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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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The Other One
Aug. 3, 1969
Family Dog at the Great Highway

A dragon slaying, out of the cosmos version with some of the most beautiful and interesting lines I’ve heard. The fiddle playing along with the sax just makes this hypersonic soundscape much more musically colorful.
Alligator
Aug. 3, 1969
Family Dog at the Great Highway

It just keeps getting better, what a sequence of music. Genuinely tasteful fiddle playing in this one. Muddy River Alligator here.
Dark Star
Aug. 3, 1969
Family Dog at the Great Highway

A Saxophone and a fiddle. New creative textures that add a unique flare to Dark Star. This is genuinely so cool and I highly recommended anyone reading this to check it out. Space jazz at its absolute finest, and the musical layers add a really cool added depth to this, Jerry’s having fun with the saxophone as well, Im getting chills listening now. Wow this is a hidden gem.
China Doll
May 14, 1974
Adams Field House, U of Montana

Genuinely incredible transition into this spacey and contemplative version. Lovely haunting version full of cosmic goo.
Dark Star
May 14, 1974
Adams Field House, U of Montana

Communication with extraterrestrial lifeforms in the dead of night. With only the light of distant stars to guide you through this formless and exploratory Dark Star, this version is inventive and full of incredible ideas. An electric jazz sextet exploring fractal spaces and geometrical landscapes with tribal drumming to accompany this celestial and otherworldly sheets of sound. My favorite of 1974 and one of the most intergalactically haunting and electrifying lobotomizing performances I've ever heard.
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