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El Paso
Sept. 21, 1974
Palais Des Sports

Blossoms and blooms like a shining red rose. I really love the energy for this show.
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Ship of Fools
Sept. 21, 1974
Palais Des Sports

1974 and Ship of Fools go together like peanut butter and jelly. Full of emotion. They're really giving their all in this.
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Big River
Sept. 21, 1974
Palais Des Sports

Like the breaking of a dam, this just flows at a truly ferocious pace. Jerry is relentless in his playing, the second solo will knock your socks off.
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It Must Have Been The Roses
May 12, 1974
University of Nevada

Any '74 version of this tune is a treat. Incredibly lovely with great Keith lines. Billy sways.
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Jack Straw
Feb. 15, 1973
Dane County Coliseum

Definitive for its time. The soundcheck gave us a preview, here's the full thing. Solid version.
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Playin' In The Band
Nov. 20, 1978
Cleveland Music Hall

Machine gun Jerry. Absolutely wonderful and incredibly playful jamming. Genuinely explorative and has Jerry painting with fast strokes of his brush. Wolf is let loose and finds his way down Shakedown Street. Incredible all timer of a second set. Tastiest of sandwiches.
Good Lovin'
Jan. 2, 1972
Winterland Arena

Transcendent jamming. Genuinely one of the best Good Lovin’s ever played even without the CCS. What a ride. Will come back to this till the end of time.
The Other One
March 22, 1973
Utica Memorial Auditorium

Smoking craters. A jazz clinic that has pure magic embedded into the music. An elastic ping pong jam ensues which has the lads exploring vast fantasy like landscapes. What a jam. Hugely underrated. The stuff of legends.
Truckin'
March 22, 1973
Utica Memorial Auditorium

bzfgt, you are 100% correct that Darkstar is 100% right that Ragnaroar is 100% correct about your assertion. What a Truckin’
Playin' In The Band
Oct. 18, 1972
Fox Theater

A stroll through the land of the dead and a peak behind the veil. The jamming is so ethereal and swirls with such ghostly intensity. A beautiful, otherworldly and paranormal jam that possesses the band and takes everyone through a life altering musical sequence of death and rebirth. This is one of the very first shows I ever owned on CD, and it has changed my life for the better.
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