We’re a mere 46 Days from the start of the eighth Phish festival, and first since Coventry – Festival 8 – at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California on October 30. The jam-crazy quartet will perform eight sets over the festival’s three days including a set where they’ll cover an entire album by another artist continuing a trend they started on Halloween 1994.
While tickets to F8 are still available, we’ve got a pair of three-day passes for a creative Phish fan out there. Leave a comment below detailing the best Phish-related costume you can think of and we’ll pick our ten favorite ideas.
Once we’ve decided on our ten faves, we’ll let our readers decide who should win by opening it up to a vote.
Here are the details for our Phish Festival 8 ticket giveaway:
- To enter the contest leave a comment below telling us about the best Phish-related costume you can think of
- Your comment must be left by 11:59 PM EST on Sept. 23
- Don’t be greedy, only one entry per person
- The ten best entries will be selected by the HT Staff at which time we’ll allow readers one week to vote on who they think should win
- One winner will receive a pair of tickets to Festival 8
Good luck to all and be sure to check out DaveO’s article for a taste of what the band might bust out as their Halloween Costume.
- Previously: Joy Box Giveaway Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4 and Pt. 5
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Joy album cover: I am thinking (for a girl) a black dress, and cover a band across the front of it with marbles or some such thing…thickly clustered in the center and spreading outward just like on the Joy album cover. You could also write Joy on your forehead or something 🙂
I know they’d never do it because they’ve already played a Floyd album but, for me, Animals by Pink Floyd would be the ultimate. It’s my favorite album of all time and it plays to the progginess and guitar insanity of Trey, the two things that got me into Phish in the first place.
“Nothing” – It’s self explanatory….
The best phish related costume that I can think of is a giant firehose that sprays sillystring out of it. The reason for the hose represents a phrase that explains how Trey “hoses” down the audience with his amazing guitar riffs. The firehose will obviously have a fish in the middle to avoid any confusion. If all else fails, a trey mask will suffice.
some dude should dress up as a fish and hold a guitar.
I would prob. dress up as one of the guys (prob. fish) with a giant hot dog on a bun between my legs.
i’m going to be a a tiger wrapped in lilypatches this year
A sloth with a scary mask and 3-toed paws. Have to be a breathable outfit though.
Get a group of friends, everyone can dress up like an animal-related Phish song – a possum, an ocelot, a llama, a sleeping monkey, a horse, a dog-faced boy, and obviously, a fish.
I think a great costume idea would be a duo. A friend of mine could be The Wolfman and I in turn would dress up as the Wolfman’s Brother.
Party at the lampost.
In honor of the epic impromptu track released by LivePhish from the August 2009 Hartford Soundcheck. Rig up a battery operated headpiece in the shape of the top of a lamppost, dress yourself up as a regular ol’ silver lamppost, and then party the weekend away, making you the Party at the Lampost. Kous Kous and Coconut Juice optional.
Someone dressed up as Jimmy, someone dressed up as a cat with a collar that says Poster Nutbag, and someone dressed up as a very large ugly dog with a collar that says Harpua.
My husband & I are going as the black eyed peas, not the band, the actual peas-wearing black, blackening one eye & big bling-bling Ps around our neck. check it!
I would dress up Just Like a Woman and prepare myself for phish to cover Blonde on Blonde
I would re-wear a previous costume I made here is a image of it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danfun/283546209/
I guess you could say it is Mike Gordon costume. It also fits the theme of being in a desert.
Because i need these tickets more than air–
I’m thinking someone dress up as David Bowie from Labyrinth (im talking full on bulge in the spandex, glam-rock mullet, puffy ruffle shirt here) with either a cape (would be best), sign, a shirt or, hell a forehead tattoo, that says
“you’ll never get outtah this maze”
would also have to have ball for faux (or real, if youre coordinated and into it) contact juggling. and perhaps a gremlin minion of some sort…
I’d be a fly feeding an arachnid as I die! (Guelah Papyrus reference) Some costume as a fly with a wicked looking spider eating my brains or something!
I’m not sure what they look like exactly, but I’d probably try and fashion a costume that resembles a multi-beast and bring two friends, one as Wilson they other as Col. Forbin and make them battle, the winner gets a piggyback ride on the “multi-beast”
I’m liking phorbesie’s idea! It calls for google eyes and a bedazzler.
Zombie Lizard, or better yet a gaggle of zombie lizards, cuz they have undied for the revival of the epic Phish fest.
Dress in a flashy suit and tie with a briefcase. Nametag that says, “Chairman of the Board”
Simple, but effective.
Very simple costume:
You duct-tape a bucket to your foot, and written on the bucket is 10/30/09.
Get it?
The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday.
I’m dressing up as a giant hotdog with 4 Cabage Patch dolls riding me. Each of the dolls will be made to look like one of the guys from the band.
I gonna be a BIG BLACK FURRY CREATURE FROM MARS!!!
a hell born elf child !
i will dress up as a big lizzard that has been split down the middle. the left half of me will be good, and down that arm it will say “the lizzards”, the other half will be evil, and it will say “wilson” going down the other arm. and it will say gamehenge going across my chest in big letters
The Sloth
my friends and I will be going as the Beach Boys, as they will be playing Pets Sounds…… 🙂
A finance box/ cash box.
empty save for a note “Gone to Indio – Your Finances”
I’ll be TIME TURNS ELASTIC.
I’m going to walk around Madison, WI where I live and collect fallen gold leaves as the colors change (leaves have turned to gold). I’ll go to the second hand store and find elastic bands and a big clock. My shirt will be multicolored and made entirely of elastic bands. My pants will be brown (all the colors run together turning to brown). I’ll wear the clock tied around my waist like a big belt buckle. The leaves I will glue to my shoulders as if they fell on me as I walked through a forest.
I will wear a Scottish bagpipe “rowdy roddy piper” costume if you will, and on top I will wear Miami Vice shades and sport jacket with appropriate Miami Vice hairstyle.
I Will be the MIAMI PIPER.
I’m thinking of making a headpiece with an antelope’s antlers while wearing a yellow-ish spandex body suit like Arnold in ‘Running Man’. I will then RUN LIKE AN ANTELOPE everywhere I go, for three days.
I would dress up as the sloth from the Goonies, but would add a touch of an executioner to the costume
In a tribute to one of my favorite tunes, I would cut a mango in half and attach a side to the top of each of my shoes and hollow out two more mangoes and put them over my hands.
Attach a pole to your shoulders (in front of you) and make sure it stays on a protrudes a little off to each side. Hang a Curtain from it. Not so long that it touches the ground and you start stepping on in, just big enough to make sure people know its a Curtain. Then wear a cape that has WITH written on it.
Or you could have a separate person walking behind you with a shirt that just says WITH on it.
I’ll be in a party of three, so my buddy is going to wear this hat he made out of cymbals (originally a poor attempt to make a pun on the term “High Hat Cymbals”…lame I know), the other is going as BeBop from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and I’ll be dressed as a skyscraper. Collectively it should be grand.
Spock’s Brain, with pointy ears on the side. One big brain costume with ears. How cool would that be? Super cool, I tell you.
My costume would be interactive–I would dress as a grandly feathered bird, with feathers attached all over my body for people to take off of me throughout the night and attach to themselves.(I’d have clothes on–I’m not asking people to touch my nekked body)—I would keep a stash of hundreds of feathers, and hence, we would all be birds of a feather, flocking outside.
