10/23 - Mullins Center - Amherst, MA - Post-Show Discussion and Review

[redrum]

Not trying to pick a fight brah.  Good for you guys!  Im happy some of us can keep making excuses for these guys, thats a surefire way for them to continue to advance  slowly if at all.  Every tour until this fall I felt they made nightly advances...that has stopped.  I hope I am wrong.

i know we're not fighting..
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to you its making excuses.
to me/us its enjoying the phish at what they're doing in the moment.

i'm not saying i love it all either tho.
i wasn't really feeling the provi show & im not fluffing that.

[thatfargone]

Not like I'm going home... :rawk:

I got 10 more this year and will have fun at all of them.  BUT, I surely am not going to leave a "I had fun" statement as a review and pretend the show was AMAZING...you all have more to say about me not liking this show than reasons you had for liking it.  I feel thats pretty telling.

We all had fun, I was chilling with an old Dead head at his first show and talked to him about Phish and we traded stories...that was more fun than the show for me.  I wouldn't change anything about this fall.  But, I do this to see the band get better, night after night.  I have talked extensively about this with some of you that I see every night...I just have for the first time since Dec 4 2009, lowered my expectations to have a good time.  That is troubling to me as a fan of this band.

[DoW]

it's why I like having another band to fall back on and like seeing smaller venue shows.  for me, I need a mix of music.
in 10 more shows, you should get 5 more DWDs and 7 antelopes.   :wink:

I've successfully managed to avoid tte.  I have a bad feeling about it tonight.

[Igbo]

To all you Critics that continually overanalyze all the minutia of a joy that we are, imo priviledge to see night in and night out, stop all the whining and criticizing and just enjoy it! When you start doing that, holla at me.

Sorry, but I had a fucking blast night!

[redrum]

I've successfully managed to avoid tte.  I have a bad feeling about it tonight.

plz delete this post.

[redrum]

Sorry, but I had a fucking blast night!

dood, u were at the show??
come find the paug section tonite!!

[Undermind]

I've successfully managed to avoid tte.  I have a bad feeling about it tonight.

plz delete this post.

I think it's coming tonight.  Yemblog tweeter said they had great chowder for sale at the venue that he would be getting during it.

[Igbo]

Word red! Saw a lot of the paug kids pre-show. Will see y'all tonite.

[thatfargone]

it's why I like having another band to fall back on and like seeing smaller venue shows.  for me, I need a mix of music.
in 10 more shows, you should get 5 more DWDs and 7 antelopes.   :wink:

I've successfully managed to avoid tte.  I have a bad feeling about it tonight.

This post if full of the truth!!!!

Phish is the only "Jam Band" I see.  I love other music and see as much of it as I can also.  But, I really expect more out of these guys now, I feel that is what we all should have.  The energy is off night to night with the crowd and the shows that are off to me are the ones with less energy and I did have high expectations after Utica and I guess I just needed a double dose of 3.0 reality to get back down to a level where I just take what I get and have fun.  That is not what any of us should be doing...it confirms every single thing people have been critical about this band.  Its a very weird feeling being the most critical person in a review thread.  How the hell did that happen. :? :-o :-D

[whyweigh5.0]

queue the scene from bittersweet motel where trey is talking about critics in his car

[antelope19]

To all you Critics that continually overanalyze all the minutia of a joy that we are, imo priviledge to see night in and night out, stop all the whining and criticizing and just enjoy it! When you start doing that, holla at me.

Sorry, but I had a fucking blast night!

Thank you!  It is a priviledge. 

No offense to thatfargone, but I'd probably be pretty burnt had I gone on tour since Hershey.  Might be time to hang'em up for a while.

[redrum]

Word red! Saw a lot of the paug kids pre-show. Will see y'all tonite.

its allgood thatfar, you feel how you feel & thats all there is to it.
its because u love phish. we all do.
if i saw broom (or been on since hersh) i mite feel a lil differently than i do. not sure.
just dont forget you 'can' feel good, no matter what.

[thatfargone]

To all you Critics that continually overanalyze all the minutia of a joy that we are, imo priviledge to see night in and night out, stop all the whining and criticizing and just enjoy it! When you start doing that, holla at me.

Sorry, but I had a fucking blast night!

Thank you!  It is a priviledge. 

No offense to thatfargone, but I'd probably be pretty burnt had I gone on tour since Hershey.  Might be time to hang'em up for a while.

Thats what November and Dec is for. :-D  Many of you don't fully know me and a lot of what I am saying is not at all a deterrent for me...even when I am down on a show...at the time, in the moment...I am having a ball.  (ie. those of you who were with me @ Deer creek for TTE)  But when the dust settles, and the moment has passed...to just justify poor playing, bad sets and not living up to a standard they themselves have set...I feel we do the band and ourselves a disservice.

[rowjimmy]

it's why I like having another band to fall back on and like seeing smaller venue shows.  for me, I need a mix of music.
in 10 more shows, you should get 5 more DWDs and 7 antelopes.   :wink:

I've successfully managed to avoid tte.  I have a bad feeling about it tonight.

This post if full of the truth!!!!

Phish is the only "Jam Band" I see.  I love other music and see as much of it as I can also.  But, I really expect more out of these guys now, I feel that is what we all should have.  The energy is off night to night with the crowd and the shows that are off to me are the ones with less energy and I did have high expectations after Utica and I guess I just needed a double dose of 3.0 reality to get back down to a level where I just take what I get and have fun.  That is not what any of us should be doing...it confirms every single thing people have been critical about this band.  Its a very weird feeling being the most critical person in a review thread.  How the hell did that happen. :? :-o :-D

Couple bad nights (for you) and your tune sure does change...
Ride it out dude. I think that last night sounded a step above Providence and I'm thinking tonight will be pretty hot.

Of course they'll probably play DWD again but that's just because they're trying to knock kellerb out again.

Everything is such a joke with those Phish guise.

[whyweigh5.0]

we're still talking about this?


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