Andrew -

You're too kind, and I'm embarrassed if my comment came off as puffing myself up. I've found Charlie's reviews handy in the past, but over the years I've become a lot more interested in digging deeper into the music than his brand of reviewing really allows for. I mention the segues just to make the point that comparisons without grounding in certain kinds of musical facts don't scale well as you age as a fan...

It's hard for me to square the "it's all good" vibe of phish fandom with things like giving a numeric rating to every version of "tweezer." Hence some of my acted-out frustration.

I've been saying things like "type II jamming" for a long time. But isn't that a pathetically thin way of describing complex improvisation?!

Ok, done bitching.