Hippies Unite!
A comedy conversation
by Mung Champ  26,774  21
05/08/2008 11:05 AM 110 views
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Before all the anti-hippie rhetoric starts, let me share some excitement with those who enjoy the occasional Ramen Noodle and Green Vegetation.
Last night was the Jammy Awards at Madison Square Garden, honoring the lifetime achievement of Phish and brought together some of the sickest bands in the Jam Band scene.
Phish has been broken up since 2004, but we all hoped and prayed they would get together again and break out some crunchy riffs (not to be confused with Crunchy Tacos...mmm Crunchy Tacos!).
All four band members were in attendance and played with separate bands throughout the evening (except Gordon who came down with a horrible case of Vaginitis). However, the four came together to accept the lifetime achievement award and sent chills down our poorly postured spines, as each approached the podium to thank the fans and everyone involved in their success.
Trey had an ankle bracelet neatly tucked beneath his Khakis and had his Parole Officer was within eyesight. Page looked exactly the same thanks to Propecia. Fishman sported pants for the first time ever. And Mike looked as shaggy as ever.
After the four accepted the award, they left the stage and the fans waited for a reunion show that would never happen.
However, as an bonus to the night, members of The Disco Biscuits and Umphrey McGhee teamed up to finish the night with some a set of Phish covers, including: Wilson-->Run like an Antelope-->2001-->Maze.
What does this have to do with comedy? cuddle off, it's the greatest live Improvisational band ever to hit the stage and they deserve some love.
Cue the Hippie beating in 3 - 2 - 1.
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Hilarious
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Cinderblock 24,600  21
05/08/2008 11:08 AM
lifetime achievement of Phish
You mean the break-up?
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Chuckleworthy
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Chit 166,013 10
05/08/2008 11:09 AM
Phuck Phish !
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syncope 46,491 12
05/08/2008 11:14 AM
Oh you must be very eager to win some friends around here.
Let's put aside for a second the fact that there's no such thing as a good live improvisational band, let alone a best one.
I'm all for getting so stoned even the incoherent rambling of hippie lunatics pounding the same three chords absent-mindedly for six hours sounds good, but when you are actively seeking out and enjoying Phish you have lost touch with reality.
They are not good. Selling a bunch of posters and t-shirts to faux-stoners on their second pass at freshman year does not make a band good.
In summation, Frost you. Frost you so hard that you die. And Frost Phish in the ass with a big rubber dick. Then break it off and beat 'em with the rest of it.
/lasttwosentencesprovidedbyCarlin
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Space Admiral BobJohnson 168,889 14
05/08/2008 11:17 AM
Bands like this are why I'm strongly opposed to catch-and-release.
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Nachos - Sociopaths of the world unite! 53,827 11
05/08/2008 11:18 AM
and brought together some of the sickest bands in the Jam Band scene.
This is what happens when all you think you need to eat is the spirit of Gaia.
Hippies and Kwashiorkor go together like, well, hippies and vegetarianism.
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Mung Champ 26,774 21
05/08/2008 11:20 AM
<action>Notices the Ectoplasm in the jar is starting to boil over. Throws on the Rolling Stones, "Your Love Keep's Lifting Me".</action>
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Cinderblock 24,600 21
05/08/2008 11:28 AM
I just remembered a mortifying experience. One evening, I was sitting in my room sewing and listening to a mix that my friend burned me for the first time. I didn't realize that it had a Phish song on it until I was meticulously pinning the sleeves on the garment I was constructing and couldn't let go. Of course, right at that moment, my brother, a self-avowed hippie hater, walked into my room. My blood froze as he stared at me with a look of disgust. I meekly asked him if he could please hit, "skip."
Oh, the shame.
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Side-splitting
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Shell Belle 41,477 14
05/08/2008 11:29 AM
When did Chuck Norris join Phish?
My husband likes PhiShakespearehink he likes Fish too.
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Whistler P. McManus 153,839 31
05/08/2008 11:41 AM
I like the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers, and went/go to see them about once a year. Which is pretty much often enough to see a hippy jam band.
Yet even I think Phish sucks.
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The Mailman, as portrayed by Jacques Tati 142,307 22
05/08/2008 12:08 PM
Phish actually exists? I thought it was a fictional band, like Spinal Tap, Stillwater or the singers in American Idol.
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KChiki, Princess of Power! 62,534 19
05/08/2008 12:21 PM
I used to think Spinal Tap was a real band. But I don't pay much attention either.
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