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This concept was originally developed by Jay Boutros and published on his site.  It allowed many fans to submit their ideas about  what it means to be a phishhead.  Since he no longer updates his site, several PholkTales visitors have expressed a desire to see the continuation of this brilliant project... Submit: Tell me what it means to be a phishhead!

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jdbjam:

  • All you do is listen to phish (nothing else). You are phree when you hear phish.
  • You can't find a bad phish song.
  • Classmates start to ask what you are listening to and they look into your eyes and just stop because they know. IM me at Harryhood985.

Happy Harpua:

  • You have 179 mp3's on your computer and 141 of them are Phish mp3's.

JDGDO2O:

  • you phind out you got tickets the 20th Anniversary show and all you can think of is how sweet it is that your dorm is right down the road. You then skip all your class's and listen to shows all day long. (AIM - JDGD020)

Rinaldo:

  • You've been listening to bootlegged Phish sets for 10 hours and don't have the will power to turn it off and go to bed at 5 am

B Ward:

  • your idea of getting play is listening to fluffhead.
  • you spend nearly 12 hours a day listening to phish cast. the other 12 hours are spent at school and sleep.
  • you have turned some jock football players on to the boys, and now they want to go on summer tour.
  • you can't listen to bruce springsteen's born to run, knowing that tom marshall and the boys played it the way it was meant to be played on 7/16/99 in holmdel, new jersey.
  • you've smelt the colors outside on your lawn, and they smell fucking good.
  • you know for a fact that if you were stranded on a desert island, you'd prefer to have phish discs above all things.
  • you've seen at least 10 people from your small montana city at a show
  • you defend phish to the fullest when your french teacher says, "i just don't get them i guess"
  • you ask, what is there to get? it's just fucking music!
  • you can still remember the guy at the gorge screaming "steak kabobies" for half an hour while you were buying a lot shirt.
  • you as a young man, you went riding out on the western plain
  • you hate the winter, not because it's cold, but there's no god damn phish news for a long, long time.

Lake of Frost:

  • everyone in woodshop thinks you're wasting your time in class cause all you make are mushrooms and things related to phish out of wood.
  • deciding between a live antelope or a dark star is no contest.
  • you're tripping and not hearing a phish jam gives you a bad trip.

D. Hippie:

  • You stand out on the runway at about 2:37 PM and realize you just sat in a car for over 28 hours...and you'd do it again in a heartbeat for IT.

Michelle:

  • -you don't just sing in the shower, you groove
  • -when u listened to your 1st phish song u realize this has been what you've been looking 4 all you life, and u hadn't even known u'd been looking 4 it
  • you're 14 and ur the only 1 in ur school who understands phish, yet you don't feel left out at all because u know they're the 1s who are missing out on the greatest experience anyone could ever have. IM me, i could definitely use a phriend-purplepiggy21

Andrew:

  • you have nightmares about the boys dying on their tour bus.
  • You find yourself listening to no other band but phish everyday, whenever you can.
  • You realize that the weird the lyrics of phish make perfect sense to you, and you can relate yourself to them (ziggy177) talk phish:)

ny7belowaz:

  • when you fly from AZ to miami for NYE, and aren't even there for 24 hours.
  • when, strangely enough, after listening to Phish non stop for the past 8 months, you're not getting sick of them, but rather find yourself wanting more more more.....and the archives keep growing!!!

thisphishyhippie:

  • you're pulling into a parking spot, hit the car next to you, grieve to him that you're terribly sorry for what u've done (it wasn't hit that bad...) and he forgives you because he sees the stickers on your car phish of course), and you look on his and he's part of the phamily! Damn, isn't life great?!

jeff:

  • you shut the hell up at a show, quit acting a fool, and appreciate the music.

b ward:

