iTour: Phish Tour In Your Pocket
iTour - The Phish Tour App
Before the modern world of navigation systems and the hand-held GPS, Phish tour and atlases went hand in hand. Without any electronic voice guidance or little blue ball to follow, everyone had to make sense of maps that often likened piles of spaghetti after mind-altering shows. But with each subsequent era of Phish, things got a little bit easier. Cell phones burst onto the scene in the latter part of 1.0, integrated navigation systems and Garmins seeped into the scene in 2.0, but hardly anyone had them. And by the time 2009 rolled around, we all carried the Internet in our pocket. Smart phones have rendered Rand McNally useless, and now we don’t even think as we are guided by multiple systems from point A to point B. And now, in Fall 2010, everything just got a little bit easier.
Phish fan, Marc Pechaitis, has rolled out iTour, an iPhone application designed to streamline tour navigation just in time for fall. Instead of Googling your way to venue addresses, restaurants, and liquor stores, let iTour do your work for you. Integrated with Google Maps on your iPhone, simply click on one of seven categories per venue, and iTour flips you to a map with your locales of choice already pinpointed. Choose from “Venue,” “Hotels,” “Restaurants,” Gas,” “Groceries,” “Liquor,” and “Campgrounds,” and the application will inform you of the nearest facilities around the venue. Perfect for both on-the-fly adventure and advance tour planning, iTour is the touring companion that has been begging to be made since Phish and iPhones collided. Available now in Apple’s App Store and at theiTourapp.com, the kicker is that it is completely free!
Utica "Home Page"
The home page for each show contains the address, phone number, and capacity of each venue, as well the ticket and door times. And as an extra perk, once the shows start happening, the app links directly to each setlist via Phish.net. Beta-tested on summer tour, Pechaitis is debuting the first version of iTour this fall with plans to update and enhance the service with each subsequent tour. He also plans to expand this platform for other touring bands, thus any feedback about iTour is welcome at www.theiTourapp.com.
Download iTour for for free here, or in the app store here, or search for “iTour.phish” at the App Store on your iPhone. Check it out…
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Five Tunes For Friday:
Here are five selections from last week’s Type II Trivia quiz.
8.10.10 (G.Lucas)
“Bathtub Gin” 9.29.00 I – Las Vegas
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“AC/DC Bag” 8.9.98 II – Va. Beach
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MSG '09 (G.Lucas)
“Reba” 5.28.94 II – Laguna Seca Daze
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“Wolfman’s” 9.24.99 II – Austin, TX
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“Stash” 11.13.97 II – Las Vegas
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6.24.10 (J.Thomas)
Type II Trivia Update: This week’s quiz is still wide-open with nobody taking a sizable lead in the first day. A few contestants are neck in neck, but no one has an unbeatable or intimidating score. Get those entries in by 7 pm tonight for a chance to win a free TAB or Mike Gordon CD! See yesterday’s post for audio clips and contest.
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Mmmm bacon.
First time putting people down for lottery. Maybe some tix will come together. We have alot of fam around for msg nye. We should do that bar again too for meet up.
Also, guess we should kick it off proper but there should be a home base bar in AC for all three nites. If the Trop is the most centrally located then let’s go with that. We also need to designate a safe room for…well…being safe. Someone said Irish Pub but if the Trop is closest to the venue let’s start thinking about this. If not, find me at the back of the floor. It should stink near me
And to think I felt posting titties was too crude
I may need someone to hold my new mind baby on sat nite AC.
Cruder than West Side 101?
Tickethunter givin birf son.
I call it like I see it.
Don’t give it to me
I’ll drop it
Well have to find a wook mama to hold it. Put some cotton balls in it’s ears.
cryptic public art “ALL SALES FINAL” in the sky over the city.
@bingos: when r we gonna cross paths man? You comin out east at all?
Kick her a chunk of OG and a Xanax bar for her services
I plan on joining the electric company Saturday nite in AC.
Gdad – got your message. It’s there if you need.
this AC talk is getting me all worked up. haven’t done an out o town two night stand in a long time.
So who’s getting the first round of AC whores?
pass
No piracy
No whores
Kaya is such a square
AC isn’t Vegas in that regard. There are some scary night walkers I’m those parts. They’ll kick your ass and steal your money.
I know Palmer I’m just being an ass
the ex Manhattan traders at my firm weren’t talking too fondly about their former trips to AC today at work
total hell hole and worst place on the fuckin earth I think were two opinions
of course it sounds perfect for a Phish run
http://m.jezebel.com/5628779/those-arent-lindsay-lohans-nipples-in-machete
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1315854/Jessica-Alba-naked-scene-fake-film-Machete.html
Two bubble bursting links…
work safe?
fuck it. i’m out.
swe.
that’s fucked up TIII
I figured something was going on cuz she’s topless and panties the whole fuckin movie but in the main scenes her long hair kind of covers her nipples
I just find it disgusting that a director that loves the B movie genre would pull bullshit like that
topless chicks are pretty much the main ingredient besides a little violence and action in a good B movie. to falsely represent that shit is just plain wrong
I loved the fuckin movie too
nothing is what it seems
oh well she’ll be in porn eventually. I guess I’ll have to wait.
even crazier she’s starting to film the Linda Lovelace story in the fall and there will be nudity. weird.
off for a run and a few pirated dicks picks selections on the i-pod
have a nice weekend kids
laterz
AC sounds like no place to raise a mind baby
What a day… just paid off my credit card in one big punch (thanks, summer!… phish not cheap) and then went and bought a new Macbook Pro… back in the hole. Oh well, it was nice for the hour that I was not. Have to give computer back to work, need a new one for life, plus celebrating new tings gwan.