Submit: What do you think it means to be a phishhead?

The Sloth:

• you love fishman's singing in purple rain!

Cait:

• you stayed up all night on new years eve 2000 and waited for the boys to show up on Peter Jennings' stupid show because you were only 14 and weren't allowed to go to big cypress... and when they finally did, at 3-something in the morning, you cry and  wake-up the entire town screaming the lyrics to "heavy things"

Have Mercy:

• You believe you own a "diverse" collection of music because you have Phish shows that range from 1986-2000

Phisherman:

• YOU SEE YOUR FIRST SHOW.......because from that point on, you'll never turn back!

Matt:

• you get arrested for the first time for stealing a bittersweet road sign and try to explain your actions to every cop you meet that night (true story)

Jeff:

• your whole lunch hour is spent talking about solo tour dates and phish music, especially before a show comes
• you can't get enough of bittersweet
• you own a ford tempo with a phish sticker on it
• you smoke just to listen to faht or llama
• every time you hear brian and robert you think of bittersweet motel and miss them soooooo much!

Jevy420:

• You're alone in a crowd and spot another phishhead across the room, and you instantly feel like you are with family.

Chris:

• you miss your first week of 11th grade to see phish
• you are entirely sure you know what trey's sayin' in yem
• you dream about 'em on tour once more
• highway rest stops make the memories come flooding back in

Mik Stavig:

• You need to listen to billy breahtes in order to sleep

Big Daddy:

• You only tried "Phish Food" because it was endorsed by Phish.
• Your favorite reading material while droppin' a deuce is The Schvice.

Ben Shooner:

• You realize that seeing Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Mellencamp, and Phish play in the same show is too good of a thing to pass up. It's so good, in fact, that you risk termination at your job, and instead of showing up for work, drive to Chicago for Farm Aid.

Jeff Casale:

• If you've ever been fired from a job for telling the boss you're "gonna take a quick 15 minute break," and you come back 45 minutes later.

Carl LeBlanc:

• The shivers that run up your spine are constantly being conjured by Phish.

Ollie:

• You named your cat "Marley" not necessarily after Bob Marley, but after Trey's doggie
• You have their logo tattooed on your body
• You have a wall in your room dedicated to Phish
• You have pets named after songs and band members
• You have more than three Phish stickers on your car
• You cried for two days because you missed a show
• You can run through most of the phish songs in alphabetical order
• You or a friend knows and has played with the band
• You cat's collar has a little fish on it
• You accidentally spell Phish with a "Ph" when you are trying to spell it with an "F"
• You are the class of 2001 and you persuaded your class to walk out to "2001" at graduation
• You can talk Phish for hours
• You know Gamehenge
• You have a Phish shirt collection and a CD collection that hurts you to carry
• You can't see yourself living without Phish, and you think that those who haven't experienced Phish haven't experienced life
• You drink coffee with Hood milk, you eat lots of fish, and Phish food ice cream, dream about phish, want to marry Trey, and can't go an hour without thinking of how much your life has changed because of Phish

Gordon:

• you get so high that you forget everything except some damn good music......

Phunky 420:

• you wake up and can't decide which show to put listen to.
• your friends can always guess what band you are listening to.
• you are daily checking out phish's web site for new news

Cowboy Neal at the Wheel:

• when someone knocks on your door, you just assume that it's the wolfman's brother.
• the only bedtime story you know is "the story of the ghost"
• when your girl isn't there, you actually sleep diagonal in your bed.
• you look forward to bio everyday, cause you think that one day you might actually see Golgi Apparatus

Timmy O:

• Your dad asks why you haven't been to a phish show in the last few months
• You have seen the northern lights
• You can go a whole show staring at Trey's fingers playing his guitar
• Your CD case is 90% Phish shows, with the few solo shows thrown in
• You can turn your car on and hear the middle of Caspian

Supergilly:

• You decide to become a commercial pilot so you can schedule your flights around Phish shows.

Hadley:

• You think it's hilarious that Page likes the dudes in the front row.
• The first thing you bought after your new car was a new Phish sticker.
• When someone asks you what your favorite Phish song is, you have to think about it for 20 minutes.
• You pick up the packaged glowsticks at Wal-Mart and throw them.
• Alpine Valley is the only reason you've ever been to Wisconsin.
• You've eaten at Nectar's and took a picture of the stage.
• No matter when or where you hear it, Harry Hood still gives you goosebumps.
• You're going to use this summer to catch up...with everything.

