@pzerbo said:

Folks, let's face it: the comments on show recaps have long-since jumped the shark. Write a positive, borderline fluffing recap; get slammed. Write a luke-warm recap; get slammed. Write a review from the couch; get slammed. Write about a personal experience from the show; get slammed. It starts with a particular someone who lurks in his parent's basement, just waiting, refresh, refresh... there it is! My moment! Slam the recap and the writer! Wow, that must be a an awesome moment in that person's otherwise dreadful, friend-less life. Good job. Now it's a trend. Awesome.

We know the criticism is coming. BFD. We keep it up, because among the 10K-20K views that a recap typically receives, there are at most a few dozen that feel the need to slam our efforts. The silent majority keeps coming back, so we'll keep at it. I think I can fairly speak for the group that maintains this site and offers recaps in one sense and in one sense only: we love Phish. We love Phish enough to take the time to offer what we hope is quality content. A few folks clearly don't like this content, but come back, day after day, to tell us how much we suck. To those who enjoy our content, we are thrilled to continue to offer our humble thoughts. To those who think we suck: GFY, brah, GFY. The irony, of course, is that people who want x, y, or z to be done differently offer no actual meaningful content of their own, but rather just slam the work of others.

I can certainly understand the admins' frustration, so would like to first off thank all the writers for the extensive time and effort they put in to write the recaps. They are often very educational to me as a newer fan, and I usually enjoy the jaded-but-still-positive take on the shows, versus parsing among the superlatives w/ Mr. Miner (whom I also enjoy).

However, this particular review deserves the criticism it's getting. It really read more like a gloat over the writer's box seats (who cares?) than a show experience. I was at the show so I know what it was like, but still it was frustrating not to get more of a sense of what the reviewer thought of the music.