This was one mug shot that had me slack-jawed because playing that music while high on meth seems impossible, and unenjoyable at best.
Plus, to have a meth habit with Phish money to back it up? Shudder.


/still likes phish
//not as much as death metal

Matisyahu likes Phish. I like Matisyahu. Hence, I like Phish.

/what

Oh right, mugshot

H_is_for_Heretic: This was one mug shot that had me slack-jawed because playing that music while high on meth seems impossible, and unenjoyable at best.
Plus, to have a meth habit with Phish money to back it up? Shudder.

Thought he was busted for OxyC's & valium.

** Wiki-fu **

The drugs included heroin and the prescription drugs hydrocodone, alprazolam, and oxycodone, prescribed to someone else.

Pretty much the antithesis to meth

I'm shocked, shocked to learn that rock musicians have ever been involved with any sort of drugs.

rocinante721:

Pretty much the antithesis to meth

Oh, sorry, then I completely understand the appeal of that combination. Must have been thinking of Les Claypool.

The only thing worse than a drum solo is a bass solo.

/bass player

Funny headline subby!

These guys played my campus about 16 or 17 years ago and no one bothered to arrange for security. As the on-duty "Manager" for our Student Union, I had the privilege of walking around all evening confiscating pot and beer from damn near everyone in the room.

I've never understood this phenomenon. I'm not what you'd call a "fan" of their music, but neither do I actively dislike it. What is it about it that attracts the "hippie element" in DROVES? Or is it not the music, but the band itself?

I just don't get it. Can anyone explain it?

Farkeologist: I just don't get it. Can anyone explain it?

Jerry Garcia liked their music, then he died and all the hippies had to follow someone around. I guess they could have followed Jimmy Buffett but then they would have to start drinking.

Farkeologist: I just don't get it. Can anyone explain it?

VW buses have a secret hippie auto-pilot. They all end up at Alpine Valley when the THC content in the air is high enough.

Farkeologist: As the on-duty "Manager" for our Student Union, I had the privilege of walking around all evening confiscating pot and beer from damn near everyone in the room.


Oh, so you are a complete asshole then.

Farkeologist: What is it about it that attracts the "hippie element" in DROVES? Or is it not the music, but the band itself?

I just don't get it. Can anyone explain it?

It's the scene, not the music. I know people that hate their music that hung out in that circle just because of the dope. They can't name one Phish song but they sure can tell you all of the stuff they scored.

I didn't even know they broke up.

Bullshiatter: Farkeologist: I just don't get it. Can anyone explain it?

VW buses have a secret hippie auto-pilot. They all end up at Alpine Valley when the THC content in the air is high enough.

Win

/Alpine Valley FTW

I was having a real shiatty day until I heard this.

Highway Bill's on the rotary still and he can't even feel the pain
Of a sun dried shoulder and a scar from a boulder that cut him right across his vein
Now he's sucking cigar and he's shoveling tar in the crater of a turnpike terrain
He's got only one hope, and he wants to elope, because Highway Jill is driving him insane

/Was at the Show when they busted this out in '03.
//Still gives me goosebumps

Tom_Slick:

Jerry Garcia liked their music, then he died and all the hippies had to follow someone around. I guess they could have followed Jimmy Buffett but then they would have to start drinking.

Whoa buddy.
Deadheads & Phish heads are 2 different animals.
While a few of them enjoy both bands, many side with one or the other.

/followed The Dead for a long time
//can't stand Phish at all

DWitchiewoman

Whoa buddy.
Deadheads & Phish heads are 2 different animals.
While a few of them enjoy both bands, many side with one or the other.

/followed The Dead for a long time
//can't stand Phish at all

Not true, every single phish head I have ever met loves the Dead.

I've had good times at Phish shows.

Hint: Don't EVER go to indoor Phish shows. The B.O./patchouli/marijuana smoke combination is enough to make you pass out.

Heroin....sigh.

My son got hooked on that shiat. He's in jail now and he's all but ruined his life. Horrible, horrible stuff.

....and I like Phish.

/The Rift album FTW.

sje1978:

Not true, every single phish head I have ever met loves the Dead.

That's because The Dead are better than Phish.
Phish is all they have though. Many of them are just too young to have been able to make it to Dead shows.

When Jerry died there was a whole slew of Phish heads online complaining that they didn't want Deadheads in "thier scene"
There has been some rivalry ever since.

