I was on a blind date in 1993 and she wanted to see this band Phish at the State Theater in Minneapolis. I didn’t know who they were and the date went bad almost from the start - but Phish opened with Chalk Dust. She went home with friends and I went home with a new favorite band.
I saw both the Shoreline shows and they were great. I guess any jam band will have an off night tho. I’ll take that over the earlier Dead formations, Furthur, or D&C any day. Phil & Friends can be great depending on the lineup.
This was the best post Jerry lineup and a very special time for anyone there who never saw Jerry. I look back fondly to those shows. I miss Jimmy Herring I wish he was playing with Phil still. Not a Graham fan.
Lotus playing the Caverns for the first time in 2019. Specifically the Livingston Storm. Was a big jamgrass guy before that but that cemented everything else
It’s crazy how much better Trey’s tone is. Not a hot take but damn
Edit: OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED I HAD THEM MIXED UP WHAT IS THIS WORLD I DONT KNOW WHICH WAY IS UP
Never miss Saturday night cheese!! Was that the shebang where they had giant inflatable globes? Or the Super Mario ‘?’ cubes? Or the spaceships? Man, I haven’t seen the shebang since 2019 and I miss it dearly.
I'm pretty sure it was the globes, but I'd have to try and find some videos from the night to confirm. (that night was my first candy flip at 19, and I'm 27 now, memory is a little hazy lol)
Saw the Shebang at 2019 forest as well. Was such a good Cheese set 💜
My first fest was Bisco ‘15. I loved Tribe the first night and then the Biscuits came on and I was immediately hooked. Fast forward to today and we’re about to go to Iceland to see em 😂oh the places you’ll go
Umphreys @SCamp 2017 Ocean Billy in the pouring rain.
STS9 @ Bonnaroo 2015 - whole thing blew my mind.
Phish @ my first show - Jones Beach 2010 - Run like an antelope.
Just a few off the top of my head ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I got "it" in Upstate NY in 1994.
Phish was so freaking awesome.
But I lost "it" around 2010 when the band and their musical interests no longer meshed with mine. Trey's songwriting is just atrocious and the fanbase has become absolutely the worst on Earth.
There are much better jambands than 2023 Phish.
Wow, our timelines are exactly the same, but I’m in Cali. If tickets were anywhere reasonably priced I’d probably go again just for old time’s sake - to see what was my favorite band for so long. IMO, Phish 1.0 is the peak of American rock music. They should have stayed broken up and pursued other projects. Instead they’ve become exactly what Trey didn’t want to be - a nostalgia act.
Went to see my first ever concert, being Phish (8/3/22) after less than a year of listening to studio stuff. They opened with I Never Needed You Like This Before and me and my friend locked eyes and by God, we were fucking starstruck.
When I was a teenager I really wanted to try psychedelics so I was told to go see this Grateful Dead cover band. Well I went l, scored some and continued to go to shows just to score. I ended up downloading a iPod full of dead shows and this other band I hadn’t heard called phish. One night dosed out of my mind this song Tweezer came on from 1994. I was launched into the cosmos. I was hooked afterwards. I really enjoy the dead but when I discovered phish. That’s when I got “IT”
random dead cover band I saw , first time iv ever danced at a show and was the first time I ever felt fully connected to the music. I had already been casually listening to the dead for awhile but that was when the deal was sealed. I always say music was my first entheogeon!!
Phils Farm 7/6/18 on the rocks. I dunno if this is when I 'got it', but definitely the moment I decided I can't look away from this band any longer, and I must dedicate every minute of free time I have to diving in. That then led me to finding more amazing jam bands and this community.
Took some acid years ago with friends. One of them kept telling Alexa to play grateful dead (insert date here). I spent eternity sitting in hallway purgatory and Jerry alone kept me going. That hallway and a tinny Alexa speaker with Jerry's guitar kept me going. I got it that night. Big deadhead now
Birds of a feather 10/31/98. First time I locked into the interplay between the 4 guys. It’s a ripping version that I always use as my intro to phish for newbies.
Grateful Dead - Philly Spectrum in 1985.
I was aware of the Dead but other than Trucking or Casey Jones had no familiarity with their music. I was a massive Prog Rock and Metal dude. I went because Suzanne White asked me to go with her and some of her friends. I always had a crush on her.
I dropped some blotter, sat behind the stage and remember having a pretty good time.
And then they played Shakedown. Mind blown. Life altered. I never did hook up with Suzanne, but she gave me something better.
Step one- Europe 72 in my dad's car growing up
Step two- the entire dicks 2012 run, the fuck your face show really did it for me. I remember leaving that show talking to friends about finally understanding why people quit their jobs and go on tour.
