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EvMan:

• you got physically sick when you read in an interview with Trey that he can't stand listening to a Picture of Nectar.
• you're at a used CD store, and you get this awful feeling in your stomach when you see a CD under "Phish." Turns out it was just a misplaced Pink CD.
• Minutes later, some kid in a Limp Bizkit shirt comes in trying to sell Junta, and you have to stop yourself from attacking him.
• You get an F on a test (passed up studying for watching Bittersweet Motel over and over again, laughing over and over again at Trey's "Kiss my ass..." line), and convince your teacher to change it into a Ph.
• you get giddy every time you use the pH scale.
• you're talkin' about DWD with a friend at lunch, and the kid across from you says it's called "Down with the Sickness," you feel an overwhelming urge to punch them.

Chad:

• You casually check Phish.com and nearly fall out of your chair in disbelief at the news of Phish coming back, and you go through the entire day with a shit eating grin on your face!
• you already book a room in New York City in preparation for the epic reunion at MSG!

El Snarfo:

• My buddy called me this morning and told me it was official, not a rumor, and I fell down. THUD! Then I called the first person that came to mind, told her it was official, not a rumor, and heard *THUD.*  "Dude, you gotta warn me before you say things like that!"

Mike:

• oh my god, i'm gonna cry!
• i got the news threw on some tunes and just danced and sang and jumped up and down
• i can't describe this feeling!
• thank god for phish!

Erika:

• When you got online today, you could barely even type and you had the perma-cheese for the rest of the day and night (and still are!!!!)

Finally they're back:

• all you can say is "WOOOOOOO HOOOOOO!"

mike:

• when i checked gadiel's website this morning it was orgasmic

Matt Rowdawg:

• you wonder why you have 7 voice mail messages on your phone today... and then you listen! Thank you, see you on new years!

Rob:

• when you hear of the end-hiatus, tears stream down your cheeks, you run out of work, take your shirt off, and dance on the hills in back of your office. It happened to me today. welcome back boys!!! see everyone on new years!!!!

Zach Bevill:

• No matter how hard you tried, you COULDN'T STOP smiling after your friend called you and told you about the 4 tour dates starting on new year's!!!! They're back!!!!! Still smilin'....peace out.

bean:

• After reading that phish is playing msg on new year's you start to yell, and everyone in your office comes to your desk to see if you are alright.

lstrecky:

• Word reaches you that the hiatus is over. Your heart starts racing while you are waiting for Phish.com to come up so you can verify. YOU SEE IT! IT'S REAL! and within seconds you have your vacation approved for those days and your heart is racing and you can't concentrate on anything else and your eyes start tearing up while you write this post because YOU ARE SO DAMN HAPPY!!!!!!!!!

sebass:

8/14/02

• WHEN THE HIATUS IS OVER AND YOU SPEND TWO HOURS AT WORK EMAILING ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND START MAKING PLANS FOR HOW YOU'LL GET TIX FOR NYE MSG!! (whoohooo) AND HOW YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE OFF A FEW DAYS TO GO TO HAMPTON AND HOW LIFE IS GREAT AND HOW THIS LITTLE BIT OF NEWS JUST MADE YOUR DAY, WEEK, MONTH, ENTIRE SUMMER!!!! Because you'll have a huge smile on your face on your way out of work as you trudge through NYC rush hour foot traffic.

Jeremy:

• the ladies at Mail Boxes, Etc. know you by name and laugh at you when you ask them why they charge you so much for postage, and they tell you that stamps went up to 37 cents. Hell, were was I when they went up to 34?? What ever happened to 33 cents for a stamp?

phattestphish:

• You watch Bittersweet constantly just to see your boys on stage again....just to get goosebumps when "When the circus comes to town" is played......as you sit there and wonder when the circus will come back to town!

nhalewithdachief

• you're pissed at matt groening because fucking nsync got their music played when they were on the simpsons

• You have seen a Phish show even before Page has seen a Phish show.
• All time leading goosebump moment, Trey's "Inspiration...." from Terrapin Station, 8/9/98 Va. Beach

