[CarlSagan]

Any fellow WTers going to Phish 8?

I am!

Here is a place for us to talk about our plans.


What album will they play on Halloween?

My guess is they will cover either david bowie or michael jackson, what do you think????

[Spiff]

I'll be there, hoping for flaming lips cover :) Who knows, either way it'll be insane!

[LA-G]

Will be there too!

Yeah, I think David Bowie's Scary Monsters would be pretty cool. The idea of playing the Ramones first album is cool, although at like 30 minutes long, that'd be rip off, in terms of Phish Halloween sets.

So the albums listed in the animation that DON'T have a hatchet in them are fair game?

praying for parking lot space cakes...

[ShiningSkull]

Police to pot users: Don't go Phish

Colin Atagi • The Desert Sun • October 27, 2009


Indio police are encouraging attendees at this weekend's Phish Festival 8 to refrain from smoking marijuana to have a good time.

Police aren't disclosing their methods but said they will be on the lookout for anyone caught doing drugs during the three-day event at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.

Samuel Martin, who writes at phishandthedead.blogspot.com, does not dispute that Phish fans tend to smoke marijuana at concerts just as the Grateful Dead's Deadheads.

“Yeah, there's going to be a lot of it,” he said. “(But) it's not like there's going to be a truckload of drug addicts coming to town.”

Violators may face a $100 to $500 fine and/or up to a year in Riverside County jail.

“The bottom line is just don't do it,” Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron said. “Don't make it a memorable experience in the county jail.”

The polo grounds have hosted numerous multi-day music events with their share of arrests.

Sixty-nine people were arrested during this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and there were 22 arrests at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival.

Martin said he does not believe Phish's mellow fans are likely to cause trouble.

“Fans don't go out of their way to stand on top of Volkswagen buses and wave bags of weed,” Martin said. “It's not going to be that extreme, but they are carefree.”

San Bernardino County sheriff's officials issued similar warnings to attendees at this past weekend's Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival in San Bernardino, which celebrated marijuana legalization and its therapeutic uses.

Aside from detecting the smell of marijuana in the air, officials were “pleasantly surprised” that there were no arrests made, department spokeswoman Jodi Miller said.

“There was a fight on Saturday, and the crowd basically took care of it,” she said.


Police to pot users: Don't go Phish | MyDesert.com | The Desert Sun

[ShiningSkull]

So I'm wondering if any of you attendees are encouraged by the Indio Police to refrain from smoking marijuana in order to have a good time at this weekend's Phish Festival 8?

They're only thinking of you. lol