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West L.A. Fadeaway
April 8, 1989
Riverfront Coliseum

kickin, blue flame, very tight!!! Goes the distance, inspired whirly dirly!!!
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Wang Dang Doodle
April 9, 1989
Freedom Hall

if it takes pitchin' all nite long!
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Brown Eyed Women
April 2, 1993
Nassau Coliseum

legitimately A-grade. Ascendant roller coaster. Can't miss it
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The Same Thing
April 2, 1993
Nassau Coliseum

Barnburner!!! brooding and mysterious
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Lazy River Road
March 14, 1993
Richfield Coliseum

leisurely, placid, consummate. OG woodcuttin' backyard rural country type beat. interlocking accompaniment with lush twinkly 90s electronic tones

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