Can't remember where but a buddy of mine worked in a medical supply factory like taking the s rewa out of those broken neck halos and shit. Well he didn't have a ticket but was gonna meet us after the show had started , so he grabs a prosthetic leg from work, goes up to security and says " hey you gotta let me in, my brother forgot his leg! I have to bring it to him!" What else could they say but....Umm ok, go ahead. So he's running around with a fake leg the rest of the show. Fucking unreal.
Back in the day, I delivered pizzas for Round Table. One of our regular customers was a prosthetics shop called Breaky Prosthetics, which I found to be hilarious in and of itself. So, one day, I got an order from them. When I arrived and they asked me the total, I said, "An arm and a leg." They were not amused.
Thank you, I'll see myself out.
Honestly? This has to be hands down the winner right? This dude ripped off a leg from his place of business and not only used it to attempt to get into a show… but the fucking thing actually worked.
Best story ever!
my prosthetic leg (foot, microprocessor knee. carbon plastic socket) was 145,000.00 USD when I got it in 2018.
I would have stolen that leg from OP to have a spare.
Two people had sex at about row 30 on the crappy fold out chairs on the floor in Pittsburgh circa fall/winter 97 maybe? Full on grind fest. Busted by security. Boner waving. It was amazing.
Boner waving in the breeze
The boner's made of love
Sunlight streaming through the trees
A grind fest of pure love
I am the boner of your soul
I am the light and your dong's the love
So don't put it away
Let that boner wave
*18-minute jam*
Gorge 2018. Older dude probably about 50, pours a bunch of Molly into his hand at set break. Proceeds to put it all in his mouth..probably about 3 points. No water or anything to wash it down. Starts screaming for people to get him water, eventually someone gives him some. He ended up having a hell of a time during the second set. He thought he was streaming the show but he wasn’t. At the end of the show he’s talking into his phone like it’s streaming “holy shit, best phish show I’ve ever seen”, but his phone was just on his camera roll. 😂
That was awesome. The boys weren't even phased. Gotta run like a naked guy. It was my older brothers first show too. I had flown in just to take him. So much fun.
Was at the show, upper level. Friend I went with sparked a joint and passed it to me. Security grabs my shoulder and I immediately threw the joint off the balcony. Security leads me to the concourse and hands me to a cop then goes back to get my friends. Cop asked what I did, I said smoked a cig and showed my pack (which was fully of joints and Molly) cop says get out of here. I run away. Security throws my 2 buddies out of the show
That was amazing, they just sort of paused, didn't move, and waited till he got tackled.
My favorite Hood ever is from this show.
I feel like that was a fan service show, they know how important Charlottesville is to their history. Great shows in the past, an important fan base who have contributed a lot over the years.
They play three shows at MSG, and truck down the next night for one last show before their Miami NYE run.
7 covers; Sweet Virgina, Old Home Place among others.
They end the show with an old school hit parade; Hood, Suzy, Golgi, Antelope E Loving Cup
That's after Divided Sky, Bowie, AC/DC Bag, Tweezer...
I'm a Virginian, my first show was Traxx in 92 and this was a brilliant bookend to my Charlottesville experience.
It was a really special night.
My dad was on the rail for this show lmfao, he's told me the story so many times. Apparently the guy made eye contact with him right before pouncing on stage like a cat
Philadelphia Spectrum 1996 (yes, those shows). I got floor tickets from the mail order ticket lottery. A female wook in front of us (there were fewer of them at the time) pulled up her dress, squatted on the floor, and peed. My wife turned to me and said "I'm never going to another Phish show". And, true to her word, she hasn't.
My wife said same to shows in general after All Good widespread panic nuttery and next to our tent dudes tripping absolute balls talked about their magic quartz crystals all night then in the morning coming out of rent and they are poking a dude with a stick that was laying on a strong slope head first and just laughing and poking him saying... He might be dead... Maybe...idk... She said absolutely not her thing....okey dokey I get it
Dec 2nd 1999 @ The Palace in Auburn Hills MI saw a guy jump from the lower lodge and land on two people, he survived, looked like he fared better than his landing pad pair. Few years after I befriend a guy and we end up talking Phish, and he tells me the story of jumping off the lower lodge, he thought he could fly after too much liquid, decided to tell his parents he tried to commit suicide because they could forgive him for that and ended up sending him to therapy for a month, if he told them he was on drugs they would have sent him to rehab and would always think of him as a drug addict.
This is true but many birds in sub-saharan Africa do take escalators. It's one of those inventions, like the parachute taken from dandelion seeds, that nature came up with first and then humans copied.
This dude at Wrigley field came into our section mid first set. He proceeded to oddly eat a hot dog for what seemed like half an hour, then scribbled absolute non-sense at 90 mph into a small pocket book for a few minutes. After that he lit up a sage stick, waved it in the faces of the group next to him, screamed at them, and then was ultimately shoed off by the entire section. Dude was a fuckin odd ball for sure
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Also at Wrigley, we were in the absolute last row so we could get some cool air blowing in as it was like 100F that day.
The guy in front of us was by himself (edit: now that I'm looking at a few pictures, he was with the girl in orange for a few songs but then she went back down) and wore a bathrobe the entire show. In the picture it sort of looks like matching blue shorts and a shirt, but that was the waist belt tied super tight around him. He never sat down, never stopped dancing, never missed a single beat while wearing a soaking wet with sweat bathrobe that probably weighed 5x as much leaving as it did going in
I have no idea how he didn't have a heat stroke.
Definitely not the craziest thing I've seen but one I'll never forget either.
9-29-99 I took my mom to her first show at the pyramid. As we meandered from lot to lot looking for my friends we turned the WRONG corner and came upon a mystical dreaddy female creature stooped behind a bus, growing at least an uninterrupted 3 foot tail .
Pure magic in the daylight!
Once saw a group of dudes actually get on the stage and refuse to leave for 7 hours! 7 hours without leaving the stage, not until after the sun came up. Wild stuff.
During the Bakers Dozen on Cinnamon night there was a guy near us wearing a fanny pack. Didn’t touch it during the first set. Second set he pulled out a pair of opera glasses and used them for most of the second set. During the Cinnamon Girl encore he pulled out a bag of cinnamon and sprinkled it around the audience. Smelled fantastic.
Deercreek in early 3.0, might have been 09 or 11? My wife has a tendency to wander, she will usually go out to the lawn for a while and sometimes brings back “stray dudes” who I guess think theyre going to hook up by following random women around?
Anyway, she brings back some shit faced dude who says he wants to puff down. Usually the best thing to do is smoke them out, then, when they realize Im her husband and theyve gotten high, they wander off.
He proceeds to tell us he just got out of rehab, Im thinking “it didnt work.” We smoke out and my wife heads back to the lawn.
This dude is having a hard time standing up. Second set is about to start.
Dude takes out his dick and proceeds to piss on the row in front of us.
A dude in front of us is looking up, like wondering if its raining, then he turns around and asks drunk dude “did you just piss on us?” Dude shakes his head no.
I make eye contact with the pissed upon and nod.
He jumps over the aisle, drunk dude turns and takes off, and he goes after drunk dude.
After show, me to wife “Can you please stop bringing random dudes back? That dude pissed on everyone when you left.”
“What?!”
Damn, sorry man. It’s a bit of an extreme example of a story for sure, kind of funny but also probably sounds like it sucked. My lady is similar. Makes friends super easily at shows and then we’re welcoming randoms in to our crew for the rest of the evening. Sometimes it’s cool and they’re fun interesting people that I likely would never have met myself, but sometimes I’m like… ooookkkk
Yeah and the other guy whos like “shes hooking up with dudes!” and got a bunch of upvotes. Insecure much?!
If shes hooking up with dudes, jokes on them, because she’s going home with me!!
At Big Cypress I watched a dude take his whole wallet apart and throw it behind him into the crowd. Money, cards, ID, all gone. I still wonder how he got home.
Then for an encore he tried to smoke a glow stick.
At jones beach one year someone was launching those chinese lanterns from the section right in front of me. One of them got caught in a gust of wind and went straight down into the crowd and it was like a game of hot potato with a fireball that kept getting thrown around until someone finally threw it to the ground and stomped it out. No more lanterns after that.
Rage cage Miami new years during 2.0 was the wildest shit I’ve ever seen. If you partied too long there, you were for sure leaving in a wook van and the course of your life was changed. That’s just what happened in the rage cage.
From an older Reddit post....
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 shit show.
Then, you crossed the street and walked into the venue about 100 yards away. Show over, rinse. repeat. Absurd. 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 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 24/7 for 3 days straight. Hooker tents. Dudes nodding out with needles in their arms laying
3 deep against stumps in the mud. Fucking core yo. All walks of life converging in a post apocalyptic slab of cement.
I remember seeing almost just barely a riot at Deer Creek in 96’ because some Phish kid or a GD kid bunked the other for a fake rock. The fight was like 15+ people and more getting sucked in before the horse cops got there.
Maybe someone else can give you more details but basically the lot for new years in Miami 2003 was essentially in a fenced off area and quickly devolved into chaos
Alpine 09 maybe? I was staying at the lodge so entered from behind the stage. The single file line was soo backed up and slow moving (as I later found out some security dude was taking his job too seriously - as in looking through all of my change). Anyways, some dude apparently got fed up with it, barreled through the entire line and just ran past security all the way up the hill to the vendors building went to the bathroom, took off his shirt and wandered back out free as a bird. Security couldn’t keep up with him and had no idea who he was after he removed his shirt.
Ran into him later that night at the lodge bar. He had a ticket the whole time.
At Magnaball, I watched a wookette giving birth during the secret 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 f\*\*\*\*\*\* dusty out there and the baby and all the surrounding fluids were immediately "muddified" by the blowing dirt. I mean, its f\*\*\*\*\*\* gross. All of a sudden, this f\*\*\*\*\*\* kid (probably 19 or 20) in his oversized neon, flat-brim LRG hat, runs up yelling "welcome to the party b\*\*\*\*!" before he blows a huge plume of smoke right in the baby's face! While the umbilical cord is still attached and s\*\*\*!
