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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!

Page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

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 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 can't 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. Every time you pull up to a red light, you have to yell... SLAVE!!!!
  • Piper will expand your mind by itself, when its long 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 the YEM encore 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...
  • 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 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..

bobhead7:

  • when you hear someone talk about david bowie but you dont't think about david bowie, you think about phish

Wakeful Monkey:

  • You rehearse the things that you would say in the event that you meet the band walking down the street some day.
  • You do your best to get the attention of the phans in the car next to you on the highway, and when it doesn't work you spend the next 30 minutes wondering what you could have done differently.
  • The song requests from your three year old in the back seat turn from the Alphabet song and 10 Little Indians to Maze, Reba and Sparkle.

Josh:

  • Every time you see a Phish sticker or Phish t-shirt you instantly pheel closer to that person...even if they are a total stranger

Evan:

  • the only reason you like Dave is because Trey does.
  • When people ask you why your IBM shirt says YEM... they just don't get it

Tela:

  • You're writing your master's thesis about Phish and the community.

Lenny:

  • when your friend Fudge drops off 14 GB of phish shows and you spend the next 3 months putting them in chronological order on your windows media player by show, set, and song.
  • when you are finally done you think that ain't good enuff, so you add in the tease to every song using "The Phish Companion". Kevin Shapiro would be proud !!!!!!
  • when you are still talkin' about "IT" and it happened six months ago!!!!!
  • when you have agreed to watch yer mom's house and pets for a week while she and her boyfriend go to Las Vegas. Come to find out it is the same week Phish is playing the Thomas & Mack Center. It's alright ( cries inside ), there is always IT 2 or summer tour!!!!!!
  • When Trey tells one of his lil' stories to the crowd between songs, you and the whole crowd gets so quiet u can hear a pin drop. I know when I hear his lil' stories i feel like a kindergarten kid during story time!!!

Deebs:

  • when your friends ask you what jam is in your head, you can say the song and the show, and they just laugh at you

Zach:

  • You're reading the textbook for your Marine Biology class, and when you see the word "fish" you wonder why they're talking about drummers.

phreshnphine420:

  • you're on a field trip and on the bus you try to convince everyone to scream HOOD

sumobaby:

  • your friends flip through your cds daily just to see if you have any thing other than phish

OUPhan:

  • you begin paying all your bills with postal money orders.

thedancingirl:

  • when you're riding down the road and you see a vermont license plate tag, you smile and give them a thumbs up... even if they're 80 plus years old
  • you stay at home on a saturday night to see phish on SNL...and as soon as they come on jump off the couch and start dancing around the living room...with the biggest grin on your face and tears in your eyes
  • your roommate is a non-head...but now you have gotten her to admit she likes to watch bittersweet motel with you... and now she can name all 4 of the boys
  • you wear flops in 17 degree weather

Patrick:

  • You start using other cd's as coasters
  • You have an orgasm feeling when you hear a song
  • When other bands just don't seem to exist
  • When you make friends by just talking about PHiSH

Web:

  • you're sitting here tryin to read every one of these, just because it puts a smile across your entire face just to hear it
  • you've read tooo many, droned on the computer screen when suddenly ghost is just screaming to be played and it just goes on
  • having the curtain played at your funeral sounds like a grand idea.  IM me, i would love to hear from you... timber9ho or berwe9

long legz:

  • you like real good rock n' roll, the electric kind.

lucy:

  • when you have a group of online buddies that aren't on tour, so you all get together in a chat room and watch the setlists build!!  AND YOU HAD THE BEST TIME, TOO!!!

Mike:

  • you have a detailed dream of a phish concert in oregon with your two brothers, and you hear every note of wilson, roggae, and divided sky... you wake up with a big grin
  • your reading  "ru  a phishead" and you read how so many people love divided sky (at that moment your listening to d-sky and your hairs stand up on the back of your neck)

Sam:

  • In the middle of physics, you and a phriend decide to get It tickets.  You convince the trusting kid next to you in class to let you borrow his credit card so you and your buddy can order the tickets.  You  both ask to go to the restroom, then run like hell to the computer lab.

