Congrats EMU on show 30 bud. 1st night Chicago was going to be my 30th show but now it will be 2nd night Chicago b/c Toronto was re-scheduled. I am most looking forward to racing back to Toronto after our three night run. Will bring back memories from the 90's when I did multi city runs....

And that brings me to the thread regarding tight setlists. I too have seen the lists and am concerned. Why no PYITE, Fluffhead, Tela, McGrupp etc. My take is two fold. One, as pointed out above, they don't tour as hard and are simply staying in the comfort zone with tunes they can play easily and rock out on. I'm ok with that. After 30 years they probably know their limitations. Yes it would be great to see some bustouts but if the band can't play them well, it's just a novelty then isn't it? If they are going to bust out some complex big guns, we want to see them played well.

My other thought is the way tours are constructed and I imagine they move from city to city in a somewhat random order and take days off and play a 3-4 show rotation is they probably don't want hangers on and tour bugs following. Look how out of control The Dead got at the end. Just my $.02 but I suspect Phish does not want the scene to degenerate into a gypsy fest of drunks and hang on's. Please feel free to flame me but, like many of the posters here, I have a job and a life and cannot follow the band for months on end. I strongly believe Phish wants it that way, playing to devoted Phans in certain strong markets and having a small core of people that follow all the way but do not turn it into a circus.

Cheers all and enjoy being free and having the health and wealth to see one of the best bands ever.

Jay