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And since we're entirely volunteer – with no office, salaries, or paid staff – administrative costs are less than 2% of revenues! So far, we've distributed over $2 million to support music education for children – hundreds of grants in all 50 states, with more on the way.
Likewise, the 5 jams that were unanimous top 50 picks by the OPTers (5/22/00 Ghost, 9/14/99 Bag, 8/13/93 Gin, 5/7/94 Tweezer, 2/28/03 Tweezer) got a grand total of 4 top 10 votes from phish.net.
All of which just goes to show that Phish's history offers such an incredible bounty of glorious jams that there is bound to be an equally diverse list of favorites among members of the fanbase. Lists like these only help bring more great music to more fans' ears, so I applaud the phish.net staff for putting it out there. Even if their picks weren't as good as ours :-P