@bl002e said:

@HarborSeal said:

Great review -- but what's that Maria tease in the 12/31/95 'paug? Got a timing?

6:17 through 6:47 here: http://www.phishtracks.com/shows/1995-12-31/weekapaug-groove />
Honestly, I'm not all too familiar with Maria, but I recognized it immediately as "that riff from the NYE '95 Paug that I guess must be a tease of some other song" at last night's show.

Just because I don't think many people know yet, I should mention that PhishTracks now supports YouTube-like time-linking. In the above example, you'd want:

http://www.phishtracks.com/shows/1995-12-31/weekapaug-groove?t=6m17s />
That is, append "?t=XmYs" after the URL (where X is the number of minutes and Y is the number of seconds -- you could also go ?t=377s for example) to link directly to a particular time.

Great review @bl002e -- not to be a sycophant but you're one of the elite .netters in my book and I enjoy your posts and respect your opinion. I agree that what we've seen so far in the improvisation department bodes really well for the rest of the tour, despite a couple missed opportunities, some run-of-the-mill sections, and a little too much whammy for my tastes. That is to say, overall, this five show run to start tour has me completely fired up about BGCA next month (22 days left!). I'm not going to bring a "NO MORE WHAMMY" sign, but rather, will just put my faith in Trey and Phish to have everything sorted out come my hometown shows. And if not, I'm going to have a blast anyway!