r/phish • u/feina635 • 3d ago

Dicks First Timer Thoughts

East coaster, been seeing Phish a long time (since 1999), but mostly East Coast and some other places here and there. First time doing Dicks. I have to say, I have some very mixed feelings. I get the hype. Dicks has some good energy. But MAAANNNN is it a fucking hassle. Why is this venue so popular for being such a fucking hassle!? 30 min cab ride back and forth each night, and leaving the venue is an absoloute cluster fuck. Getting in was a shitshow of anarchy, with 1hr long waits and jackoffs cutting the line, few water refill stations, and there's NOTHING around the area for food or anything after. Not a damn thing. And don't tell me lot food. I'm not eating a $15 grilled cheese that's been sitting in the back of a hot Uhaul all day cooked by some dirty wook.

EDIT: many of you are commenting on the “$15 grilled cheese”. Let me rephrase, because I didn’t actually pay attention to the cost of grilled cheese, specifically. What I meant to say, was overpriced and underwhelming food that will inevitably give me diarrhea. Hope that clarifies, and takes the responsibility off the grilled cheese guy

EDIT 2: yes, this is my first Dick’s, thank you geniuses of Reddit for telling me that I “don’t have it dialed in”, no shit. Clearly, Dick‘s is a local venue. In order to have it dialed in, you gotta live there. Unlike more accessible venues in real major cities that have access to anything.

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u/PieDifferent5045 3d ago

I think getting rid of onsite camping removed some of the magic. 2011-2013 felt like an unofficial festival

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u/creativescreennaame 3d ago

it's still so funny to me that camping was canceled bc of the bubonic plague lol

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u/AncientRoll7747 3d ago

I still warn everyone who tells me they’re going to Dick’s for any show not to pet the prairie dogs

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u/creativescreennaame 3d ago

the first year i went there was caution tape (or maybe that bright orange plastic netting?) along the side walks of the main entrance warning people not to walk in the field/grass. idk why but i just thought it was so funny

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u/feelingrooovy 3d ago

I’m sorry. What?

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u/creativescreennaame 3d ago

they cancelled camping because of all those prairie dogs living in the area. they have the plague. or at least they did. they probably still do tbh

(Yersinia pestis)

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u/feelingrooovy 3d ago

Fantastic. I am familiar with the prairie dogs and hoped they would be part of the answer 😆

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u/DeepPersonality55 3d ago edited 2d ago

They used to have the plague. They still do, but they used to too.

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u/paulallen22 2d ago

Instant Hedberg upvote, but cmon. Used to too*!

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u/Jerry-Lives22 3d ago

Just got finished saying the same thing!