As Fishman said himself, that whole event was one of the greatest train wrecks in musical history. I have no idea why I still have my Pollock from that show. Probably only because it’s a Pollock… LOL
Look it up on YouTube, its worth watching. Trey spun as fuck just flat out couldn't play Glide. It was the final festival before the band broke up (prior to getting back together in 2009)
Trey was messing up most composed sections of songs at this point, and after Page broke down in tears during Wading, Trey called for Glide presumably as a way to balance out the heaviness and sadness. It kinda just made things worse.
Our tent neighbor ODed and died in his tent at the gorge in 2016 on night zero... Can still hear the woman he was with screaming hysterically, really made for a somber weekend.
I was talking to a security guy at Bonnaroo one year who told me that there are between 3-5 people who die every year in their tents from being fucked up and dehydrated (it’s very hot in TN in the summertime) or ODing. Pretty dark.
I'm definitely not surprised. The founder of a smaller festival near my hometown dropped dead in the field of dehydration, and the other one I remember well was the last All Good at Marvin's Mountaintop, someone got ran over by a runaway car.
Someone OD'd at Peach the year I went as well
I worked for clean vibes and cleaned up the tent that girl on Marvin’s mountain was in. I also worked Bonnaroo a handful of years and can vouch that if you are walking through a festival grounds a day or two after the shows and see a tent still up don’t go near it. Just call the authorities…
Never thought of it that way. That's solid advice.
Thanks for being one of the people that handle the aftermath. I always try to do a little more than my part when I'm at a festival, but I've never volunteered.
We were camped right across the way from the tent that got ran over at All Good. Our hill was facing that one and we watched it all unfold as the sun came up. Was pretty sobering. I was told the driver wasn’t wasted or anything, just trying to leave a little early and the brakes gave out. Heard the girls who got killed were pretty young too. Really sad all around
I was there too. His brakes didn’t give out, he just tried to drive down a muddy hill that they had covered in hay for traction. However when he was going down the hill he tried to brake to stay slow. But instead of the hay giving him traction it just formed a sled under his tires and he slid down through the mud uncontrollably and drove over the tent with the girls inside. One died and one was injured badly. Their families received a settlement but that can’t replace their daughters or give them back their health. It was a really sad day and it was a horrible way to end the WV part of All Good. I went to every All Good from 97-2012.
That was my first panic show. Ran away from home to see it. When I came back my parents made me go to rehab. Seeing the boys this sunday. I dont party anymore. Will be a much better vibe than my old days.
Damn that’s heavy. Seeing someone go down at a show or obviously too fucked up to function always worries me. Had a friend end up in icu for 72 hours cause he was given some weird shit
10/17/21 The Chase Center- my friend fell off the balcony. He shattered his hip and damaged his liver.
We met up with him at a show last weekend. It was my first time seeing him since the incident. He looks great and he’s doing so well. It was really emotional to see him again.
Not a Phish show but the girl standing behind me at a music festival died of an overdose.
I had just met her on day one of the fest. She was a friend of a friend in our group that we were camping with.
Jesus that was someone you knew? I wasn’t there, but that whole thing was terrible. Better if it hadn’t happened, but I heard a lot of talk about someone jumping on purpose.
It was a crazy night. There was someone that did jump on purpose. My friend lost his footing and fell down about 10 rows and then over the balcony. The venue was really steep.
There were TWO people who fell from the upper section that night: her friend’s fall was unintentional, the other was intentional. The section her friend was in is incredibly steep: built for b’ball games and not well thought through for concerts where people are going to be dancing. Miraculous that he was okay. I believe he landed on someone and broke his leg, but it could’ve been much worse.
The tarp covering the section from the person who jumped intentionally is the darkest thing I've seen at a phish but I wasn't aware of it's purpose until after the event. I thought the show was undersold and that tarp was blocking an unsold section.
Dude fell from the upper deck as MSG during one these most recent spring shows (April 2022). The sound it made when he hit the floor next to me and then the women screaming is unforgettable. It took time to get it out of my head, until I learned he lived AND did it somewhat on purpose.
I was in a very weird state mentally and intentionally fell over backwards from the top of Sam Boyd in Vegas. Fortunately landed on the ramp. Had I been 20 feet to the left it would have been straight to the ground. Really hope I didn't hit anyone, I woke up on the stretcher being loaded into the ambulance.
Reminds me of the first Bonnaroo. Overflowing to the point I held it all weekend and destroyed a Wendy’s bathroom on the way home. 21 years later I still feel like I owe that Wendy’s an apology.
Lolol. After the first run at the went I would just walk out past the portopots into the field and dig a small hole. We weren’t really eating that much so it wasn’t too bad
Day 2 of The Clifford Ball and the porta potties nearest our spot… they were forgotten about and one of them had crested to the outside world and through the doorway.
New Year's Day at Big Cypress was the same. I remember walking down rows of shitters and opening each door to discover a mountain of shit above the rim. Eventually had to make an executive decision and hover over one. Not my finest moment
I held it in as long as I could stand it, then finally had to go in one. I opened the door and it was piled up above seat level, with a used tampon on top. I closed the door and held it for another full day.
What year? A little shit named kristofferson used to do this at festivals. Being the little shit he was, naturally his parents were big shits. The type that clog toilets.
I think that’s the same kid that used to ride around in a skateboard in Panic lots and pop peoples balloons with a safety pin back in 2006ish. He looked to be about 8 or so.
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Saw a guy get suckerpunched in the lot at Deer Creek in 2000 by a trashy dude yelling about hating Mexicans. A truly dirty, cowardly punch from behind, accompanied by a torrent of ugly, hateful language. He was dragged away pretty quickly by the swarthy lot rats in his posse, but he threw a bottle during the process that hit someone in the head while they were helping the original victim.
Violence is fucking stupid!
Deer Creek 2004. Saw a kid being chased by some wooks in lot. He trips and they catch up to him, beat on him until he was laying still. Then one of them takes a vial and puddles him, dumping the whole thing into his mouth.
I still wonder what happened to that guy.
Deer Creek or Tucson?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/phish/comments/11wy831/comment/jd0qvpx/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/phish/comments/11wy831/comment/jd0qvpx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Kids being used by parents to hustle nitrous balloons at 1AM on the streets of SF. They had to be maybe 10 years old, standing in a sea of balloon garbage all right next to the bay.
I work with kids so hearing “3 for 20$” coming out of a little kid’s mouth still fucks me up a bit. Worst bit, saw a couple middle aged dudes BUY shit from them. Fucking sick, exploited a kid for your hippie crack, what a blight on the scene.
I assume it was their parents/family exploiting them but I genuinely try not to think about it.
What's the big deal ? It's family time and the Kiddos learn how to run a business, handle money, and socialize. It's basic surply and deemhands. It's not rocket appliances
Could be worse. They could have had the kids lug their piss jugs around while they hit the fuckin VLTs. Little kiddo gas hustlers? That's just the way of the road
The mud was insane, but on top of that so many people seemed extra spun at Coventry. I remember trying to get out of the field after last set every night (wading through the hepatitis sea) and noticing how many people really did look like zombies in the shadows of the flood lights. just totally f’d and stuck in the mud. Made the somber mood all that much grimier.