• Your work carries over into fun and you write phish to correct them about NO2 really being N20, only to find they open the next show you're at with tube (ok, 2nd song) and Trey gives you the nod.
• Same show: you're preggers for the first time and they belt out Cry baby Cry, and you do cry, and like a baby.
• You've met other heads at the postoffice
• You live near King of Prussia
• You have a special savings just for when hiatus ends so you can mail order your ass off
• Your 3 yr old asks you to put in phish so he can spin, but you *really* get happy b/c your infant starts dancing too!!!
• Your 3 yr old knows more words to the songs than your hubby does, and he corrects daddy!
• You've seen almost every vacuum show ever and always laugh at ppl in your rear view mirror when you see them wondering and commenting on what the heck that sticker is on your truck of a guy in a dress sucking a vacuum
• You've laughed and cried at everyone else's posts here b/c they get it too and you're feeling the LOVE

• You named your your cat Poster Nutbag... poor little kitty.
• Every sunrise makes you want to wade in the velvet sea.

• a new coworker drops you off at your car, sees your "phreee" license plate, and says, "oh, you're one of them."
• you acquire high speed internet service just so you can download great sets you missed out on, replace CD-Rs you've worn out, and trade mp3s via email

• You can't collect enough music.
• You have dreams all day and all night about seeing and hearing the boys LIVE again.
• You trade your dank tunes on Phishshows.com with anyone in the world, cause you just wanna spread the love. search...(Cheech419).
• Your "normal" CD collection keeps getting smaller, and your Phish collection keeps growing.

• you were twenty feet from trey at bonnaroo (on the right), and you were one of the first to hear, DADA- DADA, and yell- WIL-SON!!!!
• WEEN did roses are free, and you're 5 foot 5 so you practically jumped on the guys back in front of you to see if trey was on stage, but he wasn't, but that's ok.

• You frequently find yourself running off the road b/c you're trying to read the stickers on someone's car (only to realize they just say 'KORN' and 'Porn star')
• You cried (tears of true SADNESS) at your 1st Trey show b/c Trey was having WAY too much fun!!!!

• you're speeding through the ghetto in your friend's ghetto car blasting contact
• you're sitting in class and realize you HAVE to listen to golgi as soon as possible or you'll go crazy
• you laugh out loud when you see the word troubador on a social studies quiz
• you draw designs around the words "golgi apparatus" on your science test
• you named a frog trey :)
• you named a frog fishman, and your friend named one mike... when you find page then phish will be back together, you just know it
• YOU ATTACK SOMEBODY WHO HAS A HOOD MILK CARTON
• your conversation about phish with a phriend mainly consists of moving your hands around and saying "oh my god ahhhhh!! it's so awesome," but you know exactly what you're both talking about (heh a.b.)
• you've cried at least once while listening to dirt
• you write to trey though u don't know his address...:(
• you and your phriends constantly talk about your ULTIMATE PHISH PHANTASY REUNION
• you try to convert all non-phishheads
• you had a bunch more things to write here but forgot them all... damn your short term memory loss
• you already know your kids names even though you're just in high school... trey, mike, fishman, and page

• you tell yourself and everybody else that you are really into what trey has been doing and love the supporting musicians styles and the horn section and cyro... but you know in your heart that you are lying.
• your biggest regret are those couple years you told yourself that you had seen enough shows?!?!
• you thought less of your best friend when he told you that he had gotten "more into the Biscuits" and that he was over phish
• you hope they've all signed up for this cryonics thing....just in case.
• when you make a burrito for dinner you scream out to no one, "phatty dank vegans!"
• you can't believe you've been listening for 14yrs
• you know marriages that have seemingly disintegrated since the hiatus began
• you're at gadiel at least once a day....and you miss the rumors page
• you bought "Surrender" and you listened to it more than once
• you're excited about your 8hr take-home comprehensive examination because it'll give you some time to listen to a certain set
• one of your three criteria in a girl is phan...and it's a deal breaker
• when you are having difficulty sleeping in goes siket
• even after great shows from other bands you always feel hollow inside
• you're convinced that given any taste in music you could create a cd that would make anyone understand...

• You make all of your non - phriends watch Bittersweet Motel at least 3 times
• You try to convert every non phishhead you meet

• While shopping for stuff for your first apartment, the first thing you did is look for phish posters.
• Your co workers all looked at you funny when you said, "A phish show is better than sex," but you realize they just don't get it.
• Whenever someone says they've never heard phish, you hand them a Phish Newbie Mix CD you created especially for that occasion.