I think someone wearing a costume in the shape of California, the same bright yellow from the map, with a clock made of elastic bands(TTE) around the neck. They could also possibly carry around a stuffed animal ocelot, or not…
I would go as a giant rhombus with a slew of Gamehendge characters attached to the top and sides including the Lizards, a llama, the famous mockingbird, multibeasts, a sloth, and possibly a possum. Standing on top of the rhombus would be Icculus, taking the form of Zeus (Greek God of the sky) and holding the Helping Friendly Book.
THE MANGO GENIUS!! Hands and feet would be covered by fake felt like mangos. Dressed in a lab coat with an Albert Einstein hairdo or even full mask.. haven’t decided. (maybe a trey mask.. musical genius)
Zombie Jerry Garcia in a Phish shirt.
My idea for an “8” costume:
– Gorilla suit (use your imagination to see it as a chimpanzee)
– wear a prominently featured band-aid or two right on the nipple
Bonus points for:
– A “Hello My Name Is: FLOYD” nametag
– Mashed nectarine stuck to your head
– Rubber shark gnawing on your leg
– Broken bottle (a plastic replica would probably be the better idea here and could double as a beverage holder if carefully constructed!
Happy Halloween!
My friend will wear a shirt refernecing him as a bastard (faulty plan) and I’ll have a flava flav clock around my neck that I stole from him.
My girl will wear a fishman moomoo just for good measure.
I always wondered what it would have been like to be the tripping mound candy bar on stage… That’s a diff topic.
P.s. blank space hats.
a bottle of joy dish liquid
We are going as California raisins in full getup.
We were all 100% sure it was gonna be called “save the date” so it just makes sense.
A girl could dress up like George Clinton or James Brown and be a funky bitch.
I like anamorphic representations of the band members based on name alone. For Page, I am thinking a big piece of white notebook paper. For Trey, perhaps a massive school lunch tray. For Gordon, a microphone. (mic gordon as in People for a Louder Mike) and Fish is obviously a Fish. Now picture a piece of notebook paper standing next to a lunch tray, a microphone, and a giant rubber fish. This is what I am talking about. Any helpers?
ive got ideas…
A Traffic Light. Thinking about it now, thats the one I am going to dress up as now. I better not see any other traffic lights. I call it.
a three person costume. One is a car, one is a truck, the other is a bus.
The evil General Ocelot from Metal Gear Solid.
The best phish-related costume would have to be highway bill&jill to commemorate phish unshelving this tune TWICE during their 3.0 run!
-This would work well with your significant other, highway bill would be in overalls and nothing else with sunburn shoulders and a scar while having a cigar butt fixated out of the corner of his mouth and a shovel draped over his back
-Highway jill would most likely be a little homely but dressed near the same with pigtails and freckles…
A good costume would have to do with the song “Lawn Boy”. I was thinking a pair of green shoes, green (comfortable) pants, and a green long sleeve t-shirt, to start. From home supply store, buy some “artificial turf”. Cut pieces of turf, and make, almost a “suit” out of it. Wrapping your arms, body, and legs, like a knight in shining armor. All the while making it mobile enough to dance in. For the topper, I was thinking of a green hat with a sprinkler head,somehow, attatched to the top. Lawn Boy!!!
A life size rubber band ball with a clock in the center, for “time turns elastic” it would take a ton of rubber bands a flavor flav clock at its center. Its could be done.
Go as chuck norris!! it could pose as a 2 in 1 costume hahaha………..
Me and my buddy are going to be the multi-beast with my petite girlfriend on top of us as TELA……the wind from beyond the mountains
Ideal for a foursome. Boy, Man, God, Shit. I sure hope I do not draw the shortest straw. Even if I do, I have the perfect costume for Shit…smother hair with extra chunky peanut butter and wear brown sweatpants and brown t-shirt. Then, glue various items to the clothing such as corn, chewed gum, and a couple of coins, etc.
Go as an eightball
I’m going literal with it. Why not combine my three favorite things: Phish, The Beatles, and Halloween Festival 8….I would go as an Octopus’ Garden. Dress in a bright green onesie with a craft store collage of all things gardeny on it. Make room for that garden gnome sticking out of your backside. Then add an umbrella hat with long shiny craft paper tentacles (8) that moves up and down (I’m confident)…finish it off with a ‘cut you like a knife’ ringo star mustache, circa 1967. Beauty. And on a woman too…
show poster with a hole in it with your nuts hanging out…. poster nutbag
A group of friends and I are going as “an angry mob of joggers coming up to knock her down”
I would dress as a weasel with some buddhist symbol on me. And I would carry a cup of coffee.
Dog-Faced Boy. A trippy get-up, and easily recognizable to Phish fans.
Creative or not, I’m going with the full David Bowie Jareth ensemble from Labrynth, whose soundtrack, by the way, should be the musical costume.
http://www.movieforum.com/movies/titles/labyrinth/images/jareth.jpg
Some sort “Trey Antipasto” costume, a la Les Claypool. Not sure how it could be done, but ‘twould be epic!
My favorite phish themed cosume was an outhouse with the farmhouse cutout of the front. When you opened the front there was a phish head on the crapper- he had a phish bowl for his head with tiny little Trey, Page, Mike, and Fish’s swimming in it- it was cumbersome but worth it.
The multibeast. If you could pull off a whole costume of specacled harry nonsense in the desert heat, you deserve to win.
How about Fluffhead? An ill looking guy with a giant cotton ball covering his entire head and maybe some marbles or large glass balls for the “his eyes were clear and pure.”
I would love to see a gaggle of Ocelot ladies or a man dressed as Salvador Dalí who was known to travel with his pet Ocelot.
Russell Crowe from Gladiator.®
Simple. The Esther puppet. Evil and Magical all at the same time!
To ZappaFrank: Build a big white tray around your body with cardboard, and attach pieces of italian meats, cheeses and olives.
HA!
ummm im not sure people are understanding the whole costume concept haha. Anyway i feel Phish would break out Edgar Winter’s White Trash Band – They Only Come Out At Night. Frankensteins been a constant staple at a Phish show.
If someone could come up with a fully integrated and properly blended “Monkey Fish Squirrel” costume I think it could blow minds.
Gotta Go with the theme of the year:: How about someone go as Michael Jackson, with the Nose Removed!
Phish related because I think they’re gonna play “Thriller” for 10/31
We’ve got about 40 – 50 people going as the army of one. We’ll be a mass of camouflage, orange and black and raging our dance pit.
I’m willing to induce injury for this ticket. Proposal: Dress like a duke/king from 17th or 18th century Prussia…with wig and flamboyant garb…maybe a cane ,or staff. The kicker is, I’ll have someone give me a big old shiner, a black eye. I’m Wilson!
Idea for four. Go costumed as Phish dressed as the Beatles. Simple and immaculate.
I’d be Guyute by dancing the jig while wearing a pig mask and a trenchcoat filled with a bunch of toy weapons (which I could then hold against people’s throats and lecture them in a strange language). Also, I’d wear some hypnosis glasses like these http://www.retroplanet.com/PROD/25347 to glance into people’s eyes with.
How about a new song? Make the big droopy clock from Dali’s “Persistence of Time” and every other number could be somewhat blurry and clear, respectively.
In and out of focus, Time Turns Elastic.
