After an extremely successful weekend that saw their favorite band reunite for three fantastic shows, the Phish fanbase returned home to find the media picking up on the same ol’ story – their drug use. While I didn’t see any arrests and hardly any shadiness, according to 7,656 stories on Google News there were 250 arrests at the shows this weekend and over $1.2 million seized. Has anyone else had every member of their family forward them an article about these arrests? That’s SO not was this weekend was about.
This afternoon, the folks at The Smoking Gun put up a gallery of mugshots from 25 of the phinest members of our community. This is why you don’t ever tell your co-workers you’re going to see Phish. The investigative team over at The Raw Story don’t believe the figure the cops came up with and have written a detailed report about the arrests. I’d bet we haven’t heard the last of this story.
Let’s take a look at some stories from the Glide News desk…
- Medeski Martin and Wood announce Camp MMW 2009
- Soulive Launches the Royal Family Records imprint
- The BMG Music Service To End In June
- All Tomorrows Parties Concert Film To Debut Soon
Finally, I’ve been selected as a judge for NoiseAddicts’ Worst Song In The World Remix Contest. Two Russian artists named Komar and Melamid paid to hire a market research firm to find out the American public’s likes and dislikes in art and came up with the world’s most annoying song. For the complete rules about how to enter your remix and a full list of prizes head over to NoiseAddicts. I’d love to see some HTers represent.
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Interesting about the busts. I wasn’t in Hampton but the irony is one of the things I kept hearing about night one was that there wasn’t much of a shakedown street so with just a half-decent amount of evidence I’d be willing to bet some 5-0 want folks to think they’re on the trail of pot smoking phiends who should leave their stash at home on summer tour
I was feeling immensely sympathetic toward those poor kids until I hit #12. Yikes!
I was thinking the same thing today. Went to google news, searched phish and WHAM-O.
I was there the whole weekend and saw no trouble at all, but the way they make it out you’d think everyone there was holding weight. Seems a little blown out of proportion.
Yeah, all these stories shocked me actually, cause I had a completely sketch-free weekend. I actually told someone it felt like a DMB parking lot, cause around me it was just “normal people” tailgating. I could see shakedown off in the distance, but the regular parking lot was very, very tame.
I guess its like any scene…if you want shadiness, you can find shadiness. If you want to be left alone, you can do that too. I hate to generalize, but I imagine those mugshotters weren’t sitting in the line to get in at 5pm like the rest of us.
DONT DO IT! Just DONT DO IT! Jeez, those are some of the finest looking Phish fan I have ever seen. YIKES
ditto..typical of media i guess to pick up the negative stuff, too bad, i know, half of me feels like a closet phish fan when talking to people about my experience, or in the least i feel the need to qualify myself as sober these days or justify by detailing my history and reason for going lol but i do remember the early small days when every single woman, including myself, was tweaking out like i have never seen before, in the bathroom of the venue on large quantities of hallucinogens and whatever else. a little different at hampton. all the women in the bathroom seemed perfectly capable of completing full sentences. Unbelievable!!
If you’re a white kid with dreads, you deserve to be arrested. ZING!
a dude next to us got nabbed in the lot…totally sucked, he was harming no one and the cops searched his car and found other stuff I think. Not distributing, not causing a disturbance or anything…it was too bad, felt really bad for him. He likely went from feeling great about the show ahead to miserable in a blink of an eye.
I saw one guy get thrown to the ground by an undercover who then pulled a gun on him. Also saw to other seperate occasions of people getting busted by the same undercovers- old dudes in Hawaiian shirts. One group was arrested, the other group was just ticketed. Also, I was standing with someone who had just opened a beer. He had a bottle cap in his hand and from out of nowhere, a dressed cop grabbed him by the arm, spun him around, and forced him to show him what he was holding. When he showed the cop it was just a bottle cap, he laughed in the cop’s face. Funny stuff.
minimal trouble from my vantage point. worst bust i saw / experience all weekend was while strolling in by car in the traffic to Saturday’s lot. They had just opened the gates to the lots and these japanese ph-heads (straight off the plane from tokyo) proudly held up their new t-shirt creation. my wife asked how much and we had to keep moving. the japanese dude ran down our car, opened his bag and said, “custom pish t-shirt all way from Japan. Me to you…made in japan. only $15.” before we could open our wallets, 6 bicycle cops (not joking) and 3 black-shirted golf cart brotha’s were on the dude like sesame seeds on a california roll. as we proceeded to move forward, i watched a rear-view mirrow harassment of the poor Shinobi getting cuffed, tees taken away, cash being taken away and whatever else. poor dude. damn pigs!
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