@zzyzx said:

"They didn't "frequently" have improvisational abandon in 93... iIt's just that no one listens to 6/13/94 or 11/23/96 or 10/5/95 so we forget that they exist.

David, you make a worthwhile point, but that's a ten-year performance period over which, in general, Phish frequently played with improvisational abandon, and there's no amount of forest-through-the-tree statistical analysis that will undo that.

Wouldn't you agree the salient point here is that you are, in fact, quite easy to please when it comes to Phish? You mentioned elsewhere that the end of the set--presumably Birdwatcher-> Kung--saved the show for you because you like silly Phish. Isn't it from that place that you fashion this argument?