Pat:

  • you skip class to listen to You Enjoy Myself
  • every time you hear someone say Harry you say Hood

axilla:

  • you experienced your first show at age 7
  • ten years later at the age of 15, you still love them
  • you are deeply offended by non phans
  • your gold fishes name is trey
  • when asked who your biggest influence is, you reply with "phish"

fuzzyderr:

  • people ask what you believe in. no question.
  • two months before the show you start getting ready.
  • nothing else matters on the way to the show.
  • never forgetting the feeling, it just won't go away.
  • breaking up with your girlfrend because she will never understand.
    taking a non-fan to their first show and paying for it (they will pay you back forever with love and thankfulness).
  • thanking the lord that he created them.
  • shedding tears of joy at the first note.

jeff:

  • you get your mom and grandma to bid for vegas tickets online in hopes that you get all three nights

Ely Rosenblum:

  • you name your fish 'the horse'
  • you think every mockingbird is the famous mockingbird
  • you pray to Icculus, no matter what your religion is
  • you get your english class to analyze the words to lawn boy
  • you get suspended for punching a kid in the eye
  • your license plate is TMWSIY

Rutherford:

  • you name your external hardrive of your mac "trey"
  • you know that "what's your favorite Phish song?" is a trick question
  • your high school carpool invents Maximum Relaxum, which is when you get an early start in order to sit in the school parking lot, recline your seats, and groove, sometimes well into your phirst period.

Dave:

  • No matter how many songs you know or shows youv been to, they still surprise you with something you never expected.
  • When you wait all month hoping and praying you can get tickets to Vegas when they go on sale, and when you finally get them, you realize you must wait another month and a half, DOH!

Mike R:

  • you skip your fiance's brothers wedding to see a show

RSNK77:

  • even your guy friends admit they'd make out with Trey because its Trey
  • the only thing you can think about is how this yr will be your first tour
  • you realize that if you have to die early you want to be at a show
  • the best moments of your life either happened before, during, or after a show, and if not then you were listening to Phish at the time... im me RSNK77, always looking for phriends

buffffalobilllllll:

  • every harpua rap gives you those ever so amazing goosebumps

Cacie:

  • in history class when you talk about Pres. Wilson you sing the song over and over and then write in an essay "i must inquire wilson can you still have fun"
  • despite your extreme hate of leather, walking past wilson's leather in the mall brings you so much joy
  • everything reminds you of a phish song

mc:

  • even your parents refer to them as "the band"......like, "when is the band goin on tour again?"
  • your goin on tour with simple tee shirts this summer that say 143245   

rphishin:

  • you turn your Mom on to Phish with 7-8-00 where they played the best version of "Rock and Roll" ever!! Years before that, I'd sneak Phish onto the CD carousel during family gatherings and she'd make me change it... I dedicate every version of "Rock and Roll" to my Mom....1950-2004

E:

  • You've been fired from multiple jobs for yelling, "I love Mike Gordon" blatantly loud from the cubicle.  Really

Mike:

  • you plan to lose your virginity to waste, lifeboy, or wading in the velvet sea
  • you get angry when there have not been any tour dates annouced for summer tour 2004 and its almost at the end of march, but then you smile, because the wait is worth it
  • you are so tired and all you want to do is go to sleep, so you put on "sleep," and then you crave more phish, and put on some more phish cds
  • you make a "mellow phish" c-d for bedtime
  • dream of a phish concert and you recount every note trey played when you wake up

CRECK:

  • You burn Phish cd`s for people you dont even know.
  • You think there's no other show like a Phish show.
  • You listen to Phish for the music and not "the lyrics."

Mr. Minor:

  • You have a new favorite song every week

That Girl

  • you go to shows of other bands, but in your head you are mapping out your fantasy phish set.
  • living in vermont means much to ya! :)
  • you see the boys around burlington, and it's no big deal. they're people too, right?
  • you are chilled enough to appreciate other bands too.

