@FACTSAREUSELESS said:

Well, don't forget he prefaced his praise of Fall '10 by describing it as "loose". As in (as I took his meaning) "freewheeling". I would add...."unburdened by a feeling of pre-set expectations". Trey and Fishman were fire on that tour.

I'll gladly concede your greater point, (because you're obviously right!) but you must admit that it was a great tour during a time in Phishtory when everyone was still waiting for them to go back to being "that" band and hadn't quite moved on from Coventry yet. The playing was superb.

If I had my druthers, I'd like to see the boys keep doing what they're doing now, but tighten things up significantly and sound more like they did then. Don't know if that's possible, but that's my dream.

I've quite had my fill of the Echoplex. I want to hear the man PLAY.

Haha, I don't feel quite as strongly about the Echoplex as you do, but I don't have any problems conceding that Fall 2010 was a great tour, especially in its context. That's something that really clicked for me when I was thinking about 3/6/09 - *there was no 3.0 history yet when they played that show*. All the stuff we take for granted now just hadn't happened yet, and the early summer shows aren't up to par with 3.0 now (not that there aren't some great moments). Fall 2010 is easily the most consistent tour up to that point, that's for sure.