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

David:

• you actually stop to ponder why your mom doesn't put garlic on her grilled cheese.

Charlie:

• you have the harry hood logo painted on the hood of your car with the word harry below it.

Kevin:

• You forget that the real spelling for fish isn't Phish.

Jonas:

• Even though Phish is you and your friends' favorite band, you haven't been able to talk about them since the "break" because it hurts too much...

eyeball:

• When your neighbors think you have 16,000 people in your apartment, sometimes 70,000.

phishchick7:

• you can roll into a lot full of 17,000 people and know that you already know all of them.
• your idea of tricking out your car is dressing it up in your favorite stickers--including "work is for those who don't phish"
• your family wants to know why you must keep traveling to see the "same" show over and over...when your phamily already knows.
• dressing up means throwing on your best patches.
• you dream about meeting mike gordon so much, you wake up and compare it to the last time you hung out.
• you're already planning for when they start summer tour again.
• people who don't know, think it's weird that you even know the name of the guy who does the lights--much less everything else.

timberho:

• you get into a fist fight with someone who stole your only pair of boxers for the fall tour - (not from experience or anything).....
• you take a dump at every gas station you hit.
• you go to every fall show but have no car.
• you sell grilled cheese to get by.
• people often tell you that you smell like absolute shit and ask the time of your last shower.
• started a mosh-pit during meat stick

Nicco:

• When the chorus to Bittersweet Motel inevitably brings a tear to your eye because you grew up in a small town called Stoneboro, PA, which is 60 miles north of Pittsburgh and fifty or so miles strait south of Erie.

• Right before you fall asleep at night the last thing you hear in your head is "reba stick a", and when you wake the next morning, the first thing that pops into your head is "boulder in the water!"

Finny:

• Any time you hear an album that's new to you, you think "Phish could do this better," no matter who released the album.

Craig:

• You've seriously considered going to school at Goddard.
• You have lock your keys in your car at a show more than once.

John:

• Your best phriend asks you to be in his wedding, and you say no because you're doing fall tour

Kaylis:

• You actually lost your shoes at Big Cypress, and you know it would not have happened had they played Cavern.

Gabe:

• Marshall and Anastasio's lyrics provide the light that guides you through life.
• You need to buy several 100-disc cd books just to keep your shows in order.
• Your bedroom looks more like a shrine to trey than a place to sleep.
• Your Screen name, your license plate, and your dog's name all start with a PH.
• When you and your phriends play "name that tune" using phish songs, and the song is always identified within three bars.
• When you try to piece together Punch you in the eye, llama, and McGrupp among others to find out what exactly was going to happen in gamehendge after the story ended
• Your Judaism is rediscovered through y'rushelyem shalzahav and aveanu malkeanu.

Character Zero:

• you desperately try to explain to non-phans why phish went on hiatus
• phans.com is your homepage
• you see someone with a phish shirt on and automatically become friends with them

phizzywish:

• you "forgot" to go to work but you were actually dancing with your phamily in the rain, and there's no other single place on earth (or space) you'd rather be

Bill: 

• You were once a lizard too.

Marc:

• you feel like you're among family when you see another car on the road plastered with Phish stickers
• your favorite books are your road atlas and The Phish Companion
• you spend free time at work reading tour stories
• you always make sure your concert schedule at JamBase is up-to-date
• you think of Trey Anastasio as one of your closest friends
• your car smells like incense
• your primary objective for a faster internet connection is to download more shows
• you danced hard while watching Trey's live webcast from Higher Ground
• you can recite the entire Gamehendge account, including your own critical analysis of what happened and why
• you've unconsciously spelled words using 'ph' instead of 'f' in school assignments
• you see "PH" or "YEM" on a license plate and feel a large smile creep across your face
• the same thing happens when you see exit signs for "King of Prussia"
• you were amused by the name Tom Hanks chose for his companion in "Castaway"

c'mood:

• you pull into your driveway at 11:10 and you walk through your door at 12:05.

Sasha:

• you're driven down RT 84 in CT after skipping two days of school to see phish in Maine, and the sign ahead says Forbins Corner... but you will swear to everyone it reads Col. Forbin :)
• (dedicated to my best friend adam) - when you have over 3,000 phish bootlegs in chronological order and can still pull each and every set list from memory.

Rob:

• you make over 50k a year, and you still drive an '87 blazer.
• all your shows are stolen, and you cry for three days

Eyeball:

• when you're all alone, head phones on, drunk, weed... and you put a cdr on, and you forget who you are listening to.  Sounds like Phish.

