Better than the Tahoe Tweezer!!? This just seems to plod along for soooo long. Multiple potential directions are hinted at before being swallowed back into the mid tempo slog. It's a great sounding jam during that 8 minute stretch where essentially nothing happens, but I guess 3.0 has just raised my expectations back to early 90s levels. At least as far as what kind of mastery Phish has over using a sustained note here and a lagging snare there to send the band spiraling in a totally different direction as if in cue.

And how does a 2001 mature? If anything, it's one of the most outside-the-box versions I've ever heard. Usually when they take it out a little it's so repetitive that it reminds me of the set killing Sands and Jibboos of days past before 3.0 gave Sand a reason for living.

It's funny, I knew that I'd walk away from Hampton thinking about it in different terms. While wholly enjoyable, it felt hollow. Cactus just wasn't taking command the way he usually does, and in the lack of that, the jamming- while broad- didn't reach deep. To my ears anyway. I'm sure there are plenty of people who think that returning to 2000 is a godsend.