And it brings to great art forms and artists together.
I would take my shirt off during the day and write Let Me Lie on my chest and back, while hopefully getting a killer sunburn. Then on Halloween I would put on spandex biking shorts and ride around shirtless on my bike.
I think they should stick with the orchestra theme and cover some Beethoven or Mozart. If any band could pull it off it would be them.
I am going as a black eyed P
A Group costume.
Everyone wears bike shorts. Everyone writes in sunscreen on their back the words “Let Me Lie”.
Once the words have been suntanned in, everyone gets on their cardboard cut out bikes (these would strap to shoulders or just be worn).
A group of guys, with the words let me lie on their backs riding their “bikes” is funny.
The best phish costume would be dressing up as digital scale in homage to the great tune ‘weigh’.
I would attach a few dozen flashlights to a black jumpsuit. Said Flashlights would be attached in such a way they would swing around freely and so that when i was shaking my ass vigoursly i would be simulating a phish LIGHTSHOW! As an extra suprise i would put a fleshlight on my bottom end(SIIHB)
In the words of George Costanza:
“I would drape myself in velvet if it were socially acceptable.”
Well the time has come, the festival is located on the laid back left coast, it has to be socially acceptable to be covered in velvet at the ocho. Therefore, I will drape my body all in velvet and where chest high waders as I wade in the velvet sea…
Group of people dressed up in jogging shorts…sweat bands, running around talking shit, acting angry…just in case I need to spell it out “Angry mob of joggers”
three words!
-posternutbag
4 of my friends will dress up in costumes resembling the band members’ nicknames:
1.) A giant cactus for Mike would be me (I’m 6 ft 6 in tall…haha)
2.) A lion for Page (Play it Leo!!!)
3.) A soldier costume for Trey (The BAD Lieutenant!)
4.) An old lady for Fishman (Henrietta!!!)
Fun contest…hope I win!!!
I say Phish dresses up as dead musicians:
Trey = Jimi Hendrix
Page = Kurt Cobain
Mike = Jim Morrison
Fish = Janis Joplin
And then instead of playing an album they play 3 songs from each musician… See below:
Set II: Bold as Love > In Bloom, Piece of my heart > LA Woman > Smells Like Teen Spirit > If 6 was 9, Light my Fire, Me and Bobby Mcgee > All apologies > Mercedes Benz, Watchtower > The End
A giant ass on top of a hat
This definitely won’t be the most original, because there’ll be quite a few thousand of them at the fest. However, you won’t be able to tell from a distance, so I say make it obvious. They can come in a wide variety of hats and you could put a donkey on top or the original derriere.
It’s Phish related only because of their fervent fanbase on phantasytour.
Miami Piper!. Get a Miami Heat or dolphins jersey and use “Piper” as the last name.
Guarnteed n00b killer
I’m going with the Cypress Fan boat
My girl is going in an all black spandex-type suit. We are going to stick glowsticks all over her so we can pull them off and throw them throughout the shows (especially during epic jams). We’re gonna need a lot of glowsticks..
My friend and I are dressing as a Clif bar and green tea.
Stealing time..
Rex Grossman Jersey (#8) is the only acceptable answer…
Dress up in all black and have wild scraggly looking hair with spray painted cotton balls all over your body. The body should be as dark as possible. Raggedy apparel is mandatory. Black hi-tops would work well too. When people ask what you’re dressed as you either tell them a Big Black Furry Creature from Mars or a Wook.
Rutherford the Brave
Complete with a full body armor and plastic sword. “Surrender to the Flow” embroidered on the front.
I’m going dressed as Jeff Holdsworth from 1984.
I would dress up as a huge nose, just like the album art from Junta, and I would dispense candy from my nostrils and the candy would be labeled “powerful Pills.” OH YEAAA!!!
I would dress up as Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs, try to get the bands attention and have them let me do the Buffalo Bill dance while they play a “Goodbye Horses” jam on stage complete with penis tuck finale then have them segue the Goodbye Horses jam ->Buffalo Bill.
Dress up in all green with the letters PT on your chest and walk around bitching about how bad phish played. It would be Phantasytour.com
Things have changed in this second time around Phish. Over the break up, alot of us got jobs and houses and families and the band was no different. Jon Fishman now has three children and a farm where he could spend time with his family.
I would dress as a huge octopus wearing fishmans dress, and I would dance behind my buddy(who would be his drumset). In each of my eight tentacles, I would be holding a drumstick(which Fish often seems to be doing)
Above my head would be a sign that simply reads:
OCTODAD
end of contest!
dressing up as the characters from Fee & re-enacting the nipple slicing scene. I get to be Milly! 😉
Tennis racket, sweatband, wristbands.
Name tag that reads, “HELLO, my name is Guy Forget”.
I suppose it’s not exactly the most outrageous or creative idea, but I’ve been dressing as some form of dog for Halloween every year since I was about 7 years old. Everything from Marmaduke to Blue from Blue’s Clues (yes, I had paw prints). So I suppose this is the best costume idea for me, but admittedly an easy call to make.
I’d go as Harpua. Which can then be easily expanded into a group costume idea from there if i’ve got friends joining in. Ideally I’d at least want a Poster Nutbag counterpart.
So really, this idea would have to include a number of participants and probably a lot of planning, probably a lot of money (which could be saved by getting free passes). Anywho, get a bunch of people together, to dress as the protagonists from the Gamehenge Universe ( Forbin, RUtherford the Brave, Tela, numerous Lizards, etc.) But not have anybody dress as Wilson. We can then build a model of Wilson of some sort, and have a burning ceremony such as they do at Burning Man. The one that lights the flame will be dressed as hte Sloth. This would be awesome.
Dress up like a Devil and keep falling down. Kill Devil Falls. Eh? Eh?
Find the same clothes you wore to your very first show and go as a noob. Have your mind blown all over again.
I would walk around with my copy of Well, You Can Imagine(the REAL helping Friendly Book). Dressed up as George W. Bush with a King of Prussia name tag and a Burger King crown on my head
Uncle Ebenezer (dressed in authentic “A Christmas Carol” attire) standing within a cardboard or blow-up refrigerator/freezer with the “door” propped open. “Look who’s in the freezer!” (Obviously, this is a “Tweezer” theme).
a CLIFF BAR would be a great costume, on account of the reference in “Stealing Time…”
Easy. Birthday suit. may as well not risk ruining more clothes with mud at another dern phish festival. And high top Allstars
would love to hear pearl jam 10!!!
I would be Jon Fishman – Wolfman’s Brother (w/ dress).
I would construct a nice wax-looking record-ish looking thing called “Stones Sucking In The 70’s” and that would be my costume…it’s from Fuck Your Face…obscure yes, but original!!
David Bowie Riding a Unit Monster.
I would dress up in a Drs outfit with pills overflowing out of the pockets pre signed prescription pads with Treys name on it, a phish 2003 coventry VIP all acess pass around my neck with the name Treys DR. written on it. Eye glasses missing one lens.Handing out Buisness cards written with Ask me about my 30 min Prop 215 visists the cheapest youll find anywhere. Also on my buisness cards Id write I only accept superheady trades. My stethascope would be converted into a smoking apparatus with a bowl head where the circular part is.Underneath my Drs coat would be a Phish t shirt from ( pick a year Trey was high) and lastly id have on the mustache and glasses they gave out at IT. Or You could dress up as Trey with a parking unifrom on from when he talked about parking cars at a fair for community service. Obv Trey would think its funny hes joked about his arrest a ton. So if you think its in bad taste then you obv dont get Phish’s insane sense of humor.
