@funkbeard said: "Who the hell approved this as a review?

If you took the time to listen to the show, you would see that it is clearly among the best of the year. If all you care about are "jams" and "setlists," then you managed to miss everything extraordinary about this particular show.

Trey and Phish are not the Trey and Phish of the past. Get over yourself. If you want old school, become "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday." "

Wow, let's take this point by point.

"He is definitely more influenced by jazz at this point, less into rock and roll runs. He is also infusing every line with more variation and vocabulary than before. Rather than simply peaking and peaking, he's adding complex runs and weaving round and round those peaky lines, so that you get both texture, depth, and peaks; and it all comes at you a mile a minute.

If you don't think about the music he's creating, you're not gonna get it. This is not the "in your face" sound anymore. You actually have to participate."

This seems to make listening very complex.

"As the show goes, the Possum is one of the year's best. "

It's not. Not even close but they've played this song every other night so I can see how they all run together

"Further, it took me three times before I actually heard the power of this Antelope. It is sublime. Trey plays more like a jazz musician than a rock musician here, and he casts many listeners aside while scaling one fantastic peak after another. "

It is quite good, but I'm not sure how listeners get "cast aside". Is there a decoder ring available to hear something different?

"I would definitely call this one of the best shows of 3.0, and the above review is nothing but jaded complaints of someone who listens to too much Phish and is bored to death with himself.

Reading the review, it is nothing but a complaint about what they didn't do. That's not a review at all. That's a failure to perceive what's right in front of you."

The reviewer probably does listen to too much Phish. Roger Ebert probably sees too many movies, but that doesn't preclude you from making comparisons to previous work as point of reference.