Palli:

  • you find yourself lost in the middle of a jam smiling.
  • you get home from a show and all you can think about is when you're going to see phish again

Wolfman:
 

  • You create an entire website, complete with message board and games around an inside joke about Phish and it fans.  Then you waste day after day on the "truephan" message board talking about Phish and their upcoming schedule, while joking about everything else, with like-minded people... Cheers Tahoe.

Fabian Brisco:

  • you read 5 pages of this during your Computer class.

Joey:

  • You try for months to get your best friend into Phish.....finally he sees the light and he loves it!!!
  • You're listening to Phish and all you can do it smile and laugh because of how amazing it sounds to you!!
  • You can't wait to get home from school to pop in Phish!

Phil:

  • You named your dog "Walfredo" and you named its doghouse "the rhombus."

Yosaif:

  • you are about to graduate from college (not if you don't get over a 70 on an algebra exam) and you decide two weeks before game time that you're flying to vegas for a few nites with whoever wants to come...fuck it right?

Lucy:

  • You have codes that you have to input into a spreadsheet and one of them is DWS, and you keep typing DWD!!!

dm:

  • first time you ever got laid was on new year's but still the best new year's EVER is alpine valley

phinestday:

  • you call a song 15 seconds before they play it, (in my case, YEM 7/30/03, i swear!) just because you can pheel it.
  • $42.50 MUST be negotiable.
  • you're catching every night of the upcoming tour, and you don't have a car.
  • you can feel your soul shift when trey wails, your spine shake when mike roars, your mind melt when paige soars, and your body rush when fish slams!
  • veggie burritos are breakfast, lunch, munchie, dinner, late nite snack...
  • sex is better when a good show plays in the background.

phinesista:

  • your in class learning what to reasearch for you 8 page research paper but have no clue cause you're looking at this website.

emily:

  • You're running at track practice with 3 other girls in your group and you start singing, "Run run run run run run run... run like an antelope out of control!" The other girls look at each other and mutter something about that Phish band.

Runaway Jim:

  • your mythology teacher asks you to name monsters, you say wilson, and nobody knows what the hell you're saying

Linds:

  • You make the 11 hr drive to ME. Spend 10 hrs in creeping traffic, have to pee in some guy's front yard. Then you make the 2 mile walk from camp through ankle-deep mud and horse shit...for the best time ever!

Sarabear:

  • You're subjected to them for hours upon hours by your roommates. You claim you don't really care for the music until you move out and find that you miss listening to Junta on repeat all day. Your craving has begun. (Note: this also works for Frank Zappa)
  • During Napster's heyday, you had 30 downloads going at once, and they were all Phish.
  • You were a dolt and took acid at your first Phish show, and it got so intense that you missed the second set. Your friends shake their heads and say "I told you so." You stick with pot from there on out at shows.
  • Your daughter names her stuffed dog Harpua.
  • Birthday shows are the greatest thing ever.

Justin McCabe:

  • you have Over 900hrs of phish
  • you where your phish hat every place for 8 years

Luke:

  • you have put a fishman2004 bumper sticker on your mothers car. without asking her. twice.

Eric F:

  • \You get the chills every time you think of the crowds roar/reaction to the lyrics of AC/DC Bag "Let's get down to the nitty gritty/Let's get this show on the road" when the boys play it to open IT!
  • You listen to "Strange Design" and it puts you in the most relaxing place.
  • you already have plans with your phriends to meet up in 2061 no matter what it is you're doing in your life to smoke a blunt and look up at the sky and watch for Halley's Comet while listening to phish..

Joseph Anthony Mahr:

  • People think you're great at guitar, but they ask why you make make so many strange faces.
  • Every time you get in the car with your parents, you insist upon putting phish in the stereo and then proceed to do a riff-by-riff commentary on the jamming.
  • You go around in a circle with new and old friends talking about the best moment of your life, and you cite Nassau 2/28/03 as the best, and everybody laughs. Some laugh b/c they think you're an idiot, some laugh b/c they don't know what you're talking about, and the others laughing were there with you.
  • You get freakishly excited when you hear your metalhead roommate whistle the bathtub melody. You then embarrass him by whistling the harmony over it.
  • You get in periods where you start to listen to your other favorite kinds of music...jazz, hip hop,...and then you listen to phish again and you get ridiculously hooked again. (happens to everyone i know every year)

Chuckie B:

  • you have hundreds of songs in your song library and more than a quarter of them are Phish songs.