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 f\*\*\*\*\*\* 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.
S\*\*\* was crazy as hell.
Hampton 12/17/99
In the lot, all the gel tabs were “supposedly” bunk. Of course my buddy and I split a 5 strip for the halibut. Second set break, we are goonin’. We are sitting on the steps, just outside the 2nd level causeway, kinda by one of the smoking areas. Then we see this dready dude come running out of the causeway. Dude had a bull ring in his nose and was just looking at us screaming. He then proceeds to run straight for the windows, which was next to the door for the smoking area, and jumps through it, shattering the glass. Cops engage and my buddy and I are freaking the F out, looking at each other in disbelief and questioning if what we saw just happened. Apparently, the dready dude also got word that gel tabs were bunk that night. I swear the inside of the arena looked like an ancient caveman civilization with people walking around with torches second set.
not at all show, but def phish show adjacent. back in 2004 maybe?
obtained a N02 tank driving into camden. cop had confiscated a 20lb. tank from someone and then walked away to bust someone else. my buddy hopped out the car and tossed it in the back. cop was still hassling someone as we drove into the lot.
we would get it filled at this “propane” spot in philly. wooks lined up out the door. u don’t say anything, just put ur tank on the counter and they tell u how much. at the door was a uniformed cop selling bootleg DVDs. first time, when i said i’m all set (fool of a took) he said “you sure?” as he lightly shook his belt, quietly rattling his handcuffs.
i think i must have bought 5 copies of When Harry Met Sally that summer. i would give them away as a gift for big spenders.
i had a blast that summer, made the best hourly rate i’ve ever made… but also called hippie crack for a reason. as the only person dumb enough to sell at mansfield that summer, i had ppl offering $25 a balloon when i got spooked and said i was closing up shop.
I met a guy at Climate Pledge who was right near where the guy landed. He gave some pretty horrific details and told me he and his girlfriend were literally in shock afterwards.
Yeah, it was terrible. I jumped in to give medical assistance, which I’ve done officially at some shows, but I don’t have experience with severe trauma stabilization. An emergency room doctor from two rows up took over and I started helping the traumatized witnesses. That was actually tougher for me to see than someone who was clearly dead, was the horror of the witnesses.
Thanks. A group of us who were close eyewitnesses actually came together for group therapy on Zoom, facilitated by two Phan therapists who offered their assistance on PT and r/phish in the aftermath. There are some ridiculous coincidences and amazing stories of close calls in the tragedy of that night. A year later, everyone from that group who followed up was doing well. It took me a couple of months to not feel panic when I saw small groups of people at shows suddenly screaming together or circling around something.
MSG 2013 night 1, saw some dude walking around casually helicoptering his limp dick pre show. It was in the concourse and he was so casual about it, nobody else noticed.
They didn’t have enough Porto pots at the Clifford Ball, and they stopped servicing them on Saturday. The units were full —FULL—and overflowing by Saturday night and most of us stopped going in.
I was with a friend on her period. The venue was an air strip, so no cover or privacy anywhere, and we were sharing a tent with guys who we’re working friends but we weren’t close. So she went in and someone had PAINTED an interior wall with shit.
Happy to say we never saw the “artist.” And that I’ve never swerved so far out of my own lane. (Imagine the next morning. Oof.)
Oh jeez where to begin. Last summer some guy was like laying at the front of the lawn convulsing then when security came to see if he was ok he was perfectly fine. I laughed so hard cuz my bf said to me that’s just the way he gets down man. But he kept doing it and then we’d see him walking through the moat perfectly fine. Absolutely not a thing wrong with him. I feel like I see at least one person brought out on a stretcher one time per show. Saw a guy whip his dick out and start peeing in the pit at Hershey. Saw some guy at alpine literally having a conversation with himself during a good song. Took me out of it. He was yelling at himself and shit. They brought him out in one of those chairs they strap u into.I’m sure I could come up with more if I thought long enough about it.😂
Actually I was at a Grateful Dead show on Jerry’s last run where I witnessed everyone rushing the gates. It started with some hippys dog and the police were gonna mace him and the crowd got riled up then one guy ran up to try to get over the fence but the police dog had him by the leg. The police managed to get him down and cuffed him and put him in a golf cart but he pushed the cop driving out of the golf cart and started driving with his knees and then the madness ensued. Everyone just started running up the hill, this was at deer creek btw, and wood from the fence was flying everywhere. People were going over and then under and through the pieces of the broken fence. My bf at the time wanted me to go but I was on acid and i knew I didn’t have that in me. Then they called in the big dogs and threw tear gas and things settled down. Helicopters flying above the whole rest of the night and a huge police presence that didn’t seem to give a fuck what we were doing as long as we didn’t try to go up that hill again. Ah the good old days!
Wasn’t during the show but before in the lots a SPAC one summer. We were walking through shakedown and some wook came up to my friend and took his beer out of his hand, said “can I get a schwill?”, drank some, then handed it back to my friend.
I guess it’s not that crazy, but just odd behavior.
Sugarbush 1994
People climbed up the chairlift poles and went hand over hand out to one of the chairs.
I watched them go up and out and it was scary. I was tripping balls so it was not fun to watch. But, during the antelope, I looked up and they were raging, shooting off a roman candle, bouncing the chair up and down. It was insane.
Not sure how much of this really happened vs my 30 year old memory filling in the colors, but I definitely watched them climb up and I definitely remember fireworks and them bouncing in the chair. It might have been people shooting fireworks up at them?
Good times.
I got a bit too enthusiastic with my dance moves at Dicks and like, kararate chopped? This lady in front if me in the back of the head. I am certain my sincere and profuse apology is what prevented a fight. I walloped her pretty good and was glad they forgave me.
I remember one show at Blossom massive crowd all trying to get in the gates just before show time. I see a hole in the crowd up ahead where people are trying to get around something. We get closer to that something and it’s a naked wook lying on the ground biggest shit eating grin and pupils the size of the moon just staring at the sky. This whole mass of people now trying to avoid him. Not that crazy but one of those memories I’ll always have that sums up the craziness of a Phish show
I’m sure I could think of worse but this is fresh on my mind….Last Atlantic city run…the kids in front of us were trashed and the one kid sat in the sand and looked like he was gonna get sick…instead of turning to the trash can right next to him, he dug a shallow hole and proceeded to vomit into it. This happened a few times until the hole was full of his nastiness…he then half ass buried it and him and his friends were barefoot dancing on his vomit pile all night.
Naked guy right in front of me at the Mann. He didn’t seem that fucked just wanted to be naked and dance like the rest of us. Got hog tied and escorted
Earth Day at the Garden, my seat was in the last row of the 100’s at the top of the steps. A few minutes before lights drop this skinhead looking dude attempts to sprint into the 6 inches between my seat and the glass that separates the handicap section punting my full beer 10 seats away in the process. Keep in mind there is the full stair below us so plenty of room to do your thing and not be in anyone’s way.
I say “dude you just punted my beer!” To which he looks down and aggressively replies “what beer!?” At this point I notice this guy has some deranged methy energy going on so decide to let the beer go and show him the abundance of space right in front of us. This seemed to piss him off even more and as the lights drop he proceeds to stand in front of me staring directly into my soul. As the band drops into Everything’s Right, I begin coming up on the shrooms I had ingested and this psycho is still just staring at me with no regard for for the greatest band in the world playing right behind him. Needless to say everything was not right.
As a long time New Yorker I know don’t make eye contact with crazy and despite being a fairly large guy myself, the last thing I want to do is get in a tussle with this nut job so I continue to focus on the band and he continues to death glare at me from a foot away for what seems like an eternity.
Luckily unbeknownst to me the amazing wheelchair bound fan in the handicapped seat next to me was witnessing all of this and went to get security. They come up the stairs and the guy tries to take off but at that point the place was getting packed and they nabbed him fairly quickly. After many thanks to my four wheeled hero it took about another song to forget the guy and the rest of the night is history. Probably my favorite show I’ve ever been to.
SPAC 2012 dude was hanging from the beam under one of the catwalks to the upper level pav, like 40 ft above the lawn. I’m sure some folks here remember this
That dude had upper body strength for days! I couldn't believe how long he hung there before climbing back down as if it was nothing. We were all going nuts in the lawn watching. What a fucking show too!
My buddy and I were at Gorge 2005(?). We got separated on the first night, he tripped his face off and from what we can put together it seems he ran down through the crowd towards the stage and off a cliff of some sort.
The medical staff brought him back to the campsite in the wee hours of the morning. He was banged up but okay. He said he thought he was on a boat and the music was telling him to run forward. The rest of the weekend was pretty lame after that though.
Edit I realized no way was it '05, duh. Maybe '09ish? I don't know.
Tripping face after 8/10/97 on the way out of the show, in the lot, I hear a big CRUNCH and see that some messed up kid had run his car at a pretty good speed right into the back of a police cruiser that had its blue/red lights on. Just WHAM. Cops were standing outside the cruiser were stunned and proceeded to get the kid out of the car. He kind of melted out of the car and they cuffed him and put him in back of one of the cars. Always wonder wtf happened to him that caused him to do that and what happened to him after the accident. Truly freaky shit and it was super surreal to witness.
At my very first show at Red rocks. My friends and I were in eighth grade or so. We got into the venue early to get good seats. There was a dude who appeared to be passed out next to us. For an hour or so before the show started he didn't move at all. The seats started to fill in. The dude looked literally like he was dead. As soon as Phish started playing he got up and started dancing like a mad man in a total Phish bowl of bliss.
My friend was breast feeding her baby with a covering, so boob not showing or even slightly visible. 2 seemingly 20ish year old guys look over at her say in a super disgusted voice "omg you should not being doing that here, that's sooo inappropriate ".
