Thanks for all of the comments, everyone, greatly appreciated. Just one thing, though.

@imdano said:

...Sure there are moments when the band was effectively listening to each other and "jamming" at Coventry. They are professionals who have been doing so for their entire career. They can nonchalantly dispense jams that few musicians could duplicate in the moment. But truly, the moments of transcendence, when band, audience and music are one (those special moments that we all have felt and which compel us to see them play again and again), were hard to come by at Coventry, and I think most would have to admit that they didn't really occur. ...

Discussing the disappointing music at Coventry is easy. It's also been done. Ad nauseum. By many people who were there, and not there, over the course of ten years. Frankly, given the terrible pre-show events, the "vibe" was disturbing, and in my opinion, it would have been MIRACULOUS if Phish had performed two near-flawless shows full of transcendent, joyful music.

We were not only witnessing the death of Phish, but also a ton of our friends and loved ones had been TURNED AWAY BY THE BAND because the god damn grounds were so atrocious! The band members were DISTRAUGHT about this, and these circumstances greatly magnified the pain they were dealing with -- that WE were also dealing with -- before Phish had even played a single note.

I can't tell if you were at Coventry, @imdano, but there was absolutely "transcendence" at Coventry, even though, as you say, it was "hard to come by." Some of it was tragic, though, and painful, and not joyful and blissful and ecstatic. The best things in life often don't come without suffering, and as awful as things were at times over that weekend ten years ago, I am so grateful to have experienced Coventry. And while a lot of the music performed was rough to say the least (especially in composed sections of songs where Trey's flubs in particular are obvious), there's PLENTY of music worth relistening to and EXPERIENCING again, as difficult as it is for some of us to do so, even ten years later.

And all that said, I empathize with fans who just don't want to listen to Coventry again, at all. I didn't write this piece to open old wounds. It was tough to write, and even tougher to finish, but I finished it for one reason, and that's love. We're blessed that the band members are seemingly happy and healthy today, and that the Coventry shows were not Phish's final shows. And if anything puts an exclamation point on how grateful we should all be today, and also how IT's really not "all Hood," it's Coventry.