Brendan:

  • every time you flip through the channels of your tv and see chuck norris, you stop and go back, just in case
  • for your prom request box, instead of individual songs, you add 2-28-03, 11-19-92, 12-14-95, 8-9-98
  • in the shower, every morning, you have your favorite show playing
  • you convince your deadhead french teacher that phish is kind, and now she is doing summer tour with you
  • you've once tackled some fat kid for calling phish gay
  • you jumped out of a moving vehicle when you heard another vehicle playing moma dance, you jumped in their car, and now you are friends with the kids
  • you've slept in few better places than the lot at IT
  • your mom has almost caused a traffic accident clapping during stash

Russ:

  • it's May 25th, 2004, at about 6pm and I'm 36 years old and i'm crying (it's a day that will live in infamy)
  • you search for phish stickers while driving down the road, risking an accident
  • you feel connected to people in the line at the store who are wearing a Phish shirt, even though you've never seen them before
  • your family reunion is based off of Phish shows

KyleFromCT:

  • The news is babbling about cloning and you start humming the chorus in your head...clone, clone, clone, clone
  • When you think of graduating, the only words in your head come from Down With Disease
  • In the middle of pulling out of your driveway after Xmas break, your mom comes running out to ask if you can leave a phew phish shows for her to listen to until summer
  • She then says she wants ones with YEM and Prince Caspian on them
  • Hearing your girlfriend say "I like Phish now, let's go see them this summer" is better than hearing her say "I love you"
  • They don't get it, and you don't care

Lenny:

  • The Day u find out that the band is breaking up, u go onto pholktales to tell everyone that it is one of the saddest days ever and that the family has to keep sharin' that groove...........hope to see ya all at Coventry, VT for the finale...... peace love and hair grease......... Fishman, Trey, Mike ,and Page - i've been a fan since '94, still a fan in '04, and will be a fan until the next whatever year endin' with a 4 i make it to

TheSloth:

  • you wander around for 2 days before the fest asking everyone for a ticket.... then you get one.
  • when you heard phish broke up you didn't think that it was stupid - you respected the boys in their decision.

Brian:

  • You hear the bad news and your whole Phish life passes before your eyes and you feel the need to go on a Phish CD binge to ease the pain. Good luck to the boys in the future!

Baltimoron Billy:

  • after 10 years of steady touring, and 127 shows later, you find yourself debating going out again this summer....then you hear the news...it's the final summer. I'll see you pholks out there... I love every one of you... You don't know what you got til its gone.

Phrisbee87:

  • You cried on 5/25/04.

Evan:

  • Your day was absolutely ruined when you heard phish was done for good and chances are you will never hear a new show after coventry :(

Marco Escuandoles:

  • you think fishman has one of the greatest singing voices of all time.

Dan:

  • You understand the improvisation. How they talk with their instruments and understand their language.
  • you get the chills when trey holds the sustained note in Divided Sky
  • you wont sell a valuable piece of phish memorabilia for anything
  • you save every paper with phish in it.

Jarrell179:

  • every time you start your comp. it goes straight to "phish.com"
  • every time you get on now you almost start to cry when you read the "announcement from trey" for the 100th time.

Andy:

  • you get chills every time you hear the word "BOY"
  • you are mad at yourself for not having been born earlier so you could have listened to them a lot more by now.
  • you read excerpts from Mike's corner and totally understand what he is thinking.
  • you honestly think about killing someone when you tell them you listen to phish and they say "What kind of "fish?"

