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tpryan
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The Super Fan (the musical kind)
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Sep 3 14:05 UTC 2001 |
Do you know any Super Fans? The web-page creating, fan-zine
publishing, multi-concert attending types? What do you think of
them. How are the ones as friends different than the nut-job you
hear about?
I know the president of the Al Stewart fan club and
publisher of the fan-zine Chronicles. Ken would also know Kim.
She will be flying to the UK this September, and will be catching
all their shows. Now in a position of trust with Al and the band,
she does get privileges to be around the band others do not.
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tpryan
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response 1 of 12:
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Sep 3 14:14 UTC 2001 |
I found out this past year, I know the super fan of
Ben Folds Five group. A freind from high school and college
days, Frank put up a Ben Folds Five webpage.
I also have met many a "Werid Al" Yankovic fan. Some
are quite fanatical. We can talk about them more in the next
item, #27, the all "Werid Al" Yankovic item.
Another freind, Bill, is also rather fanatical about
comic/white rapper, the great Luke Ski. I also know Luke,
but am not so into joing Luke onstage as any part of his show
as Bill.
Find more about Luke Ski at www.lukeski.com (his own site)
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scott
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response 2 of 12:
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Sep 3 20:25 UTC 2001 |
Well, llanarth/balynce from Grex here is/was a huge fan of Sammy Hagar &
others, although I don't think she designed web sites for him.
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raven
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response 3 of 12:
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Sep 4 02:27 UTC 2001 |
I'm a pretty big Kristen Hersh fan but not to the point of designing web
sites for her. I would probably drive up to 250 miles to see her in
concert though. Thank goodness she played in Ann Arbor this year and not
a more remote location. :-)
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eeyore
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response 4 of 12:
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Sep 4 14:19 UTC 2001 |
We did just go to Chicago to see Great Big Sea, however, I can't say I'm
*that* much of a nut....I'd like to think that I have some limits. :)
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katie
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response 5 of 12:
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Sep 4 15:22 UTC 2001 |
I have been exposed to Melanie superfans. Most are OK; some are
downright scary.
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tpryan
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response 6 of 12:
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Sep 4 15:51 UTC 2001 |
What does an artist do to keep the scary ones happy?
Still greet them after a show, shake hands, give audience then
excuse themselves? Use security to throw up a roadblock?
ie "We need to limit after show guests [due to ...]" lie or
some truth, such as "due to our need to get out of the auditorium
by 11:30pm"?
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katie
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response 7 of 12:
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Sep 4 16:56 UTC 2001 |
The scary ones are the ones with no concept of "personal space."
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scott
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response 8 of 12:
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Sep 4 18:01 UTC 2001 |
I'd guess that the scary ones are the ones who think that that the artist will
somehow personally solve their problem[s], if only they can get close enough
to properly explain it to the artist.
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krj
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response 9 of 12:
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Sep 4 21:45 UTC 2001 |
((resp:3 and a big digression: I thought raven lived in Oregon...))
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mcnally
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response 10 of 12:
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Sep 5 07:51 UTC 2001 |
I thought so, too..
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sspan
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response 11 of 12:
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Sep 15 02:36 UTC 2001 |
Hmmm.... I guess I'm kindof a Kasia Kowalska superfan.. I designed a website
about her (www.delanet.com/~ssbob/kasia/) which got a mention in Tylko Rock,
the largest selling monthly magazine in Poland. I've also managed to track
down all of her CDs except for some singles, and a copy of the movie she
starred in. All that after seeing a couple minute long clip of her on tv a
few years back.
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jaklumen
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response 12 of 12:
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Apr 17 04:00 UTC 2002 |
I used to be in contact with Daniel "The Brat" Barassi, back when the
Depeche Mode [e-mail] Mailing List was on a really quiet note. It was
after _Songs of Faith and Devotion_ was published, and DM fans were
pretty bummed because another concert tour looked far from reality,
there hadn't been an album done in a while, and well.. you know.
DM super fans are obsessive and religious almost in their devotion.
I've always enjoyed much of what the band has done (although I have
yet to listen to _Exciter_), and Julie and I went to the '98 concert
in Seattle before we got married. But I knew fans that could rattle
off the band members physical characteristics, their relationships
(that were known, anyway), their fears, and the songs that each loved
and hated. Too much.
Brian L. Heess made a T-shirt for the list back then in 1994 when I
was on the list. It's the only T-shirt I can wear; concert ones don't
come larger than XL. Some folks do mistake it for a concert shirt,
however.
Many members then had seemingly bottomless collections of DM stuff
totalling in the hundreds to almost thousands of dollars. Barassi was
the undisputed king, apparently gaining most of his collection being a
DJ. If anything exists that is connected to Depeche Mode in any way
(including Alan Wilder's Recoil material), he's got it. Apparently WB
realized he is the fan authority, and so he is the webmaster of the
current DM webpage.
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