At first I was a little iffy about Bobby's vocals, but then I started thinking about Phish50 and Trey's not there ( lets just say he went in a sabbatical and decided to skip it) and If I'd rather hear Fishman croak his way through the Trey parts or hear Tom Hamilton sing them.

Now, I have adored damn near everything Tom Hamilton has done since I first heard Brothers Past in 2001 and I had only started listening to Phish whatsoever about 5 years before that. But I'd rather him be in a support vocals and guitar role and hear the guys who played with Trey for decades take their turns singing even if they were way worse.

I get that the GD dynamic is different since Jerry has been gone for 20 years at this point and we have all heard Bobby and Phil sing Jerry songs and also seen them pass them off to a number of other more successful vocalists.

But as they're calling this the end of the book with only epilogues remaining (and maybe a sweet map of The Empire of Wook'ie all the way from the River Of Doses on the west coast to the eye of the Great Nitrous Storm hovering over the east coast) I'm totally on board with them singing everything they want to.

Bobs delivery on Jerry songs annoyed me at first, I've barely heard anything he has done since 1979 or so anyway, never dug the Brent and Post-Brent era stuff outside Drums> Space some sporadic Playins, Bird Songs, dark stars etc enough to really dig into it. So his seeming detachment struck me as odd. But after awhile it felt like he was just going to lay the song out as plainly as imaginable and let the audience fill it in. That might be the weed speaking.