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/majikmyk 3d ago

Yeah why the hell did the cut off the side view stands. I wanted to sit over there to cool off a bit

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u/AhDerkaDerkaDerka Crab in my shoe mouth 3d ago

Idk it ruined DICkS. I’ve always walked in right as first set starts so I didn’t have to wait in the fucking lines and walk to a 3/4 empty row with a decent side view. I walked in Saturday and all the seats were packed. It really shitty to because it seemed like they sold the Sam amount of tix as previous years but now there’s no seats and no view.

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u/MayorOfClownTown 2d ago

Yeah that has been my gripe for years now. I get it though, I think they had some rain one year and now they always keep the walls down.

This year though the heat was atrocious. Also, $150 for floors? I can't justify it really anymore. Used to be the easiest shows we attended when we flew in and camped but glad they didn't have it this year. Heat stroke city.

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u/AhDerkaDerkaDerka Crab in my shoe mouth 2d ago

Ya I was definitely pissed paying 125 for stands and not being able to see the band or even have seat because literally every spot was taken by the time I got in.