https://forum.phish.net/forum/permalink/1377742407

With a relatively low show rating, it would appear sensible to lower one's expectations accordingly, but this is a fine show (and AUD recording), in front of an enthusiastic all-ages crowd in a venue built in 1911. This was the band's first performance in the state of Kansas and even though the audience may have been unfamiliar with the band's repertoire (as Trey acknowledges during the intro to a very clean All Things Reconsidered), each song gets a big response. The crowd hangs on to all the twists and stops during a very good It's Ice, registers genuine surprise when The Landlady crashes into David Bowie and decides to mingle a while, and appropriately whistles for the drummer dressed in drag (I don't know of any circulating pictures of this outfit, so we'll have to use our imaginations).

I usually prefer to be further from the stage when I attend a Phish show, but I still clap and yell for an encore after the second set, ignoring the looks from those concertgoers around me that are engaged in conversation or texting on their phones. Once upon a time, fans were cheering for another encore that was not obliged by the band. So I take note of shows where the band is called back for a second encore, like this one. I thrill to hear fans cheer and clap because all they want is more music from the band that just played for the last two-to-three hours. Do we still love Phish shows that much? Or would we prefer that they end after two sets, so we can go back to what we were doing before the show?