"Ultimately, the decision to play the daytime set in the extreme heat and humidity was far more dangerous (not to mention musically unproductive) than it would have been to keep the original start time and just get in whatever music they could in before curfew."

The storm was very intense and while it is lucky it broke around Dover - there was never any guarantee of that. To say it was more dangerous to perform in the day is incorrect. Not sure if you were at the campground but there were times the wind was fierce - and a pretty heavy rain did rip through around 6. Now consider that's just the outer edge of the storm, if the eye of it goes through the camps, you have the potential to have tents, easy ups, and unsecured items flying everywhere, or worse, people loaded up onto the Ferris Wheel in a lightning storm.

Event management is about risk management - they cancelled an entire day of While We're Young due to strong winds.

It is regretful that by the time the regular show time rolled around the vibe in Dover was very pleasant weather with lightning in the distance, but if that lightning had landed above the venue there would have been no music at all. Given the daytime set or nothing, I will certainly take the daytime set.

So kudos to Trey, Mike, Page, and Fish for looking at the available options and doing their best to ensure we all got something on that last day as opposed to 40k people in the venue at 5:45pm being told to evacuate with no music.

And as much as the songathong was just that - the pace and precision with which they went through each number was electric. How are you going to get mad when a band that could as well have said "sorry all we're going home" said "naw we're gonna play 2+ hours with barely a 3 minute break, and then come do a 16 minute encore." Part of the fun was seeing how many they'd rip through, at a certain point I was in awe of the push (and loving the irony they skipped More!)

The only drag was they did seem to go in with a plan to skip some longer heavy hitters of the big composed variety like Lizards, Esther, or Fee because they didn't seem to want to stay in anything long enough to get the plug pulled under their feet.

I know it's not the final set we wanted, but to call it more dangerous than trying to hold a show with a massive lightning storm approaching is uninformed.