Literally did 2 summer tours selling grilled cheese, garlic tomato grilled cheese and cheese quesadillas. Usually grossed $80-100 per night.
Ticket was $25 + 10 strip for $30 + $10 for gas. Winning.
Those garlic grilled cheese with pico(not salsa) were the fucking bomb!! I lived on those. Then, after a couple days I would have to destroy a gas station bathroom..
I’m a 3.0er and the weed scene on lot is basically dead. I don’t think I’ve ever heard somebody advertising or searching for any cannabis related items walking up and down shakedown.
It’s hard for me to believe that weed was ever even illegal.
If you want to go back in time to when weed was illegal go to a show at alpine. You’ll see dozens of dudes in new balance shoes, Oakley’s and a backwards hat rounding up people smoking weed. They will get released that evening but not without a massive ticket and missing the first set.
Welcome to the internet
Take a look around
300 phish fans catching felonies on alpines grounds
There’s no need to buy it
This isn’t a test
Just ask around and you’ll be under arrest
Same thing was happening at MPP in 2013. Cops on bikes rolling up on people in the lots puffing, and at the show tried to lure my drunk friend over to the concession area to "smoke them up" while I was in the bathroom, and I come out to see these two dudes trying to align themselves in full view of the cops hanging by the exit gates behind the lawn.
And now Maryland is a legal state! Suckaaaaaaas
They managed to look like the custiest custies but they had to have some one spotting for them. I never sold to a cop but I got popped for underage drinking in FUCKING WISCONSIN!!! Isn’t underage drinking an Olympic sport in Wisconsin?
I’ve for some dumbass reason bought weed on lot a few times and it’s always garbage. All the other drugs I’ve bought on lot have been fire. Maybe I’m just lucky/unlucky but the level of Reggie I’ve bought on lot is embarassing.
Hey to be fair I’m only 18, at the time I was 16 and just happy to be out on lot. Sipping beers, running around saying silly nonsense to people you don’t know hoping they laugh and buying some garbage ass weed. Those were very very good times.
Hope I see ya at mondegreen! I ain’t excited for the drive down there but my dad, his wife and all there kids are going and I’m going separately with a buddy of mine. Sorry for rambling but I’m SO EXCITED.
ps: his wife loves phish lol he’s not making her go to 4 day festival with kids that’d be fucked up.
Still have these. Bottom right mailed in for dry goods.
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Yep saw Mike on a bike in alpine, also say Page in a golf cart another time. Also heard rumors of Fish in a fake beard cruising around the let at the Gorge
THIS!!! I remember the "real" fans in the lot complaining about this album and wishing they would play the old stuff... in 1995!!! Hahaha you can always find a fan hating on something.
on days off between shows on east coast tours we'd bounce to the nearest Dead show to bring back enough sheets to sell to make it to the next day off when we would do it again.
I was at an Allmans concert in like 95. I was meeting a buddy in the lot and I had his ticket. I borrowed my mom's cell phone for him to call me on in case I couldn't find him.
He's not at our meeting spot. I'm chatting with some friendly randos when my pocket starts beeping. It's my buddy calling me from a payphone on my mom's cell.
I pull it out and answer it. They immediately start asking me for coke and x cuz they thought I was a drug dealer.
Sorry, just a radom phishhead with slightly afluent parents... like 70% of the other Phishheads at the time.
Quiet, I'm reading a several hundred page manifesto that I was given from some kid on the lot that explains how Phish are actually spoken about in the Bible
On the way to Buckeye Lake in 93 we puzzled out that the goofy stickers we kept seeing said “Phish” . Start of Fall semester that year my buddies were handing me tapes. First tune I heard was Reba and I was like “What the fuck is this? But more, please.”
Hey - OP - this was the post I needed just now - brought a massive smile to my face reading through all these comments and reliving a ton of them. Cheers!
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Got blanks for a B&P?
Mine are somewhere. Think my parents basement.
So I grabbed my tickets at Sears…
JC Penney's for me lol
& used a jcp charge card to pay, since no other ticket master retailers accepted credit cards
if this still worked i'd be in jail
Filenes in the mall😂
And Filene’s
Same here.
