Win Tickets to the 3-Day Phish Festival!!

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Come Halloween weekend, thousands of Phish fans will descend upon the Indio Polo Fields in the Coachella Valley for a three day festival surrounding eight Phish sets. Yes, it's time for Phish Festival 8 and we're giving away a pair of tickets (you can also buy tickets here).

For any Phish fan (and everyone else), this is going to be a blast. So in order to enter this contest, comment on this post with your favorite song(s) by the band. Full details on the contest are below:

  • Enter the contest by making a comment on this post. Comments must fit the criteria, stated below.
  • The criteria of the comment is that you share your favorite song(s) by Phish.
  • Only on entry per person allowed.
  • Comments will be accepted through Friday, October 9th, 11:59:59 p.m.
  • A qualifying comment will be chosen at random and that winner will be notified via the e-mail connected to their LAist.com login. The winner must confirm the receipt of the e-mail by 12:00:00 p.m., Monday, October 12th, 2009 or the tickets will be released to another winner.
  • A pair of tickets will either be held at will call or sent via mail to the winner.

Good luck and enjoy the festival!

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My favorite Phish song is REBA, and most specifically the REBA from 11/27/98.

((Hmmm... can we comment more than once I wonder?!))

Favorite Phishy tunes are Gotta Jibboo, Suzy Greenberg, and Haley's Comet... among so many others!! Gah NEED to get to Fest 8!!! Can't wait!!

"A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing"

Why I started listening to Phish: my favorite English TA in college told me he dropped out of HS to follow the band on tour. Good call since he's now in a PhD program. Phish fans are winners.

wow jenni, worchester '98 was my first show. that was a wicked reba. wipeout!

my fav song is mike's song, specifically 7/17/98. ohhhh the gorge...

the best phish song, come on do i have to say it.......shania twain feels like a woman cover, thats right i said it

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definitely "Run Like an Antelope". That is the song that got me into Phish.

Favorite Phish song is Dirt. Sweet guitaring

Split Open and Melt, Mike's Song, Tweezer, Ghost, Slave to the Traffic Light - looking forward to hearing these at 8 !!

Favorite cover:
Jimi Hendrix Fire

Favorite Phish song:
Sparkle

I just had a dream I was hanging out with Phish in my living room and asked them to play Gumbo and Dog Faced Boy so I will pick those as my 2 favorite Phish songs today (both Fishman tunes too!)

Fave song is definitely Punch You in the Eye; the first time I saw it was at the Gorge in 98. I saw it again a couple months later at Vernon Downs and when I told my friend who'd been with me at the Gorge show that "Trey and Mike did this cool dance" he replied "they always do that. They did it at the Gorge but you were too messed up to notice." Second favorite song is Mike's Song, fell in love with it at Vernon Downs. So crunchy. Lastly, a shout out to Tube because I'm a sucker for songs that mention cities I live/have lived in ("On a freeway/ in Los Angeles").

I will take All Things Reconsidered any day of the week.

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Their cover of Emotional Rescue blew my mind 13 years ago, this time I'd like to hear some AC/DC BAG or SLEEPING MONKEY!

The Moma Dance. The first song I ever saw them play. Musically groovy, lyrically clever and insightful.

Up the rigging
taking sail
mind the skipper
we'll not fail
He'll bring out wine all will be fine
just heed the order
watch the sail

On tape: Runaway Jim from Stowe Vt 7/28/92 opening for Santana

Seen Live: NICU from Irvine Meadows 9/19/99 1st show, 1st set opener. Or the Character Zero encore.

favorite PHISH song has to be POSSUM. Can't get enough of that tension and release. The final couple of bars building up to the final chorus is just sick. Loved the Vernon Downs version and all the secret language mixed in.

wawockawockawocka..moma dance, tweezer!, big cypress after midnight cover

"golgi apparatus"

ooooh yeah, makes me giggly inside.

I would have to say Llama, Bathtub Gin, And Sparkle are in the running for me.

hmmmm...Back on the Train, Cavern, Icculus, Waste, Walfredo

Wolfman's Brother, it's the wolfman's bruh-thuh-huhh

Col. Forbin's Ascent> Famous Mocking Bird
Fluffhead> Fluff's Travels
Esther

Hopefully with Icculus's help, he will send the Famous Mocking Bird to retrieve the Helping Friendly Book and pair of tickets to Festival 8 from LAist! Good luck everybody!

