For those of you that don't know about Phish fans, let me break it down for you...
This is Phish
They are a MAJOR MAJOR player in the festival scene and have been for over 30 years.
This is their logo
And these are their fans. . .
(just a minute fraction of them)
They seem pretty happy-go-lucky right? Balloons, smiles, tye-dye galore...but holy smokes does their loyalty run deep. So deep, in fact, that when one journalist wrote an article bashing Phish for not actually being a good band, he still continues to get death-threats from these fans. These fans are CRAZY. Like wayyyyy crazier than Bieber fans or One Direction fans. These people take drugs, lots of drugs, like to get dirty and sleep on the ground (clothing optional) and LOVE them some freaking PHISH.
I have one friend that's a die hard Phish fan and he literally cannot help himself but to talk about Phish at every chance he gets. He is going to see his 40th Phish show this year...he's 23. The point is, don't cross these peeps. Respect how much they love the band and how much the band means to them and then leave it be. Hey, maybe even turn on some Phish tunes and see what you think.
That article definitely is fascinating and rather humorous because of the authors perspective on Phish and Phish fans. Though I'm not a fan or an anti-fan of Phish, I can say that their dedicated fan base is interesting because of how large the fan community is and also the fan's emotional connection to the band, especially when death threats written by fans are sent to oppositional writers.
ReplyDeleteI don't have anything necessarily against Phish or their fans (I think you could write a dissertation on the Phish fandom, and still not say everything), but the Phish concert at Riverbend a couple of summers ago was by far the worst concert I worked at. The fans were out of control in a really obnoxious manner. Phish shouldn't play at venues where there are seats, because these people don't want anything to do with them. At Riverbend we have staff in all of the rows, which created hazards when the Phish fans started throwing things. I can't tell you how many glow sticks I got hit in the head with. They should definitely stick to festivals where the fans can just all hang out together without staff members intermixed among them.
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