@bertoletdown said:

It's dangerous to claim knowledge of people's thought process.

The staff here takes pains to review the music and not the venue. Vegas isn't in the Northeast and you won't find a single person on the team who doesn't think Halloween set 2 was gold. Everyone here pretty much agrees that 12/31/14 II, 1/2/15 II, and 1/3/15 II were terrific as well. I think everyone who writes these recaps would much rather heap praise on a show than criticism.

But I'm just here to tell you that 1/1 sucked.

You can see it on the video. None of them brought their game and they struggled to figure out both what to play and how to play it. The smiles and laughs they trade at a good show were replaced by bewildered, deer-in-the-headlights looks. It was not a good night.

With all due respect, you are also claiming knowledge of other peoples' thought process. Fine to dislike the 1/1 song selection, fine to critique the jams or energy, but no one on the staff knows what the band members were thinking, and your interpretation of their expressions is completely subjective. Sometimes a show is disjointed and weak, full of audible miscues, but 1/1 was not.