Listening to this in my car today from the official release. Definitely up there as one of my favorite jams.

Those licks trey starts digging into at around 10:15 to about 14:00 are what really get me everytime.

I have to say, and this isn't to knock anyone that really likes this jam, but it doesn't do it for me like it does for so many other fans. In terms of funky jams it feels a little meandering for me. Not much direction.

My favorite Halley's is hands down 6.30.00. There was one during the European winter tour in '98 (July-something) that is right up there too. The Portland '99 Halley's has some great moments too. And as @jmponder mentioned 8.3.98 is another fave. But the Hartford '00 Halleys is my fave. There is a bass line Mike falls into that gets me grooving hard every time I listen to it. That jam is one of the reasons that show is my all time fave attended (along with other factors that just made that night so special).

Good jam. Overrated, has to be.

It's my third favorite jam from that show. Maybe fourth actually

@MiguelSanchez said:

@jmponder said:

I will not deny that this is a great jam, especially the last 10 minutes or so, but there are other Halley's, i.e. 12/7/99, 11/11/98, 8/3/98 that I enjoy much more

this. 11/11/98 blows almost all of them out of the water.

Honestly, I think 11.11.98 is super boring. I'm gonna give it another listen since ya'll have been raving about it, but it didn't do anything for me when I listened to the show a few months ago.

@bostonron said:

There was one during the European winter tour in '98 (July-something) that is right up there too.

That would be 7/10/98 which has a pretty full on First Tube tease about a year before it was debuted.

@jmponder said:

@bostonron said:

There was one during the European winter tour in '98 (July-something) that is right up there too.

That would be 7/10/98 which has a pretty full on First Tube tease about a year before it was debuted.

That would be it. I love the First Tube "jam". It;s much more slowed down and psychedelic. You can hear the crowd going ape shit too. That whole show rips. I think that's the show with a monster Simple too.

11/11/98 Ghost is a rager for sure but if you've never heard it and want an even more incendiary set-closing Ghost, check out 7/1/00. Sorry for derailing the thread OP

@MiguelSanchez said:

Back to the 11/22 Halley's..

A fun listen and still worth mentioning amongst the classics!

Indeed. I always think of this when I listen to it, part of a review on this site that came from the PC

Set break: Now began my quest for "Destiny"�. The night before the show, I printed up about thirty copies of "Destiny Unbound"�'s first lines, along with an optional chorus. The caption under the header "Destiny Unbound"� read: "A pathetic attempt to get Phish to play a song they'll never play again."� Anyway, with the help of my new friend Nate (the security guard), I passed out the flyers down the first row. Screaming, trying to let everyone hear, I led everyone in a few practices of the lines, just to warm our voices up. By the way, thank you to all the eager participants (especially my "other side of first row spokesman"�) who helped carry out my project. I had always wanted to see what I could do with this, and it turned out really well, I thought.
So, at the beginning of the second set, after the crowd died down, all of us (I think a lot more joined in for the real thing) started chanting the lines, at different times, mind you. It was quite loud. My friend, who was sitting well above Page, said he could easily hear it. We got really astonished looks from Page, Trey, and Jon (not Mike of course), and Trey went over and said a few words to Page. Both were laughing in a "caught off guard"� sort of way. Then Trey said something to the effect of, "What is that cannibalistic chant? It sounds like, Rah, ror rah oh ror rah"� in his best monster voice. Then he said, "What, has human sacrifice become part of the show? Come on then, bring it up here!"� Then he started stabbing downward with his guitar as if stabbing the human sacrifice. The band members were all really getting a kick out of this, but we didn't really get anything out of Mike. As good as this attempt was, Mike started singing "Halley's"�, seemingly unamused by our shenanigans.