"That BOF has to be the best on this catalogue! Holy shit does it beat the crap out of the island tour version. And it beats IT festival by a tiny bit too. Just smoking fire, beautifully done composed portion and with a tight and high tempo beginning and ending. Very fast shredding from Trey through the early type 1 jam. Drops into space quick and goe type 2 fast. Multiple textural and modal changes followed by a hosing portion and ending on a very fast polyrhythmic digital delay loop jam. Sick! "

"Aw man. Love how low down and dark that piper gets then thunkety thunks it's way into a sweet melodic makisupa. But that piper I remember thinkbg was at least 20 mins long when I got out show! Couldn't believe was only 10. But it's cuz we forget some song like piper just have such a a short vocal section it's like. 8-9 mins of jamming and 1.5 min of lyrics...but also just a good example of a jam that manages to transcend in under that coveted longer time in the teens or even god grant us maybe twenty mins. And I'm as guilty as anyone of it. And this jam gets soooooo dark. Many jams like that in 2003-2004. I personally love it. Understand if you don't but don't diss it just cut the mood isn't your thing the actual musicianship and technical ability it takes to jam like that is equally if not at times harder than going and having lighter more major resolving jams because our ears yearn for a return to the tonic but to not give in to that desire is harder most of the time. Anyway that's my spiel. Peace"

"Oh yea so guy down below taking about phish hyped these shows to sell expensive tix. They charged like 44 dollars for tix dude. A regular allman brothers show or even Aerosmith will cost you 75-100 at great wood. What in the name of god are you talking about? All on what they thought would be final tour they never inflated prices. Kept everything wickid cheap. Did the exact opposite what your saying. And everything I went to that summer(second nite Brooklyn, both saratoga, Hampton, both Mansfields, Camden and Coventry I saw more people miracled or sold under face value tix on lot than I've ever seen before. So you couldn't be more off. On top of it all. The band was breaking up like this guy skunk says cuz they were concerned they could not provide the performance in the future that they felt they owed their fan base-does that sound like a money grab to you?. If the fan base is made up of mostly negatoid conspiracy theorists like you then maybe they should have jacked up prices and scammed us all but that just ain't the way phish rolls. Oh yea and I love how when people talk about phish and money they forget just how much they give to charity that no know makes them do. You should be ashamed for accusing them of stuff like that. That's what the Rolling Stones do. Not phish. Pure BS. "

"I was there. Both shows then 8 hour overnite road warrior ride to Camden then back up the coast and off to the west a bit to Canadian border for Coventry. Plus saw both Saratoga shows at beginning of tour. Every show I saw im 2004 contained some of the best jamming (in a style I like a lot) tht I've ever heard. In this one they get to it real quik and without dispensing the normal pleasantries which has always been my fav shows. When they don't feel need to play couple pop tunes first. They played the setlists they wanted to play at this point cuz they were running out of sand in the hourglass in their minds. Acdc bag gets down to it fast and furious. Don't listen to "old dental" whatever his name is. Show was great. Talk about hindsight. I love when people who prob weren't even there go and review a show years later and have somethin negative to say like they have some innovative comment to add? The fact is very few people left great woods this night thinking they sounded anything but good. And we were all just excited to see the next show and see how this story was gonna end. If you pretend that you were sitting ther with a notebook notating a flub here or ther or whatever then you either don't know how to enjoy the moment and are a huge tool or your just full of shit. My bets on the latter. The Band was playing like they new the days were counting down to zero. Like most of this period the special moments are in the midst of jams that setlists won't indicate too well. And when people start talking trash about this period. Let's give some credit where credit is due and also be understanding. They're Humans with human emotions. These guys may not have admitted it but they are clearly getting emotional at this point and it only continues to become more so as they get closer to Coventry. They thought phish was over and so did we. But in no way did it ever seem like a performance was being mailed in or that they were "living off their reputation". Kaka! Phish has never and prob will never do that and for that matter to further trash old dentals analogy neither did the dead really do that. The worst dead show from 1995 is still mostly beautiful music. It's just not in the agenda of these two bands to behave that way. Especially phish. For god sake they were quitting cuz they didn't think they could honestly produce at the level they felt THEY owed the fans.!!!lol. Not the other way around. So a band that would be willing to give up a fairly comfortable living it provided them just for their musical integrity you think is just gonna mail in performances and the to purposely live off reputation? I mean this guy that posted that Clearly hasn't even relistened to just the very first song. Any discerning listener can tell from the way that bag is played that NO ONE is Mailing anything in. Just pure bullcrap. But you know what as I'm constantly reminded by every whiny revisionist historian that wants to recreate the memory of past shows and tours into their own opinions-we are all truly entitled to our own opinions. So be it. But lest you be on the fence over listening to this or buying it I think if your a fan of good music and great jams you'll love any of this last tour. (Even select parts of Coventry although I would not pay for the whole show unless your like me and have to own every show you attended. ). The only other person that won't like these 2004 shows are those who (as much as I've never understood who would do this) are only obsessed with phish for the technical execution of non-jam songs and the poppier and ballad like tunes...those no are not the best versions all the time. But even in some cases where they aren't the best on the aggregate. I for one for instance find treys guitar soooo gorgeous on heavy things...not my fav tune. Never would I rave about a show just cuz of a good heavy things but I mean listen to the first two tracks here and tell me it's being mailed in and they're living off their reputation! That is so preposterous I have trouble even typing it...Lol. Anyway true phans that get it will know what I'm talking about. I mean who listens to a band like phish for just the short pop tunes anyway? But to each their own I guess. Pease out y'all . "

"The Great Woods stand where Treythful said following Fishmans comment on "Treys guitar" and Paul L "who we stil love"....where T proceeds to say "guess I wont be needing this anymore"....crowd booos. Fishman says "hey, f_ck you". Can you imagine? TY Livephish.com; there is more here than music if you're one of the one those who listens "very very carefullly". What a storied ride. And why should we care?; because these four guys represent some of the true great cultural icons in a country that is sorely lacking in this dept. The history books will talk about Zappa, Clinton, WTC, Bush, & Phish, then recession, Google, Facebook, Apple, and PHISH year 26 and counting.... This is our legacy; for what it is. "