As long in the tooth that this site is there have been pieces that have come and gone. This particular piece was a standalone type review - saving those reviews to a separate database. Once the piece got removed - don't remember why now - the database of reviews was gone too. Thankfully The Internet Archive saved them. That's actually where I copied these from.

But I agree with you - and why I thought they needed to be resurrected.  There are some great heartfelt sentiments here. I especially liked this quote of a quote from starkravingbrad from the San Fran show-

"he started with "i'd like to say three things: one, how nice it is to be in this incredibly beautiful city...two, my family's here tonight - my dad, Hans, my two sisters, my mom...i'm scaring the shit out of em, but here we go. and the third thing i'd like to say is...'there's a dead man lying right outside, his pants are crawled up his ass...'" !"