One of my top 5!! 
Decided to go the night before at about midnight. My boy got off work bartending and we drove down from Buffalo. Got tixs the next morning from tixmaster.
Raged face and had a hell of a time. ;D Second set was amazing!! I still remember that fucking kid running across the stage and jumping off.
and yes, that Antelope AND Tweezer are ‘pure’ Phish greatness!
love the antelope…
Easily One’s favorite show from '98. It’s way up there on the all-time favorites list as well.
Yeah, that Antelope ranks right up as one of my favs. Man, I wish I could go back in time and go to this run. The band just seems to be enjoying life and being on the stage. Good times had by all for that run.
Interesting…what’s #2 for 1998?
i personally like this show and 8/9 as far as 98 goes
Damnit Marco, answer me!
This “Roses” jam holds the test of time for me. Always in my top-5. Always always always.
Layered, textured, thematic…so good. So choice.
You know, that the strength of this show rests totally on the second set? The first set was really kind of lackluster.
It just interesting how some performances of any song within a show can be so monumental as to overshadow average playing during the rest of the show. Those moments of pure Phish breakthrough are just so powerful for each of us on a very personal level.
I’ve seen only three shows at the Nassau Coliseum, but the Antelope and Encore from this show, the Fluffhead from 10/7/99, and the Tweezer from 2/28/03 were three of the most memorable performances I’ve seen by any band at any time in my life, and makes me rank Nassau as one of my favorite venues for seeing Phish.
But the 4/3 show held so much other personal importance because of the connections I was making online on the rmp, and with the sons of college friends that I had once toured with in college for groups like the Dead, Santana, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and the Moody Blues. From my perspective, this show ranked easily with any show I had seen from these groups, and am still amazed how Phish remains marginal in overall popularity in this country.
The vision of Trey dancing and bouncing around the stage with an enormous fucking smile on his face as he played the Tweeprise and got it cranked so unbelievably high is still as vivid in my mind as if it happened last week. There was an understanding that was communicated from the Antelope on, between the band and the audience that something really musically great had taken place at the end of this show, and Trey’s behavior on stage during the last song just echoed it for everyone there.
Great show indeed.
One of the first times I think I can say I disagree with Bill. That Mike’s>OHP>Weekapaug is nastiness. I am pretty fond of the Reba, too. Dogs Stole Things is actually pretty impressive, too. Well, I guess it might be in the bottom half of greates Island Tour Sets but that still says a lot.
While the first set isn’t jaw-dropping, I definitely would not consider it lackluster.
Now, if you compare it to set two/encore, than yes… it is missing something.
Oh, sorry Neil. Probably going to go with December 29th.
Also gotta agree with Will about the first set.
Still one of the finest 'Paug jams these ears have heard.
Ah, yes. 12-29.
You chose…wisely.
^^you want a Mike’s Groove what am a Mike’s Groove?
12/2/97 Mike’s Song->Simple->Dogface Boy->YaMar->Weekapaug Groove
Before the Tweezer->Soul Shakedown Party->Bowie from 2/28/03 became my giveaway disk, this Mike’s was its predecessor.
Everyone in attendance participated in one of the greatest events in the history of improvisational music. From the intro of Mike’s Song to the last guitar lick of Tweeprise, dark and light battle it out. Things get heated and considerably more emotional during roses>piper>cup>antelope and the carini>halleys>tweeprise encore. Fone is right, Tweezer Reprise brings the second set’s energy to a head and Trey crushes it for every single person in the coliseum.
This second set is great post-show music.
listened to this second set today for the first time in a while.
i love this piper. the jam at the end is great. some nice spacey stuff that ends up with solo page before going into loving cup.
i could listen to this roses and piper a million times and never get tired of it.
Thirteenth anniversary of this show today, and I have some chores to do like getting the oil changed in Marie’s car and grocery shopping and such, so what better show to grab down from the shelf to make those chores more palatable?
Will probably only listen to one set, so I’ll think it’ll be …
Weekapaug is the first set highlight for me and I do like the Billy Breathes. My Soul is a weird set closer. I’d have to say my favorite moment is the Piper. The Roses jam is better than the Piper jam but I can listen to Piper’s build up over and over and the actual jam goes to some cool places too.
Best Antelope I’ve ever heard…Might not be the “best” ever, but my face just fucking melted off. 