@mikh2wg said:

There's plenty of room on this site to share your opinions about Phish. If you want to start a thread on the forum to do a little armchair quarterbacking of last night's show have at it. But I wish these recaps would focus on descriptions of the music rather than opinion.

And one of those places is on the blog. Saying that this discussion is ok on the forum but not here is ludicrous.

Some opinion is unavoidable, sure, and I do wanna know which parts of the show you like and dislike. But I also would like a little more meat about what the show sounded like. Maybe I'm old school. I used to read recaps in the days when we traded tapes. And back then you relied on the reviews to decide which tapes you wanted to seek out. A review that just gave you the writer's opinion of how the show shoulda gone wasn't much help in finding the shows you wanted. All it could show you was how that particular guy was underwhelmed.

That's ancient history. You can listen to the music with your own ears with negligible effort within an hour of the show. Comparing now with an effort that hinged upon the concept of describing something people not there wouldn't hear for some time is unfair. Some might even say that describing the show in that manner is trite given today's technology.