Phish Playing 5 Nights at Red Rocks?
January 3, 2009 7:57 PM   Subscribe

Recent rumors are indicating that the rock band Phish could play a 5-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado this summer. Judging from this 1996 video--the last time Phish played the venue--there's good reason why this concerns the locals.
posted by jon_hansen (22 comments total)

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Are your kids listening to jam bands?
posted by grobstein at 8:11 PM on January 3, 2009


So let me get this straight--there are unsourced rumors that a band is going to appear in a small Colorado town, and further unsourced rumors that unnamed officials might not want that to happen because a kid threw a beer bottle in that same small town in 1996? That's the story you posted?

WHY IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA KEEPING SILENT ABOUT THIS?!?
posted by neroli at 8:18 PM on January 3, 2009 [1 favorite]


Whatever.
posted by Corduroy at 8:18 PM on January 3, 2009


speaking only for myself, although Kurt Vonnegut loved them, 5 minuets of Phish is cause for alarm, much less 5 days.
posted by edgeways at 8:19 PM on January 3, 2009


So as not to appear too snarky: wouldn't this be their third 'final' performance?
posted by Corduroy at 8:20 PM on January 3, 2009


How do people actually enjoy the music of Phish?
posted by decoherence at 8:23 PM on January 3, 2009


If a large, noisy hubbub of thousands of ignorant, uncouth teens stood around on the sidewalks of my street for two days, I'd shoot them all.
posted by yazi at 8:34 PM on January 3, 2009


yazi, you don't have to worry, I don't think the Young Republicans Convention is in your city this year. ;>
posted by jonmc at 8:44 PM on January 3, 2009 [1 favorite]


Actually, this comes to me as a great relief as I can adjust my avoidance beacons accordingly. I live in fear of a random encounter with the traveling Phish flotsam.
posted by grounded at 8:44 PM on January 3, 2009


What did the Phish-head say when the nitrous wore off?

THIS BAND SUCKS!
posted by netbros at 8:48 PM on January 3, 2009 [1 favorite]


Thank god for that. THose ingorant, noisy Young Republicans will thus avoid a messy, yet condign end. Can you think of any other barbaric, uncouth groups of youth (or really, any age) that will avoid my wrath this year, either by ceasing for a while to be barbaric, uncouth, narcissistic, ignorant and noisy? Or by not coming to my street? I'll need to make a list.
posted by yazi at 8:53 PM on January 3, 2009 [1 favorite]


yazi, you don't have to worry, I don't think the Young Republicans Convention is in your city this year.

He did say sidewalks, not the men's room. [snare drum]
posted by maxwelton at 8:53 PM on January 3, 2009


It amazes me how hostile this community gets over music.
posted by Caduceus at 8:54 PM on January 3, 2009


Haha! Hippies are dirty and listen to uncool music, amirite?
posted by lunasol at 8:58 PM on January 3, 2009


I like Phish.
posted by danb at 8:59 PM on January 3, 2009


Who wants grilled cheese sandwiches?
posted by interrupt at 9:05 PM on January 3, 2009


Though I no longer enjoy the music of phish, I am very appreciative of all the tapes I heard from their concerts when I was younger. I'm not sure how everything works, but it kind of seems like having fans record concerts and re-distribute them via cassette was not the normal model of music distribution at the time.

Most of the tapes I listened to were probably 6 or 7th generation tapes of concerts (very crappy in audio quality) and yet I loved them all so much more than any studio recording I heard of the band. It seemed like the Phish, and the Grateful Dead before them, understood Web 2.0 before it existed- copies cost nothing, and encouraging them helps the cause.
posted by localhuman at 9:06 PM on January 3, 2009


My first solo apartment came with a Phish poster on the bathroom door. It turned out to cover a big hole somebody had bashed in the door.
posted by nanojath at 9:07 PM on January 3, 2009


Good point, localhuman...they were also one of the first bands to offer their live shows for download mere days after the show. They've contributed quite a bit in terms of how digital music is distributed, and that directly comes from the days of allowing tapers at their shows.
posted by jon_hansen at 9:13 PM on January 3, 2009


CARTMAN
Hello, ma'am. I'm working to clean up
the neighborhood from parasites. Do
you mind if I take a quick look around
your house? I'm afraid you may have
hippies.

ELDERLY WOMAN
Hippies?

CARTMAN
Yeah, they've been poppin' up all over
the neighborhood lately. Ms. Nelson
next door had seven hippies in her basement;
they usually live in colonies. Hm,
I don't like the sound of that. Could
I take a look in your attic?

[The attic. He opens the door and looks in. He gets out a flashlight,
turns it on, and looks around again. He stops after a few seconds.]


CARTMAN
Oh yeah, boy. Take a look at this, ma'am.
See that? Hippies.

ELDERLY WOMAN
Oh my.

CARTMAN
These are what we call the uh giggling
stoners. Pretty common form of hippie,
usually found in the attics. Problem
is, if you see one hippie, there's probably
a whole lot more you're not seein'.
Uh, whe-where's the backyard.

[The backyard. The elderly lady opens the door and Cartman walks
out onto the back porch]

CARTMAN
Yep, that's what I thought. See that?
You've got a drum circle in your backyard.


ELDERLY WOMAN
Oh, well they showed up a few days ago,
but I didn't think they were hurting
anything.

CARTMAN
Yeah. You know, I had a guy in Jackson
county. He had a little drum circle
in his backyard. It turned into a drum
circle four miles in diameter. You get
a few hippies playing drums and next
thing you know, you got yourself a colony.


ELDERLY WOMAN
Oh dear.

[back inside the house]

ELDERLY WOMAN
Oh, well, so, so what do I do?

CARTMAN
Well, your attic could be so we can
fumigate with polymerethane. The drum
circle we're gonna have to gas. Goddamnit!
posted by ZenMasterThis at 9:19 PM on January 3, 2009 [1 favorite]


Judging from this 1996 video

Rage against the machine, man!
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 9:30 PM on January 3, 2009


The whole festival scene is just bad fucking news, anyway. It's not even about a bunch of hippies smoking quality pot and seeing cool live music, it's scary 'business hippies' doing scary serious shit that you don't want to be anywhere near- and it's all about the money in the end, and that really, really taints everything.

And I tried to enjoy Phish, but it just sounded like musical masturbation. Sure, it might be fun if you're playing it (or if you're on so many drugs you think you are) but I sure as hell don't want to listen to it.

Going to a festival where there's no Phish cover bands or money allowed would be awesome, though.
posted by dunkadunc at 9:32 PM on January 3, 2009


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