[patdeegan]

Thank you Joe and Matt for the time and effort in sharing your thoughts! I also am more optimistic/happy with the band these days, a la Joe, but I do agree, Matt, that I miss the violin and the band is obviously not at all at their "peak" sound/apex.

I am happy the setlists markedly improved over the last several shows, and I hope those are harbingers of things to come and not just a few really solid shows amidst some of the predictable, new-ish heavy sets they played a lot at the start of this tour.