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Looks Like Rain
April 17, 1984
Niagara Falls Convention Center

another bathroom mirror cabinet aria, this time with crack vibrato synth work, healy leprechauning, disco phil, chamber devils NOT ur average LLR
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Row Jimmy
April 17, 1984
Niagara Falls Convention Center

carpeted spires of woolly synth, iconic drummer latte sunday chat, along with sunday mass with geniusly staggered jer lead work. Rewarding long row
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New Minglewood Blues
April 17, 1984
Niagara Falls Convention Center

legit, alchemical, firehouse Minglewood. Factory line tenacity, playboy panache, sparkplug brent and jer
3
Gimme Some Lovin'
March 19, 1990
Civic Center

Apollo 90 mammoth Gimme some lovin. Rolex and a bump add to yer bombin' stew for this
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Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad
July 14, 1984
Greek Theatre - University of California

refined and elegant. calm splendor for the cali regular heads

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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