i must admit, i'm baffled on a particular point that has astonished me since Hampton '09.

after reading about how important it was to all of these individual guys, and to the band as a whole, to take a break and write some new music - and after HEARING the successful results for myself, the Round Room and Undermind material introduced in '03-'04 - that this band doesn't play more of the songs that were so integral and so indicative of this essential period of growth and recovery in the midst of their career.

i don't think anyone would argue that Round Room is Phish's magnum opus, but there are a lot of GREAT fan-beloved songs on that disc that have barely been touched at all in the past four years. after reading the collection of snippets above, if anything i'm now even more confused about the reason why.