"Hundreds of bags of trash were left alongside Interstate 91 while Phish fans were stuck between the Barton and Orleans exits for hours, waiting to get to the festival in Coventry... Sam Lewis, deputy director of operations at the Agency of Transportation, said the festival's promoters, Townsend, Mass.-based Great Northeast Productions Inc., would pick up the tab. Adam Lewis, spokesman for Great Northeast, has said all along that the company would pay the cost of picking up the trash. Crews from the agency's districts in Derby and St. Johnsbury spent three days cleaning up the mess."
One has to laugh at the irony here: thousands of faux tree-hugging burnouts who cover the ground with thousands of dollars of waste. The only positive about this situation is that this series of shows is apparently the last for Phish. If you ask me, it's about damn time, considering the band has never produced anything resembling music in its 20+ year career. In fact, I've long believed that if marijuana was prohibited at Phish shows, they wouldn't have one fan.
Here's hoping they stick to their word and stay far away from any and all recording studios and/or stages for the next billion years.
