"While some fans speculated whether Phish would acknowledge the gathering of humanity concert at Watkin’s Glen 38 years earlier, the “FOTM” intro of “Meatstick” would be the closest that Phish would get to the Dead."

Respectfully disagree there. The closest they got to the Dead was on Thursday when they played the best music of the weekend in that transcendent Soundcheck Jam. The GD parallels are pretty obvious there!

Also, I'm dumbfounded that messing up the whistling in Reba qualifies as "butchering" the song for some. Who cares about the whistling for christs sake? The jam is where its at, and this one was spectacular.