There’s nothing we love more than opening our inbox to find an email message announcing a new edition of Live Phish. They don’t call this day Good Friday for nothin’. This time we get the first official release from the Europe ‘98 tour, namely the show from July 6, 1998 at the Lucerna Theater in Prague.

And you don’t even have to wait much longer to download the show, as the professionally-mastered MP3s and FLACs will be available at Livephish.com on Tuesday. Those who prefer their music in physical form can order the CD package at Dry Goods. Read on after the jump for the full press release, but first check out the phenomenal Ghost from the new release:

Next Tuesday (3/25/08) JEMP Records will be releasing another of Phish’s classic shows, 7/6/98 from the Lucerna Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic. In keeping with recent livephish.com releases this show has been mastered by Fred Kevorkian from Paul Languedoc’s 2-track soundboard reference DATs. To save space, along with renting most of their gear while flying from city to city on the 1998 European tour, the shows were not recorded to multi-track.This release will be available in both of our normal digital download formats, MP3 and FLAC, as well as on CD (packaged in an innovative and earth friendly, fully recycled folding softcase-pak) . This release will not yet be available in stores but you can pick it up from both Phish Dry Goods (www.drygoods.phish.com) and the LivePhish Download Store ( www.livephish.com). Dry Goods and LivePhish.com will have bundle packages available, so you can save on both hard goods and downloads.

July 6, 1998 is the second of two shows Phish played at the Lucerna Theatre, an old theater turned into a music club located a few flights below street level in the Nove Mesto section of Prague. This show entwines music from the album “The Story of The Ghost” with Phish classics in a non-stop, hard-rocking performance elevated by its unique location and intimate setting. The intimacy of this show can not be overestimated – the average size of the venues Phish was playing at in the United States at the time were easily 20-30 times larger.

TRACKLIST for 7/6/98:

CD I
1. Buried Alive >
2. AC/DC Bag >
3. Ghost >
4. Cities
5. Limb By Limb
6. Train Song
7. Roggae
8. Maze
9. Golgi Apparatus

CD II
1. Julius >
2. Meat
3. Piper >
4. Makisupa Policeman
5. David Bowie
6. Loving Cup
Encore:
7. Possum

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