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

Darec:

• You have friends who know you love Phish and they say things like, "ya Phish is cool." But as they're skipping songs through their Blink 182 cd, you know they don't get it at all.

Piper:

• You want a good e-mail address with a Phish reference, but all the good ones are taken and it drives you crazy.
• You got turned onto Phish after the hiatus began and just know that the happiest moment of your life will be when Phish finally tours again and you can see them live because of all the amazing stories you've heard about their tours.
• You meet a girl you really really like but won't ask her out until you have turned her onto Phish, and if she doesn't like them (which is beyond your comprehension), you never talk to her again.
• You are sitting here reading these with Phish songs playing in your head and realize that most, if not all, apply to you.

Erica:

• when the only reason you bought a computer was to burn phish shows.
• when you get so mad at a co-worker because he said phish sucks, and you had to leave work the rest of that day.
• you name you dog phish
• you quit your job because they wouldn't give you the day off for a show.
• you sell your old car so you can have some cash for a tour with your friends
• when phish was on the simpsons you took pics of the screen just so you can put them on your computer as screen savers.
• somewhere between Erie and Pittsburgh you're put through hell because someone stole your book of cd's from your car. (strange)
• you want to live in vermont just because trey does.

ADifferentPhilZone:

• You're wondering how many of the people you're reading about here were even 8 years old when you saw your 1st show, then you wonder if you're too old for this, then you figure probably, yea, but screw it, whats life without the fellas anyway?????

Cheech:

• You get excited for Trey Tour because..... it's Trey, and we all know that he is up to something really BIG again.
• You think about how the Grateful Dead evolved from the beginning until the end and you know that "everythings gonna be all right all right."
• You can't function properly at work or at home or driving or drinking or whatever without Phish in the background.
• ... the only tool you have is a hammer.

DonRob:

• Anytime you hear a Terrapin you remember the incredulousness of everyone that magical night at Virginia Beach.
• You've packed all your Tour/Lot shirts away in a box--with every intention of opening it again on a very special day HOPEFULLY not too far away--because you're tired of explaining "the whole hiatus thing" to people you meet.
• You read pholktales and posts by some of these youngsters who haven't been to a show yet and just sit back and chuckle--just wait guys, you'll see/hear/feel/taste/smell/BE!!!
• A month ago you learned to bide your time and take it slow.
• Yesterday you were taught to rush and never waste a day.
• You've forgotten more things to post than you've remembered.
• You refer to them as "Ernest, Mikey G., Leo, and ___________(Fish nickname of the day here, depends on mood).

Nutbag:

• A kid in your english class tries to tell you that phish sucks and to start listening to creed. You're left completely speechless... Is it really even worth trying to explain?

Steve:

• You eat Phish Food even though you hate chocolate
• You've Surrendered to the Phlow
• you sit around all day and just smoke bowls, but don't worry, "you'll be a Genius anyway"

DonRob:

ophidianphan:

seany greenberg:

sebass:

• You become nostalgic about Phish and recall the time Junior year during your semester abroad in London when you did a speech on how great the lot scene is, and every single comment at the end of the speech consisted of either people saying the speech was long as hell, or that you gradually started to smile more and become excited.

Charley:

Joe:

• you're in a car with a bunch of your friends and you get really mad when they want to listen to something besides phish
• you put a bunch of hood stickers all over a rented car
• you're listening to phish with someone else and they start talking right when Trey is about to hit that awesome note in YEM, and you get pissed because you have to rewind the song and listen to it again.

Kelly:

• even grandma (age 86) knows and loves the meatstick

MamaDoa:

• your secret code word for your posted math grade is **YEM**

Ghetto Hippie:

This Is My Cayman Review:

• you pull into school in the morning, and you just envision the lots full of blazing bowls, beers, and heads having fun, but instead you pull up to someone that gives you the "PEACE SIGN" because they smoke pot and listen to marley and dmb, so they must be cool.

Johnny:

• your mom asks you why they hate Wilson so much

Buzzy:

• In physics class, your teacher writes up a lab on refraction for the class to complete, and he spells the word fish with a PH just for you because he knows you love phish so much!

John:

• you start planning for Bonnaroo based on things you wish you had at Big Cypress.

Andrew:

• You understand why that inflatable moose was bouncing around in the crowd at Great Woods back in '95 (?)

Malone:

SHATOO:

• when people ask you daily what the "smell my mule" sticker means on the back of your car.

Jeffrey Lebowski:

• you get goosebumps & shivers while hearin tha words "you're gonna be a genius anyway..." in the phish classic, "the mango song"
• you always have a phish jam stuck in your head
• you get shivers after hearin the boyz-o-phish bustin into a danky "harry hood", breakin it off the 8-foot jerome baker yo.

Kaz:

• you've never EVER gotten ready for work without makisupa policeman jamming while you shower, NEVER

Z:

• you feel sorry for each and every person that doesn't listen to them....you feel like they are challenged or something, and they are missing out on the greatest thing, kind of like when you feel sorry for blind people

Oswego:

Mary Campo:

• you hear the beginning of 'character zero' and want to run through a parking lot

Megan:

• When you're coming home from camping with some phriends and you see a dead possum on the side of the road. And even though your a vegetarian and the brutal death of roadkill disgusts you- you can't help but to smile and start screaming, "I was drivin down the road one day..."
• Your parents laughed at you when you told them you spent $150 on a festival with like 20 bands (Bonnaroo.) Meanwhile you spent the $150 just to see if the boys would show up and play with Trey.
• When you're not embarrassed and can admit to the fact that every time Page jams out the end of Squirming Coil, goosebumps cover your arms and you cry a bit.
• When you've found yourself on numerous occasions telling the entire story of Gamehenge to people who not only don't give a fuck, but will never be able to understand it.  It doesn't phase you though, because you enjoy talking about phish, even if no one is listening.
• You just spent your 15 min smoke break from your shitty retail job reading this list- and it's worth every second just to know that people care as much as you do.

allen:

mike celano:

JIBBOO JESS:

• you are honestly concerned what people may think of you when you've spelled 'jibboo jess' with only one 'b' on your first phishhead list submission *oops!

charley:

• your teachers pass you through their classes because you let them borrow Hampton Comes Alive, 
• Your parents tell you that it is truly disturbing that you have not done a single thing since this hiatus started

dan:

• every time you are reading this site you unknowingly look at the clock and it's always 420.

