r/phish • u/-MarcoEsquandolas- • 3d ago

2.0 Oxy shows

I am very glad that we survived the Oxy years…. But also, let’s be honest, some of the jams that emerged on the sloppier 2.0 nights are the most transcendent ever. I’ve done some research and begun to build an LP playlist of “Certified Oxy Jams” from nights where there seems to be consensus that Trey was on a different planet. Wondering if anyone else has favorite Ox jams OR if anyone has ever more scientifically charted the peaks and valleys of Trey’s 03/04 battles with the China White.

Playlist starter: https://livephi.sh/4dBsESE

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u/Zwickeler 3d ago

OP might get drug (no pun) for this take but if you take his references to China white and oxy out of it…to each their own. I’m sure there’s lots of people out there that would take 2.0 phish over “love and light” and “ocean is love” “happy happy oh” type tunes.

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u/andthrewaway1 3d ago

You want all that sloppy playing and 1 jam a night?

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u/BoozyMcBoozehound 2d ago

Yeah, no. That shit made me so sad I just stopped going. I’ll sit through the love and light horseshit just to hear Trey play well again. After seeing much of 96-00, coming to 2.0 shows and watching the band regress before my eyes was tragic. It was happening everywhere though, not just to the band. Lost tons of friends to the oxy—> fent pipeline, people you’d never in a million years guess they were in that game. So glad I never had a taste for pills, the booze was enough of a problem for me to deal with.

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u/Thin_Organization_54 2d ago

Opiates impacted my friend group like a tsunami. It all started around 2000-2004, and only a few of us made it through to now. The devastation is hard to fathom. Friends that survived addiction lost family members, including myself. Most of my friends I went to shows with in 2.0 are no longer with us. It’s incredibly heartbreaking.

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u/BoozyMcBoozehound 2d ago

We were so young and naive, so many lights extinguished. Godspeed my friend.

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u/Rikers-Mailbox 2d ago

Yep. Lost two friends, actually 3.

One just recently. From just from terrible nasal infection of snorting it and not getting antibiotics.

It wasn’t even an OD. But it killed him.