• YOU HEAR THE FIRST NOTES OF SLAVE AND DIVIDED SKY AND YOU GET A SEVERE CASE OF GOOSEBUMPS, AND YOUR EYES IMMEDIATELY BEGIN TO WATER.
• YOU ONLY SEE YOUR TOUR FRIEND FOR SHOWS BECAUSE YOU LIVE SO FAR APART, BUT SHE IS YOUR CLOSEST FRIEND BECAUSE SHE "UNDERSTANDS"
• AND WHEN YOU ARE TRAVELING, YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO TALK AND YOU KNOW WHAT EACH OTHER ARE THINKING.
• PHISH CHANGED YOUR LIFE AND IS TRULY THE ONLY THING THAT IS A 100% STRESS RELIEVER... IT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE COMPLETELY REVIVED!!!!!
• YOUR OWN MEMORY IS SIMILAR TO YOUR COMPUTER'S... THE MAJORITY OF IT IS FILLED WITH PHISH EXPERIENCES, SONGS, SHOWS, DATES, TRIVIA, ETC.
• YOU HAVE A PHISH SHRINE SOMEWHERE IN YOUR HOUSE WITH AT LEAST ONE WALL FULL OF POSTERS AND PICTURES OF THE BOYS.....OUR GODS.
• YOU ARE A GENUINELY LAID BACK PERSON, BUT AS SOMEONE SAYS TO YOU "I HEARD PHISH BROKE UP," YOU IMMEDIATELY BECOME ENRAGED AND DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO DEFEND THE PHISH COMMUNITY AND THE BOYS.

• 115 shows just isn't enough.
• your idea of a vacation is phish tour.
• you have to explain to regular folk that every show is different.
• your family FINALLY accepts your need for more shows.
• you see your best friends only during tour.

• While you are fiending for a show, your 5-year old daughter is fiending worse and won't stop nagging you about "when are we going to see Phish again?"
• Every time you listen to "Hood," it makes you want to cry and laugh at the same time (and, no matter WHERE you are, you have to start dancing)
• Instead of cleaning the house like you should be doing, you have to read absolutely every entry on this list. You can't understand how someone DOESN'T get it! Even though it hurts immensely to listen to your shows, you can't stop once you start and the next thing you know, it's 2am and your floor is covered with tapes because you just had to hear that last Carini and you know it's in there somewhere!

• you smile every time someone orders cheesecake
• you bug out non phishphans when you bug out watching star wars because you remember seeing obiwan at oswego

• You can hum all of Trey's solos, even when you are a bass player.
• You feel you have a special connection with someone simply because they listen to phish.
• You would rather stay home and get lost in the music when everyone is driving up and down Concord Pike. (Wow DE sucks)
• You wish the ride to the concert was longer than it was because it's one of the greatest feelings.
• You submit a "You know you're a phishhead when..."

• you've met some of your best friends because when they were strangers you struck up a conversation cause they were wearing phish shirts.
• when you're driving with a non phishhead and you yell at them cause they ask, "dude how long is this song?"

• a third of your tattoos have something do do with the phab phour.....
• an 18 hour drive just doesn't make a damn
• you name your cat : Elaihu

• You have an early meeting to get to at work, but find yourself unable to get your show on the road without watchin' a little Bittersweet Motel with your morning coffee, even though it's only 6:30 in the AM
• You wear your tour threadies all the time just to feel more "at home," even though your friends and family keep giving you looks and making remarks about how strange your clothing is (but instead of being offended you just feel sorry for them 'cause they soooo don't get it)
• You get a lump in your throat reading this site
• You have a dream about hangin' out with Cactus Mike after a show, and wake up wearing a huge smile that lasts all day
• You're seriously considering/eagerly anticipating moving somewhere where there are more of "us"
• You keep a running mental inventory of things you need to finish up so you'll be phree to go on tour the minute it happens
• You are sooo sick and tired of being the "token hippie" in your town, and can't wait to be somewhere among phriends where you can finally relax and just be one of the crowd
• At parties with non-Phishy pholk, you notice that you still want to dance and groove like you're at a show, no matter what the music!
• If you were ever being interviewed by James Lipton on "Inside the Actor's Studio" and he asked you what word you hated (at the end of the show), you'd probably say, "hiatus"
• You're driving home from work, alone in the car, and get the giggles listening to Trey tell the crowd a story
• You see a "Hood" dairy product reposing in an ice bin at a local restaurant and have to wipe the smirk off your face
• You're already planning how you will use Gamehendge as the basis for all good-night stories when you have kids
• You get goosebumps imagining the roar of the crowd and the looks on everyone's faces at the first show after hiatus, and you cannot wait to feel that vibe and see all the beautiful smilin' faces again!!!

