Stanza is used as a first set a lot. It's from the colloquial "stanza" in reference to a baseball inning

You can get a great deal on Phish tickets a lot of places. The first year at Portsmouth - a venue that holds all of 6,500 mind you, I got a ticket for 15 after passing dozens for face. My last 5 shows not including MSG, I haven't spent a combined $100 on tickets.

As for the show..

I'm fine with the flubs.its like a 97 kind of flub. They routinely butchered songs then too. Parts of 2011 and 2012 seemed like the best they'd played their songs since 1995.

I'm noticing Trey botch some stuff in songs, but nothing that takes away from the show for me. He has been really interesting in the jams,

Anyone feel like Page might be the de facto leader in jams now? Mike took point most of last year. Now it seems like Page is the one who will do the melodic shading that sends a jamin a new direction. And I'm pretty excited that despite all the messy bits of songs, their Improv is still on that 2012 level that I've found shockingly impressive. The Melt and Carini and Light and even Drowned and Jim to a lesser extent are really showcasing that same kind of "Everything we have learned" synergy. Where all the parts of the jams are spacious and rhythmic like the late 90s but they hit on 5 ideas in 2 minutes like the early 90s. The way these jams flow from section to section blows me away.

It's worth asking- what if these shows end up being on the weak end of this tour? That would be amazing. I felt like something clicked from Bethel through the first week in 2011, then again at UIC and Dicks and on the west coast.. 2012 - especially leg 2 had some of the most and least interesting shows in a decade within a few days of each other. What if? What if we reached a point where a show with this Melt and Carini is average? And
not-super-experimental but unique nonetheless jams like SPACs Tweezers and Sands are like the B Team highlight?

Heavy Things is great. 2000 me would be so perplexed at my passion for Heavy Things, Farmhouse and Roggae. But hey! Those songs are amazing lately, what can I say?