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Cumberland Blues
July 4, 1984
Five Seasons Center

Formula One cooker!! Maximum blown out bluegrass, dreamlike.
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Estimated Prophet
July 4, 1984
Five Seasons Center

loose framework and kinetic devils make for a transparently unhinged EP. Hoarse disney villain melt to he's gone. Summer 84 flowing treasure.
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Far From Me
July 4, 1984
Five Seasons Center

Raucous bold brushstrokes of back porch shenanigans. Well-oiled
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Queen Jane Approximately
July 13, 1994
Franklin County Airport

continues devils' field day with whimsy. so many shades of this cut... Angelic, aligned, welcoming.
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Althea
July 13, 1994
Franklin County Airport

inspired, pouncy. They skip rocks with it, drifting on a reed

Comments

Comes A Time
Dec. 5, 1971
Felt Forum - Madison Square Garden

Luscious, poignant, repressed frantic bawlings, flirts with transcendence of later versions.
Tennessee Jed
Dec. 5, 1971
Felt Forum - Madison Square Garden

Speedy, crowd goes nuts, band is showing them the ways encouragingly, but firmly, with muscle
Dark Star
Dec. 5, 1971
Felt Forum - Madison Square Garden

slick as snot, full of Sagitarrian drop of a dime fun and spontaneity guided by flaming arrows. Keeping it cowboy every time but yeah octopus vision. Festering selves piling up in the mailbox. Glorious power in this blown out on-the-spot approach.
Not Fade Away
May 14, 1978
Providence Civic Center

amazing chall!!! long drums melt (think steel pan and clangy ding dongies) No stone unturned, awesome stuff here encyclopedically rich. Stole my face. Cherries on top with west L.A. jam and a patient razor sharp gdtrfb
Let It Grow
May 14, 1978
Providence Civic Center

reunited with this dreamy cold war thawer... holy shit... takes LIG, still so many good versions of this, to newer heights still. 3.0 meets "a love supreme"? but then my the scrumptious chilly cliffs that the drummers provide channeljng the great rhythm sections of soul and funk. and jerry's recurring flutterbird tremolo "Demeter visitation" wolf tone which sets this one into, again to use one of my fav tropes of hot dead, symphonic timings