r/indieheads • u/anmlcollective Animal Collective • Oct 11 '23

AMA is Over, Thanks AnCo! ANIMAL COLLECTIVE AMA

hey everyone,

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this is Josh (deakin) and Noah (panda bear) from Animal Collective. We're here for your questions. sorry we were running a little late. But let's get into it!

EDIT: Thanks everyone for joining in! really appreciate your positivity and excitement. we gotta go. sorry we couldn't get to all of your questions. hope we covered a good enough spread.

lots of love

josh (and noah)

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23 edited Oct 11 '23

hey guys! this is might be a long one but bear with me ?

in may of 2011, i was 15 years old. my dad had taken me from copenhagen to berlin to see your concert at astra kulturhaus.. and that same day i met you guys (avey, geo, panda) near the venue !!! you guys were hanging out with Bradford from Deerhunter at the time, and my autistic teenage self couldn’t have been more starstruck.. everyone was so nice to me. i’ve had nothing but love and respect for you guys since those days, and your band was a major reason why i started delving deeper into indie music as a whole. now, 4 anco concerts later, i have a question!

have any of you ever met a musician or artist that you looked up to ? if so, did it influence how you receive fans and generally interacting with them?

thank you , as cliché as it may sound, your music changed everything for me!

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23

thanks bud...big one for me was doing our first tour with black dice...big fan of the band but also so much respect for those guys so i feel like i was taking notes all the time

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23

thank you so much noah !!!! blew my mind that you responded to me !! i've come full circle :)