Sean Loughney:

• you are at a party in the woods, phish is playin on the radio at full blast in someone's car, and all you and your friends can do is dance around and just keep asking the question, "HOW BAD DO YOU WISH YOU WERE AT A SHOW RIGHT NOW!!!!"
• you treat your cd collection as if they were your children

Steve:

• You see the word contact on the pholktales website and can't help but laugh.
• You remember the exact dates of every show you've been to.
• When it's your "phirst show anniversary," you sit down and listen to the show in the dark with a glowstick, and you dance your heart out like you were there again.
• You miss your friends' birthdays for shows.
• You go to walmart looking like a hippy and get spotted by at least 4 heads... each time they come up to you and just start talking away because some of these people you feel closer to than your own friends.

Trish:

• You're around non-heads and you say things like doh and taboot, and you get a happy longing feeling to be at a show with phamily.
• You believe the world would be much more beautiful if everyone saw at least one show and wore colorful patchy clothes.
• Sunsets, thunderstorms, and breezes all transport you back to a summer show.
• The Everglades is worth saving because your best memory is there.

Adam K:

• When you hear the Godfather theme and become teary-eyed thinking about that great show that ended with the lights coming up and this music playing.

Shannon:

• You and your boyfriend have only one plan when you finish your two years of high school: go follow a Phish tour......if they ever come back, that is.

• When the best dream that you have ever had is one where Phish plays at your high school.

Chris:

• You Get real PISSED OFF when people talk while the band is playing, even when they play Lengthwise...
• Or when someone compares them to the Dead. ( I guess they have never listened to the Dead and Phish back to back. Other than improving, I don't think they are close... can't remember the last time I heard Drums and space in the second set......

Jo-Jo:

• You get goosebumps just from hearing a crowd roar when your husband puts on a CD~
• you have nightmares of not making it to their first show! (at least twice a week)~
• You choke up with tears when you think about the last show you were at.~

edephish:

• Your car is still filled with random items acquired from hours spent on the road between shows
• While stopped at a traffic light, a random guy in a nearby car sticks his head out of his window and starts screaming at you about how 'phish sucks' and the 'dead rule'...and you just shake your head because he obviously just doesn't get 'it'
• While listening to Trey wail it out, you experience pure happiness
• Summer is here....TOUR TIME!!
• You try over and over again to explain to your non-head friends what exactly a 'goo ball' is
• You met your best friend at a show
• You walk through a random parking lot and that excited, happy feeling creeps up on you
• You realize that you took them for granted while they were around...and now you can't wait for the moment to begin again

Phrantz:

• You're the only head at school and you don't care how much you get made fun of for it.

Dud:

• If you listen to wolfman's to get funked up

WI_Phead:

• You go to the mall of america the afternoon before the 9/24/00 show and get asked constantly if you're going "to the show tonite," just because you have on your patchwork and old phish tour 95 shirt on.
• You see people with stickers on their cars on the way to shows and you find it necessary to make signs and honk and wave at all the phans going by, just because they must be nice people because they like phish.
• You get really upset when someone goes, "oh, you like that band PA-HISH."
• You and your 300 closest phriends sing weigh on the way out of the target center show on your lead.
• You renamed your car fluff... now fluff's travels has a new meaning, and you swear you can hear your car sing the song.
• After a concert, you drive 2 hours out of your way to find a walmart open so you can get that really cool light toy the guy behind you has.

GBri N Es:

• you believe that there is no better place than when you are in a venue/show and know that you will overcome all obstacles in order to return to that place you hold so dear.
• you can't explain why you are trying to explain anything at all

JeSsIcA:

• ~when your car is known as the "phishmobile"~
• ~When u actually know the words to the Chinese version of the meatstick song.~
• ~When u still wear your 1st tour t-shirt~

Daniel Erem:

• Friends, Family, Teachers, Coworkers Etc. know you as that guy who likes phish.
• You spend at least 30 minutes a day looking for any new phish related information, during the hiatus.
• When Page took the stage at Roseland this winter, a tear came to your eye.
• When you sing and dance on a crowded downtown subway car and everybody is staring at you, and all you can think is "Set your gear shift into the high gear of your soul!!"
• When the moment ends and you feel winds blowing differently than ever before.
• When you own a pair of "tour shoes"
• When you wait in a ratty New York City alley behind the Roseland Ballroom in bellow freezing temperatures for 6 hours just to meet Trey for 2 minutes, and are proud of it!!