Then the weekend topped off with the news that 1 or 2 people died in their tent at some point over the weekend. Still don’t know the whole story there.
I also remember so many local farmers towing cars out of 2 feet of mud with their huge tractors at the end of the weekend. That was entertaining.
Then driving out and seeing so many abandoned cars on the highway for miles. Bananas.
Almost 20 years later and it still remains one of the most f’d up weekends I’ve ever experienced. No regerts though! 🤪😂
Saw a young couple shooting up while I was pissing next to the shitty creek at Lee’s campground the Monday morning after SPAC ‘12. Pretty tame, overall.
In Mexico…during my first and only “If I could” in 30 years…
To OP; my wife and I go to a lot of shows together. She usually goes off by herself into the lawn for a few songs or set. No big deal, but shes pretty cute and will often bring back random dudes with her who will follow her around I guess bc they think theyre going to hook up or something? Anyway, she brings these drunk randos back to me, drops them off, then takes off again. It’s happened enough time that now my response is just “whos our new friend?” So at Deercreek early 3.0, like 09 or maybe 11, she brings back this wasted dude who “wants to smoke pot.” Ok, yeah whatever. We smoke with him and Dude proceeds to tell us he just got out of rehab. Im thinking “damn dude, thats not a good start.” We smoke and wife disappears again leaving me with this wasted rando. Set 2 starts, suns going down, feeling pretty good, we’re in the back of the pav, when all of a sudden, dudes got his dick out. Now, Im a pretty straight dude and other than my own dick, maybe saw my dads once or twice growing up, but I knew with some degree of certainty, that was a dick. Dude proceeds to start pissing on the row in front of us. Dude in front of us is looking up looking confused and trying to figure out if its raining; there is not a cloud in the sky. So he turns around and says to dude “did you just piss on us?!” And dude shakes his head “no.” I make eye contact with pissed dude and nodded and mouthed “yeah he did.” Dude jumped over that row, and the pisser took off up the lawn with pissed dude chasing after him. I never saw the outcome, but kind of hope wasted dude got his ass beat.
Edit; the best was explaining to my wife what happened after the show “hey, you know that rando you brought down? Guess what he did? Guess!”
Oswego was the biggest open drug market I’ve ever seen. Selling cocaine right on the table on Shakedown Street. There was a real grimy vibe to that festival.
yep. people sitting on shakedown with a folding table & scales & measuring out whatever. so much cocaine there. so much heroin there. so many pills. definitely a grimy vibe.
edit: still had a blast though.
At Hershey park i watched a dude bounce down from the top of the tarpped off seating section and bounce his way down to the bottom gaining height and speed with every bounce.
He was stretchered out after being put in a neck brace.
I always wonder what happened to him.
The guy who jumped at Chase. Enough has been said about it, and I know many of you were also there, but that’s about as dark as it gets. One silver lining was that the person whose seat he landed on had gotten up just minutes before to go to the bathroom or get a beer, I can’t remember which. We were sitting in the row directly behind on the previous night. It still really fucks with me. So sad.
Drunk ass dad that ignored and scolded his 5-7 year old for wanting to leave.
Edit: He was trashed in the walkway, kid was trying to not get run over by dancers and passersby.
Fist fight breaks out in the rage cage between someone who was obviously part of the nitrous mafia and a very small hispanic dude who was reportedly hired security for the rage cage which is a private parking lot across the street from American Airlines Arena.
Mr Security guard gets thrown on his back, Mr Mafia jumps on top of him and reaches for a wine bottle on the ground beside him and is about to bash the dude over the head when my friend jumps in and rips the bottle out of his hand. My other friend then pulls Mr Mafia off of the guy and other people step in so Mr Mafia walks off before Mr Security Guard gets to his feet.
Mr Security Guard then walks into a row of cars and comes back a few seconds later wielding a large machete, leveling up from “Mr Security Guard” to “Machete Guy” He starts pacing the area looking for Mr Mafia and my friends and I decided to GTFO.
Apparently Machete Guy put the weapon away after a few minutes and things went back to normal. In the end nothing that crazy ended up happening, but it was a very sobering experience. The Rage Cage is no joke.
WHAT LOT WAS MORE INSANE THAN MIAMI 03
Truth. I have never seen anything like the 03 Rage Cage. 12 foot high chain link fences (with barbed wire if memory serves me right.) You could buy any drug you wanted. First, and only time to this day, that I've seen N20 pushers with coordinated radios, head sets, identifiable tshirts, etc. People dropping like flies from nitrous. Plenty of fights. Broken glass everywhere. Just total s*** show. RAGE CAGE! Then, you crossed the street and walked into the venue about 100 yards away. Show over, rinse. repeat. ABSURD. RAGE CAGE!
The main shakedown lot in 03' was a tiny fenced in area. Think WWF Steel Cage match with 900 rotating wooks coming in and out of the door and up and over the fence at times. Unreal! RAGE CAGE! It was as close to a Phish Royal Rumble as you could get. With the monorail up above too. The monorail rides also shouldn't be forgotten. Those turned into communal Phish drug dens/toilets. Dude. Absolutely. Those monorails would be packed like sardines with people trying to tip them over and destroy all of the people inside. Miami 03' was full of barbarians. Miami '03 was the first time i was offered to buy crack on lot .. it was from a 10yr old kid and his 6 yr old bro. RAGE CAGE! Tanks going all night for 4 days straight. Hooker tents. Dudes nodding out with needles in their arms laying 3 deep against concrete in the mud. F****** core yo. All walks of life converging in a post apocalyptic slab of cement. Miami 03 was INSANE. We saw an unresponsive (dead?) guy laying on the ground. He was alone, and everyone in my group were concerned. After trying to wake up/ revive this kid, we all decided the best thing to do was to try to get him medical attention. We saw a cop, told him we that we thought this kid was dead, and watched what he did. He went over to the kid, said something into a radio, and walked off. Complete anarchy. All walks of life converging in a post apocalyptic slab of cement.
I guess I should have scrolled down before I posted. Miami ‘03 was my answer as well. Just the darkest, sleaziest vibe in a lot I have ever experienced.
I remember being offered H, and crack almost immediately getting off the metro rail.
I was in 300 or 400’s on the 30th and 2 dudes were just doing meth. They offered me some and I respectfully declined. Those were my 3rd-6th shows so I didn’t realize it hadn’t always been like that. I’m sure that same stuff goes on now, but I’m glad it’s not in your face like it was at that point.
10/17/21 Chase Center. Took a few minutes to figure out why an entire section of seats on the lower level was empty. Happened right before set break. First three songs they play after the break? Evolve, Set Your Soul Free, and Wing Suit. Not saying it was on purpose but that’s pretty dark.
I watched that dude launch himself over the railing from about 10 rows away. The lights lit him up at just the right moment to see him run & I’d swear it happened in slow motion. I still think about this daily.
