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
IMO, the FOB Schoeps source owns the SBD this time around.
The DSBD source for 8/8 is heaven for the ears.
^w3rd
i’m luvin all the love for 8/8
and of course VERY thankful of the DSBD that’s in wide circulation
I JUST got done listening to this entire show (with the Terrapin Station SBD from the next night taboot).
Had to go drive down to Wooster, OH for some work. Doctor’s offices, filing certificates in city hall vital statistics, the usual. Except I had the nice long drive I don’t do all the time.
So I popped in 08/08/98, 02/18/97, and Dead Set into the ole 6-disc changer for the ride. Only got to listen to 08/08/98, not that it’s a bad thing.
The soundcheck is fuckin’ great in the beginning.
The beginning of this first set is golden. Love The Wedge opener, and the Sneakin Sally->Guyute sounds like it was always meant to be played that way. Fikus and Farmhouse sort of killed the flow for me, but they were both well played, and thankfully short. The Possum was nice, and the Sweet Jane was an excellent surprise. However, it can’t even hold a candle to what would come on Halloween.
Second set starts off just as well, if not better than the first. Cavern was an odd choice for opener I thought, but the quasi-segue into 2001 definitely made up for it. Then 2001 morphs into Tela, and the place is going nuts. A relatively straight forward version of Tela, and then Piper rears its ugly head. What a version! Straight rock-n-roll build up for minute upon minutes, and then space, space, and more space. Sexual Healing comes out of the space, and is a fun surprise since there was no HYHU warning, unless I missed a small tease of it. And then Harry Hood to finish it off. I’m almost embarassed to say that I was definitely singing the “feel good about Hood” part as I rounded around Dead Man’s Curve on my final stretch back to work.
Pulled into work while jamming away on the Terrapin Station filler, what a drive it was.