I’m dressing up as Pete Rose, I mean after all the guy single handedly wrote Avenu Malkenu, with some help from God.
im gonna be a big possum and my friend is gonna be a big 56 chevy and run over me all night long…
someone hit a possum!!!!!
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if I were a girl, I’d wear Princess Leia’s gold bikini and call myself Tela.
but I’m not, so…
some carved up pink packing foam to be a golgi apparatus? a two-person front/back llama? or a sloth!
A book….THE book
since im a carinvore, and its also one of my favorite songs that they havent played in a while… i will be a bag bag of “MEAT”
Being that its a pair of tickets, my costume is for a duo: One person dresses up as (and wears nothing but) a Curtain, the other wears an “I’m with stupid” shirt.
Black sleeveless shirt, short short cutoff jeans, dirty white hi tops. red beard/wig glasses..carrying toy M-16= Machine Gun Trey
so im going far out here, but u have all at least heard of burning man, my idea is to create a theme camp, near my campsite area, that invokes the spirit of gamhenge,Gamehenge land, if u will, miniature of course cause i dont have much funding for the whole extravaganza that i picture, but i am talking The book, and whole cast of characters, laid out in an interactive spread that u can hang & chill at and get you phan ta see on ….ya herd?
i will be also dressing up as shaggy a mid 90’s version of trey/ here we will have villains goons virgins fairy’s and saviors ,forest lagoons , and muck (mock muck of-course)Tela Wilson & a famous mockingbird , and some lawn chairs for the boy. come check it. peace.
Pretty simple idea, but amazing costume…. I would be an “Ocelot”.
i would dress up with an ocelot with pockets filled with actually small fish so instead of throwing glowsticks, i would throw small fish
A dog log. Maybe a lumber Jack for Timber.
I would go as a curtain
I would team up with a few people and be a multibeast
Since my name is Jennifer, I would be dancing all festival long.
BRING BACK JENNIFER DANCES! LOL
Mine is already in the works – I’m dressing a a giant hot dog with the bandmember stuffed figures attached to my torso – this costume will be really cool if i can crowd surf at some point during the weekend!! It would be really cool if i could fly!
I would be Frankenstein dressed up like an army colonel and call myself colonel forbinstein
A shaggy dog
Spock’s Brain – use your imagination.
spasm waiter
Anything but Me
My friends and I might go as the characters mentioned in bathtub gin
Brett, Joker, Kings, Ambassadors, troubadours, Kids under the carpet, purple humpback whale, Wendy (on the window sill)….
We’re gonna decorate my Van to look like a bathtub and we’re all going to come out carrying martinis
I would dress up as a big black furry creature With a real creepy alien feel to it.Because i would have to look like i was from mars!!
I would be a wedge of cheese. “the Wedge”.
Dress like a Leprachaun
Get a bunch of phriends and dress up as different animals:
Camel
Llama
Pig
Ocelot
Possum
Antelope
Mocking Bird
The Horse
You get the idea
I would be the butcher in the store
NAKED!!
Get 12 people together and dress up as the band UB40 since they are going to cover their Labour of Love album on Halloween.
I would get some serious grass stains all over my blue jeans and a white t-shirt and a red backwards hat and carry around a rake and call myself lawn boy
A copule Cars Trucks and Buses!
a white sheet with two holes for eyes
Ghost
kickin’ it old school
My costume would be a coffin with arm holes, a face hole, and leg holes and dirt coming out the sides. Also, it would be covered in finger nail scratchings and holes where I tried to kick my way out.. because I was BURIED ALIVE!!!
posted this on yemblog too, not sure if it got posted to the official thread, so i am reposting…. Just wana be clear though that this is a repost, and not me trying to enter twice. thanks, heregoes:
Costume idea #1: “Harry Hood” school style milk carton with a psychadelic touch and a “Missing:Tela” message on the back with photo (not quite sure who to use as tela yet), with details saying something like “went missing 11/24/98, REWARD: thousands of smiles, etc…” I want to include a foldable opening, just as a real milk carton, with my head just below the dip (which should provide shade), and a straw in the top in which I can possibly fit an umbrella (also for shade) with a giant Phish Fish painted ontop of the umbrella. It will be made out of cardboard which I will paint and screen myself, and will be approx. 7′ tall (1′ taller than me) and approx. 3′ x 3′ at the base. It will be held up with supports made from padded pieces of bamboo placed at each of my shoulders, and will have only one hole for my face right under the spout (might go all out and get some lumps for my face/head from a Halloween store and be an ashamed carini, hiding in a milk carton to avoid pople laughing at his lumpy head… It is all open to interpretation though.)
Costume idea #2: “grind” counter/stats (number of teeth inside of my head, days lived, shows attended, etc…) with digital counters sewn into a futuristic Col. Forbin, who looks like a cross between Capn’ crunch, Jack sparrow, and Col. Mustard from “Clue”, after returning from an extended vacation in the future, where they found a cat by the name of “posternutbag” who had returned from the dead to deliver a warning (unknown) to Jimmy, but died as a result of molecular reconstruction during time travel, where he was infused to my (col forbin’s) body (picture a dead mangy cat attached to chest or side of costume)
i would take a guitar and make the neck of it look like a machine gun morphed back into tho body of the guitar so half guitar half machine gun and dress up like trey and be
MACHINE GUN TREY!!!!!!!!
I would like to dress up as “The Party At The Lamp-post”, from the 08/14/09 Hartford Meadows soundcheck. I wanna get some friends together to dress up as couscous, coconut juice, and Jugglers with fire.
The costume would be me dressed in black with a lampshade hat with a sign taped on my chest that says: Party Here!!!
The fest will be epic and this will go down as one of the best group costumes of all time!!! Hook a brother up!!!
Team costume:
-One guys cafeteria tray (Trey)
-One guy a piece of paper (Page)
-One guy a microphone (Mike)
-On guy a toilet (Jon)
Dress up as a whale with a large phone strapped to the head.
Whale Call’d
I am going to be dressed up as a little esther and my boyfriend (who is pretty big) is going to be the Armenian man with a puppet in a pale. Just like it looks in the Junta cd insert.
I am going as the Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday. I Will be dressed in all black wearing a giant clock that is going back in time. I will also be walking backwards for the whole halloween night. You get the picture.
Piper the red red worm – I’m going to take the bright red liner off of my extremely skinny mummy-style sleeping bag and cut a whole at the feet for my face.
robert palmer.
my friends and I are going to dress up as big Styrofoam chess pieces painted black and white for the best audience chess move of all time
I’m going to dress up like an old mom with a blue polka-dot dress with an old-fashion white flowery apron, thick spectacles, high tan-ish socks and orthopedic shoes, hair net over my grey wig, big styrofoam breasts and buttocks, gaudy jewelry all over, lipstick and all, and a rolling pin and a frying pan, or a frying pan and a spatula, I haven’t decided. and I’ll be dancin’ the moma dance all night long
My girl is ordering a Traffic Light Costume. I will be suited up like Mr. Slave from Southpark, complete with some black leather and a leash (but not too raunchy or uncomfortable!). Together, we make Slave to The Traffic Light.
