More Than A Fan--My Interview with Chris Ko, Aerosmith's "Aerofanatic"

So you're probably a fan of something. Maybe you even think you're a fanatic. But have you run a massive fan community about it? And even more to the point, have you ever broken genuinely newsworthy stories about the object of your fanaticism, even if those stories are negative? (And when sometimes those negative stories were specifically leaked by one faction to make another faction look bad?)

Chris Ko has. He became the "Aerofanatic" after meeting Aerosmith on an old MTV show called "Fanatic." He took his fifteen minutes of fame from interviewing Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, and Tom Hamilton (Joey Kramer was absent) and turned it into a fan community that did what most fansites do...but also dished the dirt about band conflicts, drug abuse, and more. You don't have to be an Aerosmith fan to be into this story (although it doesn't hurt), because ultimately it's about a guy who went to a level beyond what anyone expected and became an inadvertent journalist in the process.

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The bulk of Chris's appearance on "Fanatic" is on YouTube and can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz53Uud4G0s

Also, visit the Aerofanatic community on Facebook here:

https://www.facebook.com/aerofanatic