{"id":3848,"date":"2010-11-03T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2010-11-03T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:50:54","slug":"phish-phans-phind-band-boring-after-having-drugs-confiscated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/phish-phans-phind-band-boring-after-having-drugs-confiscated\/","title":{"rendered":"Phish Phans Phind Band \u201cBoring\u201d After Having Drugs Confiscated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Atlantic City police force’s\u00a0confiscation of illicit drugs<\/a>\u00a0held by attendees of Phish’s recent 3-night stint left longtime fans of the jam band wondering what all the fuss had been about.<\/p>\n

“I should have eaten my mushrooms before leaving the car,” said one 20-something fan who asked to remain anonymous following his first disappointing experience at a Phish concert after attending “dozens” of shows since the band’s 2009 reunion. “Without even a roach to smoke you could say the scales fell from my eyes:\u00a0Booorrrrrrinnng!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

“Their harmonies were better than I’d ever realized,” said Alex, 56, a jewler from New Hope, “but I don’t go to a Phish concert to\u00a0relive the magic of the friggin’ Everly Brothers, not to mention I don’t travel to AC to get hassled by the Gestapo over a friggin’ joint.”<\/p>\n

“The cops didn’t even care when I told them I have ADHD,” complained Brooks, 17, of Collingswood, NJ, who managed to keep only a strategically placed whippet after being frisked. “After getting bored out of my gourd by Trey’s endless jamming,” he chuckled, “maybe I do!”<\/p>\n

Other fans whose drugs were confiscated expressed similar feelings of dissatisfaction with the band’s performance. Shaun, a 40-something fan who’s attended over 200 Phish shows since the demise of her beloved\u00a0Grateful Dead<\/strong>, was more philosophical. “I mean, everyone has an off night now and then, you know? Maybe the cops took their stash too.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic City police force’s\u00a0confiscation of illicit drugs\u00a0held by attendees of Phish’s recent 3-night stint left longtime fans of the jam band wondering what all the fuss had been about. “I should have eaten my mushrooms before leaving the car,” said one 20-something fan who asked to remain anonymous following his first disappointing experience at […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,16],"tags":[362,38,361,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}