Okay, let's face it. I'm willing to state the obvious. The band started to peak at the Gorge with two incredible shows. They actually peaked at Tahoe with the Tweezer show, then rode that wave for several more shows through Bill Graham. They were already beginning to cool off by Hollywood Bowl.

The three week layoff killed their momentum and they came out flat this past weekend. Not lacking energy, just lacking IT. It's nobody's fault. The band's relationship with the music and with us is not a constant upward linear trajectory. It has its ebbs and flows. We are now in an ebb. The band feels it, we feel it.

I'm hoping they get it back soon but the reality is that these last three shows had a lot more in common with SPAC earlier in the tour they with anything that happened previously out West. Very uneven at best.

It is what it is. Can't spin it as something other than that. The "peaks" we long for are built through emotion and mutual energy between the band and the fans as anything technical they do on stage.

I'm looking forward the Worc. MA shows. Hopefully they have it all back by then.