Phish is a great band that has some real jams, but I would rather hear Phish do a covers album, or a kids album. Their songwriting, or to be precise the breadth and depth of their point of view in their songs, remains woefully inadequate for the audience they address. Every time I hear them I understand that Hunter/Garcia was really the Dead’s beast of burden, carrying them through all those years.
I heard their new thing at NPR.
3 months ago
