I think it would be interesting to cross reference member age, with year of introduction to Phish, with voting trends in “Best Show” and "Song Of The Year " catagories. This could be useful in identifying a relationship between age and era preferences. That correlation could then be used to devise a handicap that may or may not prove useful in future bracketing or even “handicapping” poll results. Dogs the wag
I’ve listened to plenty of pre-94 Phish…a majority of it that is in circulation actually. If I were to make a list of what I think are the top Phish shows (whole shows mind you), I would guess that 80% of those shows would be from 1994-1999, 10% would be from 1993 (almost all of Aug 93), and the rest of the 10% would be outliers.
Or much post-99 phish. I may have been the only person to put a '09 show on my top 8 list and then someone ( ) had to make a shifty face at me for doing so.
Out of curiosity, how many of your top 8 shows are in the final 8?