Twenty Years Later... hadn't been much of a fan, but its placement and performance here I found to be exemplary. Glad to see it come back here at tour's end. These were the three best shows I've attended in 3.0, and I'm glad to hear that there were pragmatic considerations for what seemed (despite the mad and wondrous jam to open the set) a bit rushed end to it all.

I don't have much affection for Character Zero—in fact, my jaw dropped when they played it, and not in a good way—but here it raged and rocked and felt like a solid enough period on the end of the Phish sentence that was the Dick's 2012 run, I just wanted an exclamation point, i.e., one final bustout, one final Big Statement of Phish like the rest of the shows had been. But when I hear that they wanted their crew, in honor of Labor Day, to be on their way, it makes me respect them only more. Good guys. We'd had our fill by then, as had they. There's nowhere to go from those jams in summer 2012—the moment ends, but the moment is eternal, and Phish seems caught up in what feels like Their Moment. I think any record made by these guys this fall is going to smoke, and future shows will as well... if they can maintain this level of energy and engagement. Nothing's a lock, and it can always go wrong, but for my money, Phish is peaking again right now. Glad to be a part of it.