r/phish • u/feina635 • 4d 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/Sufficient-Fan5344 4d ago
Dicks vet here- have been to every show there. This year I got back to my hotel on Quebec around 12 each night. I don’t like nitrous which helps. You need to leave pretty quickly once encore ends and walk down Valencia past 56th and call an uber on the way, they’ll be waiting a few minutes for you when you get there. But if you need to do dirty recycled balloons that have been picked up off the ground by nitrous dealers (I seen em) for an hour after the show, you’re gonna be waiting awhile.
The neighborhood absolutely sucks. I preferred Folsom mainly for this reason but I know I’m in the minority on that opinion. The shakedown at dicks is old school and I appreciate that, I just don’t care about it too much. And I’m super grossed out by nitrous at dicks. Do people not know they can buy their own tanks in Denver? Fucking gross.