Pheeisphinallyphree:

• Your 5-year-old niece's favorite songs are Contact and Sparkle.
• Your only goal in a 3 year relationship was to go on Phish tour, and after you did, you went separate ways.
• Anytime the sky is ripply, you shout out "Tye Dyed Sky the wind blows high" instead of Divided
• Anytime you see a possum, you holler, "I was ridin' down the road one day... someone hit a possum"
• You stand up if a phat jam comes on at a party and start boogying
• You go to the wal-mart parking lot to hand out daisies since there is no Phish lot at this time.
• You meet another head, and the first thing you do is go home and tape them a tape
• You have 4 photo albums titled PHUNKY PHAMILY PHOTOS.
• Your best friend is having a kid, and your only request is "Can I bring it to a Phish show?"

FRANKENSTEIN:

• You constantly find yourself wanting to scream out: "THIS IS RED ROCKS! THIS IS THE EDGE!"
• You woke up one morning in November and realized you love your car.
• You just HAD to learn all the words to Reba.
• You only go out with other heads.
• You come close to a nervous breakdown every time you find that a bootleg is missing.
• Your dog ran away, and you start calling him Jim.
• You watch Seinfeld all the time waiting for Suzy Greenberg's name to show up on the credits.
• You are actually submitting stuff to this.

Atomic:

• You have already downloaded one Phish .shn show from 1990 off e-tree tonight, when you find this web site. Even though it is late and you have to work early in the a.m., you read all 102 entries to make sure that you can send off your favorites to your best friend and make him laugh.

Tim:

• You collect as many shows as possible, looking for that "perfect Hood"
• you subconsciously replace all 'f's at the beginning of words with 'ph's
• you still talk about how your first show was an almost religious experience
• you can't explain what Phish really is, just that it IS.

Dan:

• you can't sleep with out phish playing on your stereo (seriously)

Derek:

• You look at the clock, read the time (i.e. 11:22), and immediately think about shows on November 22.

Jim Haskell:

• you make 12 posters with a graphic design company, each costing 100 each to make (2.5ft by 3ft), and you give them to all the heads you were at the festival with at no extra charge

Kirra:

• Your dad tells you to stop giving THAT band all of your money!

Danny:

• You walk from Rochester, NY to Vernon, NY (100 miles) to see the show at the Downs in 98, and you come back to realize that u missed 4 days of summer school... you then get kicked out, which comes as a relief because now u can tour.

Tela is Not a Spy:

• You see a month, a day, and a year, and it translates immediately into a setlist and a venue.

Ryan:

• You're finally 16 and can go to the always reliable summer shows, only to find out they are on a hiatus. So you try to act like it will work out, but when it doesn't, you sell your car cause there is no point in having it

Tony2Times:

• ALL DAY AT WORK, PHISH CAST IS PUMPING THROUGH YOUR HEAD PHONES, AND YOU CALL YOUR BOSS "WILSON" BY ACCIDENT WHEN HE ASK YOU TO DO SOMETHING.

Ryan:

• You start playing the guitar so you can play phish songs.
• When people ask what is your favorite movie, and your response is always "Bittersweet Motel."
• When people ask what your favorite ice cream is and you tell them Phish Food.
• When you get your friends and family hooked on Phish food.
• When you go to the Phish Phactory daily to see if there is any new news, and especially to see if Phish is going on tour.
• When your Dad gets mad because you spend so much money on Phish tickets, books, CDs, t-shirts etc.
• When you trade Phish on CD and Video daily.
• You see a stranger in a Phish t-shirt and you can go up to them and talk to them just like they were your friend.
• When your dad sings, "Is that a wind, or a bug?"
• When people ask why you like Phish so much, and you can't really tell them in words, and you say you must see them live and then you will know.
• When you get home after seeing Phish shows and you search the whole web looking for an A+ copy of that show.
• When you listen to a show you have been to on CD, and it automatically brings goosebumps all over.
• When you buy a CD player for your car just so you can listen to live Phish.
• When you make a webpage just for all of your Phish CDs (http://www.angelfire.com/music2/phishlist/)
• When you write why you are a phishhead on this webpage

Andrew:

• your first show was 5/21 Radio City, and you were with your dad cause you are only 14... and you wish that by the time you can drive, phish will be back so u can go on tour

phishlights.com:

• you're reading this at work and don't care if you get caught
• you run at least 2 Phish websites
• you've convinced your parents/siblings/non-phan friends to watch Bittersweet Motel
• you bought 2-way radios just for Phish shows
• you download the original versions of songs Phish covers and think Phish does it much better than the original artist(s)
• you've thought about selling your own t-shirt at shows (or you already have)
• you listen to PhishCast 24 hours a day
• you're waiting for an affordable mp3 player that will hold more than one show
• you prefer tour grilled cheese sandwiches to the ones mom makes
• you're submitting to this list at work and don't care if you get caught (while listening to PhishCast)
• and finally:
• you'll be crying and hugging everyone in sight when Phish takes the stage again

Makisupa Policeman:

• you find yourself quoting Trey constantly.
• going to other shows and wondering why the lighting man has his head up his ass.
• you speed up just to wave to the guy with a Phish sticker on his car.

