Yeah I'm serious. I play music at a professional level and I'm telling you that Trey's tone is not so great right now. He's the weakest link of the band and has been for years- I don't know if it was all the oxy's in the late 90's early 00's but his tone has never been the same. And trust me, I know tone. I've played around (and been complimented by) the likes of Jimmy Herring and Dweezil Zappa- those guys have good ass tone. Trey doesn't anymore.

You can still live in the fantasy land with all the other wooks but that doesn't change the reality. I love Phish, but I'm not going to give them a pass on criticism just because they're Phish, unlike apparently everyone else in this subreddit.

You know what Bob Weir said his least favorite thing about Deadheads was? They only listen to the Grateful Dead!

And it's the same for Phish- I mean honestly, if I didn't love the band I wouldn't have anything positive or negative to say. I'm glad they're still touring, but I'm sick of the circlejerk about them like they're as good as they were in the 90's when they've been playing the same songs for 30 years. They've become caricatures of themselves because phans don't give a fuck about how it sounds, they just care about setlists.

The fact is they never will be as good as they used to because the fans aren't critical enough of them- they could play shitty versions of all their songs every night and there'd still be loads of drugged out hippies talking about how 'sick that energy was'. Yeah they're still having fun, but it's a different kind of fun, the kind of fun someone who's already made it has with their band, not a band that's still trying to prove themselves to the audience. They're comfortable because you've made them comfortable, and creatively they're suffering for it.