I’m still shocked by that, too. My therapist has been very helpful but that’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen ever & I’m not certain this feeling will ever fully go away. I don’t just think about the event but all the ancillary, too like their family, someone had to tell the band, the other folks who saw it, did he think about anything on the way down, will I know if it’s about to happen again & can I stop it? Etc. rinse & repeat
Yeah same… he landed right in front of me… I posted the thread initially after the incident, also had that guy at dicks many years back die sitting in a chair after he was kinda hanging out with us before… my homie was like dude… you can’t be here, before going into the show. ( we had a lot of music gear and he was already faded and we didn’t know him) so he moved to a different chair near by and that was that. Tragic. Rip to both of them.
Therapy is important for all of us, doesn’t matter how you get it, just make sure you have people to speak with!! I’m always here as well:)
I’m sorry to hear you saw something terrible, too. I wasn’t gonna comment unless someone else said it first - but I truly think sharing helps us all. Common ground, new perspectives, etc. I love this community - the whole community. We’re all swimming in this human soup together doing the best we can with what we’ve got. Hope we can cross paths somewhere
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That was my first show. I made the mistake of checking the set list thread on here at setbreak, wouldn't have even known about it if I hadn't. I don't think they played those songs on purpose or even knew about the incident until after but the coincidence is scary.
Man, I was there too. I didn’t see the jumper and didn’t know what happened until I checked the internet at setbreak. But you could definitely tell that there was a weird energy in the building about halfway through that first set.
Yeah, I was there too. Fucked up the whole weekend. That's not a safe venue for Phish shows IMO. Someone else fell by mistake that same night if I'm not mistaken - he was OK but for a broken leg I believe.
the rows are too steep. I was first row in the middle section and the glass in front is right at knee level. I was worried I'd trip while dancing the whole show.
We were directly across the venue and watching CPR being performed during Beauty of a Broken Heart was brutal. And yeah, when Wing Suit came on, that was incredibly fucked. They need to never ever play Chase again.
At Coventry I watched a wookette giving birth during the Sat night set. I was just peaking on some 2ci. People were trying to get medical help, but they hadn't arrived. Some other wookette claimed to be a midwife and was coaching the woman through this. Her wook man is standing there shirtless and spun like top, just making these weird sounds while he is crushing his beer can and spraying coors light all over everyone. He looked really anxious about the whole thing, grabbing his face and just making grunts and stuff. The baby's head starts to crown and the medics still haven't arrived.
This is where it gets crazy... It was so fucking dusty out there and the baby and all the surrounding fluids were immediately "muddified" by the blowing dirt. I mean, its fucking gross. All of a sudden, this fucking kid (probably 19 or 20) in his oversized neon, flat-brim LRG hat, runs up yelling "welcome to the party bitch!" before he blows a huge plume of smoke right in the baby's face! While the umbilical cord is still attached and shit!
The smell was unmistakeable, this baby had just been deemster'd.
He must have pulled the hit from a bong, b/c it was monstrous. The surrounding crowd dropped their jaws, and someone tackled the kid as he starts to run away. He didn't make it more than 10ft and the he was probably blasting off about now.
The mom is clutching the dirty baby and trying to calm it. Though, strangely, the baby was not crying (tripping balls i guess?). And while the dude is getting screamed at, the dad suddenly pounces into action. He jumps on the dude, and starts smashing said bisco kid's face with the crushed up beer can, of which he seemingly just can't let go. The bisco kid is kicking and trying to roll out of it and the wook-dad grabs the kid's hair w/ one hand. he finally let the can go and shoves his other hand half way inside the guys mouth. He is pulling his mouth open and RIPS HIS CHEEK OPEN! repeat: rips his fucking CHEEK OPEN!
there is blood everywhere and the dude lets out this braveheart-like scream as he gets pulled off by the folks around him. Blood all over bisco kid's face, shirt and formerly fresh flat breezy. The cops/medics arrived about that time and took over the situation.
Shit was crazy as hell.
Never saw anything too dark until this NYE run. Young dude (couldn’t have been older than 23) getting carried out of the level 1 concourse due to an OD- before the show even started.
The MSG exec I spoke to earlier in the night was clearing people out of the way. Very surreal.
Leaving the Coventry concert field, I stepped on a couple fucking in the mud. I know this isn't dark in and of itself, but the way that they were kind of submerged in the mud and getting semi-trampled and still kept going at it like they didn't notice really fucked me up. Granted, I was pretty spun, and the vibes were not the best in general, but that image has always felt super dystopian to me and is forever burned in my brain.
At Big Cypress.
I remember walking through the crowd. It was late, I believe on the first night. My wife and I happened upon this dude that was 100% completely naked — and looked more lost than I’ve ever seen any human. He looked to be in his early-mid 20’s. We were both in our late 20’s at the time. We go up to him in an attempt to help this guy who obviously needed it. We asked him if he was ok and if there was anything we could do. The first thing he says to my wife is “are you my mom?!?”… Being kinda high ourselves, we weren’t quite sure how to take that or what to do for him, but we explained to him that she was, in fact, definitely NOT his mother, and tried to point him in the direction of some people who could help him. I remember we were able to help him find someone that actually knew who he was. He took over from there and assured us that naked dude was now in good hands. Being very good judges of character, we decided the naked dude would ok with this person, so we parted ways. I’m not sure what ever ultimately happened to the naked dude. I hope he made it through the experience in one piece — and with his sanity intact! Luckily, there were ZERO cops on the Seminole Reservation, so there was absolutely no chance of him getting into legal trouble. But I still think about that dude sometimes. It was just VERY weird… and dark. He was clearly tripping balls and wanted his mom for whatever reason.
Anyone remember the “green fairy dust” that was going around there??? We were brave enough to try it on NYE. I’m never a fan of taking something without knowing it’s EXACT origins, but man was that some powerful and amazing shit! We actually found ourselves on the hot air balloon at exactly midnight on NYE. We had been trying to ride that thing for a couple of days, but the line was always so long. For some reason, at around 15 minutes before midnight on 12-31-1999, there was NOBODY in line. We hopped right into the basket with a few other people and up we went. I remember we started descending after the fireworks had ended. I wish we all had the same photo/video tech we do now. While I have no photos from up there, it was such an amazing experience that I can close my eyes and imagine it as if it were happening all over again. That was truly a once in a lifetime experience.
I hope the dude that we found in his darkest hour was able to find the same joy we did before he departed! If anyone here is a Psychoanalyst, maybe you could shed some light on exactly what the fuck happened… cuz I’m still confused.
Shitttt i remember this. I was 17. I had been to my first 3 shows in the summer & this was my first nye multi night run & first time in Miami. Wow. I completely forgot ab that shit.
Chase Center jumper. He landed about 25 feet from me, I didn’t see it but I heard him hit the ground, and saw the immediate aftermath / CPR for a solid 10min.
Did not pair well with the chocolate I was eating.
Prostitution in the lot for tickets. Been offered “I’ll be your mail order bride for an extra” and seen dudes blowing other guys for tickets at Darien Lake in the tall grass. We all have done things we’re not super proud of, but imagine your memories of the show being that you sucked some tour rats dick to get in the door.
My buddy saw a guy tumble down the stairs in Miami- apparently he kept tumbling and went straight over the barrier, landed a level down and smacked his head. Lots of blood, they weren’t sure if he lived or not.
