Ghosts of Pasha update: 11/30/2004

It's been a while since my last Ghosts of Pasha post, but as usual, lots has happened.

If you'll remember, my last post concerned their encounter with ImprovEverywhere, which allowed the band to have the greatest show of their life with hundreds of false-die hard fans. (the Improv group itself)

So how big do you think this was? You might think, "Well, even though the Ghosts of Pasha are a good band with a cool and unique sound, I'm sure this only made a splash in local hipster circles....Yeah, I betcha only people who are self-proclaimed Aloof Indie Gods were aware of this, and they are now resting in their isolation chambers to restore default cellular/epidermal levels of Hip ions (denoted: Hp-)."

Well, if you were thinking this, or something remotely similar, then you are WRONG. It turns out that this episode made rollingstone.com!. Nope, I'm not kidding, I'm not exaggerating.

Here's the link to the story; it's in a section called 'The Week in Weird":

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6627758/jossstone?pageid=rs.NewsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion&rnd=1101838743410&has-player=true&version=6.0.5.27

Now, something troubling resulted from this: the writer took the band members' comments out of context to make them look like fools. However, the situation did not play out in this manner. Although the result was a bamboozled GOP, it was subsequently acknowledged by pretty much everyone, including the members of the ImprovEverywhere troupe, that the GOP is an excellent band that is incredibly easy to rock out to.

So the band decided to get a little revenge and post the following statement on their Web site:
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"They were superstars"
*DAVID SPRAGUE, Rollingstone.com - Nov 11, 2004* (Ghosts of Pasha reserves the right to use quotes out of context as long as lazy writers from Rolling Stone feel they can do the same.) -mf-
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Now, I've ruminated about this situation over the last couple days or so, and I've decided to take things one step further. I figure if lazy writers from rollingstone.com can take quotes out of context, thus changing the meaning of an event that took place along perceived opinions of a band, then I can take David Sprague's writing out of context by switching the words and mixing up the letters.

Now, before I display these new comments, let me once again display David Sprague's brief:

"A group calling itself Improv Everywhere has successfully put P.T. Barnum's thesis about a sucker being born every minute to the test on a group of musicians -- which would strike us as being akin to shooting fish in a barrel, were the results not so funny. The New York pranksters got it into their heads to invade a show by a totally unknown band en masse, but not to heckle or toss entrails; instead, they went to great pains to make the members of Vermont's Ghosts of Pasha believe they were superstars, complete with fans willing to learn every lyric and even get tattoos of the band's name. The whole shebang is chronicled on the www.improveverywhere.com Web site -- complete with responses from the hoodwinked combo, which go along the lines of, "We rocked the place that night and you know it." Fred Durst couldn't have said it better."

Therefore, the following is just a tiny sample of the quotes that came directly from David Sprague's writings about this event.

(1: "The Ghosts of Pasha are living gods"

(2: "The musicians Ghost, fish, and Tortoise went to great pains to learn every lyric of the band's songs."

(3: ""Fred Durst is willing to get tattoos of the band's name -- on his ass"

Obviously, he said A LOT more....Read his brief and find out. Please comment if you wish!