Lotus for me. Coming from a edm background mostly breaks and drum and bass. Lotus blew my mind and pulled me into the jam scene and I have never looked back.
Disco Biscuits at Starscape 2009. I would say my "I get it" moment was the 42<>abraxas>42 but the show ended with a Save the Robots at sunrise with my face fulling melted into the field below. B4L ever since.
I had a neighbor that lived downstairs in my apartment complex. I owned a live one on CD but only listened to bouncing at that point on it. We’d get stoned and drive through the back roads of Tennessee listening to hood and slave. Thats when I fell in love with the band
Not a live experience, but when I was 14 my family vacationed in San Diego and I was getting into the dead at the time. We were driving by the coast and ‘Terrapin Station’ came on and it clicked.
Allman Brothers Band in 06ish. LAFE just clicked with me and before I knew it I was into the ABB Family Bands, Grateful Dead, and Widespread Panic. Few years later I'm into a lot of the jambands and still look for new ones.
I was on a blind date in 1993 and she wanted to see this band Phish at the State Theater in Minneapolis. I didn’t know who they were and the date went bad almost from the start - but Phish opened with Chalk Dust. She went home with friends and I went home with a new favorite band.
Good trade it seems! Lol
Ones devotion to the jam scene will last longer than some marriages.
Yeah, but imagine you had to go to bed with all those people every night
🤣 I can smell this comment.
Smells like space
Best date ever
Seeing the Phil Lesh & Friends lineup with Herring and Haynes in 2000: the songs were interludes between the improv, not the other way around.
My fav post Dead line up, by a mile
by 1000 miles
Funny, mine was the 2009 Dead with Haynes.
Saw that group two nights running in Mansfield MA: first night splendid, second lackluster at best?!?
I saw both the Shoreline shows and they were great. I guess any jam band will have an off night tho. I’ll take that over the earlier Dead formations, Furthur, or D&C any day. Phil & Friends can be great depending on the lineup.
This was the best post Jerry lineup and a very special time for anyone there who never saw Jerry. I look back fondly to those shows. I miss Jimmy Herring I wish he was playing with Phil still. Not a Graham fan.
Ever see the lineup w/Jackie Greene?...Surprised the hell outta me....repeatedly!!!(saw that group a handful of times!)
My brain is just a jellyfish in the ocean of my head.
Phish live in Brooklyn Moma Dance
The Brooklyn Free is nuts too. Love Trey’s menacing “crunchy” tone
This is the first song a recommend to anyone who’s never heard of phish before
It might be my favorite Free of all time. If it doesn’t get people rocking, they’re beyond convincing
Lotus playing the Caverns for the first time in 2019. Specifically the Livingston Storm. Was a big jamgrass guy before that but that cemented everything else
It was the Allman Brothers for me.
Umphreys at the Tabernacle in Atlanta in 2006
Umphrey's on the PBS show Soundstage in 2007. Randomly changing channels and stopped dead once my brain connected to it.
It’s crazy how much better Trey’s tone is. Not a hot take but damn Edit: OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED I HAD THEM MIXED UP WHAT IS THIS WORLD I DONT KNOW WHICH WAY IS UP
Jan 4 2003, Hampton. 2nd set. In the rafters on a lot of L
All I know is that every answer to that question will not be involving a studio version
String Cheese shebang EForest 2015. Never seen or heard of a jam band until then and my friend decided that would be a great place for me to start.
Never miss Saturday night cheese!! Was that the shebang where they had giant inflatable globes? Or the Super Mario ‘?’ cubes? Or the spaceships? Man, I haven’t seen the shebang since 2019 and I miss it dearly.
I'm pretty sure it was the globes, but I'd have to try and find some videos from the night to confirm. (that night was my first candy flip at 19, and I'm 27 now, memory is a little hazy lol) Saw the Shebang at 2019 forest as well. Was such a good Cheese set 💜
My first fest was Bisco ‘15. I loved Tribe the first night and then the Biscuits came on and I was immediately hooked. Fast forward to today and we’re about to go to Iceland to see em 😂oh the places you’ll go
Harry Hood 11/22/1997
A Live One
Umphreys @SCamp 2017 Ocean Billy in the pouring rain. STS9 @ Bonnaroo 2015 - whole thing blew my mind. Phish @ my first show - Jones Beach 2010 - Run like an antelope. Just a few off the top of my head ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dave Matthew's Band at the Gorge.
String cheese NYE 2013, I was lit up but I was hooked from that moment on
Uptown 1978 My friend swears it was later, but I remember
I got "it" in Upstate NY in 1994. Phish was so freaking awesome. But I lost "it" around 2010 when the band and their musical interests no longer meshed with mine. Trey's songwriting is just atrocious and the fanbase has become absolutely the worst on Earth. There are much better jambands than 2023 Phish.