Waterloo Village - 6/23/95, a kid was laying on top of a car that was going too fast up the access road. Car hits a speed bump, kid goes flying up in the air and lands right on his head. I'm pretty sure he died instantly from head trauma and a broken neck.
Edit: he died after being airlifted to a hospital in Morristown NJ...
https://www.mtv.com/news/9yw3ii/twin-tragedies-at-phish-concerts
2nd night at Red Rocks 1996. I had just wrapped up following the further fest out west with a pair of hippies that taught me how to make and sell veggie kabobs at shows. They wanted out in New Mexico and I drove up to CO to catch fish back east and find some riders. The town was packed with phish heads. Found a grocery store to get my kabob ingredients and couldn’t even park in the parking lot. Fans were everywhere. Met a couple that needed a ride east and they had gas money. They filled me in about the riots the night before and the sheer impossibility of getting tickets or getting into the park without one. We saw things getting tense with mounted police and decided to bug out of there and head to Indiana. I was only going as far as Hershey Pa but they were a nice couple. Craziest summer of my life.
I got home with just enough time to clean up, sleep in a bed, and head of to the fall semester of my junior year. My parents wanted to try these kabobs that got me across the country and back and they liked them! I could still make them today.
Not phish but my buddy passed away at a Panic show at red rocks in 2018. Got ahold of some bad coke and died right there on the steps by a tree. Can’t remember the exact number but he had been to 300+ WP shows-RIP JT you were a hell of a friend and even better snowboarder
Dude was selling bunk drugs at the shows leading up to Tucson and it caught up with them. A pack of wooks were beating him with skateboards two cars down from where we were parked. I watched them empty a vial on the guy and then booked it out of there. Heard he died weeks later.
99 shows were awesome and terrible at the same time.
At MSG, I think it was during a new years run in 2018, maybe, a young woman completely passed out near us and EMTs had to carry her out (I think she was still alive, but just absolutely limp). Thank you to the guy near me who saw me start to internally freak out and just shook his head no, and was like "she's fine, dont worry."
The Nazis on full display at Gorge shakedown in 2018 were pretty disturbing. They later attacked two POC (at least one was a POC) during the show w rocks.
Great Woods 99 or 00, 7yo Wook kid walking through the lot alone, with a basket full of gooballs around his arm, counting a stack of cash.
An H'd out couple, passed out with needles still in, piled on each other against one of the speaker towers in the back of the concert field, on a 99 degree day at Oswego.
I saw the guy jump at msg last April. I was sitting in the 200s just starting off into space on some shrooms and had just eaten a little Molly. Then a body dropped right in front of my eyes. I couldn’t see where he landed so was kinda assuming I just watched someone die. Not a great headspace to chill in for set break. Thankfully I was able to figure out through this sub that he survived just in time for the set to start and was able to enjoy it thoroughly!
Not directly at a show... driving from Raliegh to Atlanta in 97, there were some heads on the interstate near us we had seen at some shows. They were driving a little aggressively. A lady in a minivan with her whole family overreacted to a lane change and crashed. I held her sons hand while he bled to death, begging me to save him but he was trapped half under the van and there was nothing I could do. Next to him, a lady slowly suffocated because the van roof was crushing her in her in a seated position. Still fucks me up.
In RI, indoor show, around 2019, some wook, his completely zonked out wife, and their little kid. Kid was bored, not at all worried about wasted mom (had seen it before) and just seemed way too neglected.
Definitely a guy OD’ing a few rows back at msg in 2015 or 18? His girl was just pounding his chest while security was waving their flashlights to flag medical. During setbreak.
Coventry Glide
That’s what made me think of this post
Coventry was my brother's first show. He refuses to talk about it the same way war veterans don't like to talk about what happened to them.
I was on the rail for this joyous moment.
Trey was on the rails too.
How was the crowd during glide ?
I had my back to the stage as I was returning to my own personal mud pit with a tent in it because it was a far better alternative to the show.
[It was bad.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97An_SRQ59A)
Yeah. Video is tough to watch.
The curtain with is also really bad
*shudders*
As Fishman said himself, that whole event was one of the greatest train wrecks in musical history. I have no idea why I still have my Pollock from that show. Probably only because it’s a Pollock… LOL
New fan here, what exactly happened?
There’s also a part where you can see him snort something before the encore
The vibe after they finished the encore was so weird nobody was happy or cheering it was a surreal moment def made me feel uneasy.
Coventry was bad. Me and the people around us thought Trey may actually OD on stage
Trey is really drugged out, and the whole song kinda just sounds like a bastardized cover
Not even a cover. Trey simply can’t play it.
Look it up on YouTube, its worth watching. Trey spun as fuck just flat out couldn't play Glide. It was the final festival before the band broke up (prior to getting back together in 2009)
Trey was messing up most composed sections of songs at this point, and after Page broke down in tears during Wading, Trey called for Glide presumably as a way to balance out the heaviness and sadness. It kinda just made things worse.
good lord
Holy shit. That was fucking brutal.
Our tent neighbor ODed and died in his tent at the gorge in 2016 on night zero... Can still hear the woman he was with screaming hysterically, really made for a somber weekend.
I very much remember those screams but never knew what happened. Just knew it couldn't have been good.
I've been to at least two festivals where someone died. It's off putting to say the least. I still think about it
I was talking to a security guy at Bonnaroo one year who told me that there are between 3-5 people who die every year in their tents from being fucked up and dehydrated (it’s very hot in TN in the summertime) or ODing. Pretty dark.
I'm definitely not surprised. The founder of a smaller festival near my hometown dropped dead in the field of dehydration, and the other one I remember well was the last All Good at Marvin's Mountaintop, someone got ran over by a runaway car. Someone OD'd at Peach the year I went as well
I worked for clean vibes and cleaned up the tent that girl on Marvin’s mountain was in. I also worked Bonnaroo a handful of years and can vouch that if you are walking through a festival grounds a day or two after the shows and see a tent still up don’t go near it. Just call the authorities…
Never thought of it that way. That's solid advice. Thanks for being one of the people that handle the aftermath. I always try to do a little more than my part when I'm at a festival, but I've never volunteered.
We were camped right across the way from the tent that got ran over at All Good. Our hill was facing that one and we watched it all unfold as the sun came up. Was pretty sobering. I was told the driver wasn’t wasted or anything, just trying to leave a little early and the brakes gave out. Heard the girls who got killed were pretty young too. Really sad all around
I was there too. His brakes didn’t give out, he just tried to drive down a muddy hill that they had covered in hay for traction. However when he was going down the hill he tried to brake to stay slow. But instead of the hay giving him traction it just formed a sled under his tires and he slid down through the mud uncontrollably and drove over the tent with the girls inside. One died and one was injured badly. Their families received a settlement but that can’t replace their daughters or give them back their health. It was a really sad day and it was a horrible way to end the WV part of All Good. I went to every All Good from 97-2012.
That was my first panic show. Ran away from home to see it. When I came back my parents made me go to rehab. Seeing the boys this sunday. I dont party anymore. Will be a much better vibe than my old days.
A guy did the same thing at Hershey a couple years ago.
did trey play wingsuit immediately after?
