@ZipZam said:

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.

So many fails here.....obviously, you've forgotten a core tennet of phish: Surprise is Everything.

It must be noted, paying over face (as you admit to doing) is failing in itself. I dont think that needs any further comment.

You can't be salty about devoting time to phish when A: the entire experience is (and always has been) about risk-taking and surprise (even when that means subjectively-displeasing shows) and when you B: dont get what you expected.....the very essence of Phish is Risk/Fail/Reward.

Expectations ruin everything, and its a shame that you dont understand some of the basic aspects of Phish. As a vet of more shows than i'd care to mention, i can say it ranked in my top 100 of all time. Truly epcot.