07-28-98 Sandstone Ampitheatre

Phish Live Shows
#1

07-28-98 Sandstone Amphitheatre, Bonner Springs, KS

Sound Check: Fikus, Fikus#, Shafty, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Sunshine On My Shoulders > Wading in the Velvet Sea Jam

1: Emotional Rescue -> Down with Disease, The Moma Dance, Tela, Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley, It’s Ice -> Lengthwise* -> It’s Ice, Sparkle, Funky Bitch** (1:07)

2: The Wedge, Poor Heart, The Mango Song, Brother, Contact^, Maze, Prince Caspian^^ > You Enjoy Myself (1:18)

E: Camel Walk, The Squirming Coil

#Different verse than the first time. ##With lyrics about meat, cheese, “if you want to stay a vegetarian…eat the placenta”; Fish mentions “pussy,” and everyone else stops the sound check immediately. *With Fish on vacuum. **Ending similar to “Black-Eyed Katy” (about 1 minute). ^“Mexican Love Style”; Trey met two people yesterday who had fallen in love, and dedicated it to them. ^^Cut short before the song was reprised, and went into “You Enjoy Myself.”

#2

This might be my favorite show of the summer tour. Not counting LW.

If it’s not, at the very least, it’s top-3.

My favorite version of “Contact” and a hot “YEM” to close the 2nd set.

#3

I loved this show.
My first time actually traveling far for anything(compared to Assembly Hall 11.18.97).

#4

oops… correction: 11.19.97

#5

Hm…I think this show is kind of weak actually. Sorry. Though, I guess if they’re going to play a show almost completely devoid of creative playing, this is the way to do it. The song selection is fantastic, but during an era where at least some sort of type 2 jamming is expected this show just falls a little flat for me. There’s a few minutes of saving grace in the Sally jam and in the YEM to close the show (which is a stellar version), but every time I listen to this show by the time I get to the YEM I think “too little, too late”.

But again if you’re into bustouts and seeing/hearing rare tunes this show is tops…Emotional Rescue, Tela, Sally, It’s Ice (during a period when this song had become quite rare), Lengthwise, Brother, Camel Walk…all really cool tunes.

#6

In the course of the tour and era it was a throwback show. Welcomed and embraced by those on tour but maybe not by someone just seeing one show that summer craving JAMS!

#7

Emotional Rescue opener? Yes please!

I miss my office job where I could stream shows on their anniversary all day. :shifty:

#8

^ who dat?

#9

:wave: