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Phish at Plattsburgh Air Force Base — August 16, 1996

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Phish threw The Clifford Ball on a decommissioned Plattsburgh Air Force Base — their first-ever festival and roughly 70,000 fans camped on the tarmac. Three sets a day, F-16 flyovers, a chamber orchestra playing Debussy, and a legendary late-night jam from a flatbed truck circling the campground. Thirty years ago.

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