I’m going to pull off a cool pair of bell bottom wizard pants and so
e alistair crowley attire with a guitar and cello bow, some stationary, some pens and someone will write me,Jimmy Page, a letter!
I’m going to go as a portapotty. There is nothing more iconic then a phish fest portapotty.
I’m going to dress up as a lime green cactus
Joy – over here in my incredible clothes, with silver silk shimmering down to my toes.
purple humpback whale sipping a martini in a bath tub.
1. Dress up as a huge clock, with jiggly stretchy hands made of rubber. Include a transparent window to dilute the focus of time and numbers, like a zoom-in-out accessory. Other details that would top it off include a numberline back 20 years later gag, stealing time troll with a clock and candy bars in a bag >maybe coming from the sugar shack, or a huge immaculate Light illustration.
2. Be a huge Lizard like a mascot.
Cover myself in pebbles and marbles
My costume would be that of a wookie, preferably chewbacca…this would allow me to get onstage and ask page for a schwill of his Budweiser during Tela
and he would let me
My coustume involves a crew of 8 kids. The main costume would be that of a director. The rest of his 7 cronies would be dressed as the serpent deflector, a mudrat detector, a ribbon reflectora cushion convector, (of course) a picture of nectar, a viral disscetor, and finally a hormone collector. This would be a very fun idea, and would bring on the party atmosphere. live it up!!
a big nitrous tank for n2o with a big red circle with a line thru it saying everything about philadelphia sucks
My costume idea for Festival 8 is to simply dress like King Henry VIII and be the “Ghost of King Henry the 8th”.
Me and my girlfriend would as slave to the traffic light. She would be a dominatrix/traffic (glowsticks as lights) and I will be the “gimp” tied to her with chains and a sign that reads “property of traffic light”.
Cop. Just walk the beat
dress like an ocelot with only 8 large black spots
dress like an ocelot with only 8 black spots and just one testicle, the right one of course.
third time’s a charm, sorry HT…
dress like an ocelot with only 8 black spots and just one testicle, the right one of course.
What about a crowd theme costume? For instance you can have the Phish logo with an 8 sideways inside the logo for eye holes ..Rubber band and staple’s and you got yourself a Phish eyed mask.50 60k folks wearing them at the same time.Alittle help form light and you got yourself a school of Phish.
I would be the state of “Vermont”! Cardboard Cut-out!
As a team the band could be the only four states that surround Vermont… “NE States”
Trey =New york
Mike= Massachusetts
Page= New hampshire
Fish= Vermont ( for obvious reasons)
I would go as David Bowie– from the cover of (the rise and fall of) Ziggy Stardust (and the spiders from mars.) This is my choice for the band’s costume, and so when the two coincide…
My Fest-8-mates could all be David Bowies as well– from different albums/time periods/phases. In fact, I would encourage ANYONE attending Ocho to dress as DAVID BOWIE!
In closing…
DAVID BOWIEEEE
i would make a huge wearable ticket…… maybe to new the NYE gig in………..when someone ask me what i am i would reply:
“a miracle”
I apologize for the lack of coherence in my last post……i stumbled upon this and got excited for the free tix…….and i just blazed……either way i will restate my last entry so that it can be understood……here we go:
i would make a huge wearable ticket…… maybe to the NYE gig in Miami……….. and when someone asks me what i am….. i would reply:
“a miracle”
whew…..there……thanks for the contest……
I will be a Cliff Bar, and My wife a cold green tea.
DAVID BOWIE from the movie Labyrinth.
Thanks for the tickets
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the answer to this question is simple:
rolling stones:rolling stones
so much for phish to play with on this one, not to mention crowd recognition on most songs.
can you guys throw in air fair w/ said tickets? i live in alabama 🙂
This costume would reference Phish’s ‘Dog Trio,’ (Dog Log, Dog Stole Things, Dog Faced Boy) and would be suitable for two people.
Individual One: Dog Log
– Dress Normally
– Carry pouch with “Dog Wanted for Theft” flyers and treats. Flyers would have a picture of second individual to be described below.
– Hold onto a broken leash
– Glue pieces of grass to both shoes (Walk across the lawn)
– Glue fake dog feces to one shoe (stepped upon a log)
Individual Two: Dog Faced Boy/Dog Stole Things
– Dress up as a small boy
– Wear dog mask, or paint face like dog
– Attach second half of broken leash to waist
– Carry around small pillow (dog stole things i needed bad… a pillow for my aching head)
tennis racquet in one hand, trophy in the other, tennis shorts and a shirt that has “I Never Met a Man That I Could Not Forget Except For…” printed on the back.
Guy Forget!!!
how about a huge porto-potty with a sign on the front saying “look what I just 8” for festival 8.
Take two sets of chicken wire molded into cylinders and cover in panty hose. Make sure one is longer than the other. On the end of the longer one get creative a draw two crazy eyes and a sinister smile. Now take a pair of suspenders attaching the front to the longer piece and the back to the smaller piece(sewing or duct tape should suffice). Now take two pieces of string and attach to the corners of the smile you drew on the front of the longer piece(attach in the same fashion you used with the suspenders) making sure you have enough length to reach your hands. Slide the suspenders on and swing the strings for movement because now YOUR RIDDING ON THE BACK OF THE WORM!!!!!!!!!!! Wear a worm town shirt.
Go naked with a pair of Horace Grant spectacles ala Jon Fishman.
a big yellow bottle of joy dish soap
I’m going to be a Sugar Shack. I’m going to use cardboard boxes to make a wearable building that I can use to hand out candy.
I’m going to dress up like a hooker, with the sign on me that says, “I’ve been around”.
Although I think Randy wins it, what with his Allister Crowley Wizard Letter to Jimmy Page costume… I’m going to go with a Jesus costume with a sign that says “New Orleans or Bust” Get it? Jesus Left Chicago… Well, not as cool as the Wizard Zeppelin but hey I gave it a chance 🙂
My costume would be a giant ugly pig (“Guyute”).
I will wear a suit and shout “You Lie”
I must inquire (Representative) Wilson, can you still have fun?
Meatstick
-foam costume designed like a “Slim Jim” with slogan…”Snap into a Meatstick! Whoa! Shocks my brain!”
I’d dress up as Marco Esquandolas.
Catholic Priest with a young boy doll attached to my junk.
i’ll go as the band, holding a tray, with a mic on it as well as a page, and a miniature toilet (jon!)
Bunch of friends in jogging attire, looking angry and jogging around together. “Angry mob of joggers” from Esther.
I would wear a metallic silver jumpsuit, stuffed with pillows. on my hands and feet would be hairy black gorrilla gloves/shoe covers. With black face on, I’d wear a helmet. Some may assume I’m a motorcycle riding monkey, but phans would know I’m a BIG BLACK FURRY CREATURE FROM MARS
BIG BLACK FURRY CREATURE FROM MARS
BIG BLACK FURRY CREATURE FROM MARS
BIG BLACK FURRY CREATURE FROM MARS
I am going as a red headed sassy country-fried soul sista.
REBA macintyre. I’ll also be holding a picture of my now-famous “dead band” who will be there in spirit.
Common boys, play a Bocephus album for Halloween!
Dress as an hour glass. “Sand”….get it?
Go as a MANGO!
