1994- I'm in Salt Lake City for the first time in my life on a camping trip. We spend our first night right near the city and I have a dream that night of myself walking around in this crowded auditorium, more specifically around the outer ring where the bathrooms and such are. I don't know why, but I always remembered that dream.

Fast Forward 1998- I'm trying to take a leak before the first set at the E-Center, walking around in the crowds in the outer ring of the auditorium. Deja vu moment and I remember the dream. Then the band opened with Tube and I went a-running for the floor. Strange.

(Just for a hint of further coincidences to come...new lyrics to 1998 Tube has the line "Do Rhinos run from thunder?" my name being Ryan O'Connor I often get called ryano. And that night I was literally running for the "thunder" that is Phish) When one adds the connotations that thunder had for me with my native american studies...truly mindblowing. But I'll tell more later. Promise.

 - Ryan O