Tonight will be my 34th show (more shows than Jesus!) butt this show was my first. While I had been a casual Phan in high school, by my mid-twenties I had a somewhat ironic obsession with Phish, webcasting their NYE runs as background visuals at parties and even giving live radio commentary/doing Phish karaoke on radio station WFMU.

Early 2015 I shacked up with a 3.0 Phollower (tonight will be his 80th) so my first show was actually an 8-show run (ending with Magnaball). My initial conceptions that Phish shows were about phanphare and phreak scenes were demolished when I realized Phish was just the best fucking live band, playing experimental music on the largest scale. I really enjoyed the first night of Philly and by the second night I was a full-on 3.0 noob.