It never ceases to amaze that me that no matter how many shows people attend or how many years they have followed the band or how many foundations they support, that they just don't get it.

I feel bad that the OP, and all the head-nodders on this thread, had a bad night. I really do. Because Phish had a really really great night. Historically great. And, I'm thoroughly entertained by the b-school 101 discussions about the business and "brand" of Phish in the comments. Wait, did someone say BRAND? Well, with all due respect to the second rate education that your parents have/are no doubt paying for, you have zero - and I mean zero - idea what you are talking about. I would advise you to drop out of b school or your go-nowhere mid level marketing job immediately and go sell grill cheese on the lot, but that would require business skills that you don't and will never have.

Let me break it down: Phish's future rests solely (as in, solely) on their ability to play inspired, creative, transformative music. It is Randalls, it is the tahoe tweezer, and it most certainly is Vegas 2014. They melt faces, and we supply the faces. That's it.

Need more? If their playing is blah, and Live Phish is great, then they have nothing. If the playing is great, and LivePhish is below average, they still have it, you dig? Anything that distracts from the music, is just that, a distraction. I do not - and you should not - want them to get more "involved" in the business or phish, or the "distribution" of phish - because that means they are going to be less involved in the music of Phish, and that is all I care about. LP is, and will always be, a bonus. I mean, the person above who said something about Phish "FREAKING OUT" backstage (between sets I and II I presume) about the LP problems - please. I have no idea what they were doing or thinking or saying, but if I were to lay a bet it would be putting on costumes and getting ready to throw down an hour of the most out-there shit they have ever dropped, with a full theatrical extravaganza ta boot. ta boot.

The timing of this thread in relation to the events that were happening on stage the same weekend - could there have been a more tone deaf time to express these complaints, which what, amounted to 30 minutes of a busted dinner party until someone went nuclear and involved youtube? I would say no, but then again, the titanic was used in the original analogy, so there is apparently no ceiling here on tone deaf.