If anything can be learned from Phish: Bittersweet Motel, it's that cult bands can be just as obnoxious and pretentious as mainstream ones.
During the span of this mercifully short rock-u-mentary, opening tonight at midnight at the Garneau Theatre, members of "the biggest cult band in America" drink, swear, snub fans, tease store owners, whine about critics and wallow in musical self-indulgence. In short, they behave like any overgrown teenagers blessed to live their dream of being rock musicians. Aside from Phish's music - a meandering noodle of folk-rock, wacky covers and whatever experimental idea pops into their heads - this could be a profile of Bon Jovi trapped in the woods of Vermont for a year without their tailors or hair stylists.
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