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patper @tmwsiy said:
It is absolutely outrageous to assume that a reviewer needs to be at a show to offer insightful reviews of the music. Sure, you want some additional details on the pre-show lot or "scene", gotta be there.

Great musical reviews of Jazz shows from recordings from smoky clubs of the 1940's & 1950's appear all the time. Did the reviewer attend? Hell no. He LISTENED. We have the technology.
There is much more to this music than notes and rhythm. To deny that dynamics and energy are not important to Phish's music is rather ignorant in my holy opinion. Recordings do not accurately translate the dynamics and energy of the show.

Agree to disagree, I suppose.
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