@Lee_Fordham said:

So 7/22 Raleigh is at 9 based on the strength of one set, but night 2 at the Went is docked because they were firing blanks in Set 3 (albeit after perhaps the most transcendent set of music the band has ever played) and ends up at 13?

I'm thinking that if you ask people to name their top 5 lifetime Phish experiences, I'm pretty sure that *phans creating our own light show with glow sticks while CK5 took a break at the end of an epic set where the Trey talked about the symbiotic energy between band and audience* is going to get mentioned.

Well to be fair, my contention (which is held generally by the group who worked on this) is that neither the first nor third sets offer very much, certainly nothing to compare with any of the other shows in this "neighborhood" on the list.

Please note, we endeavor *not* to factor in personal experience. A show shouldn't rank higher or lower based on the biography of the person who is rating it. But, the universal elements of the experience, and non-musical content generated by the band like Trey's remarks on 8/17, absolutely are part of the record and should be counted...says I. Most of the others in the group aimed to block that out entirely. But this is very much not a list of Shows You'd Like To Go Back In Time And Attend Again. That's just not the metric here.