I paint my whole body red, wear a devil mask with sunglasses, swim trunks, and flip-flops. I am also carrying one of those shiny metallic sun tan reflector things.
i’d be a disco camel! think “joe camel” but with bellbottoms, an afro, and a large pointy collared shirt.
“Goin downtown to the disco. Gotta do it right away. I gotta funky thing to get into. I’m goin to blow my blues away. I’m talkin, Camel Walk!”
I am thinking of dressing as Fluffhead but I will be in the shape of a penis with pubic hair all over the head of the penis, which will be the hood my costume. So, an afro on top of a penis costume. Laughs will follow.
First I will take a mudbath, but I won’t rinse myself off. I then will go to the pet store (the mud should be dried on my body by now) and buy lots of lizards. I will then get fishing net and wire and make some kind of large contraption that I can wear. I’ll open up the suite, let the lizards inside, and be Land of the Lizards.
I’m going as a refrigerator. I’m going to get a large box and paint it white. Then I’ll make a hole at the top for my head and holes for my arms. Then I will glue on some magnets and some post-it notes with epic set lists written on them. I’ll then walk around asking people to fill me up with food and drinks. (I’m an extremely broke college student)
i’ll be a dentist and perform root canals during the show. “N02”
I am going as a munchen ramen noodle…. its only the noodle, its only the noodle writen on the front of it!!!
I will be The Helping Friendly book and my girlfriend
will be The Famous Mockingbird. She will complete her mission and capture me atop our RV at the end of the show Saturday night. At which time, all our friends dressed as lizards will rejoice. Costumes are a must see.
I will be a giant iguana from Red Rocks 93 and I will have giant nipples that are both sliced and I will have a mask that is unproportinal like a “lump head” and will glue on lots of fluff.
Also I will have a neclace and on the end of it will be a small fish bowl with a real goldfish in it and on the bowl there will be a big circle with a X representing “I don’t want a goldfish”
So when they play Harpua, Carnin, Fluffhead, any song involving sliced nipples (Fee, Sloth, etc.) I will be the number one costume
i would wrap an orange sheet over my body and be Fee.
I made a costume for Phish ’98 in Las Vegas. I went as the waiter from The Mango Song which, according to the liner notes in Phish’s Picture of Nectar release, is about “a day in the life of a waiter/addict with delusions of grandeur”. I used oven mitts as a base to create HUGE mangos for hands, and made mangos which attach to my shoes for feet. Using glitter, I wrote on the front of a t-shirt “MENSA Needle Exchange Program- Minnesota Chapter”. On the back it says “Tranquil and serene until I run out of supplies”. I also wore a waiters apron and tiara. Fun costume, but can’t hold a beverage! Can’t wait to wear it again at Festi8!
A GROUP costume…an angry mob of joggers – a la Esther.
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Enough Said!!!!
MOUND!!!!!!!!! A Costume Designed like the Mounds Cany Bar except you leave off the “S”
The FAMOUS MOCKING BIRD Big feathered wings. A mockingbird… pretty straight forward. Maybe the helping friendly book incorporated in some way? That would make sense.
HARPUA
I would be a freakin bulldog OKAY! A BIG FAT MEAN SWEATY BULLDOG!
I will not dress up…it’s just a mock costume!
One word…NAKED!
I’m going to go as Mike Gordon!
Fluffhead!
go as sideshow-bob.
Wear extremly large shoes (converse usually do the trick).
and the Custome Sideshow-bob fluffyhead wig.
Dress as King Wilson (I am thinking the burger king “king”) and carry around the Helping Phriendly Book
I’m going as a catapult. It will be like a mini trebuchet, so when I pull a string a weight drops, forcing the arm of the catapult to fly up and launch various ammunition, like art to which none compare. The catapult will have wheels so when I attach it to myself it will roll around with me wherever I go. It will rest atop my shoulders with the weight in front and the arm for launching things behind me. Don’t worry, I will make sure that none of the ammunition is capable of causing pain.
I’m going to attach a large cardboard box around my hips and shoulders and have a mini boom box blasting the ice cream truck music as pictures of choco taco’s, fudgecycles and cotton candy are painted alongside a silhouette of Mike’s face. I will be a Sugar Shack of course.
I am going to dress as a traffic light and then have my gf walk around chained to me…
I would go as a wookey on a leash.
And my friend would go dressed as a Jockey, who will be taking me for a walk.
Trey Monkeystasio
I’m thinking of wearing an ape suit with pajamas, donning a nightcap, ala “Sleeping Monkey.”
I’m going to go as a one-woman glowstick war…hundreds of lit glowsticks attached to a black suit. I will fling myself from one side of the stage to the other as soon as they hit the first notes of Hood….
🙂
Well since this contest is for “a pair” of passes WE would go as Trey’s 5 neck guitar and Mike’s Flaming Bass. These would be wearable and dance approved
simple and to the point: a giant WILSON tennis ball. id paper mache a large balloon then, once its dry, i would cover it with cotton balls then spray paint it all yellow. id removed the cottom balls where the tennis ball seams are and paint those white (so thered be relief between the fuzz and the seam) and do the same where i put WILSON in black. id cut a hole in the top for my head and one in the bottom for my legs and i’d boogy down ALL NIGHT LONG.
a big wedge of cheese, as in the wedge.
most likely cheddar, but I wouldnt mind a nice raclette, or a gruyere, or even a some sbrintz!!!
Get your group of friends, go to the army surplus store and buy camo jumpsuits, paint or sew on the number one, and be the “army of ones”
first set-big foam hand with your free ticket in it’s hand.
second set-sandwhich board-” 1 for $3–2 for $5″
encore- hurtin stained white shirt red ringer with “phuck finals”
scooby doo crew!
Two people – one is an eyeball the other is a boxer = PYITE – throughout the evening the box hits the eyeball like a heavy bag…
I would wrap myself it white paper with the Phish festival logo splattered across it with a large bag hanging off the front saying ‘NUTS’.
Tada! Poster Nut Bag.
I would make a fake freezer and put myself inside of it like i just stepped into the freezer.
This is easy:
Submarine costume, written on the side: “S.S. Trey Anastasio”
I’m gonna dress up like a sober guy.
as a couple: esther with the puppet master; all marionetted out with lots of circus details
I would go as early 90s Fishman, with the donut dress and goggles and wolfman hair. Then, when it’s time for the costume contest I’d fling off the dress and run around the stage. Of course, I’d have to attach a tiny prosthetic penis over my god-given manhood. Or if it was cold enough I could just hope for shrinkage. Oh yeah, I would be on acid too.
The front of the costume would have a meal on it- Veggie Burrito half wrapped in foil with a bite out of it, grilled cheese on the side with Fat Tire Ale. The back would have the cover of Phish’s “Tracking” Video (the horse picture. Voila – Dinner and a Movie!!
Well, I mean, I guess if you were a girl, you could wear a silk silver dress (down to your toes, which are covered by ballerina shoes, becuase you know she’s a dancer). Maybe get creative, paint some tear drops on your face. Hey, maybe even carry around a cassette tape with one song on it, because you know, it’s your song too.
If you’re a guy, go out and buy a black overcoat (because that’s what I picture Guyute wearing). Get some pink makeup, and a nice pig nose and ears. Though I don’t recommend using any real weapons, you could carry around different types of paper (cardboard/posterboard (maybe which can have “Nut Bag” written on it)/computer paper/lined paper/etc) which you can slice peoples nipples with. Oh, and you have to speak in a strange language, if you don’t know another language, then speak in a really bad attitude, and don’t forget to give nice long lectures.