Steve and Aaron:

• When you own your own frock
• When you're coming, and you're pumping iron just like Arnold and Trey
• When you see that the musical genius of every dude in the band shines through in every song they play

Jon:

• your favorite New Years ever will always be Big Cypress
• you drove 4hrs through the Blizzard from HELL to see the 12 29 93 New Haven CT show
• you agree that the best version of WATCHTOWER by any band... is the Phish/Popper version 3 14 92 at Roseland Ballroom NYC
• you found out Trey is currently on solo tour with fresh horns and THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED!

Danglia J. Zen:

• People ask, "Who's your favorite guitarist?" and you're thinking: "TREY, TREY, TREY, HIS MUSIC INSPIRES MY SOUL!!!"  Finally you say, "I really dig that guy from phish."

Crimdaddy:

• You drink good beer

SHiftee:

• When you see someone wearing a Guinness beer shirt, you automatically think "Guyute"

Slippery Phish:

• You go skating on a frozen pond, and launch blows at your mirror image.
• You tie trash bags to your legs, just so you can have stumps instead of feet.
• You know the words to Fluff's Travels offhand.
• You think that you oughtta meet the man Mulchay.
• The only food you eat at home are grilled cheese and gooballs.
• You see moe., String Cheese, WSP, and Salmon this summer, thinking how sick it would be if Phish was playing instead.
• You search around all the forests in your state, looking for the tannis root, along with other goodies that grow out of the ground after it rains. ;-)

Herbal Sam:

• When you're driving/riding in a car and you see a license plate that reads 100700, then a tear comes to your eye.
• ignoring your girlfriend and burning phish shows all day
• asking everyone if they listen to phish
• when you have the phish logo as a tatoo =D
• getting back .51 cents in change and trying to figure out if phish played any shows on may 1st in their entire career
• when you have 200+ shows on your wish list

Frank:

• you get off on Mike Gordon running his hands up and down the bass.

Daniels:

• you never forgive yourself for not making it to that one, great show you had planned on going to

• after watching bittersweet motel, you think the boys are pretty similar to you and your friends 

Eyeball:

• you're too lazy to mail tapes out... just laying around
• you've been listening to the Clifford Ball all week long...
• snowflakes in the sand hits you a little too deeply...

Bones:

• you can't refer to gin without the word bathtub

Matt:

• you call your travel agent trying to book a room at the bittersweet motel.

Big Daddy BJL:

• You still have some sort of souvenir from your first show (hat, shirt, ticket stub, etc..)

Rob S.

• You refer to most all of you friends as "Your Kids"
• You're disappointed when you wake from a dream, realizing they were about to start second set, but you're late for work and can't go back to see what they play
• you're constantly looking over your shoulder at work as you read the stories on Pholktales
• your windows passwords go back and forth from Phish to Lizards to Wilson and so on
• passing random rest stops you think, "HOME SWEET HOME!!"
• you commit financial suicide so you can catch as many shows as possible

Jankie:

• every "other" show you go to makes you think man i wish phish would come out and play....
• you and your friends pop in a show, turn out the lights, and dance like you're there, and they're there, and everyone's there =)
• you get teased, "oh how are you feeling about Phish breaking up?"

itdoesntmatter:

• There's just something about Lizards (you know what part I'm talking about) that makes you get up and GROOVE
• You have heated debates with your friends about the real meaning of YEM
• You write to Page every day hoping that he will have mercy and be your penpal

Mariss:

• Your friends can still remember you bugging out at your first concert.
• You are only half-way reading this because you are trying so hard to sing along to Piper.

Bryan Palmer:

• EVERYTIME YOU SEE THE HOOD MILK TRUCK YOU SCREAM, "where do you go when the lights go out........"

Matthew Flowers:

• You fully understand what Trey means when he says he's 'gotta jibboo'.
• You believe that Waste is the most beautiful love song ever, by any band.
• You like to frequently enjoy myself. (????)
• All of your pets are named after Phishy characters or the members themselves.
• Everytime you see a lizard, you raise your right hand and sout "Death be to Wilson!"
• Your two favorite places on earth are Nectar's and Uffitze.
• You ACTUALLY believe that Phish is better than the Dead.

Tom Bradel:

•  you go out of your way to see whose driving the VW bus ahead of you

Ben Shooner:

• You've coerced your parents (and succeeded) into attending a show with you.
• You remember when the beginning of "Twist" had the extra phrase in the lyrics.
• You remember when "Vultures" did NOT have the extra lines in the verses.
• You put off "real" employment to attend Big Cypress.
• To have people at the shows not know the music bothers you, so you make it a point to load every newbie you know of with CD's of shows as "study materials."
• You have fallin' in love, out of love, then back in love with Phish.
• Certain songs that were once just cool to dance to now have poetic truth to their lyrics.
• Since the hiatus started, you've had dreams about the band.
• Since you don't have shows to go to right now, you spend most of your time downloading shows, burning discs, contributing to web-sites, and above all debating with your friends when and where the next show will be.

