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by Defender_Archive
i'll start by saying i would guess i've heard more phish than anyone on this board, as my two really good friends are reallllllly into them, among other things though, and not jam bands. at a time i even thought they were great. obviously now theyre crap. but when they were on a lot more speed they actually could do some things that my 16 year old head couldnt wrap around live. also, first time indirectly starting to understand and respect the DIY method to make music. i wouldnt say that they really held up to that anymore. also im 19, so i've never seen them in the early nineties or anything which most phish fans would say is there best. but while im younger than most on this board, i for the most part share a similar taste. but i did see them last year at alpine valley for kicks and, yeah, it was crap, and i've stopped listening to them since. but there are many many shows i've heard where phish is not crap, as flashy and pretentious as they may be. probably never wouldve been said on here before. maybe i'll try to find a decent youtube video, but really it was the cruising thing that got me into them, and probably mostly the weed. if anyone actually gives a shit and is interested in giving it a listen, a couple of the best shows i can think of are redrocks '94, or 8/17/97 i guess. i don't even care to convince anyone, as i doubt i'll ever listen to a full phish show again. also i fucking hate the grateful dead. phish is way heavier than those types of jam bands and i think it's pretty lazy comparison. it's mostly just that the moron, drug addicted crowd switched over to phish as soon as jerry garcia croaked.i dont take my opinion of phish as serious as some of you might, which is confusing