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Take me take me take me take me NOW!
DMC - Guitar, thurs around midnight
Elwood - Guitar, Dunno
2 Planks - No idea, No idea
M@ - Guitar, Recorder, thur around 11pm maybe.
Am I missing anyone?
M@
elwood
08-10-2004, 06:45 PM
Not sure if the guitar is coming with me or not... Might not have room. Im definitely bringing the djembe though!
I dunno if I should bring my $20 guitar or the nice one Suzy got me for my bday. Not bringing lots of stuff cause I'm worried about it getting ripped off.
M@
Take me take me take me take me NOW!
DMC - Guitar, thurs around midnight
Elwood - Guitar, Dunno
2 Planks - No idea, No idea
M@ - Guitar, Recorder, thur around 11pm maybe.
Am I missing anyone?
M@
I'm coming form NYC after work...
I estimate we wont be in the grounds until sometime Friday AM...
But whatever.... It aint nothin but a thing...
I'm packing right now! WOO HOO! Excitement and ANTICI... (say it!) PATION!
Sleeping bags, cots, tent so far. Much more to go.
M@
I'm not binging my prisim - it's a glass prisim, and I don't think I'll need it. If any of you guys really think you're gonna need a prisim, lemme know, I think I can fit it.
M@ (and they wonder how I got my post count so high?)
http://www.blonski.com/phish/gallery/trey.gif
Just packed the mini-etch-a-sketch. It's good to have a small one of these, cause you never have enough space.
M@
I'm bringing a whole mess of "T4T" stickers that this guy made for me as demos... free to everyone who wants one. And there's no date to cut off.
DMC: Is it okay I cut your website and date off? Cause I didn't think you would mind. I mean, it's just a sticker man.
Packed the extra lantern wick/cage/flamebag things... camped on an island once and broke the thing - and was really bumming.
I really hope there's an "over 30" camping site with laundry facilities and a scienc center or something.
Looks like we're gonna miss the shooting stars though... I'll be looking up, that's for sure. Probably lying on the hood of the car counting... remind me to explain the shooting star scoring system -it's fun. I have well over a thousand points.
M@
DMC: Is it okay I cut your website and date off? Cause I didn't think you would mind. I mean, it's just a sticker man.
Anybody else and I'd be pissed...
You gots a lot of leeway with me... :)
elwood
08-10-2004, 09:22 PM
Nice pic M@... What is he like 19 there? Such a dork! :D
Holy ****ing bad weather forecast:
Thursday. Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning. Then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs around 80. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
M@
M@ have you calmed down today????
YOu were like a kid on XMas eve last night... You actually inspired me to pack...
I loaded the pod with all my gear and got my clothes ready...
Nice pic M@... What is he like 19 there? Such a dork! :D
Half the reson I like Phish so much is cause they are ALL dorks...
Like me...
Well that and they are the same age as me... And Page and Trey grew up in NJ and we all went to the same malls and shows at the same time...
So my influences are their's...
Listened to Phish playing a bluegrass version of Bostons "Long Time" last night..
that first Boston album was a defining album of my youth... I played the record so much, I literally replaced it 3 times.
The only other records I replaced from overuse was "The Wall" and Zeppelin II
Fishman is probably the least dorkish, but they are all dorks and I identify with that very, very well.
M@
The guy wears a viking helmet, a flowered dress and goggles and plays a hoover..
Dork...
I know a guy that went to summer camp with him in NYS and says he was a maniac...
Friggin awesome drummer!!!!
elwood
08-11-2004, 09:57 AM
The man is all wrists. He has such a smooth style.
I really try and emulate his relaxed style...
It barely looks like he's playing...
It's sooooo condusive to playing long sets...
Still looking like a lot of rain on friday night... any of yutes been to a festival with lots of mud and crap and have expierence on what to bring for such an event? I got umbrella, towels, boots on the list in anticipation of the wet conditions.
I'm not bringing my new crampons.
