From: patricia chern <pchern@minyatur.next.nd.edu>
Subject: Re: Praise the net
Reply-To: pchern@minyatur.next.nd.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:33:54 GMT

Heylo everybody!
Oh how I missed the net, it's great to be back!  I had a fantastic  
summer on the east coast which included seeing Phish with the HORDE  
tour in New Jersey.  A happy story:  After spending years getting  
Phish tickets way in advance and getting there a hundred years early  
to be right by the stage (usually unnecessarily), I thought this show  
lent itself to a new approach, (about 4000 reserved seats, then GA on  
the lawn) . . . after being told by Ticketmaster "It won't sell out,  
not with lawn seats - I can't think of any time the Garden State Art  
Center has ever sold out" I decided to play it cool, avoid the  
ticketbastard charge, bring a blanket, a bunch of friends, relax and  
buy lawn seats the day of the show. Trouble was, when i called the  
day before to see when the gates open i was told it sold out.  My  
fault for relying on Ticketmaster for worthy info, but ALAS, in my  
major panic, I found the number of a nearby netter Mike Blackin who  
just HAPPENED to have an extra lawn seat about 12 hours before the  
show and though the two of us had never seen each other, I drove to  
Jersey alone, met up with him and his friends by relying on mutual  
description, and had a blast!  There's my happy story!  Praise the  
net!

The times they are a ':  Quite a feeling to have 5000 people rocking  
to Suzi Greenberg. It was very odd to see Phish from so far away (as  
opposed to 7 feet) but what struck me even more was when we came out  
of the show and there were people in the parkinglot selling  
bumpersickers reading "I'd rather be Phishing" . . . and zillions of  
people were buying them . . . the people behind us were there for  
Blues Traveler basically, their Phish background being Chalkdust and  
"I heard, well, aren't they really wierd or something?" and it was  
beautiful to see them just get blown away by Phish. And i think that  
was pretty typical for the whole.  It was amazing what they could do  
in a 50 minute set.  


HENRIETTA CADENZA:  I imagine this may be typical for the summer tour  
by now, but At the end of Cavern, after the 5 notes in a row were  
played, the band froze.  Mike and I were kind of suspended in air  
waiting for the final chord, but the crowd cheered like it was over  
and then Henrietta came out and played a while alone.  So we were  
getting into this and the guy behind, staring in amazement of Fish's  
electrolux talents, asked if this vaccuum thing was a song.  I said  
"No, they just do this once in a while.  We're still waiting for the  
for the final chord of the last song, actually."  Since Fish had been  
wailing a while the guy thought I was crazy, but sure enough, the  
final crashing chord to Cavern came about 5 minutes later. Ultra  
cool.
  

Nice thing: Mike and Fish wandered around the audience during the  
other band's sets, stopping here and there to chat, and they weren't  
getting horded (ha) in the least.  Everyone was real laid back.   I  
just smiled and waved myself when Mike passed. I don't know, this  
summer being so different from the past I almost expected security  
guards to be following them around :) so it was nice to see they can  
still . . . just be.  


Anyway, I suppose this show has already been talked about but I've  
had stuff storing in my happy memoires for a month and would love to  
hear about all the others.  No net access just bites the big banana.

Yeay!  Can't wait to hear what's up on the net!
Peace dreamfully,
Patti

       
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