Your example of Phish bashing doesn't make any sense; they weren't a reggae band. What they did do was make amazing original music. There is another similarity, in that most current jam bands suck, as do most current reggae bands - it's hard to put a finger on exactly why, but I think it's mainly because they write terrible songs and don't have much musical identity. Which is of course impossible to prove and entirely subjective. But, really.. it looks like reggae, smells like reggae... hmmm... but the songs suck. The great thing about roots reggae was killer songs, killer singers, killer production, killer players. Maybe it's akin to classic jazz in that sense too; you can recreate it, but there will never be another miles davis quintet or Love Supreme.

One thing about DH is that he has an opinion, negative of course, which leads me to invite u DH to come to nectar and be around some positivity..peace DH and to original roots music I'm glad Kore Ionz represents roots with their own twist!!

people spend so much time classifying and organizing things into genre, which is super annoying (and often incorrect and illogical), especially when it comes to the arts! Just enjoy it for what it is, which is neither any of these categories or examples, nor can it be entirely separated from them. Promulgating the death of raggae seems a bit like Nas saying that hip-hop is dead, except the person saying it doesn't do it with a good heart or sound; nor do they have a long history and respectable reputation with the art. Calling it a freeze-dried pet sounds like a white person fetish/attachment for their non-soulful rendition of soulful arts that they can't seem to live without, which is not what kore ions is doing (and those who are, you know who you are! I.e., "modern" blues, jazz, soul; (most) white hip-hop, spoken word; etc.). I guess it's not that surprising that writers in the stranger, which, in my limited experience, has all too often been controversial wanna-be hipsters who are too high strung and critical to channel the good spirit of the ganja, have the audacity to call a genre dead, as if they killed it. In the increasingly globalized world, I think Kore Ions genre-bending-rule-abiding-so-called-dead-genre-posiing/reviving-etc. efforts reflect the increasingly globalized world, which warrants lots of criticism but also presents amazing things to appreciate. Peace and Love