4/4/98 Providence Civic Center - Providence, RI Set I: Side A: Side B: Tweezer -> Limb By Limb Taste Lawn Boy Bouncing Around the Room Character Zero Funky Bitch Ginseng Sullivan From Set II: Harry Hood Set II: Side A: Side B: Birds of a Feather -> Brother ^(cont) Also Sprach Zarathustra *-> Ghost^^ -> Brother ^(cut) Lizards David Bowie *Unfinished (only one "verse"). ^After the song, Trey said, "we're going to play that again", and they played a one-minute instrumental version of "Brother". Then Trey said, roughly, "That was the single-edit radio-friendly version. This next song is radio-unfriendly; it's long and slow." ^^With tease/jam of "I Can't Turn You Loose" (originally by Otis Redding, but associated with The Blues Brothers; see also 12-29-97)
8/2/98 Deer Creek - Noblesville, IN Set I: Side A: Side B: Roget Reba * Divided Sky Weigh The Horse -> Birds of a Feather Silent in the Morning Too Much of Everything Filler: 8/9/98 VA Beach Boogie On Raggae Woman -> Terrapin Station Set II: Side A: Side B: Possum David Bowie Story of the Ghost -> I Get a Kick Out of You ** Life Boy -> Loving Cup E: Harry Hood Bittersweet Motel * With whistling
8/3/98 Deer Creek - Noblesville, IN Set I: Side A: Side B: Rhinoceros * Moma Dance Halley's Comet Strange Design I Didn't Know ** Character Zero Ride Captain Ride *** Cars Trucks Buses Set II: Side A: Side B: Gumbo Hold Your Head Up -> Axilla Bike *-> Limb By Limb Hold Your Head Up ^^ Meat Tube The Wedge E: When the Circus Comes to Town Run Like an Antelope + * with a second vacuum solo ^^ After which Trey calls Henrietta, "Bob Weaver." + with lyric "Bid you to have any spliff."
8/9/98 Virginia Beach Ampitheatre - Virginia Beach, CA Set I: Side A: Side B: Punch You in the Eye Bathtub Gin Bathtub Gin Esther Lizards Roget MOMA Dance Bouncing Around the Room David Bowie Set II: Side A: Side B: AC/DC Bag -> You Enjoy Myself Sparkle Frankenstein Run Like an Antelope Chalkdust Torture Brian and Robert Hello My Baby Waste Somewhere Over the Rainbow ^ E: Terrapin Station + ^Instrumental only, no lyrics, possibly remembering the rainbow which appeared during the 1997 VA Beach show + Grateful Dead cover, first time played; Played for the third anniversary of Jerry Garcia's death; Trey sang
8/15/98 Loring AFB - Limestone, ME Set I: Side A: Side B: Mike's Song -> Poor Heart Simple Moma Dance Beauty of My Dreams Divided Sky Roggae Water in the Sky Split Open and Melt Funky Bitch -> Set II: Side A: Side B: The Wedge -> Tweezer -> Reba The Horse -> Gumbo ^-> Silent in the Morning Sanity Chalkdust Torture Slave to the Traffic Light ^^ Set III: Side A: Side B: NICU -> Brian and Robert David Bowie Loving Cup Strange Design Limb By Limb E: Halley's Comet -> Cavern -> Tweezer Reprise Set IV: Side A: Side B: From Set I: Ambient Jam (cont) + Cities *-> Weekapaug Groove From Set IV: Ambient Jam (cut) + ^ Jam out of which sounded very much like "Tweezer Reprise." ^^ with glowstick war * Third verse was about "The Garden of Infinte Pleasantries," instead of the normal verse about Memphis; included noticable "Sneaking Sally" teases + After Tweezer Reprise, Trey explained that the band wanted to do something to combine ideas from The Clifford Ball and The Great Went, going into detail about the band/fan artwork from last year, and announced that the band would do a free-form ambient jam (lyric-less; nearly an hour long; "in the Brian Eno style of ambient music"), surrounded by candles that were made by the audience throughout the day. There were no other lights used during the jam, which Trey explained that they were in fact playing in a "temple of fire" (as advertisements for summer tour shows had announced). After finishing the jam, the band picked up tiki torches, lit them using the candles, and lit a small stone (?) temple (which was left burning overnight and throughout the band's performance on Sunday)
