Nice reads here! Fun to pour through some of these comments when searching for some good new Phish. I have been around Phish for a long long time...1991...and I still truly love this band and what they are doing...except one thing...

Perhaps anyone would care to comment on this (I only bring it up here because the review mentioned his pitch shifter): Trey's whammy pedal. (or pitch bendy thing...or pitch shifter...or whatever you want to call it.)

It absolutely destroys his normally rock solid intonation. So many attacks on his notes become weird bends that often never quite make it up to the in-tune note it sounds like he is going for. It goes all over the place. Flat, sharp, unfocused...all that. This is so prevalent in 3.0, but he has gone away from it more in the past couple years. Now it is back and all over the place. First night of SPAC, for example...ugh!

It is clear his chops aren't exactly what they used to be, but that isn't my concern. I'm not some disgruntled vet of the "old days," but the whammy pedal just ruins so much. The Divided Sky even had it at one of the SPAC shows which hasn't happened all that much in previous 3.0 Divided Sky versions, and the notes just had this super weird bendy attack. Sounds a bit like a young kid who hasn't figured out the jazz players don't just bend notes all over. I believe this bendy crap is the root of the term I have heard people using in 3.0, "whale calls." Is that right?

What's up with the bendy crap?!?! When he gets his foot off that pedal, everything sounds so much better. SO MUCH BETTER!

Having said that...I am so excited for Chicago! There have been some excellent moments this tour!