Phish. 10-7-2000. 2001 into Tweezer. Right now

[Taverner]

Just saying.

[ALago1]

1. Were they still cow-phunking at that point?

My favorite Phish era is probably Fall '97-'00

[Taverner]

3. It was the last show before their Hiatus

Absolutely the most amazing Mikes->Hydrogen->Groove I've ever heard - Page owns that tune

And then the angst and emotion on YEM is spellbinding.

I was there, and was truly in awe after that show

[ALago1]

5. You hear any of these rumors from Trey about another reunion?

I read on phish.net some interview where Trey pretty much said that this hiatus may not even be definite and that it's possible for a full fledged reunion in the near future.

[Taverner]

7. Really?

I saw Trey on Charlie Rose and he was pretty confident that there would never be a Phish reunion...but people change ya know

[SteppingRazor]

4. Somewhat coincides with my own favorite era...

fall '96 to summer '98. Both the band and the scene went kinda downhill after that. Fall 97's probably my favorite tour, though.

[ALago1]

6. Well, I'm biased because I started seeing shows in '97

I'm sure to a lot of other people the scene (to them) had gone downhill but I was absoulutely in love with the band until they went on hiatus.

[SteppingRazor]

8. In either a sad display of obstinance or a proud display of loyalty...

I refused to see Phish until Garcia died. So, I caught my first shows on the fall '96 tour. The last show I saw was Coventry. Not sure how many came in between, but it's somewhere between 30 and 40, I think. I also think your first shows were the band's peak, though. That Fall '97 tour was outstanding.

Of course, to some Phish fans, I'm just as much of a newbie because I wasn't there before Jerry died. I imagine it was probably a really nice, tight-knit atmosphere back then, before the huge exodus of Deadheads like me, but from all the bootleg shows I've heard, the band wasn't nearly as tight as it was a few years later -- although, I will say, it would've been sweet to catch one of the '91 shows with the Giant Country Horns.

[ALago1]

10. For sure

I was pretty heavy into the whole tape trading scene and from what I heard they did peak right around the time I began seeing them.

Is it just me or do you also feel the whole jamband scene has kind of collapsed since Phish and that it probably won't recover? It almost feels kind of like a "been there, done that" sort of thing.

Or maybe it's just my personal experience.

[SteppingRazor]

11. I don't see anyone taking over the throne the way Phish did with the Dead.

Instead, we've got the festival circuit. Tour kids these days go from jamband festival to jamband festival, instead of following a specific band. Certainly, I've kind of got that "been there" attitude, but lots of people a decade younger than me don't.

[Ravenseye]

2. Is that an order?

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[LaraMN]

9. I saw them in '97, outside MIlwaukee.

It was a weekend of pot smoking, drinking, and gallivanting. Well, for everyone else I went with, anyway. I was three months pregnant, so I spent most of it puking from carsickness and hormones, and cursing my amazing (un)inflatable air mattress. They couldn't leave me home, because I had a head injury. Yeah. Good times.:rofl: