Well I just read about half of this book called "
Run Like an Antelope - On the Road With Phish" by Sean Gibbon.
holy
****, 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
**** about the whole scene.
...
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.
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)
I read the book. Not bad. I think the author is a
****. 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.
yeah I
**** my spine a little bit while reading this book and it was like whoa
... 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
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
towards the end the lot scene fell apart. i think i\'m gonna check this book out, thanks for the tip.
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.
Not if it\'s been in the shitter with you!!!! :yack:
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 ganja 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.
i heard that book is bloody awful. never bothered reading it.
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.
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?
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