[AlmaKing]

I wonder if there was any cannabis to be had there?

[Mr. Mojo]

Like most Brits in America, there are many things that I have never been able to wrap my head around: beef jerky, health insurance and, most of all, jam bands.

Wonder if this Brit feels the same way about the UK's Cream, the original power trio jam band? Probably so. ...if he's even heard of them.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Wanker.

[Mase]

there are many things that I have never been able to wrap my head around: beef jerky, health insurance..

....endless guitar solos is my idea of hell.

My idea of hell is single payer/nationalized healthcare. This guy is living in hell he just isn't aware of it yet. Maybe when he gets older and actually needs healthcare.....

[plain talk]

The punk rocker may just not like Phish’s style. That’s cool- to each his own. Or he could be jealous that Trey Anastasio can actually play his instrument as opposed to just strumming three chords. It is usually the later. An interview with the Ramones revealed as much. They said they couldn’t play more complex rock and had to write punk music that they could play.

[Mariner]

I couldn’t agree with the author more.

[plain talk]

I am not much of a Phish fan. Just not my style. But I do find the guitar player interesting. He can play well and improvise. I also like the fact he still uses his home-made speaker cabinets he started with after all these years when he could have bought professional ones.

[Cen-Tejas]

If this is true, I don’t see how it works for long.

[NFHale]

“...So an evening with 18,000 hippies flailing around like demented jellyfish to endless guitar solos is my idea of hell....”

That is seriously one of the funniest sentences I have ever read....

[KevinB]

The title doesn't match the article. He wound up liking the show.

I don't get Phish at all. Perhaps it's because I'm not a stoner. The only original song they've done that I like is "Character Zero." They do pick some good covers, though, and perform them adequately. I must confess I am a Grateful Dead fan. I don't like the psychedelic stuff, but at their core they were a country/bluegrass band, which I do like for the most part. In fact, they started out as a jug band.

[Rebelbase]

A chick on a message board I hung on at years ago coined Phish’s music as “Jamwankery”.

God Bless you Kat, wherever you are!

[Seruzawa]

Wait. What’s wrong with flailing around like demented jellyfish to endless guitar solos?

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I like the Dead and punk......is there something wrong with me?

Never quite geehawed with Phish, though. Maybe I need to listen to them more.