  • You ask your phriend which Trey solo he would make fuck to. i said Divided Sky, and he didn't know.
  • You woke up this morning, rolled over, looked at the clock and it said 1:11.
  • You jog, and you have every single second of guyute playing in your head
  • you once listened to every phish cd you owned for a whole week, and after it was over, you decided to listen to more Phish.
  • you are going to lose your virginity to Wading in the Velvet Sea
  • you emulate the style of various lot people you've seen
  • you can wrap yourself around the music, like a blanket and feel calm, cool, and chill
  • the greatest person you know personally is the person who introduced you to phish way back in 1997. and his name is benj, and kind of looks like trey.
  • your brother puts ya mar on his Grand Theft Auto III game, and the only reason you watch him play is because its cool to watch people being shot to such a sweet song.
  • you've actually written an essay about how phish saved your life.
  • you often compare phish to, not the grateful dead, but the beatles
  • you've got a lumpy head.
  • you know the lyrics to prep school hippie.
  • you have a phish tour account.
  • you will always remember the first time you heard simple up at summer camp, and your camp counselor (benj) was bobbing his head with a gnarly grin, and you felt something tick within your brain.
  • you want to give everybody you meet at the lot one gigantic hug, and tell them thanks for being there to make everything feel so special.

Poster Nutbag:

  • you're deciding on your career path or next job and it comes down to which job will allow you to see the most shows

Tim:

  • you watch every Simpsons episode that comes on tv hoping it's the one that phish is on.

Phree:

  • You turn your grandmother on to Phish, and she LOVES the words to YEM.

Phishy Momma:

  • you see an acoustic Bathtub Gin during the hiatus and you want to cry
  • you run your own business just so you can have the time off to see Phish whenever and wherever they play.
  • you come back to your car after a show and you aren't upset to find 2 girls pissing on your minivan.

Phluph:

  • When you and your girlfriend are simultaneously reading these back and forth from each other's computer because they are hilarious.

Kris:

  • The solo in bathtub gin is your drug of choice!!
  • you can have so many girlfriends who aren't phishheads, but they will never have THAT connection with you, the one you can only feel laying in bed listening to wading in the velvet sea, or waste.
  • You can only see yourself spending the rest of your life with a phellow head.
  • You can never do anything without a phish groove in your head.
  • You crawl into your bed so worn out and tired, but when you get comfortable and turn on that show, your suddenly awake and cant sleep till its over...
  • You walk down the street singing RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN to yourself, and people think you're crazy. But you don't care...
  • You love having sex to YEM or wading in the velvet sea, or waste.
  • You are confident that when you die, you will hear YEM wherever it is you go when you die.
  • Every time you pull up to a red light, you have to yell... SLAVE!!!!
  • Piper will expand your mind by itself, if its long enough and hypnotizing.
  • You sleep lengthwise every night... and the sweet sound that is phish puts you there...
  • You trip in gamehenge, haha ask me about that one.
  • you want to name your girl piper
  • you only want a phellow head for a girl, because if she wasn't she wouldn't understand some of the feelings you get that are far more than love
  • you want to cry at the end of YEM 10/7/00 (the last phish show) and at the end of the show let it be comes on the p.a. as aftershow music, and you just think what life will be like without phish around.

Fabian B:

  • When reading about 10 other entries, you are just sooo tempted to throw in a phat ass show!! talk 2 me!! freeker7420, dvdsky7420

Windorabug:

  • you read all of these while listenin' to a great show and get a rush of happiness... that's when you know

Piper:

  • You get your phish ticket on ebay in the middle of science class, and when you finally won and out-bid everyone else, you jump out of your seat and scream and dance... when the teacher asks what the hell is going on, you say, "I love phhhhhh---science"

Charles:

  • You stay up an extra 10 minutes every night, trying to decide which show to listen to while going to sleep.

Misty:

  • you eat phish every day.
  • your mom starts to know Phish songs
  • your kids are singing along with whole cds and you're like, "whoa, my kids like phish"
  • your kids have a nickname for phish (my kids call em phish stix)
  • you get chills hearing any phish song that you love

doctorz2:

  • Upon leaving for a road trip your mom comes running out of the house stating that you forgot your bootlegs.
  • Your parents call you a groupie.

Tahoe:

  • You punctuate your yawns, "awwwwwwwwwwwwwww" with; "BOY!"

