I attended all three nights of Dicks 2014 run. All three nights were fun well-played concerts. Night 1 sounded and felt like a warm-up. But it felt like a special night because it was the first Phish concert EVER where the fans could legally buy and smoke weed. The band made no mention of this hallmark, but I went into the show fully aware of the relevance and history. Considering that Phish inherited the cultural children of the 60's counterculture, it was awesome to place this show and it's abundance of legal weed in the counterculture timeline. Change truly has come to America, or at the very least Colorodo.

Night 2 was the highlight---the whole band played with confidence, and the soloing is always more profound when the band members solo confidently. Trey is forever hot-cold when it comes to his guitar playing, and it all has to do with his confidence and hesitating or being cautious with his fingers on the frets. The best moments in phish improv come when the band members aren't trying not to make mistakes, when their playing is so fast that mistakes get weaved into the flow and what some would call a mistake becomes dissonance waiting for resolution or controlled tension-release.

Either way, I thought the band played their best show night 2, the Saturday show. I was not a fan of the venue due to sitting in GA stands. After getting almost front row all three nights of Randalls Island, I was dissappointed with the low energy of the crowd in the stands. The band can rage into miracle territory, and half the audience will always be too high to fully engage or enjoy the intensity of a jam.