My Tour Memories: Big Cypress - New Years Eve 2000 - Phish By 1999, Phish were an American institution. They were considered the biggest ... all » concert band in the country. With the millennium on the horizon, fans knew that Phish was going to pull out all the stops. For the Millennium Celebration, Phish went to the southern-most tip of the US - the Florida Everglades - at the Big Cypress Indian Reservation. It was the largest Phish concert ever, and widely considered the greatest. There were huge New Year's Eve concerts all over the world that night - Sting, Barbra Streisand, Elton John. Of them all, Phish's was the largest. Peter Jennings reported on the huge audience in an episode of ABC World News Tonight. 85,000 people showed up for two nights of music, culminating with a seven-and-a-half hour second set that began at midnight and ended at sunrise. The band's performance of "Heavy Things" was broadcast during ABC's millennium coverage. At the beginning of the set, Trey Anastasio mentioned that the band had portable toilets onstage so they could use the restroom during the marathon set, and a team of security guards lined the stage to prevent band members from "wimping out" and trying to leave the stage.

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