I was up and off to a doctor’s appointment today when my crew started texting me that “California had been removed from the map.” Color me surprised, but it definitely appears that the Phish Halloween Festival will not be in California despite weeks of rumors and research that suggest otherwise. I’m not writing it off yet, especially considering Phish has to be watching the community reaction and reacting accordingly in the way that only they know how. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had their developer write some new flash animations on this long-ass timeline that the band has set to slowly release the news. I love the buildup and excitement, but fans are getting antsy and want to book their travel plans already.
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It’s totally gonna be Vegas — they’re gonna reboot the Vegoose Music Festival. Think about it — still close to Cali and organizers are same ones from Bonnaroo. It’s just a guess, but one that makes sense. I think…
A lot of sources have been saying California for a while. Phish probably saw what was going on on the internet and this is their way of keeping their fun marketing ploy alive.
It is definitely not a “Vegoose reboot”. This is Phish’s festival, not a Bonnaroo festival. It won’t be a mulitband festival.
there’s that article about Georgetown, TX. that came up a little while ago.
Dateland, AZ – old airforce base. Save the “Date” baby, bet on it.
My guess….HI, The Aloha State, Hawaii. Just a hunch. They had Hallowbaloo last year in Honolulu, and Kreutzman played there. You really just never know with these guys.
I’m not sure Murph necessarily meant a full Vegoose Festival reboot including other bands. They might be able to re-tool the Vegoose concept around one band and create a destination-style music festival in Vegas.
I’ve actually been thinking about the way they approached the initial Hampton run and how they might continue to to do these multi-night runs in a way that makes them more festival-like, but also allows them to avoid some of the chaos and hassles that come with hosting a full camping festival.
Phish pushed the limits of the music festival concept in the late 90s, but they may have also reached the limits during the mess that was Coventry. As a result of past experiences and their new mgmt, I could definitely see them trying something new.
Great, great point. I just reread Trey’s interview from the October 2004 issue of Guitar World, (real interesting read now that the boys are back together), he talks over and over about how exhuasting the whole ‘Phish production’ was; and how he was no longer able to put that kind of effort into it. That along with the Coventry debacle…. Multi night runs without the hosting element makes perfect sense.
California has been sighted!
allow the balloons to take CA away until it disappears … click on View (toolbar) … Zoom … 400% … it’s still there, hovering over the rest of the country.
Good call Lula! Looks like Cali might be the place after all.
I’m not ruling out Vegas but how are they going to supply trasportation to 50K+ fans to and from Sam Boyd stadium which is miles away from the strip? Anyone who was at Vegoose remembers what a pain in the ass it was to get to and from there by shuttle busses, and I’m not at all interested in renting a car to drive to the shows each day. There would be no camping at Sam Boyd either right? It just doesn’t all add up to a good idea for a Phish fest…so my money is still on Indo, but I guess we’ll see if the removal of California from the map is just another great phish joke or not??
well played Lula. very nice work
Hawaii is not on the map. They could very well remove every state on the map, confusing everybody, then bring Hawaii into the picture. Not very many other places will still be warm in October…
Although Cali floating away was a big surprise we still have NV, FL, VT, NY and TX….so I think its too early to tell….
I’m just so glad it’s not California. I heard they dont really like California anyway. More specifically Californians. It’s probably not true. It’s just what I heard. It’s ashame that state always gets the shaft when it comes to bands playing there. It’ll be Texas probably?
You guys are all being ridiculous, Cali is still there. See you in Indio…
def not texas….check it out
http://yemblog.com/rumors-gone-wild-no-phish-festival-in-texas-fox-7/
Ok so we al know that if you press command + then you can see CA hovering in the sky.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM RED BALOON IT LOOKS LIKE IT’S HOVERING OVER INDIO, CA.
The next one looks like its over bakesfield, the blue one is over San Francisco, and the Green balloon is over somewhere way up in NorCal.
My theory is that after all the other states are gone the balloons will drop CA back on the map, the top three balloons will break away and the RED balloon will land in Indio CA and the boys will walk out onto the stage! Or all the balloons will land and each band member will walk out of a separate balloon.
If anybody can pinpoint where the balloons are hovering over. I think they might me venues/cities that phish as played in the past.
What venues has phish played in north east CA?
also the the balloons have arrows pointing up and down = CA could go either way (TRICK or TREAT)
California is still floating above the map in flash code and will be placed back on the map later, its in indio.
MY SAM BOYD GUESS:
let me explain my theory or one of them….
how phish keeps us all guessing.
and it looks like they really misled people which i assume made them pretty proud!
but it does have to be someplace warm. and when i was volunteering for superfly productions at the first vegoose i read an interview with trey about playing there, he said “that when they played vegas in 1998, he and the boys decided that they wanted to throw a halloween festival in vegas in the future…so he was stoked to be apart of vegoose even if he’s not with phish anymore….”
im paraphrasing.
there is a weird and crazy desire to know first, or figure it out….and phish love to phuck with their fans in a good way…so it’s gotta be somewhere warm, prob vegas or cali….this texas thing has me wondering.
i wont quit trying to figure it out.
im calling boyd tomorrow posing as a Cross-Country Coach asking if my high-school cross country team can use the site for training for nationals that weekend…it’s a holiday weekend in Nevada as Nov 1st is Nevada day. I’ll see what they say.
But they threw me for a loop.
DUDE Nevada Day is Halloween. If your going to quote our hollidays get it right
now cali is gone from the north. what now???
peace out California. All of you who booked all of your reservations…Ha ha. never try to outwit the boys. They will win every time.
don’t ever read too much into anything.
and in the end…this is fun.
we all wish it was out state…our backyard…our guess
none of these ideas and inside tip as for sure
but it’s fun that a certainty.
it’s fun for us and it’s fun for them.
earthfirstsammy
http://phishandthedead.blogspot.com/
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