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Large amounts of cool people (and a few douche bags I’m sure) have converged on Red Rocks amphitheater this weekend for the historic four night phish run. I took the time off from work many moons ago, but lost out on the Phish Red Rocks sweepstakes and was unwilling to shell out the hundreds of dollars required to pay scalpers. Many people were scammed by these scalpers, included a female associate of mine, Nikki, who lives in boulder.
Two weeks ago, I remember seeing a facebook update in which she was “excited” to receive her tix via Fedex overnight shipping. Later, I read that the seller accidentally “sent” the tix to himself, of which she was frustrated and thought the seller was a fucking moron. I was not too surprised by this, working at the post office and all. Stoners filling out elaborate to/from forms for the overnight package = mistakes galore. I thought at the time that she was lucky the package didn’t end up at the dead letter office. She eventually posted that she received the tix but they were fakes. How she determined they were fakes eluded me, and I didn’t ask as to not further dwell on a sore subject.
I was also involved in a potential ticket pick up for my bud The Joker, who resides in Denver. Some dude down in Ft. Myers Florida claimed to have two tix for all four nights, and was willing to overnight them. Smelling tomfoolery, Joker called to enlist me in obtaining the tix. I was to play the role of his brother and drive down to pick up the tix. Btreoch found some scammer alerts about the guy to the whole mission was aborted. I was not looking forward to doing it at the time anyhow, but Joker said he would make it worth my while. Ended up working out as Joker scored tix somehow and is posting from the show along with Dr. Pauly and Change100.
Photos by @gracedesign
The first night following the crew/crowds was interesting but anticlimactic. I hoped to stream the show via someones iphone, which I was able to do for Rothbury. This ended up not being the case, and I was left to updates from #phish and #redrocks.
Twitter has been particularly helpful in getting up to date information, pictures, and streams for these shows. I am impressed by the usefulness of twitter in this regard, and now have new evidence why twitter is not a “ego driven” website/service with no real purpose. It’s like having embedded reporters at shows in which I can call upon. In that spirit, I will continue to update this blog with cool and interesting photos/streams live from redrocks.
If your interested in a full recap or multiple quality sources, I suggest checking out @phishcoventry as well as the personal twitter accounts of the sites bloggers.
In the spirit of quality journalism, I will do my best to credit each photo!
photo by alexcwilliams via twitpic
photo by multi_beast via Twitpic
I’ve discovered how to live stream the show finally, click here to see it. I must warn that this is a personal live stream site, so clicking on the above site during a phish show will most likely produce a phish show. Clicking on it at other times may produce just about anything. Lostndamaged should be credited for finding/providing this link.
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photo by lostndamaged via twitterpic
Lostndamaged also has a sweet collection of all his twitter photos/phish redrocks stuff on a rockin site called picfrog. It’s sometimes weird to see into other peoples lives like this, but what the hell. I’m a blogger, they’re live bloggin their experiences and linking them to twitter….its like that hot chick that changes in front of her window in my complex, whom I’m convinced wants me to watch. Same deal: if they didn’t want me to look, they wouldn’t show us. Check it out here: lostndamaged
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This dude (the wagger) is streaming through his blog, which is a damn good idea. Not really in a position to do this as I am running off my dads virgin mobile 3g internet hook up, which charges by transfer frequency??? Crazy concept. Props to this guy, for giving me a goal for tomorrow when I return home to my fully functional wi-fi connection. “The Wagger” has devoted an entire blog just to red rocks phish, and perhaps more shows in second half of tour. Check it out HERE
There are a bunch of douch bags trying to live link streaming audio, but they’re all falling on their faces. thebutterroom is one. Honesty, they’re prob not douche bags and I’m more like them then I want to admit.
Chalk Dust Torture by beatifulbuzz
A bunch of people are tweeting about this one. A blog called “Red, Green and Blue” has one man’s reflection of the history of Red Rocks being built, during FDR’s New Deal work program. It’s pretty cool and has some old photographs from before the amphitheater had lights, benches and a stage; it’s an apparent natural ampi-deal. He’s at the show, and he claims he will occasionally think about FDR and the New Deal amongst all the screaming fans and shenanigans.
Time Turns Elastic by beatifulbuzz
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