[Arainach]

It explicitly says "the band". All the context in the first paragraphs is about the music. It absolutely clarifies. The rest of the article talks about listening to the music, watching them (or wanting to watch them) in concert or in tour.

Read the article. Or just look at the top search result for Phish. Stop being lazy.

[emil-lp]

I literally read the entire article without understanding that Phish is a band.

Call me lazy if you will. You could also have chosen to just say they're a band and recommend me a record to listen to.

Something something 1 in 10'000.

[greatquux]

It's very hard for Phish fans to only provide ONE example. :-). I will try to limit my suggestions to only 3.

This is a version of "Sand" from their trancey period and I would think makes for good coding time: https://youtu.be/B73cbfHSuH8?si=WPOI5pYYOfPg7OAi

Here's a rocking version of "Ghost" into a ballad "Mountains in the Mist" from 2003: https://youtu.be/7cMwsBUHjq0?si=5_p64FSvsY08dw0E

This is a multi-section crazy of "Simple" from 2021 where it really seems like aliens have landed: https://youtu.be/wF2j2UPLlA8?si=KWvvL3MlLFpc-LHy

[Arainach]

Asking others to explain things without doing a single search of your own is lazy, as is not reading the article:

> Phish is a band that rewards you for staying in one place for a long time. The jams are long. The compositions unfold.

"Phish is a band". Literally. Verbatim.

Coworkers who do that get told not to, and if they do it a second time their boss gets told to talk to them about it.

[dgellow]

Please don’t use ad hominem on HN. I did read the article and it wasn’t clear at all, as you can see others also faced that situation. You don’t have to engage if you think we are lazy. The aggressive tone is completely unwarranted for such a casual discussion

[Arainach]

The top search results for "Phish" and "Down with Disease" show Phish the band. There is no ad hominem - writing a comment asking someone else to answer that question for you without doing that basic step is lazy.

The article says "Phish is a band". Verbatim. It talks about Phish and listening to music in every paragraph.

If people read this article and didn't get that, perhaps I should stop dismissing the news articles talking about the state of education and attention spans as hyperbole.

> I’d need to ask the interviewer to put Phish on....I could not, with any reliability, get into the zone without the music.

> All I ever wanted to do was listen to Phish and program

> I heard Phish for the first time at thirteen.

> Phish is a band that rewards you for staying in one place for a long time. The jams are long. The compositions unfold.

> The band would play in Hampton or Alpine Valley or wherever

> I have listened to Phish every day since I was fifteen...I have listened to certain shows so many times that I can sing the solos back, note by note,

> I tried to keep the music on. I’m writing this in the days after nine nights of Phish at the Sphere. Since I finished grad school and got a real job, I’ve gone to every show I could, every tour, every residency, making up for lost time. The music is more present in my life now than it has ever been. It isn’t what’s gone

I don't care if English is your first language - if anyone read the article they make the point that it is a band over and over and over. Explicitly.

[dgellow]

Stop being lazy in this context is by definition ad hominem. I won’t engage with the rest though.

[dr_kretyn]

I re read that paragraph a few times hoping that I missed something. Then gave up and went on to find the answer in comments. I thought the author was describing some feeling, or maybe some action. That "that to me" isn't clear with "that".

[Arainach]

That was merely the first occurrence. Elsewhere the article says verbatim "Phish is a band".

[Izkata]

The whole rest of the sentence implies they're talking about something else based on the band, not the band itself.