Well done! The SPAC run this year is definitely in the running for one of the best in the 25+ years I've been a fan and N3 was perfectly executed. It makes me wonder if it did in fact start at the Mann, when a few fans handed Trey 4 shirts (on hangers no less) that said something to the effect of "Why haven't we gotten a Tweezer encore?". Others have pointed to the 11 year anniversary of Tweezerfest at MPP in 2014, which perhaps indicates that more planning went into the Summer tour closer. I prefer the former because it speaks to the band's ability to sew together a complex string of segues, jam transitions, key changes and tempo variations while on tour. Or do they just have the ability to go with a concept show with little to no practice or preparation? Are their musical chops, improvisational skills and approach to playing that refined!? As fans, I think we tend to take what they're still able to accomplish for granted and even on "off nights" remain the baddest band in the land!.

On one last note, I experienced something during that 23 min Tweeprise after Golden Age that's still with me right now and I'm positive will stick with me until the day I die. It was a tangible feeling that I was hearing Phish for the first time - a singular moment of awe and appreciation where time nearly stood still. Even when they dropped back into the slower, more powerful and even ominous build-up of Tweeprise, it was as if I never heard that chord progression before and what I was experiencing was a birth, or rebirth, of a strange yet familiar organism. A fleeting glimpse of the magic only music can provide...

and then Boogie On hit and I fell smack dab back into reality. I'd pay anything to experience whatever that feeling was again, but moments like that cannot be bought or sold.

See y'all at the mothership!