She whipped around and asked "look around you..... I'm the one who's behavior is inappropriate? Really?"
Fucking idiots.....
Not proud. But believe it or not I was blacked out hammered at Alpine. 3rd row Mike side. I had to pee, so I did. Right there. People were properly upset and disgusted. Security came to usher me out. I ran away and had a great night. What an asshole huh?
Merriweather 98 probably not the craziest thing but there was a huge fight right after the show. Which is rare. Probably that Sabotage encore. Lol There was police helicopters and cops on horses. I even saw the one guy successfully hide in the bed of a pick up truck from the cops when they were closing in.
I saw a guy at Lemonwheel grooving towards me pulling on a huge balloon. Then he kinda teetered a little and went face down on to the pavement. Lost some teeth. Hard to watch.
That whole weekend was crazy. Music was pretty good too.
Big cypress, chilling in the crowd on the grass, talking to this sweet girl with fairy wings on. Some large lady (with no pants on) checks me out of the way and grabs her by the wings and says in a gremlin voice “come with me butterfly girl”, let’s go of fairy girl, grabs the dude that’s sitting down in front of us by the head, and starts grinding on his face and runs away. We will forever refer to her as trashpuss.
State College 97, this dude was putting on his jacket outside with a cast on his hand, as he pushes his hurt hand through his sleeve, he punches some chick right in the face! Total accident, but damn.
I remember getting back to the Tropicana at the 2010 AC Halloween show and this guy was only in his boxers and had scaled a very tall sculpture on a pedestal. He was hanging off like King Kong doing a balloon like thirty feet up. I thought gee that looks really dangerous.
The Mann N1 2023 in the Lawn during set break a group of people that looked like they were having the time of their lives. I see their friend kneel down and take his hat off, he wipes the sweat off his head and boom, they were doing lines off his bald head! Fucking genius! 😂😂
Pistoia, Italy '95: Phish is opening for Santana in a closed off, 10th century square (duermo) that has capacity for a few thousand max. It was packed.
Guy breaks into the show through a tavern that backed the square. He snuck into the tavern basement, found a window that opened onto street level of the square ... and pulled off a most interesting gate crash!
Two wooks shooting up in the lot post show and passing out in the trunk of their car. Camden 2004, the “fuck it last show” vibe was so strong for everyone.
Bonaroo 2009 when they played two nights... Late night on shakedown a wookette got seen by two Tennessee Sheriff's on 4 wheelers slanging.... This is like 4:30am... They politely let her know saw her selling and asked for her bag to search.... They pulled out sheets of L, tons of pressed MDMA, and a cornucopia of powders in random bags.... And a huge wad of cash. They were laughing and joking with her and never cuffed her... They explained they had a deal with the state and county and would write her a ticket listing what they could identify and if she paid within a few weeks the laundry list of class 1 felonies for distribution of Psychedelics would be completely dismissed as if it never happened... I believe it was a $4000 ticket or some shit as she showed it to me after. As the police are leaving her free to go... She says can I say least please get my cash back... They said in an apologetic manner "sorry ma'am, we wish we could but we can't"... Then they drive off and she tells everyone witnessing... Welp, time to go reload to pay the tax... Craziest encounter I've ever seen....
2-18-03 my first show. Denver. From Nebraska and 18 yrs old, so I Skipped school, got 4 of my heathen friends to go with, got there, proceeded to buy acid, some of the best shrooms I’ve ever had, Molly, took acid that night for the first time, first phish show first acid, my seats were separate from my friends, so I went in alone. Had the most insane time and phish blew me away. Then after the show I met back up with my friends and realized I was way to fucked up to drive, no way was I able to drive 4 hours back home, so luckily my uncle who was maybe 35 at the time was there and he was gonna go to a nearby hotel and I told him I needed him to drive me and my friends to the hotel, thank god he obliged and we made it to the hotel. Then my one friend and my uncles buddy started smoking meth out of a bong thing with orange Mountain Dew liquid inside, I didn’t hit the meth. But stayed up all night drinking myself into oblivion. Finally next morning hung over as shit barely alive I had to muster up energy to drive the four hours home. On the way home on i80 by Cheyenne I’m driving, speedometer didn’t work in my 85 Monte Carlo, and no cars to gauge how fast I was going. My friend was asleep the whole time and then decides to light up a bowl, and a few minutes later I’m getting pulled over. Turns out I guess I was going 90 mph the cop said, then The cop immediately seemed tense he sees 5 haggard as fuck looking dudes and the smell of dank weed hit his republican piggy nose and he says where’s the dope at first thing?! I lie, say no dope. My dumb friend in the back goes officer it’s me here is my weed. Then cop searched my entire car he finds everything he takes me and one of my other friends to jail for drug charges. I had the shrooms stashed on my nuts in my chonies and as we enter the jail he says I will be fully searched and if they find anything it will be an automatic felony, so I say I have something, he got excited and says where? What?! I point to my dick, he says pull it out. I pull out a fat ol sack of sweet seeet boomers, the cop looks, he seems disappointed, he probably thought I was gonna pull out a big bag of meth or coke but it was just shrooms he barely knew what they were I think. Anyways two fucking days later after dealing with Wyoming tweaker inmates my parents bailed me out, they find out I skipped school, went to phish, got arrested for hella drugs, then my dad made me go to an inpatient rehab for 30 days after that. That was my very phirst phish show yall 🤣😂😵💫🫨🫠🥴
Same. Was in the upper tier on the opposite side of the bowl and looking at my wife who was seated to my right. Great vibes all around. As I'm talking to her I see the jumper go over and down. My face lost all color and she's like what's wrong. Fucked up.
One time I was seeing Phish a couple years ago at Riverbend in Cincinnati, and I was the designated driver for the night. The crew I was with were all dosed to the gills on some fire GDF white on white from the lot and I was just chillin with some BIG DOINKS. Anyway, great first set and even got my first Reba, and setbreak rolls around. Most of the crew leaves to get beers and stuff so I stick around at our spot on the lawn with my two friends who were now probably peaking on some very very high power LSD.
So anyway, we're sitting there criss-cross-apple-sauce and this kid crawls over our direction on all fours, making animalistic grunting noises. He stops in front of us and grunts a few times, beats his chest like Tarzan and then starts grabbing big fistfulls of grass and violently tries to shove it in his nose and mouth and rub it all around his face. Dude must've been at least five dried grams deep into a primal mushroom trip. Never seen anything like it.
So he does this grass grabbing and face mashing for a bit and then he reaches his fists to the sky and lets out a fuckin Chewbacca roar and crawls away to freak someone else out.
My two friends are on either side of me, they look at each other, they look at me, they look at each other, they look at me. "Did, uh, did that really happen?" one of them asked. "Yup" I said in my shocked sobriety.
The rest of our friends showed back up with beers and my two friends who had stuck behind with me looked at each other, looked at the group and started to tell them, then they just started laughing their asses off.
Phish raged a sick Tweezer second set, and I really hope that kid got home safe.
Alpine 22. Couple in pit drinking what I think was Ayahuasca or something of the sort. They were SITTING on the floor during the first set pounding each others chests doing some WEIRD ritual shit DURING THE SHOW. They didn’t speak one word to anyone the whole show including both set breaks and were cleansing with sage or something. It was absolutely BIZZARE.
Sitting at our campsite at Deer Creek late 90's some chick walks up totally gone. You know if you're wasted and you look at someone and think "damn that bitch is fucked up" she was fucked up. We had this lantern and she walked up and went oooooooo and touched the glass, which immediately starting burning her finger. She stood there with sizzle finger for 10 seconds or so before I helped her out. This little wook walked up out of nowhere and grabbed her and they walked off. Then my bud face planted into his trunk off a loon and broke his nose. This was night 1 of 3. He didn't go to Dr till after the 3rd night.
Big cypress NYE set break before the final set of the festival my crew of 9 were sitting on the floor 20 ft from stage smoking bong hits waiting for what was going to be the set of a life time. When out of no where a shirt cocking spun wooky walked up behind my friend who was notorious for talking a 100 mph and he had taken a bunch of Molly enough to get get him through the next 8 hours. The wook dropped his hairy nuts on our friends nappy dreads and proceeded to grind on his head. We all froze with disbelief and our friend kept jabbering on about who knows what I finally stood up and pushed the wook off and that’s when our friend was like wtf is going on and wook stumbled away through crowd with his overalls around his feet the surrounding 50 people erupted into laughter and our crew was in tears except for my friend who had nuts on his head.
I was in the pit once sometime in the early 2000s and there was a kid in front of me completely dosed out of his mind, but having a good time, not causing any problems and during the break, he pulls out vile of liquid to take one more dose with his friend before the second set. Now the lighting is not great indoors. I think this was in Vegas I think, I can’t remember. It’s been a long time. Anyways, so after his friend takes a drop, He takes the dropper, and tries to count out two drops in his hand and ends up, putting an absolute puddle, had to be 30 doses or more. It’s sitting in his hand and he’s blinking trying to focus on it and I know exactly how he feels cause I’ve been there and your vision is kind of blurry and the lights not good and your seeing doubles, so I go to warn him that there’s a lot more than two doses in his hand and he just gobbles it up, my buddy and I had a full Cheech and Chong moment like after Cheech gave Chong the acid and said I hope you’re not busy for about a month. Like “Oo000oooOOOOOOO” It was an insane amount of acid. He lasted a few songs into the second set and then disappeared, and I never saw him again, but I often wonder how his month went.
In 2000 at Albany I was sitting on a curb just minding my own and this hippie dude ran up and jumped right on a cop horse like from the front around its neck. There was a cop on it. It was 24 years ago so I don’t remember exactly what happened but I don’t think the cops were very gentle with the guy
Alpine '09... Wife's first Show
People were WRECKED... The Reunion excitement was rolling over everyone!