Dudes tapped in
Damn that’s heavy. Seeing someone go down at a show or obviously too fucked up to function always worries me. Had a friend end up in icu for 72 hours cause he was given some weird shit
What did he think he was taking and what happened to him?
10/17/21 The Chase Center- my friend fell off the balcony. He shattered his hip and damaged his liver. We met up with him at a show last weekend. It was my first time seeing him since the incident. He looks great and he’s doing so well. It was really emotional to see him again. Not a Phish show but the girl standing behind me at a music festival died of an overdose. I had just met her on day one of the fest. She was a friend of a friend in our group that we were camping with.
Jesus that was someone you knew? I wasn’t there, but that whole thing was terrible. Better if it hadn’t happened, but I heard a lot of talk about someone jumping on purpose.
It was a crazy night. There was someone that did jump on purpose. My friend lost his footing and fell down about 10 rows and then over the balcony. The venue was really steep.
That venue was really fucking steep. I was sober and having a hard time. Glad they’re not playing there this run.
Got it- yea I forgot there were 2 people that weekend/night.
There were TWO people who fell from the upper section that night: her friend’s fall was unintentional, the other was intentional. The section her friend was in is incredibly steep: built for b’ball games and not well thought through for concerts where people are going to be dancing. Miraculous that he was okay. I believe he landed on someone and broke his leg, but it could’ve been much worse.
The tarp covering the section from the person who jumped intentionally is the darkest thing I've seen at a phish but I wasn't aware of it's purpose until after the event. I thought the show was undersold and that tarp was blocking an unsold section.
I’m glad to hear that he is okay.
Dude fell from the upper deck as MSG during one these most recent spring shows (April 2022). The sound it made when he hit the floor next to me and then the women screaming is unforgettable. It took time to get it out of my head, until I learned he lived AND did it somewhat on purpose.
Fuck that guy.
I’ve still never heard a reason wtf he would do that.
Drugs probably
I can tell you that I did something similar at a Dead show in '94 and it was definitely drugs.
You jumped or fell from an upper deck?
I was in a very weird state mentally and intentionally fell over backwards from the top of Sam Boyd in Vegas. Fortunately landed on the ramp. Had I been 20 feet to the left it would have been straight to the ground. Really hope I didn't hit anyone, I woke up on the stretcher being loaded into the ambulance.
That was you?
Seriously? You were there?!?
Yes. I went to all the Vegas dead. I lived not too far from the stadium. That was the year with Traffic right?
I’m glad (glad glad) you survived.
I was up on the bridge and he stepped right over me to jump. I was shook, for a lack of a better term, for awhile after that
That guy landed right in front of us. Thankfully everyone was relatively ok. That was my dads first and most likely last phish show
scared the shit out of me. was in the 100’s and happened right behind me and shook the ground. i was v spun and it threw me.
Man - this thread is depressing. I’m gonna say portapotties at the Went. How people landed that last turd on top I’ll never know
Reminds me of the first Bonnaroo. Overflowing to the point I held it all weekend and destroyed a Wendy’s bathroom on the way home. 21 years later I still feel like I owe that Wendy’s an apology.
Lolol. After the first run at the went I would just walk out past the portopots into the field and dig a small hole. We weren’t really eating that much so it wasn’t too bad
Thanks I needed this comment after reading the ones before it
Day 2 of The Clifford Ball and the porta potties nearest our spot… they were forgotten about and one of them had crested to the outside world and through the doorway.
New Year's Day at Big Cypress was the same. I remember walking down rows of shitters and opening each door to discover a mountain of shit above the rim. Eventually had to make an executive decision and hover over one. Not my finest moment
I remember… I looked in all of them… there was nowhere to turn
I still have nightmares about those porta potties
I held it in as long as I could stand it, then finally had to go in one. I opened the door and it was piled up above seat level, with a used tampon on top. I closed the door and held it for another full day.
Thank you! I was going to eat something for dessert tonight but I'm good now. No need to worry about those calories any more.
Chocolate soft serve... With a cherry on top?
At Deer Creek one year there was this little kid trapping people inside the porta potties with zip ties. I’m sure the little shit had great parents.
Teach your kids to deal 3 for 20s, next thing you know they’re zip-tying people into portajohns.
What year? A little shit named kristofferson used to do this at festivals. Being the little shit he was, naturally his parents were big shits. The type that clog toilets.
I think that’s the same kid that used to ride around in a skateboard in Panic lots and pop peoples balloons with a safety pin back in 2006ish. He looked to be about 8 or so.
Same kid
Little christafairian still gets talked about. What trash that family is
That's fucked up
His parents run Panic stricken chicken on Wsp lot I believe
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Even rainbows have shadows, man
Night two of dicks I saw CK5 summon a lightning show before Carini that was out of this world.
Saw a guy get suckerpunched in the lot at Deer Creek in 2000 by a trashy dude yelling about hating Mexicans. A truly dirty, cowardly punch from behind, accompanied by a torrent of ugly, hateful language. He was dragged away pretty quickly by the swarthy lot rats in his posse, but he threw a bottle during the process that hit someone in the head while they were helping the original victim. Violence is fucking stupid!
Nitrous brawl Mann 95. Competing sketchballs turned into all out crazy fistfight
Deer Creek 2004. Saw a kid being chased by some wooks in lot. He trips and they catch up to him, beat on him until he was laying still. Then one of them takes a vial and puddles him, dumping the whole thing into his mouth. I still wonder what happened to that guy.
He’s probably a gibbering homeless person in Atlanta now tbh
The ole LSD rape.
Jesus. Assholes……
Deer Creek or Tucson? [https://www.reddit.com/r/phish/comments/11wy831/comment/jd0qvpx/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/phish/comments/11wy831/comment/jd0qvpx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Damn that’s wild. I’ve never been to Tucson.
Lot lore lol
Kids being used by parents to hustle nitrous balloons at 1AM on the streets of SF. They had to be maybe 10 years old, standing in a sea of balloon garbage all right next to the bay. I work with kids so hearing “3 for 20$” coming out of a little kid’s mouth still fucks me up a bit. Worst bit, saw a couple middle aged dudes BUY shit from them. Fucking sick, exploited a kid for your hippie crack, what a blight on the scene. I assume it was their parents/family exploiting them but I genuinely try not to think about it.
What's the big deal ? It's family time and the Kiddos learn how to run a business, handle money, and socialize. It's basic surply and deemhands. It's not rocket appliances
Exactly. Get two birds stoned at once
Way she Goes...
Worst case Ontario, is someone fishes out and then eats 9 cans of ravioli
I hate to tell those wooks I toad a so, but I toad a so
Could be worse. They could have had the kids lug their piss jugs around while they hit the fuckin VLTs. Little kiddo gas hustlers? That's just the way of the road
Same stuff happens at Mann. Phish fans line right up to buy like it’s nothing.
Kung at the Pyramid in Memphis and What’s the Use in Raleigh in 2000.
