you know you are a jam band fan when
When you think a 10 min. song is short......,
When someone is in your car and asks..."is this the
same song?",
If you write out your plans so people know what you
are doing and they look like this
school > soccer practice > homework > dinner >
homework,
..... When you think 7 tracks on a CD is alot.....,
You purposefully take the long route home so you can
listen to the sick Recreational Chemistry jam in its
entirety!,
You go to a 'regular' concert and mistake the ending
for the set break.
You are amazed when other people's cd's have
liner notes and cover art.............,
When no matter what time of day or night it is, and no
matter if you were just there 10 minutes ago, the
minute you walk near your computer you either
rip to the HD, decompress, or burn a disc.,
When your at a show and your shoes start talking.
When you don't recognize any of the songs on the
Billboard charts.
When your friends ask you why you have 300 Phish shows
and you say, "Man, they've played over 1100, I don't
even have half of em yet!!"
When your non-jamfan friends all groan anytime you put
on a cd.
When you say "you might dig the newdeal" and your
friends say "i don't like that hippie grateful dead
type stuff you listen to".
If you can sit in front of your stereo for hours the
way one would sit in front of a tv for hours.
When the people at the post office all scramble to go
on their break when they see you coming in.
If you consider a concert that's two and a half hours
away to be a "local" show.
Instead of describing something as good or bad, it's
"dank" or "schwag".
When you're surprised that your friends that own cd
burners have never heard of shn, FLAC, or eac.
When you think it's pathetic that someone would
download a bunch of mp3's and burn them on "pny"
disks.
When going to two concerts in one month is withdrawal.
When you use your book money at the beginning of the
semester to attend a festival.
When you own 600 cds of one band but none of them are
official releases.
Your entire closet full of t-shirts are band tour
tees.
You've ever flown to see your favorite band.
You have a pet named after a song by your favorite
band.
You have a vanity lisence plate with a reference that
only another fan of your favorite band would
understand.
Just because you'll only get three hours sleep after
driving home from a show before you have to go to work
isn't a good enough reason to miss a
show.
Study for finals or hit the last leg of fall tour?
You know what this means:
Neumann km140 (split 25', clamped to loge railing) >
Apogee Mini-Me
(+5dB,16bit, 44.1kHz) > Digigram VX Pocket V2 > Sony
Vaio Picturebook C1MW > n-Track Studio > CDWav > SHN
If you'll let someone you met on the internet crash at
your house after a show and don't think anything of
it.
When you read all the way down to here
When the only reason you have cable tv is because you
can't get a cable modem without it.
When you spend more time on a message board/listserv
than you do talking to your real-life friends.
When you tell your friends to name a date, and from
that date you can name 2 or more setlists in their
entirety of your favorite band.
If you know what a ganja-gooball is.
You can't remember the last time you listened to the
radio.
When you have a shoebox full of ticket stubs.
When you start dancing in your chair in the middle of
class.
You don't think 69 is a sexual postion but rather a
good year for Dead bootlegs.
When you wonder how uncanny it is that you glance at
your watch at exactly 4:20 about every other day.
When you buy overpriced food from a dirty stranger in
a freakin' parking lot.
When your beer is darker than 98% of your friends.
When you look for a song title in every shirt you see.
When someone starts a sentence with 'veggie' you
actually listen to the rest of it.
When EmpTV is skipped on your TV.
When your kids get soap in their mouths when they say
mp3.
When you could go for about a month straight without
sleeping and never listen to the same show twice.
When you are more excited by the 35 minute Darkstar
you just listened to than your own birthday
When someone says anything, you can reference it to a
Phish song .
When you know what 6up means.
When you've helped out a brother by yelling 6up.
When you know to look out for the middle aged white
guys with a clean hair cut wearing a brand new tie-dye
who say "i'm an old deadhead, know where i
can get any dope?"
When your listening to a show and could have sworn you
heard that jam from someone else.
When your favorite songs are always changing because
the decision is based upon wether they jammed it out
or not.
When You have 1200+ hours of live music
When you are driving in your car listening to a show
you just got in the mail with no idea what the setlist
is and you basically pretend you are at
the show and start yelling "whoo hoo a Cities"--hey i
got a cities.
When you won't listen to any band that doesn't allow
taping.
Your feet have tanlines from your birkinstocks.
You think people are crazy when thet dont know who
UM,KDTU,SCI,GD,WP
are.
Yyou have dreadlocks, yet you laugh at people with
mullets.
You do your back-to-school clothes shopping in the
parking lot of deer creek.\
You won't wear deodorant, yet you'll wear patchouli.
When you give people shit for buying a cd for $14.99,
when you can get 50 for that same price
You dream about being on tour.
April 20th, october 31st, and december 31st are bigger
holidays than christmas, easter, and
thanksgiving.
Yu take more time organizing your shows than your
apartment.
You take more care in organizing your shows than your
laundry.
Youlaugh at people who dont know what pro-sleeves are
When people ask you for a 'bootleg', you just hang
your head in despair
When you grade the phriendliness of cities by the
attittude of the local cops at the shows
When you spell anything with an 'f' with a 'ph'
When you see a 'L@@K rare show' on ebay you think of
how you would like to kill the seller and all the
sellers like him.
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