thanks for the great write up - agree w/a lot in there

my overall feeling is that there is still no band that seems capable of going to "those places" for me that seem very much on the edge of where music can go - so, i'll stick with listening to as much phish as i can

but i do agree with andrewrose that things are definitely different in 3.0 with some things less desireable for me - song selection/rotation/balance etc could def be improved in many ways - for ex, to me a 7:2 possum to ghost ratio is hard to handle - and def less likely to get type II as well quantity wise - that has to both elevate opinions of the type II we do get as well as sort of make the shows less likely to be complete mind-trips that (at least for me) seemed to be virtually every night 97-99

bottom line for me is that i am overjoyed that phish is back and still capable of full on brilliance - i def disagre with you andrewrose on the charlotte R&R > jam - amazing to these ears, and the ghost is not bad (tho i seriously deeply miss 97-00 ghosts)

viva la phish and again, great review of leg 1 - it seems obvious and essential that we would all get something different from phish's music, and that if all of that music was exactly the same quality to everyone in those exact same ways - then something seriously wierd would be going on - music is way more organic than that and we are all too complicated to be that in lock-step on show impressions

critical ears are a very good thing - phish's music sort of demands it, no??