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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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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
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