Nemo:

  • Your goal in life is to one day be able to explain Phish to a non-phan in a way they can understand
  • Someone asks you, "How are the mosh pits at a phish show?" and you look at them for a couple minutes and then start to laugh hysterically
  • Being in Miami with a certain Christina was the most wonderful time of your life...because your with the two greatest things ever!
  • You don't even want to try to explain a show to a non-phan because you feel like you would not be doing justice to the experience...they have to see it first hand.
  • You daydream all throughout the day about certain experiences at shows (e.g. The beautiful blue and green lights during I am Hydrogen)
  • Seeing people having an intense trip during the peak of Antelope gives you the greatest feeling ever! (Marcus we love ya were ever you are buddy)

jesuswholeftchicago:

  • a deadhead tells you to expand your music horizons cause you just listen to phishh alll the timeee

Kris:

  • You get THAT FEELING when you listen to the divided sky from deer creek 98. You know what i'm talking about, THAT FEELING, that indescribable feeling, if you're a true phan you know what im talking about. And you're so happy every day to be able to have something like phish in your life and be the a kind person because of it. And phish is more than just a band, it's a scene, and a way of life, a way to live life. IM me if you want to talk some phish, peace southrncomfortcw@aol.com "SLAVE.. TO THE TRAFFIC LIGHT!!!!"
  • That feeling you get when you just crank up a show and have no worries whatsoever in your life, and if you do they don't get you down, nothing can get you down, because you have phish... so once again, that feeling when you just crank up a show and let it all go, let it all loose, get on the roller coaster. SORRY YA'LL I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A MIND BLOWING DIVIDED SKY RIGHT NOW. SO I CANT TYPE THAT WELL..... ah.. divided sky the wind blows high!!! send me an instant message, we'll talk phish
  • you love to just go listen YEM, and it just blows your mind. How 4 guys could do so much... the break down at the end of BOWIE, the build up in the middle of YEM, the stadium-built sound of GOLGI, the reggae sound of the live SLAVES, the sweet groove of the MOMA DANCE, the innocent sounds of CONTACT

Ed:

  • You are walking in the gate for the show and you hear someone say "who are we going to see? PHISH?" and you want to hit them, but then you remember that you are about to see Phish!

Fluffhead:

  • Your Mom can identify a phish song and you run up and hug her (even though she hates phish)
  • You're at a non phan friend's house and while they are in the shower, you look at what songs they have downloaded and you only see 2 phish songs... So you download like 30 more and when they come back and ask, "what are you doing?" you say you're doing them a favor.
  • Whenever you go off talking about phish your non phish friend makes a remark like "you and your crazy phish cult," and you tackle them to the ground and tell them to not make fun of your religion.
  • Every time you see someone with a phish shirt you walk up to them and make phriends.
  • You and your ONE other phish phan phriend have made up words to describe how orgasmically good phish is, like the new word "phorgasmic"
  • You just have to groove whenever you hear a phish song... even in the grocery store with the head phones on.
  • You're riding in the car with another phan and 2 non-phans... the 2 non-phans leave, and you and the other phish head stay and listen to weekapaug groove till its over...10 minutes later...
  • You have sex listening to "Wading in the Velvet sea" because that guitar solo is purely phorgasmic.
  • You have dreams about Jammin with Mike... and one night you have a terrible nightmare about Trey falling off a cliff... You wake up and tell your mom and she just shakes her head... so you run over to the cd player and play some phish. Trey's singing and guitar solo is the only thing that puts you at ease...
  • You're a straight heterosexual male, but, if you could absorb Trey's guitar playing abilities by having sex with him you would...
  • When you're at a phish concert, you step in and say "I'm Home."
  • You steal the street signs "Hood," "Piper," and "Wilson"
  • You look at all these "You know your a phish head when..." And find screen names and add them to your buddy list so you can talk to other phish heads about phish. (aim- Fluffhead4488)

Kate:

  • you're going out of town and you leave a reminder note on your brothers door to "feed your phish"

M.R.

  • you're kissing your girlfriend on new year's eve and you say to her, "there is no other place in the world id rather be then here with you."  Then you think about it and take it back cause you know you'd much rather be in miami for the new year's show.

