august took the words right out of me mouth! ;D the energy in that place was freakin’ electric!!!
i think we did the same amount of shows that tour (you skipped albany & MN iirc and i skipped chicago & MN)…
after that show ended, i knew it wasnt gonna be topped.
as i was leaving, i told my buddy that that was the best show i saw since 8-1-98.i stated that as a fact.
they tried to keep it up the next night, but fell kinda short (although the set on paper is HOT!)
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^^thanks guys. Sounds like a great time. I forgot about Spock’s Brain in that show.
I’ll definitely keep my eye out for a source of this show on etree.
did you make it over to the mandalay bay to catch les afterwards? what an incredible night of music!!! i don’t think i slept once! vegas + phish = heaven on earth 
i feel like a wolfman’s is too slow and takes too long to develop to be an opener with energy.
this is a great opening segue and less than 2 months earlier too. though, after the peak of drowned it gets slow for a while.
a second song 2001 wouldnt do it for me especially after a rocking opener like funky bitch. i like 2001 in the second set when im ready to hear them lay back and just explore.
obviously, these are all personal preferences but i still like the 1998-12-29 openers the best…for now.
i have no idea what i did after the first night.
i was still rollin’ pretty hard when the show let out… :o
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^so that’s why its your favorite!! ;D ;D
nah.
rolls dont affect how i judge shows.
i was eating 4 rolls a night on that tour and could give
a fair review of each of them.
i never really so far gone where i was too distracted to
understand what was going on musically.
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4 rolls a night! JEBUS!
Is 9.14.00 one of your favs from that tour, or are you one of the people who hated that show, partly because of the rain.
That’s one of the first shows I ever heard so its special to me…that’s why I ask.
9-28-99 Set 1:
Wolfman’s Brother
Sneakin’ Sally
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really good call on this one!
as for opening sequences how about 12/29/97 NICU > Golgi > Crossroads…I don’t even care that much for NICU or Golgi, but the combination of these three is just awesome.
2 to start the show and 2 at setbreak…
i like 9-14-00 a lot.
especially the first set.
its funny because that was the first time i was on the lawn for a pavilion/lawn venue ever…and i got soaked.
but, the 2nd set does meander a bunch, although i think that the 1st set more than makes up for it.
also, it was the the fifth show in a row without any repeats.
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darion was a good time. i was lucky enough to be in the pavilion, so the rain didn’t bother me too much.
I only saw nine shows, so this isn’t too tough for me.
1997 - 11/16/97 - Denver - my first show. Unfortunately, I only went to the first night at McNichols, and didn’t know they were going to throw down a thunderous show the next night.
1998 - 8/1/98 - Alpine Valley - first outdoor show. epic. Opened w/ Ramble On, my fave song from my fave band in high school.
1999 - 10/1/99 Ames - only saw two shows (the other being 7/24/99), but I got to take several newbs to the Ames show…too much fun.
2000 - 8/7/00 - Alpine
2003 - 7/17/03 - KC
2004 - 6/25/04 - Alpine first night. I call this the “hard” night, and 6/26 the “easy” night.
that show with Me and My Monkey is Bonner Springs 2000
7.15.03 is the Utah Mr. Completely BBFCFM show.
the second set of that show is pretty thunderous though!
That it was. I had a typo in there.
And, yes, the second set of 11/16/97 is the thunder.
2: Timber (Jerry)-> Simple, Wilson-> Harry Hood, Izabella
Okay, I busted out my uberdork fanboy notebook, so here goes.
Fav’s Ive seen
11/21/92 Stony Brook U-only other show I’d seen to this point was a Horde at Jones Beach. This was the best concert I’d ever seen at 17years old. Probably the first time I ever danced like a fool without worry over whether or not I looked cool. 'Cause everyone else was.
2/06/93 Roseland Ballroom- John Popper on harp for B.A. and Possum. Thats all I can honestly remember about this show. After all it was 13 years ago. Again, the best concert experience I ever had to this point.
7/15/94 Jones Beach. I wrote Down in my Journal a specific jam on Jessica in David Bowie, and I can distinctly remember it. It was the first time I could recognize another song jammed inside a song, and at 19, thought Phish were gods.
7/03/95 Summerstage Sugarbush VT My first summer with my own car. so I could drive where i wanted to. I spent most of my money from my part time job on 4 summer shows through mail order(remember mail order). This one may go down as one of my top 5 or six ever. Although I can distinctly remember them trashing Lizards, and attempting to cover it up with a BBFCM
8/17/96 Day two Clifford Ball - Set 2- 'nuff said
8/17/97 Day two Great Went - Set 2- 'nuff said (although 12/30/97 needs to be mentioned, it just loses out by a nose. Its first set didnt do much for me)
4/3/98 Nassau Coliseum - Never have I seen music played the way Phish played this second Set. Groundbreaking.
12/31/99 Big Cypress - Best concert in the History of the world. Anyone who thinks otherwise ought to have their head examined
2000- I took a break from Phish. After my last Phish show, I just thought It was the right way to end it.
2003- 2/28/03 Nassau Coliseum God did I get lucky with my first show back. We ALL had a DESTINY on this night!
2004- 6/19/04 My last show. PIPER TWEEPRISE!
hmm…
my list would change a bunch if it were attended shows…
1993-07-23
1994-07-16
1995-12-31
1996-12-28
1997-12-29
1998-08-01
1999-07-15
2000-09-29
2003-07-31
2004-08-12
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my favorite attended show(s) from each year…
5-8-93 & 12-30-93
7-8-94 or 7-16-94 or 10-31-94 or 12-29-94
6-26-95 & 12-31-95
8-13-96 or The Ball or 10-31-96
11-29-97 & 12-28-97
4-3-98 or 10-31-98 or 11-27-98
7-15-99 & Cypress
9-17-00 & 9-29-00
2-26-03 & 2-28-03
6-19-04 & 6-20-04
I couldn’t just pick one. ;D
And as for a triple threat to begin a show. How bout Piper, Bag and Greenberg! Nassau 99 fool!