What are some of your favorite shows from this tour?
7/15 is one of the best tour openers I’ve heard
I like 7/17 at the gorge (a “mike show”)
7/29 is pretty unique (Bathtub gin is phunkerific, fikus, vultures)
I’m downloading 8/3 right now…I’m slowly working my way through the nugs archive of the tour.
8/8!!!
merriweather
my first show, and it’ll always be special to me. i know i’m really bised but it’s a kick ass show. great wedge opener. sick piper. sick sneakin. great covers. what else could you ask for?
i know willB and GR also particularly enjoy this one, although Greg gave it mediocre reviews in his summer 98 review thread…somebody should dig that up.
08/08 and Lemonwheel.
Doesn’t get much better than that.
I can’t wait to get to 8/8! the setlist looks killer.
7.20 and 7.21 are two back to back shows that are tought to beat!
Here is a link to the reviews Greg did:
http://ohkeepa.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=live&action=display&thread=1125535673
true dat.
The “Gin” from 7.20 is one of my favorites, and the “Ghost->She Caught the Katy” from 7.21 is one of my favorite Phish segues ever.
I’m glad this thread was bumped. The summer 1998 is much-maligned by too many people IMHO.
If I had to rank my favorite tours, summer 1998 would be in my top 5.
drools 
YES! The 7/21 show was certainly a high-point. This show was, like the climate, very hot. Definitly one of my favorite Arizona shows (I saw em all from Dec 96 on).
The entire summer 98 tour was EPIC!
I like this show too, along with 8/12. Great Sabotage encore and I like the second set. Tela, Piper, Sexual Healing, Hood!
If you like lots of covers, some interesting setlists, a handful of great segues, and precious little experimental jamming or extended song versions, then summer 98 is for you. My only real complaint is that last bit: there was just not enough ‘stellar’ versions of songs and I found whole shows or chunks of most shows pretty immemorable. You can read the thread Will linked earlier if you want my opinions on the shows. I rate the entire tour at about a 7 or 8 out of 10. Naturally I’d need to actually hear more entire tours to justify that opinion, but all the shows I’ve heard from other tours seem to stay with me whereas most of summer 98 doesn’t.
I just discovered I have the soundboard for 8/8/98.
I’m gonna be rocking out today!
it even has “if you need a fool” and “shafty” from the soundcheck.
i’m in phish heaven!
sorry for the double post
^no prob. Summer 98 is pretty good for me, that 7/24 show especially. It has a nice spacy funk sound to it, but not as funky as fall 97…
7/24 is class stuff
Scent>Ha Ha Ha>scent
8/8/98 owns face, so does lemonwheel. especially the first day
amen.
I’ve never heard Lemonwheel…is there a SBD or FM source?
^ Yes, there is, and if you don’t mind mp3;
08-15-98 - http://stash.nugs.net/phish/summer98/default.asp?artist=2&show=113&cmd=shows
08-16-98 - http://stash.nugs.net/phish/summer98/default.asp?artist=2&show=134&cmd=shows