PhunkyOompaPhish:

  • you can talk to any phan about phish, even if you've never met them.
  • sharing in the groove is your fave hobby.
  • your first phish concert felt like the first time you really heard music.

Nessa:

  • you're asked what your favorite phish cd is, and you respond with, ''no one cd is better than another phish cd.''

Jakub K:

  • When you spent ur Saturday night listening to Phish's entire 7/10/00 show while reading the first page of the phishhead entries.  You get to the bottom of the page and realize their are 13 more pages, yet you keep on reading cuz you love Phish

Lenny:

  • your friend dares you to walk down shakedown street at "IT" in a speedo for 3 bucks, and you gladly accept 'cause after all, a 6'3" guy with a beard looks great in a speedo anyway!!!!!!!!
  • camping at "IT," all you brought for food was peanut butter and jelly, a loaf of bread, some mixed veggies and ramen. after each set you whip it up and you get a full course meal, and your pals think it's grade A shit!!!!!!

Caliphish:

  • your girlfriend offers you a free trip to hawaii with her family in February, but you can't confirm until tour dates are announced.
  • you love california but consider moving to the east coast to be closer to limestone.
  • you only really feel your at home and with family at a phish show.

Candyman25:

  • you seriously contemplate getting yourself thrown out of the coast guard cause you can't go to miami, and you decide not to in order to save money in case the boys smile upon you and come west to make life meaningful again
  • everyone on the coast guard cutter chase is sick of phish, yet they still can gig to rocky top when you grace them with it.
  • you're in the freezer and you just gotta seize her with a tweezer

Primoose:

  • you see dave and friends and you're the only person in your section to cheer when "waste" begins. side note... acoustic bathtub gin wow!

CharlieBrown:

  • Nobody knows what your license plate frame means when it says, "I Brake For Possum". There are no possum in SoCal.

AntelopeAng:

  • You stay up to watch all of Driven:Dave Matthews on VH1 just because they interview Trey for 5 minutes

Fauci

  • you don't just listen to the music that they play... you loose yourself in it. that's when you're a phishhead.
  • you're still in high school and you skip class to get tickets
  • you start saving in the fall for next summer's tour
  • when you listen to them you find yourself thinkin, man i can't wait till the next show.

Jake Keith:

  • u consider running away to see the boys
  • u get arrested before the show & u offer to pay them to wait til after the show to take u in

Oh sure.

  • you're trying to concentrate on something and you just can't stop fluff's travel's from playing in your head - over and over and over.
  • you've memorized all the jams on each Live Phish CD you own
  • you grow your red beard out just to look like Trey

Tom:

  • You don't know what to do when Jeff Holdsworth comes on stage... you can't express anything in words...

Mr. Nice Guy:

  • Your boss bans Phish from work for one week because you "listen to them to much"---what a dick
  • Instead of doing your senior research a paper you make up Phantsy setlists.
  • When someone asks, "what kind of music do you listen to?"  You respond, "phish."
  • People say you're obsessed with phish and you love every bit of it

ItsAllHood:

  • Your non-head friend says he will punch you if you yell Death to Wilson one more time when you see his basketball.
  • You wish Harry Hood was 40 min. longer.
  • You are known around school as "hippy" and your phriend is "hippy #2".
  • YOU LOVE PHISH WITH ALL YOUR HEART!
  • You are listening to phish right now.
  • You laugh every time someone asks you what your shirt means.
  • You turned your science teacher on to phish.

Just Another Phan:

  • When you shelf the idea that a "phishhead" is something that must obtain specific experiences and ideas, and you simply realize that if you dig phish, share in the groove, and "get it," you're a head. that's that.
  • im- soiaskyouwhy or pbhrieseh :)

Mike:

  • you nickname your car the antelope and you drive recklessly.
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Aaron:

  • You play almost nothing but Phish, and whenever your non Phish Phriends come by they still can't believe that you're "Not sick of those guys yet".
  • You smile because you know the more you listen to them, the more you love em.
  • You have the Siket Disc, and you love it! C'mon guys, play "What's The Use?" more often!
  • You just KNOW.

