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FARMHOUSE GLASS Check us out: www.etsy.com/shop/farmhouseglass IG: @farmhouseglass !! Volume 16 – Issue 1 4 From the Editor’s Desk – STTF #55! A note from Christy to you, loyal Midwest Summer 2017 reader. 5 Everybody Loves Statistics – We asked 200 fans their thoughts STAFF about NYE Run, Mexico, Summer Tour & some other things… here’s what they said! Editor-in-Chief/Publisher 6 Sustenance – Here’s the first of three recipes we’ll be offering this Christy Articola summer – by Dick’s you’ll have an entire three course meal to prepare Senior Artist 7 Fest Food – Summer Camp Music Festival is pretty popular – and Drew Suto known for its food options, as well as its music! 8 1-4-3-2-4-5 Gotta Jibbrew! – A list of great beers and breweries for Assistant to the Editor you to try while traveling the midwest Randy Furciniti 9 Read The Book – An article about STTF’s Read the Book Club, and a Contributing Writers review of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series Brian Brinkman, Matt Burnham, 10 My First Show - Your first show is a life-changing experience. In this Jenny Chadbourne, Jake Cohen, issue’s column, Windi looks back on her first show – 12/7/97 at Caroline Cooley, Jessica Coughlin, Dayton’s Nutter Center Vince DiFabio, Amy Fischer, Anna 10 My Favorite Jam Ever – Sometimes, it’s impossible to choose a fave! Forina, Randy Furciniti, Karilynn 11 Hooked – What song or show hooked you and made you a fan for life? Galiotos, Stephen Gripp, Carla 11 Twenty Years Later – A brief look back at 1997’s European Tour Hamilton, Sydne Kasle, Stu Kelly, Adam King, Linda Geddes Lawrence, 12 Noteworthy New Year’s Run – Set lists and reviews from NYE Run Gary Lerner, Amy Beth Luchans, 2016-2017 Graham Major, Mike Mellor, Terri JS 14 Magnificent Mexico – Set lists and reviews from Phish: Riveria Maya Molitor, Windi Noble, Nick Stock, 2017! John Thinnes, Anthony Tortorici, Lisa 16 Trey Times Two – Reviews of Trey’s solo acoustic show in Troy, NY, Walker, Brian Weinstein and TAB at the Fillmore in Philly Contributing Artists 17 STTF’s Midwest Summer Tour 2017 Tour Guide- Everything you Brandy Davis, Maria DiChiappiari, need to know to rage summer tour in style! Paul DiLena, Cassidy Helman, Ryan 21 Parks, Planes, & Pop Art: Fun Things to Do During the Midwest Kerrigan, Veronica Murphy, Cori Run – If you’re doing the Midwest run, you may find yourself with some Richards extra time for sightseeing! Here are some great suggestions of things to check out In these three cities. Proofing Crew 22 Ladies Who Phish – Although women are often in the minority at Jen Buckstein, Katie Flannery, Josh Phish shows, the women you’ll find at Phish shows are some of the Fleet, Jackie Hamlin, Peter Hile, Amy Beth Luchans, & Julie Piwowarcyzk coolest women on earth! 23 Still Walking: Kyle Johnson’s Walk Across America, Part 3 – Phish Contact Us! fan Kyle Johnson is walking across America to raise money for an [email protected] orphanage in Kenya – check out where he is now, and his next steps, Facebook! no pun intended! Facebook.com/sttflow 24 I Saw Jess Lynch with a Ticket Stub Album in Her Hand! – New Jersey artist Jessica Lynch creates beautiful albums for you to store Subscribe! your ticket stubs. Surrender to the Flow will always be 25 Remembering Colonel Bruce Hampton (Ret.) - May he rest in peace free on lot, but if you’d like our next – he lived loud and vibrant – and said goodbye doing exactly what he four issues delivered right to your loved best. door, PayPal $20 to us at [email protected]. Thanks! 30 Celebrations – Celebrate, and Phish tour celebrates with you! Here’s a list of important events in the lives of our fellow fans. STTF is produced, edited, and designed by fans of the band Phish and other music friendly people. 