PJ vs. phish

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pompeii
pompeii Posts: 83
edited February 2010 in The Porch
these are obviously the two biggest bands of the 90's

which band has the bigger fanbase???
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  • youngster
    youngster Boston Posts: 6,576
    I would love to say Pearl Jam but with all the Phishheads I hear about following them to EVERY show on EVERY tour.....I have to digress and say Phish has a bigger fanbase. I don't think there are many, if any, Pearl Jam fans that follow them to every city on a tour.
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  • pompeii
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    i've done a few pj tours and phish tours and run into a lot of the same people who have a mutual love for each band. for me pearl jam and phish are by far the two most important bands that have stood the test of time.
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    I'd like to think its Pearl Jam, but its probably Phish.
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  • fox_mulderX
    fox_mulderX Posts: 1,134
    the 2 biggest bands of the 90s are pearl jam and radiohead.... maybe nirvana, too. not only are they the 2 (3) biggest bands, but the most important, also.
    phish can suck it.
  • Haijay
    Haijay Posts: 439
    amen, brother. Or sister. Phish=shitty, boring, jam music
  • battan1120
    battan1120 Posts: 310
    pompeii wrote:
    i've done a few pj tours and phish tours and run into a lot of the same people who have a mutual love for each band. for me pearl jam and phish are by far the two most important bands that have stood the test of time.
    there is only 1 band that has stood the test of time....that my friend is the Grateful Dead...neither have come close to the amount of shows that the Dead have played 2318 shows then add the 15 years of shows Bobby and Phil have played.Pearl Jam by far is the best band out there on the road today,but my 1st love will always be the Grateful Dead.I hope Eddie and the crew are rockin in there 70's.
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  • pjammer92
    pjammer92 Posts: 67
    youngster wrote:
    I would love to say Pearl Jam but with all the Phishheads I hear about following them to EVERY show on EVERY tour.....I have to digress and say Phish has a bigger fanbase. I don't think there are many, if any, Pearl Jam fans that follow them to every city on a tour.

    Phish doesnt tour like pearl jam though and there are actually a lot of people who follow pearl jam just because people dont call them pearl jam heads is the reason you dont hear about it as often as you hear about phishheads.
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    fox_mulderX wrote:
    the 2 biggest bands of the 90s are pearl jam and radiohead.... maybe nirvana, too. not only are they the 2 (3) biggest bands, but the most important, also.
    phish can suck it.

    You are probably right, but I'll take Phish over Radiohead's canned live shows and Thom Yorke's annoying brooding manbitchery any time.
  • aspoonfulweighsaton
    aspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,067
    I knew that Phish fans had to be high to like their music, but you must have some really good shit to think that they were one of the two biggest bands of the nineties. Be more specific as to what you are getting at because I can think of several dozen bands that were bigger in most every conceivable way. If you are referring to the bands that had the most fans see at least 20+ shows each tour then congratulations, we have a winner.
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    My wife and i took a bus from NYC to Bangor Maine to visit her parents years go, not realizing there was a 3 Phish day festival, the bus was packed, with all these laid back hippie kids, it was like getting on a bus in 60's or something. Not into Phish, but there fans are pretty cool and obsessive. 14 hour ride, during one of the stops some freind from one bus ran into one from another, but every seat was taken, all of a sudden some lone kid, got up and was like "here take mine, all catch the next one" they were like cool dude, catch u at the festival. Don't see that kind of fellowship in NYC ever. Not into Phish but i think there fans got us beat. Ofcouse if Pearl Jam were to have 3 day festival in the north east, shit i'd be there!!!
  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,359
    KO282453 wrote:
    My wife and i took a bus from NYC to Bangor Maine to visit her parents years go, not realizing there was a 3 Phish day festival, the bus was packed, with all these laid back hippie kids, it was like getting on a bus in 60's or something. Not into Phish, but there fans are pretty cool and obsessive. 14 hour ride, during one of the stops some freind from one bus ran into one from another, but every seat was taken, all of a sudden some lone kid, got up and was like "here take mine, all catch the next one" they were like cool dude, catch u at the festival. Don't see that kind of fellowship in NYC ever. Not into Phish but i think there fans got us beat. Ofcouse if Pearl Jam were to have 3 day festival in the north east, shit i'd be there!!!
    I agree about the fellowship amongst the fans. It's very cool to see in a world where most are so concerned about their own successes. As for their shows... I actually hated them, and went with some friends strictly to shut them up about Phish. Truthfully.. between the brilliant light show, and the phenomenal (and LONG) show, I was immediately sold. I'd go as far as saying whereas a Pearl Jam show is a great show - a Phish show is an incredible all-around experience. The fans turn it into something special.
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  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Phish unfortunately has a larger fanbase. There's a lot of crack to go around.
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    rebornFixer wrote:
    fox_mulderX wrote:
    the 2 biggest bands of the 90s are pearl jam and radiohead.... maybe nirvana, too. not only are they the 2 (3) biggest bands, but the most important, also.
    phish can suck it.

    You are probably right, but I'll take Phish over Radiohead's canned live shows and Thom Yorke's annoying brooding manbitchery any time.

    canned live show? Obviously totally different experiences, but I think Radiohead shows are setup pretty similar to PJ.
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    I would say that their fanbase is pretty similar in size, overall, but I'd probably give the edge to PJ.

    Phish doesn't have the middle of road fans, like PJ, to boost their numbers.
  • Jo
    Jo Posts: 2,098
    I don't even know who phish is, so I declare this a no brainer. :D
  • asurPRIZEleft
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    Jo wrote:
    I don't even know who phish is, so I declare this a no brainer. :D
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  • DeeepBreath
    DeeepBreath Posts: 69
    widespread panic and pearl jam ..forget phish ...trey is a dope :shock:
  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    Who's Phish???
  • Bird889
    Bird889 Posts: 423
    i_lov_it wrote:
    Who's Phish???


    good question, those of us in the States know about the strong following that Phish has, but I've never seen evidence that they are as strong overseas as Pearl Jam is. After viewing youtube live clips from Europe, South America and those cool countries down under...I con't imagine Phish having as strong following outside the US as Pearl Jam.

    What do y'all think?
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  • 4Powers20
    4Powers20 Posts: 1,231
    worldwide , i would give the edge to pearl jam. but here in the US, i would have to go with phish.

    oh we are not "phisheads", we prefer Phans .


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