Luke:

  • You've turned an entire family onto Phish, and it's not your own.
  • You make a fairly accurate map of Gamehendge from lyrical details.

Jessica:

  • You're driving with a friend, and a Phish song comes on the mix CD he made. He looks at you and says, "You know, before I met you I had never even heard of Phish." You both sing along loudly and your heart swells with pride.
  • When you got your appendix taken out, your non-Phishhead friends bring you a present at the hospital. But it's not flowers, it's not a stuffed animal...it's a road sign they stole in the middle of the night just for you: Wilson Rd.

Nugs:

  • you have shitload of work to do but you'll never dare to turn off that 30 minute YEM.

Birds of a Feather:

  • You go to your phirst Phish show and feel totally comfortable wearing baggy pink pants with a pink flamingo hat on your head, and everyone loves it.

Baker:

  • You & 3 friends take a trip to Philly to see the boys play and you know it will be the best night of your life.
  • Your 3 friends are disappointed bc of the damn "northern crowd," but you argue with them that it was one of the best shows they've played in a long time until they all punch you in the face.
  • All you do is download Phish shows from momadance.com
  • Every waking moment you dream of meeting the boys.
  • At the show in Philly, you shed tears during the break in Divided Sky and Tom Marshall comes out in the middle of Makisupa and you know something special is about to happen.
  • You think nothing could be better than going on tour for the rest of your life with the boys and "phamily"

- You skip school to download Phish sets and pictures!!

- You think Page is the f*cking man.

If you wanna chat with a serious phan, email me at Smidge106@aol.com or im me at Smidge106

Kyle:

  • you really love the band for their talent and musical ability, not just something to listen to while stoned
  • when you've heard about 30 or so YEM's.
  • when you bring your whole live phish collection to school everyday, and listen to it while the math teacher goes on and on about negative variables or something like that
  • when you're singing along to mike's song in the middle of class
  • when some very attractive girl comes up to you to talk (which never happens to me) and you tell her to be quiet for a minute because you're listening to trey's solo on the live one version of chalkdust

Neil:

  • whenever you hear the word "fish" mentioned, whether it be "fishsticks" or "tuna fish," you think of the boys

womanmulcahey:

  • when it makes your day seeing all the new screen names and you can't wait to send them a ''hey now'' and go phishing. send me a message - i'd love to hear from you : womanmulcahey

New Friend:

  • when you can't sleep one night and you lie there thinking about what each of the boys would order from you on a sub sandwich if they ever came into where you work

Zakarios:

  • Upon entering the lot, you think to yourself, "welcome home"

Kyle:

  • You listen to phish and the whole world simply stops until you're done listening
  • You can't get phish songs out of your head all day
  • You feel each knot go through your body as trey and the band jam away
  • You count down the days until the next phish show

Anonymous:

  • you wish everyone else in creation could understand the way you feel about the "experience" of how phish fits into life

Mike:

  • You love the feeling you get every time you listen to the very first phish song you ever heard (fee for me!), and how much you thank the person who played it for you that first time (thanks amber!)

Car:

  • your family asks you why anyone would have thousands of cds of one band

Kels:

  • You are sitting in Biology class and you start learning about Golgi Apparatus so shout out, "I look into the microscope See Golgi Apparatus!"  You then notice that everybody in the class has no idea what you are talking about.

Wilson:

  • u watch bittersweet motel once a week
  • Divided sky makes u cry
  • YEM is the best thing in the world
  • u had a dream that u missed a concert and u woke up very very sad

B-nut:

  • When fraternity initiation and exam week are three states and 8 hours away and all you can worry about it whether or not they're gonna use the trampolines

.... Beat It Harpua....

  • When you were 10 years old your hippy uncle (also a head) buys you your first cd and it is Slip Stitch and Pass, and then you get into Phish a lot in 2001 and realize you are too late!...they broke up....but then, like a dream come true they get back together and change your life forever.

LosEndos:

  • Every time you see the back of a red-headed man, you are strangely disappointed when he turn and isn't Trey.
  • At every non-phish concert you see, at one point you turn to one of your friends and say, "What if Phish came out right now and..."
  • Your aura feels cleansed after finishing a nice long Divided Sky jam.

