Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
March 10, 1981
Madison Square Garden
Good Scarlet, then that intro to Fire tell you something good's coming. Drummers are locked into this hyper-groovy pattern with Brent that Garcia taps into in the first jam. He gets pretty exploratory in the rest of this jam. And wonderful vocals, minus a flub here and there. Brent starts to chase him at the end jam, which I have a theory he really didn't like, because that's always when he really goes off the rails and breaks out of whatever he was locked into, which presents itself at the absolutely wild jam that Garcia leads at the end of this tune and results in a really unique ending and cool transition into Lose Sailor here. Really nice stuff.
