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The ranch dressing of music blogs by Brady Gerber.

Phish on YouTube.

Rating: 0.5 out of 4.

Phish is great, and Phish sucks a bag of used socks worn by your cousin who “found” himself. The half-star is because I’m a Phish fan who has never seen them live and still thinks the closing guitar solo in A Live One‘s live version of “Harry Hood” is biblical.

-Brady Gerber

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