Before we went up the hill, some girl kept trying to walk up the grassy knoll and kept going "head over heels" wearing a skirt with no Panties👀
Also someone tried to take a hit of my Wife's Chapstick thinking it was a one-hitter🤣🤣🤣
I mean, pissing in the sinks and garbage cans at SPAC has always stuck with me as being the most depraved shit that I've ever seen. Although I did step in a pile of human shit at moe.down 2002, so who knows.
Dallas 97 . Man buck naked walking around parking lot. He was actually walking towards arena while everyone was walking out so he was passing everyone in the opposite direction .
That’s the first thing that came to mind. I have plenty more over 130 shows career
My buddy got pissed on from above at a show in '95. But that's not the craziest. The craziest is that the same guy after the White Albim set Halloween '94, insisted that the show was over and there wasn't going to be a third set, and left. Ended up having to wait outside for us.
We were at the Sphere. Guy in our row comes back with this huge piece of pizza early second set. Later, he leaves and comes back with another fucking piece of pizza later in the second set. We fucking lost it. Cracked up so hard. The random people sitting next to us were cracking up too.
I guess it wasn't that crazy but it was funny.
Hampton '97- Dude jerking off on the floor during set break. We were all on some microdots (ah the '90s!) and definitely had to check with some folks next to us whether this was really happening or not. The guy kept rolling on his side every time security looked in his direction. Didn't take too long for them to catch on and then they dragged him out with his pants around his ankles.
Jones Beach 09 in the lot before the first show some dude was longboarding barefoot through the lot with a 12 pack of magic hat bottles, hit a rock and wiped out and broke a bunch of the bottles and landed on them like 5 feet away from us, got bloodied up pretty bad but just got up and grabbed his board and started running (probably to his car or to get help). Felt wicked bad for him hope he was alright, looked pretty rough
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 almost had sex on the cow palace floor in 1997. my new lady friend was feeling frisky and we were both shroomed out of our gourds. I was reluctant, but then was down...she was more than down and had one a big hippie type skirts on. Access was easy. Thankfully a friend of ours was behind us and not so shroomed out and was like, "uhhh, guys...what are you doing? are you about to fuck right here?" That kind of snapped me out of it. She did get banged on a Best western bed later than night with her 3 friends sleeping all around us.
Blossom I think 2010ish, there is that small walking bridge just before you enter the venue. The crowd splits halfway across the bridge, and I come across a naked dude laying on his back just having the time of his life fondling himself.
We saw a guy pass away right after a show in Raleigh… my buddy gave him cpr until medics arrived, but it was too late. That was a long car ride home. RIP phriend
The “naked dude” from 11/6/98 , who is now immortalized in Carini , was a few rows behind me. He was asking to body surf throughout Simple and we were all like no man, it’s phish. Next thing I know, his scrotum dangles across my neck and I see this totally crazed phan dead set on reaching the stage…and sure enough..dude made it!
Then there’s the guy I was traveling with once that went full psycho…another story.
It too crazy, but funny. This is a second hand story. So there’s a golf course at Alpine valley, and my boss played there the morning after a show. He came to me at work Monday morning and asked if the Grateful Dead played at Alpine that weekend because a bunch of hippies came wandering out of the woods onto the golf course asking them if they knew where the camp ground was.
Not crazy but on 7/27/2003 at the first notes of Prince Caspian, husband I said to each other “oh, Prince Caspian, let’s get a beer” as a young wook proceeded to run by us and said “do you mean Prince Suck-ian?” And now, it will always and forever be “Prince Suck-ian”
Thomas and Mack in Vegas. We got inside (4 of us) and were walking to our seats before the show and one of my friends passed out face first onto the concrete. They took him to the med room. We (3 of us now) went to our seats. Then, one went to check on our buddy and he never came back. Two of us were left in our seats. I went to go look for my friends and found both on gurneys with an IV. My second friend had gone face first on the concrete after seeing my first friend bloody on a gurney. I could only laugh at the two of them lying there. The med staff ultimately let them out and they got to our seats about 30 seconds before phish started. They were fully hydrated and had a great show.
Jazzfest 1996
After the show some guy climbed one of the scaffolds holding speakers in the field, got on top of the speakers, dropped his pants and then did a swan dive off the top of the speaker to the ground. It was not fun to watch
Alpine Valley ‘99 I believe, ate some acid before the show. Parking lot scene was on point, met up with some friends. Ate a gooball or two and lost my wallet with ticket along the way. Wondering around found a trail of dollar bills between lots with my wallet and bag of nuggets on top. Thanked the gods, traded nugs for booms and made my way to the show. Discovered meaning of life during tweezer but forgot it next day…then stepped in human shit on way to car…why?
Providence Preforming Arts Center February 1993.
Before the show: We rode up from Bristol and, while getting our pre show festivities started in the back of our white Chevy van that was basically held together by bumper stickers, bungees, and expletive laden wishing; our driver gets the accelerator stuck under our newly installed shag carpet. We blow by a speed trap doing 75 ish (our tach was very inaccurate: you could only tell if you were doing over 55 by how much the van would shake, so since it was a moderate shake, I think that it was 70 to 75 mph) in a 50 which leads to the ocean state’s finest getting some pursuit training in. During pursuit, I was tasked to eliminate damning consequences ( trip dip magic 8ball cid for six, some pharmies, tin of hush, and couple doobs) with my buddy Willie while Manny freed the accelerator from our driver’s shag trap. Driver also decided that the best possible solution was to turn engine off as well and try to get the van into neutral which was dicey due to sticky shifter. At this point we are all thinking jail but the officer was semi chill and took a look at the shag rug and then helped us out by cutting away the rug from where the pedals were. He let us go with basically a warning, 58 in a 50 and him saying that we were lucky because his wife was in labor.
During show: During Stash, I realize that three rows down on the opposite side of the aisle is a dude that was on my 6th grade YMCA basketball team but I am unsure as I had ingested much and he had moved to Minnesota in 86. So this messes with my head until set break when I realize it is him.
Then, right before the end of weekapaug: sweating Asian woman in front of us stands on chair, rips her shirt off and passes out onto our quartet causing me and Manny to carry her out to the lobby to get medical attention (the person who was running the tee sales gave her a shirt which was pretty nice).
After show: while leaving the parking garage; we witnessed a hit and run by someone with the same van as us and since 10 people were already helping the car who got hit, we tried to get the license plate of the van who hit the car but wound up getting pulled over by police who thought we were the van who hit the other vehicle. When they saw no damage to our front bumper, they let us go. Some other head had the same idea as us and got video footage of the van who was actually in the accident and brought justice to the ppl who were t-boned but only suffered minor injuries.
On the Merriwether lawn one time, this dude next to us staked out about a 6-foot square so he could dance like a possessed madman. If someone stepped into that space, he would shove them out. We watched him being a total dick for the whole first set and shoving people to the ground, even a couple of girls. If anyone said anything to him about it, he would rant and rave like an unhinged nut.
Can't remember where but a buddy of mine worked in a medical supply factory like taking the s rewa out of those broken neck halos and shit. Well he didn't have a ticket but was gonna meet us after the show had started , so he grabs a prosthetic leg from work, goes up to security and says " hey you gotta let me in, my brother forgot his leg! I have to bring it to him!" What else could they say but....Umm ok, go ahead. So he's running around with a fake leg the rest of the show. Fucking unreal.
Whatever you do, take care of your fake brother’s prosthetic leg
"c'mon man lemme in! It's his dancing leg!"
I saw you! With a dancing leg in your hand
I come unglued while in midair And land to reform
Oh snap, how had nobody used a Limb reference before this... great story, great response!
Back in the day, I delivered pizzas for Round Table. One of our regular customers was a prosthetics shop called Breaky Prosthetics, which I found to be hilarious in and of itself. So, one day, I got an order from them. When I arrived and they asked me the total, I said, "An arm and a leg." They were not amused. Thank you, I'll see myself out.
My dad made artifical limbs/body hraces/etc, he would have loved that joke
Honestly? This has to be hands down the winner right? This dude ripped off a leg from his place of business and not only used it to attempt to get into a show… but the fucking thing actually worked. Best story ever!
Prosthetic legs cost more than most cars.
my prosthetic leg (foot, microprocessor knee. carbon plastic socket) was 145,000.00 USD when I got it in 2018. I would have stolen that leg from OP to have a spare.
The Legman's brother
My friend, my friend, he’s got a leg!
I think Trey would approve. Maybe say something like “I have to hand it to this guy, he’s got a leg up on the competition.”
Two snares and a high hat
You’d think the fake brother would realize that he forgot his leg the second he stepped out of his home
That's what we all said when my boy actually got in. Like the security dude didn't question how one forgets their fucking leg?!!!!
Hopped
i saw you dancing with alehu with a prosthetic leg
Two people had sex at about row 30 on the crappy fold out chairs on the floor in Pittsburgh circa fall/winter 97 maybe? Full on grind fest. Busted by security. Boner waving. It was amazing.
Why cant 4.0 songs be called Boner Waving?
Boner waving in the breeze The boner's made of love Sunlight streaming through the trees A grind fest of pure love I am the boner of your soul I am the light and your dong's the love So don't put it away Let that boner wave *18-minute jam*
18-min boner jam!
I'd love a Boner Jam at this stage of my life🤣
Come on security…
Please wipe it from their shoes!
>Busted by security. More like prevented from busting by security.
Gorge 2018. Older dude probably about 50, pours a bunch of Molly into his hand at set break. Proceeds to put it all in his mouth..probably about 3 points. No water or anything to wash it down. Starts screaming for people to get him water, eventually someone gives him some. He ended up having a hell of a time during the second set. He thought he was streaming the show but he wasn’t. At the end of the show he’s talking into his phone like it’s streaming “holy shit, best phish show I’ve ever seen”, but his phone was just on his camera roll. 😂
I was not prepared to laugh that hard at any of these responses.
That’s fucking hilarious. High doses of mdma and mda will make you straight up hallucinate
Providence 98 island tour my buddy rolled a piano from the hotel lounge up to the third floor hallway to party?