M@
Bring OLD sneakers... Ponchos work well... Even last summer the mud was deep on the way to the concerts site...
Just kinda now that your gonna get soaked and try and make the best of it...
My best advice to anyone camping at a rainy festival is this...
Bring a camp cot... Get off the ground...
I'm sleeping in my subaru if it's nasty...
Phish Festival Site Ready For Fans
BY ROBIN SMITH, Staff Writer
Wednesday August 11, 2004
COVENTRY VERMONT
A natural amphitheater in a former corn field in Coventry Vermont will soon host the final concerts of Phish, Vermont's homegrown jam band.
The stage is blossoming out of what is now hay fields, a metal structure that is the band's largest ever.
The Phish festival, called "Coventry," Saturday and Sunday at the Newport State Airport and nearby Maxwell Farm, is not the band's first, but it will be the last. Phish will disband afterward.
The finality of the festival makes the preparations bittersweet.
Everyone from Adam Lewis, the public relations person, to the security guards posted at every entrance, wants to see the glass half full, rather than half empty.
There's a certain sadness about this event that locals may not be able to pick up by driving by. Michael "Mike" Katchmark of Michigan and a security guard with "safety" emblazoned on his shirt argued Tuesday over the musical merits of past Phish festivals they had attended. The guard could not divulge his name, but was happy to talk about his experiences.
He and Katchmark agreed that Phish should not be disbanding now.
They and others already hard at work at the site put the "fan" in fanatic. They are loyal Phish fans, and if they are typical of the rest of the estimated 80,000 people heading toward Coventry for the weekend festival, it should be a mellow crowd.
Transforming Fields
They might be mellow, but they are not a laid-back group when it comes to productivity on the airport grounds and Maxwell Farm's fields.
Workers have strung miles of chain-link and plywood fencing around the site in the past two weeks, and tents, roads and other sites have sprung up from out of nowhere.
What was once an open highland divided by Airport Road is now blocked off. On one side around the now-closed airport is the massive camping area for ticketed fans. These overnight fans will share square miles of campground, and have plenty of food, drink and amenities for sale within walking distance. The runways are now roads.
Access to the camping area, expected to open at noon Thursday, is the gate.
Located near the landfill north of the airport, the gate area on Tuesday was a dirt plain, with graders grinding across. There will be up to seven toll booths for traveling fans to check in. Security will check out vehicles and people. Vehicles with people without tickets will be turned away, police have said.
Once inside the camping area, ticket holders will have wrist bands as identification for the entire weekend. There will be 1,200 portable toilets to serve the huge crowd.
There will also be an overflow campsite across the road from the gate, where day-trippers and last-minute arrivals can park.
Building A Fence
The chain-link fence designates the camping areas for ticketed fans, separating the campers from Airport Road and the festival site east of the road and down on the farm.
The entire concert/fest site on the Maxwell Farm fields is surrounded by tall, plywood fencing. The walls are painted to resemble a white picket fence.
Inside, art installations are emerging, with many creative features that the production people do not want fans to see in advance. Some are fun, some are downright odd, as festival-goers will find out.
Journalists allowed into the site in advance of the festival had to promise not to photograph the installations.
MASHtown
While campers will dominate the airport side of Airport Road, the many people working at the festival are living on the fields to the east.
With a tire-covered manure pit and red barns as backdrop, workers live in what's called MASHtown south of the festival field. There are tents and campers here, down a road that didn't exist two weeks ago.
Around the field is space for the media, with room for campers and tents there. The media corner is southeast of the stage itself, which is growing like a weed at the bottom of a natural amphitheater in Maxwell Farm. Fans will have an almost unimpeded view of the stage at the festival site, one of the reasons why this site was picked, said Adam Lewis, who handles public relations for the festival.
Campers from the airport side of the road will run the Chute to reach the festival site when it opens Saturday. The Chute is the main access for fans staying at the campground, with gates on both sides of the road.
Again, the stage was half up Tuesday, but pictures were not allowed yet.