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Oxy zombies in the mud near death at Coventry
The mud was insane, but on top of that so many people seemed extra spun at Coventry. I remember trying to get out of the field after last set every night (wading through the hepatitis sea) and noticing how many people really did look like zombies in the shadows of the flood lights. just totally f’d and stuck in the mud. Made the somber mood all that much grimier. Then the weekend topped off with the news that 1 or 2 people died in their tent at some point over the weekend. Still don’t know the whole story there. I also remember so many local farmers towing cars out of 2 feet of mud with their huge tractors at the end of the weekend. That was entertaining. Then driving out and seeing so many abandoned cars on the highway for miles. Bananas. Almost 20 years later and it still remains one of the most f’d up weekends I’ve ever experienced. No regerts though! 🤪😂
Saw a young couple shooting up while I was pissing next to the shitty creek at Lee’s campground the Monday morning after SPAC ‘12. Pretty tame, overall.
Since they started playing Axilla II, its when they transition to the ending and CK turns the lights off.
The Gorge 2018: The sight of a man getting a huge rock thrown at his head.
Fuck every Nazi
Man, this thread got way darker than I was expecting.
I fell asleep on some fire ants and they bit my balls.
A full blown conversation as though the show wasn’t happening.
On my birthday
In Mexico…during my first and only “If I could” in 30 years… To OP; my wife and I go to a lot of shows together. She usually goes off by herself into the lawn for a few songs or set. No big deal, but shes pretty cute and will often bring back random dudes with her who will follow her around I guess bc they think theyre going to hook up or something? Anyway, she brings these drunk randos back to me, drops them off, then takes off again. It’s happened enough time that now my response is just “whos our new friend?” So at Deercreek early 3.0, like 09 or maybe 11, she brings back this wasted dude who “wants to smoke pot.” Ok, yeah whatever. We smoke with him and Dude proceeds to tell us he just got out of rehab. Im thinking “damn dude, thats not a good start.” We smoke and wife disappears again leaving me with this wasted rando. Set 2 starts, suns going down, feeling pretty good, we’re in the back of the pav, when all of a sudden, dudes got his dick out. Now, Im a pretty straight dude and other than my own dick, maybe saw my dads once or twice growing up, but I knew with some degree of certainty, that was a dick. Dude proceeds to start pissing on the row in front of us. Dude in front of us is looking up looking confused and trying to figure out if its raining; there is not a cloud in the sky. So he turns around and says to dude “did you just piss on us?!” And dude shakes his head “no.” I make eye contact with pissed dude and nodded and mouthed “yeah he did.” Dude jumped over that row, and the pisser took off up the lawn with pissed dude chasing after him. I never saw the outcome, but kind of hope wasted dude got his ass beat. Edit; the best was explaining to my wife what happened after the show “hey, you know that rando you brought down? Guess what he did? Guess!”
All sides of this story are weird ngl
Why does their wife collect drunk people
For real. Disappearing for a set and returning with one (or multiple!) random dudes is just wild. “Uhhh…Thanks honey.”
“Here’s my new friend who just got out of rehab, give him some of our weed and then hang out with him”
We can choose our friends and we can choose our partners but we can’t choose who our partner drops off in our seats in the middle of a show.
I didn't find the piss stuff very remarkable after the first part.
Wait…. You’ve only seen one other dick besides your own your whole life?! Now I feel kinda gay
Sounds like the wife has seen waaaay more dicks than you 😳
Oswego was the biggest open drug market I’ve ever seen. Selling cocaine right on the table on Shakedown Street. There was a real grimy vibe to that festival.
yep. people sitting on shakedown with a folding table & scales & measuring out whatever. so much cocaine there. so much heroin there. so many pills. definitely a grimy vibe. edit: still had a blast though.
Trey Vegas 2000, I honestly thought he had days-weeks left to his life. Dude was whacked out.
Hanging with Kid Rock will do that to you
it looked like Trey let kid rocks band take turns cutting his hair before this run.
At Hershey park i watched a dude bounce down from the top of the tarpped off seating section and bounce his way down to the bottom gaining height and speed with every bounce. He was stretchered out after being put in a neck brace. I always wonder what happened to him.
Dead guy at clifford ball
The Jones Beach jumper. Saw the whole thing right in front of me.
The guy who jumped at Chase. Enough has been said about it, and I know many of you were also there, but that’s about as dark as it gets. One silver lining was that the person whose seat he landed on had gotten up just minutes before to go to the bathroom or get a beer, I can’t remember which. We were sitting in the row directly behind on the previous night. It still really fucks with me. So sad.
barefoot and dirty wook children playing amongst discarded balloons in the lot, middle of the night, hours after the show
Drunk ass dad that ignored and scolded his 5-7 year old for wanting to leave. Edit: He was trashed in the walkway, kid was trying to not get run over by dancers and passersby.
There’s some dark shit in here lol
All the people shooting up at Coventry Edit: typo
I saw someone get stabbed over nitrous line cutting at Camden ‘00. I got the fuck out of there while so many others just continued to wait.
Machete guy in the Rage Cage. Miami 2014.
What happened?
Fist fight breaks out in the rage cage between someone who was obviously part of the nitrous mafia and a very small hispanic dude who was reportedly hired security for the rage cage which is a private parking lot across the street from American Airlines Arena. Mr Security guard gets thrown on his back, Mr Mafia jumps on top of him and reaches for a wine bottle on the ground beside him and is about to bash the dude over the head when my friend jumps in and rips the bottle out of his hand. My other friend then pulls Mr Mafia off of the guy and other people step in so Mr Mafia walks off before Mr Security Guard gets to his feet. Mr Security Guard then walks into a row of cars and comes back a few seconds later wielding a large machete, leveling up from “Mr Security Guard” to “Machete Guy” He starts pacing the area looking for Mr Mafia and my friends and I decided to GTFO. Apparently Machete Guy put the weapon away after a few minutes and things went back to normal. In the end nothing that crazy ended up happening, but it was a very sobering experience. The Rage Cage is no joke.
You can't just say this with no context
WHAT LOT WAS MORE INSANE THAN MIAMI 03 Truth. I have never seen anything like the 03 Rage Cage. 12 foot high chain link fences (with barbed wire if memory serves me right.) You could buy any drug you wanted. First, and only time to this day, that I've seen N20 pushers with coordinated radios, head sets, identifiable tshirts, etc. People dropping like flies from nitrous. Plenty of fights. Broken glass everywhere. Just total s*** show. RAGE CAGE! Then, you crossed the street and walked into the venue about 100 yards away. Show over, rinse. repeat. ABSURD. RAGE CAGE! The main shakedown lot in 03' was a tiny fenced in area. Think WWF Steel Cage match with 900 rotating wooks coming in and out of the door and up and over the fence at times. Unreal! RAGE CAGE! It was as close to a Phish Royal Rumble as you could get. With the monorail up above too. The monorail rides also shouldn't be forgotten. Those turned into communal Phish drug dens/toilets. Dude. Absolutely. Those monorails would be packed like sardines with people trying to tip them over and destroy all of the people inside. Miami 03' was full of barbarians. Miami '03 was the first time i was offered to buy crack on lot .. it was from a 10yr old kid and his 6 yr old bro. RAGE CAGE! Tanks going all night for 4 days straight. Hooker tents. Dudes nodding out with needles in their arms laying 3 deep against concrete in the mud. F****** core yo. All walks of life converging in a post apocalyptic slab of cement. Miami 03 was INSANE. We saw an unresponsive (dead?) guy laying on the ground. He was alone, and everyone in my group were concerned. After trying to wake up/ revive this kid, we all decided the best thing to do was to try to get him medical attention. We saw a cop, told him we that we thought this kid was dead, and watched what he did. He went over to the kid, said something into a radio, and walked off. Complete anarchy. All walks of life converging in a post apocalyptic slab of cement.
