After almost ignoring the Summer 2010 Rotation Game, I started dabbling in it and forgot how much fun this game was for Festival 8. That’s all. 
::receives glares::
It just dawned on me, after trying to think of something clever to add to the bird theme going on at the Raleigh show over in the Rotation game, that I probably have slightly increased chance of seeing Phish bust out Whipping Post in Georgia this summer…that’s the sort of thing that ya know, makes Phish so great!..not necessarily the bust out all together, just the thought of them busting a great song out at your show!! 
…kinda like Albuquerque in Cincy last fall for me, except I never saw it coming
Yeah its hard to forget the first time you see that zoo. I was 18 or 19, GD was playing the Spectrum and shakedown was along side the old JFK stadium. I saw more than one thing that night that still sticks in my mind… one being the blasted-eyed hippie running around in a trash bag poncho exclaiming “They’re gonna open with Shakedown, they’re gonna open with shakedown…” wait… that may have not been the first time… oh whatever…
I enjoyed Darien shakedown this past summer… it was chill with good beer (butternut farmhouse ale) and twin silos in the background and… dogs? shirts. nifty tour shirts. and shats… I’m sure somebody shat somewhere.
I really should be studying my school stuff instead of posting postings… blaaaaaaaa
KDF 4 LYFE
my thoughts exactly. 
::Fishman YEM woodblock hit::
I can’t help but feel a bit anti-climatic about Phish tix this time around. Maybe it’s cause I’m only doing one show (as of right now), but I just didn’t get that fuzzy feelin when I got the email stating that I got my ticket.
I mean, it’s only a lawn ticket for Alpine night 1.
I could have probably just gotten the same thing for free the day of the show just by wallking up to the gate, but instead I shelled out $65 for a lawn ticket.
And on top of it, I may not be doing night 2. That really sticks in my craw, ya know.
I mean there was a time when I would have easily hit up 5 shows on this tour and been living la vida loca.
But now it’s become just one show and that’s all.
No Deer Creek, no Toyota Park, and only 1 night at Alpine.
I don’t know. I guess I’m coming across as ungrateful, and I guess I should just shut my trap.
I guess I don’t have to worry about a ticket, and there is still a chance that I’ll be hitting up night 2.
Whatever, my thoughts are all over the place right now. And I guess I should just be happy that I have one show on the docket.
And, like I said, there is still a chance that I can hit up night two.
Sorry for the go-nowhere rant.
Carry on…
I’ve been thinking a lot, and I’m leaning towards doing my tour (SPAC > GW > Camden) alone this summer. I’ll have a friend meeting me at a couple shows, but it could be cool to otherwise be alone and meet some folks on the lot.
This will be my second mini tour, and I can’t wait for it to begin!
Greek Telluride Deer Creek Alpine
this is the stuff dreams are made of, folks…I have complete faith phish will step up and these will be the best shows since Timbuktu '28
Hank, you need a high-five right now!
This may not be just a Phish thought, but it doesn’t exactly belong in the Non_Phish Discussions side either. Maybe that’s mostly because I’m surrounded by the rhythms of the 2/28/03 Tweezer,the family is out at the movies together, I just returned from the periodontist, and I’m really excited to be seeing the band again in a couple of months. I’m excited about the excitement the tickets sales bring to the OKP, the pre-planning workarounds going on in everyone’s head, let’s see if I can sell one of my Hartford extra’s, I might be able to swing Geat Woods into the NE swing, you know what I mean.
And it’s my Jenny’s birthday today, she’s our middle wonderment. Ryan, I can tell you volumes of emotional crises that we went through with her as a teenager, but she’s a wonderment now in how together her life is. I take no credit in having done anything to get her there, she really lived the life she had to live, and we weren’t smart enough to realize that at the time.
The kids were over to color easter eggs before they went to the movies, but Jen left earlier to go for a birthday lunch with her man. But her nieces and nephew sang her Happy Birthday before she left and ceremoniously, since there was no cake with candles, they asked her to blow out a pretend candle on one of the colored eggs. It was really a great moment, and THAT moment like any breathtaking killer jam of Phish’s, makes it all worthwhile in so many ways.
The Soul Shakedown is playing behind me and I’m feeling the fun and excitement that immesed the coliseum that night, you can hear in the crowd, and THOSE moments are in the future for most of us in some big and small way. The very fact that power of the memories of the past shows charges the anticipation of the memories we’ll make again this summer.
You have to feel this too. I would be so wrong in my heart and soul about you people if the energy of this passing full moon and the sales of this summer’s tickets don’t have you charged in some significant way at the moment. Just hasta be.
You really love that Nassau '03 show, don’t you Bill?
Twelve years ago perhaps the greatest 4-show run in Phishtory kicked off.
Solo can be the best way to roll my friend. Been doing it for a while.
I went to a party and someone asked me what my favorite band was, and when I said phish he was like “phish isn’t a band.” and i asked why and he said all they do is jam and “shit”
before i could come up with a way to respond he was gone. But ughhhhh it was frustrating.
Every time I listen to Ocelot, I can’t help but think of summertime.
Bands who improvise and make sounds with their instruments aren’t bands!
I am all smiles knowing that I get to see Phish in like 68 days or so…
^Yeah, me and a few of my tour friends went out friday night after our ticket mission was complete. The weather has started getting nice, summer tour became more of a reality after everyone got the tickets they needed, and it was off to happy hour.
Which extended into a late night dance party at this local brewery where this solid Dead Cover band , Reckoning was playing. I think we all let the euphoria and excitement get to us a bit ,'cos the night escalated quickly. I didnt move from my apt yesterday.
I like the feel of the Festi 8 and Cobo Mountains in the Mist. Been listening to them all day.
^tis a good song…yer making me want to listen to pheesh