by Justin Taylor

You might have seen the below pull quote floating around on social media. The full article is definitely worth a read. Very entertaining and interesting writing from the Phish fan's perspective, detailing the Orange Beach AL shows over Memorial Day. I have definitely said or thought many of the things that Justin wrote about here, and LOL'd a few times reading this.

You can say all kinds of snide things about Phish: their aesthetics, their fans, their scene. I’ve said some of them myself. I don’t care whether you believe those things and I don’t care whether you believe what I’m about to say. Each of these four guys is among the best living musicians to play his respective instrument, and when they play together they bring forty years of friendship and work and mistakes and solidarity and inside jokes and love and belief and inertia and trust and joy; they bring it all together and stand up there together making it all true for us and for themselves, dreaming a shared future into evanescent presence note by note and song by song. I’ve never encountered anything else remotely like it in this world, I have no reason to believe that I ever will, and the fact that it’s all a little stupid only makes me love it more.