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@StrangestDesign

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Financial Planner & financial wellness speaker. Concert junkie. ⭕️ Foodie. Work hard, be kind, travel, go see live music.

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Everyone: How come you got married so late? Me: 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Trying to keep #FleetwoodMac on your TL. This girl’s name is Lanie Gardner.. and I’m certain it won’t be the last time we hear her name. 🔥
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The “I was in college in the mid-90s” CD starter pack:
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(Some) phish fans need to chisel the ice off your cold, frozen hearts. Or maybe this note from Billy Strings will warm it up for you:
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Dude is a legend. Got sober, destroyed SPAC with his buddy Dave and then got the band back together 18 months later… and never looked back. Pretty epic run @treyanastasio 👊
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Ain’t no easier person on the planet to root for than this guy.
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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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@AndrewYang In the restaurant biz, we used to call that a ‘verbal tip’. Thanks guys- but I can’t pay my bills with that
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Has there been a study of people who go to ALOT of concerts? Im convinced that group is one the most durable out there. Concerts are FULL of minor inconveniences, so u must see increased: Resilience Comfort in large crowds Social connections Stress mgmt Problem solving Patience
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Funny how a “throwaway” song from one of your all-time favorite sets achieves must-listen status 28 years later. here’s Trey’s solo from the Clifford Ball Sample. 🥵😭🤯
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If I won the lottery, I’d buy MTV. Cancel all reality TV and playing music videos 24 hours a fucking day. The world deserves this joy again.
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I can’t take credit for this.. but had to share. 😂😂🤦‍♂️
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Thoughts on my first Tool show tonight: Incredible experience. Tool is pretty much hard rock/metal Phish with more lasers and less Ketamine & Molly. (Half serious) Super nice people all around, everyone sits in their seats. No chompers, no cellphones (by order of band). 1/3
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Real light dinner tonight. 🙄 Brontosaurus beef rib, blue cheese coleslaw and house cut fries
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Tonight is my 200th show 🥹 28 yrs ago, I saw my 1st show @ MSG (12/30/95), so returning for #200 is surreal. Everything changed in that time- but your music remained vibrant & consistent. Something for us to lean on over the yrs. THANK YOU to @phish . I’m extremely grateful ❤️
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It makes my head hurt to think.. 550 of us saw these guys years ago at the Bowery Ballroom 2.5 years ago 🤯
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Took a birthday trip to Hoboken for arguably NJ’s best sandwich. (Neck and neck with Whitehouse Subs in Atlantic City!) Fiore’s Thursday/Saturday Special: Homemade roast beef and mozzarella with garlic-soaked roasted red peppers and gravy. To. Die. For.
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Bad timing for Alpine Valley to start adding seats to their GA lawn. Was looking forward to seeing Phish there over the summer. Construction is coming along nicely though…
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Me: The Beatles doc is incredible! Dad: Did you know I was at Apple studios in January 1969? Me: While The Beatles were recording??? Dad: Yup. Didn’t meet them- just tons of their cigarette smoke. Me: 🤯😭 📸: Dad’s Polaroid outside Apple Studios #GetBack
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If you’re dopamine deficient today- here’s a 75 second clip of Trey’s first solo on Saturday. (As always, big thanks to @LazyLightning55 for the 🎥)
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MSG really flexed in Summer 1977, huh? 🤯 @TheGarden
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Phish just performed their crown jewel, Gamehendge, in spectacular fashion on the world’s biggest stage. Be sure to appreciate this masterpiece- because their forthcoming new album will make Big Boat sound like Led Zeppelin IV 😉😏
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You bet your ass I pulled a U-turn and talked summer/fall tour with the owner of these awesome decorations
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I know TAB & Derek played this at Peach a few years ago- but I refuse to believe this was a coincidence. My heart tells me they played this gorgeous Life Beyond The Dream for our beloved James Casey.
