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SpreadEagle Honestly I find it odd and a disgrace that burgettstown 03 gets no love! Everything's a comparison to 1.0 or now 09-11...03 had some solid shows and obviously IT(but that's a whole different story)however people seem to forget Burgettstown or they weren't there!?!

I just listened to this show and didnt watch however since 09 I've seen all the new songs for the first time in joy & Halloween 2013! And I love segueing as they have been doing but to me this was different than the past! They'd segue and jam! Which is what I enjoy(Ed)! Not saying I didn't enjoy listening to this show as they teased a lot during tweezer til the end of the show!

But as far as putting this on the mantle I have to disagree with many people's opinions. The Curtain With was average and I love the song, sand was solid, Yem..is yem ever not a pleasure to hear? Same goes for Tweezer! However besides teasing and going in and out, back and forth....their needs to be some realization that many shows of the past and possibly the future will out weigh this. I called the Saw it Again prior to the show starting as its not the first time it's been played at MMP...and if you go back to Summer '10, I believe a Sunday...that show was much better then this. And maybe not as tight playing as they are now but go back and listen..the flow was there!

Now let's not forget life is subjective just like reviews of shows! I never got to see Phish in the 90s however started listening to them in '95 hence a subjective ideology of then, the in between and the now.

I believe that this Amazing Band can and always has been able to pull out their Ace card when and if they please! And yes, the Ace was pulled tonight but I think to a degree in which is a little overhyped! This show shouldn't be considered as a bustout show just cause they played "Jennifer Dances" for the first time since '99 as many feel that's what makes it so as well as the segueing. I think especially with the way the set lists have been looking on paper..they stop after Waiting All Night...unless stopping is the new segueing? But to me segueing is that 1-3 minutes it takes of each member slowly transparently changing from one song to the next, not stopping for 5-10 seconds and going into the next song! That stoppage..is a stop, a pause, a momment in time that a break is taken!

Fall last year was by far better then any show so far this summer! Not every fall show but most were better! However, the song selection this summer is so minute! I expect the new songs but when every other show contains the same songs it gets a little misleading to the IT factor!

I know it sounds as if I'm bashing the heck out of this show but my point is where is the love for a truly bust out show in Burgettstown 2003? A show where you had to be there, not watch it on your TV! That's what's made some of this fun and also taken some of the fun out of going to the shows or chasing THAT SHOW! Now everyone can say I saw 7/27/14...whether there or not, which is fine as I'm glad that for the past 5 years I've been able to listen to almost everything in the moment as if I were there!

But to sum up this show IMO..it's being overhyped just as the TahooTweezer and all it's Woooing that continued into fall and early this summer and if the band digs it, cool. But let that be in that moment! And as the band progresses thru the summer tour lets get over the fact that the next show isn't always better then the last as most newer fans seem to think! Cause tonight's show..VA was not!

Now bash, hate, neglect my opinion but remember its just that ONE persons opinion amongst thousands! But please go listen to Burgettstown 2003 and realize that is a true bustout show from beginning til end! Everything everyone wish they could hear...all in one!

Cause 2003 good or bad had some great moments! But let's not overhype a show because of one song or because it was the first moment of them getting back to segueing!


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