I got temporarily kicked out of the second one
:hscratch: How the hell do you get "temporarily" kicked out of a show???
Being that it\'s a single-A baseball stadium that typically hosts crowds of 1,000 docile people as opposed to 15,000 raging heads, the place has no security on staff. So what they did was they hired every male meathead in Brooklyn aged 18-22 for the night, threw a security shirt on them, and told them who-knows-what. They all came wasted and foaming at the mouth to drag around some heads. They were kicking out people left and right for anything, and by kicking out I mean gang-tackling them with six dudes and physically dragging them all the way out of the place even if they didn\'t resist. One of them barked at me for standing too close to a gate that seperated the field area from the bleacher area. All I said was "OK" and moved a few feet. 5 minutes later he came back with 4 others, they gang-tackled me (from behind), kicked me in the head a few times, and dragged me out.
Thing is, inept security can be used to your advantage too. I walked out to my car, counted 100, pounded 2 beers, changed my shirt for good measure, and then proceeded to walk back in via the exact same entrance I had been dragged out of just 10 minutes earlier. It\'s the only time I ever got kicked out of a Phish show. Not your typical venue, for sure.
June 27, 2006 supposedly
Cmon, really? There\'s a Phish show in 7 weeks and there\'s been no announcement yet? Plus the Cylcones have a home game the day before and the day after. So the Phish crew is gonna swoop in as soon as the last out is recorded on the 26th, build that entire stage from scratch in about 16 hours overnight, do the show, strike the entire setup in 14 hours and leave the team to play on a trampled field the next day? It might be physically possible with zero margin for error and it might not, but even if it is why go to all that trouble? Why not just play in an actual music venue? I love Phish rumours.