"another peek over the free-form jam precipice, but the band just refused to jump"

This obviously sums up Phish nowadays in general but I especially felt it in set 2. There was something in the R&R jam and the ambience that followed that really got me excited that we were in for some serious exploration. The Tweezer that followed was SO promising that I started making comments like "jam of tour", etc but I was obviously way too presumptuous in doing so. It was cut off when it really could have become great and went into that run of the mill Free instead. I won't go into much more detail, this show has been dissected enough, but I will say that the Hood was special though I had no problem with the transition into WTU(Page and Mike had initiated a "space" section that almost demanded that transition). At the end of WTU there was no question that Fish started the high-hat and was ready for a "> Hood" but Page nixed that by hammering the Velvet Sea intro and that effectively ended the chances for some real exploration and improv IMO.

I am not a 3.0 complainer, I've come to the conclusion that "it is what it is" and we're just not going to get the type of jams that we became accustomed to in the past. This set, however, especially rankled me because it was SO promising. I felt Trey was ready to explore and they hit some spacy sections early that made me think we were in for an old-school set. It wasn't to be though, as the set turned into a typical (albeit above-average) 3.0 performance. It was disappointing but, like I said, it is what it is these days.