I can't remember all details of the GYOW performance I saw in NYC (Thanksgiving 1997), but I don't remember thinking in banjo sounds at that moment.
This was 3 days after the concert I went. In NYC he did get crazy as in minute 5:00 of this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwLcdsAzZT0
I don't know if it was considerably different from the opening night.