Quote Originally Posted by Billionfold
Genocide?
Don't let music define who you are, let yourself define who you are.
But Phish wasnt just music, they were an entire event, they were a life style unto themselves much like the Grateful Dead. Without phish there were no more music festivals, the market for cannabis, lsd, and other psychadelics dropped noticably, and an entire community of people who would follow them around was shattered just like that. Therefore it was a geneocide. I think you are missing the idea that phish was about community and finding happiness in a community. Being youself is cool and all but when you are able to be yourself amongst a group of likeminded people, then you have community and thus happiness. It's an old social instict which in itself is an interesting concept but besides the point.