Validity:

  • Your stool is shaped in a phish logo

PhishIsBliss:

  • you bribe the dj to play yem at your prom, and you and the 5 other phish phans are the only people on the dance floor for 30 mins

Kyle:

  • all 660 people living in your dorm don't know your name but know you as the dreadlocked hippie phishhead. Then you're standing outside having a smoke and someone says hey there's the dreadlocked hippie phishhead, and the person they're with says who's phish? and you throw your smoke down and walk inside without words. You immediately listen to divided sky to calm your nerves.
  • When the horrible news came out and you just sat listening to shows for 3 days, doing a little crying here and there, and then realized that phish is a life force, it's something completely indescribable. You realize that they take you from your body and take you to such an incredible place, you just get lost, you know your home. Summer Tour 04' will be memorable indeed. see you phellow phishys there.

Uncle Jessie:

  • your heart skipped a beat as you laid in your bed in acapulco watching the cnn headline at the bottom of the screen...quickly getting to the nearest computer to see if it was true or what was going on...and tears rolling down your face as you read trey's statement..so sad that it is done, but at the same time happy at the way that they did it. i love you guys. seriously.

milliegrace:

  • You wonder what the hell you are going to do next summer....

Phollow Anywhere:

  • You've sat up all night in the dark listening to Big Cypress and remembering every minute of it.
  • You know that August 15th, 2004 will be the greatest and worst day of your life.....see you on the road

PhindSavannah:

  • When you're in the second row and Mike forgets the words of ya mar, he looks at you for help.
  • You carved the lines from DWD: "waiting for the time when i can finally say that this has all been wonderful but now i'm on my way" on your bunk the last day of camp when you were twelve. And already, you couldn't wait for next summer (tour).
  • people smile at you at shows because they know that although they thought that they were the happiest person at that moment, they just found someone who was happier.
  • on your list of your favorite places in America you list Hampton, Virginia and Noblesville, Indiana.

Zach:

  • You're halfway through YEM and your mom interrupts you for a minute, so you say fuck it and start it again.
  • you can't stop listening to "whats the use" and you feel like it makes more sense to you than anything your friends have told you.

Punkengruven:

  • you realize that the 17 hour stop-park-drive from Brunswick, Me. to Limestone was definitely as much a part of the show as the remainder of IT. What an awesome phirst show!

Bailey:

  • all day long, every day, phish songs run through your head.
  • you compare everything that happens to a phish song.

Mike (OTHER1):

  • you took your dad to see your first show at Lakewood Amp.
  • Later that same summer you are in Ireland, and you run into a guy in a Castle Tour wearing the same tour shirt you have from summer 2000
  • your dad calls you one night to ask about gamehenge because he's talking to someone about phish
  • no one is surprised to see you in a phish shirt
  • the bartender at your fav. bar can say..."is that a new phish shirt, i haven't seen that one yet?" and it is
  • You design your fraternity's shirt with letters in the phish logo so that you can still show your support for phish when you have to wear your letters
  • you will cry when phish play their last set ever...

Jenny L:

  • Divided Sky comes on and you can't stop smiling for those 17 minutes.. Jeanlu345 on AIM

Pholow:

  • You enjoy going to the post office and gettin $800.00 worth of money orders, and the guy who has seen you 10 times before asks you if it's tour time again.
  • you leave for a single show, and your mom reminds you that you have to be back for a party that is two weeks away.
  • you teach your niece and nephews how to play "Harry"- "Hood", instead of "marco"-"polo" in the pool
  • every time you think about phish breaking up permanently, (even though you respect their decision), it brings a tear to your eye, and you think about all the kids who didn't get to see them live
  • you day dream about peace and love, and at the end of every day dream your a show.