To the northeast of the stage is the band's campsite, with a mobile home and other campers visible in a more secluded area.
For the Fans
Phish promoters have said this is for the band and its fans, and that becomes clear during the tour. Lewis said the band is not giving an interview, and press access during the concerts will be limited.
The restrictions on taking pictures of installation art will be lifted once the event is under way.
Not all the fans are ticket holders, however. Scott Franzyshen of Avon, Colo., is a summer employee of Clean Vibes, which will handle trash and recycling on-site. He arrived last week and expects to be here cleaning up until Sept. 1. Most others are students like him. Or they have taken a sabbatical from their regular work.
They will handle 300 tons of trash, which will include 40 tons of recycling and 20 tons of leftover food to be composted.
And they will pick the fields clean after it's all over. The band's millennium concert in the Seminole reservation in Florida proved that it and the fans can leave the land as they found it.
For the Neighbors
There are some neighbors who find themselves in the midst of this festival. A half dozen homes on Airport Road are now bounded by chain-link fence on all sides, with the driveways open. The fence is like a wire cocoon, in a way, offering security without blocking the view.
These neighbors of the airport will have a first-hand view of the campers and the festival if they choose. They also will have to contend with lots of people crossing Airport Road once the festival gates open.
Once Airport Road is closed to all but inbound traffic from the north, the neighbors and the workers will have the fence-lined road to themselves.
But on Tuesday, lots of folks were driving past, rubbernecking to get a better view of the action.
Beginning today, roads around the airport will be closed or limited to local traffic. People living along the incoming traffic routes are either battening down the hatches, closing up shop, or putting out the welcome mat.
The Calm Before the Storm
Early Tuesday afternoon, downtown Coventry Vermont, a single street off Route 5, was quiet. But this small town is in the eye wall of the hurricane, with the fans from Interstate 91 streaming past beginning Thursday.
Businesses along Route 5 were doing last-minute preparations.
Martha's Diner, where traffic from Burlington and southern New England and New York City will merge on Route 5, had two tents pitched, and stacks of bottled water were collecting next to tractor-trailers parked nearby.
Vendors were setting up shop on a vacant lot at the intersection of Route 5 and Airport Road, and two Vermont State Police cruisers with troopers on board were in the parking lot nearby.
Top brass of the Vermont State Police were already at the airport and have been for some time. Horses and their riders were already at a nearby farm. About 60 horseback security guards will police inside the park, with horses from the Texas Rangers and Royal Canadian Mounted Police and other retired police officers.
Almost Time
Residents of Coventry Vermont will have a chance to meet with a state police designate every evening at 7 p.m. in the town hall, beginning tonight.
Lt. George Hacking and Selectman Mike Marcotte will be on hand to deal with questions and problems tonight through Sunday, Marcotte said.
The meetings are reserved for local residents to reach a state police contact, Marcotte said.
elwood
08-11-2004, 11:15 AM
M@- Don't forget the Duct Tape.
I know I'm going to forget something...
this cant be good...
Batten down the hatches boys and girls...
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/images/bonnietracking081104-11am.jpg
this cant be good...
Batten down the hatches boys and girls...
(scary storm path graphic)
Maybe I will bring the crampons.
M@
Bad thing is...
There's another on RIGHT behind it...
But NOAA still says Sat and Sun are partly cloudy...
But NOAA still says Sat and Sun are partly cloudy...
"Partly Cloudy" is meteroligical-cryptography for "We don't know"
M@
el-bagr
08-11-2004, 02:56 PM
For those of us without tickets, surf is going to be UP!
elwood
08-11-2004, 03:17 PM
I got this:
Thursday night. Mostly cloudy. Showers likely. Lows around 60. Southwest winds around 10 mph until midnight. Becoming light and variable. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Friday. Cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 70. Light and variable winds. Becoming north 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
Friday night. Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Saturday. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
Saturday night. Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
Sunday. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
Sunday night. Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
From this (http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/VTZ003.php?warnzone=vtz003&warncounty=vtc019)
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