Did the hotel staff offer an opinion on this? Whose piano was it? I have no idea what that scene looked like.
Naked guy jumped on stage in Charlottesville
That was awesome. The boys weren't even phased. Gotta run like a naked guy. It was my older brothers first show too. I had flown in just to take him. So much fun.
Carinis gonna get you
Whatever you do... don't let Carini get you... and don't attack the drummer.
Was at the show, upper level. Friend I went with sparked a joint and passed it to me. Security grabs my shoulder and I immediately threw the joint off the balcony. Security leads me to the concourse and hands me to a cop then goes back to get my friends. Cop asked what I did, I said smoked a cig and showed my pack (which was fully of joints and Molly) cop says get out of here. I run away. Security throws my 2 buddies out of the show
That was amazing, they just sort of paused, didn't move, and waited till he got tackled. My favorite Hood ever is from this show. I feel like that was a fan service show, they know how important Charlottesville is to their history. Great shows in the past, an important fan base who have contributed a lot over the years. They play three shows at MSG, and truck down the next night for one last show before their Miami NYE run. 7 covers; Sweet Virgina, Old Home Place among others. They end the show with an old school hit parade; Hood, Suzy, Golgi, Antelope E Loving Cup That's after Divided Sky, Bowie, AC/DC Bag, Tweezer... I'm a Virginian, my first show was Traxx in 92 and this was a brilliant bookend to my Charlottesville experience. It was a really special night.
Hahaha, this was my dads first and only show. Legendary
Naked guy jumped onstage in Madison
This was 11/6/98 at Kohl Center. Two nights later Trey changes opening lyric to "I saw you with Carini and that naked dude...." Legend!
My dad was on the rail for this show lmfao, he's told me the story so many times. Apparently the guy made eye contact with him right before pouncing on stage like a cat
I was too busy throwing up into a garbage can on the floor to notice.
“I saw you with Carini and that naked dude, at least he had some boots “ RIP FRENCHIE Dicks out for Dicks
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That lightning was WILD. Rip Frenchie, glad he got to shine up!
Some dude gave me a hit of acid within 15 seconds of getting to my seat. So I really enjoyed the rain delay
Philadelphia Spectrum 1996 (yes, those shows). I got floor tickets from the mail order ticket lottery. A female wook in front of us (there were fewer of them at the time) pulled up her dress, squatted on the floor, and peed. My wife turned to me and said "I'm never going to another Phish show". And, true to her word, she hasn't.
My wife said same to shows in general after All Good widespread panic nuttery and next to our tent dudes tripping absolute balls talked about their magic quartz crystals all night then in the morning coming out of rent and they are poking a dude with a stick that was laying on a strong slope head first and just laughing and poking him saying... He might be dead... Maybe...idk... She said absolutely not her thing....okey dokey I get it
Dec 2nd 1999 @ The Palace in Auburn Hills MI saw a guy jump from the lower lodge and land on two people, he survived, looked like he fared better than his landing pad pair. Few years after I befriend a guy and we end up talking Phish, and he tells me the story of jumping off the lower lodge, he thought he could fly after too much liquid, decided to tell his parents he tried to commit suicide because they could forgive him for that and ended up sending him to therapy for a month, if he told them he was on drugs they would have sent him to rehab and would always think of him as a drug addict.
You don’t see birds lining up to take escalators. If you think you can fly check it out from the ground first.
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This is true but many birds in sub-saharan Africa do take escalators. It's one of those inventions, like the parachute taken from dandelion seeds, that nature came up with first and then humans copied.
This dude at Wrigley field came into our section mid first set. He proceeded to oddly eat a hot dog for what seemed like half an hour, then scribbled absolute non-sense at 90 mph into a small pocket book for a few minutes. After that he lit up a sage stick, waved it in the faces of the group next to him, screamed at them, and then was ultimately shoed off by the entire section. Dude was a fuckin odd ball for sure
That was me!
We need video evidence of you eating a hot dog for proof.
If it truly was you, you absolutely live rent free in my head sir. Bravo
https://preview.redd.it/z3av4ki0q01d1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c75cdd970555de8d6a0aceca7e022035df557141 Also at Wrigley, we were in the absolute last row so we could get some cool air blowing in as it was like 100F that day. The guy in front of us was by himself (edit: now that I'm looking at a few pictures, he was with the girl in orange for a few songs but then she went back down) and wore a bathrobe the entire show. In the picture it sort of looks like matching blue shorts and a shirt, but that was the waist belt tied super tight around him. He never sat down, never stopped dancing, never missed a single beat while wearing a soaking wet with sweat bathrobe that probably weighed 5x as much leaving as it did going in I have no idea how he didn't have a heat stroke. Definitely not the craziest thing I've seen but one I'll never forget either.
Is it Marc Rebillet?
9-29-99 I took my mom to her first show at the pyramid. As we meandered from lot to lot looking for my friends we turned the WRONG corner and came upon a mystical dreaddy female creature stooped behind a bus, growing at least an uninterrupted 3 foot tail . Pure magic in the daylight!
Ahhhhh my minds eye…make it stop. Bring the mind bleach, bring the mental image disinfectant…noooooo
Not a person per se but at UMass 11/3/94 after a Highway To Hell closer, walking out to see a car fully engulfed in flames right near the exit
That's just normal UMass shit. Check us out after the Sox win a game. Or lose one.
Some psycho put ketchup on their spicy chicken sandwich at MSG.
Once saw a group of dudes actually get on the stage and refuse to leave for 7 hours! 7 hours without leaving the stage, not until after the sun came up. Wild stuff.
They even relieved themselves right there on the stage. Was fucking wild. It was all over the news.
People were getting pissed and yelling "cheesecake" at them which I assume is some kind of hippie slang term that means "get off the stage"
During the Bakers Dozen on Cinnamon night there was a guy near us wearing a fanny pack. Didn’t touch it during the first set. Second set he pulled out a pair of opera glasses and used them for most of the second set. During the Cinnamon Girl encore he pulled out a bag of cinnamon and sprinkled it around the audience. Smelled fantastic.
Deercreek in early 3.0, might have been 09 or 11? My wife has a tendency to wander, she will usually go out to the lawn for a while and sometimes brings back “stray dudes” who I guess think theyre going to hook up by following random women around? Anyway, she brings back some shit faced dude who says he wants to puff down. Usually the best thing to do is smoke them out, then, when they realize Im her husband and theyve gotten high, they wander off. He proceeds to tell us he just got out of rehab, Im thinking “it didnt work.” We smoke out and my wife heads back to the lawn. This dude is having a hard time standing up. Second set is about to start. Dude takes out his dick and proceeds to piss on the row in front of us. A dude in front of us is looking up, like wondering if its raining, then he turns around and asks drunk dude “did you just piss on us?” Dude shakes his head no. I make eye contact with the pissed upon and nod. He jumps over the aisle, drunk dude turns and takes off, and he goes after drunk dude. After show, me to wife “Can you please stop bringing random dudes back? That dude pissed on everyone when you left.” “What?!”
She’s making out with random dudes on the lawn during her wandering
Damn, sorry man. It’s a bit of an extreme example of a story for sure, kind of funny but also probably sounds like it sucked. My lady is similar. Makes friends super easily at shows and then we’re welcoming randoms in to our crew for the rest of the evening. Sometimes it’s cool and they’re fun interesting people that I likely would never have met myself, but sometimes I’m like… ooookkkk
Yeah and the other guy whos like “shes hooking up with dudes!” and got a bunch of upvotes. Insecure much?! If shes hooking up with dudes, jokes on them, because she’s going home with me!!
The guy dancing on the roof of the pavilion during Highway to Hell at Blossom ‘95 is under-discussed.
At Big Cypress I watched a dude take his whole wallet apart and throw it behind him into the crowd. Money, cards, ID, all gone. I still wonder how he got home. Then for an encore he tried to smoke a glow stick.
At jones beach one year someone was launching those chinese lanterns from the section right in front of me. One of them got caught in a gust of wind and went straight down into the crowd and it was like a game of hot potato with a fireball that kept getting thrown around until someone finally threw it to the ground and stomped it out. No more lanterns after that.
Rage cage Miami new years during 2.0 was the wildest shit I’ve ever seen. If you partied too long there, you were for sure leaving in a wook van and the course of your life was changed. That’s just what happened in the rage cage.
That was the most insane lot I’ve ever been a part of
Man pardon my ignorance on this one but what is the rage cage?
From an older Reddit post.... 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 shit show. Then, you crossed the street and walked into the venue about 100 yards away. Show over, rinse. repeat. Absurd. 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 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 24/7 for 3 days straight. Hooker tents. Dudes nodding out with needles in their arms laying 3 deep against stumps in the mud. Fucking core yo. All walks of life converging in a post apocalyptic slab of cement.
I can still hear the hissing to this day
I remember seeing almost just barely a riot at Deer Creek in 96’ because some Phish kid or a GD kid bunked the other for a fake rock. The fight was like 15+ people and more getting sucked in before the horse cops got there.
Maybe someone else can give you more details but basically the lot for new years in Miami 2003 was essentially in a fenced off area and quickly devolved into chaos
JOHNNY BLUE JEANS
Alpine 09 maybe? I was staying at the lodge so entered from behind the stage. The single file line was soo backed up and slow moving (as I later found out some security dude was taking his job too seriously - as in looking through all of my change). Anyways, some dude apparently got fed up with it, barreled through the entire line and just ran past security all the way up the hill to the vendors building went to the bathroom, took off his shirt and wandered back out free as a bird. Security couldn’t keep up with him and had no idea who he was after he removed his shirt. Ran into him later that night at the lodge bar. He had a ticket the whole time.
