Night 1 had that Stash and Limb.. I know they'll get overlooked because they aren't 20 minutes long, but the improvisation in both of those was spectacular.

Night 3 was the Saturday Night Special, postponed until Sunday..

As for that Chalkdust... I don't get the quibbling. With that much great improv in one jam, that many themes woven together flawlessly.. I just feel like people think about the late 90s and early 00s as a time when Phish did shit like that.. when really it was mostly really drawn out one or two theme jams.

I really don't think the degree of difficulty to Phish's jams, or the way they make it seem so effortless and liquid gets enough credit. If you asked me to pick one era of Phish to make a 60 minute jam, I wouldn't even entertain another time period. They've really put it together as far as jamming is concerned. The best of the old, the best of the less old. The lessons learned, the techniques picked up and discarded along the way...

I guess everyone wants them to go screaming into the Chalkdust peak or segue into Light instead of goofing around and ending it on Woos.. but fuck it, i'll take that hilarity and intentional blue ball moment anyday. The whole crowd is expecting that woo segment to take off into Trey soloing like a 91 Weekapaug like he did in the Tahoe Tweezer, and then they just kill it. Awesome.

The rest of the set after that wasn't very good, but again, whatever. They made an attempt at a cohesive set without much jamming, dropped a great succinct Tweezer super late in the game. No complaints here.

They're 50 year old men improvising and musically communicating at a depth that essentially seemed impossible for them for over a decade. Don't get too angry if it takes a lot out of them and all they can do is play a couple songs and maybe miss a mark or too. Boo hoo.