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3
He's Gone
Sept. 22, 1991
Boston Garden

the feeling on this rich, blue-hot hornsby one is that of exquisite elegance in that puffed-up mindless sense
1
Pretty Peggy O
Sept. 3, 1988
Capital Centre

tight, gallopping, mournful, phil
1
Drums -> Space
July 6, 1990
Cardinal Stadium

bill and mick dip their toes into a dozen things, keeping their turntablism abreast of the breathing tree of life. Sensational stuff. Continued
1
Little Red Rooster
Sept. 3, 1988
Capital Centre

everyone impatient to bust out passionate stuff on this searing version
1
The Wheel
July 2, 1988
Oxford Plains Speedway

Strap on the goggles and microscopes to find traces of this in jerry's playing as soon as the intro dies down into a no nonsense sparkplug wheel
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Comments

Lost Sailor -> Saint of Circumstance
Nov. 2, 1979
Nassau Coliseum

Althea
Nov. 4, 1979
Civic Center

good call, i've been working through fall 79 in fits and starts, this will be next
Stella Blue
Jan. 30, 1978
Uptown Theater

phenomenal sequence - jerry working his tone and devils flight school
Terrapin Station
Oct. 8, 1981
Forum Theater

exquisite version, quite slow, really nice starlight jam, soft almost tender turtle jam, and a brief but magnificent steve reich-ish outro jam. beautiful stuff straight from the storyteller
Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
Oct. 8, 1981
Forum Theater

promethean!! this shit rules!
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