^I’m with ya man. The Alpine 03 YEM is a great jam…very good communication between the band members. IT is also very good.
I like certain points of pretty much every post-hiatus YEM, but I agree most of them are not very inspired throughout the song. 2.26.03 is one I especially like. YEM->Clone drools
The IT YEM is great. Seriously. The energy is like a 94 YEM, and Mike’s bass solo quotes Frankenstein.
That’s one or two out of how many pathetic boring-uninspired post-hiatus YEM’s?!?!?!?!?
IT was a serious moment in Phish not to be denied, true. Very inspired playing and tight all the way through.
And I totally agree with you about later Mike’s, gregs…
Agreed.
IT just owns face
Yeah, the 94 jams were pretty discordant whereas Post-Hiatus spacey jams just can’t be beat. I wouldn’t even call the post-hiatus jams discordant at all. They are more…spaced-out! 
I know I have a lot of trouble listening through some of those earlier longer Tweezers, like the one on A Live One.
I know I have a lot of trouble listening through some of those later longer Ghosts…yawn.
BURN
jeez…i wish i would have known what was gonna happen after the weekapaug.
i would have been warming up the car!
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caspian blow, but sleeping monkey can be put in the exact perfect place for it to be enjoyable.
I love caspian, sleeping monkey however can kiss my ass.
Well…Prince Caspian and the Sleeping Monkey love all of you, so you’re going to have to learn to love them back.
I love Caspian but they always seem to place it in the wrong spot that kills the set!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Caspian that made me sit up and take notice (tell it like it is), let alone think to myself “wow that was great placement!!” I think I just tolerate Caspian anymore. It works so god damn well on the album, and I love the story about them recording it, but live it is kind of a bummer.
It might just be me but as the catalog grew, so did the buzzkills?, thoughts?
Encores of first and last night Hampton '03, anyone?
Almost any show with a huge jam at the beginning/middle of the 2nd set is going to kind of seem like it fizzle’s out after that jam. I was just thinking of 11/14/95, 12/29/94 and 11/21/97 (to a lesser extent). It’s gotta be different if you are actually there and riding that huge wave, and can feel the water rushing around you still after the jam, but on tape, I generally stop paying as much attention after the Stash, Bowie and Bag respectively. Thoughts?
In all fairness, there’s all of 3 songs after the Bag on 11/21/97…
^ But, there’s only one one song before it too, and that Ghost rules.