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I don't mind the 'space' jamming at all, either - compared to, say, the mid- and late-90's, they're doing so much more with their freeform jamming these days that I now get excited when songs dissolve into the aether! You don't need it every song, but it makes good sense in the 8/17 C&P, which meets its quota of balls-out rock'n'roll noise. (I want very little of that sort of thing in my Phish sets, frankly; hence my disdain for Antelope...)
OK one more thing: there's a lot of good stuff going on in that brief-but-potent 8/8 Piper. Not to be missed! It sounds 'directionless' but I *think* that's willful abstraction and thorniness - a strategy, not a failing.
¡Dos centavos!