Perhaps the esteemed reviewer if not to pandering somewhat to the low hanging critique of that jaded set, hedgeing his jade-cred, fairly scores the subtle tone and sentiment emoted from ForumII...Sure, on paper setlist is no eye-candy(but the mothership-west light show sure was), the music found that introspective quieter realm during the extended jams, albeit not totally steeped in the ambient freezer-mode. While lacking the names and mystique from the pantheon high upon mt. phishmore, these 2 sets revealed a gestalt now underway of new territory deliberately and with risk in favor the standard rotation for overdue heavy hitters. But thats why they play the shows!...

Forum1, comparitively, was at all times straight fire, more jambient than ambient, served with copious helping of face melt>rockthe house calling forth organic crowd integration with easily avoided of that uncomfortable set hazard moment when the arena stumbles against its will-power into woos of tweezer's past... The Fabulous Forum; two different and solid shows...beauty lies in the eyes and ears of those in attendance...the couchers might as well be watching high def porn, and complaining about bad sex...

the new phish world order is in real time ... 3.0 material matures, finding new landing spots and subtle arrangement modification...by proxy the entirety of the canon, flexed placements, this 2018 tour seems to be the 3.5 mule segueing between two eras...Perhaps the BD was the penultimate of 3.0 era, and as Bill Belichick once said, we're onto...4.0.