Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flashing lights and smoke-filled air drew a steady crowd of onlookers throughout the action...
Intermission was a dangerous mob scene that underscored the fact that Phish is better outside. Cries of "I need to get out of this space," and "please, please let me move" abounded as the painfully packed-in crowd tried to get to the bath-rooms and concessions en masse. Good feeling resumed, though, as soon as someone started a collective "moo" to which the mob took better than the pre-show wave that died a quick death...
...style to Phish's playing that provided interesting variety to the show on Sunday night. Looking like an unlikely candidate for blues guitarist extraodinaire, he strolled onto the stage and proceeded to take over. While not expecting a blues show in the middle of the night, the crowd took it in enthusiastic stride and was praising Seth's playing for the rest of the night. The rest of the band adapted well to the new style and Anastasio and Jakominski seemed to connect as both jammed blues-style for the end of the first half of the show. Including...
While indoor intermission is a mess, something must be said for Phish's light man, whoever he is, for making everyone feel like they were taking hallucinogens, and for making those crowd members who were feeling psychadelic very, very happy. The light show itself was almost worth the waiting and pushing that it took to get into the building, but not quite...
Andrew Sullivan was no stranger to the AIDS epidemic. After nursing dying friends and seeing familiar names crowd the obituary section, he had intimate knowledge of the disease. It was knowledge, however, that would be foreshadowing. In 1993, Sullivan was diagnosed with HIV. Suddenly, all the friends he had comforted and bereaved families he had consoled were a haunting premonition of his own death...