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SPIN: We Won a Tube of Preparation H at the Gathering of the Juggalos

Dan Weiss of SPIN just published a massive article about the Gathering of the Juggalos. In this article Dan discusses in-depth his Gathering experience.

The photos that are in this article were shot by Jason Shaltz. You can read part of his article and find a link to the full article below.

I have never seen a Montana license plate until today. We’re in the parking “lot” of Legend Valley, a grassy farmland in Thornville, Ohio, a road-heavy region replete with 30-cent wings on Tuesdays. It’s the most recent place on earth to host the Gathering of the Juggalos, the Insane Clown Posse’s annual four-day festival, which everyone has an opinion on, including everyone who learned I’d be attending. Now in its 16th year, this convention is mythical — literally. Unlike most subcultural festivals, your friends and possibly family know what it is, and they all have tales of what it must be like, without ever having witnessed it with their own eyes. It’s biblical. It smells like pig s—t.Five years ago, my good friend (and this article’s photographer) Jason Shaltz explained the appeal of the Juggalo identity to Village Voice’s Camille Dodero in the most universal terms possible: “People who identify with this culture have had some relatively turbulent times in their lives and it helps them deal with it.”

Shaltz has attended the Gathering six times and shot a video for ICP proteges Twiztid; I have to admit that, while me and my friends have joked for years that we should go to this thing, it wasn’t a serious consideration until I met him. The 35-year-old Flint native-turned-Brooklynite exhibited a photography show in Brooklyn in 2010 called The Juggalo, all portraits of you-know-whos. Now here we are, spending four days hanging with what some believe to be the worst people on earth.

You can read the full article by clicking the link below.

We Won a Tube of Preparation H at the Gathering of the Juggalos @ SPIN

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    Faygoluvers Comments

  1. twiztid_ruiner

    twiztid_ruiner

    Comment posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 03:58 pm GMT -5 at 3:58 pm

    (gunna do a ricky bobby) with all due respect but fuck dan weiss

  2. twiztid_ruiner

    twiztid_ruiner

    Comment posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 04:04 pm GMT -5 at 4:04 pm

    read fast, didn’t see the “what sum believe” my fault lol

  3. bayAreaShaman

    bayAreaShaman

    Comment posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 06:35 pm GMT -5 at 6:35 pm

    Fuck that guy and his fucken arrogant im better than these creatures fucken attitude. ” oh look theyre capable of love”. They always gotta have some bitch ass musician with some fucken band hes not aloud to promote on his on magazine cuz it sucks balls.

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