DOWNLOADS OF THE WEEKEND:
Phish pumped everyone up yesterday with some great announcements about Festival 8, as it sits just at arm’s reach, less than two weeks away! Let’s take a deep breath this weekend and reflect on a festival past – 1998’s Lemonwheel. Limestone’s second season-ending festival brought six sets of pure fire. At the end of Summer ’98, Phish began blending ambient jamming into their repertoire, incorporating this style heavily in 8.16’s “Ghost.” But Summer ’98 was all about the laid-back funk, and the gem of this weekend was the second set of 8.15, featuring the massive combo of “Gunbo > Sanity > Tweezer,” all following a big-tim, festi-sized “Reba.” Set II of night II is also particularly strong, boasting “Disease > Piper, Ghost, Fluffhead” at the beginning of the frame. Six sets of greatness – plus the Ambient Set – later, and Phish had thrown one of their best weekends of all time.
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Entire Weekend – 8.15 / 8.16 & Soundcheck < Torrent
(This doesn’t include the 8.15’s Set IV. You can download that below.)
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Lemonwheel Soundcheck < Megaupload
8.15.98 Lemonwheel, Limestone, ME < Megaupload
I : Mike’s Song > Simple, Beauty of My Dreams, Roggae, Split Open and Melt, Poor Heart, The Moma Dance, The Divided Sky, Water in the Sky, Funky Bitch > Cities > Weekapaug Groove
II: The Wedge, Reba, Gumbo > Sanity > Tweezer > The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Chalk Dust Torture, Slave to the Traffic Light
III: NICU > David Bowie, Strange Design, Limb By Limb > Brian and Robert, Loving Cup
E: Halley’s Comet > Cavern, Tweezer Reprise
IV: Ambient Jam
Source: FOB > Schoeps CMC6/MK21 > Sonosax SX-M2 > Apogee AD-1000
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8.16.98 Lemonwheel, Limestone, ME < Megaupload
I: Ginseng Sullivan, Bathtub Gin, Rift, Punch You In the Eye, Lawn Boy, Ya Mar, AC/DC Bag, Frankie Says, Birds of a Feather, Guyute, Possum
II: Down with Disease > Piper, Ghost, Fluffhead, When the Circus Comes, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Hold Your Head Up > Sexual Healing > Hold Your Head Up, Run Like an Antelope
III: Sabotage > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Wilson, The Mango Song, Character Zero, Bittersweet Motel, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
E: Harry Hood > Jam > Baby Elephant Walk
Source: FOB > Schoeps CMC6/MK21 > Sonosax SX-M2 > Apogee AD-1000
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Jams of the Weekend: Lemonwheel
“Gumbo > Sanity > Tweezer” 8.15 II
Arguably, the best chunk of the weekend.
“Ambient Set” 8.15.98 IV
One of the best hours of Phish music ever. (Download by clicking the orange title.)
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VIDEO OF THE WEEKEND:
“2001” 8.16.98 III (Part 1)
“2001” 8.16.98 III (Part 2)
Tags: 1998, Festivals, Weekend Nuggets