The Phish songs that I listen to as loud as possible in my car or while running is NICU, Antelope, Cars Trucks Buses, and Possum. But I believe my favorite is the Inlaw Josie Wales, beautiful, waaayyy underplayed, but Trey remembered at the BSO this year, so maybe I will hear it again?!?!

Dont ask why but Tweezer is my fav!

wading in the velvet sea. it's been my all-time favorite song since the 7th grade..

The first Phish song I ever heard was "David Bowie"...and I still grew to love them (and that silly song)!

Who wouldn't like Destiny Unbound & Waste???

Silly question, tricks are for kids! Any song I see Phish play live is my favorite (except Sample in a Jar). They burned that out Summer of 94.

* "46 Days"
* "A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing"
* "Access Me"
* "AC/DC Bag"
* "Aftermath" (never played live)
* "Alaska"
* "Albert" (never played live)
* "All of These Dreams"
* "All Things Reconsidered"
* "Alumni Blues"
* "Anarchy"
* "And So To Bed" (never played live)
* "Anything But Me"
* "Army of One"
* "At the Barbecue"
* "Avenu Malkenu"
* "Axilla"
* "Axilla Part II"
* "Back on the Train"
* "Backwards Down the Number Line"
* "Backwards Food for Backwards Folks"
* "Bathtub Gin"
* "Beauty of a Broken Heart"
* "Big Ball Jam"
* "Big Black Furry Creature from Mars"
* "Billy Breathes"
* "Birds of a Feather"
* "Bird Watcher, The" (never played live)
* "Bittersweet Motel"
* "Bliss" (never played live)
* "Blue Over Yellow" (never played live)
* "Bouncing Around the Room"
* "Brian and Robert"
* "Brother"
* "Buffalo Bill"
* "Bubble Wrap" (never played live)
* "Bug"
* "Buried Alive"
* "Bye Bye Foot"
* "Camel Walk"
* "Can't Come Back" (never played live)
* "Carini"
* "Cars Trucks Buses"
* "Catapult"
* "Cataract Song, The" (never played live)
* "Cavern"
* "Chalkdust Torture"
* "Character Zero"
* "Clone"
* "Colonel Forbin's Ascent"
* "Connection, The"
* "Contact"
* "Crowd Control"
* "Curtain, The"
* "Curtain With, The"
* "Dave's Energy Guide"
* "David Bowie"
* "Dear Mrs. Reagan"
* "Demand"
* "Den of Iniquity" (never played live)
* "Destiny Unbound"
* "Dinner and a Movie"
* "Dirt"
* "Discern"
* "Divided Sky, The"
* "Dog-Faced Boy"
* "Dog Log" (formerly known as Dog Gone Dog)
* "Dogs Stole Things"
* "Don't Get Me Wrong"
* "Down With Disease"
* "Drifting"
* "Driver"
* "Eliza"
* "End of Session" (never played live)
* "Esther"
* "Faht"
* "Farmhouse"
* "Fast Enough for You"
* "Fee"
* "Fikus"
* "Final Flight"
* "First Tube" (formerly known as Bing Bong)
* "Fish Bass" (never played live)
* "Flat Fee"
* "Fluffhead"
* "Fluff's Travels"
* "Fly Famous Mockingbird"
* "Foam"
* "Frankie Says"
* "Free"
* "Friday"
* "Fuck Your Face"
* "Gatekeeper" (never played live)
* "Ghost"
* "Glide"
* "Glide II" (formerly known as Flip)
* "Golgi Apparatus"
* "Gone" (never played live)
* "Gotta Jibboo"
* "Grind"
* "Guantanamo Strut" (never played live)
* "Guelah Papyrus"
* "Gumbo"
* "Guy Forget"
* "Guyute"
* "Ha Ha Ha"
* "Happy Whip and Dung Song, The"
* "Harpua"
* "Harry Hood"
* "He Ent to the Bog" (never played live)
* "Heavy Things"
* "Horn"
* "Horse, The"
* "I Am Hydrogen"
* "I Been Around"
* "I Don't Care"
* "Icculus"
* "If I Could"
* "If I Told You" (never played live)
* "In a Hole"
* "In a Misty Glade" (never played live)
* "Inlaw Josie Wales, The"
* "It's Ice"
* "Jaegermeister"
* "Jennifer Dances"
* "Joy"
* "Julius"
* "Keyboard Army"
* "Kill Devil Falls"
* "Kung"
