Part of my full run through of Summer '98, see here

The west coast run is over, but the band still has a long way to go and a lot of ground to cover (both physically and musically) before hitting the end of this summer tour. After opening with AC/DC Bag the band jumps into Fluffhead, and this one is quite good. After another nice Roggae to cool down we get this Tube, and wow, I thought the Gorge version was good but this one is hotter. This jam is raging funk courtesy of Page and Mike, and then when the song proper ends, the band strrrrrreeeeeeeetttttches the last notes out and ascends into spacy funk driven by Fish and Mike. This all takes nine minutes or so but as seems to be the case with this tour, time has no meaning at all and it feels like we've been adrift for a while before the band lands on Sparkle. The late set Cavern empties out into the echoey depths of Frankie Says. After an especially delicate outro by Page, Antelope closes out the set in it's typical spirited fashion.

The second set has a lot more interesting material, starting with a raging Mike's Groove. After the proper portion of the song is done the band breaks into the second jam. This one is defined by Fishman's plodding but unrelenting rhythm. This leaves Trey and Page to play out a steady, accented jam with a slow build that gets funkier as it unfolds. As Page hits the piano around 14 minutes in he and Trey suddenly explode with energy, a burst that lasts until Mike's returns to peak at about 16 and a half minutes, and transitions into Simple. While this one doesn't go deep it is a beautiful jam nonetheless that trails off into ambient space (in a fashion quite familiar at this point in the tour) before settling into a new key that allows the band to debut Bittersweet Motel. The inevitable Weekapaug follows here and while this isn't the behemoth it was at the Gorge the jam is joyous and finishes fantastically. Brian and Robert provides a pause before the band delivers another funky Ghost. This one marches forward with a steady beat and great grounding from Mike before Trey starts to ratchet things up around ten minutes in. The pace quickens and the funk transitions to explosive rock reminiscent of the fantastic Prague version. At seventeen minutes things finally start to ramp down, and then shifts into something more bluesy at nineteen minutes before transforming into the bustout of She Caught the Katy (after a show gap almost four digits long). This one is fairly well played after being gone for so long, but they don't linger, and quickly jump to a new song with the same singer in the form of a Funky Bitch set closer. The band refers to the encore Sleeping Monkey with Fishman on vocals as a companion to the previous night's first encore song as well (which I guess is a pretty funny bit). Rocky Top closes this one out.

This one is on the same level as the previous night's show, mostly solid with some good jams (Tube, Mike's Groove, Ghost) and some solid bustouts. The trajectory of the tour is starting to shift a bit as we approach the halfway point between Denmark and Maine.