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Summary: A Big Disappointment
Review: After seeing this book, I was immediately drawn to it. It seemed like a cool idea....follow Phish on tour, give insight into the fans, the shows, etc... After a few chapters, I couldnt help but grow a strong disliking for the author, Mr. Gibbon. I've never heard whining like this. Getting to see Phish for free, paid meals, hotel rooms, backstage passes, etc. would be a dream come true for me. Throughout the book, all Gibbon does is whine and complain and act like a baby. Maybe Dan should have written it. He obviously seemed more fit for the role. Gibbon continualy makes the fans at the shows seem like nothing more than dirty freaks who do drugs. He sounds like an old bitter man most of the time, instead of a 27 year old "true" Phish fan. This book did little to tell the stories of how Phish has touched people and got them into the band. Instead we get a million Limp Bizkit references, and a hefty portion of the book about his trip to the emergency room after eating a dank brownie. By the way, Gibbon is the only person i've ever heard of that went to the hospital from this. Maybe he's just a lightweight....
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Summary: Another superb work from Mr. Gibbon
Review: Although not the worlds biggest Phish fan, I bought this book based on my admiration for Mr. Gibbon's previous works. I had also seen him speak in Massachusetts a number of years ago and found him to be a truly entertaining and talented fellow. This book fulfilled all expectations. While superficially a book about touring with the band Phish, in its pages it explores the pop-culture, religion and politics of our country today, all through the classic "road-trip" adventure story. I place it in similar standing with Kerouac's "On The Road." A masterwork in every respect.
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Summary: Run in the opposite direction
Review: At first I was in high gear to read this, because it's a way to go on virtual tour in the Band's absence. I prepared myself to vicariously live out a fantasy that will never happen for me, now that I'm too old to go on tour, but two shows into it I realize I'm stuck on tour with a lame writer who doesn't know not to eat laced brownies in the parking lot. He also doesn't seem to have much personality or ability to capture the moment a la Kerouac.It's a great concept. Too bad it was executed by this lame dude. The "author" Sean Gibbon never asks good questions from his phellow tour rats, so we gain no insights. He pays little or no attention to the band's performances and misses some shows altogether. Some phan. He blows all credibility as a music aficionado early on. Talking about the lack of substance in bands lyrics, he says: "There's no message in the Rolling Stones, and they truly are the best rock and roll band in the world. For the Stones, it's about ripping through a song with a strong guitar and some nasty lyrics." Right, there's no message in Sympathy for the Devil, Gimme Shelter, Monkey Man, Street Fighting Man, Heartbreaker etc. Idiot.
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Summary: laugh out loud funny
Review: At last our generation has a voice. Gibbon is able to lucidly portray male bonding, relationships, fanatasiscm, growing-up, and the folly of extra-dank brownies in an epic roadtrip across America with Phish. Pick it up and you will not be able to put it down. If you've ever lived in Vermont, loved soulful music, slept in a tent, yelled "vagina," or been lost on a road-trip... this book is for you.
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Summary: Far off and Not Even Close
Review: Having 3 of my own photographs published in this book(the clear well exposed ones) made me run out and read it the day it first made its way to the book store even before the publisher sent me my freebies. The title should have been changed to "On the Road With these dirty hippies". As a Phish fan, I was laughing the whole way through the text. Far off and not even close was the best that I could come up with for a review of this book.
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Summary: Painfully Mediocre
Review: I believe this is the same Sean Gibbon that has written for lifestyle magazines, vermont living, and other non-notable papers; his woeful ability as a so-called journalist probably fits these formats much better than the topic of this antelope book. Perhaps the most laughable aspect is the back cover, where the book is compared to something hunter s. thompsonish. I found Mr. Sean to be exceedingly unlike hst, in that the author lacks the wit, intelligence, creativity, bravado, wherewithal, action, and most of all honesty that our great american journalist has made his trademark. After reading this trash you will find the likening all the more libelous; and yourself a bit more stupid for your efforts. As for the book itself, Mr. Sean tragically succeeds in turning the interesting into pedestrian and the colorful into whitebread. We are treated to the perspective of somebody following the band out of a rental SUV who spends his nights in best westerns, and labors horrible prose with incapable dialogue between two of the most tediously normal people on the face of the earth; most of which is with some character fresh out of a fraternity (or so it seems given his vocabulary, words such as schwerve). One quickly gets the impression that these two phonies had just walked off the set of "Friends" and onto the tour. I've never actually seen that show but imagine that they are at least as shallow and plastic as david schwimmer (sic). I will give the book one star because it is thin.
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Summary: Absolute Garbage
Review: I don't have enough words to describe the horrible time I had reading this empty book. Sad, really, since the potential was there for an amazing book. I am dissapointed to no end and was actually cursing the writer out loud during the few hours it took to read this book. He can't handle a brownie! He thought paintballs were drugs...oh man... Utterly unforgivable...i will trade my copy to any phan with a live show, that wants to read this and laugh! spookypaw@yahoo.com
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Summary: Shows?
Review: I don't think he went to those shows....if he had, he would have become enlightened. Shine on people!
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Summary: It passes time if there is absolutely nothing else to read
Review: I have toured with Phish and was very excited to read a narative that would reflect some of my experiences. I was also intrigued by the cover which stated that this book was in the style of Hunter S. Thompson. I have read Thompson and this is definetely not in his style. It also does not give any insight into Phish or the scene that follows them. Gibbon states in his bio that he is a huge Phish fan, there is no way that this statement is true. More time in the book was spent on relaying Gibbon's friend's experience at 98 degrees concert, than was spent actually talking about any part of the Phish tour. Gibbon also spends much of the book talking about what he should be doing (ie. interviewing fans) instead of actually going out and doing it. He also complains about the tour, the noise, the people, the sleeping conditions, the driving, the bathrooms, the food, the heat, the dogs, etc. etc. I believe that this book could have been well written by someone who did not know Phish. Bittersweet Motel was an excellent movie that was done by someone who had never even heard of the band. I will say one thing for the book, however, as much as it annoyed me I couldn't put it down. I especially liked reading it while on the treadmill. I think the sheer upsurdity of the book kept reading page after page. I gave it two stars because I think it should be read at least for conversation value. The book did make me laugh and gave me something to talk to friends about.
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Summary: Not so phunky.
Review: I have yet to read this book for myself. However all reviews i have read have not been too hot. maybe im just a snobby reader. Dont let it stop you from loving phish though. :)
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