A fan, short for fanatic and sometimes also called aficionado or supporter, is a person with an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking and enthusiasm for a sporting club, person (usually a celebrity), group of persons, company, product, activity, work of art, idea, or trend. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_(person)

Look at this first video! Garth’s fans recognise his facial expression/body language (and this in a stadium-sized setting) before he plays the first frickin chord! And then! and then (for the benefit of  new fans) he plays the opening chord real slow (some ‘common as noodles’  depleted 7th chord), then everyone knows the song coming next!
Please excuse the rant, but my generation is the 1960s and that was a place/time that was characterized by us being, how to put this diplomatically, often fucked up. Now in the 60’s and early 70s, when a performer would start a signature song, the members of the audience would,  provided of course  they had the receiving side of their heads aimed in the general direction of the stage and someone said, “Hey man, that’s that song!” react appreciatively. They would clap and cheer and otherwise react as an audience should.  But these modern audiences, jeez!
What’d they do, spend their entire waking life at home so they could memorize concert videos with lyrics flashcards held up by their kids? (“but, momm  I need to go to bed”) (“Never mind that where the hell is chord chart for Thunder Road…now hold the kitchen faucet spray nozzle over my head”)

We did not, in our youth, devote quite so much to our cultural role models.

Another phenomenon of modern music fans is observed in audiences comprised of people who not only know the lyrics, but in all likelihood are stopping by the concert on their way to their Julliard School of Music  Open Mike nights. Consider the following sample from Fred Hammond.

Damn! Jealous? I think I am comfortable enough here at the Doctrine and with you as the (putative) Readers and DownSprings and Progenitors to answer in the (branded, not to used with copyright acknowledgement) Doctrine-approved manner, “Yes. Yes, I am”
I will admit to feeling, ‘jeez how cool it must be to have total strangers come miles to watch you do something that they can do on their TV/computer. And they (the fans) do it on purpose, they want to!’

But that is Garth and Fred and we are us. And while those two (and the ridiculously large group of other people on earth who have actual fans) have the fame and fortune and everything that goes with it…(no, much as I like the song, a Queen video would be varnishing, the brass that coats the goldleaf covering the carved out of human bone figurine…i.e. obvious, lol).
The simple irrefutable fact is that what Fred and Garth and them don’t got is a grasp and understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) and we do.

And by ‘we’ I mean you Readers and Friends of the Doctrine and DownSprings and Progenitors. You have this very rare and quite special thing. (And we also know that at this moment the rogers among us are grumbling, “hey wait you ain’t so special”.

Which, of course, draws the attention of the nearby scotts…

So, while the smorgasboard (to use a rogerian expression) gets set up, let’s leave with a Contest!  Real Easy one!  Let’s make it a Poll, those are fun!

OK, but while I said easy I did not mean totally easy.

Ok. Enough for now…of course the prize is a hat (for your damn head) haven’t you read not a goddamn thing? and you’re supposed to be a repers of intelligence.