Just finding this recap and these comments for the first time now. Gonna chime in to say that if @lumpblockclod was disappointed with the playing from this past summer that's on him not on the four guys on stage. I myself went into each show with a willingness to let the music take me where it wanted me to go and a commitment not to put my own personal expectations on a higher pedestal than the band's intentions. What I found was that Phish had become better at playing their own songs than at any time other time during this era. That counts for a whole lot in my book and it puzzles me that someone who started seeing the band in the early 90s would not also notice the reinvigorated love for the songbook that was the main takeaway from 2016. When all was said and done I felt that this tour was exactly like the 1996 summer tour and the band was "re-inventing itself" after the peak of the previous year. While you're not going to find too many fans who like '96 over 95 you're also not going to find too many who would call it "puzzling and disappointing". This reviewer may disagree now but I think he'd do well to remember that most of the true reinvention of '96 occurred on the second tour of the year and that he very well may be eating his words by the time Fall rolls around. Disappointing? Surely not! It's still the greatest show on earth!