• you have no friends because you don't know of anyone else in your town that listens to Phish besides your boyfriend and his brother.
• You listen to Phish in the car w/ your mom on the way to work and she says, "You know, I kinda like phish," and you now have a whole new respect for her.

• you write a persuasive speech about why people should listen to phish
• you hear the lyrics "slave to the traffic light" EVERY time you're stuck at a red light
• you applied to goddard university even though it's way too expensive just because the members of phish went there
• you break up with your boyfriend shortly after, in the middle of "you enjoy myself," he asks you, "is this still the same song?"
• you are ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED that the first disc of "junta" is all about an acid trip
• your mother thinks you need psychiatric help because you love this "weird band" so much
• you live in houston and mail order for 6 shows... then the only one you get tix for is in wisconsin, and you're goin' anyway
• you think following phish would be the perfect honeymoon, that is IF you ever get married
• you won't exit your vehicle until your phish song is over, but you end up never getting out because each song is as good as the previous one
• you are on a family road trip and make your whole family listen to every phish album recorded and are overjoyed when your father decides he really likes hoist
• you can't pick a favorite phish album because they are all so different and yet all so awesome
• you can't stop enumerating what it means to be a phish head, but you're leaving for bonnaroo in 2 hours (with the intense hope that phish will surprise us all) so you have to go

• you talk to your friends about what you would say if you saw trey on the street...even though you never will.
• You conviced your principle to give your class a fieldtrip to Ben & Jerry's on free ice cream day just so you could eat Phish food, and you don't leave until they tell you to.
• You turn on YEM every time you ride in the car with your friends and won't turn it off until they say they will buy junta.
• You know your favorite phish show even though you have never been to one.
• You grow your hair out for a year to look like mike and realize, hey i don't have curly hair.

• You drove a total of 850 miles just so you could see Trey in Burlington VT, even though he played a show 45 minutes from your house.
• When you're arriving in Burlington while listening to Farmhouse, you feel like you're returning home.
• You're flipping out when you see a Hood milk truck pulling into Friendly's restaurant in Burlington, and chasing it through the parking lot so you could get a picture of "You Can Feel Good About Hood."
• You're stopping traffic so your friend could take a picture of "Suzie-Wilson Street," also in Burlington.
• You're seeing Trey in the cold rain and mud while watching over your friend who had too much to drink, and you still end up having an amazing time.
• You're leaving Burlington at 6 am while watching the mist being pulled from the evergreen covered mountains and realizing why Phish can write such amazing songs.
• You're watching "Bittersweet Motel" the day after you arrive home while eating Phish Food and making a new hemp necklace, nearly coming to tears realizing how much you love Phish and can't wait to see them again!

• WHEN YOU'RE FLIPPING THROUGH THE CHANNELS, YOU SEE A CHUCK NORRIS MOVIE, AND YOU WATCH IT CUZ HE REMINDS YOU OF TREY...
• WHEN THE GARAGES IN YOUR TOWN TELLS YOU TO STOP BRINGING THAT DAMN VW BUS BACK HERE... TREYZEE MAN TREYZEE!
• WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN TO MORE PHISH SHOW THAN BIRTHDAYS

• You don't drive, so you have bumper stickers on your parent's car.
• You can honestly say that you treasure Phish more than anything else in your life.
• When you can't get into a jam, it bothers you so much that you need to listen to it a second time when, of course, you realize it was a fluke, and it's outstanding.
• You feel genuinely closer to the four after watching "Bittersweet Motel."
• You're never happier than during the notes Trey hits right before they sing "You can feel good..." part of Harry Hood.
• You saw a Hood milk container at Red Lobster and, after going crazy and telling everyone you were at dinner with about it, marveled at how Phish is everywhere in your life.
• You try so hard to get other people to get it, and you just want to shake them and tell them to listen, but they just don't hear it the way you do...
• Phish takes up more time than friends, family, school, or significant other.

• you go to a show and it's a religious experience
• you see another phishhead that has a phish shirt on, and it's an obligation to say "nice shirt"

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