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

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.