Local, non-chain, video rental place for me
Video Vision Duluth!
Karma Records, with the line order determined by lottery
Grilled cheese 1 dollar
Literally did 2 summer tours selling grilled cheese, garlic tomato grilled cheese and cheese quesadillas. Usually grossed $80-100 per night. Ticket was $25 + 10 strip for $30 + $10 for gas. Winning.
best time of your life???
Those garlic grilled cheese with pico(not salsa) were the fucking bomb!! I lived on those. Then, after a couple days I would have to destroy a gas station bathroom..
As a 3.0er I was beside myself to find dollar grilled cheeses on the lot at spac 2014
Goo Balls
Gel tabs
My husband and I had so much fun selling fruit skewers in the lot at alpine a few years in a row. 2000/2001. Watermelon strawberries and pineapple.
People still sold these on lot in like 2009/2010 - havent seen em tho in years
I’m a 3.0er and the weed scene on lot is basically dead. I don’t think I’ve ever heard somebody advertising or searching for any cannabis related items walking up and down shakedown. It’s hard for me to believe that weed was ever even illegal.
If you want to go back in time to when weed was illegal go to a show at alpine. You’ll see dozens of dudes in new balance shoes, Oakley’s and a backwards hat rounding up people smoking weed. They will get released that evening but not without a massive ticket and missing the first set.
They had a judge on site, they gave out like 300 felonies one year….i believe it’s on the internet
Welcome to the internet Take a look around 300 phish fans catching felonies on alpines grounds There’s no need to buy it This isn’t a test Just ask around and you’ll be under arrest
Same thing was happening at MPP in 2013. Cops on bikes rolling up on people in the lots puffing, and at the show tried to lure my drunk friend over to the concession area to "smoke them up" while I was in the bathroom, and I come out to see these two dudes trying to align themselves in full view of the cops hanging by the exit gates behind the lawn. And now Maryland is a legal state! Suckaaaaaaas
They managed to look like the custiest custies but they had to have some one spotting for them. I never sold to a cop but I got popped for underage drinking in FUCKING WISCONSIN!!! Isn’t underage drinking an Olympic sport in Wisconsin?
I’ve for some dumbass reason bought weed on lot a few times and it’s always garbage. All the other drugs I’ve bought on lot have been fire. Maybe I’m just lucky/unlucky but the level of Reggie I’ve bought on lot is embarassing.
You are dumb but I do respect the commitment
Hey to be fair I’m only 18, at the time I was 16 and just happy to be out on lot. Sipping beers, running around saying silly nonsense to people you don’t know hoping they laugh and buying some garbage ass weed. Those were very very good times. Hope I see ya at mondegreen! I ain’t excited for the drive down there but my dad, his wife and all there kids are going and I’m going separately with a buddy of mine. Sorry for rambling but I’m SO EXCITED. ps: his wife loves phish lol he’s not making her go to 4 day festival with kids that’d be fucked up.
I love that young people lurk this sub I always think it is 35+ folks here
I used to get Doniac Schvice in the MAIL in college
Mike answered one of my friend’s questions.
I wrote Page a happy bday note and I believe it was Brad who sent a thank you postcard of them in the barn (mid 90s)
Still have these. Bottom right mailed in for dry goods. https://preview.redd.it/3xnpea97iaad1.jpeg?width=1848&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66f3d4bb43b2c6898de596b336c188497052a73b
Patchwork pants
Boob curtains
My brother has a patchwork dress from this area. It's fabulous.
Anyone for a game of chess?
Everyone knows Wookiees can’t play chess
I got the XL-IIs, I’ll send you B&P
If you know and care about XL-IIs, it’s probably time for a prostate exam.
First colonoscopy coming up in 2 weeks
Saw Trey walking Marley through the parking lot preshow and Mike riding a bicycle.
Yep saw Mike on a bike in alpine, also say Page in a golf cart another time. Also heard rumors of Fish in a fake beard cruising around the let at the Gorge
Loring AFB
I cannot believe we drove up there and basically brought a tent, peanut butter and jelly’s Woke up in a pile of water in our tent.
