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More From Festival 8

I found this video on Jambase today from Festival 8.....shows a little more than my pictures! Michael Marantz made this incredible video from still photographs.....about 50,000 of them.

Phish - Festival 8 from Michael Marantz on Vimeo.

Back from Festival 8

These are some of the pics from the weekend.

Festival 8 was pretty incredible. As far as festival set-ups go, they had everything very well organized and in place. The scenery in the desert was beautiful. Everywhere I was the entire weekend was surrounded by mountains. It was a really good place for this event.

The highlight in the set design was the lighting. Everything was lit up at night, changing colors constantly....palm trees, artwork lining the field and even the vending tents. The theme for the installations on the site seemed to be 'fire.' All of the artwork was fire-related in some way. Instead of a typical bonfire.....they had this amazing metal sculpture that threw flames around on the inside (on the top) and actually was warm too.

The weather was spectacular.....although the acoustic set on Sunday was pretty hot, but well worth it. The acoustic set and the last set of the weekend were my favorites. You can view the set lists from all three days here.

I could go on and on about all the 'cool' stuff (some great costumes of course and I saw Greenman, which was enough for me) that was there and how amazing Phish sounded, but I guess you just really had to be there to experience the magic.....

This is a snip-it from the encore of the last set....

Going to California

Featival 8 here I come!

Festival 8

That's right folks....I will be attending Phish Festival 8 this year!!!!!!!!!!!! This will be my first Phish festival and I am super excited. My friend actually won a trip there...all expenses paid and she invited me, so not only am I going to the festival, but I am going for free! Can it get any better?

This is the latest news on what will be going on at the festival and it's looking incredible. In traditional Halloween fashion, one of the 8 sets played over the weekend will be an album in its entirety. Past sets have covered Velvet Underground, Taking Heads, Beatles, and The Who. Of course people are going crazy trying to figure out what album it will be. Phish has put up an array of albums on the website...each getting cut until one remains. I'm hoping for Zeppelin...that would be sick. There will also be an acoustic set on Sunday which I am looking forward to.

Three days of nothing but PHISH....breathe....I'll let you know how it goes....

Theory of a Good Song

"I heard someone say once that great lyrics make you think thoughts and great music makes you feel feelings, but a great song makes you feel thoughts. With this as my guiding criteria, "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" epitomizes this sentiment. The lyrics encapsulate the concepts of discipline, perseverance, individuality, respect, a positive approach to life, and a reminder not to take it too seriously after all. Better, and in fewer words, than any self-help publication could ever hope to accomplish. This highly concentrated virtual psychovitamin recipe for a successful life is honeycoated in a melody so simple and sweet, most people can only dream of coming up with something like that on their own. To top it off, the whole package is metabolized like water as a small child and ages like a fine wine in your soul until the day you die. Pretty good song." -Fishman