Phish phans grooved to the very end during the last night of the bands epic three-day music marathon Sunday.

The dark night sky rained multi-colored neon glow sticks as phans threw dozens of the festival’s party favors in the air, while on the ground other phans kicked balloons as they danced.

By 9 p.m. , shortly after the jam band began with “Tweezer,” temperatures in Indio dipped into the low 60s but phans just danced harder.

“That’s how we keep warm,” said Vince Dietrich of New York.

The fire from the live art behind the crowd helped, too. The art pieces spewed flames intermittently as the band performed a cover of the instrumental “Also sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss, which is the theme music to Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Deitrich, who went phishing all weekend, said the spectacle was just “fantastic.”

“They built this huge thing and everyone came and we’ve all had such a good time,” he said.

Before the band’s last encore of the festival, lead singer/guitarist Trey Anastasio made sure to thank the crowd for a “wonderful weekend.” He even had a list of shout-outs.

“I just wanted to make a point that it takes a whole mountain of people to make something like this happen,” Anastasio said. “I hope we can do it again.”

And though Deitrich and many others were sad to see Festival 8 come to an end -- with an encore of “Tweezer Reprise,” they seemed all content with simply having the memories .

At least until the next concert.

“The spirit of Phish lives beyond what happened here,” said Aaron Gerlich of New Jersey who was decked out in glow tubes that ran all over his bodysuit. “We all carry it home with us.”