Bouncy as it is lysergic. Unique phrasing from Jerry. Everybody’s vocals are on. The Rider is some pure country fried jamming if I’ve ever heard it.

This is The Dead at peak performance level. Cataclysmic version. Everyone is ON. Explorative and not a beat missed. Easily top 5 of 69.

Nice early electric version. Always preferred this key for Dire Wolf compared to when they changed it in the later years. Just right. Nice version.

Takes you right to Chicago. Jerry’s playing emulates the blues greats. Hard rocking version that reminds me of a Junior Wells cut. Highly recommend.

Haunting organ playing. Crystalline and psychedelic early version that feels very spacey. Great vocal delivery.

As a Scarlet Begonia’s fan this delivers. Jerry sings wonderfully commanding the music with every fiber of his being. A guitar masterclass in melody making. Tiny embers dance in an open field of tall grass with a neighboring forest swaying in the wind dancing with the embers. There are some truly wonderful moments during this piece of music. Phil and Keith create some wonderful moments of harmonic texture during the transition, leaning towards A flat minor but Jerry’s keeps jamming in B Major territory( or Mixolydian if you want to get technical) leading the band to the earth’s core. You can see in your head the small fairy like embers are now, swirling spheres of raging flames, descending from the mountain as the band reach the center of the earth. There’s a Fire on The Mountain and it’s HOT. The ending jam During FOTM gets pretty spacey, natural energy evolving and growing in spaces of green and fire red. What a version we have here. One of the best of that year with that classic 77 sound.

I feel right at home with the audience. Cheering along with them with the peaks and moments of musical freedom that immortalize the band for what they are. Certainly a grainy recording but it adds to the atmosphere. The Viola Lee itself is a massive, massive version not to be overlooked. A melting of the minds as the band becomes a singular entity, they take their time building up the jam but when Jerry takes the helm they build up in a ferocious manner. A perfect era appropriate Viola, mixes new ideas while keeping that deep psychedelic wonder that makes the song so unique.

22:50 of high octane brain enrichment. A psychedelic warhorse that plows through your psyche and commands the listener through some very hypnotic music. Once again you hear telepathic communication from each band member. Phil is putting on a San Franciscan bass clinic, and for someone who hasn’t been playing bass all that long, he really holds his own here. Billy builds and builds around Jerry, who shows off his ever expanding blues vocabulary and making his instrument speak some very coherent sentences all throughout this performance. Check out this jazzy face melting line he plays around 7:35, and from there you have a super charged jam going at lightning speed, that ultimately leads into a thunderous climax of electric wails that quickly goes right back into the main groove of the song. Jaw dropping.

Jerry sings for his life during the Cryptical reprise. Very cool to hear the alternative lyrics during the main verses, a cocoon that quickly metamorphoses into the blotter art butterfly we call The Other One. Jerry does some incredibly weird shit with his guitar, making it speak in tongues and channeling the energy of the sun through each psychic attack. For 1967, this is absolutely without a doubt, revolutionary. Heavy metal thunder. I’m melting!!!!

Speaking of catching a wave, this is what would happen if the Ventures dropped a copious amount of some orange sunshine and thrashed their amp speakers.