The song "Fuego" was clearly written to unite the crowd in chant....you know....the "Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah" part. Listening to the track on the album I could just imagine the whole crowd with their hands in the air chanting along to this. I figured it was the band's deliberate attempt to create the 3.0 era equivalent of the "Stash" part where the whole crowd chants, "Oh aye oh aye oh, oh aye oh aye oh, etc...". Whether that was the intention or not on the bands part, I'm confident that's where the song will end up in the repertoire over the remainder of the decade.

Brief "Fuego" album review....well produced, highlights the band's strengths while minimizing their various achille's heels. As far as a comparison to past album's....Round Room is the last Phish album that I can listen to from start to finish and truly say I love every second of it. Not to say that I don't like individual tracks on the other albums (I actually loooooove "Time Turns Elastic" , but I'm one of the few fans who likes to listen to their albums from start to finish, and I am still waiting for that album to arrive. The new stuff is just too lo-fi soft-rock singer-songwritery for me. Which isn't a bad thing --- as far as songwriting goes, Trey's got it down to a science, but I just haven't adapted to the fact that this is now Trey's modus operandi when outputting new material. For four musicians who could probably teach a college course on advanced music theory, I'm still waiting for them to give 120% into breaking down all expectations musically on an album......and it's not like they can't.

I'll be at SPAC for the 4th. Can't wait.