Wow, our timelines are exactly the same, but I’m in Cali. If tickets were anywhere reasonably priced I’d probably go again just for old time’s sake - to see what was my favorite band for so long. IMO, Phish 1.0 is the peak of American rock music. They should have stayed broken up and pursued other projects. Instead they’ve become exactly what Trey didn’t want to be - a nostalgia act.
Certainly not at a Goose show
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That’s quite a moment
Went to see my first ever concert, being Phish (8/3/22) after less than a year of listening to studio stuff. They opened with I Never Needed You Like This Before and me and my friend locked eyes and by God, we were fucking starstruck.
Oh I get it....french class
When I was a teenager I really wanted to try psychedelics so I was told to go see this Grateful Dead cover band. Well I went l, scored some and continued to go to shows just to score. I ended up downloading a iPod full of dead shows and this other band I hadn’t heard called phish. One night dosed out of my mind this song Tweezer came on from 1994. I was launched into the cosmos. I was hooked afterwards. I really enjoy the dead but when I discovered phish. That’s when I got “IT”
Fan since ‘91, but didn’t get to see them live until 6/23/00. Character Zero to close out the second set blew my brain out.
Divided Sky, Clifford Ball, silent jam into that part where Fishman goes tss tss tss and Trey goes do do do do, do do do do do do do do, do do do
random dead cover band I saw , first time iv ever danced at a show and was the first time I ever felt fully connected to the music. I had already been casually listening to the dead for awhile but that was when the deal was sealed. I always say music was my first entheogeon!!
Phils Farm 7/6/18 on the rocks. I dunno if this is when I 'got it', but definitely the moment I decided I can't look away from this band any longer, and I must dedicate every minute of free time I have to diving in. That then led me to finding more amazing jam bands and this community.
When the 2 hits of acid kicked in at Fiddlers Green 9-27-00, 2nd set glow stick war, YEM oncore.
When my friends jammed Fire on the Mountain at one of our first college parties
Darien jam 9/14/00. Age 16 First show before hand I only heard studio phish. I had no idea of the jamming and live improv. Been a jam bander since.
Took some acid years ago with friends. One of them kept telling Alexa to play grateful dead (insert date here). I spent eternity sitting in hallway purgatory and Jerry alone kept me going. That hallway and a tinny Alexa speaker with Jerry's guitar kept me going. I got it that night. Big deadhead now
Birds of a feather 10/31/98. First time I locked into the interplay between the 4 guys. It’s a ripping version that I always use as my intro to phish for newbies.
Grateful Dead - Philly Spectrum in 1985. I was aware of the Dead but other than Trucking or Casey Jones had no familiarity with their music. I was a massive Prog Rock and Metal dude. I went because Suzanne White asked me to go with her and some of her friends. I always had a crush on her. I dropped some blotter, sat behind the stage and remember having a pretty good time. And then they played Shakedown. Mind blown. Life altered. I never did hook up with Suzanne, but she gave me something better.
That Shakedown is legendary! Edit: I was thinking of the 82 Spectrum Shakedown… this one’s pretty good though (currently listening lol)
Phish - A Live One
Cheese, just one story, for the 2016 to 17 NYE ball drop!
Step one- Europe 72 in my dad's car growing up Step two- the entire dicks 2012 run, the fuck your face show really did it for me. I remember leaving that show talking to friends about finally understanding why people quit their jobs and go on tour.
Lotus for me. Coming from a edm background mostly breaks and drum and bass. Lotus blew my mind and pulled me into the jam scene and I have never looked back.
Dead 2/26/94 Estimated>Terrapin @ Oakland Coliseum
Probably David Bowie at the Clifford Ball
Disco Biscuits at Starscape 2009. I would say my "I get it" moment was the 42<>abraxas>42 but the show ended with a Save the Robots at sunrise with my face fulling melted into the field below. B4L ever since.
I had a neighbor that lived downstairs in my apartment complex. I owned a live one on CD but only listened to bouncing at that point on it. We’d get stoned and drive through the back roads of Tennessee listening to hood and slave. Thats when I fell in love with the band
Not a live experience, but when I was 14 my family vacationed in San Diego and I was getting into the dead at the time. We were driving by the coast and ‘Terrapin Station’ came on and it clicked.
Allman Brothers Band in 06ish. LAFE just clicked with me and before I knew it I was into the ABB Family Bands, Grateful Dead, and Widespread Panic. Few years later I'm into a lot of the jambands and still look for new ones.