* "Landlady, The"
* "Lawn Boy"
* "Lazy in Red" (never played live)
* "Lengthwise"
* "Leprechaun"
* "Let Me Lie"
* "Letter to Jimmy Page"
* "Lifeboy"
* "Light"
* "Limb By Limb"
* "Liquid Time" (never played live)
* "Lizards, The"
* "Llama"
* "Lushington"
* "Maggie's Revenge" (never played live)
* "Magilla"
* "Makisupa Policeman"
* "Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, The"
* "Mango Song, The"
* "Maze"
* "McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters"
* "Meat"
* "Meatstick, The"
* "Mexican Cousin"
* "Mike's Song" (formerly known as Microdot)
* "Minkin" (never played live)
* "Mock Song"
* "Moma Dance, The"
* "Mound"
* "Mountains in the Mist"
* "Mozambique" (formerly known as Free Thought)
* "Mr. Completely"
* "My Friend, My Friend"
* "My Left Toe"
* "My Sweet One"
* "N02"
* "Name Is Slick, The" (never played live)
* "Never"
* "NICU"
* "No Dogs Allowed"
* "Nothing"
* "Ocelot"
* "Oh Kee Pa Ceremony, The"
* "Ode to Sunny Day" (never played live)
* "Only a Dream"
* "Party, The" (never played live)
* "Party Time"
* "Pebbles And Marbles"
* "Piper"
* "Poor Heart"
* "Possum"
* "Practical Song, The" (never played live)
* "Prep School Hippie"
* "Prince Caspian"
* "Punch Me in the Eye"
* "Punch You in the Eye"
* "Quadrophonic Toppling"
* "Reba"
* "Rebirth"
* "Revolution"
* "Rift"
* "Riker's Mailbox" (never played live)
* "Rocka William"
* "Roggae"
* "Round Room"
* "Run Like An Antelope"
* "Runaway Jim"
* "Running Scared"
* "Sand" (formerly known as Symptom)
* "Sanity"
* "Saw it Again"
* "Say the Same For Me" (never played live)
* "Scent of a Mule"
* "Scents and Subtle Sounds"
* "Secret Smile"
* "Setting Sail"
* "Seven Below"
* "Shafty" (formerly known as Olivia's Pool)
* "Shrine" (never played live)
* "Silent in the Morning"
* "Simple"
* "Skippy the Wondermouse"
* "Sky Train Wand" (never played live)
* "Slave to the Traffic Light"
* "Sleep"
* "Sleeping Monkey"
* "Sloth, The"
* "Somantin" (never played live)
* "Splinters of Hail" (never played live)
* "Sparkle"
* "Spices"
* "Split Open and Melt"
* "Spock's Brain"
* "Spread it Round"
* "Squirming Coil, The"
* "Stash"
* "Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan"
* "Strange Design"
* "Steep"
* "Sugar Shack"
* "Suzy Greenberg"
* "Swept Away"
* "Talk"
* "Taste" (formerly known as The Fog That Surrounds)
* "Tela"
* "Theme From the Bottom"
* "Thunderhead"
* "Time Turns Elastic"
* "Tiny" (never played live)
* "Title Track" (never played live)
* "Tomorrow's Song" (never played live)
* "Tooth and Nail" (never played live)
* "Train Song"
* "Tube"
* "Turbo Kicking In" (never played live)
* "Tweezer" (formerly known as Tweezer So Cold)
* "Tweezer Reprise"
* "Twist"
* "Two Versions of Me"
* "Undermind"
* "Union Federal"
* "Victor Jam" (never played live)
* "Vultures"
* "Wading in the Velvet Sea”
* "Waking Up" (formerly known as Fooled by Images)
* "Walfredo"
* "Walls Of The Cave"
* "Waste"
* "Water in the Sky"
* "Waves"
* "Wedge, The"
* "Weekapaug Groove"
* "Weekly Time" (never played live)
* "Weigh"
* "What's the Use?"
* "Wilson"
* "Windora Bug"
* "Windy City"
* "Wolfman's Brother"
* "You Enjoy Myself"

My favorite song's gotta be "Punch You In The Eye"

my faves are halley's comet,reba,strange design,run like an antelope,and icculus.
but the simple segue jams from live phish 10 will forever hold a place in my heart!

don't have a particularly favorite song...all phish songs are spectacular.

