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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!rcn
- From: rcn@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Crew God)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
- Subject: Re: DTH article
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.002400.12827@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 00:24:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.224735.21226@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Free Software Foundation
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- In article <1993Jan21.224735.21226@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> MACDOJE@acad1.csd.unbsj.ca writes:
- >
- > Joseph Collins <collins@gibbs.oit.unc.edu> posted:
- > >
- > > This quote appeared in this morning's Daily Tar Heel (the student paper
- > > here at UNC). The article is called, "Go Phishing for tickets".
- > >
- > > " Something phishy will be going on in Memorial Hall at 8 pm on
- > > February 15. Phish will bring their unique brand of Deadhead blues and
- > > frat-boy funk to Chapel Hill..."
- > >
- > > Deadhead blues? Frat-boy funk?!!! Is this the same band I've been
- > > seeing for the last 2 years. Deadhead blues brings to mind poor dead
- > > covers like Walkin' Blues. Frat-boy funk brings to mind the Red Hot Chili
- > > Peppers or something. I think this is the worst description of Phish
- > > music that I have ever heard.
- > > -Joe
- >
- > I wholeheartedly agree with you, Joe! My guess is that whoever wrote
- > this happened to hear the term 'phishead' and their music referred to
- > as 'neat' (understatement of the month) and proceeded to write what
- > he/she thought to be 'catchy'. Chances are that any actual knowledge
- > about the band or their music never entered his/her mind. You can't
- > blame them for not knowing, but maybe a little research was in order.
- >
- > Jim
- > macdoje@acad1.unbsj.ca
-
- Actually I believe that I heard those two phrases used to describe the Spin
- Doctors in Rolling Stone (I think)... Perhaps the 'reporter' decided
- that Phish is the same. Agreed, he could use some research.
-