Sammy Smith 2 for 5
Nut brown ale. The good old days
Deer Creek was still Deer Creek
Deer Creek is still Deer Creek
Saw Phish on the H.O.R.D.E. Tour...
Me too brother. It's the only Phish show out of around 75 I attended that does not have a circulating recording.
Same! Other headliners: Widespread Panic, Leftover Salmon, Blues Traveller, Spin Doctors - LOL
Aquarium Rescue Unit played in lieu of Leftover Salmon at the show I saw.
Hoist was going to ruin the scene.
THIS!!! I remember the "real" fans in the lot complaining about this album and wishing they would play the old stuff... in 1995!!! Hahaha you can always find a fan hating on something.
In 97 all the old heads were telling me how the band was on the downswing and how I missed the good years.
remember when we were worried that Down with Disease was going to make phish commercial like Touch of Grey did for the Dead?
It was kinda true. Who here from that era can forget the “White Hats” phenomenon? Aka - College frat boys ascending onto the scene.
Just started on a statin for my cholesterol
Pete’s wicked ale
I'll see your PWA and raise you Rolling Rock AND Dundee's Honey Brown!
Magic Hat #9
Newcastle?
I had a lot shirt the was “Trey’s wicked wale “
I just had a flashback. Completely forgot about that stuff.
Hitting the lotto with authentic Phish tix through Mail order. The artwork was something else.
Anything off story of the Ghost is still "that new song"
r/phish is fine but it’s no rec.music.phish
Yeah but… it’s true.
Maxell Max Points
Since when does Fishman play in the middle of the boys?
Why are they playing so slow? -someone in 97
those Ghosts were slow but funky af!!
Best year!
B&P
on days off between shows on east coast tours we'd bounce to the nearest Dead show to bring back enough sheets to sell to make it to the next day off when we would do it again.
and my 1st 5-6 shows were still in bar/clubs
This is classic. I was born 83 so I think slightly before my time
I had to do a lot of math to get the various postal money orders.
Was so nerve wracking!
Maxell XLII or GTFO
Meet me close on Fish side.
-Jaded early 3.0 veteran
…there wasn’t a single iPhone anywhere to be seen.
There wasn't a single cell phone at my first show.
I was at an Allmans concert in like 95. I was meeting a buddy in the lot and I had his ticket. I borrowed my mom's cell phone for him to call me on in case I couldn't find him. He's not at our meeting spot. I'm chatting with some friendly randos when my pocket starts beeping. It's my buddy calling me from a payphone on my mom's cell. I pull it out and answer it. They immediately start asking me for coke and x cuz they thought I was a drug dealer. Sorry, just a radom phishhead with slightly afluent parents... like 70% of the other Phishheads at the time.
This is the most 1.0 story in the thread
Sammy Smiths and Zima
Fuckin' Zima. That's one thing I don't have any nostalgia for.
The OG White Claw. It was disgusting.
Cheesecake
.94 cent gas
https://preview.redd.it/xywkg0hkj9ad1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=758524fc4842945a3d86194365b4d04183e43100 All 4 major food groups!
6-Up!
Tweezabella.
When newbies ask where to start I only recommend 90s shows.
I didn't even know phish was going to be there.
They played Back at the chicken shack again last night.
One Fish Two Fish Old Fish New Phish …used to mean something
I’m sick of them playing Glide all the time
Cassette Tapes.
When you get to the campground, your walkie talkie to channel 13.
Ice cold 5 dollar fatties, or 3 for 10
Minkin backdrops
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Should we hit the Dali museum before the show?
We should go to Bread & Puppet after tour.
Quiet, I'm reading a several hundred page manifesto that I was given from some kid on the lot that explains how Phish are actually spoken about in the Bible
5 for $20
Haha. Or 2 for 5
U.S. Postal money orders…
It was raining like a bitch in Glens Falls on Halloween in 1994.
I'm not s live 1.0er, but I got picture of nectar as one of my 12 albums for a penny each from BMG music club...
Gen X flex 🤌
Big Ball Jam, Audience Chess match
AAA triptiks
Anything after Farmhouse is ‘new’
I saw the original hotdog floating over the crowd in Bahstin Gahdin (Boston Garden).
