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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

Comments

El Paso
Nov. 21, 1973
Denver Coliseum

yep this show crushes you to a pulp, whole tour is amazing. El paso and mamu have a way of weaseling into some of the group's trippiest moments in these years in a quite humorous way
Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
Feb. 3, 1979
Market Square Arena

very hot. columns of urgent primal force. Yet another Dali.
Playin' In The Band
March 16, 1973
Nassau Coliseum

volcanic... Ensnares the listener in wonka-factory beffudlement with equal parts visceral excitement and labyrinthine mystery. inflatable rainbow dunes of smoothbrain
Foolish Heart
April 9, 1991
Orlando Arena

benevolent vishnu of a 5.0 foolish... needs some love, Lesh's melodic and dynamic intensity commands this kaleidoscopically happy composition to a truer rendering of the Hunter lyric's woeful cynicsm, all via the magnetic promise of uncertainty, swashbuckling adventure. Platonic form of a hot foolish
Blues For Allah
March 23, 1975
Kezar Stadium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOYhPZ-Kqo Miller source, simply a massive show, the first allah, the first stronger than dirt, two guest keyboardists, wtf is happening. This is mind blowing stuff