1) It’s a Marathon, Not a Race: Listen, I know you got a screamin’ deal on a kilo of molly and can re-up once you get to Shoreline, but chill just the same. You’ve got a responsibility to not only yourself, but the band and its organization to not drop dead out there. EVERYONE LIKES TO PARTY! No one is taking that right from you, but just keep a good pace, hydrate, and watch those around you. I see so many young kids overdoing it BIGTIME and it scares me.
2) To The Phishtorians: For those of you up-and-coming journalists and bloggers out there, I have some things to say that you better take to the heart, as I am disgusted with my generation’s reporting of our era of Phishtory. NO ONE FUCKING CARES IF YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS THE BEST ANTELOPE EVER! Keep your reviews completely open for the reader’s interpretation. Don’t force them into thinking or feeling anything.
My generation was obsessed with talking about the stupid shit they did before and after the show as well as peppering the article with all their uber-hetty assesments of the previous night, however overly positive or negative. Keep it classy, start your review at set one and end at the encore. You have a responsibility to make this era of our history recorded as objectively as possible. If you are wasted…don’t even think about printing something in the morning. Let the people who were clear-headed fill what will most likely be the veterans like myself in on the show the next day.
3) It’s a community, not a forum: Despite how convoluted this whole scene has become, I do believe that the principles and codes of the road that started with The Grateful Dead are still with us. There simply is no room for the individual mindset anymore. All you trustafarian rejects with a ton of money to blow on drugs to make more money with on tour can stay home. I’m way hip to the game and so is every security system in place in every venue of the country. Six Up isn’t code anymore, brah. Leave the gangster shit to your hometown and just come out to party with your friends. I guarantee the gangster you thought you were at Coventry will get busted two shows in this year. Its time to retake our community and we all have a responsibility to clean the scene up. It starts with you.
Soapbox rant done. I want everyone to know this came from the most positive place possible. Hate or Elate all you want in the comments below…
- Previously on Wade’s World: Legends of the Phall, All Things Phil: The Lamb Lies Down w/ Peter Gabriel and The Seven Below Mix
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