After that burner of an opening set, the audience was surely anticipating some fireworks in the second half. And the Dead are not going to let anyone down, starting with a dense, mega-disco Shakedown, played to the nines. Jerry is firing off, right alongside Phil’s intense bass bombs and Brent’s magical fills. A funky jam at the end – thick with a vocal breakdown –  takes it righteously into Samson, which is itself scintillating. Then the band turns to a stunningly emotional To Lay Me Down, the second to last before they put it on the shelf until Hampton in ’88. To get things jumpstarted again, Bobby leads it into Let It Grow where Jerry and Brent go off. Then, after Drums and Space, we get a slow, dazzling He’s Gone with a bluesy jam at the end. And the Dead send that jam into something different altogether, a searching interlude that seems to be looking for the Other One the entire time. Finally, they grab onto the theme itself and Bobby lays in the first verse. Just a few heady moments later, and the band slows it down and takes it into a beautiful Stella. A rocking Sugar Mags then follows it up to close out the set. A rare Casey Jones encore gets one of the largest cheers of the evening before the crowd spills out into a full moon Kansas City night.