@J_D_G said:

I bet you I can find 1,000 more insulting statements toward Phish and their music.

Just saying.

Say it all you want, but find me 1,000 statements more insulting to Phish than the assertion that there's no purpose in ever listening to it.[/quote]

Here are the first 10. I think you may be familiar with them ...

1) a nostalgia act—a band older than its years

2) utterly disinterested creatively

3) fully satisfied with pleasant mediocrity.

4) essentially interchangeable with any other recent version

5) taking the first available exit in favor of a tossed-off "Julius"

6) background music for a long drive

7) If your mind drifts for a few minutes, you won't really miss anything

8) there's almost nothing here you need to seek out

9) an uninspiring show

10) It's not that they can't do it. It's just that, far too often, they don't seem to want to.