@ericwyman said:

@kevinAreHollo said:

What we're seeing now is a decline, pure and simple, and it's not fun to watch.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. This is a GROSS over-statement and completely false. Trey and Page are playing far better than they have at any point since the reunion. To say that they are in their decline is way off base.

That wasn't Kevin's point. His point was that a band is more than the sum of its parts, and that the cohesion that developed from practice and repetition is no longer there. That's not a personal attack on any of the bandmembers. It's their prerogative to tour in short bursts. But their ability to finish each others' sentences musically depends on practice and repetition, and they simply don't have that any more. Again, no personal attack. They're pushing 50.

Why am I still on phish.net, if I feel this way? Because the band was that important to me back in the day. And they're still enjoyable in a different sort of way. Don't get me wrong, I have no intention of missing the Summer '11 phish concert.