PhantasticPhukinMusic:

  • you know that you have a lil of runaway jim in you.
  • ou're absolutely broke and take out a personal loan to go on tour.
  • you will travel the entire country even though you still don't have a ticket.
  • YEM hits you and all you can do is throw your hand in the air.
  • you're pissed off and all you can think about are the lyrics to bug.
  • Moma Dance seems funkier than anything coming from MoTown.
  • you're in the lots, hear the hissing of the tanks, and instantly think about NICU.
  • you're actually writing a list on when you know you're a phishhead

Mac:

  • You constantly have weird dreams where you jam with trey or mike or play soccer with them.

adam:

  • you work all summer to buy a car, but when trey announces the end, you immediately empty your bank account and buy tickets for you and 3 phriends.
  • you live in minnesota, the show is in Massachusetts, and you've never been farther from home than iowa. (IM - iamebbboy)

VTela:

  • when someone asks you "what is phish?" you get completely angry
  • when you see anyone sharing in the groove at a show it makes your day
  • TMWSIY, HYHU, and FEFY read like sentences
  • hearing fluffhead would make your life
  • you spend 2 days in solitude after hearing the best band of all time is breaking up
  • when a new live phish comes out its like christmas

Dave:

  • You lose your shoes in Raleigh
  • Your friend's Bronco Breaks down in Tennessee and you hitchhike to Deer Creek
  • You cant see out you rear windshield because its covered in Phish stickers

J-Bone:

  • You leave work early because your friend just called to tell you they broke up.
  • You feel like you lost a close friend for days after the announcement.
  • You buy a COVENTRY tix even though you have no vacation time left. And you go even if it means you will lose your job! IM me to talk phish-- FenwaySec40

Will:

  • your non-head friend is confused by your "Buried Alive" shirt, because he is a fan of the hardcore band Buried Alive and he knows you are not.
  • You spend 75% of your day fantasizing about all the amazing things that MIGHT happen at Coventry, but you know it's really going to be 1000X better than you could ever imagine. (see you all in VT!)
  • You are shocked when the songs you called as openers at both first-night KeySpan AND first-night Saratoga end up being the 2nd song played at both of those shows (Dinner and a Movie in Brooklyn and Runaway Jim at SPAC)

Sommaluv:

  • You tell your butcher to bag it and tag it
  • When you sleep your room is round and when you wake up it’s square
  • When someone says Stonehenge, you correct them with game henge
  • you find yourself surrounded by a thousand barefoot children sharin’ in the groove
  • Your girlfriend wants to be a sociologist
  • You find yourself listening to David Bowie and AC/DC
  • You only enjoy baths in gin
  • You are constantly referring to tequila as your Mexican cousin
  • You ask yourself more than once, “Why isn’t it Friday?”
  • You only drink Hood milk
  • The only form of torture you know is chalk dust
  • You tell people you will buy them a “you” for Christmas
  • You find yourself screaming, “My friend has a knife!” in public
  • A week seems like a month and an hour seems like a day
  • You’re trying to live a life that’s completely free
  • You consistently over pray
  • Your words are carried by waves
  • You can hear when others sigh through the water in the sky
  • The ocean makes you wonder what it’s like to be Prince Caspian
  • You don’t want to be an actor or a writer or a painter or a farmer or an outlaw or a climber
  • All of your Thank You cards are written to Mr. Miner
  • Walk in freezers make you exclaim, “It’s gonna be cold, cold, cold, cold, cold!”
  • Traffic lights are your only obstacle in getting to the zoo
  • You are always foggy, rather groggy
  • the word “Apparatus” is apart of your regular vocabulary

Danny Boy:

  • You stay up untill 4:00 in the morning reading one page, go to sleep, get back up at 4:20 and read another three pages

T.A.H.

  • You know what a good activity to participate in is while listening to certain Phish songs/and or albums.

Erin:

  • you buy tickets in May for Coventry, and now it is July and you have had a hard time falling asleep for the past 2 months!

