Routes Music, Indio: A look at Phish Festival 8 from the costumes to the light show
Routes Music is a documentary film acting as a roving music census, taking in the true musical passions (and disgusts) of the American people. We’re traveling all across the country, stopping along the way to interview local bands, take footage of live performances and chat with anyone and everyone. Learn more about the documentary here; check out all previous entries here.
“Where eeez yer pipe?”
A 6’4 security guard towered over me, glaring.
“Where eeez yer pipe?” he repeated in a thick Islands accent.
“What?” I replied, not sure he really just asked me what I think he just asked me.
“Where eeez yer pipe?” he asked again.
“My what?” I said again, still shocked.
“Yer pipe. Yer pipe.”
Now he was aggravated. I’m enjoying feigning ignorance.
“I don’t know what you’re saying, man.”
The guard switches tactics.
“Drugs?”
I smile.
“No, no drugs.”
“OK, go ahead.”
So began my very first experience at an extended-day music festival, and only my second time ever seeing the seminal jam band, Phish. Luckily, the rest of the three-day fest at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif. went smoother than my entry.
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