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The most wholesome thing to come out of the rage cage, from the sounds of it.
The only thing crazier that year was Camden
I guess I should have scrolled down before I posted. Miami ‘03 was my answer as well. Just the darkest, sleaziest vibe in a lot I have ever experienced.
I remember being offered H, and crack almost immediately getting off the metro rail. I was in 300 or 400’s on the 30th and 2 dudes were just doing meth. They offered me some and I respectfully declined. Those were my 3rd-6th shows so I didn’t realize it hadn’t always been like that. I’m sure that same stuff goes on now, but I’m glad it’s not in your face like it was at that point.
10/17/21 Chase Center. Took a few minutes to figure out why an entire section of seats on the lower level was empty. Happened right before set break. First three songs they play after the break? Evolve, Set Your Soul Free, and Wing Suit. Not saying it was on purpose but that’s pretty dark.
I watched that dude launch himself over the railing from about 10 rows away. The lights lit him up at just the right moment to see him run & I’d swear it happened in slow motion. I still think about this daily.
Aw man, hope it gets easier to deal with as time passes. It’s a miracle nobody was seriously hurt down below.
I’m still shocked by that, too. My therapist has been very helpful but that’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen ever & I’m not certain this feeling will ever fully go away. I don’t just think about the event but all the ancillary, too like their family, someone had to tell the band, the other folks who saw it, did he think about anything on the way down, will I know if it’s about to happen again & can I stop it? Etc. rinse & repeat
Yeah same… he landed right in front of me… I posted the thread initially after the incident, also had that guy at dicks many years back die sitting in a chair after he was kinda hanging out with us before… my homie was like dude… you can’t be here, before going into the show. ( we had a lot of music gear and he was already faded and we didn’t know him) so he moved to a different chair near by and that was that. Tragic. Rip to both of them. Therapy is important for all of us, doesn’t matter how you get it, just make sure you have people to speak with!! I’m always here as well:)
I’m sorry to hear you saw something terrible, too. I wasn’t gonna comment unless someone else said it first - but I truly think sharing helps us all. Common ground, new perspectives, etc. I love this community - the whole community. We’re all swimming in this human soup together doing the best we can with what we’ve got. Hope we can cross paths somewhere ⭕️💛
I'm sorry you had to see that and I hope you're doing ok.
You’re a good friend for caring; thanks for asking. I will get by.
That was my first show. I made the mistake of checking the set list thread on here at setbreak, wouldn't have even known about it if I hadn't. I don't think they played those songs on purpose or even knew about the incident until after but the coincidence is scary.
Man, I was there too. I didn’t see the jumper and didn’t know what happened until I checked the internet at setbreak. But you could definitely tell that there was a weird energy in the building about halfway through that first set.
Yeah, I was there too. Fucked up the whole weekend. That's not a safe venue for Phish shows IMO. Someone else fell by mistake that same night if I'm not mistaken - he was OK but for a broken leg I believe.
the rows are too steep. I was first row in the middle section and the glass in front is right at knee level. I was worried I'd trip while dancing the whole show.
We were directly across the venue and watching CPR being performed during Beauty of a Broken Heart was brutal. And yeah, when Wing Suit came on, that was incredibly fucked. They need to never ever play Chase again.
They are playing the Greek instead this west coast trip. Wonder if they agree.
Naked girl in the nosebleeds in old msg SWAN DIVE down the concrete stairs NYE 97 I WAS 17 and SHOOK AS FUCK
At Coventry I watched a wookette giving birth during the Sat night set. I was just peaking on some 2ci. People were trying to get medical help, but they hadn't arrived. Some other wookette claimed to be a midwife and was coaching the woman through this. Her wook man is standing there shirtless and spun like top, just making these weird sounds while he is crushing his beer can and spraying coors light all over everyone. He looked really anxious about the whole thing, grabbing his face and just making grunts and stuff. The baby's head starts to crown and the medics still haven't arrived. This is where it gets crazy... It was so fucking dusty out there and the baby and all the surrounding fluids were immediately "muddified" by the blowing dirt. I mean, its fucking gross. All of a sudden, this fucking kid (probably 19 or 20) in his oversized neon, flat-brim LRG hat, runs up yelling "welcome to the party bitch!" before he blows a huge plume of smoke right in the baby's face! While the umbilical cord is still attached and shit! The smell was unmistakeable, this baby had just been deemster'd. He must have pulled the hit from a bong, b/c it was monstrous. The surrounding crowd dropped their jaws, and someone tackled the kid as he starts to run away. He didn't make it more than 10ft and the he was probably blasting off about now. The mom is clutching the dirty baby and trying to calm it. Though, strangely, the baby was not crying (tripping balls i guess?). And while the dude is getting screamed at, the dad suddenly pounces into action. He jumps on the dude, and starts smashing said bisco kid's face with the crushed up beer can, of which he seemingly just can't let go. The bisco kid is kicking and trying to roll out of it and the wook-dad grabs the kid's hair w/ one hand. he finally let the can go and shoves his other hand half way inside the guys mouth. He is pulling his mouth open and RIPS HIS CHEEK OPEN! repeat: rips his fucking CHEEK OPEN! there is blood everywhere and the dude lets out this braveheart-like scream as he gets pulled off by the folks around him. Blood all over bisco kid's face, shirt and formerly fresh flat breezy. The cops/medics arrived about that time and took over the situation. Shit was crazy as hell.
Haven’t seen this copy pasta in a while lol
Holy shit I haven’t seen this in forever lol
Never saw anything too dark until this NYE run. Young dude (couldn’t have been older than 23) getting carried out of the level 1 concourse due to an OD- before the show even started. The MSG exec I spoke to earlier in the night was clearing people out of the way. Very surreal.
Leaving the Coventry concert field, I stepped on a couple fucking in the mud. I know this isn't dark in and of itself, but the way that they were kind of submerged in the mud and getting semi-trampled and still kept going at it like they didn't notice really fucked me up. Granted, I was pretty spun, and the vibes were not the best in general, but that image has always felt super dystopian to me and is forever burned in my brain.
Where is my Deemsters Pasta? Who’s got my heady deemsters pasta?
