HT Giveaway: Win A Joy Box Pt. 6
As we’ve been telling you endlessly over the past few weeks, we’ve got two Joy Boxes to giveaway and we’re giving our readers eight chances to win. The Joy Box – the most ambitious Phish release ever – includes a CD of Joy plus 10 posters, an extensive booklet as well as Party Time and a DVD featuring some of Phish’s live performances from the first half of 2009.
Today, we’ve got question number six of eight and each answer you give will count as one entry in the contest. That’s right, you can enter eight times by answering all eight questions. Just don’t get greedy and answer the same question twice. This contest will run until September 25, 2009 at 11:59PM. Just follow the rules below and we’ll announce our winners on 9/28:
- To enter the contest leave a comment below telling us about the first Phish album you ever heard and what you thought of it
- All comments must be longer than 10 words and shorter than 50
- Your comment must be left by 11:59 PM EST on Friday, Sept. 25
- Don’t be greedy, only one entry per person, per question
- Winners will be selected at random from all entries to all 8 questions
- Winners receive one copy of the Joy Box each
So there you have it. As you see, question #6 is “what was the first Phish album you ever heard and what did you think about it at the time?” Keep on checking Hidden Track for question #7.
- HT Joy Box Giveaway: Question #1, Question #2, Question #3, Question # 4, Question #5
- Previously on HT: Joy Review, Festival 8 Giveaway
- Dry Goods: Joy Box Pre-order
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 10:41 am
Junta. I was really into the Dead at the time, and had no idea Phish was a improvisational rock band (not fond of the “Jamband” label). I thought the album was quirky, and super original.
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Junta was the first. I thought i was very strange, i was young. Who knew these sound would shape so much of my life.
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 11:19 am
First phish album i heard was Lawn Boy. I remember hearing the phrase “Bag it, tag it” and thinking it was an offensive comment of another sort against homosexuals, and thinking that was kind of odd to put in a song. My introduction to phish. :)
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 11:45 am
Lawn Boy. Loved it from the get go. Was way into the Dead at the time and this was so different yet so great.
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 11:48 am
“Lawn Boy” was played to me a a camper at Camp Scatico in the summer of 1991, back when it still had “Fee” on the album. I thought they were childish, geeky and fun, much like myself at the time.
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Junta – 1992. First song was Contact. thought they were very odd and goofy. Then Fee and that thought continued. The David Bowie and I knew something was amiss!
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Billy Breathes in my friends car, heard the opening licks of “free” and thought “this is phish? I never thought I would like this band”… by the time Character Zero ended I was hooked. Then feeded the obsession with the purchase of Lawn Boy, interesting order, right?
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I heard Nectar in 1993, and at the time (13), I liked 2 songs (Cavern and Chalkdust). So it sat on the shelf until 1995 when I was ready for it.
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Rift. My college roommates were dancing around the room and I just sat staring at the giant rift poster against our white concrete walls. I was a lot to wrap my head around at the time. I was up dancing with them by Sparkle. Maze rocked!
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Junta, Summer 1992. I heard Fee, YEM. Minutes later I heard a boot where the YEM vocal jam morphed into Fee. I was educated and hooked for life.
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 4:33 pm
The first aural glimpse that I got of Phish was Rift. Like many others, it was my freshman year in college, and STILL to this day, each and every time I hear that album, the fall/winter of 1995 comes rushing back. The breeze, the smell, the newness of western Massachusetts.
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Picture of Nectar in ’92. I played Mango Song so often over Christmas break that my father freaked out. I had listened to some stuff prior in the spring of ’92 when I saw my first show, but listening to that album over & over, and the subsequent shows in the winter of ’93 were what hooked me.
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Bowie off of Junta. At 10.05 PM on September 8, 1992. Never heard a note o Phish before then and my roommate at boarding school got to pick the music that we fell asleep to that night because i did the night before. I sat up in the bed during the guitar peak and told him that whoever that guy is he is amazing.
Thanks Matt Provenzano.
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Picture of Nectar
This album was played to bits in my Panasonic boom box. A good str8 thru album to play. Still is. Top favorite for me.
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Rift. My boyfriend and his sis.. long time avid Phish Phans.. and I was like WTF?.. but after a couple of years and finally going to my first Phish show this summer..I completely understand.