SET 1:

Mike's Song: Great way to open the show. Has the face melting rage that you would expect coupled with a healthy dose of that fall 97 funk. Would recommend. >

Chalk Dust Torture: Buried Alive tease at 6:34 – pretty normal CDT other than that.

My Soul: Standard.

Stash: Mike sounds so good in the early going of this jam. This one doesn’t stray far from the path, but there is absolutely no wasted space. Trey does sort of slide out of the potential big ending, there is no true climax. Instead, they go into this really neat space for about 70 seconds or so and then they segue nicely into Hydrogen. I think this is a really cool version of Stash and I would recommend it for its unique nature and combination with Hydrogen. Of the 443 times Stash has been played this is the ONLY time it was paired with I am Hydrogen. How cool is that? >

I Am Hydrogen: Standard. >

Weekapaug Groove: Very solid version, hard rocking with good length. Great mid set jam.

Dogs Stole Things: Standard.

Beauty of My Dreams: Standard.

Horn: Standard. >

Loving Cup: Good way to rock out the end of the set.

SET 2:

Julius: Straight ahead rocker, nothing like the Cleveland version. Back to normal I guess. >

Simple: Does the typical Simple thing, then mellows out and stays mellow for a good bit. The natives become restless, and the band seems to sense that. Things soon get a much greater sense of urgency and by 13 and a half this sucker is jamming hard! Really beautiful stuff. This mellows out again around 18:00 and we find ourselves in a sort of bluesy type jam. Kind of sort of. Fishman is awesome in here. Page too. 22:00 Loops, synth and introspection. Crowd loves it, CK5 must have been doing something amazing. 25:00 Very psychedelic. 26:00 Fish wants Maze or Bowie. Big loops. 28:53 Fish is on the toms, and you know what that means… ->

Timber (Jerry the Mule) – Played at back to back shows? Huh, that’s interesting. This tune has been played 99 times ( 8/29/1987 and 9/2/1987 and then 12/7/97 and 12/9/97) and it has only been played at back to back shows twice! Interestingly enough the two times this happened there were days off in between shows but the shows were still played ‘back to back’. This is a solid yet unspectacular version versus some of the others from this tour and year. LOL that it’s listed as a jamcharts version. >

Contact: Page funks this one up like crazy, Mike too!

Axilla: Standard. >

Harry Hood: Axilla tease at 0:52. Good enough Hood, nothing to really write home about.

ENCORE:

Fire: Rip roaring good time.

Summary: Good to very good show. For this tour it’s toward the bottom which speaks to the strength of it all. Agree with the current rating on .net of 4.12/5 (159 ratings).

Replay Value: Mike's Song, Stash, Simple