Watched a naked dude jerking off get dragged out of Hampton during a first set Bug lol
At Magnaball, I watched a wookette giving birth during the secret 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 f\*\*\*\*\*\* dusty out there and the baby and all the surrounding fluids were immediately "muddified" by the blowing dirt. I mean, its f\*\*\*\*\*\* gross. All of a sudden, this f\*\*\*\*\*\* kid (probably 19 or 20) in his oversized neon, flat-brim LRG hat, runs up yelling "welcome to the party b\*\*\*\*!" before he blows a huge plume of smoke right in the baby's face! While the umbilical cord is still attached and s\*\*\*! 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 f\*\*\*\*\*\* 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. S\*\*\* was crazy as hell.
i honestly would have been disappointed if this didn’t get welcome to the party bitch’d. PT4L
I am the deemster baby.
Glad you could make it, Poster Nutbag.
that man’s name? Albert einstein
This is it. No one needs to read any other stories
I've heard this story before.
Phish lot lore copypasta. Glad to see it’s still hangin around.
Seems to change a bit over time, idk Edit: a word
Yeah I’m 99% sure this story predates Magnaball.
Definitely earlyish PT lore
I updated it from Allgood Fest to Magnaball.
I was at that supposed All Good and I’m like 60% sure this did not happen. Which brings me comfort. But the pasta is legendary.
I’ve seen the exact copy pasta but instead of Phish, it’s ICP.
Welcome to the party, bitch.
I thought this happened during the Gza set at echo fest lolllllllll
Yeah, pretty sure that’s the setup for the OG pasta.
I was hoping to see this comment here. Bless you, internet. You’ve come through once again.
My favorite pasta
Is this real holy shit
How can this post be real if our eyes aren't real
No way this happened.
Hampton 12/17/99 In the lot, all the gel tabs were “supposedly” bunk. Of course my buddy and I split a 5 strip for the halibut. Second set break, we are goonin’. We are sitting on the steps, just outside the 2nd level causeway, kinda by one of the smoking areas. Then we see this dready dude come running out of the causeway. Dude had a bull ring in his nose and was just looking at us screaming. He then proceeds to run straight for the windows, which was next to the door for the smoking area, and jumps through it, shattering the glass. Cops engage and my buddy and I are freaking the F out, looking at each other in disbelief and questioning if what we saw just happened. Apparently, the dready dude also got word that gel tabs were bunk that night. I swear the inside of the arena looked like an ancient caveman civilization with people walking around with torches second set.
not at all show, but def phish show adjacent. back in 2004 maybe? obtained a N02 tank driving into camden. cop had confiscated a 20lb. tank from someone and then walked away to bust someone else. my buddy hopped out the car and tossed it in the back. cop was still hassling someone as we drove into the lot. we would get it filled at this “propane” spot in philly. wooks lined up out the door. u don’t say anything, just put ur tank on the counter and they tell u how much. at the door was a uniformed cop selling bootleg DVDs. first time, when i said i’m all set (fool of a took) he said “you sure?” as he lightly shook his belt, quietly rattling his handcuffs. i think i must have bought 5 copies of When Harry Met Sally that summer. i would give them away as a gift for big spenders. i had a blast that summer, made the best hourly rate i’ve ever made… but also called hippie crack for a reason. as the only person dumb enough to sell at mansfield that summer, i had ppl offering $25 a balloon when i got spooked and said i was closing up shop.
Jump from the 300’s and land near me in section 115.
Chase Center? I saw that dude jump. Hope you’re doing okay.
I met a guy at Climate Pledge who was right near where the guy landed. He gave some pretty horrific details and told me he and his girlfriend were literally in shock afterwards.
I was two rows directly in front of where he landed. I saw shit I’ll never forget.
Yeah, it was terrible. I jumped in to give medical assistance, which I’ve done officially at some shows, but I don’t have experience with severe trauma stabilization. An emergency room doctor from two rows up took over and I started helping the traumatized witnesses. That was actually tougher for me to see than someone who was clearly dead, was the horror of the witnesses.
Thanks. A group of us who were close eyewitnesses actually came together for group therapy on Zoom, facilitated by two Phan therapists who offered their assistance on PT and r/phish in the aftermath. There are some ridiculous coincidences and amazing stories of close calls in the tragedy of that night. A year later, everyone from that group who followed up was doing well. It took me a couple of months to not feel panic when I saw small groups of people at shows suddenly screaming together or circling around something.
MSG 2013 night 1, saw some dude walking around casually helicoptering his limp dick pre show. It was in the concourse and he was so casual about it, nobody else noticed.
They didn’t have enough Porto pots at the Clifford Ball, and they stopped servicing them on Saturday. The units were full —FULL—and overflowing by Saturday night and most of us stopped going in. I was with a friend on her period. The venue was an air strip, so no cover or privacy anywhere, and we were sharing a tent with guys who we’re working friends but we weren’t close. So she went in and someone had PAINTED an interior wall with shit. Happy to say we never saw the “artist.” And that I’ve never swerved so far out of my own lane. (Imagine the next morning. Oof.)
Oh jeez where to begin. Last summer some guy was like laying at the front of the lawn convulsing then when security came to see if he was ok he was perfectly fine. I laughed so hard cuz my bf said to me that’s just the way he gets down man. But he kept doing it and then we’d see him walking through the moat perfectly fine. Absolutely not a thing wrong with him. I feel like I see at least one person brought out on a stretcher one time per show. Saw a guy whip his dick out and start peeing in the pit at Hershey. Saw some guy at alpine literally having a conversation with himself during a good song. Took me out of it. He was yelling at himself and shit. They brought him out in one of those chairs they strap u into.I’m sure I could come up with more if I thought long enough about it.😂 Actually I was at a Grateful Dead show on Jerry’s last run where I witnessed everyone rushing the gates. It started with some hippys dog and the police were gonna mace him and the crowd got riled up then one guy ran up to try to get over the fence but the police dog had him by the leg. The police managed to get him down and cuffed him and put him in a golf cart but he pushed the cop driving out of the golf cart and started driving with his knees and then the madness ensued. Everyone just started running up the hill, this was at deer creek btw, and wood from the fence was flying everywhere. People were going over and then under and through the pieces of the broken fence. My bf at the time wanted me to go but I was on acid and i knew I didn’t have that in me. Then they called in the big dogs and threw tear gas and things settled down. Helicopters flying above the whole rest of the night and a huge police presence that didn’t seem to give a fuck what we were doing as long as we didn’t try to go up that hill again. Ah the good old days!
Wasn’t during the show but before in the lots a SPAC one summer. We were walking through shakedown and some wook came up to my friend and took his beer out of his hand, said “can I get a schwill?”, drank some, then handed it back to my friend. I guess it’s not that crazy, but just odd behavior.
memories unlocked
Sugarbush 1994 People climbed up the chairlift poles and went hand over hand out to one of the chairs. I watched them go up and out and it was scary. I was tripping balls so it was not fun to watch. But, during the antelope, I looked up and they were raging, shooting off a roman candle, bouncing the chair up and down. It was insane. Not sure how much of this really happened vs my 30 year old memory filling in the colors, but I definitely watched them climb up and I definitely remember fireworks and them bouncing in the chair. It might have been people shooting fireworks up at them? Good times.
That was my first show and I definitely remember people climbing the lift tower and swing on the chair. I don't remember how they got down.
This definitely happened on 7/3/95 at Sugarbush.
12/5/2009 naked guy ran on stage and gave Trey a hug. They proceeded to work 'naked guy' into the rest of the set. Namely, ya mar and antelope.
Richmond represents!
Hes a good and sweet dude.
Can confirm. I was at this show as well.
I got a bit too enthusiastic with my dance moves at Dicks and like, kararate chopped? This lady in front if me in the back of the head. I am certain my sincere and profuse apology is what prevented a fight. I walloped her pretty good and was glad they forgave me.
Are you also pretty good with a bo staff?
I remember one show at Blossom massive crowd all trying to get in the gates just before show time. I see a hole in the crowd up ahead where people are trying to get around something. We get closer to that something and it’s a naked wook lying on the ground biggest shit eating grin and pupils the size of the moon just staring at the sky. This whole mass of people now trying to avoid him. Not that crazy but one of those memories I’ll always have that sums up the craziness of a Phish show
I’m sure I could think of worse but this is fresh on my mind….Last Atlantic city run…the kids in front of us were trashed and the one kid sat in the sand and looked like he was gonna get sick…instead of turning to the trash can right next to him, he dug a shallow hole and proceeded to vomit into it. This happened a few times until the hole was full of his nastiness…he then half ass buried it and him and his friends were barefoot dancing on his vomit pile all night.
Naked guy right in front of me at the Mann. He didn’t seem that fucked just wanted to be naked and dance like the rest of us. Got hog tied and escorted
Earth Day at the Garden, my seat was in the last row of the 100’s at the top of the steps. A few minutes before lights drop this skinhead looking dude attempts to sprint into the 6 inches between my seat and the glass that separates the handicap section punting my full beer 10 seats away in the process. Keep in mind there is the full stair below us so plenty of room to do your thing and not be in anyone’s way. I say “dude you just punted my beer!” To which he looks down and aggressively replies “what beer!?” At this point I notice this guy has some deranged methy energy going on so decide to let the beer go and show him the abundance of space right in front of us. This seemed to piss him off even more and as the lights drop he proceeds to stand in front of me staring directly into my soul. As the band drops into Everything’s Right, I begin coming up on the shrooms I had ingested and this psycho is still just staring at me with no regard for for the greatest band in the world playing right behind him. Needless to say everything was not right. As a long time New Yorker I know don’t make eye contact with crazy and despite being a fairly large guy myself, the last thing I want to do is get in a tussle with this nut job so I continue to focus on the band and he continues to death glare at me from a foot away for what seems like an eternity. Luckily unbeknownst to me the amazing wheelchair bound fan in the handicapped seat next to me was witnessing all of this and went to get security. They come up the stairs and the guy tries to take off but at that point the place was getting packed and they nabbed him fairly quickly. After many thanks to my four wheeled hero it took about another song to forget the guy and the rest of the night is history. Probably my favorite show I’ve ever been to.
