@GottaJiballer - We'll see.. It's way too early to tell. Let's not forget how promising the first two nights of Bethel were before a lot of the same frustrating things about 09-10 popped right back up again..

I'm not listening to the show so I have no way to tell, but tonight's set II looks like the kind of set that a lot of people were looking to get away from (ok maybe just me lol)- the ones where they play truncated versions of a dozen classics.

IMO, if you're going to play Crosseyed, Ghost, Tweezer, Timber, Caspian, Antelope, Piper & Zero in a set, its going to have to be insanely long to do them justice- it doesn't *need* to be that way, but I've never heard a set with that many 'jam songs' that actually flowed well together. Probably because its a relatively new development. Those are all great songs, but every one of their crowd pleasing reputations is derived from the versions where they were allowed to flourish and not be bottled up with a bunch of other songs.

The thing is, with the way Phish has been playing the last few nights they very well could have approached it with cohesion in mind. It will all come down to the way they improv. They've done some excellent concise segues- or if not segues- working a jam into a vibe that meshes with the next song's before starting said next song. But on the other hand, it's so reminiscent of a lot of recent sets where they rushed through a bunch of great material- presumably faster than they had intended to- and started the "encore" in the middle of the 2nd set.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong and have this be a Bethel-type show where each song feels wonderfully placed. The first 3/4 of the second set looks pretty smooth but I wouldn't be surprised if the wheels start to come off after Makisupa.

I'm hoping for the best, but prepared for this show to just be one of those ones where Phish is playing for the audience in front of them and not thinking about it in a larger context. Fine by me, after Waves-> Undermind-> Steam this band can do whatever they want to me and I'll beg for more