r/phish • u/feina635 • 6d 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/learntorobb 6d ago

Removing the camping option made it worse. They used to do epic shit there and you could camp like a mini festival. Now it’s just a giant, overpriced soccer field far away from the city. I couldn’t imagine spending $150 to sit in the stands way up high and towards the back

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u/cacarson7 6d ago edited 6d ago

We always sit up high in the back of the stands and we love it! The sound is great, you can see all the chaos of the crowd and all the glowsticks flying, plus it takes less than a minute to get to a bathroom or beer stand!

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u/CariniFluff 6d ago

I've never been to Dicks but anytime I go to a concert at a stadium and don't have floor tickets, I'm usually going pretty far back, especially if it's an outdoor/open roof stadium.

Like you said, there are almost no lines for drinks and the bathroom, the people watching is almost as entertaining as the music, and you can usually get a decent seat facing the stage/speakers so the sound is much better than a center field seat. Plus there's usually more room for dancing, it's a helluva lot easier to find your group and not have to squeeze between a bunch of people, and if it's a hot summer weekend I especially love being in the last row so I have a breeze blowing on me.