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Drums -> Space
May 10, 1978
Veterans' Memorial Coliseum

ambitious, abstract, and involved in the multi-dimensional trappings. Plenty of curiosity but tethered to that amazing 2nd-set logic
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Easy Answers
June 21, 1995
Knickerbocker Arena

hurricane version coming out of space
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Good Lovin'
April 27, 1977
Capitol Theatre

Piping hot delivery, right after Scarlet Fire! Yee-haw! That burgundy-smooth, cinnamon in yer coffee-sweetness of 77 flavor! Mickey thwacking as well
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Turn On Your Love Light
July 4, 1970
McMahon Stadium

https://youtu.be/aJhnOq2q3ag yes indeed
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Might As Well
Sept. 6, 1983
Red Rocks Amphitheatre

finger-lickin' good Red Rocks show, Lazy lightning/supplication for a while straight into this barnstorming Might as well, fireworks!!!

Comments

Dark Star
April 29, 1972
Musikhalle

Love the 4/8 london one, and this!!! DS>sug. mag.>caution. Militarizing and bolstering their trademark 60's experimentation to answer their latest questions and drop the nets even further in the ocean of popular musical idiom, all that c&w, jazz, and bossa nova turning to a golden brown macronage in Hamburg. Kreutzman costume party of different laughs and shrugs of emphasis lending this pentatonic ambience narrative swells of imagination. knight in shining armor of a feelin' groovy, this one slowly boils the pot over to Tighten up-adjacent before pulling out the rug to hard Santana-kissed space. Blurring everything. the oneness. this ds is a palindrome of approaches, post-verse with arguably even more psychotic interjection-based work from all bridging with mature complexity back to intuitive sailin'-bird-cryin' funk. Painterly, contemplative and pastoral yet teeming with unheard impulses and a frantic contradictory mania.
Althea
Oct. 14, 1983
Hartford Civic Center

anyone have any favorite dead podcasts? ideally ones where they get into specific versions, almost music analysis? (Gave the "36 from the vault" a try, it's a couple guys from The Rock Press who don't really know their shit about the dead, for example could only think of 5/8/77 when getting into talking about a scarlet fire, are not Tennessee jed-pilled, bob blues-pilled, etc but they have a lot of good cultural context filler)
Althea
Oct. 14, 1983
Hartford Civic Center

Massive!! Crackling, jerry teaches a paint-and-sip on this
Estimated Prophet
April 16, 1978
Huntington Civic Center

i love 4/78 so much, every note is dynamite will definitely check this set 2!!
Feel Like A Stranger
Oct. 15, 1983
Civic Center

lacerating, propulsive.