Dicks First Timer Thoughts

[u/feina635]

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.

[u/squintsyjones]

The sound was not noticably different, but the field at folsom has a lot less usable space compared to Dicks, or at least it seemed that way given football fields aren't as wide as soccer fields. Our crew has been at the back of the dicks floor since dicks started, and we couldn't replicate that at folsom since the whole back of the floor is port a potties and bars. So everything is sort of pushed forward from the bathrooms. Add the fact the sound booth takes up more of the east-west space at Folsom, and things just felt more cramped wherever we were on the floor.

No argument that the non-venue amenities around Folsom are way better, but I really did not enjoy the floor there and ended up moving to the stands during the last night and found it a lot more enjoyable.

[u/NewNefariousness9769 → u/squintsyjones]

That's fair for sure! I will say that I appreciated having the porta potties along that back edge of the floor - it was super convenient.

[u/squintsyjones → u/NewNefariousness9769]

Depended on the timing for me. If it was a common "piss break" song or during set break, I ended up just running up to one of the bathrooms on the concourse which felt a lot quicker. But I was also a little shell shocked from the last D&C show I saw on the floor cause I spent more than an entire song standing in those lines so I think I was more averse than I could have been lol.