Mr. Palmer:

  • You love their music, period.

The Sloth:

  • u listen to a complete show while reading all of these things and you appreciate how everyone else feels the same way u do
  • Your friends that have nicknames like Meatstick and Fluffhead start calling you The Sloth...
  • Words like vacation and roadtrip are just replaced with "tour!"

ThePhlow:

  • On the way to Limestone you spend an hour in silence only to come to the revelation that Trey really IS a Jedi.
  • Two Words: Religious Experience.

Rich:

  • You don't understand why anyone would buy cd's.

Beck:

  • You have an elite Mike Gordon Haiku Phan Club in which members all over the US submit weekly Mikus.
  • You write up Mike G jams of the week and forward them to all your friends.
  • almost all of your best friends' favorite band is Phish, and you talk about them at least 75 % of the time.
  • you've played the bass for years and years and you have a difficult time thinking of songs to play that aren't Phish.

phishhen:

  • Your post-show mental groovin earns you a $130 speeding ticket (cleveland 98)
  • You name your first car Henrietta, and have to explain to people why you refer to it as "he"

Pauly:

  • you join the army when you're stranded in california after the last show before hiatus, and now you have to finish.
  • you used vacation to tour and explained to your parents why you'll be in the northeast for thanksgiving 03 and may just stop by to say hi. All 4 nights. Yeah!

Tom Vaghy:

  • You are probably the only person in the united states air force who listens to phish and never will give up my collection of phish tapes and discs.
  • Your getting your blood pressure checked and it is high, so when the nurse does it over you calm your nerves by humming a solo of trey's.

stolenfat:

  • your winamp timer hits 999 hours and 99 mins more than once cause you listen to PhishCast so much!!

phil:

  • you dream about gamehendge.

ny7belowaz:

  • when you tell your buddie who got you into Phish that you've got over 150 songs on your comp. and another 40 cds and he just says, "eh, nice start" and you go dl as many other songs you can find.

Mike:

  • the fastest you've ever run in your life was when you saw a ticket for sale two cars over in the parking lot 10 minutes before the show.
  • you completely forget about the police that are searching you and you walk away because you hear those infamous first words...um pa um pa pa...and even better, they understand and let you and you stash go peacefully! Woohoo!

Brian:

  • every time you smoke you throw a phit until your friends phinally let you play divided sky, then all is right with the world
  • you max out your credit card immersing yourself in all the beautiful sounds that is phish (it was worth it)
  • after about 10 years of being an avid fan of music, you phinally stumble onto phish and you are phinally able to pick out a "favorite song of all time"... cause how phucking great is that (divided sky by the way)
  • you have only listened to about half of their material and are so phuckin excited about all the endless possibilities and things that you can pheel the band will bring in the future...(im-itsallhood41)

kayak man:

  • it's always so depressing to see less and less phish-mobiles as you get further from Limestone and closer to home.
  • You tape "the bunny" to make up for lack of good radio for the ride home.
  • you invite a traffic jam neighbor to listen in on the sound check after his radio shorted out.
  • When you are a part of the biggest thing that the kid at the gas station has ever seen.
  • You hear a good song by a different band, and you'd really rather hear what phish could do with it.
  • you are disgusted by people who tell you how totally high and incoherent they were at the show. what a waste.
  • you are even more disgusted when people who have tickets say stuff like," i dont care, man... i'm gonna be so wasted."
  • there's always someplace you'd rather be on new year's eve.
  • every show isn't great
  • you realize how selfish touring with them is... and you spend the rest of the year giving back.
  • tampons and granola bar sales pay for your tickets and gas.
  • the forest is just as cool as front row.

Samson:

  • When u know what chord is coming next before trey can play it.

Sheena:

  • You never liked FEE, but when you heard at your first show, it becomes BRILLIANT
  • You actually own the vacuum on the front of Lawnboy.... even though it's falling apart and it has been from Philly to Minneapolis to Oregon to Cali and back, you just can't chuck it...

steveo:

  • you wake up in the morning and turn on phish, hear the tight song you heard last night and then, being depressed, you have 2 go 2 school and you wish you were hearing that song all day and you get home as soon as you can to once again listen to the masterpieces of PHISH.

