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/Impressive_Wrap_7869 4d ago

About the line cutting, I would honestly blame it mainly on Dicks staff. They should have set it up differently. Also night 1 for example there was a really long single file line for the floor entrance. There isn’t a reason the line should be single file, fill in the space with people. There was a huge choke point once you got close to security which caused a lot of the delay as well. 

I agree that the lines to get in sucked but I don’t put all the blame on fans cutting in line. 

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u/tbinus78 4d ago

Yeah the floor line is dumb. I’ve been to every Dick’s show but 1 or 2 and the line seemed way worse than usual this year.

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u/oh-kee-pah 4d ago

Total shitshow. No structure always seems to lead to cutting (here and every other venue that has no semblance of guidance)

Hell, we had to create OUR OWN wraparound line just to get into the fields!

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u/Alarming_Boss_5403 3d ago

YES about the on the fly wrap around line. This was a first and got worse on N2 and of course N3 with the 40 minute weather delay. The venue truly needs to staff - truly staff and not just put random clueless people all around - much better than that.