I’m sorry guys, just have to correct myself. Where I said “speak in a really bad attitude”, I meant, speak in a really bad accent. This way at least you’re somewhat not really understandable.
My costume would be a magical eight ball, the one which answers your yes/no questions. I would use hula hoops to make a life size eight ball around my body. There would be a space just below my chin to hold up one of a few answers to peoples questions. The answers would be…
Definitely Y.E.M.
As I see it, Yes
Absolutely N2O
About as likely as a Harpua
Maybe So, Maybe Not
Reply Hazy, Try Again
If I Could… Maybe
Ask Again in About 15 Minutes
I didn’t know
Go ask Icculus
wear clothing that comes up covering my head with eyeholes in the clothing. then i would carry a severed head on a scale—–for weigh.
Since CONTACT just came up on Pandora as I read this….
Maybe a costume of the PICTURE OF THE NOSE WITH FEET(on a car i think?)from Junta.
Be safe at the show everyone, MT
I would dress up like Traige Fisgord, have a big ginger wig for trey, a blow up keyboard for paige, crazy purple pants for mike, and viking horns over my trey wig for fish, and then a shirt with a vacuum cleaner
ps: correction Trish Gordaige
Trey Anastasio Mugshot
Red wig with red beard and glasses
put a sign around neck that reads
NY police dept
Anastasio, Ernest
DWI Drugs
How could anyone not want to dress up like a MEATSTICK?!? I envision a giant pork roast sort of costume, with my face coming out of the round bone part. Instead of any sort of tail, I would have a big stick hanging between my legs. Innuendo? I think not. But it would enable you to bring home the ladies, post-show.
I would dress up like the happiest person in the world the only thing I need to finish my costume is a wristband for 8.
I would go as the happiest person in the world the only thing I don’t have is a wristband for 8
I am going to be the comic book guy from the simpsons and on my shirt it’s going to say “read a fucking book!”
if I get these tickets of course..
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A vendor selling nuts. The nuts will be packaged in bags made out of the new joy posters. (Poster Nutbag)
I didn’t know whether to answer what I think Phish’s Musical Costume will be or what my Phish related costume will be, so here’s both:
Phish Musical Costume Evening Set
I. Backwards Down the Number Line, Stash, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Gumbo, Julius, Icculus>YEM
II. Down With Disease, Harry Hood, Harpua>Five Years, Soul Love, Moonage Daydream, Starman, It Ain’t Easy, Lady Stardust>Star, Hang on to Yourself, Ziggy Stardust, Sufferagette City>Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
Encore Carini, MJ’s Thriller (track only)>Monster Mash>Frankenstien
Our Costumes
J’s will be AC/DC Bag (Boxy robot with buttons and noose hand off the left side arm, and the other side with have a lego hand for holding beer)
Mine will be a Lizard (Like Mystique from xmen, but with a little bit more coverage with green/yellow scales, mohawk my hair, color it green, lizard face makeup and continue with lumps down my spine leading the the tail)
I have already begun preparation for this costume.
I’m going to be a gigantic douche bag. And at the very top will be a gigantic printout of Kanye West’s face.
His face will include his notorious douchey shutter shades, which I plan on outlining in glow paint so everyone can see at night.
Vote for me!!!
Since it’s Halloween, I’m going to have to bring the whole family to 8. I can’t have my kids miss out on trick-or-treating.
I’m the engine, my wife the caboose, and the kids the passenger cars, so we all can GET BACK ON THE TRAIN
I would be the Ricola guy which would make me a Piper.
Mike’s Groove = A mask of mike gordon’s face,a shirt that just has an H on the front, and packs of trojans on your legs( “Try to help the woman that you’ll move,and I’m SHARING in a weekpaug groove”).
paper mache bathtub i wear around my waist and go around passing out free shots of gin.
I would Dress up like a giant mound bar. with a rewind button hat on my head.
The Dancing Noses and Esther Doll!!!
My costume would touch on the visual aspect of some old school phish. I would go as one of the Dancing Noses off the Junta cover. I know someone who owns a foam rubber company who could make me an exact replica… Giant shoes and some leggings and Im golden. My GF will be the Esther Doll. Pretty straight forward. You know this would bug people out in the crowd when we walk up behind you… Plus I could sneeze glowsticks!
Dress up in a bathtub-sized paper-mache sailboat held up by suspenders. There would be a mast with full sail raising capabilities. Actual sail would have lyrics sprawled about. bottle of wine placed on the bow. the side would read USS MOMA or USS DANCE.
* i also would be wearing clothing a la Gilligan from G. Island steering the boat {mind the skipper}
I would dress up as CHARLIE CHAPLIN wearing pajamas including the nightcap. and possibly be carrying a bowl of cereal or other breakfast-type meal.
SILENT IN THE MORNING
SCENT OF A MULE – Dress as an airplane traveler with ticket in hand and a canine doll that has a K-9 unit jacket on. Powder would be on the dog’s nose. airplane traveler could look like johnny depp from Blow or rasta.
dress up as a life size slot machine complete with arm-bar. the 3 wheels would have cherries and other images and in the middle would spell out [Robs] [You] [Clean]
stickers on the side would read “pays off once in a while” and “very profound” “not of this earth” etc…
this idea is applicable for 3 songs!
I would dress as a giant cup that one would use at a Sperm Bank. pics from maxim attached so as not to be too indecent but you get it.
at first i thought of it for Loving Cup, but it also works for Sample in a Jar, and for Squirming Coil. my preference is still for Loving Cup
I would Dress as Trey Dressed up as Fishman. A La Trey at Oysterhead Halloween.
Even though there have been a couple T.T.E. posts i’m gonna take it one step further.
I would dress up as Stretch Armstrong!! All the way down to the shades and proper california hair and shirt. Giant Digital clock around the neck would be made out of play-Doh for full stretch capability.
Time Turns Elastic
For A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing
Create a life-size Conch Shell
mermaid or siren inside optional
For A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing
Create a life-size Conch Shell. I picture a beautiful replica made out of either foam or mache.
mermaid or siren inside optional
For Billy Breathes
dress as a Lifesize CPR dummy with cpr manual and other lifesaving devices around. Shirt will say Billy of course
I would dress as the most delicious thing imaginable.
A life size Grilled Cheese. And I’m talking details. Foil wrap around the bottom half with a little 2 for $5 sign attached. the cheese would appear to be oozing and the crust and bread would resemble Wonder B. indeed i suppose i would have to have a supply of G.C. to hand out as well.
what’s more phish than lot food?
I’d be wearing a giant mattress but the bed would be slightly diagonal so that it appears like I am sleeping diagonal in my bed.
Lengthwise
H.Y.H.U.
I would dress as the Headless Horseman since it’s halloween i thought that would be the best H.Y.H.U. costume.
My Sweet One
I’d go as a Giant Lollipop. The sucker could def. be made of real candy I’m talking Shirley Temple size.
I’d go in one of those giant balls that the dude from Flaming Lips always rides around the crowd in.
Round Room
This is slightly obscure but could look cool when pulled off.
Dress as the justice scale lady and on one side will be a nose and the other side will be eyeballs. The eyeballs will be much heavier and lower than the nose which will remain high.
