying hello because being left alone is usually what people want.
I could go on about some specific douchey actions that I witnessed, but I feel that isolated incidents like them could happen at any fest in any era. I\'m more interested in things that highlight the larger changes in society and fest-going in general.
Anyhow, I still had a great time and even though I just wrote twice as much about the negative than the positive, SBIX was awesome and I\'d do it again in a second.
