@HIPPOGATOR, Why get so defensive about someone else’s review of the show? Obviously, the people critiquing last night’s show still love phish. Calling a bad show a bad show does not mean you don’t love the band and think they are the best in the history of music. Just like calling a bad Michael Jordan game what it is doesn’t take away from the fact that he’s the best ever. Obviously, no band can do it every night. And that is especially so with improvisational music. You can’t have all time shows without also accepting that you live in a world where a bad show can happen, which is what happened last night. It’s just unfortunate that the bad show happened when, in my opinion, the moment called for a heater mostly because of the preshow shit show and all the anxiety associated with that.

If even Trey is on record saying over and over throughout their entire career that “if you take risks on stage, sometimes you are going to play shit,” why get so defensive when phans are simply acknowledging when they played a bad show? I too appreciate every second I see of this band more and more, because it is absolutely fleeting, and it won’t last forever. But sometimes they are going to lay a goose egg, and that is the flipside of the coin of the shows that are transcendental and orgasmic, can’t have the upside with that potential for downside, and simply acknowledging what side of the coin lands on the table, assuming it’s done in a thoughtful and well reasoned way, is an integral and inseparable part of being this passionate about this band (or anything, for that matter). Just my $.02