TrippSTAR:

• You are constantly pondering ways to get phish to play a show for you, now.

Phat Disk:

• You firmly believe the first song played after the pause will be PYITE, a sick, tight, fast-roaring intro that explodes when the entire audience shouts every "HEY" as loud as humanly possible, and everything becomes ok with the world.

phan phor life:

• You can't get a ride with any of your friends, so you end up going with your dad, and you don't even mind... you're just happy about the fact that you are there.

JimAwayRun:

sami:

Moonunits:

thedevil:

Jiboo Jess:

Mary:

• you wake up one morning, turn on VH1 for some background music while getting ready, and Down with Disease is on, so you stop doing everything to watch it, and know you're going to have a good day.

Erik:

Mike:

sean loughney:

• you've been talkin for weeks and weeks about phish being on the simpsons, you get a blank tape two weeks in advance, and you're soo excited that they are gonna play a whole song all the way through, but they don't, after a minute phish has left the stage... soo, im a bit salty... anyway, hope to see some of you at the bonnaroo!!! i need tickets so if anyone's got any.... my e-mail address is phishhead511@aol.com... thanks...

rah bee:

BritishPhishHead:

Tauber:

klundaphish:

• your last name is kluner and your friends call you klundaphish

Solar Galactic (ian):

• You've listened to Ween for years, then you hear "Roses Are Free" at the show and you realize that you really do have the same taste in tunes as musical gods.
• you are a hippie in disguise; short hair and corduroys are worn only have of the time, but whenever you see a dreaddie or a hippie you whistle, "dooooo, do do do do do do do," part of Bathtub in the hopes that the will throw you a smile.

JimAwayRun:

• Every single one of your friends thinks you use them for their cd burner.....
• Your friends also can't understand how the same song can be played different twice, let alone 300 times..

Chris:

• you are at a show, and you feel.... at home
• you get upset at another show because there is nobody outside selling veggie burritos
• you hear a song on the radio and say, "phish covered that"
• you think that the Bonnaroo is going to be bigger than anything anybody's ever seen

Lloyd:

• You loan somebody a Phish CD so they can check them out, and you dislike them from that point on when they say they don't care for their music.

Mik Stavig:

• You're flipping through the channels and you're almost positive you just saw Trey's custom doc... it's the boys on Austin City Limits rippin Limb By Limb, and you proceed to dance like no other.

piechog:

• While you're sitting in another room, your friend is flipping through the television stations and you hear guyute and run in to find them watching the weather channel, and you think to yourself, "There must be some phans working at the weather channel"

David:

• your phriends say you listen to phish too much
• your inside jokes always have to do with a phish song
• the main reason you are goin to bonnaroo in the summer is cuz there is a chance that since all the guys will be there that they might end the hiatus

cry for divided sky:

• You scare the piss out of a girl you are seeing (not a phan) when you wake up singing weigh because it was running through your dreams all night.

Brooks:

• You're failing Science, but you don't have any unread messages on RMP

Chris:

• no matter where you arrive in your car, you always wait and listen to the end of the tune (20 minutes listening to YEM parked in my garage once)
• You make sure that whenever you're smoking it is possible to access some tunes because Phish is oxygen for me when I'm blazed
• You've been listening for less than a full year but already find yourself only hanging out with phans because you only enjoy listening to conversation about Phish
• You've been listening for less than a full year and already know you're going to be listening for the rest of your life

Cheech:

• You wanna beat the shit out of the bartender for skipping YEM on the jukebox for a Creed song... again.
• You get so excited when you hear rumors about Phish touring again - you wanna pee a little.
• You are baffled by the number of people that say they were phans but have given up on the Band, and now they say they are into Moe and SCI. But then you realize these are the same people slanin' $60 satchels and breaking into cars when the show starts, and you say to yourself smell ya later!
• The shows that you attend seem to be some of the greatest shows EVER! i.e. Darien Lake Merry Pranksters.

Scott:

• When you sit at a desk in a corporate office and listen to non-stop shows all day long in order to help you keep your SANITY!

Graham:

• You have a cup on your desk that you put a dollar a day in so you will have enough money when they come back in 2003. The title of it: The Loving Cup.

GlidePhan:

• You miss the four-hour traffic jams leading into every venue.
• Every New Years you think "What was I doing at this time in 2000?"
• You've already worn out three copies of Bittersweet Motel
• You were right on with the language signal during The Simpsons

Tiffany Ramos:

• the music makes you smile and puts you in a different place.
• you can't even describe to your friends what it feels like to attend a show.
• you know you can walk up and down the aisles of a lot and have people smile at you unconditionally, not judging you for who or what you are or are not.
• phish makes you take a deep breath and smile.

Ryan C:

• Because FUCK work.........I need to be on tour!!!

Allen:

• you are waiting for jules to get the plan into gear because you are tired of dating people that don't appreciate a good show when you take them to one.

Jules:

• the greatest idea you've ever had is to set up a phish phans only personals site... because you can't be the only one out there that doesn't want to date anyone who doesn't understand the luv...

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