This is a good fun show that gets overshadowed by the bonner springs/maryland heights shows on one side and the killer deer creek run on the other.

being summer tour '98, what's a phish show without a killer break out. well, things start out nicely a page led version of zeppelin's "ramble on." this version is played pretty straight forward, but as they hit the melodic outro, trey jumps right into mike's song. pretty damn good for 2 songs in! this mike's song is not one for the ages, but it is a nice addition to the first set, and it works nicely into esther. weekapaugh picks things up, as trey and page drop some nice little flurries of notes. guyute is well-executed before they finally slow things down with fikus. the rest of the set is pretty straight-forward but still played very enthusiastically.

piper was not yet what it would become, but it got the crowd moving before wilson finished getting the crowd gassed up. the boys start a slow roll into 2001. the front end of this is very loose and his littered with some very well-placed cross eyed and painless teases by trey. after hitting the climax, they loosen back up. this time page rolls them right into an impromptu magilla. this is pretty well done, and obviously, it's always a treat. as they wrap this up, fishman goes back into 2001, but it's very short lived as trey rips into tweezer. this jam sounds a lot like a 1999 phish jam, but it has WAY more focus and direction. it is very laid back and very groove oriented, but it never has that directionless feel that i feel spoiled a lot of phish jams in '99. this tweezer finally gives way to a more psychedelic than normal fluff head. this one is played with loads of precision and there are some nice embellishments thrown in taboot. they slow things down with brian and robert and alburquerque before sending everyone home with rocking but standard takes of cdt and frankenstein.

having had played ramble on as an opener, surely we are done with random covers/debuts...WRONG! this one is almost as big as the sabotage that would come a week later. they really nail been caught stealing with some great playing by mike. tweeprise finishes things up in standard fashion.

all in all a great show that is very set list friendly. the 2001>magilla>2001>tweezer stretch is easily the highlight of this show. if you dig this show, you'll like the cities jam from polaris the night before, and the deer creek shows the next 2 nights will blow you away! nugs.net's free stash has great sounding copies of all these shows, a long with the rest of the summer '98 tour. get them all. there's hardly one worth leaving out!