Dogpile on Icculus!

Un-jaded but brutally honest vet who was also at Wolf Trap '93 (a hometown show at the time). I'm no good at the maths, but how can a passable show described in our own internal vernacular as "average-great" get 1 out of 5 stars? By my calculations (clouded by decades away from schooling and a genetic predisposition toward number avoidance) that would be 20%. Well below average and miles below average-great. I have used, and I suspect most non-trolling users have used our flawed-yet-beloved rating system as follows: - 3 stars for average great, 4 stars for average great with several extended moments of transcendence, and 5 stars for two sets of magic. I'll cop to rarely using 1 or 2 star ratings - it would need to be a dire train wreck of Broadway Trey vocals and missed transitions and constant ripcording and composed flubs and "songs I don't like (whatever that means)" and possibly a venue evacuation or two. But to me, after not one but two eras of extended quality shows from a band that I have organized my life around and seemed dead in the water nearly 20 years ago(!), every single show from here to the end is a gift. And a non-dumpster fire gift is worth 3 stars to me.

PS - Hey Mike's side behind the speaker rig on the floor at Dicks last weekend - 5 Stars to you all forever.