Camp Oswego

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Camp Oswego was the fourth of seven weekend-long festivals hosted by the rock band Phish. The event took place on July 17 and 18, 1999, at the Oswego County Airport in Volney, New York, a small rural upstate town. 65,000 people attended. At the time, it was also the longest Phish concert ever.

Phish was the only headlining band at the event, performing five sets of music over two nights. Second stage bands included the Del McCoury Band, Ozomatli, and others. Fans camped out onsite in tents, creating community of fans that became one of the largest cities in New York over the weekend.

Band and audience attempted to break the world record for the largest number of people doing the same dance at one time during the song "Meatstick," but the record was not broken (representatives from the Guinness Book of World Records were on hand).

The following weekend just a few towns away, Woodstock 1999 was making new headlines as 200,000 people rioted and burned the concert grounds. New York Governor George Pataki made mention of the peacefulness of the Phish show as compared to the debacle at Woodstock.

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Phish

Discography
Trey Anastasio \| Jon Fishman \| Mike Gordon \| Page McConnell
Marc Daubert \| Jeff Holdsworth
The Dude of Life \| Chris Kuroda \| Paul Languedoc \| Tom Marshall
Studio albums: Phish (The White Tape) \| The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday \| Junta \| Lawn Boy \| A Picture of Nectar \| Rift \| Hoist \| Billy Breathes \| The Story of the Ghost \| Farmhouse \| The Siket Disc \| Round Room \| Undermind
Live albums: A Live One \| ' \| ' \| Slip Stitch and Pass \| Hampton Comes Alive \| Live Phish \|
Videos and DVDs: Tracking \| Bittersweet Motel \| Live in Vegas \| It \| Specimens of Beauty \|
Festivals
The Clifford Ball \| The Great Went \| Lemonwheel \| Camp Oswego \| Big Cypress \| It \| Coventry
Books
The Pharmer's Almanac \| The Phish Book \| The Phish Companion \| The Phishing Manual \| Run Like an Antelope
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The Barn \| Gamehendge \| JEMP Records \| List of Phish Songs \| The Mockingbird Foundation \| Phish Food \| Phish and their music \| Phish and their musical costumes \| Phish Tickets By Mail \| Phish Tours \| rec.music.phish \| Sharin' in the Groove \| The WaterWheel Foundation
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