“eyes heavy, nose light”
KUNG
I’d dress as the most adorable baby with a bong in hand.
i’d be First tube
I’d go as a giant piece of paper with my phantasy setlist of what I wish Phish would play if i could write it out.
” Fried Egg Sandwich w/ketchup”
Have a group costume here. “Boy, Man, God, shit” boy=childlike attire. Man=business suit. God=beard/robe. and shit=Mr. hankey custom. Gonna be SICK!!!!
dogs stole things would be a great costume….would get a good dog mask, maybe a clip on tail. Then would have a bandana around mouth/kneck, symbolizing being a robber. And obviously a bag/camelback that id carry with the words “KLEPTO CREATURE” stuck on it somewhere in big letters.
I’ll be dressed as a log, left by a dog.
i am going to be a storm trooper and i you a thousand of you guys would too. thank you
Jonathan Scott
This one is simple, but fun:
I will be a loving cup: I will surround myself with a red solo cup with a big white heart on the front. On my head I will have a oversized ping pong ball with a big 8 on it.
Oh, What a beautiful buzz!
I will be wearing an over sized letter “C” covered in velvet, while also wearing wader boots with suspenders. Wading in a velvet sea I will be!
I’ll be dressed as a pumpkin marked destiny that has been thrown at a tree.
If you give me the ticket I will dress up as Morgan Freeman, freckles and all. To make it Phish related I would wear a Phish shirt but with a blazer over it because Morgan Freeman is classy. I would take about Penguins and Andy Dufragne all night. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.”
I will be an a huge hood milk carton which will look exactly like the hood milk cartons you can buy in the store. It will contain quotes from the song on the sides (ie you can feeel good about hood, thank you mr minor) and on the front it will say: “MISSING”. There will be a picture of a big shaggy dog and will say “last seen in Louisville KY 10-29-95 – sources say he got lost. Any information on the whereabouts would be greatly appreciated”. Then the back would have the same idea and will say “MISSING”. There will be a picture of Tela and will say “last seen in New Haven on 11-24-98 – lost in the shadows of Wilsons castle. Any information on the whereabouts would be greatly appreciated.
I’d dress up as french fries and then allow spun wookies to puke all over me giving me the appearance of nectar’s famous gravy fries.
Rutherford the Brave…Suit of armour, and a lizard mask!
I will be a black eyed P
I’m gonna be a jumbled mess with all these things attached to me:
An unscrewed jar with top, A little scoop of plaster mix, some coffee grounds and mud, my grandmother’s ladle, a pot of melted wax, A forefoot and a hoof, Apple core, worms galore, a can of some corrosive, Coconuts and chloroform, Some wicker and some cork, Toxic waste, some purple paste, a bag with a tag….
…& simply have a large hat that reads: ” The Phinest in the Nation.”
REBA
I will be the costume of “Scents and Subtle Sounds”.
I will cover my entire body with scratch and sniff stickers and will carry with me a portable sound device that will create just enough random noise to perk passer’s by attention.
Hence scents and subtle sounds…
I’m going to go as Carini. I’m going to make a hat that makes me look like I have a lumpy head. And my tent will be a house with windows, but those windows have no glass.
I’m going to be a “wooden twist around”
I love Phish, I will never forget getting Slip, Stitch, and Pass in 7th grade, before that I was listening to who knows what, probably what they play at the mall. I grew up in CT and was born in 88 and caught the tail end of the wave. 25 shows during my freshman/sophomore year of HS, almost didn’t graduate because of the work I had to make up. I’m living out in Washington now, and haven’t seen Phish since Spac 6-20-04 (I was at Coventry but lets not count that). Nothing would make me happier to win to tickets to THE 8 and bring my girl to her first phish experience. either way, rock on phish, i’m glad you’re back. the day i saw that hampton painting opening on phish.com, i knew the hose was back.
I bought a “where the wild things are” costume, I will be the multi-beast and my girls going to be tela. im fuckin READY for the 8.
I am going as Bernie Madoff dressed as Fonzi from Happy Days. Fonzi the Ponzie!
jerry Timber Ho
My hands and feet are mangos….
I’m gonna be a genius anyway!
Possum roadkill!
Did anyone ever see the episode of the simpsons when Mrs. Crabapple’s class had to dress up as their favorite state and Ralpie taped a piece of lined paper to his chest that said Idaho on it and said, “I’m Idaho” – well, I think that a piece of looselief with “Vermont” on it would be awesome
Four life stages/colors of Michael Jackson…and they will cover “Thriller” for their Halloween set.
They should come out dressed as the Beastie Boys in the Sabatoge video, with the ear pieces and walkie talkies and everything and cover ill-communication
Dress up like the dude from yo-gabba gabba, and have all the robot people come out
I would be ignignot and my daughter would be err a la aqua teen hunger force.
Most costumes make it waaay too hard to dance, and I’m not willing to sacrifice mobility during a Phish show. So, my awesome yet simple costume will be to carry a hammer and nothing else, and wear goggles or glasses that have nail shaped lenses. So everything will look like a nail, you see….
Based on recent history the absolute most bone-chilling, vomit inducing, horrific phish related costume is: A map of the US announcing the next Phish festival. Everyone will run in terror!
Colonel Forbin….dressed as a leading Colonel/General from the 1800s.
Mr. Palmer circa 2009.
Business formal, investment bank (preferably Madoff Securities) umbrella and all that flair they give their employees (will grab off ebay/craigslist, and find at thrift stores.) Noose around the neck (the noose is hanging).
May recruit two friends to be some combination of the AC/DC Bag and Wilson, aka the SEC/Barack/Timothy Geithner/Ben Bernanke.
Burlap sack & pumps 😀
My idea is not just my costume but multiple costumes. I want to be a bathtub that leads a parade of people such as a bottle of gin, a man named brett, ambassadors, troubadours, kings, autumn bells, a joker, kids under the carpet, And the purple humpbacked whales, Wendy on the windowsill. I have a little less than a month but I think I could pull it off. A pull of help would be inspirational.Peace-the bathtub
The jam-crazy quartet will perform eight sets over the festival’s three days including a set where they’ll cover an entire album by another
I will be going as a hippie.
probably dress up like this guy
http://www.phish.com/_content/viewers/full/viewer_72/93-2h.jpg
So, like, twenty years later, what’s going on with this? Gonna wait until it’s over to declare a winner?
the authentic reebok nfl jersey
A military outfit for Col. Forbin. complete with Helping Friendly Book, and bloodshot eyes!
Im going as Esther. Complete with leather sack and doll.
When will the top ten be decided upon and opened up to a vote?
I know it’s too late. But the best costume would be: completely mirrored so the band and crowd could see themselves but with a little sign over my head that reads “JOY” If you have any extras send em my way. That’s a good one right? Matthew Levinson MRyanLevinson@aol.com
PS I’m picking T Rex Electric Warrior for costume set album.
A “clusterfly”.
“I never really heard of clusterflies (alas)”
I don’t know why no one has said it yet, since i posted so late..I would dress up as a one of those old-fashioned milkmen that used to deliver milk house to house…(Harry Hood).
I don’t think anyone has mentioned a fish either!
Fact is, I would rather spend my money on more frivolous things than getting a costume together. Then again i could just go as I normally would go dressed (Prep-School Hippie) walking in with a ticket stub in my hand. Unlike those REALLY dirty hippies trying to sneak in.