30 Rad Libs – Fill in the blanks for some comedy and laughs – this time, a No part of this publication may be reproduced list of things you should NOT say to a police officer without written consent from the editor. STTF is 31 Ten Songs by Four (Five) Guys – A fun and tricky crossword puzzle in no way affiliated with Phish, Elektra, JEMP, Dionysian Productions, Red Light Management, or about our favorite band! anything else for that matter—we just like to 32 FREE Printable Coloring Page from The Helping Friendly Coloring Book! write, draw, create, and put together a publication – Print and color, and enjoy! for all of you. Enjoy. really ready yet anyway for that And so that’s what I did. I picked up extensive of an adventure. As riders for the rest of the tour. I met people. I sold summer 1997 approached grilled cheeses. I slept in the car at rest areas. I though, I was definitely ready. saw some incredible shows. I figured it out – I’d turn 21 that summer, and because that’s what we do. And it was worth it, Twenty years later, I’m still upside after a few weekend Phishing trips to places like absolutely. I returned home after The Went a down. Truly! Hampton and! the like, it was time. I bought a changed person, a person who had just seen A few years ago, in 2014, I wrote here mini-van. I meticulously researched miles and much of her entire country, had just fallen more in about my first show, and that year being my routes and made detailed day-by-day budgets of love with a band than anyone thought possible, twentieth anniversary of seeing this band, on July how it would go, and did mental math on how and who had just had the best time of her short 10th of that year. Twenty years! Crazy! much I could potentially make off selling grilled life so far. Reflecting back on your first show is nostalgic cheeses. I talked two classmates that I’d seen Since then, I have seen most or all of and emotionally intense in so many ways, some shows with into joining me, and all three of every tour Phish has played. I’ve actually cut especially since it was as that anniversary neared us spent the beginning of Summer 1997 working back a little over the past few years and this that I realized I’d been seeing this band for more hard and saving money like crazy as soon as the summer I’m only seeing nine, which is the first than half my life; I had experienced countless semester ended, right up until the day before time I’ve done fewer than half of a tour’s shows adventures thanks to them, and had developed departure. since Fall 1996. It’s been a wild ride and I am so so many incredible relationships with some of the They liked Phish, but even then, I was glad I have had the opportunity to see as many best people in the world as a result. It’s been a already more devoted to Phish than they were. as I have, as frequently as I have, and as crazy journey; it’s overwhelming really, and even Therefore, we decided against doing the whole consistently as I have. I will always look back so more overwhelming when I recognize summer tour. We chose to skip the first couple of weeks fondly on my first tour, and I can’t believe it has 2017 as another deeply personal Phishiversary and drive cross country, visiting places we’d been twenty years since then. In retrospect, I am for me, because although I was fortunate enough never been and National Parks we wanted to amazed at all I have experienced thanks to this to see Phish for the first time in 1994, and see see. The plan was to drive across the middle, band. Truly, after all this time, after all these two other shows that year, and a handful each then to the Pacific Northwest, then down the years, after all those shows and friends and year that followed, Summer 1997 was my first California coast, to the Grand Canyon, then hop miles… it has made me the person I am today. I TOUR, and, well, as you can see, it really kind of on tour in Phoenix and do the rest of Phish tour often wonder what twenty-year-old me of took off exponentially from there. through the Went. Although this wasn’t a “full Summer 1997 would think of me today, and think Summer 1997 was the summer tour” I realize now – it was certainly a great deal of all of this journey; obviously, back then, I between my junior and senior years of college. I more traveling than I’d ever done, and more couldn’t have imagined what was ahead. I went to Fordham University in the Bronx for consecutive Phish than I’d ever before couldn’t imagine this magazine or these travels or undergrad, and there were a handful of Phish considered seeing. the amazing jams I’ve heard or all the friends I’ve fans who also attended with me, people “like us” Unfortunately, the two girls I left home made, I’m sure. It’s really incredible to think were definitely in the minority. Don’t get me with realized pretty quickly that being on the road about; time is just a indescribable, unbelievable wrong – I made a lot of awesome friends in wasn’t for them. Looking back, I think they were thing.