With all due respect to the seasoned vet, if you can't see the greatness of this tour and happily accept that some shows will be like the band taking a collective fart in the middle of a giant feast, then all I can conclude is that you are blinded by your own vast perspective.

Who is really knee-deep in nostalgia here? The band (who..God knows what is going through their minds during each show, despite those who think they can tell), or the person who wants them to return to a previous era and play exactly the way they were doing then? This review is full of so many contradictions I don't know what to make of it. They are great. They are killing it. All four are freakin' ON!! I would enjoy this show if it was all I had to listen to on a desert island! But screw those guys they aren't even trying. They don't even WANT to get as intense as they were during MY hey-day.

When I first started seeing Phish, I sure felt like "everything was gradually building, improving, getting more exciting and more important." Hell yeah I did. And do I feel less so now? Yep. That was in '03; and I can only imagine that it is exponentially more so for someone who has been seeing them for over 10 years longer than myself.

But seriously, there have been so many spot-on jams this tour alone that it's a little hasty to call them a nostalgia act after they have a mediocre show during a rain-delayed fiasco where all kinds of things are throwing them out of whack.