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Brokedown Palace
Oct. 19, 1980
Saenger Performing Arts Center

One of the best solos I've heard on this tune. If you like your solos light on notes and heavy on feeling, listen up.
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They Love Each Other
Oct. 19, 1980
Saenger Performing Arts Center

The intervals and touch and chromatic phrases in the solo are fantastic
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Ship of Fools
Oct. 18, 1980
Saenger Performing Arts Center

Beautiful touch on the solo, notes that you can hear disappearing
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Althea
Oct. 18, 1980
Saenger Performing Arts Center

Damn!
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Pretty Peggy O
Oct. 6, 1980
Warfield Theater

Solo is beautiful

Comments

Althea
June 7, 1980
Folsom Field

If you like your Altheas angry, bitter, and cutting, as opposed to mellow, this is the one for you. I love them all and this one is amazing. Surprised it's not higher.
Promised Land
May 31, 1980
Metropolitan Sports Center

Burning version. Jerry's last solo is fantastic. Listen to the crowd lose their minds when he goes full Chuck Berry in his last chorus.
Franklin's Tower
May 30, 1980
Milwaukee Auditorium

Jerry tries some very unique approaches during the solos and builds up lots of drama
Althea
May 16, 1980
Nassau Coliseum

The way Jerry slowly turns up the heat in the last solo is amazing. You don't know what's happening until it's over.
Candyman
May 14, 1980
Nassau Coliseum

Beautiful version. Lots of subtlety and emotion in Jerry's vocal. He kills it in the solo and his lick before the repeated chorus at the end cuts like a knife.