I don't understand all this happy talk about Halloween. We're a lot of the posters on Couch Tour? I was at the show, 2nd set, no one danced, just marginal head bobbing. Homer Simpson had his gigantic head off his shoulders and hand in head the whole time. It was a colossal disappointment.

I'm into risk taking, I'm into new music coming from the band, but wrong time, wrong place. If you're going to do , what I consider an "experimental set" ADVERTISE IT. (Like the acoustic set they did in California for the Halloween Run). Everyone can dress up like a chemistry set or beakers, Bunsen burners or test tubes for all I care.

I'm sorry, but all new songs, that the band has written, is not an musical costume. If I had advance warning, I wouldn't have opted to take off from work, dress up, pay a ridiculous amount for a GA floor ticket, etc. etc. I would have just gone for the Fri/Sat combo and sat out Thursday and watched on-line.

Like any good fan or listener, I did my research, to make sure I'm not the only one who is a Debbie Downer. Saturday Night, again on the back of the floor, I did my sample poll, old, young, women, men, people still in costume from the night before. I asked a very simple question without any predilection for an specific answer; "What did you think of last night's show"? I really asked ten people. Consensus, 10 out 10 we're NOT down with the "Phish is Phish" Halloween experience.

There was no outward hate towards the band, (we all love the band) just a poor way to build expectations (even if the band was silent on expectations) and a poor way to "introduce" everyone to the new material.

That being said, here's my analogy. You go to the finest restaurant on the planet. The appetizer is amazing, the desert is amazing, the main course is Rubber Chicken. Do you send the Rubber Chicken back, offend the chefs and other patrons, at the most highly acclaimed restaurant on the planet? Absolutely! I'll still come back to the restaurant again and again, it was a misfire, and I accept that can happen. But let's not pretend it wasn't a misfire, because we don't want to be a downer on the scene.

That's just plain silly.

Bring on the hater comments, I can handle them.