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RIP James. Your bright smile and soulful sound will *always* be on my mind. Mahalo. 🎷💔
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Phish fans catch a bad rap. But lemme tell you.. We soak up every drop of life. Everyone smiling, vibing, eyes closed, dancing for 3 hrs straight, hanging on every note. Dont see that many other places After 200+ shows, I still feed off that warmth & energy to recharge my soul
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25th anniversary of Star Lake 1998 Come for the 35 minute Runaway Jim.. but STAY for the 15 minute Maze 🥵🥵
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@PadmaLakshmi @chelseaperetti Cream cheese frosting 🔥🔥🔥. Carrot cake doesn’t get enough love ‘round these parts
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New one-skillet meal unlocked. 🔥 Chicken thighs, spinach & creamy Parmesan orzo
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Jamband folk don’t have nuthin on the poster scene at Tool. At MSG with a couple poster heads and all venue posters are sold out 30 min after doors opened. 🤯🤯 Pretty 🔥
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Last night I had conservative clients ask why my license plate is TWEEZER. 😬 I told them that my wife is a dermatologist. Sorry @omgitsanna89 😂😭
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This shouldn’t be a hot take but apparently it is? I personally loved 1999. Coming off 97/98, rapid evolution was still the name of the game. Some terrific ambient & bliss jams (& the year of WTU) 23 years ago today, Philly got one of my favorite shows/sets of the year:
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Believe it or not, 12/3⭕️/95 isn’t my most important anniversary- Today is. 10 yrs ago I jumped on tour with my beautiful bride and man it’s been a wild & wonderful ride. Beyond grateful for you @omgitsanna89 and the life we’ve created together. 🍻 to another 50 years! ❤️
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Ok who did this? 😂💀
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These guys are a well-oiled machine. No covers, no nonsense & minimal chitchat. Just an extremely original, authentic 90s grunge throwback vibe. I haven’t been to a show where I didn’t know a single name of a song in like 20 yrs. High expectations & they did not disappoint. 9/10
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After battling kidney disease, we had to say goodbye to our beautiful Lillie. We had a perfect dance together for 9 yrs. The unspoken magic of companionship. She fought like hell this week, purely to see us everyday & eat her fav food. Lead the way sweetheart. See u again. 🌈❤️
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Yea sex is cool, but have you ever seen a world-class guitarist giggle while playing fart noises and samples on his drummer’s kit? #yea ⭕️
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24 years ago- a college friend offered me a ride to Jazzfest for Phish. After being a no-show in the A.M, he later called from a payphone in NC saying he took a random girl instead. Yesterday also happens to be the 24th anniversary of me never talking to that guy again. ✌️
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Jerry Garcia was a 33% tipper. 🥹
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Listen.. I get it. Newark, NJ is no gem. But if you’re in town for a Devils game or concert and don’t go to Ironbound for life changing Portuguese food, I don’t know what to tell you.. Paella incoming.. 🤤
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When I started my career in 2007, I told my boss “I enjoyed concerts”. 🙄 In turn, he partnered me with Ed, a Deadhead, who had seen 200+ shows. We immediately hit it off. Ed has now been my mentor for 15 years and I had the pleasure of taking him to his 1st Phish shows. (1/2)
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Deservedly so.
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Same as it ever was..
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I’m a month late- but Happy 25th to prob the most meaningful show I didn’t attend: Phil & Friends 4/16/99 w Kimock, Phil, Trey, Page & Molo 🥵🥰 I can’t really explain it- but this ‘Wish You Were Here’ has always provided a deep connection to the 1999 version of myself. 1/3
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My major beef with jambands is they don’t cover Elton fucking John.
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Phish, as they hit the send button announcing a 3-set live show from the Ninth Cube
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Somehow, today is the 20th anniv. of 12-11-99, an incredibly underrated show for the era. (And one of the rowdiest crowds I’ve ever seen) 🚨Warning🚨Set II Boogie On > Sally > Ghost > 2001 > DWD will take your lunch money. @Finkerton @brahmin_noodles @PhishRadioSXM
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555 should regularly be a 10+ minute song. End of story.
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I mean come on. You guys like to dance right? #B4L
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Verizon tech came over today & noticed my Stealie blanket. I gave him a sideways look and he said “Do you like Phish?” 😏 45 minutes and a free upgrade later, dude is my new best friend. We talked Sphere, shared Clifford Ball stories, pics & ticket stubs. Great dude.
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For the people in the back.. there’s nothing Miley CAN’T sing
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Guys, I take no pride in this, but it's time we have a conversation. Is Miley actually talented and possibly a little hot?
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Name this band.
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@WUTangKids I hate the fact I can now taste this
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Lots of emotions. My buddy took the bus for the first time today. He was so ready… I probably wasn’t? 🥹
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When the Deli makes your sandwich with paper-thin red onions 🤌
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Page feeling it
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Rick Mitarotonda driving Jerry back to the Main Stage for his JGB set
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We do like our Arcadias with fireworks
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I’ll never understand how fans can ALLOW this nonsense to continue. Maybe it’s the NJ in me (or being 6’5?) but I would fucking love someone to try and give me some BS venue entrance rules. Or tell me where I allowed to dance in GA. Just once.
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Leslie and Drew have become the Rockstar Richard of Goose. 🤦
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Beyond thrilled to share that our Madelyn Paige joined the word today. @omgitsanna89 is a legit rockstar & baby is doing great. 🥰🥺🎹🍾🥂
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Like em or hate em, Goose threw down two extremely creative shows @ Hampton Def a couple swing & misses- but if creativity is what we seek as live music fans- *plenty* of it was on display. Bunch of the new covers will also find their way into rotation.. Post Malone🥇 JT🥈
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Never forget- 3 weeks before this show, Trey held this man at gunpoint.
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Vegas: OUT ❌ Jazz Fest: IN ✅ Made my decision easy.
