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While your process/outlook may work for you, it clearly will not work for everyone. There is only so much music I can listen to (only so many books I can read at one time, etc.), with so many possibilities -- I do not feel this desire to simply take whatever is being played and be happy with it. (That is different, of course, than being happy that a band I love and has meant so much in my life is playing at all.) Decisions, approach to improvisation, song choices -- if they don't appeal to me and what I enjoy listening to, then I am not going to gloss it over and simply focus on that one moment out of three hours.
I actually enjoyed sitting at home listening (watching) the second night of Virginia. Looking back, I think there are more musical highlights than Bonnaroo (a show I attended). But that doesn't erase my (unfulfilled) desires and wants from the music this band has been creating for my 18 years of fandom.