My friend Mike put out this sticker:

Jerry is dead
Phish sucks
Get a job

sje1978: Not true, every single phish head I have ever met loves the Dead.

I don't think it goes the other way, though.

Saw the Grateful Dead dozens of times. Always had a good time. Drugs and "scene" were fun, but it was always about the music which flowed and ebbed.*

Went to a Phish show that all the phishheads touted as the most unbelievable night of rarities and specialness that they'd ever seen (1996 or so at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver) but the music really failed to move me at all.

(*That's probably why the 1993-1995 years were so weak. The "scene" got bigger while the music got way worse -- Jerry forgot lyrics, keyboard players kept dying, shows ended with Throwing Stones -> Not Fade Away with the "I Fought the Law" encore. Boring. The band was on autopilot. I'd leave early to go prep burritos.)

purple helmet: Heroin....sigh.

My son got hooked on that shiat. He's in jail now and he's all but ruined his life. Horrible, horrible stuff.

....and I like Phish.

/The Rift album FTW.

Sorry to hear about your son. Pot is a great drug with no real side effects, but heroin is a different beast entirely.


And Rift is my favorite album, too. The solo section of "Maze" is 23 kinds of awesome.

/ Seen 'em about 897 times
// Love their shoreline amphitheater shows
/// drove cross-country on Hwy 10 for a 3 day show deep in the Florida Indian marshlands on New Years 2000. Wouldn't trade that memory for the world.

DWitchiewoman: My friend Mike put out this sticker:

Jerry is dead
Phish sucks
Get a job

Your friend Mike is an enormous loser. I can see why you get along, though, since you are as well.

I saw a lot of great Phish shows from '92 right through to Coventry. Even at the end, especially the Mansfield, MA shows just before Coventry, they still had it in them to take the audience on an adrenaline-riddled musical journey.

But I'd like to see them work on it a little harder this time around. Rehearse a little more.

IMO, Trey is still one of the greatest living rock guitarists, and if can get his head straight, I don't doubt that he can lead Phish back to some glory. I'd really like to see it happen.

I don't care about the band, but as long as this means Ben & Jerry's "Phish Food" stays on the market, I'm totally cool with it.

That's some good farkin' ice cream.

They may reunite, but they ain't playing until they see a prescription.

Reunite? They broke up four farking years ago. FOUR YEARS! Hell, it's only been two years since Trey and Mike toured together with the B/R Duo. Sheesh.

Does anyone know if Page's solo album is any good? Mike's work with Leo Kottke and just about everything Trey's done by himself have left me very cautious.

dna_level_c: The only thing worse than a drum solo is a bass solo.

/bass player

Murderface bass solo (contains bare cartoon ass)

A Phish reunion would be cool, I just barely missed ever seeing them live.

/The town trey got busted in is just a little north of me
//he gets seen all the time doing community service type stuff
///he even had to go do career day at my old high school
//phish

The Dead wrote all time classic Americana songs, and Robert Hunter wrote poetry that will stand the test of time like Brokedown Palace and Jack Straw.

Phish wrote The Wolfman's Brother.

DWitchiewoman: My friend Mike put out this sticker:

Jerry is dead

And yet he still sells more records than you and Mike. What will you do when you're dead? Rot in the earth or rot in the earth while continuing to be loved worldwide? I'd take the latter given the chance.

Phish sucks

Subjective opinion, IE, worth nothing. People seem to dig them, they're a proper live band, that's fine.

Get a job

Most of us have jobs, some of us have pretty good ones. Weird, I know, but that's how we afford records, tickets and weed, you know, after we've fed the wife and kids and paid the mortgage. Tell Mike, relax knobend, have a joint and de-stress. And that he wasted his money and time.

wow, Phish ...not on drugs.

um sounds like a good time...

in opposite land.

Moses To Sandy Koufax:

What's the matter? It's not ok to think Phish sucks?
What's the matter? It's not ok to have an opinion on the internet?
What's the matter? You've seen the sticker & it's been pissing you off since 1995?


You really shouldn't need to resort to insults, but when you grow up you will probably still do that anyway. Get a grip.

Phish sucks. I'm not the first to say it, and I surely won't be the last.

Zem:

I am well aware that Jerry still sells plenty o' music.
I followed the band for a long time, and ended up working for GDP.

