"legendary" "best ever" "one of the stronger recent versions" are all evaluative phrases from this review. Seriously, read the content before busting out the jump to conclusions board. Standard, averagely great versions of first set songs are not 'bad' they are just that, average. Nothing too unusual, good or bad, occurred. That seems to be a pretty objective statement of fact. I like phish, so I like average phish songs. We don't need to pretend they're something they're not. Good phish sets are, by definition, better than average. Now, I admit I don't know what a drowning kitten sounds like, so I'll withhold judgment on that one.

Is anyone else tired of the comments section repeating this scenario ad infinitum?

Snarky meta-meta comment: Mike smiling or good times had by all doesn't translate to tape.