next-day recaps are bound to be short -- there's lots to do! -- and without the benefit of extra time to mull things over, recappers' opinions will tend toward 'it confirmed my biases/surprised me; i love/hate it when that happens.'

*that's what recaps are for.*

if you want to know whether the show was good or not, listen to the show and decide for yourself. you do have time, y'know.

if you want to be part of a communal opinion-sharing activity -- which happily has no goal except to bring enthusiastic folks to the same webpage -- then carry on commenting, but don't go in expecting critical analysis.

there is a legitimate critique to be made of recaps in general. same goes for online discussion among phish fans in general. i guess the place for those critiques is the forum.

or your blog, of course.

at this point, if you're surprised or dismayed by content-free phrases like 'average great phish show,' you're reading the wrong KIND of phish fan-stuff. i bet you can find other stuff, though.