Fan Boy Syndrome

[The_Q]

This is something I've been thinking of lately. I think all of us have fallen into this area at least once in our lives. Or for some SEVERAL times! Lets face it, we all know that one person that is just WAY into that one band! I think thats awesome! So heres a chance to share your story. Heres mine.

I haven't been a "fanboy" in over a year. But I was a card carrying one for longer than I can remember. My first was Def Leppard from 1987-2006 and second was Helloween/ Gamma Ray from 1989- present. My criteria for fanboy is:

1. Having said fanboy band as a bookmark/ favorite on your PC.
2. Checking news on that fanboy band at least once per day
3. Checking ebay and amazon for rare or cool items at least once a day
4. Collecting everything connected to the band no matter what the price.

 

[spag]

I think you also have to defend anything they do no matter what, how bad an album sucks, decisions the band makes regarding lineup, etc.

 

[The_Q]

hmm..I don't know Def leppards "X" sucked pretty bad monkey butt

 

[Jibrille]

Your criteria means I've never been a fangirl of any band then.

 

[kellsco]

Your criteria means I've never been a fangirl of any band then.

Same here. I'm only guilty of #1 & 2.

 

[thedelicateflower]

...ummm....i was a fangirl before computers....owned all the magazines my fav bands were in...collected guitar picks, buttons from shirts, pieces of bass guitars....etc.....

 

[OrbWeaver]

Your criteria means I've never been a fangirl of any band then.

Ditto.

 

[Magius]

There are, and always have been, too many good artists to be infactuated with any one band.

 

[Pellaz]

Hmm, aside from #1, I haven't been a fanboy for ANY band, although I suppose I've come close: Rush, back in the days of the National Midnight Star.... Dream Theater, in the halcyon days of the Ytsejam Mailing List.... And Ozric Tentacles during the Erpnotes era.

You forgot one thing, though:

5. Creating an 'official' website for a band that didn't then have an official site.

--Which I've done twice, once for a local band called Bonedance, the other for the Arkansas-based band Mutha's Day Out....but both bands were friends o' mine, so maybe I have fanboy immunity?

 

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

1. Having said fanboy band as a bookmark/ favorite on your PC.
2. Checking news on that fanboy band at least once per day
3. Checking ebay and amazon for rare or cool items at least once a day
4. Collecting everything connected to the band no matter what the price.

I have to agree with most when saying that if this is your criteria, than I've never been a fangirl for any band.

However, if you removed the words "at least once per day" from #s 3 & 4, I'd say that I'd qualify as a fangirl for several bands - Doro obviously being one of them.

However, even #4 sort of negates that, since about 3 months ago, I attempted to buy a "rare" stand-up display version of the "Triumph & Agony" LP picture disk on e-Bay from some guy. I won the item for like 50 pounds. Then he hits me with the shipping (which was not originally list on his page) - 100 pounds. The album would have ended up costing me over $300. I've had autographed guitars shipped from overseas for less money, so we mutually agreed/disagreed to end the transaction.

 

[Diamond45]

Before I discovered power & progressive metal, I used to be a HUGE fan of U2. Downloaded every rare MP3 I could find, purchase every import CD I could find, kept up to date on all the news, etc.

Since about early 2005 or so, I have "moved on" so to speak and haven't followed anything about them since.

Occasionally, I'll follow RUSH, especially when they're on tour (like now). But that "fandom" will die down once they're off the road.

 

[RagePSV]

Gulity Overkill fanboy in the 90's

 

[kittybeast]

well here I thought I was a Scorpions fangirl but I would never defend an album I felt was sub par. imo it's the only way to be (hate to use this....) a true fan. we are all entitled to our opinions but Pure Instinct had a couple decent tracks but the majority it was not to my liking.

 

[Ruthven]

I think you also have to defend anything they do no matter what, how bad an album sucks, decisions the band makes regarding lineup, etc.

That is what I think of when I think of a fanboy. And add to that criteria, I think of fanboys (or fangirls) as people who won't let you forget that they are not just fans, but friends of the band in question, which of course makes their opinion more valid and "informed" than yours.

 

[booB]

so in other words, the fact that I went to a matinee showing of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" yesterday before work doesn't make me a Kristen Bell fanboy?

 

[rushzil2112]

Apparently fanboy/girls don't defend any album an artist puts out. Apparently there are tons of Cryptopsy fanboys/girls, and none of them are defending the new album. I am not a fanboy of Cryptopsy, but I love their old stuff, but I am defending them on this new album because I think it is still good and sounds like them, and the new singer has good cleans and his growling is more understandable than Lord Worm. It looks like to me that there are more fanboys/girls for certain members than persay a full band, because there are more fans of say Lord Worm than all of Cryptopsy. Just my 2 cents of the discussions of certain bands that are getting dogged on their new material, especially from long-time fans.

 

[biggs0072000]

I tend to go into fanboy mode in regards to Blind Guardian, and Iced Earth. I was always a music nerd, but they were the bands that got me into metal in the first place, along with some help from Maiden.