What @MDosque said.

I have little to add, except that posting a "counter-review" or criticism of the sort that Phish can do no wrong, anyone who breathes one word of criticism or comparison is a "jaded vet" or a "hater" sounds to me like "STFU", a knee jerk response that's intended as a conversation stopper, and "one upsmanship" gambit.

Also, I'd give the authors of these kinds of posts more credit if most of them didn't just sign up on this site recently and make their only posts ones being instant critics of critics. Most of these users have no shows in their profiles, have contributed no reviews of shows they've attended or even forum comments. Makes me wonder, especially since the site team members posting have contributed reviews and essays on the music for years on r.m.p. and then the Phish Companion books.

When I first started seeing Phish, I didn't think I was an expert in their music after a few shows. I'm "pro noob" and am delighted new people are finding and supporting Phish's music, but I think it's arrogant to try to critique reviews of people who have seen hundreds of shows for ten plus years, say, if your own show count is in the single digits, especially if your point is to be defensive that a "meh" show was really an all time great one, or some trite thought that we shouldn't weigh and compare but "just be grateful Phish is playing again".

YMMV. Flame away.

My 0.03