Dirt Antelope 12/29/97! Yes!

BIG FAT FURRY CREATURES FROM MARS!

My favorite song, if I must choose would be:

"The Wedge"

Hopefully the awful hippie smell will clear in time for the next Coachella.

The sweet trifecta of Mike's Song>Simple>Weekapaug Groove...please let me win so I can escape the doldrum of parenthood of 3 precious but time-consuming girls for a mental break!!! My wife said if I win I can spend the money on airfare to go :) peace all...

Divided Sky - If Divided Sky doesn't move you then you're dead inside.

My favorite Phish song was from my first and only Phish show, Back on the Train from Hampton VA March 7, 2009. It is my favorite because I had waited soooo long to see the band and was so excited. Also, it was so symbolic of Phish being back on the jam train...woo hoo!!!!
Dreama

I would have to say either Alumni Blues, David Bowie, Possum, or Wolfman's Brother

I love "Pebbles and Marbles." I first heard it live at IT when I was trudging through the mud looking for my brother who was candy flipping. Plus, Phish rocks it out on Round Room. And "Time Turns Elastic" is one of my favorite new Phish tunes from Joy. It reminds me a lot of The Grateful Dead's "Terrapin Station." The song's progressive and dark in some moments and sounds Bowie-esque, and it all leads up to the JOYful classic Phish finale when Trey sings, "And as the carousel circles unceasingly..." and everything's right with the world:) PHiSH, pHish, PHISh, pHIsh, phish, PHISH!

Harry Hood. Because almost everything about Phish exists in that one song.

There are just too many, but if I must choose....My favorite Phish song is Harry Hood!

"Birds of a Feather" for moi

Wolfman's Brother or Chalkdust Torture

Reba, each time I hear it takes me back to the first time I heard the Lawn Boy tape when my brother brought it back from high school in 2002. The complex squirrel chase into the blissfully simple two chord buidling jam has simply never gotten old even as I have.

Divided Sky, 6/18/1994. Trey talked about this performance with Charlie Rose. He said it was a transcendental event.

access me!!!!! oh, oh... and WEDGE TOO!!!!!!

My favourite Phish song is The Lizards. an epic combination of jazz and rock.

I love Phish!

Favorite song is David Bowie, with Mound running a close second!

Guyute was the ugly pig, and also one of my favorite Phish compositions. It sounded freakin amazing when Trey played it with the NY Philharmonic Orchestra last month.

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Walls Of The Cave / Aftermath/ Cavern / Bug / Catapult

Favorites are a dime a dozen! How do you pick a favorite when you love them all? Here goes:

Harry Hood
Famous Mockingbird
Story of the Ghost
Free
Curtain With
Stash
Tube
Theme from the Bottom

Favourite songs at the moment (they do change periodically):
Scent of a Mule>
Moma Dance>
Slave to the Traffic Light

E: Loving Cup

My favourite Phish song is You Enjoy Myself.

My favorite phish song is Tweezer. Especially starting the second set of an indoor show. I had to backspace 5 times before actually committing to a song here ;)

Ghost, Moma Dance, YEM and newer songs like Backwards Down the Number Line were also considered.

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Brian and Robert....it just means a real lot to me.

That's a tough call, but Guyute and Lizards have great meaning for me, and are indelibly printed on memories of my youth! Maybe we'll get lucky enough to hear them at the 8!!

Very tough question. Right now I would say my favorite song is My Friend.

Waste from Billy Breathes, with Velvet Sea a close second. Every other song is tied for third!

Fee, cause it's my last name!

Bouncin' round the room..bouncin' round the room...

Moma Dance! (Great to hear 1st night/2nd set opener @ Gorge this year.) Also Harry Hood, Roggae, so many more...

the tires are the things on your car that make contact with the road

Hmm tough one. I'd say Reba

My favorite Phish song is hard to choose, but I will say Punch You In The Eye or PYITE. Because 1. it was the first song i saw live (12/29/98) at MSG and 2. it was my best friends brothers favorite song who passed away recently. 3. it encompasses everything that phish can do musically in one song

Either way - long live the phish- and i hope everyone has fun at 8!

My favorite Phish song is hard to choose, but I will say Punch You In The Eye or PYITE. Because 1. it was the first song i saw live (12/29/98) at MSG and 2. it was my best friends brothers favorite song who passed away recently. 3. it encompasses everything that phish can do musically in one song

Either way - long live the phish- and i hope everyone has fun at 8!

