Rolling Stone's Phish Fry
February 10, 1995 - The Washington Post
By Lois Romano

A curiously inaccurate review of the hot band Phish in the highest-profile music mag around, Rolling Stone, is making big waves among the group's fans.

The brief rundown of a Boston Garden gig, by freelancer Paul Robicheau, had the whimsical quartet performing in wet suits and covering the entire Beatles "White Album." Problem is, while the group has at times done both, it did neither at this particular concert.

All of which had Rolling Stone Music Editor David Fricke hitting a sour note, blaming the error on sloppy editing. "It was unfortunate, but it happens," he said. "In fact, it was a very positive review."

So perplexed were the group's many fans that they burned up the info superhighway, where band groupies commune on the Internet. "It would take a complete butthead of an editor to have made the kinds of changes in the article that resulted in essentially three shows being rolled into one," wrote one mad fan on the "Phishnet."

Boston-based critic Robicheau, who's followed the band for years, declined to comment, but the Boston Globe ran his review of the same concert, and, though it mentioned the two gimmicks, it did so in the proper context. Phish's manager also declined to comment.