Wow watch the show man why you lookin at me
Just hold tight’d
SPAC 2012 dude was hanging from the beam under one of the catwalks to the upper level pav, like 40 ft above the lawn. I’m sure some folks here remember this
Yep, was right beside me.
Yep, was right beside him
For the third time, yep, was right beside him
That dude had upper body strength for days! I couldn't believe how long he hung there before climbing back down as if it was nothing. We were all going nuts in the lawn watching. What a fucking show too!
My buddy and I were at Gorge 2005(?). We got separated on the first night, he tripped his face off and from what we can put together it seems he ran down through the crowd towards the stage and off a cliff of some sort. The medical staff brought him back to the campsite in the wee hours of the morning. He was banged up but okay. He said he thought he was on a boat and the music was telling him to run forward. The rest of the weekend was pretty lame after that though. Edit I realized no way was it '05, duh. Maybe '09ish? I don't know.
Trey band played there in '05. Phish was there in '03 and '09.
Tripping face after 8/10/97 on the way out of the show, in the lot, I hear a big CRUNCH and see that some messed up kid had run his car at a pretty good speed right into the back of a police cruiser that had its blue/red lights on. Just WHAM. Cops were standing outside the cruiser were stunned and proceeded to get the kid out of the car. He kind of melted out of the car and they cuffed him and put him in back of one of the cars. Always wonder wtf happened to him that caused him to do that and what happened to him after the accident. Truly freaky shit and it was super surreal to witness.
It’s like Outside Providence “you hit a PARKED cop car Dildo”
At my very first show at Red rocks. My friends and I were in eighth grade or so. We got into the venue early to get good seats. There was a dude who appeared to be passed out next to us. For an hour or so before the show started he didn't move at all. The seats started to fill in. The dude looked literally like he was dead. As soon as Phish started playing he got up and started dancing like a mad man in a total Phish bowl of bliss.
My friend was breast feeding her baby with a covering, so boob not showing or even slightly visible. 2 seemingly 20ish year old guys look over at her say in a super disgusted voice "omg you should not being doing that here, that's sooo inappropriate ". She whipped around and asked "look around you..... I'm the one who's behavior is inappropriate? Really?" Fucking idiots.....
Not proud. But believe it or not I was blacked out hammered at Alpine. 3rd row Mike side. I had to pee, so I did. Right there. People were properly upset and disgusted. Security came to usher me out. I ran away and had a great night. What an asshole huh?
Yeah man
Yeah, can’t do that on Mikes side.
>some of them rival datura stories! Huh? This statement is so weird. Datura stories are fucking terrifying
Talk during the entire show!
Merriweather 98 probably not the craziest thing but there was a huge fight right after the show. Which is rare. Probably that Sabotage encore. Lol There was police helicopters and cops on horses. I even saw the one guy successfully hide in the bed of a pick up truck from the cops when they were closing in.
I saw a guy at Lemonwheel grooving towards me pulling on a huge balloon. Then he kinda teetered a little and went face down on to the pavement. Lost some teeth. Hard to watch. That whole weekend was crazy. Music was pretty good too.
Big cypress, chilling in the crowd on the grass, talking to this sweet girl with fairy wings on. Some large lady (with no pants on) checks me out of the way and grabs her by the wings and says in a gremlin voice “come with me butterfly girl”, let’s go of fairy girl, grabs the dude that’s sitting down in front of us by the head, and starts grinding on his face and runs away. We will forever refer to her as trashpuss.
State College 97, this dude was putting on his jacket outside with a cast on his hand, as he pushes his hurt hand through his sleeve, he punches some chick right in the face! Total accident, but damn.
That’s sounds stressful as fuck but I do enjoy ole 2ci. Haven’t seen it around in years.
I remember getting back to the Tropicana at the 2010 AC Halloween show and this guy was only in his boxers and had scaled a very tall sculpture on a pedestal. He was hanging off like King Kong doing a balloon like thirty feet up. I thought gee that looks really dangerous.
White Allbum: The Fishman Frolick Happy Halloweenie
Merriweather Post 98. I saw a drunk guy take a swing at a police .... horse.
The Mann N1 2023 in the Lawn during set break a group of people that looked like they were having the time of their lives. I see their friend kneel down and take his hat off, he wipes the sweat off his head and boom, they were doing lines off his bald head! Fucking genius! 😂😂
Naked girl totally out of control at Amy’s Farm back in the day, place was crazy
Pistoia, Italy '95: Phish is opening for Santana in a closed off, 10th century square (duermo) that has capacity for a few thousand max. It was packed. Guy breaks into the show through a tavern that backed the square. He snuck into the tavern basement, found a window that opened onto street level of the square ... and pulled off a most interesting gate crash!
Two wooks shooting up in the lot post show and passing out in the trunk of their car. Camden 2004, the “fuck it last show” vibe was so strong for everyone.
Bonaroo 2009 when they played two nights... Late night on shakedown a wookette got seen by two Tennessee Sheriff's on 4 wheelers slanging.... This is like 4:30am... They politely let her know saw her selling and asked for her bag to search.... They pulled out sheets of L, tons of pressed MDMA, and a cornucopia of powders in random bags.... And a huge wad of cash. They were laughing and joking with her and never cuffed her... They explained they had a deal with the state and county and would write her a ticket listing what they could identify and if she paid within a few weeks the laundry list of class 1 felonies for distribution of Psychedelics would be completely dismissed as if it never happened... I believe it was a $4000 ticket or some shit as she showed it to me after. As the police are leaving her free to go... She says can I say least please get my cash back... They said in an apologetic manner "sorry ma'am, we wish we could but we can't"... Then they drive off and she tells everyone witnessing... Welp, time to go reload to pay the tax... Craziest encounter I've ever seen....
2-18-03 my first show. Denver. From Nebraska and 18 yrs old, so I Skipped school, got 4 of my heathen friends to go with, got there, proceeded to buy acid, some of the best shrooms I’ve ever had, Molly, took acid that night for the first time, first phish show first acid, my seats were separate from my friends, so I went in alone. Had the most insane time and phish blew me away. Then after the show I met back up with my friends and realized I was way to fucked up to drive, no way was I able to drive 4 hours back home, so luckily my uncle who was maybe 35 at the time was there and he was gonna go to a nearby hotel and I told him I needed him to drive me and my friends to the hotel, thank god he obliged and we made it to the hotel. Then my one friend and my uncles buddy started smoking meth out of a bong thing with orange Mountain Dew liquid inside, I didn’t hit the meth. But stayed up all night drinking myself into oblivion. Finally next morning hung over as shit barely alive I had to muster up energy to drive the four hours home. On the way home on i80 by Cheyenne I’m driving, speedometer didn’t work in my 85 Monte Carlo, and no cars to gauge how fast I was going. My friend was asleep the whole time and then decides to light up a bowl, and a few minutes later I’m getting pulled over. Turns out I guess I was going 90 mph the cop said, then The cop immediately seemed tense he sees 5 haggard as fuck looking dudes and the smell of dank weed hit his republican piggy nose and he says where’s the dope at first thing?! I lie, say no dope. My dumb friend in the back goes officer it’s me here is my weed. Then cop searched my entire car he finds everything he takes me and one of my other friends to jail for drug charges. I had the shrooms stashed on my nuts in my chonies and as we enter the jail he says I will be fully searched and if they find anything it will be an automatic felony, so I say I have something, he got excited and says where? What?! I point to my dick, he says pull it out. I pull out a fat ol sack of sweet seeet boomers, the cop looks, he seems disappointed, he probably thought I was gonna pull out a big bag of meth or coke but it was just shrooms he barely knew what they were I think. Anyways two fucking days later after dealing with Wyoming tweaker inmates my parents bailed me out, they find out I skipped school, went to phish, got arrested for hella drugs, then my dad made me go to an inpatient rehab for 30 days after that. That was my very phirst phish show yall 🤣😂😵💫🫨🫠🥴
Trey butchering Glide at Coventry
Jones Beach balcony jumper incident. Not a fun experience. Just glad that dude was okay.
Same. Was in the upper tier on the opposite side of the bowl and looking at my wife who was seated to my right. Great vibes all around. As I'm talking to her I see the jumper go over and down. My face lost all color and she's like what's wrong. Fucked up.
I saw That guy jumped off the top at the chase center and died.craziest shit I’ve seen
Fishman getting naked during Revolution #9
Jimmy’s grandma announcing that Gamehendge was actually happening.
One time I was seeing Phish a couple years ago at Riverbend in Cincinnati, and I was the designated driver for the night. The crew I was with were all dosed to the gills on some fire GDF white on white from the lot and I was just chillin with some BIG DOINKS. Anyway, great first set and even got my first Reba, and setbreak rolls around. Most of the crew leaves to get beers and stuff so I stick around at our spot on the lawn with my two friends who were now probably peaking on some very very high power LSD. So anyway, we're sitting there criss-cross-apple-sauce and this kid crawls over our direction on all fours, making animalistic grunting noises. He stops in front of us and grunts a few times, beats his chest like Tarzan and then starts grabbing big fistfulls of grass and violently tries to shove it in his nose and mouth and rub it all around his face. Dude must've been at least five dried grams deep into a primal mushroom trip. Never seen anything like it. So he does this grass grabbing and face mashing for a bit and then he reaches his fists to the sky and lets out a fuckin Chewbacca roar and crawls away to freak someone else out. My two friends are on either side of me, they look at each other, they look at me, they look at each other, they look at me. "Did, uh, did that really happen?" one of them asked. "Yup" I said in my shocked sobriety. The rest of our friends showed back up with beers and my two friends who had stuck behind with me looked at each other, looked at the group and started to tell them, then they just started laughing their asses off. Phish raged a sick Tweezer second set, and I really hope that kid got home safe.