Favorite Phish songs would have to be YEM, Lizards, and REBA.

mine would be harry hood. nice to see them touring again and I cant wait to see what they do for their album cover set at Festival8

My favorite was my first! Runaway Jim all the way!

Bouncing Around the Room
Rift
Sample in a Jar
Sparkle. For four...

favorite phish song would have to be "lizards". it brings a gigantic grin across my face. :)

deffo have to go with Divided Sky...quintessential Phish.

Here we go "Stash"...lets hear it! c u @ 8

I like ,run like an antelope,possum and ocelot....

Another one for the Moma Dance here too

and off-topic, I enjoyed B&J's "Phish Food" as well...

LOOOOVE EVERY SONG!!! To choose in order of what rocks my world the most - FREE, REBA, GOTTA JIBOO, CAVERN, CARINI, CHALKDUST TORTURE, MIKES SONG OR MIKES GROOVE, MAZE, FUNKY BITCH (COVER BUT STILL AWESOME), PYITE, MAMA DANCE, 46 DAYS, GUELAH PAPYRUS, FEE, HARRY HOOD, WILSON, OCELOT, RUNAWAY JIM, FLUFFHEAAAAD, MEXICAN COUSIN...I suppose this is enough for now - if i wasn't working i'd be here all day listing them :) :)

LOOOOVE EVERY SONG!!! To choose in order of what rocks my world the most - FREE, REBA, GOTTA JIBOO, CAVERN, CARINI, CHALKDUST TORTURE, MIKES SONG OR MIKES GROOVE, MAZE, FUNKY BITCH (COVER BUT STILL AWESOME), PYITE, MAMA DANCE, 46 DAYS, GUELAH PAPYRUS, FEE, HARRY HOOD, WILSON, OCELOT, RUNAWAY JIM, FLUFFHEAAAAD, MEXICAN COUSIN...I suppose this is enough for now - if i wasn't working i'd be here all day listing them :) :)

Ooooh, FEEE... try to live the life that's completely free!

My favorite songs, by far, in order, ARE:

1.Dinner and a movie
2.Forbins
3.The Horse>SITM
4.Harpua


Got laid off, was planning on going, now i cant! maybe this will be my first miracle! haha.

my favourite phish song is the lizards =]

Run Like An Antelope

Run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run run!


Run Like An Antelope out of Control

Favorite song all time: Farmhouse

Song I currently can't stop listening to: Backwards Down The Number Line

Weekapaug Groove; Down with Disease; the David Bowies from this summer were sick.

Favourite song all time? I personally go for 2001 in redrocks in 94, with that funky grove goin' on it.

What's the Use? ;)

TMWSIY, GBOTT, DWD, WTCCTT, NICU, SOAM, BORW, WITVS,
PYITE, TFTB, MMGAMOIO, YEM, WMGGW, MFMF, FEFY, GTBT,
ADITL, H2, ASIHTOS, WITS, WOTC, SASS, SITM,
BDTNL, KDF, TTE, JOY, STFTFP

"FLUFFHEAD!!!" was a man
Unwilling to be an absentee
He moved across the country and hasn't found a job
Won't you help him if you please?

Ohhhhhhh Feeeeeeee
After what we spent on summer tour
we wanna go to 8 for completely free....

I DON'T WANT A GOLDFISH!!!!!

Oh Oh Harpua....

Divided Sky....definitely.


WADING IN THE VELVET SEA

Piper is my favorite phish song...these words are the words I sailed upon...

Bathtub Gin, off Lawn Boy. But really, the entire Lawn Boy album, one of the greatest ever produced by anyone.

Chalkdust Torture Live while your young!

My favorite song is Gumbo- awesome beat!

my fave tune has gotta be Ghost. cant stop that funk.

Glad I found this contest, I can't miss 8!

Would LOVE to attend PhishFest.

I remember I thought aliens were at the Greek but realized later they were recodring the show. Love it!
Went to HORDE too.

I have the Phish Live album and gave it to a lot of people

I like the song Dinner and a Movie! Love Coachella!!!

sometimes you just GOTTA JIBOO

Ghost is my favorite Phish song and I have yet to see it live. Love the Kink and Seattlest!!! Thanks!!! Phuck yeah Phish!!!

my favorite song is scent of a mule. all in all a beautiful song. kuroda kills the lights as well.

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