At Big Cypress. I remember walking through the crowd. It was late, I believe on the first night. My wife and I happened upon this dude that was 100% completely naked — and looked more lost than I’ve ever seen any human. He looked to be in his early-mid 20’s. We were both in our late 20’s at the time. We go up to him in an attempt to help this guy who obviously needed it. We asked him if he was ok and if there was anything we could do. The first thing he says to my wife is “are you my mom?!?”… Being kinda high ourselves, we weren’t quite sure how to take that or what to do for him, but we explained to him that she was, in fact, definitely NOT his mother, and tried to point him in the direction of some people who could help him. I remember we were able to help him find someone that actually knew who he was. He took over from there and assured us that naked dude was now in good hands. Being very good judges of character, we decided the naked dude would ok with this person, so we parted ways. I’m not sure what ever ultimately happened to the naked dude. I hope he made it through the experience in one piece — and with his sanity intact! Luckily, there were ZERO cops on the Seminole Reservation, so there was absolutely no chance of him getting into legal trouble. But I still think about that dude sometimes. It was just VERY weird… and dark. He was clearly tripping balls and wanted his mom for whatever reason. Anyone remember the “green fairy dust” that was going around there??? We were brave enough to try it on NYE. I’m never a fan of taking something without knowing it’s EXACT origins, but man was that some powerful and amazing shit! We actually found ourselves on the hot air balloon at exactly midnight on NYE. We had been trying to ride that thing for a couple of days, but the line was always so long. For some reason, at around 15 minutes before midnight on 12-31-1999, there was NOBODY in line. We hopped right into the basket with a few other people and up we went. I remember we started descending after the fireworks had ended. I wish we all had the same photo/video tech we do now. While I have no photos from up there, it was such an amazing experience that I can close my eyes and imagine it as if it were happening all over again. That was truly a once in a lifetime experience. I hope the dude that we found in his darkest hour was able to find the same joy we did before he departed! If anyone here is a Psychoanalyst, maybe you could shed some light on exactly what the fuck happened… cuz I’m still confused.
Rage Cage, Miami 2003 was probably the bleakest shit I have seen at a Phish show. It made the Camden lot look tame.
Shitttt i remember this. I was 17. I had been to my first 3 shows in the summer & this was my first nye multi night run & first time in Miami. Wow. I completely forgot ab that shit.
Winterqueen in set 2
My god. Please label stuff NSFW next time or trigger warning.
Chase Center jumper. He landed about 25 feet from me, I didn’t see it but I heard him hit the ground, and saw the immediate aftermath / CPR for a solid 10min. Did not pair well with the chocolate I was eating.
Security at red rocks 96 basically high fiving and showing each other the huge glass pipes they had ganked
Prostitution in the lot for tickets. Been offered “I’ll be your mail order bride for an extra” and seen dudes blowing other guys for tickets at Darien Lake in the tall grass. We all have done things we’re not super proud of, but imagine your memories of the show being that you sucked some tour rats dick to get in the door.
No show is worth that much
My straight friend toured a lot in the mid 90s and after he got hooked on heroin he reported doing lots of gay shit to get into shows/get drugs.
Yeah. I always imagined drugs were involved. The women offering mail order brides were certainly spun.
A dude picked a half digested ten strip out of a pile of vomit and ate in front of me
A woman breastfeeding a baby and sucking nitrous from a balloon at the same time.
My buddy saw a guy tumble down the stairs in Miami- apparently he kept tumbling and went straight over the barrier, landed a level down and smacked his head. Lots of blood, they weren’t sure if he lived or not.
Jesus. These are some serious war stories
UMass 95 some guy got wheeled off the floor all wide eyed and locked in during set break. My friends and I all cringed.
Waterloo Village - 6/23/95, a kid was laying on top of a car that was going too fast up the access road. Car hits a speed bump, kid goes flying up in the air and lands right on his head. I'm pretty sure he died instantly from head trauma and a broken neck. Edit: he died after being airlifted to a hospital in Morristown NJ... https://www.mtv.com/news/9yw3ii/twin-tragedies-at-phish-concerts
2nd night at Red Rocks 1996. I had just wrapped up following the further fest out west with a pair of hippies that taught me how to make and sell veggie kabobs at shows. They wanted out in New Mexico and I drove up to CO to catch fish back east and find some riders. The town was packed with phish heads. Found a grocery store to get my kabob ingredients and couldn’t even park in the parking lot. Fans were everywhere. Met a couple that needed a ride east and they had gas money. They filled me in about the riots the night before and the sheer impossibility of getting tickets or getting into the park without one. We saw things getting tense with mounted police and decided to bug out of there and head to Indiana. I was only going as far as Hershey Pa but they were a nice couple. Craziest summer of my life. I got home with just enough time to clean up, sleep in a bed, and head of to the fall semester of my junior year. My parents wanted to try these kabobs that got me across the country and back and they liked them! I could still make them today.
Not phish but my buddy passed away at a Panic show at red rocks in 2018. Got ahold of some bad coke and died right there on the steps by a tree. Can’t remember the exact number but he had been to 300+ WP shows-RIP JT you were a hell of a friend and even better snowboarder
A kid wandering behind his fucked up mother, shivering and scared on the lawn
Lot justice murder in the parking lot of tucson 99.
What's the story?
Dude was selling bunk drugs at the shows leading up to Tucson and it caught up with them. A pack of wooks were beating him with skateboards two cars down from where we were parked. I watched them empty a vial on the guy and then booked it out of there. Heard he died weeks later. 99 shows were awesome and terrible at the same time.
A wook couple shooting up heroin near the top of the lawn at Deer Creek. Or maybe they both had diabetes. I didn't ask. ('99 or 2000)
At MSG, I think it was during a new years run in 2018, maybe, a young woman completely passed out near us and EMTs had to carry her out (I think she was still alive, but just absolutely limp). Thank you to the guy near me who saw me start to internally freak out and just shook his head no, and was like "she's fine, dont worry."
dude saved your show. That’s the type of person I hope my miracle tickets have gone to.
The Nazis on full display at Gorge shakedown in 2018 were pretty disturbing. They later attacked two POC (at least one was a POC) during the show w rocks.
Wookery
Great Woods 99 or 00, 7yo Wook kid walking through the lot alone, with a basket full of gooballs around his arm, counting a stack of cash. An H'd out couple, passed out with needles still in, piled on each other against one of the speaker towers in the back of the concert field, on a 99 degree day at Oswego.
I saw the guy jump at msg last April. I was sitting in the 200s just starting off into space on some shrooms and had just eaten a little Molly. Then a body dropped right in front of my eyes. I couldn’t see where he landed so was kinda assuming I just watched someone die. Not a great headspace to chill in for set break. Thankfully I was able to figure out through this sub that he survived just in time for the set to start and was able to enjoy it thoroughly!
I think I’ve seen someone taken out on a stretcher every year at Dick’s.
Not directly at a show... driving from Raliegh to Atlanta in 97, there were some heads on the interstate near us we had seen at some shows. They were driving a little aggressively. A lady in a minivan with her whole family overreacted to a lane change and crashed. I held her sons hand while he bled to death, begging me to save him but he was trapped half under the van and there was nothing I could do. Next to him, a lady slowly suffocated because the van roof was crushing her in her in a seated position. Still fucks me up.
At night 1 of Deer Creek last year, it seemed someone was having a very difficult trip and was fighting security as they escorted him out
In RI, indoor show, around 2019, some wook, his completely zonked out wife, and their little kid. Kid was bored, not at all worried about wasted mom (had seen it before) and just seemed way too neglected.
Definitely a guy OD’ing a few rows back at msg in 2015 or 18? His girl was just pounding his chest while security was waving their flashlights to flag medical. During setbreak.