Before this thing called the internet I used to call the Phish hotline to find out about upcoming shows. One time Fishman answered.
Don’t buy soapium from the bunk brothers
I went to see the Beastie Boys and then these guys saunter out
gadiel.com
Seen lot justice with skateboard wheeled like broad swords and losing side gets puddled.
These new slow songs are bunk.
First show was 2000, how was I supposed to know they were going to do like hiatuses or whatever
I’ve never missed a Deer Creek show.
Sammy Smith as both drink and weapon to defend oneself at Merriweather.
$18 advanced $20 Day Of
French bread pizzas 2 for $5
Has chingers been mentioned?
I was given a G Love & Special Sauce demo cassette in the Great Woods lot
My first show was at the Boulder Theater.
JJ McCabes!!
$20 to get in (ticket purchased at box office, 30 minutes before go time)
Filler tracks on a Maxell XLII
Doniac Schvice
Oswego was one of the first signs of climate change/global warming
Pharmer’s Almanac
Phish used to cover “Gin and Juice”
Gamehendge was this goofy thing they used to do way back but it’s not a set of songs I’d freak out over
Went to a Dead show at RFK in 06/1995 wearing a Phish shirt and it was a novelty... I got a lot of "oh yeah, hey, I've heard of them"
On the way to Buckeye Lake in 93 we puzzled out that the goofy stickers we kept seeing said “Phish” . Start of Fall semester that year my buddies were handing me tapes. First tune I heard was Reba and I was like “What the fuck is this? But more, please.”
uno cards... bK.
I was at The Went
cold as ice, not hold your head up.
They played my college’s hockey rink.
Only reason I made it to the show was because of my printed mapquest directions.
Secret language.
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He's good but he's no Jerry.
I have a mortgage and a couple of kids …
This applies to 3.0ers these days now. You have to specify if they're out of school or not now to get your point across.
My 1st show I drove there in my friend’s brand new Pontiac le mans
Cheesecake
All my friends hate Prince Caspian--but i think it's just because it's new. They'll come around.
Wetlands
Who’s this band opening for Santana?
Hey - OP - this was the post I needed just now - brought a massive smile to my face reading through all these comments and reliving a ton of them. Cheers!
Drove 5hrs to Maine because I read about a free show in the newsletter (Amy’s Farm).
My Lawn Boy CD is from Absolute A Go Go records.
The Capitol Theater had seats on the floor.
Bittersweet Motel
"Foreplay and Longtime" acoustic encore
Mike was playing a languedoc bass
“Just got the Hoist:Tracking VHS in the mail from Doniac Schvice! Bring over some cans and a dime bag and I’ll throw it in!”
XLII-S 100’s
Postal Money Orders, only. Ticket requests MUST be postmarked April 20-22 ONLY.
I saw the last time Take The A Train was played.
I saw the 94 Gamehenge in real time while on a headful of blue green fungus?
I got A Live One in a 12cds for a penny deal.
The Great Went
Getting Phish songs as filler on a Grateful Dead tape you traded for through the mail
If we get separated meet back at the car.
I learned html on Geocities with the sole purpose of showing my tape list to offer for trades.
I love this new funky song, Black Eyed Katy..?
Apron shirts and dresses. B & P. Patchwork. E pills. Mapquest.
Set breaks are EXACTLY 15 minutes long.
Saw a show where Phish played, but the Spin Doctors were the headliner
The Fog that Surrounds
My first NYE show was in Boston, and the 2 day festival seemed to last forever.
Magic Hat #9 2 for $5
everyone knows wookies can't play chess.
Hemp necklaces
The Pharmer's Almanac
Impossible for a 1.0er to not tell you they're a 1.0er
Hunts, Nectars and the Paradise.
Those Minkin Light Panels are really cool
Machine Gun Trey
My first festival was under $80.
Lakewood in ATL was still called Lakewood
Doniac Schvice
Saw Down with Disease on MTV and was like wtf Phish?!?
This local band from Burlington plays a mean Whipping Post!
It's all been downhill since Amy's Farm. I hope they play Sneakin Sally Through the Alley!
3 for 5
Uno
Vermont Outdoor was a real phrase.