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Black Throated Wind
July 21, 1972
Paramount Northwest Theater

Get past murk with good headphones and you find a gem: Bobby's vox perfect, the arc powerful, Jer and Keith possessed.
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Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
July 18, 1972
Rossevelt Stadium

Uptempo, and with a hard swagger, with a beaut of a Rio section. 2nd ever, sounds like they're still settling on the vibe.
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Black Throated Wind
July 18, 1972
Rossevelt Stadium

Solid, emotional version. Bobby was on.
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Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad
May 25, 1972
Strand Lyceum

From blisteringly hot, into a sweet-and-light outro > OMSN, turning on a dime. Great fun.
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Chinatown Shuffle
May 25, 1972
Strand Lyceum

Rip-roarin' version. The 2nd set perks up quite a bit after a sleepy 1st. Pig was still on.
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Not Fade Away
Oct. 11, 1970
Action House

Only the second GDTRFB ever - let that sink in for a moment - and you can hear them still ironing out its form. The crowd sure takes to it though and claps along from the start.
Dark Star
Oct. 11, 1970
Action House

Totally underrated. This has everything the best Dark Stars of the era have. The Multi-gen AUD source may be putting folks off, but it shouldn't. The sound is totally listenable if you're not expecting pristine soundboard quality. Don't miss this one. It has solid rhythmic pulses that push us off into the outer spheres before kicking into weird gear and tweaking space time into that eternal return of giant space bugs and koto-sounding melodic haikus followed by the jagged galactic pinball that the enormous Stars offer us. All DS lovers should give this one another deep listen.
Dark Star
Dec. 30, 1969
Boston Tea Party

A freaking time machine. I turn this on and in the space of a blink, it's 19 minutes and 23 seconds later, with a beeyootiful Feeling Groovy Jam too. It flows with the perfect logic of a river through spacetime. It's a cruel cut indeed though but we enjoy what we get, eh?
New Speedway Boogie
Dec. 30, 1969
Boston Tea Party

Kind of. They actually sound like they're having a ball with it. The lyrics are heavy, of course, but the 'Walkin' the Dog' strut rhythm to it, the experimental harmonies and the form are all still being tweaked, so I'd say this is remarkable for a rare glimpse into the development of the song - it's only the fourth or fifth time they performed it - more than any specific heavy presence linked to Altamont.
Deep Elem Blues
Oct. 10, 1970
Action House

Gritty down and dirty like sand-in-the-sandwich. This one has a little funk on it. The recording multi-gen AUD, and maybe not for everyone.
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