Jillian:

• You do more research about them then you do for your college term papers

Duke of Lizards:

• You honestly feel strongly offended when you hear someone make fun of Phish.
• Your day evolves around Phish... whether it be trading shows, checking tour dates, or just listening to the music, your day evolves around Phish.

Kent:

• you realize it's not just the love of phish, it's the love for the music that makes you a head... phish may be your fav band, but... livin' that lifestyle til you hit the ground, true to the game... is the head part... rasta-head fari creator head creator.....

Carini:

• You check Andy Gadiel's Phish Page daily even though Phish is on hiatus
• Realizing you were a different person before Phish became a part of your life

Ryan Getz:

• You and your best friend spend about $200 each to fly to Chicago and go see your first Phish shows, in the meantime missing your first 5 days of school
• You have successfully converted your girlfriend from listening to top forty hits, to knowing most of the Gamehedge narrations

Corndog:

• One of your aunts goes to Vermont and you beg to go with her so you can try to spot the guys
• The words to Mike's Song actually describe you

Punched in the Eye:

• you hear Mike slap that bass and wonder how the hell a human being could make such awe-inspiring music
• you don't even want the distraction of drugs when listening to Sleep
• whenever you meet a fellow phan, they are automatically your best friend
• whenever DWD comes up on the stereo in your car, you almost hit the other cars!
• you automatically know you're favorite ice cream
• someone thanks you for getting them into Phish
• when you give the person that got you into Phish a hug and a kiss!

Brian Robert:

• When you are listening to Antelope in your car you unconciously speed up twenty miles per hour.

Katy:

• you eat Dannon's "Fruit on the Bottom" yogurt and Theme from the Bottom is the first thing that pops into your head...

Halley's Comet:

• You refer to Page as your guiding light.
• You cried for 3 hours at work when a local newspaper put a story on Phish's sabaticle.
• Your phriends who don't even listen to Phish know all the words to Phluffhead.
• Any time you hear the Beatles perform While my Guitar Gently Weeps or Strawberry fields, you automatically think of Phish and a huge smile comes to your face.
• You go to a hockey game and all you can think of is Phish playing there.
• The only thing you can say at shows is I'm just happy to be here.
• If you met Phish the one thing you'd have to say is thank you.
• You tell everyone they haven't lived until they've seen a Phish show.

Lovephishin':

• You can quote a verse from a Phish song to relate in any conversation.
• You go to sleep to Phish every night, and wake up to it every morning.
• You listen to Phish so much that your parents actually know a little riff from a song.
• You see a Phish sticker on a passing car and you honk and show them cd's or what not.
• You name your pets after characters from songs or band members.
• You taped the Simpsons episode that had the phans in it.
• "Bittersweet Motel" is in your dvd player/vhs player at all times.
• You feel like you know the band members because you are constantly checking up on sites and watching "Bittersweet Motel"

Steve:

• you're actually reading about weather or not you're a phishhead 

Sped:

• Every significant time in life as a phan relates to a certain phish song.
• You're constantly thinking about what you would say if you were to come across any of the band members.
• Everything that is normally spelled with an f, you change to "PH"

Mel:

• You find yourself strangely attracted to every redhead you meet.
• You don't mind that RealJukebox is slowing down your internet connection because Rift is playing from your hard drive.

Tela:

• you have four copies of entertainment weekly, all from the same date, but you've never bought the magazine before

JUSTAPHAN:

• when all of your dreams are you going on tour the second phish gets back
• when you have 3 years of high school left but you and your friend are already making plans for a tour.
• when you plan on skipping college and going on tour for the rest of your life.
• when your first show seemed to be the best day of your life
• when you fall asleep with a show on and wake up with a different one playing

Peter:

• You have listened to Harry Hood 4,000 times, but you still get the chills.
• You buy Hood milk, then dump out the Milk and hang the container on your wall.
• You write your Phish Phriends, and the note only says "thank you Mr. Minor"

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