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Son’s 6th bday and national daughter’s day! 🎂 💕
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A conversation w/ @TheVic a month ago had me searching high & low for this 24 year old letter. Finally found it! Shout out to my parents who let 15 people sleep in their basement for Phish holiday run ‘97. If those walls could talk.
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Celebrating: ✅ 8 year anniversary ✅ my birthday ✅ no kids ✅ not sick ✅ valet guy likes my license plate
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Call me old fashioned.. but there’s something magical about sipping a whiskey and listening to a 1970s Bird Song @ Garcia’s
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If I was President, every meal would start with warm bread, salted butter and a pickle sampler
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Lotsa negative comments on here about how people chose to spend their New Year🤔 Its none of my biz to comment on who you paid to go see. Whether PH, UM, Goose, tDB, BMFS, Lotus, WSP or Miley Cyrus… You do you. WTF people? Ur turning into your parents in real-time. Chill out
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7 shows at MSG, huh? Why they gotta do this?
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Shittiest stadium in professional sports
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Italian sub vibes are strong with this one
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Let’s get this out of the way: BBQ is a medium of art where patience is rewarded at the intersection of experience & science. That said.. $165 for this platter is BULLSHIT. It’s not your customers fault you pay $9K/month in rent and this is how you recoup your investment.
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This is $165 of BBQ in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Giving 2/28/2003 a well-deserved spin on its TWENTIETH birthday. #20yearslater and it’s still on my Mount Rushmore of non-festival/NYE shows. Who else was there?? 🔥
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@BenZeisloft Don’t flatter yourself. Your comment isn’t some complex imagery- it’s Christofascism. In your drafts folder, I’m sure you have a similar tweet- but instead of “Christian” you say what you really mean.. “white”.
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The Sky bridge. A first out of my 45-ish Garden shows.. not sure what I think
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Birthday boy has been talking big game all week about trying lobster for the first time. He crushed. 🥹🎂 Welcome to the club buddy!
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not gonna lie- I love that people are mad that Phish garnered more national attention than Coachella did. 😂
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This is bananas
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Do you have pictures of your favorite sandwiches in your camera roll or are you normal? 🥹😬
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I fear we gave these kids the jamband curse. #parentfail or #parentwin ?
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Open letter to all Restaurants: No one wants “bacon jam” on their burger. No one. Bacon jam is like your shitty coworker who shows up empty-handed to the holiday pot luck dinner. Put delicious, crispy bacon on your burger & save the cute shit for your salad section. -Everyone
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Me: minding my own little Tuesday Phish:
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Save yourself or one of your dinner guests a trip to the ER. It’s 2024- throw out those wire grill brushes. Plenty of great alternatives out there.
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Been 2+ years in the making, but I finally got to experience Ricobene’s breaded steak sandwich. So over-the-top… but every bit worth the wait. 🤩🥹 Big thank you to @VinnieParise and @katie_hennn for the invite!
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Ed doesn’t know names of Phish songs, but he loves their “grooves”. Now & again, he’ll listen to @PhishRadioSXM and text me a song name in approval- or he’ll let me know when tix are going onsale. 😭 My heart bursts everytime. Ed wishes you ALL luck getting your tix today!! 🍀
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Why has summer tour been so fantastic? 1) This is the most patient I’ve seen the band in nearly 20 yrs. Jams allowed to breathe + risks being taken = new 🔥 themes emerging every night 2) Jonathan Fishman. His importance as the soul of PH has never been more front & center 1/3
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Sorry.. I couldn’t resist.
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕥 ⭕️
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so we got a 'head' trilogy now? Fluffhead Thunderhead Poppy Head
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Oswego 25th anniversary. Super hot, super fun. Here’s my story: 9 days on tour at this point. Most of my crew was sick, beat down from heat. I was flying solo Day 2 & while waiting for early entry, I met a cool girl and we played cards for a couple hours. Ended up 3rd row. 1/5
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Any Gen X or Millenials have MTV videos you still remember? I first heard/saw the Grateful Dead in the Touch of Grey skeleton video- But the 2 videos that stuck with me were the Cars’ “You might think” & Bon Jovi’s B&W video for “Wanted Dead or Alive”.
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Me 100%
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Our family just got a bigger.. and fluffier. Everyone please say hello to our new 2.5 year old Labradoodle addition, Sunnie.🌻 🥹
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Me on tour Me at work
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The fact they can drip a Cities like that 40 years into their career is astounding
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3.0 first sets 4.0 first sets
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1) Safe to say that’s the best Phish sit-in ever? 2) man I wish Carini and ER were both like 20 minutes longer
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Living in the Northeast, I’ve come to really appreciate the 4 seasons. But does anyone happen to know when wind-monsoon season ends this year?
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One week until the most aggressive (jamband) festival lineup I’ve seen in a long time. @SacredRoseFest Who will we see there?? Where my Chicago people at?
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We clean up nice for a couple who has seen 6 Harpuas 🤷🏻‍♂️ @omgitsanna89
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I’m having a hard time computing this
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