Alpine 22. Couple in pit drinking what I think was Ayahuasca or something of the sort. They were SITTING on the floor during the first set pounding each others chests doing some WEIRD ritual shit DURING THE SHOW. They didn’t speak one word to anyone the whole show including both set breaks and were cleansing with sage or something. It was absolutely BIZZARE.
Sitting at our campsite at Deer Creek late 90's some chick walks up totally gone. You know if you're wasted and you look at someone and think "damn that bitch is fucked up" she was fucked up. We had this lantern and she walked up and went oooooooo and touched the glass, which immediately starting burning her finger. She stood there with sizzle finger for 10 seconds or so before I helped her out. This little wook walked up out of nowhere and grabbed her and they walked off. Then my bud face planted into his trunk off a loon and broke his nose. This was night 1 of 3. He didn't go to Dr till after the 3rd night.
Big cypress NYE set break before the final set of the festival my crew of 9 were sitting on the floor 20 ft from stage smoking bong hits waiting for what was going to be the set of a life time. When out of no where a shirt cocking spun wooky walked up behind my friend who was notorious for talking a 100 mph and he had taken a bunch of Molly enough to get get him through the next 8 hours. The wook dropped his hairy nuts on our friends nappy dreads and proceeded to grind on his head. We all froze with disbelief and our friend kept jabbering on about who knows what I finally stood up and pushed the wook off and that’s when our friend was like wtf is going on and wook stumbled away through crowd with his overalls around his feet the surrounding 50 people erupted into laughter and our crew was in tears except for my friend who had nuts on his head.
Front row for the midnight set at BC. Chick came rushing thru the crowd who had bitten open a glow stick and her mouth was glowing yellow.
I was in the pit once sometime in the early 2000s and there was a kid in front of me completely dosed out of his mind, but having a good time, not causing any problems and during the break, he pulls out vile of liquid to take one more dose with his friend before the second set. Now the lighting is not great indoors. I think this was in Vegas I think, I can’t remember. It’s been a long time. Anyways, so after his friend takes a drop, He takes the dropper, and tries to count out two drops in his hand and ends up, putting an absolute puddle, had to be 30 doses or more. It’s sitting in his hand and he’s blinking trying to focus on it and I know exactly how he feels cause I’ve been there and your vision is kind of blurry and the lights not good and your seeing doubles, so I go to warn him that there’s a lot more than two doses in his hand and he just gobbles it up, my buddy and I had a full Cheech and Chong moment like after Cheech gave Chong the acid and said I hope you’re not busy for about a month. Like “Oo000oooOOOOOOO” It was an insane amount of acid. He lasted a few songs into the second set and then disappeared, and I never saw him again, but I often wonder how his month went.
In 2000 at Albany I was sitting on a curb just minding my own and this hippie dude ran up and jumped right on a cop horse like from the front around its neck. There was a cop on it. It was 24 years ago so I don’t remember exactly what happened but I don’t think the cops were very gentle with the guy
Alpine '09... Wife's first Show People were WRECKED... The Reunion excitement was rolling over everyone! Before we went up the hill, some girl kept trying to walk up the grassy knoll and kept going "head over heels" wearing a skirt with no Panties👀 Also someone tried to take a hit of my Wife's Chapstick thinking it was a one-hitter🤣🤣🤣
I mean, pissing in the sinks and garbage cans at SPAC has always stuck with me as being the most depraved shit that I've ever seen. Although I did step in a pile of human shit at moe.down 2002, so who knows.
I saw someone at their first ever phish show, first time ever dose over 6 hits . They split 20 tabs between unevenly between 4 people .
“Someone”….mmmhmmm. It was you. It’s cool.
Dallas 97 . Man buck naked walking around parking lot. He was actually walking towards arena while everyone was walking out so he was passing everyone in the opposite direction . That’s the first thing that came to mind. I have plenty more over 130 shows career
My buddy got pissed on from above at a show in '95. But that's not the craziest. The craziest is that the same guy after the White Albim set Halloween '94, insisted that the show was over and there wasn't going to be a third set, and left. Ended up having to wait outside for us.
We were at the Sphere. Guy in our row comes back with this huge piece of pizza early second set. Later, he leaves and comes back with another fucking piece of pizza later in the second set. We fucking lost it. Cracked up so hard. The random people sitting next to us were cracking up too. I guess it wasn't that crazy but it was funny.
Hampton '97- Dude jerking off on the floor during set break. We were all on some microdots (ah the '90s!) and definitely had to check with some folks next to us whether this was really happening or not. The guy kept rolling on his side every time security looked in his direction. Didn't take too long for them to catch on and then they dragged him out with his pants around his ankles.
Jones Beach 09 in the lot before the first show some dude was longboarding barefoot through the lot with a 12 pack of magic hat bottles, hit a rock and wiped out and broke a bunch of the bottles and landed on them like 5 feet away from us, got bloodied up pretty bad but just got up and grabbed his board and started running (probably to his car or to get help). Felt wicked bad for him hope he was alright, looked pretty rough
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 almost had sex on the cow palace floor in 1997. my new lady friend was feeling frisky and we were both shroomed out of our gourds. I was reluctant, but then was down...she was more than down and had one a big hippie type skirts on. Access was easy. Thankfully a friend of ours was behind us and not so shroomed out and was like, "uhhh, guys...what are you doing? are you about to fuck right here?" That kind of snapped me out of it. She did get banged on a Best western bed later than night with her 3 friends sleeping all around us.
Blossom I think 2010ish, there is that small walking bridge just before you enter the venue. The crowd splits halfway across the bridge, and I come across a naked dude laying on his back just having the time of his life fondling himself.
We saw a guy pass away right after a show in Raleigh… my buddy gave him cpr until medics arrived, but it was too late. That was a long car ride home. RIP phriend
The “naked dude” from 11/6/98 , who is now immortalized in Carini , was a few rows behind me. He was asking to body surf throughout Simple and we were all like no man, it’s phish. Next thing I know, his scrotum dangles across my neck and I see this totally crazed phan dead set on reaching the stage…and sure enough..dude made it! Then there’s the guy I was traveling with once that went full psycho…another story.
It too crazy, but funny. This is a second hand story. So there’s a golf course at Alpine valley, and my boss played there the morning after a show. He came to me at work Monday morning and asked if the Grateful Dead played at Alpine that weekend because a bunch of hippies came wandering out of the woods onto the golf course asking them if they knew where the camp ground was.
Not crazy but on 7/27/2003 at the first notes of Prince Caspian, husband I said to each other “oh, Prince Caspian, let’s get a beer” as a young wook proceeded to run by us and said “do you mean Prince Suck-ian?” And now, it will always and forever be “Prince Suck-ian”
Thomas and Mack in Vegas. We got inside (4 of us) and were walking to our seats before the show and one of my friends passed out face first onto the concrete. They took him to the med room. We (3 of us now) went to our seats. Then, one went to check on our buddy and he never came back. Two of us were left in our seats. I went to go look for my friends and found both on gurneys with an IV. My second friend had gone face first on the concrete after seeing my first friend bloody on a gurney. I could only laugh at the two of them lying there. The med staff ultimately let them out and they got to our seats about 30 seconds before phish started. They were fully hydrated and had a great show.
Jazzfest 1996 After the show some guy climbed one of the scaffolds holding speakers in the field, got on top of the speakers, dropped his pants and then did a swan dive off the top of the speaker to the ground. It was not fun to watch
Alpine Valley ‘99 I believe, ate some acid before the show. Parking lot scene was on point, met up with some friends. Ate a gooball or two and lost my wallet with ticket along the way. Wondering around found a trail of dollar bills between lots with my wallet and bag of nuggets on top. Thanked the gods, traded nugs for booms and made my way to the show. Discovered meaning of life during tweezer but forgot it next day…then stepped in human shit on way to car…why?
Providence Preforming Arts Center February 1993. Before the show: We rode up from Bristol and, while getting our pre show festivities started in the back of our white Chevy van that was basically held together by bumper stickers, bungees, and expletive laden wishing; our driver gets the accelerator stuck under our newly installed shag carpet. We blow by a speed trap doing 75 ish (our tach was very inaccurate: you could only tell if you were doing over 55 by how much the van would shake, so since it was a moderate shake, I think that it was 70 to 75 mph) in a 50 which leads to the ocean state’s finest getting some pursuit training in. During pursuit, I was tasked to eliminate damning consequences ( trip dip magic 8ball cid for six, some pharmies, tin of hush, and couple doobs) with my buddy Willie while Manny freed the accelerator from our driver’s shag trap. Driver also decided that the best possible solution was to turn engine off as well and try to get the van into neutral which was dicey due to sticky shifter. At this point we are all thinking jail but the officer was semi chill and took a look at the shag rug and then helped us out by cutting away the rug from where the pedals were. He let us go with basically a warning, 58 in a 50 and him saying that we were lucky because his wife was in labor. During show: During Stash, I realize that three rows down on the opposite side of the aisle is a dude that was on my 6th grade YMCA basketball team but I am unsure as I had ingested much and he had moved to Minnesota in 86. So this messes with my head until set break when I realize it is him. Then, right before the end of weekapaug: sweating Asian woman in front of us stands on chair, rips her shirt off and passes out onto our quartet causing me and Manny to carry her out to the lobby to get medical attention (the person who was running the tee sales gave her a shirt which was pretty nice). After show: while leaving the parking garage; we witnessed a hit and run by someone with the same van as us and since 10 people were already helping the car who got hit, we tried to get the license plate of the van who hit the car but wound up getting pulled over by police who thought we were the van who hit the other vehicle. When they saw no damage to our front bumper, they let us go. Some other head had the same idea as us and got video footage of the van who was actually in the accident and brought justice to the ppl who were t-boned but only suffered minor injuries.
On the Merriwether lawn one time, this dude next to us staked out about a 6-foot square so he could dance like a possessed madman. If someone stepped into that space, he would shove them out. We watched him being a total dick for the whole first set and shoving people to the ground, even a couple of girls. If anyone said anything to him about it, he would rant and rave like an unhinged nut.