Kris:

  • when you're an obsesed phishhead stuck in military school for a year, and phish is the only thing that makes you happy (knowing that your will see phish when you get out).
  • people say you're obsessed, all you can do is grin and think, "if you only knew"
  • you wish everyone could "understand" phish and at least once just get so lost in a jam and go crazy that they just forget about life outside of the song.
  • you get so down some days about being in military school that all you can do is come to your room, throw on some bathtub gin and groove and you feel instantly better...
  • you hate scaplers and people who only go for the drugs.
  • you're obsessed, and you know it, but it's ok because its what makes you happy. feel free to talk phish with me, there isn't much else to do in military school... southrncomfortcw@aol.com

rphishin:

  • you play various versions of Phish covering "Sneakin' Sally" when you hear of Robert Palmer's death
  • you want Mike to sing "Mock Song" at the Gorge, and he does.
  • you know your life changed in incommunicable ways after discovering Phish during the "OJ trial" and remember where you were on 6-17-94 when they played the "OJ show"

Mike Herman:

  • You've taken the time to find this website and read these submissions...then eventually write one yourself.

Angry Phisher:

  • If you loath ticketmaster because of the torture they put you through when you can't get a ticket.

Jordan:

  • Someone next to you says they are listening to phish on their walkman, you nod and say that you are too. You don't have a walkman on.

Toto:

  • You get a phishtank and phour phish, and you bought the phish because each one of them reminded you of either trey, mike, page, or fishman, and named them accordingly. (And you decorate the phishtank on how you would think Gamehendge would look like)

fabian b:

  • your computer is almost dead because you have sooo many shows.(freeker7420, dvdsky7420, moeron33.talk 2 me)

phunky nuggets:

  • you can't help but dance to the keyboard that page throws out in NICU
  • when you're trippin' and every time you go to gamehenge
  • you try to draw a picture that relates to every song
  • you see someone with a phish sticker on their car and you give them the "phriendly honk"
  • every time you listen to phish you can't wait til' their next show. (MIAMI 12/31/03)

Peter Caye:

  • You take care of your shoes

Ben:

  • You go mountain climbing every weekend to see if you phind Icculus
  • Your room is actually round
  • You associate every thing your phriends say with a phish song.
  • You go searching in phorests for a large black rhombus
  • You named your pig Guyute

Vaghy:

  • you are taking a blood pressure test and it is too high so you hum divided sky so it will lower (it works man)

Colonel Mike:

  • you steal a dear crossing sign and paint antlers on it, then hang it in your room

Jarron Long:

  • You know the lyrics to most of the songs by heart.
  • When in conversations with people a word or phrase that comes to surface instantly reminds you of a phish lyric and you recollect where you were when you heard it.
  • You genuinely pheel more comfortable around people who like phish as much as you.
  • You go to bed at night and wake up at a phish show and they're playing a song you know really well and you can sit and enjoy before the image changes (I mean detail, watching them play their instruments and sing the song).
  • You think of them often and enjoy listening to their music no matter how many times you've heard that song. It's still good

yemjamboy:

  • You wake up in the morning after your girlfriend has gone to work and you realize that you are sleeping diagonal in your bed. After you know that you went to sleep lengthwise with her in it.
  • You name your fish tank "the phish tank" and put border behind it that says so.
  • you make an 80 minute cd with jams only, no words.
  • you have more phish cds than dollars in your wallet.
  • you buy extra tickets to shows so you can take people who have never seen phish before.
  • You're a straight heterosexual male, but yet you still have an obsession for mike gordon.
  • you realize that you could never marry anyone who is not a phish fan.
  • you name your dog mharli after Treys dog marley, his AKC name is Mharli Bhear of Phish Mhoon.
  • you can remember the day that you heard phish was going to take a "hiatus" and your whole world came crashing to a hault.
  • You make phish mix cds for friends who don't want them.
  • You make a life long pact to yourself to see them at least once a year, And would feel let down for life if you didn't.

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