Venues

The “E” Center

West Valley City, UT, USA

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Top Rated Shows

Highest rated shows at this venue by Phish.net users:

Date Rating
1998-11-02 481 votes 4.6279/5
1997-11-14 246 votes 4.4797/5

Top Reviews

Highest-rated reviews from shows at this venue:

1997-11-14 by waxbanks 68
Been revisiting this show lately for a variety of reasons, and I wanted to add a couple of things to my earlier review. First of all, I'd like to strengthen my recommendation: any other year but 1997 we'd be talking about 11/14/97 as a Best of Tour candidate, if we talked that way at all, but it...
1998-11-02 by Mikesgroover 52
One of the biggest musical gifts of my concertgoing career was the performance Phish delivered this night in Utah. After failing to convince any of my friends who attended Vegas with me, I headed north alone, sleeping in my car and arriving to find a nearly empty parking lot. Everyone had skipped...
1997-11-14 by waxbanks 46
Historical note: Fall '97 was a great time for Wolfman's Brother. Though it's a standalone tune now as it was in 1999-2000, the Wolf's Bro was a 'Type II' vehicle in 1997-98, and all four Fall versions (11/14, 11/19, 11/30, 12/7) end in gin-u-wine segue arrows, and earn them. In those days the...
1998-11-02 by Bwana 35
It's hard to express how much certain shows mean -- but in the greater context of my experience following Phish -- this night was as emotional as any I've had... Sometimes for whatever reason these four guys connect to their phans and to the greater positive energy in this life and the universe...
1998-11-02 by waxbanks 24
I can't think of a 1998 show that opens more strongly than this one: Tube > Drowned > JJLC sends a hell of a 'We've recovered from Halloween and are ready to destroy you' message. That's also a gorgeous LxL in the first set. The second-set YEM features an unusual (and beautiful) extended ambient...
1998-11-02 by n00b100 16
This show, as we all know, contains one of the greatest sets that Phish ever played. And that reputation is fully deserved - the Tube and its attending jam are a marvelous blend of '97's funk and '99's space, the segue into a ferocious Drowned is marvelous, and the sequence ends with a perfect,...
1997-11-14 by ob1trey 15
I mail ordered for a single ticket, flew to SLC alone. Hung with some nice peeps in the parking lot. I had no idea where my seat was. When I showed my ticket to the usher and they sent me down to the floor. Cool, a floor ticket. When I got to the floor, i flashed my ticket, and they told me to...
1997-11-14 by Ez_and_not_so_Fast 11
So Joyful. So Chilled Out... I splashed out to get my brother and I front row tickets for his birthday. And we were rewarded. The arena was about half empty as most of the drug scene, quite understandably, avoided Utah. The police were out in full force, too, although they also relaxed as...
1998-11-02 by waxbanks 9
Mea culpa: Steve Albert informs me that there's no circulating SBD of this show - the existing (quite nice) matrix recording just combines multiple AUD sources. Whoops!
1998-11-02 by Stumpy 6
The fact that I was at the show when they played DSOTM is one of those cosmic mysteries that eludes a simple explanation. I had just moved to Utah 10 days earlier for the ski season, and up until this point in time I'd caught about 65 shows since '92 - all northeast shows. I remember just...

Notable Jam Chart Performances

Individual jam chart entries from this venue:

1998-11-02 • Limb By Limb (15:09) Set 1 Noteworthy
Beautiful, serene playing. At about 8:00, the jam amps down into delicate, contemplative playing.
1998-11-02 • Tube (14:00) Set 1 Noteworthy
A good mix of funk and ambient elements in the first jam, but the jam reprise is where the band really shows their jamming acumen. Beginning with a darker/ambient feel, Trey gradually increases the intensity and leads the group into some jubilant jamming before the -> to "Drowned".
-> in from "Drowned." Contrasting with 7/19/98, this version has a genuine blues sentiment to it, enhanced by Page's organ playing.
Exceptionally long opening segment (11:30!).
1998-11-02 • Drowned (15:39) Set 1
Shredfest.
1997-11-14 • Gumbo (11:04) Set 1
Quickly breaks down into a Mike-led "cow funk" jam, that eventually dissipates into quiet ambiance and delay loops. Welcome to Fall '97.
"FEFY" dissolves into a gorgeous intro. "C&P"-like second jam features one of the coolest Mike basslines of any version.
Epic, long version that works very well. Impeccably well-played. Here, the journey, rather than the ending, is what really counts (although the ending is pretty spectacular, too).
1997-11-14 • Twist (15:58) Set 2
> in from "Piper." The jam starts off typically, but soon morphs into a swirling and dissonant beast. An extended Trey solo follows this section and > to an epic "Slave To The Traffic Light."
The post-funk release is not your typical "feel good" rocking crescendo, but a quiet transition into minor mode darkness before subtly switching to major mode and -> to "Piper."


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