bertoletdown -

That review of Slip, Stitch and Pass you linked to here is hysterical.

It reminds me of Mike in Bittersweet Motel, loving the fact Todd Phillips made Trey read bad reviews on camera. As though Todd had much of a choice, since that Milo Miles review was a *favorable* one, and still managed to slag the band with every other sentence.

I started playing guitar at 14, and like every boy at that age, I started dreaming of what kind of band would be MY BAND. I was introduced to the Dead at 16, and Phish at 19-20. The Dead were a band that gave me all that I could want from a band I listened to, but Phish was the sound/attitude/balls of the band that was in my head (but I wasn't talented enough to execute myself). So much so, that I used to have a list of cover songs I would want to play with my band. It was nearly 30 songs long. Phish played over 20 of them.

Not that I think one is ultimately better than another, for how can you compare two sunrises, but Phish is the one I have overwhelmingly preferred for 16 years.