8/16/98 Loring AFB - Limestone, ME Set I: Side A: Side B: Ginseng Sullivan AC/DC Bag Bathtub Gin -> Relax Rift Birds of a Feather Punch You in the Eye Gyute Lawn Boy Possum Ya Mar -> Set IIA: Side A: Side B: Down With Disease -> Ghost *-> Piper -> Fluffhead Filler: 8/29/87 Shelburne, VT Filler: 3/15/91 Denver, CO Suzie Greenberg Destiny Unbound I Didn't Know Set IIB: Side A: Side B: When the Circus Comes to Town Wading in a Velvet Sea Hold Your Head Up + -> Filler: 06/16/95 Raleigh, NC Sexual Healing ++ -> Runaway Jim -> Hold Your Head Up Free Run Like an Antelope Set III: Side A: Side B: Sabotage -> Bittersweet Motel Also Sprach Zarathustra While My Guitar Gently Weeps Wilson The Mango Song E: Harry Hood * Character Zero Fuse Jam -> The Baby Elephant Walk^ Lemonwheel Day Two. *With glowstick war. +Long and drawn out; Fish introduces "his band": Trey Anastasio on drums, Mike "Cactus" Gordon on bass, "Chairman of the Boards" Page McConnell, and himself as "Bob Weaver." Fish introduces the next song as "a love song about a turtle" (which would have been "Terrapin"), but instead he performed Sexual Healing ("a much better song anyway") after "his band" finally ended "HYHU." ++Includes "Sounds of Love" vacuum solo. ^Henry Mancini cover; first time played. Trey lit a tiki-torch and used it to light a fuse which ran up Page's side of the stage, across the backdrop, down Fish's side of the stage, along the fence to a giant elephant-shaped structure near the stage came to life as fireworks went off both above it and from behind the stage. The elephant then blew water out its trunk (and smoke came out from underneath it) and led the crowd out towards the campground.
11/02/98 E Centre - West Valley City, UT Part of Set II: Side A: Side B: Harpua -> Brain Damage Speak to Me Eclipse Breathe Harpua On the Run Time Filler: Clifford Ball '96 Great Gig in the Sky PYITE Money Reba Us and Them Cars Trucks Buses Any Colour You Like
7/13/99 Tweeter Center - Mansfield, MA Set I: Side A: Side B: NICU Reba **-> The Curtain Carini -> Halley's Comet -> Funky Bitch Roses are Free -> NO2 * Lawn Boy Set II: Side A: Side B: Wolfman's Brother -> Run Like An Antelope # Piper Possum ## Bug -> Mountains in the Mist E: Tuesday's Gone ##^ *Includes instrumental jam after the dentist bit as appears on "The White Tape." ** Unfinished # "Meatstick" teases; Trey greets friends "Looks Too Much Like Dave (Abrahams)" and "Lu (Ann)" in the audience. ## with Scott Murawski of Max Creek on guitar. ^ Lynyrd Skynyrd cover; first time played
7/16/99 PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel,NJ Set II: Side A: Side B: Also Sprach Zarathustra Simple -> Mike's Song -> Guyute I Am Hydrogen Loving Cup -> Weekapaug Groove *-> Golgi Apparatus E: Born to Run ^ *Also Sprach Zarathustra tease ^First time played; Trey mentions that he and Page are "from around here," and that someone else grew up around here, "the greatest songwriter of all time"; Tom Marshall appeared to sing lead vocals, in full Springsteen style (red bandanna, etc.).
