It's a hard truth dude. When others want to, say, claim last night's DWD measures up to 1.0, I just have to laugh. It was a perfectly fine jam, but nothing like the classic jams. We went through similar stuff in the early 1990's with deadheads who wanted to claim those shows measured up to the Dead in '77. It's nice to dream, but it just ain't happening.

Look, my point isn't that Phish isn't a great band anymore. Quite the contrary. They are still a great show. But people need to tone down the hyperbolic rhetoric and get a little historical perspective.