What is a Phish concert?

Phish is an American rock band formed in 1983, dissolved in 2004, and reuninted in 2009. Many Phish fans attend multiple nights on a particular tour, much like sports fans buying season tickets, since each concert will be different.

What should I bring to a Phish show?

Be prepared for anything and everything.

• Always be prepared: bring your backpacks, coolers, and clown wigs to every show. [
• A flag at a Phish festival campsite. [
• Fans outside a show decked out in “Slave to the Traffic Light” shirts and Jon Fishman-style muumuus. [

What should I bring to Phish show?

Paper, pencil, empty clear plastic bottle for water. Especially outdoors shows, water is nice at indoor shows too. Some food is nice too, animal crackers = friends.

Who has seen the most Phish shows?

Kenny Dennis of Locust Valley has seen Phish 51 times since he first saw them at Nassau Coliseum in 1998.

What is it like to see Phish?

While Phish occasionally dives into a “dark jam,” seeing the band is, by and large, an agreeable, upbeat experience. These are goofy guys who are into fantasy and sci-fi, and back in the day they were known for joking around with the crowd.

How did Phish get their name?

As recounted in Parke Puterbaugh’s Phish: The Biography, band members were spitballing names when one of them made the sound “of air coming out of a balloon.” They quickly realized that no club was going to book a band called “phhhhssssh,” so it was simplified to “Phish.” What kind of band is it?

What is the connection between the dead and Phish?

At that time, the band was coming into its own and gathering steam with a healthy following, and when Deadheads had nowhere to turn, many turned to Phish. That said, the link between The Dead and Phish is generally overstated. Phish will occasionally dabble in faux-bluegrass, but Jerry Garcia was an accomplished banjo player.

What kind of music does Phish Jam?

What kind of music does Phish “jam”? Phish’s music ranges from complex orchestrations to booty-shakin’ thick funk to vast, spaced-out ambience. Some of the tunes are really clotheslines on which to hang a new, improvised permutation on themes that will only be performed one time.