I agree that the Grateful Dead in their prime was a far more innovative and groundbreaking band than Phish. Phish simply lacks strength in the songwriting department and can't compete with the Grateful Dead's massive catalog of great songs written by Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter.
To be fair, Farmhouse (2000) an album which Phish outsourced their songwriting duties to songwriter/keyboardist Tom Marshall is the strongest Phish studio album to date. However many Phish fans revile Farmhouse because it lacks the usual 15 or 20 minute jam songs that are the heart of Phish's live concert repertoire.
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