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

After the previous show's lull the band rolls into Columbia for a fan favorite show that the band was kind enough to give us a SBD of for free many years ago. Wedge is a surprisingly great opener here, and NICU a great follow up. The fun really starts with this Sneaking Sally though. About five minutes in the band starts taking this for a funk workout on a great version of this cover. Page has the showcase here while Fish holds it down. Trey adds loops and this one gets a bit spacy towards the end, before rolling into Guyute. Guyute is Guyute, but I think it's well placed at this point in the set. Fikus is a great cool down song; it's too bad it fell off after this tour. Farmhouse is nice here as well. Possum makes for an energetic closer to what's been a great set 1, but wait, what's that? Another cover debut hits in the form of Sweet Jane, a precursor to the Halloween fun later this year. The band crushes this one, ending a really nice first set.

We get our second unusual set opener with Cavern, this one quietly creeping in to start the second frame of the show. The end of the song is different too; rather than exploding it ominously streeeeeeeetches the final notes out before fading into 2001. It feels crazy for me to say "yeah, here's yet another stellar version of 2001!" from this tour but the fact is this just fit perfectly with the style of jamming they were doing at this time and what can I say, a highlight is a highlight. The segue into Tela gets a great response from the crowd. It's a beautiful follow up to the 2001, and then it lands nicely into Piper.

Finally, after failing to launch in the states, Piper takes off for the first time since Prague. The band builds tension beautifully after the verses before jumping into the typical Piper outro. This seems to provide the impetus for Trey, who starts to channel the big rock bliss energy of that previous jam here as well. Just shy of nine minutes Trey lets up a bit, and Mike takes advantage of the silence to shift the jam in a different direction. Trey and Page quickly follow though, and the band seems to fold the jam inwards into a quieter but steady drive. As has been the case in Summer '98, they are not in a hurry and instead sink into this new theme and explore. It continues to drive further and further inward, and features a nice Sparks tease from Trey at about 14 minutes before fading into oblivion. The fadeout provides Fish and Trey a chance to swap spots, and we get our second Sexual Healing of the tour. After this fun break the band closes the set out with Harry Hood. This is a fantastic version, as the band takes Hood for a Summer '98 ride, carefully exploring every inch of the song's structure and theme, delicately building up to an amazing and energetic peak, a real highlight of this entire tour. Sabotage provides an absolutely explosive encore, showcasing once again this tour's ability to incorporate new covers to great effect.

There isn't much more I can say here; this is a well known fan favorite show and another one of the reasons why I had to listen to the full Summer '98 tour to see if, like this show, the tour delivers The Best Phish.