All the haters need to take the "glass half empty" glasses off. This SPAC run has been a fitting cap to an amazing tour. Ive been to a lot of shows this leg of the tour, and the biggest change I've noticed is in the lot scene and the bathroom line inside the show. There are so many less Haters coming to see phish in 2012, than at any other time in 3.0.

I'm gonna start calling the haters Doubters, since all you really do is doubt that the four band members can pull off a well-executed show. I'm also going to start calling the Doubters, Doubting Trolls, since the vast majority of the negativity thrown towards the band is found on online forums where all words are spoken behind the mask of anonymity.

Fact of the matter is you'd barely get away with that kind of negative talk if you were a fan of any other band, group, team, etc.......If you were a sports fan, would u go see your favorite team and then spend the game booing your team? You might....but most of the other fans around you would probably be confused as to why a fan would be trashing the team they came to support?

Some guy at SPAC last night started goin off on a negative rant in the middle of "Cities", complaining that the song was being played too slow. When he tried to get agreement from those around him, he was completely ignored.... because everyone was too busy dancing!! The guy promptly left that patch of crowd when he realized he was being ignored. Good. If you have ears that work and you know how focus your attention on the loud music coming from the speakers, then it's almost impossible not to find your body spontaneously moving with the rhythm, no matter how slow Fish drops the beat.

I listen to a lot of different bands, but Phish is my all time favorite, precicely because they offer something that no other band touring can offer. Knowing about this uniqueness keeps every show in its proper perspective.

The only way anyone could turn into a "jaded vet" is if they lost perspective on how Phish fits into the larger scheme of Music History......not just the smaller scheme of the closed system that is Phishtory.

When either Trey, Page, Mike, or Fish finally die and Phish is forever finished with no hope of reunion, then and only then will all the haters finally have an epiphany that they completely wasted 3.0 bitching and moaning instead of dancing their asses off and appreciating the gift that has been this extended reunion.

A closed system cannot observe itself. Get some proper perspective.