@ForgeTheCoin said:

It's a great jam, and I'm as big of a Phish nerd as there is...... But this is like the 4th dissection I have seen of this jam into it's component parts...

What gives? I don't ever remember the Runaway Jam getting the analytical autopsy... All you had to say was, 'Just get a copy and LISTEN...'

I *did* get a copy and listened. Three times. But then I wanted to focus on how the band moved from point A to B to C to . . . I have always been analytical, maybe it is just how my mind works. Sometimes I find myself at the end of a conversation, and I think backward to chart how we got to that spot. I enjoy it.

Through the taking of notes, I am forced to listen to the music in a way that is different from simply letting the notes fill my ears -- both "ways" of listening give me pleasure. I know I miss the nuance when I just listen while trying to work or riding the subway. Through the act of writing down what I hear (in mostly layman's terms, I will admit), I notice details that were otherwise missed.