Great review. Your writing is insightful, fair, and illustrates perfectly what this show was.

I still maintain that Saturday night (or substitute a night) shows must not merely be 'all right.'

Some have suggested a bit of travel fatigue. Be that at all the case (I agree; plus, there is that following a really great show aspect, too....), perhaps ANOTHER Disease opens because of a certain comfort level? I think this lends to very similar sounding playing, and a cessation, rather than infusion, of ideas. Open with the Halleys, or, better yet, What's the Use? Neither are technically demanding, and the band can use the time to communicate - as they did so well in Ohio - and see where that leads.

Or why not BDTBL; or, more interestingly, Possum 500?

I'm still just a bit stymied by the constant go-to choices (which have now been so clearly illustrated).