Chig:

  • You can honestly say that you had a Phish mentor.
  • You're forced into buying a third 250+ page CD book, and you don't really think that is absurd.
  • You've seen the guy in the chicken suit and yoda being carted around in the radio flyer wagon on at least a few occasions.
  • When you get really into sex during Possum. Think about that one and it makes sense.
  • When you reference all three of your Phish books on a daily basis.
  • you have parties with two people there only, and burn 21 discs in one sitting.
  • You share music almost as much as you listen to it.
  • You try to get your mother into a 36 minute Bowie, knowing that she hates long songs.
  • Man this could go on forever. and I hope it does. Long live the groove

Gelzo:

  • You endlessly ponder how to explain Phish to others.
  • when your non-Phish friends are in your car, they don't even bother making requests.
  • You read these submissions while listening to your favorite show.
  • You need to get a 40GB IPod, because the 20 is not nearly enough space to fit all your shows.
  • To you, Trey's voice sounds like a dove.
  • You cannot find any other song that you would rather listen to than any Phish song.
  • Even your worst day can be uplifted by your favorite show.
  • You legitimately feel sorry for anyone who doesn't listen to Phish.

Shaun "The Only Phishhead from Waldwick"

  • the kids at the camp you work at call you "Phish"
  • you go to Camden by yourself and a phellow phish phan "helps you to your car" while protecting you from the streets
  • you were just taken aback at the 02/24/03 show when BB king comes out and jam duels with trey
  • you get the kids at the camp you work at to say "play fee or david bowie again"

John:

  • you know you're a phishhead just because you know it......no single event tells you. you feel it in you everyday.

PhishKellerPhan:

  • You stay up all night listening to Hampton Comes Alive when you hear about the surprise Hampton show during the Summmer 04 Tour.
  • You refuse to sleep the night before tickets go on sale so you don't oversleep and don't get tickets.

TheWindBlowsBy:

  • You listen to Phish enough to the point when your Dad wants to go with you to a show and he bought you both tickets.

Rachel:

  • you're "in bed" with your hunny, and he asks, "are you humming bathtub gin, or just really enjoying yourself?"
  • you constantly compare original tunes to the "SO MUCH BETTER VERSION" that phish once did....like there could even be a comparison!

Jeff:

  • You're incapable of saying "maybe so" and leaving it at that.

Troy A. Hoffman:

  • You listen to "Ya Mar" during your morning routine, because it gets you 'pumped' for your day.
  • Your "Story of the Ghost" CD has been in your mom's car CD player for over a month, but you don't have the heart to take it out, because she is enjoying it so much.
  • You love people who love Phish as much as you yourself love Phish.
  • You can't get the drum beat to "Carini" out of your head while scanning the menu at your favorite Italian restaurant.
  • You feel as if you're related to Trey, because he was born in the same state as you (NJ).
  • Trey is your version of Bruce Springsteen.
  • Listening to Phish stirs up the most beautiful emotions inside your mind, body, and soul.
  • You have more than one Phish poster in your room.
  • You always listen to Phish while driving, because if you get into an accident and die, you want to be listening to Phish as it happens.
  • You state random facts about Phish to your family at random times.
  • You've read "Run Like An Antelope" and "The Phish Book".
  • You've written a screenplay about a group of Phish followers.
  • You know what songs are strictly live songs and which songs are not.
  • Watching Trey play guitar is a theatrical experience.
  • You know the secrets about the Phish logo.
  • You are seeing Phish in a week and don't know if you can make it through the next 7 days alive, because you are anticipating it so much.
  • You are seriously contemplating going to Coventry against your parents will, even though you may be grounded for the remainder of your life at home, or kicked out of your home. -IM me at FreEkNaCage222

jumpnjiboo:

  • you finish other peoples sentences with song lyrics, they look at you like your crazy and you laugh

TaperJustIn:

  • you leave your car 20 miles away from the campgrounds, the cops tell you they will tow it, and you say "so" and walk into the show,
  • you get into coventery at 4 pm and run, set up tent, then run back down just in time to set up tape.
  • when you cry for the whole last set ever.

Troy A. Hoffman:

  • You walk 20 miles from Highway 91 to the Coventry venue after waiting 24 hours in stopped traffic.
  • You stay sober for the last 3 Phish shows (Camden, two days at Coventry), out of respect for the band.
  • You download both days from Coventry off of livephish.com and listen to it in order, without skipping over any tracks.
  • You dance your ass off at Coventry, despite the fact that your dead tired from walking 20 miles to the venue.

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