A little inside info. I grew up 10 mins from Loring AFB, and it's not a very populated area. The year before The Great Went happened some promotor talked up some gigantic concert he was going to have that would draw 100,000 people he called Spudstock. (Spud because potatoes are grown in the area) I can't remember the musicians other than Eddie Money. It was basically a bunch of has-been performers from the 80s and only 1500 people showed up. It's still known as the biggest flop the area has ever seen. So the next year when it was announced Phish would be coming, EVERYONE in the area scoffed and acted like it would be another Spudstock. Literally nobody believed it would be big. Those of us that were longtime Phish fans and had been to Clifford Ball and many other shows assured them this would NOT be another Spudstock. Needless to say all the locals were blown away by the number of people that showed. They were also blown away by how nice and polite everyone was. (They thought Phish was some metal band or something initially) So the next year all of the older people in the area went to Lemonwheel to check it out. Their attitude was completely different. I remember randomly running into my girlfriend's parents. I was tripping on shrooms, had a nitrous balloon in my hand and the next thing I know I'm face to face with people I never expected to see at a Phish show. 😂 Oops
We went to IT and some local dude showed us the back way in to the base. Saved us literally 8 hours in line. The locals up there were of the nicest people I’ve ever met and I couldn’t believe how beautiful the entire area was. Always wanted to get back up there, hopefully sometime soon.
Were there way less people at IT than there were at Went and Lemonwheel? The crowd shots here look smaller to me than the ones from Went in Bittersweet Motel.
No it had about the same number of people. It was estimated at 60,000. I was at all 3 and the Lemonwheel seemed like it had a little more than the other two, but the numbers suggests they were all roughly the same. Between 60,000-70,000
agreed !! i don't know what's up with his new tone and plays with way less sustain for those old soaring reba notes he used to hit. my favorite 2.0 REBA is right here, "IT" has it all !!
ninjafield could not agree more, his tone is so different nowadays. Its gotten slightly better, but I’m all about the 90’s, lucky to have seen a lot then.
I agree with all of the comments here, whole heartily. There is nothing like Trey's early to mid-90s tone. Trey never sounded better. As far as 3.0 is concerned, I would say that Trey's best tone was 2013 through 2015, then during the summer tour of 2016, it began to transform into whatever it is now, which I don't not like at all. He really leaned heavily on it this past winter/New Years Run. The last Phish show I saw was on 12-1-19 at Nassau Coliseum during that blizzard, and--even though it was a great show--Trey's overall tone was terrible the entire time: far too trebly, far too "chunky," and far too many effects and pedals. Even during the Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, which is supposed to be a quiet lithe tune. I want him just to return to the old rig.
