I can’t tell if this is a troll post?? But been talking smack on fuego since its inception. This year’s (2025) Seattle version changed my perspective a bit. I recommend listening to it if you haven’t. Tonight I found myself relistening to Wrigley 16 and Mann 14 fuegos and getting feels- really disliked them at the time. This has always been part of my experience with the music, like what to me is good art, it’s dynamic - it challenges me, sometimes I reject it, i get disillusioned, or I decide I only like a certain era for almost 2 decades, claim it’s the best. I love this about phandom —99 is the best, 2025, 1993 lately, this is the best, etc. Fluffhead lyrics were cheesy to me in 98 when I first heard them, still are. Have whatever heart you have when you have it. Just like the band does. Maybe what OP is trying to express, if indeed sincere, is that criticism and opinions are dynamic, which is inevitable if we want, and this band gives us multiple opportunities for new experiences with the “same thing” because they play the same song and build off it again a different way, and then we get a recording after the fact to digest and contemplate, to listen to actively or in the background, providing us with multiple opportunities to hear something we didn’t the first time. I threw shade on tweeprize show at spac (was there) now i can’t stop listening to it, unearthing so much emotion from it in time. The band has a sense of humor don’t you think? They obviously were trolling us a little bit, they go for it, with the set your soul free, etc. they go for it. I mean, of course treys full of wisdom and stuff but they do ask for it! We don’t need to be so serious all the time. They can do what they want, and we can respond. And everyone can change their mind. Thats part of the journey. It’s prog rock afterall. There are no rules at phish. To be honest, I’m there for the jams anyway, the improvisation. The verse and chorus are simply lead ups /entryways to the magic, vehicles setting the stage for the doing and undoing. My least favorite songs at this moment are type one. They feel too rigid. I want to get out of the maze, off the grid, out of the structure asap. When I came to the band, I liked the songs, I was a song person, I’d been raised on the Beatles. Now I’m more into grooving. Music is more of a physical emotional experience instead of a mental emotional experience. I’m pretty sure phish loves us essentially unconditionally, and wants us to feel like we could walk out (or in) at any time for any reason. Just because someone walks out on the song doesn’t mean they’re not giving it a shot or will never have another chance to connect with it in the future, and maybe it never sticks.. bug it doesn’t matter! And to finish, I get backwards down the number line, I understand the significance and its meaning historically, it’s beautiful in that way, but please never play it again, or figure out a jam section, haha, thanks phish. And good luck picking the right time to sneak a pee/beer break in!