Phish Story: View the parking lot fight from another angle (video)

Update (9/29/11): A few commenters on this week’s cover story, “Phish Story,” alerted us to another video of the incident that has surfaced. This one, which was posted on YouTube today, evidently, is shot from yet another angle, and the footage appears to be from sometime between the subsequent eleven-second…

Phish story: So what happens to all that seized bootleg merchandise?

Wondering what becomes of all the bootleg merchandise that is seized? The clothing items sometimes find their way into the hands of less fortunate individuals through various charity organizations. Such was the case in 2005, when Cousins Entertainment, through its attorneys at the time, the Denver-based law firm, Schwartz &…

Phish Story: Bootlegged Phish merchandise presented to courts

This week’s cover story, “Phish Story,” outlines how bands, specifically Colorado favorites Phish, battle the parking lot bootleggers who make money — some it defend as a way to keep following the band on tour, while others says it’s profit-driven — off the band’s likeness, name and image. Below are…

Phish Story: View the injunctions that keep Phish bootleggers at bay

Dave Anver, the pony-tailed man in this video from Phish’s show at Dick’s on Friday, September 2, is the subject of this week’s Westword cover story, “Phish Story.” Anver says his job is “serving federal injunctions against people for selling counterfeit merchandise,” but his methods came into question after the…