Set 1 Highlights: Punch You in the Eye > Horn, Split Open and Melt

Set 2 Highlights: Free > Limb by Limb > 2001 (Standout Version), You Enjoy Myself

Rock and Roll kicks off the second night of the 1998 NYE Run. Trey in particular has some octane playing for a show opener. Funky Bitch keeps the Garden rocking next. Funky Bitch is one of my favorite two-hole first set songs, if only for the crowd pop once the drums kick in every time. Punch You in the Eye comes sliding out of the loudspeakers next and features a slightly extended, and built-up intro. From here, the band transitions perfectly into Horn. This transition really makes clear the potential of Horn's positive effect on the flow of a show. By nature of it's guitar-only intro, it's difficult to pull off a perfect transition into Horn, leaving it almost always faced with a , before it. Check out this transition, total butter. My favorite bluegrass cover, Ginseng Sullivan keeps the perfect setlist flow going. The darkness to Ginseng's quirky, levity emerges next with the drum beat of Split Open and Melt. This version is particularly wide-ranging with Page in the spotlight throughout. Brian and Robert gives everyone a much needed breath of air and is pretty perfectly placed. Two songs I'm not super up on continue the set, Guyute and My Soul. An a-capella Free Bird closes the set in perfect fashion. A very well put together set with a couple of highlights definitely worth checking out.

A nice, slow and heavy Free opens up the second set. The tempo of this Free was really jarring to me at first but certainly served the version well in the jam. A very strong Limb by Limb continues the set with both Trey and Page in the spotlight throughout. What comes next is almost beyond words. The intro to the 2001 that follows is some of the most incredible ambient music I've ever heard from this band and transitions into the 2001 drum beat in a way that I can't recall hearing before. The 2001 itself is an absolute smoker as well with a great CxP tease from Trey. A concise rendition of Boogie On Reggae Woman follows up the barnburner of a 2001. The Grandaddy Phish song, YEM, closes up the set in explosive fashion. This version is awesome and sees both Trey and Page allowing a lot of room for Mike and Fish to get funky early in the jam. An extremely rare Divided Sky encore closes out an epic continuation of the run.