J.R.:

• ... you still consider Guyute and Simple as new songs

Jenni:

• you see a deer crossing sign and sware it's an antelope
• no matter what are are wearing, there is always a phish t-shirt underneath

Shifty:

• When you can go sing one obscure riff of a song and your friend will know it is DWD right away.

Moose:

• before you go to sleep at night, you put on a show and go to sleep pretending you are there... visualizing the concert until you fall asleep.

Nathan:

• when every pass word you have in your life (ie: bank, phone, computer) has something to do with gamehenge.
• When you think that phish is the gangster rap of rock and roll.
• when people tell you you look like trey, you know you're a phish head

Yoshi:

• When you spend 12 hours on an interstate in the Everglades, waiting to get in to New Year's, and you're still in a good mood.
• whenever you here the word "CHEESECAKE" you are compelled to shout it out wherever you happen to be.
• Having faith that phish will be back and that this break is well deserved.
• Knowing that when phish does come back you'll be there know matter how far away they are.

Adam:

• Your dad tells you that the band phish has hypnotized you.

Lyndsay:

• You have 2 cd books... categorized "Phish" and "Everything else."
• You are truly puzzled over what you'll do with yourself this summer.
• Your best friend gave you the cd's of your first show for your birthday.

Crmidaddy:

• You check the mail every day for the new Schvice, and Mike's Corner makes sense to you

Joey Mac:

• You liked Mike's movie.

Chocolate Jones:

• ... You refer to your boss as WILSON.

Brent:

• You can remember the address for Phish Tix-by-Mail better than where you are currently staying.

Riggins:

• anything you trip over, step on, run over, or see dead in the road is automatically a possum.

Patch:

• any pet has a matching phish outfit
• you can quote any song, any time, and make it almost seemingly fit into conversation
• you can name the NYE 2000 setlist perfectly, just randomly.
• you insist "Moma Dance" is the newest "in-thing" dance to do.
• You insist that fish looks better in a dress, but is straight.
• You spell everything with PH instead of F, heck, it even looks better.
• You have arguments on whether Phish would be spelt with a "F" if the "real" spelling of fish was really spelt "phish"

Magnum PR:

• You're at your first show and your friend keels over in the midst of the second set because he smoked just a little too much

Ryan: 

• you think gooballs have there own food group

Amehlia Kent:

• You are obsessed with buying anything phishy... 
• You have a fish tank in your room; you have a purse with fish on it, you are constantly drawing pictures of fish; you have static cling stickers of different kinds of fish all over the windows of your car; you wear clothing decorated with fish; you have to tell everyone about PHISH and how you are part of the community
• Your Sunday afternoon must be spent in some PHISH related activity...
•  (E-mailing Phish Phriends, taking a nice drive and smokin up while listening to Divided Sky, watching a video of PHISH, Finding out new stuff about Phish on the internet, Preparing early for a Phunky Bitch Gathering, Contemplating your next get-up for a future show)

Traci:

• You say taboot, taboot whenever you hear the word llama.

Andrew:

• you use "ph" instead of "f" on everything
• you name your daughter "Trey"
• you know all the words to "page got a new shirt"
• you can't fall asleep without Rift playing
• you give your mom patch pants
• phish dry goods is your homepage
• you have hundreds of thousands of brothers and sisters all over the world

Brian:

• you start crying tears of joy at a show!!!

Jon:

• You miss your first 2 weeks of college because you are on tour...

Brian:

• you call out of work to drive 100 miles to a show that you don't have tickets to.

Allison:

• bumper stickers like YEM and the antelope crossing sign make you smile
• TMWSITY reads like a sentence

posternuts: 

• You keep Phish food containers that are 3 years old

Mike D.

• 70% of your cd collection is phish shows

J-master

• You get into arguments about who's more of an animal, Fish or Trey 

Crimdaddy:

• You don't mind facing the embarrassment of being dropped off at a show by your parents. (Obviously before you can drive)

Paul Schmura:

• You catch you 6 and 8 year old nieces playing one of your Gamehenge CD's singing AC/DC Bag word for word :)
• Your Driving past the New York State fairgrounds and you see a Big sign saying "The Circus is Coming while When the circus comes is blaring on your car stereo :)

Posted anonymously:

• every time there's an awesome sunset you must get in your car, pick out a live divided sky, and drive TOWARD THE HORIZON

• whenever you date your notes with 2001, you immediately add ">DWD"

Submit: What do you think it means to be a phishhead?