"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"

You can't deny that they're important, but IMO the more subjective a review, the better. Plenty of the "dynamics and energy" will come through on a recording. Sometimes a peak hits the crowd so loud that they rise up into the mix, sometimes those peaks don't hit the crowd hard enough for them to break the surface. I don't think that anyone has to be there to review the music. Not in the slightest. Reviewing the show as a whole is a whole different animal. There is plenty of room for both. But since someone's memories of the show aren't a factor in my life, I personally prefer for people to review the music on it's own merits.

Like the review of this show on the blog. I found MPP 2 to be super extra weird, especially that 2nd set where they completely ditched the "greatest hits" act for a night and wove together an extraordinarily cohesive meat of the set featuring predominately new songs. Although like this set, it didn't seem to know how to finish and fired off a few relatively standard versions of songs at the end. This is where the big type 2 improv jams come in handy. Stretching that MPP "Halfway To The Moon" or Camden "Bowie" out for an extra 15 minutes would have paid dividends if they ended up knocking a few of the bonus songs out of the equation. Then again, DTE featured one long segment and the band still had no idea what to after Bowie.

I'm still sticking with my guns that Bethel is the way of the future. Tons of small jams, and if they happen to be feeling them, they'll start getting longer and the future will be opened up to us all.