I was at all three of 1/1/11, 10/26/10 and Bethel Night two and I definitely was most impressed with the most recent show. There were so many different sections of true open jamming on Saturday, I can't recall listening to a show from the last couple years that had nearly as many.

My number one hope for this summer was that the band would start to step out of structure on a more regular basis, (once or twice a night, if that, was the norm for fall tour and the holiday run, even 1/1). Saturday fulfilled that hope in spades and has me incredibly fired up for the summer. There was just a lot more dark, psychedelic, abstract jamming on Friday and Saturday than we'd been seeing.

Unfortunately, I do agree that Sunday was an uneventful show from a jamming perspective, and flowed quite poorly. Here's to hoping that the risk taking of the first two nights represent the new norm for Phish this year.