Rhinoceros - Phish
8.3.98 - Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN

This week Bill Corgan announced a new, free 44-song Smashing Pumpkins album harkening back to the “psychedelic roots of The Smashing Pumpkins: atmospheric, melodic, heavy, and pretty.” In honor of the Pumpkins on Phish Friday, here’s one of most revered surprise covers in Phistory.

“We’ll open up with a Smashing Pumpkins cover from left field, followed by a 20-minute Halley’s Comet.  Yes.”

8.3.98 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN

1: Rhinoceros*, Halley’s Comet, I Didn’t Know**, Ride Captain Ride***, Cars Trucks Buses, The Moma Dance, Strange Design, Character Zero

2: Gumbo, Axilla, Limb by Limb, Meat, Hold Your Head Up > Bike^ > Hold Your Head Up^^, Tube, The Wedge

E: When the Circus Comes > Run Like an Antelope+

*First time played (Smashing Pumpkins cover); allegedly has been part of soundchecks for years. **With vacuum solo. ***Blues Image cover; last played 12.30.92, 486 shows earlier. ^With a second vacuum solo. ^^After which Trey calls Fish “Bob Weaver.” +With lyric “Bid you to have any spliff.”

You can download this entire masterpiece of a show here.