A lot of people in this thread seem to have no idea what 'critical' means -- and to confuse kneejerk reaction with intentional action.

@kevinforbin is saying: Don't ripcord your experience.

Even if the songs aren't good.

There's a difference between choosing the right moment to use the bathroom and performatively flouncing when they play middling tunes! 'They've just started a four-minute song I don't like -- I must buy beer!' isn't an aesthetic judgment, it's a lapse of patience and attention-management. One of the important lessons this band teaches by example is that you can work intentionally with boredom, uncertainty, compromise, and get to something compelling that wouldn't be there if it weren't for the 'undesirable' setup. (Remember Page's remarks about the 40-minute '46 Days' in the IT documentary, how he says exactly this?)

Trey is one of my heroes and I'm unmoved (to put it as gently as possible) by most of his sobriety-is-a-rainbow tunes. 'Drift' outstays its welcome and Trey's late vocals have lost their saving sarcasm and I personally skip straight to the jam on any Phish track with 'Soul' in its title except 'Soul Shakedown Party.' But I don't walk out on the tunes I dislike, because something is going on and the best reason to go to a Phish show is to be part of it -- all of it.

You have a right to feel what you feel! You have a right to piss or drink or eat or whatever when the mood arises! @kevinforbin isn't stupid, for shit's sake, of course he knows you can come as you are and do what you feel.

But please, for your own sake and the sake of the communal rite that you've paid to be part of, consider the possibility of attending to the musicians' impulses instead of following your own, for the 80 minutes of the set. The downside is having to stand there while your favourite band plays a song you don't like. That seems tolerable.