Sounds like you need to lighten up. It's just a sticker from 13yrs ago, when a lot of us were laughing at the idea of doing Phish tour when Jerry died.

My initial point was that not all Deadheads are Phish heads.
Hence, the example of the sticker.

dna_level_c: The only thing worse than a drum solo is a bass solo.

/bass player

not a mike gordon bass solo... that dude is a farking blackbelt

purple helmet: Heroin....sigh.

My son got hooked on that shiat. He's in jail now and he's all but ruined his life. Horrible, horrible stuff.

....and I like Phish.

/The Rift album FTW.

Listening to it right now (All Things Reconsidered)


Personally, I would love to go to a Phish concert (broke up before I got into them) and make sure to make it into a good road trip.


And to all people who say Phish sucks:

Good for you. You have an opinion on music that is different from others but frankly, we don't care you think Phish sucks. You enjoy your music and we'll enjoy ours.

clod9: dna_level_c: The only thing worse than a drum solo is a bass solo.

/bass player

not a mike gordon bass solo... that dude is a farking blackbelt


Bass player who loves bass solos (Mound one coming up as I type this) and thinks there should be more bands out there doing them.

Yawn. Big whoop.

Farkeologist: As the on-duty "Manager" for our Student Union, I had the privilege of walking around all evening confiscating pot and beer from damn near everyone in the room.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you were NOT at any of the following colleges: Reed, Antioch, Bard, Swarthmore, Hampshire, Oberlin...well, I could go on, but you get the picture.

I'm glad you took that pot. God knows how many people those potheads would have MURDERED to get their next fix!!!!

InmanRoshi: The Dead wrote all time classic Americana songs, and Robert Hunter wrote poetry that will stand the test of time like Brokedown Palace and Jack Straw.

Phish wrote The Wolfman's Brother.

If my words did glow
With the gold of sunshine
And my words
Were played
On the harp, unstrung
Would you hear my voice
Come through the music?
Would you hold it near?
As if it were your own?

vs.

Your tires are the part
Of your car
In contact with the road

HMMM......

sje1978: Not true, every single phish head I have ever met loves the Dead.

I guess if every guy named "Bob" I knew smoked crack, I could reasonably assume all other "Bobs" smoked crack!!!!

nirwana: Bullshiatter: Farkeologist: I just don't get it. Can anyone explain it?

VW buses have a secret hippie auto-pilot. They all end up at Alpine Valley when the THC content in the air is high enough.

Win

/Alpine Valley FTW

Damn right, Alpine Valley FTW! That's where I first met the "whispering people"!

/pot
//shrooms?
///dose?

"When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I'm not gonna go around playing You Enjoy Myself for the rest of my life. And it's so funny because [Jon] Fish[man] and Mike [Gordon] and Page [McConnell] have been talking to each other a lot lately and now - it's not that I can't believe that I said that, but it's symbolic of how much I lost my mind or how much I lost my bearings or something. Because at this point in time I would give my left nut to play that song five times in a row every day until I die."

Please, keep it, and do your right nut a favor.

I'm confused as to when Phish has ever done a 38 min. bass solo. As someone who never had the opportunity to see Phish live, I'd love to see them reunite. Trey needs to do something different, his solo stuff has been full of fail.

Bill_Wick's_Friend: sje1978: Not true, every single phish head I have ever met loves the Dead.

I don't think it goes the other way, though.


It certainly doesn't - and one of the biggest Phishheads I know only thinks the Dead are 'okay'.

Phish had its moments, but I never went out of my way to see them - didn't even see the last simulcast show...had enough in the movie theater the day before.

What did the Phish fan say when the drugs wore off?

"Man...this band SUCKS!"

dna_level_c: The only thing worse than a drum solo is a bass solo.

/bass player

Cliff Burton would like a word with you.

Phish threatens to reunite. EVERYBODY WIDESPREAD PANIC. AFTER THE 38-MINUTE BASS SOLO

FTFY

/HATES Birkenstock rock

I've never met a hardcore Phish fan that wasn't a brain-dead, pothead douche bag.

Nemo's Brother: I've never met a hardcore Phish fan that wasn't a brain-dead, pothead douche bag.

My buddy and I are both fans, both in law school, i prefer phish fans to meathead douchebags who wear the shirt of the band they're going to go see play eyebrow ring music on severely tuned down guitars.

Phish is the world's greatest bar band. That's it, nothing more, nothing less.