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Congratulations to SuprStevie, winner of our predict the Hampton opener contest and a pair of free Phish tickets.

SuprStevie was just one of 17 fans who correctly predicted Fluffhead would open the Phish Hampton shows, and his name was picked in our live drawing on March 15, 2009. Stevie will win a pair of free Phish tickets to his choice of Great Woods, Camden, Burgettstown, Deer Creek or Alpine. Either way, it's sure to be a blast.

Here's why SuprStevie picked Fluffhead:

Yeah, it's the hopeful choice. Yeah, it's also kind of the optimistic and unrealistic choice. But with all the chanting at IT, the constant fan wishing (and don't think they're immune to what the fans say) and the message it'd send ("we're back and we can play the shit out of even the hardest songs") I think it fits into the mold of what Phish is trying to say. Of course, this is also the band that occasionally ignores big events in terms of bustouts (12/2/03 is a pretty unassuming show for they're 20th anny), so I could be way off. Still, Fluffhead is my guess.

If you like what SuprStevie had to say, don't miss the complete list of entries where you can read over 700 Hampton opener predictions.

Congrats Stevie and thanks so much to everyone who entered.

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Photo by J.Bryce. Used with permission.

Learn about Phish Summer Tour 2009 on Jamtopia.

Man, I thought this picture of an Umphrey's Aragon crowd was funny, but the Phish Hampton picture above takes the cake. For some inexplicable reason, there's about 4,000 dudes and only 40 46 55 chicks* on the entire floor at the Phish Hampton show on March 6th — basically a 100:1 90:1 72:1 ratio of guys to girls.

We pretend to like the dudes in the front row.
Trey Anastasio

I identified every floor mistress I could find with a little red arrow, but feel free to click the image above for the high-res pic and look for yourself. It's entertaining and sad all at once.

* Thanks to the amateur Columbos who helped find the other chicks.

It may be too late to enter Jamtopia's predict the Hampton opener contest, but you can still enjoy the prognostications of the more than 700 Phish fans who did enter.

Everyone on the list with a valid entry who correctly predicted Fluffhead as Phish's opener at Hampton on Friday will have a chance to win free Phish tickets for Summer Tour.

We'll be picking a winner via live webcast at 10 pm Eastern on March 15th. Watch the selection right here on Jamtopia.

Here's the complete list of entries:

I've been on Twitter for a while now, but never really use it much and certainly never thought to see if the boys from Phish were on there. Well today someone pointed me to Page McConnell on Twitter and boy am I glad they did.

As if I weren't psyched enough for Hampton, his most recent Tweet amped it up to 11…

Page_McConnell is absolutely amazed, exhausted and exhilarated, but it'll all be worth it! We promise

Sweet action. A personal sentiment from the Chairman plus a promise that Hampton won't suck, all in about 85 characters.

Update (February 26, 2009, 7:30am) Oh snap. A comment from Scotty B has me questioning the authenticity of this Twitter account, but either way it got me kinda pumped so I'm leaving it up here.

Update (February 26, 2009, 4:00pm) Well the super-sleuths at Hidden Track have officially debunked Page's Twitter account as being fake, confirmed by Phish’s publicist in a post brilliantly subtitled “Fake It Leo.”

Now back to the original post…

And it's not just (fake) Page blazing the Twitter trail. You can also follow Phish on Twitter (see postscript below) and Mike Gordon on Twitter too. And someone's also tweeting (albeit very infrequently) as Trey Anastasio on Twitter, but I've got a feeling it's not the real McCoy.

That leaves Fishman.

But when I searched for Jon Fishman on Twitter I got bubkus, so I went ahead and signed him up. Hey Henrietta, if you're out there and you want your name back just shoot me an email. It's yours for the asking.

P.S. To whom it may concern at Red Light… feel free to use Twitter as more than just a minimalist press release feed. See Jimmy Eat World's innovative use of Twitter for inspiration.

P.P.S. If for some insane reason you'd like to follow me on Twitter, go here.