@cobaltsea said:

Waxbanks is an Trucking/ uncle john band/ casey jones type of deadhead.

He may know something about Phish but his whole little sophomoric tract scream the fact that he never saw the Dead and is not schooled in their music

His writing is a fluff piece for Phish hidden underneath a broad oversimplified statement.

Oh yeah Trey is a better and more intricate and nuanced guitar player than Jerry.
Nice writing LIL guy

You're being a dick and I don't want to feed the troll, but (out of a misplaced sense of obligation?) I'll clarify three things:

1) I didn't say Trey was a better guitarist than Garcia. I don't think they're easily comparable, actually. They approach improvisation differently. I greatly respect them both. My relationship with Trey's music goes a lot further back. But 'put away childish things' and all that...

2) This is emphatically not a 'fluff piece' for anyone. If anything it's an attempt to reconcile my very different reactions to the Dead and Phish over the years, and the way they've started to come together for me into a greater body of (merely) music, of fellowship. If anything, this post is saying that their musics aren't simply comparable because their aims and means were so different; but it's possible to open the same heart to both musics. That's important to me. (I only have the one heart, is the thing.)

3) I'm not 25 anymore, big guy. And as I've hyperbolically said elsewhere, 'Uncle John's Band' has the worst vocal arrangement of any song ever written by a nominally professional songwriter. Just atrocious. Ruins a very fine song. Truckin' is a dippy song too. (Is that Barlow's lyric? I'm not his biggest fan exactly.) Says nothing about the jams in either, of course!