Everyone is jaded about something.

I saw my first Dead show in '81 as a teenager. I remember when there were stickers circulating the East Coast that said "The Fat Man Melts", in reference to Jerry's weight problems.

In the mid-eighties we were just happy to have him get through three songs without losing his voice.

Never used to listen to anything but the Dead for a long time. I thought Phish were punks in the mid-nineties until later in the decade when I caught the 50+ minute Runaway Jim at a show I was dragged to be a Phishhead who wouldn't shut up. I made a couple more shows but really wasn't a big fan yet, though I was starting to warm up to them.

What did it for me was Worcester '03. It was the YEM that opened the show into Clone. And the 15 minute Moma Dance later in the set (still the best I"ve ever heard). THEN I took an interest....

Anyway I was so disgusted by Jerry over the last 10-15 years of his career that I couldn't listen to anything after 1973 anymore without hating him.

Now I rarely listen to the Dead. I like String Cheese, Railroad Earth, and Phil Lesh. Never got into Panic. I do like Moe, but I need to be in the mood for them.

There is no one on the planet who produces the consistent quality of Phish. They are the masters. So I agree with you @Jestinphish. We are Birds of a Feather.

As for @AlbanyYEM, he's pretty much ruined any hope I have of a productive life, because he keeps making me go back and listen to segues over and over and over. Freaking guy. I'm supposed to be working.