Unlike "Disease," Phish has never figured out how to take "Fuego" deep consistently

True enough -- though as @n00b100 points out, for a minute there a couple of years ago it did go places. I wonder why they don't bother anymore.

'Fuego' is such great jam material, too! As in the original 'Limb by Limb' arrangement, they're coming out of the composed section/vocals on a *downward* trajectory, so to speak, in an interesting texture, at an easy tempo. It's probably not a matter of 'figuring it out,' so to speak. (I don't assume you meant that literally.) I kinda wish Fish'd restore his original subtle drums in the outro, to give the jam someplace *concrete* to be instead of 'ambling generic rock.'

Maybe it's nothing more than their attention moving to different batches of songs from tour to tour. We tend to have this idea that any song could pop off at any time, but that's obviously not the case (cf. the silly fixation on nonexistent 'Roses' jams). They seem to come into individual songs with a general idea of their function in the set -- only on nights where they're all committed to *free* movement, or where one member's gonna insist on a step-change, do random songs seem to go long. Otherwise it's just the 'jam vehicles' for the most part.

I dunno.

Anyway, you're a horrible monster and so forth.

p.s. The 'hoodie' line is solid gold.